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[[File:Solusprime covenant profile.jpg|thumb|right|263px|Rosie the riveted.]]
Among the [[Thirteen]], '''Solus Prime''' is the Maker and creator. Among her friends she is much loved both for her abilities to forge nearly any device they need and for her intelligence and positive supportive personality. If she has any flaw it is a fierce and angry temper that quickly flares up at any sign of injustice. She finds joy in creation, which is why she's particularly close friends to [[Nexus Prime]], [[Micronus Prime]], and [[Onyx Prime]] who revel in similar pursuits. Her closest relationship however is to [[The Fallen|Megatronus]]. The two are bound by a close devoted romantic love unique among the Thirteen and spend much of their time online and off rejoicing in each other's presence. (The fact that both have quick fiery tempers surely won't cause issues down the road.)

All [[female Transformer]]s are patterned from her template and thus are gifted with a similar processing architecture, which is the main differentiation between them and their male counterparts.

Many of the arsenal of magnificent weaponry and icons wielded by the other original Transformers are her impressive handiwork, created by an icon of her own, the [[Forge of Solus Prime]], aided by her unique cognitive systems specializing in wide-ranging and powerful parallel processing, and manifesting in the holographic lattice known as the [[Creation Lathe]]. Her creations include:

*The [[Star Saber (Prima)|Star Saber]]
*The [[Requiem Blaster (Megatronus)|Requiem Blaster]]
*The [[Chimera Stone]]
*The [[Apex Armor (Prime)|Apex Armor]]
*The [[Infinite Combinatoric]]
*The [[Chaos Edge]]
*The [[Cyber Caliber]]
*The [[Quill]]
*The [[Zeonomicon]]
*The [[Terminus Blade]]
*The [[Enigma of Combination]]

==Fiction==
===Aligned continuity family===
====''The Covenant of Primus''====
Solus Prime was the fourth Prime created by [[Primus]] to defeat [[Unicron]]. The builder and creator of the Thirteen, Solus opted to remain a free agent as the newborn Primes strategized for their upcoming battle against the chaos-bringer. As part of their training, Solus created a holo-suite, which contained a virtual copy of Unicron for the Primes to train against. The Primes quickly learned that their enemy was more than capable of trouncing them in direct combat.

Solus Prime befriended the conflicted Megatronus, building for him the first set of [[Dark Energon]] [[Dark Energon skin|skin]]s. At Megatronus's urging, she constructed the Requiem Blaster, a weapon that she considered virtually unstoppable. Doubtful at what she had created, the Requiem Blaster led to a heated debate amongst the Thirteen, with [[Liege Maximo]] pointing out that the moody Megatronus could easily turn on his brothers and become unstoppable. Solus Prime defended Megatronus, arguing that Megatronus- who had successfully resisted the temptation of his inner demons- was perhaps best suited to carrying the destructive weapon. Megatronus was proud of her speech, and Solus Prime continued to churn out new weapons and artifacts for her brothers, working closely with them in order to mimic some of their innate powers. Continuing their training, Solus worked with [[Quintus Prime|Quintus]], [[Micronus Prime]], and [[Alpha Trion (WFC)|Alpha Trion]] to build a [[Vector Sigma|computer]] capable of predicting all of Unicron's potential moves.

Eventually, the time came to launch an assault on Unicron himself. Wielding her Forge and a sword, Solus led the charge through [[Vector Prime]]'s [[space bridge]] and onto Unicron himself. After [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] shut down Unicron from the inside, the weary but triumphant Primes headed back to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Unbeknownst to them all, Unicron's presence had left them all a little more susceptible to their inner darkness.

[[File:COP-Megatronusshootssolus.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Yeah, we're not fond of this scene either.]]

In the era that followed, Solus continued to work at her Forge, building useful items for the burgeoning settlement of the Primes. She and Megatronus remained close to each other. Tensions between the Primes began to grow on the day that Solus refused to make a suit of armor for Liege Maximo, who claimed that he was building some robotic creatures for company. As a gift, Liege Maximo gave her one of the creatures, whom she adopted as a pet. After some wheedling from Maximo, Solus decided to forge the armor in question.

[[Prima]] and some of the other Primes got word of the "farm", and called a vote to decide its future. Solus voted against the continuation of the project, but not without a defiant remark aimed at Prima, who had cast aspersions on Megatronus's character.

Megatronus confronted Solus Prime over Maximo's suit of armor, which had been completed long ago but had never been delivered to its intended recipient. Their disagreement eventually grew into a full-fledged fight after Megatronus killed her pet, which had secretly been recording Solus Prime's actions. In the chaos, Megatronus fired the Requiem Blaster without thinking, fatally wounding Solus Prime. Before Solus passed away, however, she professed her love for him. Solus's body returned to the core of Cybertron and [[Primus]], and the passage it left behind became the [[Well of All Sparks]].

Following the death of Liege Maximo, the surviving Primes built a tomb in her memory, far away from Cybertron. There, they held a funeral for their fallen comrade. A repentant Megatronus attended the celebration, where he mused that Solus Prime had seen something good in him and that he would find a way to live up to that.

Following the beginning of Cybertronian civilization, one-thirteenth of Cybertron's population considered themselves descendants of Solus Prime, and possessed a very similar neural structure to their progenitor. {{storylink|Transformers: The Covenant of Primus|The Covenant of Primus}}

====Aligned novels====
Near the dawn of time, while the Thirteen were struggling with the threat of [[Unicron]], [[The Fallen|Megatronus]] commissioned Solus Prime to create a weapon of incredible destruction to use against the Chaos Bringer. Solus Prime had strong reservations, but after a long period of time managed to create the Requiem Blaster. She gathered the interested members of the Thirteen to witness a test of its powers, and leveled a mountain. She pointed out that power corrupts and worried that the existence of such a weapon could possibly lead to their own downfall. Ultimately, the Thirteen voted seven to six to keep the Requiem Blaster and not destroy it.

It was Solus Prime's sudden murder at the hands of the enraged Megatronus that caused the first major schism in the Thirteen. After Megatronus became The Fallen and was defeated by the remnants of the Thirteen, a tomb was fashioned for Solus Prime out of a meteor and set adrift in the stars, reachable only by a series of [[space bridge]]s.

Countless years later, [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] came across Solus Prime's tomb while searching for a mystical artifact. A semi-sentient hologram of Solus Prime appeared and warned Optimus and his Autobots to leave. Solus Prime directed them towards a Space Bridge which would take them to the location of the lost Requiem Blaster.
{{storylink|Transformers: Exiles|Exiles}}

====''Prime'' cartoon====
[[Image:OneShallRise1-SolusPrime.jpg|left|thumb|200px|I'm a godly being from the dawn of creation... but I'm not [[Override Prime|the first female Prime]]?!]]
According to legend, at the beginning of time, [[Unicron]] and [[Primus]] battled each other for eons, with neither side remaining victorious for long. Till, that is, Primus created the [[Thirteen]]. These Thirteen defeated Unicron and cast him into space. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 1}} At some point statues of Solus Prime and the Thirteen were created and placed in the high council chamber. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 3}} In more recent times, her forge was among the artifacts sealed the [[Vaults]] of [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], and was later sent to Earth by Alpha Trion, where it was found and used by Optimus Prime and the Autobots. {{storylink|Operation Bumblebee, Part 2}}

====2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon====
In the distant past, Megatronus destroyed Solus Prime. {{storylink|Battlegrounds, Part 2}}

[[Strongarm (RID)|Strongarm]] occasionally swore by Solus Prime, {{storylink|True Colors}} as did [[Fixit (RID)|Fixit]]. {{storylink|Decepticon Island (Part 1)}}

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===Generation 1 continuity family===
====2005 IDW continuity====
:*''First Appearance:'' [[The Crucible|''Transformers: Robots in Disguise'' #34]] (mentioned); [[The Sum and Its Parts|''Transformers: Windblade vol. 2'' #1]] (depicted)

[[File:Windblade 1 solus prime.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Rosie the Riveter. Wait, we already made that joke. Ah, crap.]]

In the age following the departure of the [[Knights of Cybertron]], Solus Prime was one of the many Primes that arose on prehistoric Cybertron, tribal leaders who gathered like-minded followers. {{storylink|Heavy}} Approximately twelve million years ago, Solus and her tribe joined a coalition of like-minded Primes—[[Nexus Prime|Nexus]], [[Vector Prime|Vector]], [[Alchemist Prime]], and [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]]—and founded the village that would eventually become the [[Crystal City]].

One evening, Vector brought news that [[The Fallen|Megatronus]] and his [[Darklands|Darklander]]s had invaded the neighboring city of [[Protihex|Protohex]] and slain [[Septimus Prime]]. Solus was unmoved, but when [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Onyx Prime]] and [[Liege Maximo]] arrived to confirm Vector's warnings, they agreed to join forces. The next morning, the Primes watched as Onyx's army of beasts battled the Darklanders until a trio of [[Titan (group)|Titans]] emerged from the ground and giving Onyx the opportunity to reach Megatronus and call for a truce. The eight Primes then agreed to an alliance, and were joined shortly afterwards by [[Prima]] and his northern alliance. {{storylink|Origin Myths}}

Over the next two million years, the Primes ruled benevolently; Solus Prime became known for her friendship with Megatronus {{storylink|Heavy}} and her endless creativity, using her [[Creation Lathe]] to build the collection of weapons, artworks, and scientific devices that compromised the "Artifacts of the Primes." {{storylink|Conquerors Part 1: Aphelion|Aphelion}} Solus even commanded the loyalty of a Titan, [[Caminus (Titan)|Caminus]]. {{storylink|The Sum and Its Parts}} In time, however, some of the Primes grew arrogant, and sought to preserve their hold on power by claiming that they were functionally immortal: it was falsely claimed that only a Prime could kill a Prime. {{storylink|The Crucible}}

Unbeknownst to the other Primes, however, "Onyx Prime" was not who he appeared to be—in reality, "Onyx" was a convenient identity assumed by a time-travelling [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Shockwave]], who sought to guide history along its preordained course while analyzing the variables that inevitably led his race to fall to civil war. {{storylink|The Falling, Interlude: The First Who Was Named|The First Who Was Named}} Solus eventually forged a powerful sword for Prima that incorporated the [[Matrix of Leadership]] and dubbed it the "[[Star Saber (Prima)|Star Saber]]" {{storylink|Conquerors Part 2: Lagrange|Lagrange}} causing "Onyx" to realize that—in order to maintain the timeline and ensure that the Matrix of Leadership would one day find its way to [[Nova Prime|its next bearer]]—he would have to engineer the fall of the Primes as history dictated.
[[File:TheFirstWhoWasNamed-MegatronusKillsSolus.jpg|thumb|upright=1.65|left|Rosie {{w|Women in Refrigerators|the refrigerator'd.}}]]

Following a disastrous offworld expedition, Prima blamed Megatronus for this failure; though Megatronus tried to convince Solus Prime that he had been in the right, she rejected his explanations, arguing that the Primes needed to use their powers to "light the way," not destroy indiscriminately. This rejection pushed him towards the more receptive [[Liege Maximo]], a betrayal that led to the two hatching a plan to stage a coup against Prima. When this treachery was revealed, Solus was able to defend Prima from the traitors, but at the cost of her own life—she was slain by her former friend Megatronus and impaled on her own Star Sabre. {{storylink|The Falling, Interlude: The First Who Was Named|The First Who Was Named}} The fallout from this act would, in turn, spark the [[First Cybertronian Civil War]], {{storylink|The Crucible}} and prompt some of Liege Maximo's own followers to turn against him; {{storylink|Heavy}} none of the Primes or their followers would ever learn that "Onyx" had deliberately orchestrated this entire sequence of events from the shadows. {{storylink|The Falling, Interlude: The First Who Was Named|The First Who Was Named}}

At some point before the [[Golden Age]], Caminus would leave Cybertron and colonize [[Caminus (planet)|a distant moon]] that he named after himself, founding a new Transformer civilization. {{storylink|A 'Bot and Her City}} This Transformer colony would develop a religion known as the [[Way of Flame]]. Based off the teachings and philosophies of Solus Prime, the religion deified the Thirteen as gods and venerated Solus Prime as the greatest among this pantheon, beliving that every Camien's [[spark]] contained a fragment of Solus's essence. {{storylink|The Sum and Its Parts}} On death, the devout held that all sparks returned to Solus Prime's forge, where it would be reincarnated as a new Cybertronian. {{storylink|The Life of Sideswipe}} The religious organization known as the [[Torchbearer]]s considered themselves servants of Solus Prime and organized themselves into groups of six to commemorate Solus Prime's Creation Lathe. {{storylink|Conquerors Part 1: Aphelion|Aphelion}}

====''Power of the Primes'' marketing material====
Solus Prime's [[Spark]] passed into the possession of one of the twelve [[Prime Master]]s; hidden within a suit of decoy armor, they safeguarded the abilities of the Primes until the present day. By uniting with a larger Transformer, the Prime Master could channel the powers of Solus's Spark and grant them unique abilities that varied with each new partner. {{storylink|Solus Prime#Generations|Octopunch / Solus Prime online bio}}

{{note|For a list of every permutation of Solus Prime's abilities, see [[Prime Master/Combinations|this link]].}}

====''Prime Wars Trilogy'' cartoons====
{{voiceactor|[[Jaime King]] (English)}}
[[File:Machinima-POTP-Solus.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Well, I'm sure this heavy red filter on the scene doesn't bode poorly for me in the slightest!]]
Solus Prime created many tools to help defend against [[Unicron]], including the [[Enigma of Combination]] and the [[Requiem Blaster (Megatronus)|Requiem Blaster]]. After her lover Megatronus used the Blaster to vanquish Unicron, she welcomed him back to her forge. Its purpose now served, Solus believed the weapon should be destroyed to prevent its misuse, though Megatronus believed it was safer in his care. {{storylink|The Swamp}} The two began fighting over the weapon, inadvertently causing it to fire and mortally wound Solus. Dying in Megatron's arms, her life force was released into the air before forming the Well of Sparks. {{storylink|Without Warning}} {{storylink|Consequences}} Because of her death, the other members of the [[Thirteen]] sealed the Blaster away and Megatronus began brainstorming a plan to reunite with Solus. {{storylink|Athenaeum Sanctorum (episode)|Athenaeum Sanctorum}}

Ultimately, Megatronus obtained the Enigma, Blaster and [[Matrix of Leadership]], combining their powers to siphon life energy from Transformers everywhere into the Well. As his team arrived and subdued Megatronus, [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] watched as the energy coalesced and Solus began to reform. Confused by her circumstances, she asked Megatron what was happening to her, which he explained. She proceeded to only stand and observe as Megatronus eliminated each of his foes. {{storylink|Collision Course}} Horrified by what she witnessed, Solus repeatedly begged Megatronus to stop, directing the others to destroy the machine tethering her to the Well. The machine eventually released the relics, causing Solus to begin to fade away. {{storylink|Megatronus Unleashed}} Still begging for help and for Megatronus to stop, Solus took matters into her own hands and used the energy of the sparks to grow in size and grabbed Megatronus. Calling him out on the many atrocities he had committed, including causing her death, she pulled him down into the Well, killing them both and releasing all the accumulated sparks. {{storylink|Saga's End}}
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===Fun Publications===
[[File:HephaestusSolusPrimeAVP.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
[[Vector Prime]] shared many happy memories with his sister. When the Thirteen spent time in ancient Greece of some [[universal stream]]s, the male holomatter avatar Solus used inspired/co-opted the myth of Hephaestus, blacksmith of the gods. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/20}} During this time, (s)he crafted the Aegis of [[Alpha Trion (disambiguation)|Athena]] and the trident of [[Adaptus|Poseidon]], and was "bonded" to Liege Maximo (who manifested as the female Venus) by [[Prima]] in hopes of quelling the animosity that had flared up between them. It didn't go so well; "Interesting times," Vector Prime recalls. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/08}} Vector also noted that there were [[universal stream]]s where she was known as Solus [[Convoy (rank)|Convoy]]. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/06/24}}

As the original Cybertronian master forger, Solus created the [[Zeonomicon]] for [[Logos Prime]] {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/30}} and the [[Terminus Blade]] for her siblings to cross dimensions in their campaign against Unicron, though the latter was soon rendered obsolete by technological advancement and carelessly discarded. {{storylink|Out of the One, Many}}

As [[The Fallen|Megatronus]] began acting for evil causes, his siblings among the Thirteen resolved to keep the all-powerful [[Star Saber (Prima)|Star Saber]] out of his hands. To this end, Solus Prime used her [[Forge of Solus Prime|Forge]] to split the mighty blade into five pieces. [[Nexus Prime]] volunteered to split himself into five pieces to hide the five fragments across the multiverse. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/05/18}} {{storylink|Out of the One, Many}} The [[Origin Matrix]], the most powerful fragment, was hidden on prehistoric [[Earth]] of [[Primax -408.24 Epsilon]] and time-locked by [[Vector Prime]]. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/05/18}}

Vector Prime stated that Solus went on to be the first of the Thirteen to perish. However, this was at a time after the opening of the [[Uniend|Uniend Cluster]] and soon before the [[Shroud]], so it is uncertain whether Vector was referring to the Uniend or non-Uniend version(s) of Solus. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/06/14}}

After escaping from the clutches of [[Sideways (Armada)|Sideways]] in [[Axiom Nexus]], [[Vector Prime]] (deliberately playing up to the public image of himself as a doddering old fool) pretended to momentarily mistake his [[Axiom Nexus News]] colleague [[Andromeda (TransTech)|Andromeda]] for his sister Solus Prime. {{storylink|Rook - Axiom Nexus News: Investigative Journalist|Rook - Axiom Nexus News, 2015/07/08}}

When [[Nexus Prime]] united the [[Terminus Blade]] and the [[Star Saber (Prima)|Star Saber]], the other [[Thirteen]] were drawn to the event—including an expression of Solus's singularity that existed from a time before she had perished. Time and space were rewritten that day, as the walls between the multiverse grew stronger and less permeable. A consequence of strengthening the multiverse was that Solus Prime and the original Thirteen could no longer continue to exist as multiversal singularities, and so they were splintered and scattered throughout the multiverse. And so the one became many, sentient reoccurring themes each appearing in their own way, if at all, in all the worlds of the multiverse. {{storylink|Out of the One, Many}}

===''Cyberverse'' cartoon===
Solus Prime was one of the [[Thirteen]], {{storylink|Dweller In The Depths (Cyberverse)|Dweller In The Depths}} {{storylink|Silent Strike}} {{storylink|The Other One}} later generations sometimes invoking her name as a form of swearing. {{storylink|Shadowstriker (episode)|Shadowstriker}}

After gaining control of the AllSpark, [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] believed he had pulled Solus Prime's spark back to the world of the living and implanted it into one of his "[[scraplet|children]]", though some questioned the legitimacy of his claims. {{storylink|Parley}}

==Toys==
===Generations===
====Power of the Primes====
[[File:POTP-Prime-Master-Solus-Octopunch.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Solus Prime''' (Prime Master, 2018)
**''Japanese ID number'': '''PP-28'''
**''Japanese release date'': '''[[September 29]], 2018'''
**''Accessories'': [[Octopunch (G1)#Generations|Octopunch]] decoy armor, tentacle device

:''[[Power of the Primes (toyline)|Power of the Primes]]'' Solus Prime is a new mold that transforms from a small robot modeled after [[Octopunch (G1)|Octopunch]]'s inner robot mode into a [[Prime Master|Prime Core]] that can store inside decoy armor modeled after [[Octopunch (G1)#Generation 1|Octopunch]]'s [[Pretender]] shell, or plug into any decoy armor's weapon form, or replace the [[Matrix of Leadership/toys#Power of the Primes|Matrix]] core of a ''Power of the Primes'' Leader Class figure. Solus can also ride Legends Class figures, or attach to Deluxe Class figures' chest armor, Voyager Class figures' bucklers, or Voyager Class figures' combined modes. Similar to all of the decoy armor, the weapon piece for weapon mode can detach and be held by the decoy armor. The inner robot was retooled into [[Prima|Prima Prime]].

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====Titans Return====
[[File:TF-Generations-Special-Edition-Prime-Master-Solus-Prime.jpg|200px|thumb|Refrigerator not included.]]
*'''Repugnus''' (Special Edition, 2018)

:Available only with ''[[Titans Return (toyline)|Titans Return]]'' Deluxe Class [[Repugnus (G1)#SpecialEdition|Repugnus]] and [[Dastard#Toys|Dastard]], this version of Solus Prime is a [[redeco]] of the above Prime Master featuring translucent parts, and lacking the decoy armor. This "Special Edition" set celebrates the ''Titans Return'' portion of the ''[[Prime Wars Trilogy]]''.

:This set was an [[Amazon (website)|Amazon.com]] online [[exclusive]], revealed on the site before Hasbro officially announced it. It was also available at general retail in Hong Kong, Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore.
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==Notes==
* Solus, like other members of the Thirteen, was once a [[multiversal singularity]] who existed as one being throughout all of space and time, but that is [[Shroud|no longer the case]].
*Suns are capable of forging any raw element under the right conditions, so it's fitting that Solus Prime can forge anything ''from'' raw elements.
*The explanation for the use of the 'she' pronoun for Solus in the Aligned continuity, as detailed in her section of the ''Covenant'', is that Cybertronians do ''not'' "have gender in the same way that humans and certain other biological species do", but instead use pronouns as a result of a communication protocol designed to help facilitate dialogue between Cybertronians and the members of those biological races, as a means of recognizing and celebrating difference. It indicates, however, that 1/12th of the Cybertronian population has a divergent neurological architecture that supposedly is necessary to interact with the Creation Lathe, thus effectively denoting that their neurology has gender-equivalent differences. This does ''not'' conflict with the Autobots regarding Arcee being an "exception", as the explanation does not preclude the possibility that a Cybertronian could voluntarily self-identify with a gender concept found among organics.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Solus Prime''' (ソラスプライム ''Sorasu Puraimu'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Sài Tiān Jiāo''' (China, 赛天骄, "Race the Proud of Heaven")

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Talk:Transformers: Cyberverse (cartoon)

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== No info yet (2017) ==

Nothing is known or rumored beyond the teaser? It just mentions the two chapters and seems to imply that Bumblebee will play a role in chapter 1. Any rumors, leaks, or other info that just isn't reliable enough? [[User:Cosmos1|Cosmos1]] ([[User talk:Cosmos1|talk]]) 20:54, 10 October 2017 (EDT)

== Teaser image (2017) ==

This article has an image of some of the characters - should they be included in the main TFwiki article? http://comicbook.com/tv-shows/2017/10/14/transformers-cyberverse-animated-first-look/1 [[User:DoctorWhoFan|DoctorWhoFan]] ([[User talk:DoctorWhoFan|talk]]) 13:44, 01 November 2017 (GMT)

== Storing image for future use ==

[[File:Transformers Cyberverse Chapter One.jpg|thumb|right|250px|G3 cometh.]]
--[[User:Riptide|Riptide]] ([[User talk:Riptide|talk]]) 16:10, 14 November 2017 (EST)

== safe to assume if it's a sequel or not? ==

I think it might be it's own thing, given the cast.

Just tossing my hat in.

Also, when are we getting an airdate?[[User:Femtransfan|Femtransfan]] ([[User talk:Femtransfan|talk]]) 15:32, 20 April 2018 (EDT)
:There's no firm evidence either way, so it's too early to make any sort of call. Nor has there been any word on the release date or when we might get one. Best to be patient for now. -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 15:39, 20 April 2018 (EDT)

== Instagram link in References ==

The link seems to be broken, for me at least. --[[User:Flicky1991|flicky]][[User talk:Flicky1991|1991]] 13:32, 24 June 2018 (EDT)
:It looks like the Instagram post was deleted, yeah. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 16:40, 24 June 2018 (EDT)

== More characters? ==

[https://transformers.hasbro.com/en-us/brands/cyberverse Hasbro's website] updated with a new page on the Cyberverse cartoon, revealing more characters. Shall these characters be added to the list by an admin? [[User:Notirishman|notirishman]] ([[User talk:Notirishman|talk]]) 20:00, 3 July 2018 (EDT)
:Indeed! --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 20:07, 3 July 2018 (EDT)
::Given pages have begun to be created, perhaps the page can be unlocked now? - [[User:TBR|TBR]] ([[User talk:TBR|talk]]) 22:18, 4 July 2018 (EDT)

== Character Links ==

Some of the characters already have their own pages. Can an admin please add links to all of the characters? [[User:Notirishman|notirishman]] ([[User talk:Notirishman|talk]]) 11:46, 19 July 2018 (EDT)
:Yeah, it's past time for the "list of names not linked to any articles" thing to end. The articles are going up. --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] ([[User talk:KilMichaelMcC|talk]]) 12:48, 24 July 2018 (EDT)

== Arcee is shown in animation teasers ==

Arcee is seen in the sample of the cartoon. Please add her in! [[User:Notirishman|notirishman]] ([[User talk:Notirishman|talk]]) 15:08, 19 July 2018 (EDT)
: For those looking for verification, she can be seen behind Megatron's left leg during the panning shot after he shouts "I fight for you!" (Also, now that we're getting closer to launch and more information is surfacing, it might be wise to think about opening the page back up so we can properly keep up with official reveals.) -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 15:33, 19 July 2018 (EDT)

== Chromia in title sequence ==

Chromia can be seen in the title sequence in one of the hexagons flying by. Can an admin add her with a link or just lower the protection so registered users can edit it? [[User:Notirishman|notirishman]] ([[User talk:Notirishman|talk]]) 15:50, 20 July 2018 (EDT)

== Continuity family ==

I don't get why everyone is so hung up on the "it's not a sequel to anything so it is its own thing". Why can't it simply be a new universe within a previously existing continuity family? Specifically, a G1 universe. Think about it, the evergreen designs are based largely on the G1 characters and have been used in G1 media, so why not just say that evergreen designs are indicative of G1-ness? --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha|talk]]) 13:28, 27 August 2018 (EDT)
:I think it would add to the confusion. People could think the series is a direct sequel to the original G1 cartoon. New cartoons (at least the main ones that air in television) have always created new universes with them, except when it's a very explicit sequel to a previous cartoon. I believe the Wiki is just doing what it always does to keep things consistent, until an official confirmation is finally given.[[User:Fritz|Fritz]] ([[User talk:Fritz|talk]]) 18:14, 27 August 2018 (EDT)
::It would be an organizational nightmare for this wiki to treat Cyberverse as part of G1. And really, it's more like a General Reboot of Aligned, itself a General Reboot of Transformers-in-General. It's the Evergreen era and all the lines are blurred now, to even greater degree than they already were. But treating Cyberverse as it's own discreet thing is what makes the most sense. --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] ([[User talk:KilMichaelMcC|talk]]) 18:19, 27 August 2018 (EDT)
:::Perhaps as the show (and toyline, for that matter) go on, it will be easier to assign it to a continuity family -- or call it its own family. For right now, we don't really have much information. Yeah, there are ties the G1 family, but there usually are in any given series. There's also ties to Aligned and Movieverse. Let it play out, let more episodes air and more information get put out about it, and then we can figure out how to categorize it. For now, it's just a new thing. When it's not so new, we'll know how to treat it. [[User:Cosmos1|Waverod ✈️]] ([[User talk:Cosmos1|talk]]) 18:20, 19 September 2018 (EDT)
::::Signs [[Megatron Is My Hero|point heavily]] to "is its own, distinct thing". - [[User:TBR|TBR]] ([[User talk:TBR|talk]]) 19:55, 5 October 2018 (EDT)

== Speaking of bots in the title sequence... ==

[[File:Cyberverse Intro Glasses Dude.jpg|thumb|right]]
...who is this fine fellow who's been in the intro's "portrait hexagons" behind Starscream? - [[User:TBR|TBR]] ([[User talk:TBR|talk]]) 20:02, 5 October 2018 (EDT)
:[based on "he shows up in the intro"] ...that's ''Maccadam''?! - [[User:TBR|TBR]] ([[User talk:TBR|talk]]) 20:02, 14 October 2018 (EDT)

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== Seekers and Soldiers? ==

Should the war fodder Seekers and the Autobot soldiers be listed like the Vehicons in ''Prime?'' Same with the Shockwave drones like the Miners from ''Prime?''Check the cast section to see what I mean. And it's just me, but I dont ''quite'' understand why Windblade and Blurr shouldn't be separate from the rest? Thanks. [[User:Notirishman|--notirishman]] ([[User talk:Notirishman|talk]]) 13:39, 6 October 2018 (EDT)
:"Other cast lists are overcomplicated" isn't justification for making this cast list the same and splitting hairs about Camiens is silly. The point of those lists is to give you the important characters at a glance, not to note minutiae like generics or a prone Seeker who only shows up in a single scene. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 13:51, 6 October 2018 (EDT)
::Understood. Do these other lists need a cleanup then?[[User:Notirishman|--notirishman]] ([[User talk:Notirishman|talk]]) 18:39, 6 October 2018 (EDT)
:::The problem is that those series have more material so they're harder to untangle. I think the RID cast list is a goddamn mess full of transient scenarios, but I don't feel confident being the arbiter of who makes the list or not. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 18:46, 6 October 2018 (EDT)
::::The RID one, at least, has the standard of "characters who appeared at least twice". That seems reasonable for ''absolute'' inclusion. Subgroups probably should not be mentioned at all in the cast list... - [[User:TBR|TBR]] ([[User talk:TBR|talk]]) 22:09, 6 October 2018 (EDT)
:::::Why aren't we sectioning subgroups? And why did you cover the upcoming characters when we ''know'' these characters in the show? [[User:Notirishman|--notirishman]] ([[User talk:Notirishman|talk]]) 01:26, 7 October 2018 (EDT)
::::::1. Because it leads to utter madness as illustrated with the former horrific state of the RID 2015 cast list. 2. Because the cast list is supposed to be for recurring characters only, and they have not recurred. - [[User:TBR|TBR]] ([[User talk:TBR|talk]]) 06:23, 7 October 2018 (EDT)
:::::::Yeah, but remember, Cyberverse doesnt have a huge cast to pull out the "recurring characters" and "Main Cast" yet. At least, in my opinion. [[User:Notirishman|--notirishman]] ([[User talk:Notirishman|talk]]) 10:50, 7 October 2018 (EDT)
::::::::That's a fair point - at this point, including "''expected'' recurring" is a good idea. - [[User:TBR|TBR]] ([[User talk:TBR|talk]]) 15:26, 7 October 2018 (EDT)
Okay, why is it order of appearance? It doesn't add much to the table. [[User:Notirishman|--notirishman]] ([[User talk:Notirishman|talk]]) 13:33, 8 October 2018 (EDT)
:Because otherwise it becomes subjective. - [[User:TBR|TBR]] ([[User talk:TBR|talk]]) 15:40, 8 October 2018 (EDT)
::We don't order by appearance on any other cartoon series page, and people seem to cope? --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 16:26, 8 October 2018 (EDT)
:::I did it on the RID2015 page, and it was a significant improvement. Otherwise you get the horrible mess that that page's cast list ''used'' to be. - [[User:TBR|TBR]] ([[User talk:TBR|talk]]) 17:51, 8 October 2018 (EDT)
::::Oh, Blurr died, huh? Oh. No wonder you didn't want him on the list. [[User:Notirishman|--notirishman]] ([[User talk:Notirishman|talk]]) 18:06, 8 October 2018 (EDT)
:::::But I suggest taking the "oder of appearance" idea to the Community Portal and using RiD15 as an example to show it. [[User:Notirishman|--notirishman]] ([[User talk:Notirishman|talk]]) 18:18, 8 October 2018 (EDT)
::::::If I get the chance, after this hurricane madness blows (ha) over, I might. In the meantime...yeah I was trying to avoid outright saying it, since it'll be two weeks before that ep airs for anyone other than the lucky Canucks, but yeah, he ded, he *so* ded. - [[User:TBR|TBR]] ([[User talk:TBR|talk]]) 19:40, 8 October 2018 (EDT)

==Seekers group==
Shouldn't we at least section off Slipstream and the gang are all Seekers? Also, now that I know there is only one Additional voices actor who is a male, is it fair to say Dirge and Ramjet were voiced by Perlmutter (but then again, depending on the voice actress, masculine-esque grunts are possible)? [[User:Notirishman|--notirishman]] ([[User talk:Notirishman|talk]]) 18:54, 20 October 2018 (EDT)
:If all a character does is grunt, I don't think we even need to have a voice actor credit.--[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha|talk]]) 19:01, 20 October 2018 (EDT)
:And their all being Seekers is something more suited to their character pages. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha|talk]]) 19:03, 20 October 2018 (EDT)
::Okay, understood. My thought process was just that it would be easier to look under "Seekers" when seeing the characters on the show. But I understand! [[User:Notirishman|--notirishman]] ([[User talk:Notirishman|talk]]) 19:06, 20 October 2018 (EDT)

==New characters==
Are Lockdown, Lugnut and Cheetor really going to be in Cyberverse? I saw an edit to the page that showed these characters, but hidden, only able to be seen in editing mode.--[[User:CyclonustheWarrior|CyclonustheWarrior]] ([[User talk:CyclonustheWarrior|talk]]) 14:20, 14 February 2019 (EST)
: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16OFoJCfCOA Season 2 trailer]. We don't know for sure if they're recurring or not yet (though they probably will be), but I didn't want an editing war to start over people constantly trying to add them and getting reverted, hence why they're hidden for now. -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 14:23, 14 February 2019 (EST)
::Got it.--[[User:CyclonustheWarrior|CyclonustheWarrior]] ([[User talk:CyclonustheWarrior|talk]]) 10:04, 15 February 2019 (EST)

== Kickback and Bombshell ==
Just out of curiosity, has anyone asked the creators which Insecticon is Kickback and which is Bombshell? I'm having trouble telling the two apart. --[[User:NexusShard17|NexusShard17]] ([[User talk:NexusShard17|talk]]) 10:44, 15 April 2020 (EDT)

== Fandom Cyberverse Wiki ==

Do we mind that someone’s created a separate Cyberverse Wiki on Fandom and is blatantly copy and pasting some of our articles? [[User:Ravagekitteh|Ravagekitteh]] ([[User talk:Ravagekitteh|talk]]) 17:46, 30 April 2020 (EDT)

Cupcake Hoarders

2016-11-08T17:32:25Z

Ravagekitteh: /* Rescue Bots cartoon */

:''Cupcake Hoarders is a TV show from the [[Transformers: Rescue Bots (franchise)| Rescue Bots]] portion of the [[Aligned continuity family]].
[[File:AllSparkDay Cupcake Hoarders.jpg|thumb|right|350px]]
'''''Cupcake Hoarders''''' is a [[television]] show [[Blades (RB)|Blades]] likes to watch. It involves [[human]]s hoarding small cakes in paper cups.

==Fiction==
===''Rescue Bots'' cartoon===
Arriving back at the fire station, Blades switched on ''Cupcake Hoarders'', only to have his viewing interrupted by what sounded like [[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]]'s voice coming from the tunnels. When the rest of the [[Rescue Bot]]s arrived back, they found the TV on and Blades missing. Griping about the show being on again, [[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]] switched it off. {{storylink|Double Villainy}}

[[H.B. Luskey|Mayor Luskey]] was also prone to relaxing in front of the show. {{storylink|All Spark Day (episode)|All Spark Day}}

There was a "Celebrity Edition" version of the show which featured [[Maven Danger]] as a guest. {{storylink|To Infinity... And Back}}

==Notes==
*This is likely a reference to A&E documentary series ''[[Wikipedia:Hoarders|Hoarders]]'', as well as Food Network competition ''[[wikipedia:Cupcake Wars|Cupcake Wars]]''.

[[Category:Rescue Bots]]
[[Category:Television programs]]

Skids (G1)

2016-08-01T08:47:30Z

Ravagekitteh: /* IDW Generation 1 continuity */

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

[[File:Skidsg1.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Everyone forgets me, [[Nudge gun|even me]].]]
'''Skids''' is a theoretician. This is appropriate, as some would say his existence is merely theoretical; everyone forgets who he is or that he was there. But if they got to know him, they'd learn that he likes to daydream, get built into furniture, and pick up cowboy chicks.

Skids is also a fast learner, voraciously absorbing and compartmentalizing new information he receives. This allows him to adapt to new environments and unexpected situations very quickly. His calm, observant nature and tendency to fade into the background sometimes causes some to question his ability to fight, but make no mistake; Skids can handle himself in battle.

He'd just rather...listen to some music, y'know?

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Michael Chain]] (English, "[[Quest for Survival]]"), [[Dan Gilvezan]] (English, "[[Triple Takeover]]"), [[Keiichi Nanba]] (Japanese, "Quest for Survival"), [[Ken Shiroyama]] (Japanese, "Triple Takeover")|[[Roberto Alexander]] (Latin American)}}

[[File:Skidsanimated.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Hoist, Prime, and Skids ogle Bumblebee's animation model.]]
Like many of the Autobots who first appeared in 1985, the exact circumstances behind Skids joining the original group of Earth-based Autobots remain unknown. Skids first appeared as part of a strike force that was sent to stop the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]] from ravaging a human farm, only to meet with failure. Apparently injured in the battle, Skids underwent some repairs by [[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]] upon return to Autobot Headquarters, where he responded incredulously to [[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]]'s report that he had retrieved [[robotic insecticide]] from the planet [[Floron III]] to deal with the Insecticon threat. {{storylink|Quest for Survival}}

[[File:TripleTakeover Skids.jpg|thumb|Racing into obscurity.]]
Later, Skids was part of a team sent to investigate bombs that were raining down on a city from a football stadium (the work of the [[Triple Changer]] [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]]). Blitzwing, however, had the stadium surrounded by a massive "Zone Defense" maze built by the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]], and while attempting to traverse it, Skids crashed into [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] and was driven over by tank mode Blitzwing. Skids and the other Autobots' remains were then gathered by [[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]], who built a throne for himself out of them. These Autobots were soon rescued and quickly rebuilt, and participated in the crises that ensued as Blitzwing, [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]], [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] and [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] vied for Decepticon leadership. Following that skirmish, Prowl opined that [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] was the greatest leader in the universe, which prompted himself, Skids, [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] and [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] to form themselves into a throne for Prime; Prime refused to sit, saying that thrones were for Decepticons—he'd rather roll. {{storylink|Triple Takeover}}
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====''Henkei! Henkei! Generations'' manga====
[[File:Skids and screech.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|left]]
When Skids successfully proved the existence of particles able to cross over between dimensions, he put his discovery to work for the forces of good, coating his armor in these "Dimension Slide" particles and endowing himself with the power to move between realities, as well as a snazzy new green paintjob. In this quest to examine anomalies within the multiverse, Skids found he could summon other versions of himself from different dimensions to aid him, but for unknown reasons, one of these alternate versions wound up trapped in Skids's home dimension, unable to return to his own world. Renamed "[[Screech (Generations)|Screech]]" (presumably to save all the Autobots a headache), this alternate Skids teamed up with his counterpart, and together, the pair worked as "Quantum Operatives" policing the multiverse while searching for a way to get Screech home. {{storylink|#Toys|Skids's toy bio}} {{storylink|Screech (Generations)|Screech's toy bio}}

Hot on the trail of one such multiversal anomaly, Skids and Screech pursued [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]]'s ghost across the multiverse to a [[Primax 209.20 Gamma|parallel dimension]] where he was causing trouble. While the two dimension-hoppers kept the ghost busy with wordplay and pop culture references, the [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] of that world used his illusion casting powers to scare Starscream into fleeing the dimension by projecting an illusion of his greatest fear: [[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]]! {{storylink|Starscream's New Body}}

=====Ask Vector Prime=====
[[File:LegendsComic DimensionalInvestigatorSkids.jpg|upright=1.2|right|thumb]]
[[Vector Prime]] claimed Skids was from [[Primax 308.0 Zeta]] while Screech was from [[Primax 1008.15 Gamma]]. The two worked with him in [[Primax 308.13 Beta]]. {{Storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 23/7/2015}}

====''Transformers Legends'' comic====
Skids would later take on a new body, blue as usual but more heavily armed, styling himself as a "dimensional investigator" (次元捜査官 ''jigen sōsakan''). When [[Drift (G1)#Cloud|Deadlock]] caused trouble in the [[Legends Universe]] by bringing [[SARA]] there, Skids showed up to teach him how to use SARA's powers to return to [[Cloud World]], and also warned the Decepticon against causing any more interdimensional chaos. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Deadlock)|Bonus Edition Vol. EX}}

Finding there to be many more Transformers from other dimensions in the Legends Universe, Skids regarded this as problematic and decided to send them all back by force and seal off the dimension. Met with resistance from [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] and his cohorts, he summoned the [[Skids Squadron]] to fight the Decepticon leader while he personally dealt with the others. When Megatron came to their rescue, Skids entered "Full Burst Mode" and seemingly killed the Decepticon with a mighty barrage, only to realize the villain just sacrificed himself for his comrades. Following protests by the natives of the Legends Universe, Skids caught on to the fact that their world was a peaceful one without factions or war and that ''he'' was the one causing chaos and violence, prompting the investigator to abandon his plans and undo the seal. He continued to keep the dimension under surveillance, and even stuck around to look up its fictional representations of himself. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 20|Bonus Edition Vol. 20}}
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====''Story of Binaltech''====
[[File:Binaltech skids cardart.jpg|left|upright=1.2|thumb|After using up all of his vacation and sick days, Skids returned to work to find that the Transformers cartoon had been cancelled.]]
Skids was the first of the Binaltech Autobots created simply with the intent of upgrading an existing, healthy Transformer, rather than in the name of repairing one that had been injured. Outfitted with self-repairing nanomechanical antibodies, Skids's body can, barring heavy damage in battle, theoretically function for thousands of years without maintenance. In both his original and new body, Skids dedicated time to studying the chronal warp on [[Dinobot Island (G1)|Dinobot Island]], which gave rise to the Autobot strategy known as "[[Operation: Distant Thunder]]", a last-ditch scheme should the Decepticons tamper with the fabric of space-time. That horror occurred in [[2004]] when Ravage used the [[Kronosphere]] to alter the timeline, and Skids prepared to initiate the plan and send [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]'s memory data back in time to avert the catastrophe. {{storylink|Darkest Hour (prose)|Darkest Hour}}

The data probe was launched, but as the timeline was righting itself a [[Nemesis Prime (G1)|Nemesis Prime]] arrived, and manipulated the temporal wave to preserve the Binaltech timeline separate from the original continuity. Possessed by the Spark of the [[Optimus Primal/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Protector]], hailing from some future point in time, Nemesis Prime informed Skids and the others that their timeline was destined to produce great warriors capable of safeguarding the entire multiverse, and therefore must continue on its new course. {{storylink|Binal Time}}

=====''Transformers Legends'' comic=====
Binaltech Skids was a member of the [[Skids Squadron]], a group of dimension-hopping versions of Skids led by [[#Transformers Legends comic|dimensional investigator Skids]], who summoned them to help force [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] out of the [[Legends Universe]]. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 20|Bonus Edition Vol. 20}}
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===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics====
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[[File:Marvel22-heavy-traffic-skids-tracker.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.8|Skids exists! Really!]]
In the event that the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'s mission would require more manpower, [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] had several Autobots encode copies of their personalities as light patterns within [[crystalline containment vessel]]s, including Skids. When a large number of Prime's troops were then injured during the opening volleys of the war on [[Earth]], Prime arranged for the construction of new bodies, which the personalities were then programmed into, bringing Skids and the others to life "for a second time".

[[File:Skidsnatives.jpg|upright=0.6|thumb|We bet you can't.]]
Now in a new body that transformed into a blue van equipped with a bandana-wearing driver, Skids went with Bumblebee and the other new Autobots to learn about their new home. Along the way he learned about an upcoming [[Brick Springhorn]] concert, and immediately took a liking to the music of Earth and the possibilities of what could be learned from interacting with mankind. When the concert turned out to be the target of a Decepticon attack, Skids and the others were forced into action, engaging Shockwave and three Decepticon jets in battle. They quickly retreated after routing their foes, so that the show could go on. {{storylink|Rock and Roll-Out!}}

When [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] ran out of fuel in the middle of the [[Powder River Basin]] in [[Wyoming]], Optimus Prime took Skids and a few other Autobots to prevent harm to the humans who had discovered him. Unfortunately, these humans (and their [[United States military|military]]) forced the Autobots into a retreat. {{storylink|I, Robot-Master!}}

Skids voiced some concerns about Optimus's plans to raid the heavily fortified [[Wyoming base|Decepticon base]] for information on the combining process, but Prime vetoed them. En route, distracted by a human radio station, Skids nearly forgot to activate his facsimile driver; a moment later he accidentally clipped the car of hot-tempered [[Jake Dalrymple]], who pursued the Autobots on their mission. Despite the wall of weaponry facing them, Skids made it through the battle unscathed; but as the Autobots retreated with the information, they encountered Jake Dalrymple again, who distracted Skids just long enough for [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] to blast him off a cliff. Although Optimus Prime mourned the loss of Skids, neither the Autobot leader nor any other Autobot thought to recover the believed deactivated body of Skids later after their mission had been completed. {{storylink|Command Performances!}}

[[File:Marvelus-21-showdown-skids-beyourcar.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN.]]
Lying crippled and unable to transform, Skids was shortly discovered by register girl [[Charlene (cowgirl)|Charlene]], who, thinking he was an ordinary van, had him fixed up with the intent of keeping him for herself. Skids was open to the idea at first, preferring a peaceful life to that of a warrior, but after another bout of road rage with Dalrymple, the unearthly stunts he performed left him no option but to reveal his true nature of Charlene.

[[File:Charleneskids.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|''Baby you can be my car And maybe I'll wash you'']]
A somewhat unusual [[Transformer romance|relationship]] ensued between the two, but more trouble soon came Skids's way in the form of [[Donny Finkleberg]], who was being hunted down by Ravage. Fleeing from the Decepticon with Charlene and Donny, Skids hid out at an abandoned mining town, but yet again, the raging Dalrymple tracked him down and shattered his windshield, knocking him unconscious and into a dream where he died through his refusal to attack Megatron and save Charlene. Reawakening, he engaged Ravage in battle again, finally finding the strength to act, and causing his foe to tumble down a mineshaft. Skids then parted ways with Charlene, having come to the realisation that their two roles in life were too different for their relationship to work out. {{storylink|Showdown!}}

[[File:Marvel22-heavy-traffic-skids-reason.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1]]
Skids returned to the Ark with Finkleberg, with Optimus pleased to find him alive. Jetfire was sent to verify Finkleberg's claim about a [[Cybertron Seven|group of missing Autobots]], uncovering a trail of spilled Transformer fuel. {{storylink|Aerialbots over America!}} Skids was outfitted with a chemical tracker to follow the fuel trail; taking Finkelberg with him, he began tracing the fuel back to its source. En route, he broke cover to save a trapped driver from some downed power lines, a move that caught the Decepticons' attention. The newly created Stunticons were dispatched to "ambush" Skids - by acting as though they were his allies. The humans' [[Rapid Anti-robot Assault Team]] and the Aerialbots soon arrived and engaged in a three-way battle. When it was over, the Aerialbots were defeated, the Autobots' reputation was smeared, and the Stunticons were triumphant; Skids could do little but clear out to continue his mission with Finkleberg. Unfortunately, money still governed Finkleberg's actions, and that evening he sold out Skids to RAAT's leader [[Walter Barnett (G1)|Walter Barnett]] while Skids was deactivated for the night. {{storylink|Heavy Traffic!}}

[[File:DecepticonGraffiti-CBDonnySkids.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Shoulda stuck with the nice cowboy lady.]]
Skids was disassembled for study, but when the Decepticons [[Runabout (G1)|Runabout]] and [[Runamuck (G1)|Runamuck]] appeared on Earth and began defacing landmarks, RAAT operative [[Circuit Breaker (G1)|Circuit Breaker]] was forced to enter into a deal with the Autobots to stop them. Skids and the other Autobots' components were combined to form a [[Circuit Breaker's Autobot suit|jury-rigged robot]] that Circuit Breaker used to stop the [[Battlecharger]]s, but in return for their co-operation, Skids and the Autobots were allowed to go free. {{storylink|Decepticon Graffiti!}}

''On the return trip to the Ark, however, Skids was abruptly torn from reality when the future Decepticon [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] [[time travel|traveled back in time]] from [[2006]], shunting Skids into [[Limbo]] to maintain temporal balance.'' {{storylink|Fallen Angel}}

{{note|While Skids was lost to Limbo in the UK comics, no such fate befell him in the American stories. Luckily enough for continuity's sake, he never did anything important in the US comics again, only showing up in crowd scenes: He attended Optimus Prime's funeral {{storylink|Funeral for a Friend!}}, witnessed the arrival of the Spacehikers {{storylink|Spacehikers!}} and watched [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] and [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]] fight for Autobot leadership on the [[Moon (moon)|Moon]]. He was presumably either offlined during the subsequent Decepticon ambush, {{storylink|Totaled!}} or during [[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream's]] [[Underbase]] powered rampage. {{storylink|Dark Star}} To maintain consistency, the UK printings of these stories either redrew Skids into a different, [[generic]] robot, or erased him from the art entirely.}}

[[File:Skidslimbo.jpg|upright=0.6|thumb|left|Oh, hey, remember Skids?]]
[[File:Skidssurvivors.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|And then he stole [[Crosscut (Autobot)|Crosscut]]'s head.]]
''Skids remained in Limbo for two years while Galvatron ran amok on Earth, his mind steadily succumbing to the dream-illusions created by the [[Limbo parasite|parasites]] native to the realm. {{storylink|Time Wars}} With Galvatron's eventual destruction during the [[Time Wars]], Skids was finally returned to Earth, but he had spent too long in Limbo—the Limbo parasites had succeeded in shaping a reality from his dreams, and the nightmarish monsters that he had imagined materialised on Earth with him. Fleeing from the beasts, who desired to merge with Skids so that they might become more powerful, Skids lured them into a [[Hudden Nuclear Power Plant|nuclear power plant]] which he had planned to detonate, wiping out the monsters and himself, but the remnants of the Autobot [[Wrecker]]s—joined by [[Catilla (G1)|Catilla]] and [[Carnivac (G1)|Carnivac]] of the Decepticon [[Mayhem Attack Squad]]—arrived to aid him, defeating the monsters. Skids joined with this group of Transformers, forming the [[Survivors]].'' {{storylink|Survivors!}}

''Carnivac soon tired of Autobot life and Skids and the others could only watch as he fell out with [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] and struck out on his own.'' {{storylink|Way of the Warrior}} ''When a human called in the rest of the Survivors to help Carnivac against the new Mayhem Attack Squad, Springer was adamant that they shouldn't help the renegade Decepticon, but Skids, [[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]] and [[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]] were swayed by Catilla's pleas to get involved.'' {{storylink|Survival Run}} ''They arrived just in time to save Carnivac from the Decepticons, but Catilla was killed by [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] and Carnivac swore vengeance''. {{storylink|A Savage Place!}}

{{note|Due to the somewhat convoluted nature of the Marvel UK continuity, the "Survivors" plotline was continued in the Earthforce timeline, detailed below.}}

[[File:Grimlockwasthatwise.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Hey, who here remembers when I was damaged and shoved into the medbay? No? Well, that makes all of us.]]
Grimlock traveled to [[Hydrus Four]] to use [[Nucleon (substance)|Nucleon]] to revive the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]]. Returning to the Ark, he also pumped Nucleon into the med bays, reviving Skids and several others, and headed towards [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Grimlock used the Ark as a blunt instrument across [[Unicron]]'s head, forcing Skids and the others to evacuate and join the battle against the Chaos Bringer. {{storylink|On the Edge of Extinction!}}
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=====Earthforce=====
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When Carnivac ran off on his own to avenge Catilla's death, Skids and the other Survivors insisted Springer contact Grimlock and the Earthforce for back-up. {{storylink|Wolf in the Fold!}} Hooked up with these Autobot reinforcements, they stormed the Mayhem Attack Squad's tropical island base to save their friend. Skids personally confronted [[Octopunch (G1)|Octopunch]] in single combat, holding his own against the murderous [[Pretender]]. {{storylink|Where Wolf?}}

On a later mission for Earthforce, Skids and the Survivors protected an [[oil tanker]] from [[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]], while the rest of the Decepticons were trying to distract the Autobots with an all-out assault on their base. Undeterred by the sleight-of-hand, the Survivors caught up with Starscream in the [[Gulf of Mexico]]. Skids used a flying leap by Carnivac as a distraction to catch Starscream with his liquid nitrogen cannon, and then [[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]] knocked the Decepticon commander into the drink. {{storylink|Divide and Conquer!}}
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====Transformers Comic-Magazin====
Skids was part of the Autobot team when they battled the Decepticons in defense of Earth's precious energy resources. {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 9|The Transformers' Grand Hour: Headmaster of the Dimensions}}

Goldbug later recalled the events of the previous battle. {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 15|The Cosmic Adventure: Memories of Bumblebee}}

====''Regeneration One''====
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[[File:Lancer two crew war to end all wars.jpg|thumb|left|Remember when I was a main character back in our [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|Marvel]] days? Let's do that again.]]
In [[2012]], when Optimus Prime discovered Megatron was still active on Earth, he took an armed assault squad of Autobots, including Skids, to put an end to the tyrant's menace once and for all. Battling Megatron's reanimated Decepticon [[zombie]]s as the two leaders clashed, Skids called dibs on taking out [[Overbite (G1)|Overbite]]. {{storylink|Loose Ends, Part 5}}

After the battle, Skids and [[Prowl (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Prowl]] attended to [[Kup (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Kup]] as he recovered from a [[Scraplet]] infection. He then departed Earth with the other Autobots. {{storylink|Natural Selection, Part One}} As they arrived back at Cybertron, the ''[[Valiant (G1)|Valiant]]'' was targeted by missiles from the [[Civil Defense Hub]], though they were called off at the last second. Nonetheless, Skids and the rest of the armed assault squad prepared for immediate deployment upon landing. {{storylink|Natural Selection, Part Five}}

Skids would later respond when Jhiaxus's ''[[Primum Fugae]]'' began attacking the [[Demon]]s and Dinobots indiscriminately and upon [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]'s orders, he and [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] began prepping the Dinobots for medevac. {{storylink|The War to End All Wars, Part 2}} During the invasion of the [[Hub (G2)|Hub Network]], Skids and a team of Autobots comprising [[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]], [[Sky High (Pretender)|Sky High]], [[Jazz (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Jazz]], and [[Getaway]] aboard the ''[[Lancer Two]]'' were shot down by [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]]'s forces when they revealed their full defensive power. {{storylink|The War to End All Wars, Part 3}}
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===Dinobots Strike Back===
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{{note|In the first book in this series, Skids transforms into a red compact, matching the description of his toy's Honda City Turbo [[Alternate mode|alt-mode]] in one of its [[Diaclone]] color schemes. He is apparently even smaller than Bumblebee}}
[[File:DinobotsStrikeBackBumbleandSkidsinSub.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Seen here pouting because he gets no screen time.]]
Although Skids had reported the strange electromagnetic readings he'd been getting from [[Dolphin's Bay]] even before [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] sent [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]] to [[Bandit's Bluff]] to remove the [[cerebro-shell]]s from the rampaging [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]], it took [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock's]] report that evening to prompt Optimus to have Skids investigate it for possible Decepticon activity. Prime chose [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] to accompany him in [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack's]] [[Star mini-submarine|new mini-submarine]], but wasn't sure whether to assign [[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]] to the mission as well, since Skids clearly didn't want him along.

If Prime left Sludge out, Skids celebrated by absentmindedly crashing into [[Mount Lomas]], crumpling his hood and causing Bumblebee to notice a suspicious trail in the woods. If the pair followed it instead of continuing to the bay, they walked into a trap set by [[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]] and [[Gravedigger]], who disassembled Bumblebee and Skids to serve as the first components of the [[Autobot Memorial Power Plant]].

If they continued to Dolphin's Bay and the sub, Skids traced electromagnetic waves back to some [[black coral]], then hacked into a Decepticon computer and learned of a plot to convert the coral into superfuel. Bumblebee then exited the hatch to break a piece off, triggering an explosion which trapped him in a canyon beneath broken columns of crimson coral. Without underwater gear, Skids had only two options: If he went back to the channel for help, Seaspray used his laser to free Bumblebee, then tried to sail back to the Ark, only to have Starscream blow all three of them up with a cluster bomb. If Skids tried translating some nearby [[dolphin]]s' language, he succeeded in five minutes, talking the three largest dolphins into moving the broken coral. Skids and Bumblebee brought the black coral and his report back to Optimus Prime, ensuring an Autobot victory.

If Prime ''did'' include Sludge, Skids, and Bumblebee made it to the bay first, then used the sub to track the readings to an underwater cave. Bumblebee entered it, radioed Skids about Operation Black Coral, then failed to reemerge. If Skids chose to return to the Ark for help, two possible endings saw an Autobot assault save Bumblebee and destroy the Decepticons' base. If Skids tried to radio Bumblebee, the sub was promptly hit by a sonic attack from Frenzy, making it go haywire and tear through the bay. Whether Skids tried to stop it by activating the backup systems or shorting the controls out with his electron blaster, he was saved by Sludge, ensuring an Autobot victory in two more endings. {{storylink|Dinobots Strike Back}}

===3H comics===
[[File:Skidswreckers2.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|In the context of science, "theory" does not mean "guess" or "hunch", Rodimus. You should probably pay attention.]]
Several months after the defeat of [[Unicron]] in 2005, Skids was among the senior scientists (including [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]], [[Quickmix (G1)|Quickmix]], and [[Rad (G1)|Rad]]) who questioned [[Hot Rod|Rodimus Prime]]'s plan to send out the best of the remaining Autobot science and research members to establish deep-space reconnaissance posts. {{storylink|Betrayal}}
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===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
8.2 million years ago, Skids was in the [[Chamber of the Ancients]], observing the ceremony in which [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optronix]] was given the [[Matrix of Leadership]] and transformed into [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]. Immediately, three Decepticon assassins attacked, and though Skids acted to protect the new Prime, his arm was cut off by [[Umbra]]. {{storylink|The War Within issue 1|The War Within #1}}

Skids was repaired and he returned to his post at the [[Decagon]]. While Prime was absent, Skids picked up radar of incoming Decepticon invaders and a transmission from the force's field commander, [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]. {{storylink|The War Within issue 2|The War Within #2}} Skids helped man auto-defenses from inside the Decagon and coordinated troops in the field. {{storylink|The War Within issue 3|The War Within #3}} Eventually, the Autobots' [[Omega Sentinel (G1)|Omega Sentinel]] units were destroyed. Picking up their personal weaponry, Skids and the other Autobots were all that was left to defend [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], and made a desperate last stand against Shockwave and his forces. {{storylink|The War Within issue 5|The War Within #5}} The Autobots were only spared from annihilation because Starscream at that point activated one of Cybertron's planetary engines. This caused a chain reaction, which crumbled Iacon into a crater, driving away the Decepticon forces. {{storylink|The War Within issue 6|The War Within #6}}

During the Dark Ages, when Optimus Prime and Megatron both disappeared into a prototype spacebridge, both factions splintered into several sub-groups. Skids served under [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]]'s faction of Autobots. {{storylink|Fragmentation (G1)|Fragmentation}} Together, they investigated reports that the Decepticons were in the process of building a mobile fortress, only to find [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] already completed and battle-ready in the [[Praetorus Wharf]]. {{storylink|Devastation}} Finding that nothing they threw at the giant Decepticon had any effect, the Autobots tried to outrun it instead. Skids hid in a nearby building, onto which Trypticon jumped to crush him. {{storylink|Revelation (The Dark Ages)|Revelation}} Though battered by the incident, Skids managed to survive it, and was brought back to [[Autobase]] for repairs. As [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] was tending to his wounds, The Fallen broke into the Autobots' headquarters, reappropriated [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] from one of their holding cells, and took off. {{storylink|Confrontation (issue)|Confrontation}} Once The Fallen's base of operations was uncovered, Skids joined a cross-faction army in rushing it to put an end to the ancient Transformer's scheme. Ultimately, The Fallen was defeated by the power of [[Primus]] himself, and all factions agreed to keep the chamber The Fallen had tried to breach sealed to prevent anyone from further abusing the power held within it. {{storylink|Conflagration}}

At some point, Ultra Magnus took command of the Autobots, and reunited them into a single faction. Under his leadership, the Autobots gained a significant hold over Cybertron's resources and territories. This eventually forced the [[Ultracon]]s and Shockwave's Decepticons to sign a peace treaty with the Autobots. Skids was in attendance at the signing of the truce, which was interrupted by a bombing, engineered by Starscream and his Predacons. This act of aggression only served to unite the Autobots, Ultracons, and Decepticons however, who struck back against Starscream's troops. A united Cybertron finally seemed within reach... that is, until Megatron made a dramatic return, accompanied by an army of [[Air Warrior]]s. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath}} Megatron quickly took over the planet, and enslaved the majority of Autobots. Skids was among the many unfortunates captured, and put to work in [[Internment Camp Pi]]. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.2}}

{{note|Due to [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]]'s closure, the end of its''War Within'' series was never published. Years later, [[Simon Furman]] released the unpublished scripts to the final three issues. Within said issues, Optimus would return to Cybertron, and the Autobots would be freed from slavery.}}

Skids was not among the Autobots who traveled to Earth aboard the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]], remaining behind on Cybertron as the planet slipped into the deactivated state known as the [[Great Shutdown]]. When Shockwave began reactivating the planet and successfully unified the Autobot and Decepticon factions, Skids was a member of the council of Autobots who served to represent their faction in the alliance. Few of the council members were actually suited for leadership, however, and slowly found themselves giving more and more control to Shockwave. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}} Even when Perceptor presented the council with evidence that Shockwave was performing immoral experiments on fellow Cybertronians, the High Council was unwilling to take any constitutional action against Shockwave.{{storylink|Cold War (issue)|Cold War}} Eventually, the example shown by the Ark's returning crew and several homegrown Autobot insurgency cells tore the blinders from the council's optics, and Skids gathered his fellow councilmen in taking to the streets and ousting the Decepticons from power. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}}

===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===
[[File:Skids BlackHorizon1.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3]]
During an Autobot peace ceremony on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], Skids reported to [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] that [[Hot Rod]], [[Springer (G1)|Springer]], and [[Sandstorm (G1)|Sandstorm]] had yet to find the Autobots and [[G.I. Joe (team)|Joes]] that had gone missing while chasing [[Serpentor|Serpent O.R.]] Their conversation was then interrupted due to a Decepticon attack. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 3|The Art of War #3}}

Skids was later stationed on the ''[[Arc II]]'' on Earth, where he helped his comrades in the field by warning them about incoming G.I. Joe [[S.H.A.R.C.]]s. When the ship came under attack by the [[Pretender Monster]]s, Skids was knocked out by [[Icepick (G1)|Icepick]] while alerting the others on board. {{storylink|Black Horizon, Part 1 of 2}} He was sent to [[Pit (G.I. Joe)|the Pit]] for repairs and was expected to quickly recover from his injuries. {{storylink|Black Horizon, Part 2 of 2}}
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===''TransTech''===
In an Offworld Zone of [[Axiom Nexus]], a Skids was yet another victim of [[Bulletbike (TransTech)|Bulletbike]], murdered for a cred-key. {{storylink|I, Lowtech}}

===''The Beast Within''===
During a particularly violent brawl between the Autobots and Decepticons, Skids could do nothing but avert his eyes as [[Beast (G1)|The Beast]] began distributing wanton carnage onto the battlefield. {{storylink|The Beast Within}}

Later, Skids was amongst the few Autobot survivors still intact despite the brutality of the battle. He and a small number of surviving Autobots rode in Optimus Prime’s trailer in a desperate effort to outrun The Beast. He was then killed when the Beast took a swipe at Optimus’s trailer, crushed utterly in The Beast’s monstrous paw. {{storylink|The Beast Within Part 2, Consequences}}
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===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
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Before the [[Great War (G1)|war]], '''Skids of [[Nova Cronum]]''' trained as a theoretician at [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Senator Shockwave]]'s [[Jhiaxian Academy of Advanced Technology|Academy of Advanced Technology]], {{storylink| Shadowplay, Part 2: Patternism|Patternism}} secretly recruited to the school because of his status as an "[[outlier]]" with special powers—in Skids's case, a "super-learning" ability that allowed him to master many skills. {{storylink|Shadowplay (Conclusion): An Intimate Beheading|An Intimate Beheading}} He was present at the academy on the day that [[Roller (IDW)|Roller]] and [[Ratchet (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ratchet]] arrived to take Shockwave into protective custody, and his attempt to stop them was quickly quashed when the towering Roller intimidated him into silence. {{storylink| Shadowplay, Part 2: Patternism|Patternism}} It was not long, however, before Skids's teacher returned and recruited him and classmates "[[Damus|Glitch]]" and [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]] for a plan formulated by [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Orion Pax]] to steal a bomb disguised as the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] from [[Nominus Prime]]'s body as it lay in the [[Primal Basilica]]. Skids was somewhat disappointed that his sole contribution to the plan was not one of his many skills, but merely the fact he had a grappling hook in his arm that they could use to lower Pax into the Basilica, but despite a minor snag when the technology-disrupting Glitch accidentally jammed his hook's winch, the mission was a success. {{storylink|Shadowplay (Conclusion): An Intimate Beheading|An Intimate Beheading}}

Unfortunately, the aftermath of the mission meant the outliers and Pax had to go on the run. Out in the [[Alyon]] region, they discovered a new "hot spot" for infant sparks which looked like the Hand of Primus (or, for Skids, ''was definitely'' the Hand of Primus). [[Zeta Prime|Zeta]], their man in Iacon, warned them the Senate wanted to destroy the spot to stop the [[Functionist Council]] exploiting it and so the fugitives had to fight off the [[Elite Guard]] repeatedly. Time-travellers under [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus]] popped up and, when Skids mistook them for reinforcements from Zeta, rapidly claimed that. They saved the day but the time travellers wiped everyone's memories after... unfortunately including memories that Roller was missing in action. {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 1: All Our Parlous Yesterdays|All Our Parlous Yesterdays}}

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After graduating to full-fledged theoretician status, Skids went on to join the Autobot army. Shortly after the [[Simanzi Massacre]], when the planet still was cooling, he became a bomb negotiator: disabling the [[anti-personal mine]]s made out of Autobot prisoners so they could die without going off. This ended when he made the mistake of mentioning Primus to the unfortunate [[Heavy Tread]], who detonated himself in a rage that anyone could believe in a god that did this to him. When Skids came to, he was a Decepticon prisoner and off to the notorious [[Grindcore (prison)|Grindcore gulag]] with a "mouth flower" bomb inside his mouth that go off he dared transform.

Skids used his outlier learning skillz to disable the "flower", having seen how the guards put it in, and began pumping his cellmate [[Quark]] for info. This brought him to the attention of [[Tarn (DJD)|Tarn]], the camp commandant {{storylink|Speak, Memory: Part 1}}, who decided to make a project out of the religious 'bot. He asked Skids to repair Grindcore's teleporter, promising it would mean fifty prisoners would be sent to Decepticon colony world [[Ambervalia]] to work as slaves. Skids told Quark that this was collaboration that would help but hey, the fifty would be better as slave workers than at the prison. What he did not realise until it was too late was that Tarn had been making him rebuild the camp ''smelting chamber''... something he learned only after demanding Quark get to be 'teleported'. Skids' faith died as he was forced to watch fifty Autobots die horrific deaths because of him. The memory was so traumatic that he overwrote it {{storylink|Speak, Memory! (Part 2)}} and the only thing he remembered as that in his missing months, he'd heard "[[The Empyrean Suite]]", 'unable' to remember the name or that this was Tarn's favourite music to play during a massacre. {{storylink|Scavengers (Part 2): Who's Afraid of the DJD?|Who's Afraid of the DJD?}}

Skids used to have an [[Amica Endura]] called [[Chopper (G1)|Chopper]]. They broke up because Chopper was "an absolute arse". {{storylink|The Frail Gaze}}

[[File:Getaway Skids ArmTheLonely.jpg|thumb|left|He's been trained to kick your ass. Theoretically, of course.]]

Long into the war he joined the [[Diplomatic Corps]], working to persuade other races to support the Autobot cause. {{storylink|Scavengers (Part 2): Who's Afraid of the DJD?|Who's Afraid of the DJD?}} At some point, he disappeared and was believed dead, {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 2: Hangers On|Hangers On}} but had, in fact, become part of [[Prowl (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Prowl]]'s covert [[Special Operations]]. Partnered with [[Getaway]], he was sent to attempt an "assassination" on [[Tyrest (G1)|Tyrest]], using a [[nudge gun]] to implant the impulse to resign in the Chief Justice's mind. The plan failed, and Skids was only able to escape using a shuttle made from [[mode lock]]ed [[Legislator]]s. Using the nudge gun's other charge, Skids erased his own memory after setting the shuttle to home in on the nearest of his handlers, the [[Duobot]]s. {{storylink|Remain in Light 4 of 5: Arm the Lonely|Arm the Lonely}}

[[File:LiarsAtoD2-Skids.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.66|How do you like me now?]]

It was in this amnesiac state that he arrived on the planet where the ''[[Lost Light]]'' had crashed. Abruptly, the mode lock deactivated and the ship began transforming, so Skids made an impulsive decision: he reactivated the lock, sent the ship crashing into the surface, and bailed out. Making it to the ground safely, Skids found himself under attack from the Legislators that had made up his ship — though one of them had been killed in the crash, the other two were coming after him with giant swords and fire breath. Skids came upon the deceased bodies of two Autobots who had failed to survive the ''Lost Light'' crash—[[Hyperion (G1)|Hyperion]] and [[Polaris]]—and used their weapons and abilities to eliminate another of the pursuing robots. Running from the lone survivor, Skids came upon a small party of Autobots from the ''Lost Light'', who deactivated the inhibitor claw for him, allowing him to access his weapons and destroy last Legislator. Skids was invited to join the crew of the ''Lost Light'', though he was less than enthusiastic about [[Swerve (G1)|Swerve]]'s proposition that the pair of them should team up. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 2: Hangers On|Hangers On}}

[[File:LiarsAtoD3-RungSkids.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.66|MEANWHILE IN A 20 MILE RADIUS OF THIS EVENT]]
When a [[Sparkeater (creature)|Sparkeater]] got loose aboard the ''Lost Light'', requiring the crew to be sealed in their quarters, Skids, having decided to exploit his missing memories to entirely reinvent himself and deciding he disliked confinement, left through the ventilation system. Drawn by [[Rung (G1)|Rung]]'s cries, he saved the psychiatrist from a close call with the Sparkeater, and at [[Hot Rod/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rodimus]]'s request, led the creature through the vents to the engine room where Rodimus disposed of it. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 3: The Chaos of Warm Things|The Chaos of Warm Things}} As a celebration of the death of the Sparkeater, Swerve opened a [[Swerve's|bar]] where Skids got drunk together with [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]]. He failed to notice that Chromedome stole his gun while he was messing around with his grappling hook and a server-robot. {{storylink|Life After the Big Bang}} {{storylink|Rules of Disengagement (issue)|Rules of Disengagement}} After attending a ceremony to commend Chromedome, [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]] and [[Highbrow (G1)|Highbrow]] on recent heroics, {{storylink|The Reluctant Specialist}} Skids was next spotted still hanging out at the bar with some other Autobots as [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] put Chromedome's ability to identify an Autobot based on their transformation sound to the test. {{storylink|Interiors}} He later tried to comfort Swerve following his accidental shooting of Rung. {{storylink|Rules of Disengagement (issue)|Rules of Disengagement}}

When a swarm of [[Nanocon]]s that had lain dormant inside [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]]'s body were mysteriously reactivated, Skids and a few others were shrunk by Brainstorm's mass-displacement gun and sent inside Magnus to eliminate them. Once that was dealt with, Skids attended [[Tailgate (G1)|Tailgate]]'s Autobot Initiation Ceremony, during which he relayed Swerve's report from the engine room that dead crewmember [[Ore]] had come back to life. The chaos only continued when Skids and a team of Autobots were abruptly teleported by [[Galactic Council]] to the planet [[Theophany]], there to investigate the razing of [[Crystal City]]. Beneath the city, they found a slumbering [[Titan (IDW)|Titan]], leading to discussions on the Transformers' creation myths and the meaning of life; Skids and Chromedome shared a belief that life was shaped not by destiny or gods, but by interactions with others. Skids theorized that both the Nanocons and Ore had come back to life thanks to the psychic emanations of the Metrotitan, then helped [[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]] fend off the Galactic Council's forces until the Autobots could free the Metrotitan, which teleported them all back to the ''Lost Light'' and quantum-jumped the ship to safety. {{storylink|Primus: You, Me, and Other Revelations|You, Me, and Other Revelations}}

[[File:CybertronianHomesickBlues-SkidsRung.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.85|"Legs: Yes. Bow-tie: Cool...I can buy a fez."]]
Inspired by their talk, Skids requested that Chromedome use his [[mnemosurgery]] to unlock his lost memories; Chromedome discovered that only Skids's last year of memories had been erased, while the others had been repressed by a trauma so horrific he did not dare restore them. Chromedome was, however, able to identify the music in his head as the "The Empyrean Suite", and hoped he would never learn its significance. {{storylink|Scavengers (Part 2): Who's Afraid of the DJD?|Who's Afraid of the DJD?}}

Skids was among the group of Autobots gathered by [[Rewind (G1)|Rewind]] in Swerve's bar to help tell a story to aid in Rung's mental recovery. {{storylink|Shadowplay, Part 1: Post Hoc|Post Hoc}} When his old altercation with Roller came up, Whirl called him a wuss, and he countered that his skills as a theoretician wouldn't have been useful in a fight. {{storylink|Shadowplay, Part 2: Patternism|Patternism}} At the culmination of the story Rung still showed no signs of recovery...until Skids deliberately mispronounced his name a couple of times, prompting the psychiatrist to speak and correct him. {{storylink|Shadowplay (Conclusion): An Intimate Beheading|An Intimate Beheading}} The storytelling session was brought to an end by the sounding of alarm to ready the crew for a battle with Decepticons on the planet [[Temptoria]]; during the fight, Skids, Chromedome and [[Steeljaw (G1)|Steeljaw]] battled [[Overkill (G1)|Overkill]]. {{storylink|Before & After}} Later, to unwind, Skids joined the crew of the ''Lost Light'' on some "shore leave" on the planet [[Hedonia]], where he tried out his new personality-generated [[holomatter]] avatar, only to find his amnesia kept it from creating a fake identity for him. As the group played the "Nemesis Game", Skids identified [[Misfire (G1)|Misfire]] as his worst enemy, and then wound up getting into a drunken brawl with [[Cyclonus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Cyclonus]]. {{storylink|Cybertronian Homesick Blues}} Skids bought Rodimus a [[Galactic Council]] captain's hat as a souvenir of the trip. {{storylink|Signal to Noise}}

[[File:TheFecundMoon-Skids.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.66|Skids kind of lost it a bit after Charlene left.]]
When the mass-murdering Decepticon [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] ran wild on the ship, Skids joined in the futile effort to hold back his rampage. {{storylink|Under Cold Blue Stars}} Overlord was ejected from the ship thanks to the sacrifice of Rewind, and Skids tried to console Chromedome over the loss of his lover, only to find that the mnemosurgeon was eerily calm about the whole thing. {{storylink|The Gloaming}} When the ''Lost Light'' encountered the long lost satellite [[Moonbase One|Luna 1]], Skids got Chromedome to accompany the band of Autobots heading to the surface to see if the satellite had a way to return Skids's memories. He went to the ship's oil reservoir for some alone time, where he was attacked by a number of [[Legislator]]s. {{storylink|Remain in Light 1 of 5: The Fecund Moon|The Fecund Moon}} While he managed to hold them off long enough for Swerve to arrive to help, a [[Star Saber (Victory)|mysterious and enigmatic robot]] appeared behind him, and impaled him with a large sword. {{storylink|Remain in Light 2 of 5: House of Ambus|House of Ambus}}

Fortunately for Skids, he survived this, and was later teleported by Star Saber into a cell which contained Rodimus' crew. Perceptor examined his wound, while Swerve explained what happened to them. After Skids said that he would apologize for whatever he had done to Tyrest, Star Saber returned to the cell, carrying his [[Getaway|"Partner in crime"]] with him. Chromedome then explained that when he read Skids' mind, he had done it wrong, and misinterpreted the remnant memory as an "Imperative to escape". In actuality though, it was a name, Getaway. {{storylink|Remain in Light 3 of 5: The Divided Self|The Divided Self}} Getaway was able to fill Skids in on his lost memories of their ill-fated mission to change Tyrest's mind, and explained Tyrest's mad plan to reach [[Cyberutopia]]. With the newcomer's help, Skids and the others were freed from the cell and confronted Tyrest, only to be incapacitated by the lawmaker's suggestion weapon. {{storylink|Remain in Light 4 of 5: Arm the Lonely|Arm the Lonely}}

Thanks to Tailgate, the suggestion weapon was disabled, and Skids cuffed [[Pharma (G1)|Pharma]], only for the medic to promptly escape when his back was turned. The Autobots caught up with him at Tyrest's gate to Cyberutopia, but only Skids, finally at peace with himself, was able to step through the guilt-detecting force field. He found himself standing on a strange landscape being talked to by a multi-colored [[spark]]. On hearing cries for help from Rung, he dashed back through the portal to help fight the Legislators until Tailgate was able to shut them down with some amendments to the law. {{storylink|Remain in Light 5 of 5: This Calamitous Life|This Calamitous Life}}

Once everything was over, he tried telling Rodimus what he saw, but he couldn't make sense of all it. {{storylink|The Sound of Breaking Glass}} Not helping was the fact that whatever he saw proved difficult to remember for any length of time. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light: (1) How Bright Their Frail Deeds|How Bright Their Frail Deeds}}

Before the ''Lost Light'' left Luna 1, Skids played a film compiled by Rewind to detail the ship's voyage. Unfortunately the film failed to impress the members of the [[Circle of Light]] who rejected any notion of joining the crew. {{storylink|Little Victories}}

Skids was among the Autobots who welcomed Orion Pax and his team aboard the ''Lost Light''. Swerve remarked to him how weird [[Garnak|some]] of Pax's crew were. {{storylink|Dark Dawn: Dark Cybertron Chapter 1|Dark Dawn}} Skids was later seen having a drink at ''Swerve's'' {{storylink|Black Metal: Dark Cybertron Chapter 2|Black Metal}} When the ''Lost Light'' was assaulted by [[Ammonite]]s, Skids met up with Getaway and Ultra Magnus to help organize a counterattack. Skids hesitantly suggested that they use the [[Rodpod]] to fight back. Despite the other's and his own concerns about damaging it and making Rodimus angry, they ended up boarding and using the vessel. Skids piloted the craft, and used it to defend the ship's fuel quills, while blasting Ammonites that attempted to combine. Skids was forced to pilot the Rodpod away from the battle when a group of Ammonites combined and gave chase to them. In an attempt to lose them, he piloted the vessel into what appeared to be an abyss, but was really the optical cavity of [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] {{storylink|Into the Abyss: Dark Cybertron Chapter 4|Into the Abyss}}

As everyone else tried to figure out where Metroplex's eye had gotten to, Getaway had a minor breakdown over the fact that A: they were inside someone's eye canal, and B: they were in a spaceship shaped like someone's head. The group took Ratchet's suggestion to find Metroplex's brain, only on arrival in his brain chamber found it was surprisingly absent. In light of that, they decided to go find his spark instead. As they approached, Whirl noticed the flooding had been sealed off, which surprised Skids.

On setting down, Getaway quickly found an arrow pointing toward the spark chamber, which everyone decided to follow. Skids was the one to ask whether they would lock the Rodpod, which no-one else was concerned about. The arrows took everyone on a strange course through Metroplex's interior, until they came upon... the Rodpod again. Before Whirl could properly blame the ship, an Ammonite appeared, and blew it up. {{storylink|No Exit: Dark Cybertron Chapter 6|No Exit}} Fortunately, they were saved by a wall appearing to block the explosion, at which point Skids realized the purpose of the arrows: Metroplex was moving his interior about, and the odd journey the arrows had taken them on was because the direction they were meant to be pointed had change too. Then, they received a call from Swerve informing them to avoid the water, or they'd contract an alchemical virus and die horribly, and worse than that, two thousand Ammonites were heading their way. As Magnus gave orders to barricade the room, Whirl turned out an Ammonite, having beaten an explanation out of him. However, when the little guy told them who he was working for, he promptly self-destructed. Before everyone present could dwell on that, [[Chromia (G1)|two]] [[Nautica (G1)|newcomers]] appeared and told them to surrender. {{storylink|The Dead Are Not Enough: Dark Cybertron Chapter 7|The Dead Are Not Enough}}

Before Getaway could charm the two fellow Autobots, several Ammonites burst through the walls. While Ultra Magnus,Ratchet and Brainstorm went off with their new friends, Skids stayed behind to fight off the attackers (that he was being mobbed by several of them anyway probably helped). As Skids fought, Metroplex was recharged by the ''Lost Light's'' engines, and transported himself back to Cybertron. {{storylink|Burning Bright: Dark Cybertron Chapter 8|Burning Bright}} This didn't get rid of the Ammonites, though. That took Megatron giving the titan his missing thumb, containing the Regenesis Ore-7, which healed him and reactivated his immune system, killing the Ammonites dead. {{storylink|Finis Temporis: Dark Cybertron Chapter 9|Finis Temporis}}

In the apparent aftermath of Shockwave's scheme, Skids and Getaway relaxed in Swerve's, and were witness to Swerve suffering a bad bout of hero worship when Blurr walked in. The celebrations were rudely interrupted when Shockwave made his move, summoning all the Ammonites to attack Cybertron. {{storylink|The Becoming: Dark Cybertron Chapter 10|The Becoming}} Fortunately, Bumblebee had a plan of taking the fight to Shockwave. Skids was included in the team to be sent, thanks to his secret-agent-know-how. Getting to Shockwave's base of operations in the Crystal City seemed impossible, until Starscream showed up with Skywarp, who managed to get them there. On arrival, the group was attacked by Bludgeon. Ultra Magnus offered to hold him off, and Skids decided to volunteer his skills as well, along with a suddenly poorly Brainstorm. However, Skids's outlier abilities weren't able to match Bludgeon's mastery of metallikato, and he quickly wound up stabbed. Fortunately, Brainstorm's unease turned out to be Optimus Prime, Rodimus, Cyclonus, Kup and Nightbeat using the Dead Universe portal in his chest to escape that dying realm.{{storylink|Black Planet: Dark Cybertron Chapter 11|Black Planet}} They quickly mopped up Bludgeon, but Cyclonus' injuries meant someone had to help Brainstorm haul him back to his lab. While this meant Skids had to miss the climactic showdown, he did get to see time itself falling to pieces in the sky above Cybertron. That, and Rodimus managing to play on Brainstorm's insecurities. {{storylink|...And the Damage Done: Dark Cybertron Finale|...And the Damage Done}}

Once the crisis was truly over, Skids decamped to [[Luna 2]] to watch [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]]'s trial. Evidently, he was not dissuaded from rejoining the ''Lost Light'' on its quest once the former Decepticon Leader was added to the ranks, and he set off again, this time coming along of his own volition. Six months into the quest, he was sufficiently worried to pay a visit to the widowed Chromedome with Nightbeat, though their friend remained secluded in his hab suite and Nightbeat's interest was quickly derailed, to Skids' dismay. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 1: Towards Peace|Towards Peace}} Shortly thereafter, he, [[Nautica (G1)|Nautica]] and [[Riptide (G1)|Riptide]] all shot the bull about the ship's new gossip mag, the ''Lost Light Insider''. Though Nautica decided to exit before any rules were broken, she and Skids exchanged a bit of friendly banter before he and Riptide convinced the massively intoxicated Trailcutter to steal Megatron's "superfuel" out of the medibay. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 2: Words Hang in the Air|Words Hang in the Air}}.

When a pod containing the corpse of another Rodimus showed up, 'our' Rodimus called in Skids as part of his investigation team. Using all the facts, Skids and Chromedome worked out (wrongly as they'd soon learn!) that this was a near-future Roddy who'd die and be sent back in time, and Skids was left aghast by his leader's desperate attempts to 'change history' like lopping an arm off. Everything was then interruped when the ship started to ''vanish'' around them {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 3: Predestination: A Beginner's Guide|Predestination: A Beginner's Guide}} and he was left stuck on a spaceship with Megatron (and Skids, who kept making snide asides when he was trying to listen). Soon, the Autobots on board began to disappear one by one and everyone had to reveal personal secrets in an attempt to figure out what was the common denominator. (In the process, Skids helped fill in Nautica on [[M.T.O.]]'s and expressed his distaste for High Command's lack of interest in educating the "warborn".)

After realising only the launch crew were disappearing, the newbies like Skids found the ''Lost Light'' returned but in ruins! {{storylink|Twenty Plus One}} He agreed with Riptide that this must be the future ''Light'' that dead-Rodimus had come from and worried that the evidence they found meant they bring back the crew, only for the ship to be ripped apart. In an investigation, they came across a dead Ultra Magnus, one killed by a fusion cannon, and Skids turned on Megatron, believing this showed he was going to inevitably turn on them! To his disquiet, when Megatron immediately requested to be locked up until all the facts were gone, he felt ''bad''' about doing it. As he admitted to Getaway during their search, he worried he was going to stop hating the killer.

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The search found yet more corpses and to Skids horror, they had all been executed and their transformation cogs removed: acts that revealed the ship had been butchered by the [[Decepticon Justice Division]]. Luckily for all concerned, the discovery of a still-alive Rewind {{storylink|slaughterhouse}} proved this ''wasn't'' the future ''Lost Light'' but a duplicate of the 'real' one. Skids rushed to Rewind as he came through, making sure the guy was okay and filled in on things like Megatron-the-Autobot, and was pissed when Nightbeat pushed Rewind too soon to explain what had happened to the ship. That was how they learned the copy was created when the ship launched, thanks to an issue with the quantum engines, and ''exactly'' what hell Rewind had gone through. Said quantum engines were also leaking, endangering a nearby organic planet, and Skids knew they ahd to act. When Megatron refused to, bothered at the idea of risking his life for a handful of fleshy strangers, Skids tore into him for violating what the Autobrand stood for and that if being an Autobot ''didn't'' force him to modify his behaviour instead of getting what he wanted, then none of his 'rehab' meant a damn.

A brief aside from Getaway gave Skids an idea of how to save the planet: using a mass displacement gun he knew Brainstorm had been making to shrink down someone to help already-tiny Rewind fix the engines. That was a bust. Nothing was found except proof that ''Brainstorm was secretly a Decepticon spy'' but no time for that now, Skids! To Skids' amazement and joy though, his bollocking had worked and a guilty Megatron admitted he could be rigged to downsize and thus he could help Rewind. Skids thanked him. Once the damage was fixed, the duplicate ''Lost Light'' vanished and the 'real' one started to come back, and a happy Skids told a returning Chromedome to head up to the roof where Rewind was waiting. {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}}

Oh yeah, that Brainstorm thing. Turned out he was going back in time to change history, which was going to result in [[Functionist Universe|a hideous dystopia]], and the time travellers sent to bring him back ended up running into an early Skids.{{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 1: All Our Parlous Yesterdays|All Our Parlous Yesterdays}} Things turned out fine in the end! While time-travelling, Rodimus tried to warn the past "don't let them [the Legislators] take Skids" but nobody heard it, which was good as Cyclonus pointed out that Skids being captured turned out to be necessary for saving half the Cybertronian race. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 1: How to Say Goodbye and Mean It|How to Say Goodbye and Mean It}}{{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 3: Predestination: An Expert's Guide|Predestination: An Expert's Guide}}

Skids' friendly nature struck a chord with [[Ten]], the former [[Legislator]] turned into a bartender. In a mural of Ten's favourite crewmembers, Skids was in the front. A further friendship was struck up when Ratchet asked Skids to chat with Rung some time, as the guy would truly appreciate being visited by someone who didn't want help from him; when Skids bought Rung a drink, the therapist was surprised and delighted. {{storylink|Our Steps Will Always Rhyme}}

[[File:MTMTE42 dance dance skidsvolution.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.4|''What a feeling'' ''Being's believing'']]

Skids, Getaway, and Brainstorm all hung out at Nautica's, showing off their cool skillz and generally hanging. When Rung came up, Skids was bothered by Getaway dissing the guy, but they didn't have time to discuss Getaway's passive aggressive whiny defence of it as news came in that Thunderclash was dying and everyone was invited to the pre-wake on the ''Vis Vitalis''. {{storylink|The Sensuous Frame}} During the party, Getaway asked him if he wanted to mutiny against Megatron. Skids declined... and had his mind wiped with the nudge gun. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light: (1) How Bright Their Frail Deeds|How Bright Their Frail Deeds}} Believing his splitting headache to be too much partying, he decided to flump out at the ''Vitalis'' and get picked up tomorrow. {{storylink|The Sensuous Frame}} That made him a target for the parasitical [[personality tick]]s, secretly feeding off his energy! Not knowing why he was so tired {{storylink|The Frail Gaze}} he reached out to Nautica, sensing something was up with her, and she asked him {{storylink|The Sensuous Frame}} to teach her to dance. While busting a move, he coaxed out her issues with her old college friend [[Firestar (G1)|Firestar]] before the ticks begun a public rampage. After they were repulsed, Skids got better and everyone went back to the ''Light'' for a ''biiiig party at Sweeerve's!!!''

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Until Swerve suddenly vanished {{storylink|The Frail Gaze}} and a horrified Skids checked his room to find the bartender facedown, rusted, and half-dead from an infected wound. He rushed him to the medical bay for aid (inadvertently making him worse) and learned from [[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]] that Swerve had been holed up in his room for months, neglecting himself, and using a holomatter avatar to seem 'fine'. To Skids' great shame, he'd never visited Swerve—hadn't even known his ''room number'' until he remembered it was Red Alert's old one—and completely missed any chance to see one of his best friends needed help. He joined a rescue team sent to "[[Swearth]]", a vast hologram Earth operating on sitcom rules that Swerve was projecting, to find the guy's consciousness and fix him. In his new, brooding holomatter avatar, Skids and his friends did track down Swerve and tried to convince him to focus on the physical pain he was feeling, so they could realise where he was hurting. Skids, an expert in suppression, knew Swerve was pushing it down. Once they identified that Swerve was cripplingly lonely and depressed, they were able to convince him that he truly was loved and valued by them. {{storylink|The One Where They Go to Earth}}

Soon after, Skids went with a crew to check out the legendary [[Necrobot]]. He needled Nightbeat for having the 'debunking' itch and said that, while he no longer believed, he understood why other people were attracted to the idea that there was something after death. {{storylink|The Not Knowing}}

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Under incremental recollection sessions with Rung, where he also helped fix model ships as a focusing tool, Skids had finally managed to remember ''entering'' Grindcore if nothing else; while frustrated with the slow process, Rung admonished him that learning all of it in one go would re-traumatise him. While chatting, Skids was surprised to see the long-lost [[Froid]] appear. An old friend of yours, Rung? Well, I'll leave you to get caught up! (Off he went to brood at the oil pools, trying to remember more.) Within minutes Rung sent him a coded radio message to meet him at Froid's ship as something ''dodgy'' was going on but by the time Skids arrived, Rung had learned Froid had the infamous [[Sunder (G1)|Tetrahax Ripper, Sunder]], on board and that guy ''fed'' on bad memories. The very first sight of Skids woke Sunder up and caused him to attack, starting to rip up Skids' traumatic memories to the surface {{storylink|Speak, Memory: Part 1}} before Rung could get him to safety. During the running battle against the serial killer, Rung kept trying to get Skids to Chromedome for memory suppression and Sunder duly followed them, constantly bringing up memories. Luckily Sunder was killed by the point Skids remembered repariing Grindcore's teleport chambers for Tarn and ''not'' by the point he'd remember how he'd killed five hundred souls.{{storylink|Speak, Memory! (Part 2)}}

When a small time window opened up in Swerve's, Skids used it to look back at the day the new crew members joined the ''Light'', a day that Trailcutter was still alive and openly happy. {{storylink|No Guns, No Swords, No Briefcases}}

Skids had been part of Megatron's classes on the Knights of Cybertron and in one, to his surprise, Megatron showed the symbol that the strange spark being had 'said' to him back at possibly-Cyberutopia. Nautica advised him to write it out phoenetically to try and retain the knowledge of what it was, but everything was interrupted when Megatron and several others received bizarre messages coming from a distant planet. Rodimus assembled Skids with the rest of 'Team Rodimus' and they headed out to discover it was coming from the Necrobot's planet...

...where the [[Decepticon Justice Division]] and [[Deathsaurus (Victory)|Deathsaurus]] were waiting. The Necrobot had been killed and the Autobots were forced to take refuge in his temple, now their makeshift fortress. And a message came in from ''Getaway'', telling them that the crew had mutinied against Megatron and all those considered loyal to him, so sick they were of having the killer around. Skids was enraged to discover his former friend had actually mindwiped him, an act he ''knew'' was a violation, to keep this a secret. When the message ended and the sheer horror sunk in, Skids embraced Nautica to console her. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light: (1) How Bright Their Frail Deeds|How Bright Their Frail Deeds}}

The DJD made their presence known by attacking the Necrobot's fortress before retreating... promising to return at sunset as part of their intimidation tactics. Skids weighed up their options with the other stranded crew members, suggesting that they dig in and devise an escape route. The Necrobot's body had revealed a key that unlocked a room filled with at least sixty organic creatures inside strange pods. Discussion arose whether to flee, or stay and defend the people inside the pods, but the Autobots ultimately decided to stand their ground. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 2: The Sun in Flight|The Sun in Flight}} Their forces were bolstered by the returning Drift and Ratchet, who had caught wind of their predicament through [[Velocity (G1)|Velocity]]. Skids had the awkward task of introducing Ratchet to his replacement. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 3: Your Fierce Tears|Your Fierce Tears}}

With death staring them in the face, Skids was one of the Autobots who Nautica assembled for the rite of [[Amica Endura]]. She opened her spark to them, recited the ritual, and told them all how they were valued. When Rung departed with Nightbeat to investigate the mystery of the Necroworld, Skids bade him a terse and awkward farewell. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 4: At Close of Day|At Close of Day}}

Shortly afterwards, Velocity hit on a potential way out: Tailgate's spark 'explosion', triggered by extreme trauma, had supercharged two security guards ala [[Ore-13]] and that could be done now! All it required was, er, someone willing to be traumatised. Skids offered himself up and pleaded with Chromedome to finally let him know about his deep, hidden trauma. His sad friend brought back all the memories of Grindcore and Skids' spark erupted. As his supercharged friends fought through the Decepticons, Ratchet worked to keep him stable as his spark shrank.

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Unfortunately, Skids came to and crawled off his slab, desperate to find Brainstorm and apologise for Quark's death, feebly crying that he was "scum" for what he'd done. Ratchet was desperate to get him back on the slab before he died but Megatron, the only other person in the fort, had left to join the battle and there was nobody to help. Skids died in Ratchet's arms, only Brainstorm noticing as his friend's 'statue' winked out. After the Autobots retreated back to the Necrobot's fortress, a distraught Nautica embraced the corpse. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 5: Rage, Rage|Rage, Rage}} She stayed with it until at least the morning as events unfolded outside. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 6: Do Not Go Gentle|Do Not Go Gentle}}

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===''Cloud''===
As an Autobot from [[Cloud World]], Skids was part of an inter-dimensional police force that kept the peace throughout the multiverse, while collecting excess energy to ensure the welfare of [[SARA]], the super-robotic being that allowed them access to other dimensions. When the Autobots' city of [[Metropolis]] came under attack from the Decepticons of the [[Underground (Cloud)|Underground]], Skids was stationed at the Autobots' Directorate of Operations to safeguard it as part of a garrison. But the Decepticons' rampage across multiple city districts had turned out to be nothing more than a distraction from their real scheme. [[Shockwave (G1)#Cloud|Shockwave]] and others forced their way into the Autobots' headquarters, catching the guards by surprise, and managed to make their escape with SARA in tow. After the Decepticons' retreat to the Underground, Optimus Prime called a meeting. Skids personally apologized for failing in his responsibility of protecting SARA. Optimus, however, took the blame onto himself for not having formulated a better strategy against the Decepticons. Optimus decided to head into the Underground himself to retrieve SARA. The other Autobots, unwilling to let their beloved leader go alone in this venture, all volunteered to join him. {{storylink|Resolve}}
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===''Q-Transformers'' cartoon===
[[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] named Skids, [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]], and [[Drift (G1)|Drift]] as three characters who had been produced as toys for the popular ''[[Q-Transformers]]'' line. {{storylink|The Road to Winning a New Fanbase}}

====''Transformers Legends'' comic====
Skids was a member of the [[Skids Squadron]], a group of dimension-hopping versions of Skids led by [[#Transformers Legends comic|dimensional investigator Skids]], who summoned them to help force [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] out of the [[Legends Universe]]. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 20|Bonus Edition Vol. 20}}

==Games==
===3D Battle-Card Game===
Skids was one of [[Optimus Primal]]'s many Autobot allies in a fight against [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]'s Decepticon forces, in what might possibly have been an inter-universe battle. {{storylink|3D Battle-Card Game#Energon Wars expansion|Energon Wars Expansion Set}}

===''Transformers Legends''===
During the war on Cybertron, Skids was among a group of Autobots led by [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]], who went to [[Tyrest (polity)|Tyrest]] in an attempt to reason with [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]. They were ambushed by the Decepticons, and Sentinel Prime was killed. {{storylink|The War Within}}

===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
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Skids participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He was an Rare character that could be recruited by collecting 130 units of Cybermetal, 75 units of Transmetal, and 45 hunter cores. {{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}

===''Transformers Operation Omega''===
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==Toys==
===Generation 1===
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[[File:G1 Skids toy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Introducing the new Nikahimi Deathtrap. With its poly-cotton body shell, it's the fastest car in the world... to open with the jaws of life. The Nikahimi Deathtrap—the last car you'll ever drive.]]
*'''Skids''' (Autobot Car, 1985)
**''Accessories'': "Liquid nitrogen rifle", "twin electron blaster", "rocket pod" launcher, 3 rockets
:Skids began life as part of [[TakaraTomy]]'s ''[[Diaclone]]'' toyline, where he was known simply by the name of his [[alternate mode]], the [[wikipedia:Honda City Turbo|Honda City Turbo]], and was available in blue, red, or black color schemes (see [[#Notes|Notes]], below). The blue version of the figure was used by [[Hasbro]] as part of the ''Transformers'' toyline, sans a small scooter accessory that the ''Diaclone'' figure had come with which stored inside his trunk. Despite sharing this common point of origin with many of his fellow Autobot cars, he features a few unusual touches: his rear wheels fold into his feet for added [[robot mode]] stability, and his weapons attach by clipping over his forearms, rather than plugging into his fists. Among his armament is a "rocket pod", the spring-loaded missile-firing mechanism of which was neutered for Hasbro's release of the figure.

:Because Skids was not one of the original eleven [[Autobot Cars]] released at the line's inception, he is commonly grouped in with the later 1985 Autobot Cars both fictionally and in the minds of [[fandom|fans]]. However, Skids was actually added to the 1984 assortment some time before the 1985 wave was released (December 1984 is the current earliest confirmed availability of the figure), during which time he came in 1984 packaging including a "TM" mark by the "Transformers" logo, rather than a "(R)" mark. Like the other 1984 cars, at least some of these early Skids releases lacked the [[rubsign]] on the roof that would later be added to all Transformers toys in 1985. He was also one of the ''rarest'' mass-release G1 figures, with just one Skids included per every ''two'' [[Case|shipping cases]].

:Skids has been reissued several times; this article lists each reissue separately where appropriate. This mold itself is a [[retool]] of an earlier ''Diaclone'' toy, the Honda City R; this earlier tooling was used to make [[Crosscut (Autobot)|Crosscut]] and the ''[[Transformers Generations 2009]]'' exclusive [[Screech (Generations)|Screech]].

::*''[http://www.transformerland.com/wiki/toy-info/transformers-g1-autobot-cars-skids/519/ Patent info, price guide, and further reading on Skids at Transformerland.com]''
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1985/Autobot/Skids/skids.htm More information on Skids at TFU.info]''
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===''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers''===
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[[File:G1toy vsz set.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''Skids & Sunstreaker vs Buzzsaw''' (multi-pack, 1985)
**''ID number'': '''VSZ'''
**''Accessories'': "Liquid nitrogen rifle", "twin electron blaster", "rocket pod" launcher, 3 rockets
: Skids was not released on his own in the Japanese Generation 1 toyline, and was instead available only in a multi-pack with [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] and [[Buzzsaw (G1)|Buzzsaw]], which was also the only way to get the other two on the Japanese market at the time. This box set remains a considerable rarity on the secondary market.
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[[File:G1toy quantum operative skids.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|You sure you can call this an homage?]]
*'''Skids & Screech Quantum Operative Ver.''' (exclusive multi-pack, 2009)
**''Accessories:'' "Material acceleration pistol", dual-barreled gun, "quantum shield" launcher, 3 rockets, scooter

:"Quantum Operative" Skids is a green redeco of the original Generation 1 toy, available in conjunction with his [[#Encore|''Encore'' release (below)]], and including for the first time the scooter accessory that was eliminated from the ''Diaclone'' toy for his original Transformers release. He was sold in a set with [[Screech (Generations)|Screech]] that was a mail-away [[exclusive]] available only with volume 3 of [[Hero-X|Million Publishing]]'s ''[[Transformers Generations 2009]]''. While Skids's colors are an homage to ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' [[Skids (ROTF)|Skids]], Screech is likewise a match for Skids's twin [[Mudflap (ROTF)|Mudflap]].

:Amusingly, the color scheme for this exclusive was accidentally revealed early by TakaraTomy when they [[:File:Encore Skids Tokyo Toy Show 2009.jpg|mistakenly included its missile launcher]], denoted by its bright green launching tab, with the normal ''Encore'' version that was on display at Tokyo Toy Show 2009.<ref name="internat">[http://www.allspark.com/content/view/5790/20/ TakaraTomy Accidentally Gives Clue to TF Generations Vol. 3 Mail Away Figure?!]</ref>
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2009/Cybertron/Skids/skids.htm More information on Quantum Operative Skids at TFU.info]''
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===The Transformers Collection===
[[File:TF Collection 3 Skids.jpg|thumb]]
*'''Skids''' (reissue, [[September 27|9-27]]-[[2002]])
**''ID number'': '''3'''
**''Accessories'': "Liquid nitrogen rifle", "twin electron blaster", "rocket pod" launcher, 3 rockets

:Skids received his first reissue in 2002, when [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] made him available as part of their "book-box" ''[[The Transformers Collection|Transformers Collection]]'' series, surprising many with the inclusion of such an overlooked character so early in the line. He features no significant differences from the original (save for a working missile launcher, as with the original Japanese release), though the figure suffered from a common, if not universal, problem: an excess of plastic on the underside of Skids's right foot means that his rear wheel can not fold down flat beneath it, resulting in a slightly unstable robot mode. Since the original Japanese figure was released only in a giftset, Skids did not get a [[List of Japanese ID numbers|Japanese ID number]] at the time, a situation this reissue rectifies by retroactively giving him the ID number '''96''' on the included [[Tech Spec]] and [[bio]] card.

:The aforementioned Crosscut was released exclusively through [[e-HOBBY]] in conjunction with this reissue.

::*''[http://www.tf-1.com/articles/reissue/Skids_template.html More information on Transformers Collection Skids at TF-1.com]
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===Commemorative Series===
[[File:G1toy commemorative skids.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''Skids''' (reissue, 2004)
**''Accessories'': "Liquid nitrogen rifle", "twin electron blaster", "rocket pod" launcher, 3 rockets

:Skids got his first Hasbro reissue as part of the eighth wave of their ''[[The Transformers: Generation One Commemorative Series|Commemorative Series]]'' line, [[exclusive]] to [[Toys"R"Us]] stores. He features no notable differences from the earlier Takara ''Transformers Collection'' release, except for the fact that his launcher's spring has been removed.
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===Alternators===
[[File:Alt Skids toy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Heavily clearanced so fanboys could customize him into Ironhide.]]
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*'''Autobot Skids''' (2005)
**''Alternator ID number'': '''17'''
**''Japanese ID number'': '''BT-16'''
**''Accessories'': Engine-rifle

:Skids transforms into a 1:24-scale blue Scion xB. All four doors open, revealing a fully-detailed realistic interior with seats for a driver and passengers, plus his hood pops open to reveal his engine. His robot mode is very reminiscent of his original toy, with his head sculpt based off his animation model with toy details. His engine pops out and unfolds to become his hand-held pistol.

:The Hasbro ''[[Transformers: Alternators|Alternators]]'' release (part of the first wave of new "bubble packaging" toys) differs from the [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] ''Binaltech'' release in that it has a much darker shade of blue, tinted windows, and various Scion-type tampographed flame decals. The Japanese release naturally has die cast metal parts, is painted a lighter shade of blue, and has different paint decos. It also includes a sheet of stickers, including flames resembling the ones printed on the ''Alternators'' version, as well as some Generation-1-style red stripes, and most humorously, a Japanese "New Driver" badge.

:This mold was also used to make ''[[The Transformers: Binaltech Asterisk|Binaltech Asterisk]]'' [[Blaster (G1)#Binaltech Asterisk|Broadblast]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2006/Autobot/AltSkids/skids.htm More information on ''Alternators'' Skids at TFU.info]''
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===Encore===
[[File:G1toy encore skids.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''Skids''' (reissue, 2009)
*''ID number:'' '''18'''
**''Accessories'': "Liquid nitrogen rifle", "twin electron blaster", "rocket pod" launcher, 3 rockets

:TakaraTomy reissued Skids again in October 2009 as part of their ''[[Transformers Encore]]'' series. This version of the figure shifted its colors a little, changing him from tomato-red and blue to cherry-red and blueish-purple, as well as noticeably lightening the translucent blue plastic used for his windows. His Autobot symbol and tail light stickers were replaced with [[tampograph]]s, while some of his other stickers were updated slightly, including his factory-applied front grill sticker. Like past reissues, this figure too suffered with an unstable robot mode, and ''both'' feet had wheels that would not fold away flat.
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===Generations===
[[File:Generations Skids.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|The theoretician the world deserves, not the one it needs right now.]]
*'''Autobot Skids''' (Deluxe, 2013)
**''Series / Number'': '''02 / #009'''
**''Accessories:'' Nudge gun & nitrogen gun (combine to form rifle)

:Part of the seventh wave of 2012-onwards ''[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]]'' Deluxe Class toys, ''[[Thrilling 30]]'' "Autobot Skids" transforms from a contemporary-looking hatchback into a robot mode largely based on [[Alex Milne]]'s design for [[IDW Publishing|IDW]]'s ''[[The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More than Meets the Eye]]'' comic, most notably featuring that body's numerous integrated weapons. He also includes the [[nudge gun]] carried by Skids in said comic and a new version of the liquid nitrogen rifle from his original toy, the two of which can combine into a larger rifle. Both weapons can peg onto his hands or vehicle sides via [[5mm post]].

:There are numerous reports of the figure's hips being assembled the [[Misassembly|wrong way round]], thus affecting the car mode as well as hampering the leg articulation (and it could even result in the ball joints at the waist snapping off), this can simply be fixed by popping them out and swapping them to the right place (just as long as you are careful with the aforementioned ball joints). At least some later releases fixed this issue.

:He comes packaged with the [[Little Victories|twenty-second issue]] of IDW's aforementioned ''More than Meets the Eye'' comic series, featuring a cropped version of its retailer incentive cover, which is called out as a 'Hasbro Exclusive Cover' on its front.

:Skids was [[redeco]]ed into ''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (toyline)|Age of Extinction]]'' [[Rollbar (AOE)#Toys|Rollbar]] as well as [[Burn Out]], plus was [[retool]]ed into ''Generations'' [[Crosscut (Autobot)#Generations|Crosscut]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2014/Autobot/GenSkids/skids.htm More information on ''Generations'' Skids at TFU.info]''
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===Q-Transformers===
[[File:QTransformers Skids.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6]]
*'''Skids''' ([[2015]]-[[June 27|06-27]])
**''ID number:'' '''QT-21'''

:''[[Q-Transformers]]'' Skids is a redeco and retool of [[Hound (G1)/toys#Q-Transformers|QT-15 Hound]], transforming into a [[super deformed]] Suzuki Hustler.

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===Legends===
[[File:Legendstoy-Skids.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6]]
*'''Skids''' ([[2016]]-[[May 28|05-28]])
**''ID number:'' '''LG-20'''
**''Accessories:'' Nudge gun & nitrogen gun (combine to form rifle)

:''[[Transformers Legends (franchise)|Legends]]'' Skids is an extensive redeco of the ''Generations'' Skids toy. It features a color scheme faithful to the character's appearance in the ''[[The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More than Meets the Eye]]'' comic, with a darker shade of blue, black front grill with red details under the grill, silver and black detailing on the feet, painted front lights and pink striping on the front hood and on the back's sculpted detail.

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==Merchandise==
===Decoy===
[[File:Decoy skids.jpg|thumb]]
*'''Cybertron Hero Collection 22''' (multi-pack, 1986)

:Skids was among the many characters rendered by [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] as part of their series of 1.5" soft rubber ''keshigomu'' figurines. Like all the figures in the series, Skids featured a number sculpted into his back that was the sum total of his [[Tech Spec]]s, for use in the various games that could be played with the figurines. He was available in red as part of a 22-piece box set of Autobot figures, in peach as part of various other randomly-packed box sets released by Takara subsidiary [[Seven]], and in a wide variety of different colors in "gachapon" capsule machines.

*'''Skids''' (1987)
**''Decoy number:'' '''12'''

:The Skids figurine was later brought over to [[Hasbro]] markets as part of the [[Decoy]] promotion, largely identical to the Japanese release except for the fact that the number on his back was replaced with a simple "checklist" number. Like all Autobot Decoys, he was a randomly-chosen pack-in available with the carded [[Throttlebot]]s, [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]], [[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobots]] and [[Technobot (G1)|Technobots]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1986/Autobot/Decoys/Skids/skids.htm More information on Decoy Skids at TFU.info]''
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'''3d Battle-Card Game'''

{{anchor|3DBC}}[[File:EnergonWarsSkids.jpg|thumb|Are, uh, you sure you're a G1 character?]]
*'''Skids''' (3D Battle-Card, 2007)
:A 26-point "common" character in the [[3D Battle-Card Game]]'s "Energon Wars" expansion, Skids "transforms" into a grey pickup truck of indeterminate make. He uses the same parts layout as [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] and [[Dropkick]].

:He is equipped with a LN2 Cryo Rifle, an Electron Blaster, and a Rocket Launcher, which are similar to his G1 weapons — but due to the interdimensional nature of the Energon Wars subset, the Battle-Card may or may not also represent the [[Skids (Movie)|live-action movie Skids]].
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==Notes==
[[File:DiacloneSkids.jpg|thumb|A rainbow of theoretical flavors.]]
[[File:Skidsdiacloneconceptart.jpg|thumb|Suck it, Ironhide! This head was mine first!]]
*The ''[[Diaclone]]'' version of Skids was additionally available in black or red. The [[BotCon 2015]] toy and character [[Burn Out]], a non-Cybertronian ''Diaclone'' mech from within the ''Transformers'' [[multiverse]], is based on the black version.
*Skids' animation model head appears to be based on early ''Diaclone'' promotional concept art. The toy's head would be different... and ultimately different from the [[Crosscut (Autobot)|Crosscut]] head shown in his instructions, which also popped up a few times in the UK comics.
*Though Skids' toy turned into a Honda City Turbo, his car mode was often misinterpreted in Transformers fiction as one of the then-new minivans, despite the fact that a Honda City Turbo is a subcompact car, and as such, could theoretically be stowed in the back seat of an actual minivan. This is likely because most Americans in 1985 wouldn't know what a subcompact car is.
*As Skids was released in the interim between the original 1984 launch and the big push of new 1985 figures, the character consequently fell by the wayside in the Generation 1 fiction of the 1980s. He was not included in the commercial promoting the new 1985 range of Autobot Cars, as he wasn't technically part of it. Similarly, he was also left out of the list of new 1985 product in the Generation 1 cartoon's [[production bible]] intended for inclusion in the show's second season, and as such, only managed to appear in little more than cameo roles in just two episodes, speaking one line in each and voiced by a different actor each time. He fared a little better in the Marvel comics, debuting alongside (an incomplete roster of) the other 1985 cars, but after getting an issue dedicated to himself, he all but completely vanished from the book and was banished to [[limbo]] by the UK comic for upwards of 100 issues, abandoned and forgotten.
*In the "[[Survivors!]]" story, Skids was suddenly drawn with the original Diaclone toy's head (which years later would be used for the new character [[Crosscut (Autobot)|Crosscut]]). "Survivors!"' artist, [[Dan Reed]], previously drew him with his real head, so it'd be interesting to learn why and how this change happened. (He would later mysteriously regain his own face.)
*In more recent years, toys sporting the name "Skids" have required an additional "Autobot" prefix for [[trademark]] reasons, hence making the official name "'''Autobot Skids'''".

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Skids''' (スキッズ ''Sukizzu'')
*''French:'' '''Platon''' ("Plato")
*''Hungarian:'' '''Szán'''
*''Italian:'' '''Furetto''' ("Ferret")
*''Mandarin:'' '''Shāchē''' (China, 刹车, "Brake")
*''Portuguese:'' '''Patins''' (Brazil comic, "Skate"), '''Pe-de-cabra''' (Portugal comic, "Crowbar")
*''Russian:'' '''Tormoz''' (Тормоз, "Brake")

==References==
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[[Category:Cloud Autobots]]
[[Category:Council members]]
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[[Category:Dimension hoppers]]
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Deathsaurus (G1)

2016-07-31T18:44:35Z

Ravagekitteh: /* IDW Generation 1 continuity */

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:''Deathsaurus is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Victory (franchise)|Victory portion]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''

[[File:Deathsaurus1.jpg|325px|thumb|Spell it right or you're kickbanned, buster.]]

'''Deathsaurus''' (デスザラス ''Desuzarasu'') began terrorizing the galaxy long before ascending to the position of Decepticon [[Emperor of Destruction]]. For thousands of years, this savage and cruel dictator has spread terror throughout the universe, and has now set his sights upon the Earth as a source of energy to power his terrifying superweapon, the [[Planet-Destroying Fortress]]. And if [[Star Saber (Victory)|Star Saber]] should get in his way, so much the better: Deathsaurus bears the Autobot [[Supreme Commander]] a bitter grudge, and relishes any opportunity to destroy him that presents itself.

Deathsaurus is a [[Breastforce]] warrior, partnered with two transforming chestplates that become the [[Breast Animal]]s [[Tigerbreast]] and [[Eaglebreast]]. He wields a deadly spiked flail, and the [[Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon]], which erodes the living metallic cells of super-robot lifeforms. The bladed wings of his creature mode absorb sunlight, converting it into dark energy, and he can then launch these energized blades at his opponents in an attack known as his "Death Wing". Despite all of these terrifying powers, however, Deathsaurus is a surprisingly "hands off" leader, who is perfectly happy to allow his subordinates to formulate their own plans and schemes to gather energy for him—but if they should fail, he'll always be there to berate and brutalize them. Even when the plans are his own, Deathsaurus is content to watch and command from a distance, rather than dirty his own hands—but he'll rarely waste a chance to engage Star Saber on the battlefield, and if that occurs, woe betide anyone who gets in Deathsaurus's way.

Curiously, Deathsaurus permits himself one distinctive, unusual foible: although he despises most humans, he has a surprising soft spot for children.

Sometimes he is known as '''Dezarus'''. In some universes, he can combine with the ''Destron'' team to form [[Liokaiser]], replacing Leozack & Jallguar.

{{quote|I will not forgive this, Star Saber! I swear! I swear I will crush you with my bare hands! I swear, you worm! With my bare hands!|Deathsaurus tells you all you'll ever need to know about him|"[[Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress]]"}}

==Fiction==
===Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''Super-God Masterforce'' cartoon====
Clips of Deathsaurus were seen when [[Shūta Gō|Shūta]] and [[Grand Maximus]] were talking about the new [[Supreme Commander]] [[Star Saber (Victory)|Star Saber]]. {{storylink |Shūta and Grand's Masterforce Super-Secrets!}}

====''Victory'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Takeshi Aono]] (Japanese)|[[Rik Thomas]] (English, Omni Productions dub)}}

[[File:Deathsaurus fortress.jpg|left|thumb|225px|By the power of Grayskull!]]

500,000 years ago, striving to become the Decepticons' new Emperor of Destruction, Deathsaurus created a gigantic battle fortress capable of destroying planets, but an attack by the young Autobot commander Star Saber saw the fortress de-powered and trapped in a gravity cell at the heart of the region of space known as [[Dark Nebula]]. This began the enmity between Star Saber and Deathsaurus, and as both combatants rose through the ranks of their respective armies, Deathsaurus vowed to eventually liberate his fortress and use it to destroy Star Saber. {{storylink|Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress}}

Some years prior to 2025, after the conclusion of the [[Masterforce War]] on Earth, Deathsaurus succeeded [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] as Decepticon leader and achieved his dream of becoming Emperor of Destruction. {{storylink|#Toys|Deathsaurus's ''Victory'' toy bio}} Under his command, the Decepticons began seeking a planet that they could call their own and invaded worlds all across the galaxy. To counteract Deathsaurus's campaign of terror, the Autobots—now with Star Saber serving as their Supreme Commander—and many other sentient races formed the [[Galactic Peace Alliance]], and struck back at the Decepticons with their [[Galactic Peace Alliance|Galactic Defense Force]]. As time passed and this conflict continued, Deathsaurus began focusing his attacks on "Sector One" of the galaxy, containing the planet Earth, until 2025, when the severity and frequency of the attacks forced Star Saber to take command of the Defense Force unit in that area himself. {{storylink|The Brave Hero of the Universe - Star Saber}}

[[File:Deathsaurus starsaber moonbattle.jpg|thumb|225px|Parry on regardless.]]

When Deathsaurus's [[Dinoforce]] attacked the [[Lunar Base (Victory)|Lunar Base]] on Earth's [[Moon (moon)|moon]], Star Saber raced to aid his fellow [[Brainmaster]]s in battle there, only to find his way barred by Deathsaurus. Hoping to distract Star Saber long enough for the Dinoforce to finish their job, Deathsaurus engaged his old foe in battle, but Star Saber broke off the fight as quickly as he could and headed on toward the moon with Deathsaurus hot on his heels. After Star Saber defeated the Dinoforce, Deathsaurus caught up to him and unleashed his Breast Animals upon the Autobot in both beast and weapon forms. Star Saber eventually won out, defeating both the creatures and besting Deathsaurus in a swordfight, forcing the Decepticon leader to summon up his craft, the ''[[Thunder Arrow]],'' and flee aboard it. {{storylink|The Brave Hero of the Universe - Star Saber}}

[[File:Deathsaurus throne.jpg|left|thumb|225px|THRONE'D!]]

Recognizing the Earth as a rich source of energy that he could use to power up his Planet-Destroying Fortress, Deathsaurus centered most of his subsequent attacks on the planet, summoning the Breastforce to aid in the campaign. {{storylink|Sneak Attack! Dinoking}} {{storylink|Attack! Leozack}} {{storylink|Unite!! Multiforce}} Deathsaurus was entirely aware of the fact that the Breastforce's leader [[Leozack]] had designs on leadership of the Decepticons for himself, {{storylink|Move Out! Rescue Team}} but he was amused enough by it to let him slide by, allowing Leozack to believe that he was oblivious to his schemes. Residing on the Thunder Arrow as it hopscotched around the planet and solar system, Deathsaurus was content to watch as his troops staged numerous attacks on Earth. {{storylink|Infiltration... The Uranium Mine}} {{storylink|Explosion!! The Energy Base}}

[[File:Deathsaurus beastmode.jpg|thumb|225px|Not to be confused with the [[w:Robot Chicken|Adult Swim]] show of the same name.]]

Deathsaurus finally decided to join his troops on a mission when the Decepticon began draining electrical energy from an American subway system. While the Breastforce snuck through the subway tunnels, Deathsaurus himself targeted the power distribution center, where he was confronted by Star Saber. The true cunning of Deathsaurus's scheme was revealed when he let loose his Breast Animals, and Star Saber proved no match for the creatures in the small confines of the underground complex. Unfortunately for Deathsaurus, he had overlooked the fact that with both Breast Animals deployed, his own chest was left unprotected, leaving it open to an attack from Star Saber's Saber Blade. Wounded, Deathsaurus recalled his Breast Animals and fled, but not without successfully taking the energy he had managed to steal beforehand. {{storylink|Big City - Underground Terror}}

When the Breastforce were joined by [[Hellbat (Victory)|Hellbat]], the newcomer also adopted designs on the Decepticon throne. {{storylink|The New Warrior - Hellbat}} Deathsaurus was even less concerned with Hellbat's ambitions than he was with Leozack's, though, since the two would-be traitors were always too busy fighting with each other to pose a serious threat to him. In their constant games of one-upmanship, Leozack and Hellbat crafted numerous failed schemes of their own, eventually forcing Deathsaurus to step in and give his minions a mission of his own devising. Deathsaurus had the Decepticons hide in the asteroid belt and capture human shuttlecraft in order to use drain their energy and use them to create an energy alloy. Star Saber soon got wise to the villains' evildoings and arrived to put a stop to them, but again, Deathsaurus successfully escaped with his amassed energy. {{storylink|A Fierce Battle!! The Asteroid}}

[[File:Starsaber living metal destroying cannon.jpg|left|thumb|Say hello to my little friend...]]

While the Breastforce were busy on planet [[Micro]], Deathsaurus and the Dinoforce took the Thunder Arrow into the Dark Nebula, where Deathsaurus emptied his stockpile of energy into his inactive fortress. The giant structure briefly flared back to life, but soon shut down once more; Deathsaurus was unfazed, having only sought to confirm whether or not the fortress could even be reactivated. On the trip back to Earth, the Decepticons crossed paths with Star Saber and the [[Rescue Patrol Team]], and Deathsaurus engaged Star Saber in battle with his Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon. Although Deathsaurus was actually able to pull the trigger on what would have been a fatal blast, he discovered that he had expended too much of his energy supply reactivating his fortress, and his weapons systems shut down before he could end Star Saber's life, necessitating his tactical withdrawal. {{storylink|Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress}}

[[File:Deathsaurus vs leozack.jpg|thumb|Tell me, what was the color of Napoleon's White horse?]]

Deathsaurus next clashed with Star Saber in Antarctica, only stepping onto the battlefield after the Breastforce, combined as [[Liokaiser]], had severely weakened Star Saber. Deathsaurus took over the fight, intent on being the one to deliver the final blow, but Star Saber was able to turn the battle around, and forced Deathsaurus into retreat. {{storylink|Fight to the Death!! Antarctic Battle}} In a later battle atop the Thunder Arrow, deep in the desert, Star Saber again humbled Deathsaurus, this time with the aid of [[Greatshot]], but the fight left both the Supreme Commander and [[Blacker]] badly wounded. {{storylink|Crisis! Ambush in the Desert}} Capitalizing on the Autobots' reduced manpower, Deathsaurus stepped up the Decepticons' attacks across the planet, and removed another annoyance by finally calling Leozack out on his treachery. Easily besting the traitorous Breastforcer in combat, Deathsaurus forced him to swear total loyalty to him, or face death. Leozack made the logical choice, and then, combined with his fellow Breastforcers as Liokaiser, joined with his leader in staging an ambush for Star Saber in a subterranean cave in Asia. Disguising himself as a Terracotta Army-esque statue, Deathsaurus was able to get the drop on Star Saber when Liokaiser lured him into the cave, and again unleashed the Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon on his enemy. Once more, Deathsaurus stood poised to kill Star Saber with the weapon, until the last-minute arrival of [[Ginrai|God Ginrai]], who took the fatal shot. Liokaiser had to persuade the incensed Deathsaurus to retreat as more Autobots arrived, {{storylink|A Deadly Battle}} but the Decepticon leader soon clashed with Star Saber once more in a later battle at a solar power station. Deathsaurus emerged victorious in that fight when Star Saber was forced to flee upon receiving news of Ginrai's deteriorating condition. {{storylink|Ginrai Dies!!}} Ginrai's life was saved, however, when he was rebuilt into the powerful new warror, [[Victory Leo]]. {{storylink|Fight!! Victory Leo}}

Next, Deathsaurus began bombarding the Earth with missiles from an orbital weapons platform, as a means of staying the Autobots' hands while his forces gathered energy across the planet. Star Saber and Victory Leo were able to thwart his plan by combining into the mighty Victory Saber; Deathsaurus's missile launch system had been programmed based on Star Saber's speed, but with the added power of Victory Leo, the Autobot hero was able to outrace the missiles, destroy the launcher and defeat Deathsaurus in an outer space battle. {{storylink|The Tide Is Turned! The Ultimate Weapon, the Victory Unification}}

[[File:Victory37 finalblow.jpg|left|thumb|Who says robots don't bleed?]]

Following an attempt to destroy the Autobots with the metal-eating [[Doriya]] insects, {{storylink|The Death-Bringing Space Insects!!}} Deathsaurus was informed by Hellbat that he had discovered the location of the sunken continent of [[Atlantis]], which could provide the raw energy to reactivate his fortress. Deathsaurus risked all or nothing to obtain Atlantis's energy, using up the Thunder Arrow's entire energy stockpile to raise the continent, but the plan proved a success, as the Autobots were too busy dealing with the devastating tidal waves caused by the rise of Atlantis to stop him from absconding with enough energy to bring his fortress back online. {{storylink|The Terror of the Giant Tidal Waves}} Having no further use for the bumbling Dinoforce, Deathsaurus abandoned them on Earth and headed back to the Dark Nebula with the Breastforce, where he successfully re-energized his fortress and began moving it towards Earth. {{storylink|The Wrath of the Resurrected Giant Fortress!}}

[[File:Victory37 deadsaurus.jpg|thumb|With my last breath, I curse Zoidberg!]]

Intent on learning from the failures of all past Decepticon leaders, Deathsaurus chose not to conquer Earth, but to utterly destroy the planet, eradicting from Decepticon history the humiliating stain of defeat the planet represented. As the fortress rained destruction down upon Earth with meteor bombs, even Victory Saber could not stand up to its power. Soon, however, a resentful Dinoforce supplied information on the fortress's weak spot to Star Saber's adopted human son, [[Jan Minakaze|Jan]], who then used his own [[Illumina II|personal mech]] to enter the fortress and strike at this vulnerability. As he did so, Deathsaurus and Star Saber engaged in a vicious final battle, during which Deathsaurus lost an eye, and was eventually stopped when Star Saber broke his sword off in the villain's chest. Gushing fuel and fluid, Deathsaurus vowed to have the last laugh as he set the crippled fortress on a collision course with Earth and blew himself out an airlock, vowing to return again and again. But, as his body drifted off into space, no sign of life was visible from the conquered emperor. Victory Saber was able to subsequently destroy the fortress before it collided with Earth, but Deathsaurus was not heard from again. {{storylink|Showdown! The Fortress vs the Victory Unification}}
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{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Attack the Shuttle Base!!}} {{storylink|Tanker Hijack Operation}} {{storylink|Rescue Jan!!}} {{storylink|Unite! Liokaiser}} {{storylink|Battle Up of Wrath!!}} {{storylink|Jan - Defend the Campus!!}} {{storylink|A Mystery?! The Deception of the Base Bombs}}}}

====''Zone'' catalog====
[[File:DarkEmperorDeathsaurusZone01.jpg|thumb|upright=0.85]]

Through means unknown, Deathsaurus was resurrected as the "[[Emperor of Destruction|Dark Emperor]]" and once again lead the Decepticons in an attack on the Autobots. This time, it was a full-on assault on planet [[Micro|Zone]] in an attempt to seize the Micro Zone's [[Energon Z]]. The [[Micromaster]]s repelled his attack and sent Deathsaurus into retreat. What became of him afterward is unknown. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)#Catalogue story page 1|Zone Project Story}}
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===''Victory'' manga===
[[File:MangaYoungDeathyStarSaber.jpg|left|thumb|225px|"Come back here and help me put some sense in this image!"]]
Deathsaurus and Star Saber's rivalry began 500,000 years ago when they were both children, and according to Star Saber, "argued all the time". {{storylink|The Star of Friendship, Jan and Star Saber!}} In his "adult" years, Deathsaurus took [[Esmeral (Victory)|Esmeral]] as his wife, and in order to keep both her and the families of his fellow Decepticons safe aboard his "Space Stronghold", Deathsaurus began attacking Earth, in order to obtain the planet's energy and use it to keep the stronghold fully powered-up. {{storylink|Heroic! The Victory War}}

During one of his early attacks on Earth, Deathsaurus took pity on an infant human named [[Solon Kitakaze (Victory)|Solon Kitakaze]], whose parents had died in the assault. Deathsaurus "adopted" Solon and turned him into a cyborg, raising him as his own son, just as Star Saber did with the human child Jan Minakaze. As Star Saber and Deathsaurus had been rivals in their youth, so too would Solon and Jan become rivals when, in 2025, Deathsaurus's campaign against Earth intensified.

Deathsaurus and Star Saber's first major battle in this campaign was a brief one, with Deathsaurus being felled by a single swipe of Star Saber's Saber Blade, {{storylink|Magnificent! Our Friend, Star Saber!}} but the Emperor of Destruction had a better showing in their next clash, during which he absorbed enough energy from a forest fire to best Star Saber, Road Caesar and Landcross all together. Deathsaurus's unusual compassion for children proved to be his downfall in this battle when he was distracted by the sight of Solon, gripping Jan in a hold that threatened the boy's life. While Deathsaurus's attention was occupied with striking Solon as punishment, Star Saber blindsided and defeated him with a Super Saber Meteor Spin. {{storylink|Great Turn-Around! Star Saber}}

Deathsaurus later sent Solon to study in school on Earth, in order to learn more about humans, thereby making it easier to conquer them. {{storylink|Leozack Rumbles Violently!}} While Solon was on Earth, he and Jan were approached by former Autobot human allies [[Shūta Gō]] and [[Cab]], {{storylink|Warrior of Love, Star Saber!}} and with Jan, they formed the "Autobot Boy Team" known as the [[Victories]]. Seeking to counter this group with a team of his own, Deathsaurus had [[Yokuryu]] capture Jan and bring him to the ''Thunder Arrow'', where he attempted to bribe the boy into joining the Decepticons' group with toys, a [[Family Computer|Famicom]], candy and cash. When an enraged Star Saber soon came tearing into the ''Thunder Arrow'', Deathsaurus crossed swords with the Autobot leader, but was then distracted by Jan distracting who exploited the Decepticon's bizarre fear of caterpillars by dangling one in his face. The cowering Deathsaurus was promptly bested in dramatically explosive fashion by Star Saber's "Planetary Impulse Sword" technique, and realised with hindsight that Solon was the only kid he needed. {{storylink|Watch Out, Jan! Hurry, Star Saber!}} Deathsaurus was apparently left so badly injured by this clash that he couldn't participate in the next battle, given that he was only seen lying in bed, coughing, with Solon resting a giant ice-pack on his head. {{storylink|The Star of Friendship, Jan and Star Saber!}}

[[File:Kingsaurus.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|The mighty Kingsaurus. Mighty.]]

Rested and healthy again, Deathsaurus joined with [[Dinoking]] and Liokaiser in going up against Star Saber together, and perhaps not entirely surprisingly, the badly outnumbered Autobot was defeated by the three Decepticons. Before they could deliver the killing stroke, however, Star Saber was saved by the sudden arrival of Victory Leo, with whom he combined to form Victory Saber. The merged pair defeated the trio of Decepticons in one blast of their "Flash Victory" attack. {{storylink|The Strongest Partners, the Combination of Victory!}} Deathsaurus immediately sought out away to combat Star Saber's new power, and developed a Transformer-sized mech for Solon named "King Solon," with which he could combine to form "Kingsaurus". In this new form, Deathsaurus battled Victory Saber on the planet [[Guard]], with neither combatant getting the upper hand in over three hours of fighting. When [[Patty Minakaze]]'s mentioned the word "mother", however, something of Solon's past was stirred in the boy's mind, and he was distracted long enough for Victory Saber to destroy the King Solon mech components with his Victory. The burning Solon tumbled to the ground, where Patty tended his wounds despite his protestations. Perhaps wary of Solon's confused emotional state, Deathsaurus reminded him that while he was a human child, he was a Decepticon's son by fate. {{storylink|Mighty! Victory Saber}}

[[File:Starsaber deathsaurus truce.jpg|left|225px|thumb|"So, we both agree that the childhood friendship thingie made no sense at all?" "Yes! Oh, what a glorious day!"]]

As it turned out, Deathsaurus was right to be wary—in the midst of a later battle with Star Saber and Road Caesar, Solon turned against Deathsaurus and sided with the Victories, opening fire on his "father" and declaring that he would fight to protect the Earth, instead of destroy it. Now with Solon on their side, the Victories were able to channel their power into the Autobots, and the Decepticons were sent fleeing by the "Five Stars of Victory" attack. {{storylink|Shine! The Five Stars of Victory}} Deathsaurus led the Decepticons back to the Space Stronghold and began bombarding the Earth with meteor bombs, prompting the Autobots to attack it. Deathsaurus left the Breastforce to man the fortress while he engaged Star Saber in a final battle in the void of space, but had not reckoned with the treachery of Leozack, who fired on his emperor with the fortress's main cannon. To save himself, Deathsaurus was forced to return fire on the fortress, and Star Saber followed suite, smashing into the fortress's control chamber and taking Leozack down. As Leozack begged the Autobots not to destroy the fortress, the wounded Deathsaurus arrived and revealed to the Autobots the presence of the Decepticons' families aboard the vessel. Realizing that the Decepticons' had only done what they had in the name of their families' safety, Star Saber decided that it was time for the two leaders to follow the example set by their sons and lay down their arms. Deathsaurus and Star Saber shook hands, and the [[Victory War]] came to an end, bringing peace to everyone—the truest victory of all! {{storylink|Heroic! The Victory War}}
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===''Transformers PD Type'' comic===
[[File:PDType Deathsaurus blackball.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4]]
Out of ammo, the Autobots started throwing things at Deathsaurus, including a [[Blackball]]! Gloating, Deathsaurus began to plan his conquest of the galaxy, only to become so annoyed at the rocks bouncing off his head that in frustration he threw the Blackball at the Autobots. {{storylink|Transformers PD Type##4 "Good Job! Deathsaurus!!"|Good Job! Deathsaurus!!}} Right when Star Saber was ready to finish him, Deathsaurus brought in Liokaiser. The two Decepticons were soon hunting for their enemy as he frantically tried to contact Victory Leo. {{storylink|Transformers PD Type##5 "Don't Lose! Star Saber!!"|Don't Lose! Star Saber!!}}

Deathsaurus and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] were pounced on by Victory Leo until Megatron was able to distract the lion with a huge ball of yarn, allowing the Decepticons to escape. {{storylink|Transformers PD Type##6 "Tough as Nails! Victory Leo!"|Tough as Nails! Victory Leo!}} After a lengthy mid-air battle with Star Saber, Deathsaurus fell from the sky and ended up with [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] chewing on his head. {{storylink|Transformers PD Type##8 "Me Strongest! Me Grimlock!"|Me Strongest! Me Grimlock!}}
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===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
[[File:Deathsaurus dreamwave.jpg|left|thumb|125px|Polish Me!]]
Deathsaurus was an [[Destron (G1)|ancient Transformer]] from Cybertron's lost past. While searching for clues about the planet's history, Megatron stumbled across a hidden chamber beneath the planet's surface containing two massive statues of Deathsaurus and [[Dai Atlas (Zone)|Dai Atlas]], holding a [[Golden Disk (ancient)|golden disk]] between them. This chamber apparently told of a vast Cybertronian Empire that ended prior to recorded history. {{storylink|The Route of All Evil}}
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===Descent into Evil===
[[File:Deathsaurustimelines.jpg|thumb|Deathsaurus orchestrates the rise of a New Decepticon Empire, or NAMBLA.]]

Using a clone lab on [[Ceti Alpha Seven]], Deathsaurus wished to revive the fading [[Decepticon Empire]] with a vast [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]] army. After the first batch of [[Virulent Clone|clones]] was completed, his operation was interrupted by a team of [[Autobot]] commandos under the command of [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]]. Deathsaurus overpowered and captured the first wave himself, and soon faced Ironhide one-on-one, while [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] attempted to rescue the fallen Autobots. Due to the assistance of Tripredacus Agent [[Flamewar (G1)|Flamewar]], these two were defeated and captured as well.

They woke up bound inside Deathsaurus's clone lab. The Emperor of Destruction appeared on a television screen, declaring that his use for the lab was completed and was prepared to detonate it remotely with the Autobots inside. Unfortunately for Deathsaurus, the Autobot espionage agent [[Ricochet (Timelines)|Ricochet]] not only freed the Autobots before the explosion occurred, but also seeded the remaining clones with a virus, leaving Deathsaurus with nothing to show for his work. {{storylink|Descent into Evil}}
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===Theft of the Golden Disk===
Years later, towards the end of the Great War, the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] [[Cryotek (Universe)|Cryotek]] worked under Deathsaurus as a supply manager. When the final defeat of the Decepticons at last came, Cryotek led his fellow Predacon workers in a rebellion against Deathsaurus, and used the materials he stole from his depot to begin his own criminal empire. {{storylink|Transformers Collectors' Club|Cryotek's "Theft of the Golden Disk" profile}}

===''Wings Universe''===
Deathsaurus's origins are unknown, but he quickly rose within the ranks of the Decepticons after the uprisings began. He established himself as one of the fourteen leading [[Decepticon Warlord|Warlord]]s in the Decepticon cause and gathered a small inner circle of followers including [[Falcon (G1)|Falcon]], [[Vanquish (G1)|Vanquish]], and [[Lyzack (Victory)|Lyzack]]. {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 34|Deathsaurus's profile in Club magazine #34}} He had managed to recuit the latter as his personal servant by promising to aid Lyzack in liberating her [[Leozack|brother]] from the Autobots. {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 40|Lyzack's profile in Club magazine #40}} Deathsaurus preferred to lead from his throne room, directing others to carry out his strategies from a distance. He accumulated a great deal of ill-gotten wealth from his forces' assaults on high-ranking generals and aristocrats in the Autobot hierarchy, while carrying on his own experiments into the areas of [[Triple Changer|multiple alternate modes]] and [[Combiner|combination technology]]. {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 34|Deathsaurus's profile in Club magazine #34}}

Following a raid against the Autobot general [[Traachon]], Deathsaurus sat in his throne room enjoying the fruit of his labors, and the finest oil reserves from the good general's private stash. He updated himself on [[Rage (G1)|Rage]]'s final fate at [[Median]] thanks to his deep cover source, [[Flip Sides (G1)|Flip Sides]]. Reviewing the details of the conflict with the [[Cybertron Elite Guard|Elite Guard]], a plan began to form in his diabolical processor regarding the reported victors, the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticon]]s. {{storylink|Flames of Yesterday}}

[[File:TheComingStorm4-LordDeathsaurus.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2.2|He wasn't quite sure whether he was hiring [[Leozack]] or [[Lyzack (Victory)|Lyzack]] to serve him drinks.]]

Seeing the possibility of swaying the Combaticons to his cause, Deathsaurus had [[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]] and his men captured and brought to his headquarters. In his throne room Deathsaurus wove a complicated web of deceit, half-truths, and temptations to bring the Elite Guardsmen under his control. [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] and [[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]] were easy, as their respective greed and love of fine oil was easy to satisfy. To earn their trust, Deathsaurus offered to fix up the Combaticons' armor due to the "mistaken" injuries they suffered at the hands of his soldiers, and he also offered to upgrade them in the process. The lonely [[Blast Off (G1)|Blast Off]] was quick to jump at the idea of having both land and space modes, letting him remain active and useful on the ground. [[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]]'s anger could not be easily cooled, so Deathsaurus merely redirected it, suggesting the Combaticons could not fight properly without the Elite Guard backing them up. After that comment, Brawl was more than willing to fight the Elite Guard to prove he was tougher.

Onslaught was the most difficult to manipulate, and so Deathsaurus appealed to his pride, intimating that Onslaught's strategic skill had waned since his days at the top of [[Omnihelix Academy]]. Instead, Deathsaurus posited that Onslaught could reach his full potential once freed from the shackles of the Elite Guard. By defeating the Guard, the Combaticons could prove they were better than Autobot and Decepticon alike, and become a new symbol of power on post-war Cybertron. Unwilling to appear weak, and lured by the notion of personal power and recognition, Onslaught relented. At this point, the Combaticons were all suitably mollified, ready to follow Deathsaurus's commands while still believing it was ''their'' decision to do so. Deathsaurus sealed the deal with his newly completed combiner technology blueprints, and left Onslaught to plan his attack. {{storylink|The Coming Storm: Part 4}}

As the Combaticons prepared for an attack against their former allies, Deathsaurus turned his attention to other matters. Although he had a seat on the Decepticon War Council, Deathsaurus rarely if ever chose to attend the meetings. Instead, he sent his spokesman, Falcon in his place. With the Council in disarray after the capture of [[Gutcruncher (G1)|Gutcruncher]] and the merger of the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicon]]s and [[Photon]]s with Megatron's forces, Deathsaurus decided it was time to act. He sent the unwitting Falcon to the council meeting with a bomb and detonated it, killing his faithful lieutenant and five of the remaining Warlords. With one well-timed explosion, Deathsaurus ensured that only he and [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] remained as Decepticon Warlords and rivals for power. Deathsaurus then turned to continue planning with Falcon's replacement, his newly appointed lieutenant and head of the [[Seeker (body-type)|Skyraider-Seeker Brigade]].

His name was [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]]. {{storylink|A Team Effort}}

[[File:BattleLines3-makeyoupay.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Dude, just use a [[Robo-Smasher]] and spare yourself the effort.]]

Starscream was happy to report to Deathsaurus that the Combaticons, in their new combined form of [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]], had successfully vanquished the Elite Guard, and that the turncoats were on their way back to Deathsaurus' lair. Despite their victory, Starscream chafed at his commander's plan to welcome them into the Decepticons proper. Starscream feared that the Combaticons were not true Decepticons, but instead using their new allegiance to further their own quest for power. Deathsaurus countered that was what made them the perfect Decepticons, and reminded his new lieutenant that ambition is what separates the Decepticons from the stagnation and complacency of the Autobots. Starscream acquiesced and was ordered by Deathsaurus to help Lyzack prepare the medical bay for the arriving Combaticons. {{storylink|Battle Lines, Part 1}}

Deathsaurus observed as the Combaticons were repaired, and ordered Constructicons to concentrate on repairing them to the point that they could form Bruticus at Deathsaurus's will. After Bruticus proved to wild to control and was shut down, Starscream admired Deathsaurus's forethought in adding an override to the Combiner. He also warned the Warlord of an Elite Guard squad approaching their base. Deathsaurus ordered Starscream to call the troops to arms. {{storylink|Battle Lines, Part 2}} He himself took part in the fight, exchanging blows with [[Magnum]] and informing the Autobot that he had done nothing to the Combaticons' minds other than convince them they would be better served by the Decepticon cause. Outraged, Magnum renewed his attack on the self-proclaimed emperor. {{storylink|Battle Lines, Part 3}}

[[File:BattleLines5-istillfunction.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.66|"Did I do... good?" "Look, stop stealing other guys' lines!"]]

The Warlord pointed out mockingly that Magnum's backup appeared to be falling flat, at which point the Autobot blasted him in the chest. Magnum took a battering from Lyzack, and Deathsaurus picked himself up to find Magnum and [[Thunder Clash|Thunderclash]] right where he could finish them off. Unfortunately that was when [[Sprocket (G1)|Sprocket]] jumped on him, demanding a [[zap-pony]] ride, and then shot him in his already damaged chest. Deathsaurus ordered a retreat, however the greatest indignity was still to come, as when he got home, he found his throne had been claimed by Megatron. {{storylink|Battle Lines, Part 4}}

Deathsaurus was chained and led into the gladiatorial arena to face Megatron in a ritual contest to decide leadership of the Decepticons. Deathsaurus bitterly observed that if Megatron wanted this to be a fair fight, he would allow him to first repair the injuries that were dealt by Magnum and Sprocket—but Megatron laughed off the notion that he could ever want a fair fight. Megatron defeated Deathsaurus in melee combat, clawed his face off, then blasted him with his fusion cannon at point-blank range for good measure—emerging as the unquestioned leader of the Decepticons. As the troops rallied around their new leader, Lyzack approached her fallen emperor and found that, despite his tremendous damage, he still functioned. The humbled Deathsaurus said he had no choice but to go into exile, and Lyzack agreed to accompany him. {{storylink|Battle Lines, Part 5}}
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===''Kre-O'' comic===
[[File:KreO-webcomic-5-Deathsaurus.jpg|100px|thumb]]
Deathsaurus was part of a massive Decepticon invasion force intended to ruin the Autobots' picnic. However, [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]] plowed through them with his truck and left them scattered... and then left. Returning to the scene after.. ''ahem'', taking care of some pressing business, Optimus gathered up the still-wiped-out Kreons, bound them up on a flatbed trailer, and took them to the picnic. {{storylink|Emergency! Hurry to the Base, Optimus!}}
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===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
[[File:PermanentRevolution-Deathsaurus.jpg|thumb|His twisted twin obsessions are his plot to rule the world
And his employees' health.]]
Deathsaurus was born a [[Decepticon]] during the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]]. He enjoyed a successful career [[Eco-structuring|cyberforming]] planets, but grew tired of [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]]'s seeming apathy towards the well-being of his troops. Eventually, Deathsaurus broke away from his command and, using a stolen [[Warworld]], led a contingent of his own troops to ravage worlds. Deathsaurus's betrayal placed him on the [[Decepticon Justice Division]]'s [[The List|List]].

When the DJD eventually came, albeit to offer a deal, a disbelieving Deathsaurus tried to preemptively blow up [[Tarn (DJD)|Tarn]]. Deathsaurus switched off his audio receptors to avoid Tarn's weaponized conversation—but Tarn tapped into the Warworld's [[inter-Decepticon radio]] and bought enough time to offer Deathsaurus a deal: join the DJD in preserving the Decepticon dream and eliminating the then-[[Autobot]] Megatron, in exchange for removing his and his soldiers' names from the List. As a condition, Deathsaurus told Tarn to slay the other members of the DJD as payback for all their past victims, and Tarn refused... which was all Deathsaurus needed to see. Satisfied that his test had proven that Tarn was not so callous about his soldiers' lives as Megatron had been, Deathsaurus agreed to join forces. {{storylink|The Permanent Revolution}}

Months later, the Decepticons ambushed Megatron and his Auto-chums at the [[Censere|Necrobot]]'s [[Necroworld|planet]] {{storylink|The Dying of the Light: (1) How Bright Their Frail Deeds|How Bright Their Frail Deeds}} but, under Tarn's command, they backed off to return at sunset. While being shown Tarn's collection of literary miner corpses (and professing ignorance of early rebel [[Terminus (G1)|Terminus]]), Deathsaurus expressed his troops' frustration that they hadn't just ''killed'' the enemy already. Tarn told him this was an act of psychological torture. Later, he joined the Division in discussing how best to make the final assault. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 2: The Sun in Flight|The Sun in Flight}} When Tarn appeared with [[Overlord (G1)|Overlord]] in tow, Deathsaurus was more than surprised. Overlord immeidiately started trying to put him off, until he was shut down by [[Kaon (DJD)|Kaon's]] death. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 3: Your Fierce Tears|Your Fierce Tears}} Along with the rest of the army, Deathsarus amassed outside the fortress. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 4: At Close of Day|At Close of Day}} In the following battle, Deathsarus noticed the vigor the Autobots were fighting with and when Megatron arrived, he commented on the fact he's found his fire. Despite the fact that Megatron was decimating his men, Deathsarus reluctantly followed Tarns order to send all his troops at Megatron. A well placed shot from Nickel neutralised him, and the three generals gather round the ex-Decepticom and opened fire. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 5: Rage, Rage|Rage, Rage}} {{spoiler|The Dying of the Light Part 6: Do Not Go Gentle| Do Not Go Gentle|August 17th 2016}}

At that very moment Megatron activated a panic shield, deflecting their blasts. A psychic attack gave Deathsaurus a moment of conscience, and seeing the deaths of his troop she was responsible for, withdrew his forces from the [[Necroworld]] {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 6: Do Not Go Gentle|Do Not Go Gentle}}

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==Games==
===''Transformers Ultimate Allstars''===
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==Toys==
===Victory===
[[File:Deathsaurus g1toy.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"Aaawrk! Deathy shouldn't be!"]]
* '''Deszaras''' {{sic}} (Large Breastforce, 1989)
**''Japanese ID number'': '''D-336'''
**''Accessories'': Tail/shield, rifle, Tigerbreast & Eaglebreast "Breast Animals"
:"Deszaras" transforms into a blue and grey dragon-like monster styled after traditional Japanese "kaijū"--though he also looks somewhat like a giant mutant space chicken, and in fact the animators would play up the bird-like features significantly more than the reptilian aspects in the cartoon. Unusual for late Generation 1 toys, he has [[die-cast]]-metal feet in [[beast mode]].

:Deathsaurus comes packaged with his Breast Animal partners, Tigerbreast and Eaglebreast, which transform from creatures into hand-held weapons for Deathsaurus, and a pair of breastplates which lock into a spring-loaded socket on the toy's body to form elaborate torso armor for the Deathsaurus's [[robot mode]]. Eaglebreast is inserted first, then Tigerbreast fits on top, concealing it; the figures can also be attached while Deathsaurus is in beast mode, which leaves them on his creature mode's back. Deathsaurus comes with armament in addition to his Breast Animals, including a light blue laser rifle—which, despite what the boxart and cartoon would have you believe, does not have a removable flail—that can be wielded by both an ordinary handle, and a second peg on its butt that allows it to be brandished like a staff or blade of some kind, and his "Death Tailer" shield, which mounts on either of his biceps, and transforms into his beast mode tail.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1989/Destron/Deathsaurus/deathsaurus.htm More information on Deathsaurus at TFU.info]''
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===Timelines===
[[File:Deathsaurusbotcontoy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|If you squint, he could still be [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron]].]]
* '''Descent into Evil''' (multi-pack, 2005)
**''Accessories'': 2 launchers, 2 Energon blade missiles

: Part of the [[BotCon 2005]] "Descent into Evil" boxset, Deathsaurus is a blue and black [[retool]] of [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 toyline)|2001 ''Robots in Disguise'']] [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron/Galvatron]]. He comes with a pair of swords that can launch their blade-missiles through a pressure-launch mechanism, as well as combine at their bottom ends to form a large double-blade weapon. The blade-missiles are rounded off [[for safety reasons]] like the other [[Hasbro]] uses of the mold. His head is a new sculpt based on Deathsaurus's appearance in the ''Victory'' anime (though Deathsaurus's face seems to be copied from Megatron's).

:Deathsaurus's mold was originally a ten-changer, though the "gargoyle"/bat mode was neutered for this release due to the dropping of the bat snout piece, required to give his new head enough space inside his chest cavity for other modes. He still retains the other nine modes (robot, dragster, jet, [[Popular beast alternate modes|two-headed dragon]], hand, mammoth, hydrofoil, one-headed dragon, and winged griffin). His instructions, however, assign him the six modes of the original RID Megatron, ''including'' the gargoyle and omitting the boat, griffin, mammoth and flying dragon. His tail-piece was removed for in-box storage, but easily popped back on since it's on a ball-and-socket joint.

:Eleven years later, he was retooled again into [[BotCon 2016]]'s ''[[Combiner Wars]]'' [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2005/Decepticon/BCDeathsaurus/deathsaurus.htm More information on BotCon Deathsaurus at TFU.info]''
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===Generations===
[[File:TF-Platinum-Edition-Combiner-Wars-Deszarus.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''Liokaiser''' (Platinum Edition giftset, 2016)
**''Accessories'': Weapon/Combiner extremities, Individual Destron weapons

:Released as part of the ''[[Transformers: Platinum Edition|Platinum Edition]]'' [[Liokaiser#Platinum Edition|Liokaiser]] giftset, "Dezarus" is a redeco/retool of ''[[Transformers: Generations#Combiner Wars|Combiner Wars]]'' Voyager Class [[Sky Lynx (G1)#Generations|Sky Lynx]], transforming a winged dinosaur thing into a space shuttle. He sports a new dino head/shuttle nose inspired by the original Deathsaurus's beast mode, and a new Liokaiser combiner head in torso mode. His deco, meanwhile, mostly draws from Leozack and Jallguar, who he replaces as Liokaiser's torso. As a ''Combiner Wars'' Voyager Class figure, he will be able to combine with any Deluxe Class toys released as part of the same subline but is, of course, intended to be combined with his pack-in [[Breastforce|Destron]]s to form Liokaiser.

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==Merchandise==
===Transformers Gum===
[[File:Tfgum deszaras.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4]]
* '''Deathsaurus''' (1989)
** ''Accessories:'' Tail/shield, rifle

:Part of the twelfth wave of [[Kabaya]]'s ''[[Transformers Gum]]'' series of [[candy toy]]s, this Deathsaurus figure is a snap-together model kit cast in blue, red and grey plastic. Although lacking in any paint applications, the figure feature stickers for detail, and retains most of the accessories and features of the actual Deathsaurus toy, though not his Breast Animal partners. It comes with a stick of something that might be gum.
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{{anchor|2012}}
[[File:KabayaGumDeathsaurus.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4]]
* '''Deathsaurus''' (2012)
** ''Accessories:'' Tail/shield, rifle, Tigerbreast, Eaglebreast

:Part of the fifth wave of the "modern" revival of the Transformers Gum series, Deathsaurus once again makes an appearance as a snap-together transforming model kit with stickered detail. It is an entirely new mold featuring much better color-matching with the full-scale toy. Uniquely, this version also incorporates his transformable Breast Animal partners - though they are actually sold separately, with [[Tigerbreast#Transformers Gum|Tigerbreast]] packed in with [[Optimus Prime (WFC)#Transformers Gum|''War for Cybertron'' Optimus Prime]] and [[Eaglebreast#Transformers Gum|Eaglebreast]] included with [[Hot Spot (G1)#Transformers Gum|Hot Spot]].
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===Parody Deformed===
[[File:Deathsaurus pd model.jpg|thumb|upright=0.85]]
* '''Deathsaurus''' (1990)

:A small, blue, white and red, non-transforming [[super deformed]] model kit of Deathsaurus was available as part of [[Kabaya]]'s "[[Parody Deformed]]" line of candy toys. The fourth figure in the series, he came with a "[[Transformers PD Type]]" comic about himself, "Good Job! Deathsaurus!!", and more of that alleged "gum".
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===Super Figure Collection===
[[File:Deathsaurus scfs.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Take it all off!]]
* '''Deathsaurus''' (2002)
:A PVC figurine of Deathsaurus was released in the seventh Victory-centric "act" of Takara's ''[[Heroes of Cybertron|Super Collection Figure]].'' Deathsaururs was available in both standard full-color version and metallic silver "pewter" versions; the pewter version came packaged with the wings of Victory Saber, one of several extra pieces packed with the various figures from the wave which could combine with the act's Star Saber figure to turn it into Victory Saber. The wings were available in both standard full color (at a rate of eight out of every ten cases) and rare pewter (only two in every ten).

* '''Deathsaurus with Eaglebreast''' (2002)
:Also available in the seventh wave was a rare "chase" version of the Deathsaurus PVC, available at a rate of one in every ten cases, featuring the character with his inner Breast Animal partner, Eaglebreast, on display, rather than the normal version's Tigerbreast.
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===Timelines===
[[File:Deathsauruspin.jpg|thumb|75px|Deathstickus]]

* '''Deathsaurus pin''' (2005)

: The first 100 BotCon 2005 Primus-package preregistrants received an exclusive Deathsaurus pin as part of their registration package.
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===Robot Heroes===
[[File:Robot Heroes Victory Saber Dessaras.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|The face that launch'd a thousand ships.]]
*'''Victory Saber''' / '''Dessaras''' (unreleased)

:A surprise entry in the ''[[Robot Heroes (toyline)|Robot Heroes]]'' series, this [[super deformed]] figurine of Deathsaurus also sports a name variant that hearkens back to his original Japanese moniker, only missing the spelling by one letter. Originally discovered amongst [[Walmart]] store computer listings in mid-2008, he would have come packaged with an equally-adorable Victory Saber, but alas, the two-pack failed to materialize before the ''Robot Heroes'' line was canceled.
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==Notes==
[[File:DeathsaurusAndRedGeist.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Definitely not toy-accurate, but definitely awesome.]]

* While often called a [[dragon]] or occasionally a [[griffin]], and hilariously, a "bigbird" on his original Japanese [[bio]] card, Deathsaurus is most likely styled after traditional Japanese "kaijū", such as [[Godzilla]] or Rodan.
* The original Deathsaurus mold was redecoed into the non-living "Red Geist" (レッドガイスト ''Reddo Gaisuto'') mech for [[TakaraTomy|Takara]]'s ''[[Brave (franchise)|Brave of Legend Da Garn]]'' toyline, which lacked the Eaglebreast partner. Although the character design in the television show for the line was significantly modified from that of Deathsaurus (see image at right), including replacing Tigerbreast's tiger mode with a jet mode, the Red Geist toy itself was not retooled. [http://tfbaka.de-blog.jp/1dai/2008/08/post_6871.html More on Red Geist at a Japanese toy photoblog.]
*Like all non-toy robot Kreons in the ''Kre-O'' comics, Deathsaurus is made from existing ''Kre-O'' parts. He uses the [[Inferno (Kre-O)|Inferno]] helmet, the [[Starscream (Kre-O)|Starscream]] wing-pack, a thick rifle, a 2x4 "wing" plate attached (somehow) to his arm to replicate the tail-shield... and then there's his chestplate. The plate itself is a 1x1 plate with twin bars and a pair of Starscream arm-guns attached... but it's "connected" to a 2x2 harness piece, which can only be done by adding a 1x2 center-peg plate in between them which is kind of unnecessary since there's a 1x1 harness piece that will do the job nicely, no middle-brick required.

===His stupid name===

Deathsaurus's name is the source of a long-lasting argument. The phonetic Japanese reading of the name is: "De-su-za-ra-su". This is represented in English on his toy packaging and tech specs as "Deszaras." English-speaking fans would long debate the "proper" [[romanization]] of the name, interpreting it as Deszaras, Deathzaras, Deathsaurus, Death Czarus, Death Czaras, and many others. "Deathsaurus" had a tendency to be the most popular and well-known (on account of it actually ''meaning'' something), which led to it being used on the character's first Western toy in 2005, making it his official American name.

At [[BotCon 2015]], after ''decades'' of such back-and-forths, the designer of the original toy, [[Kōjin Ōno]], confirmed that the name was indeed always supposed to have been "Deathsaurus"… during a panel presentation that rendered the name as "Dethzarasu". It is anyone's guess as to why the original Japanese lettering did not read "sa-u-ru-su" or "za-u-ru-su," as had already been done with [[Trypticon (G1)|Dinosaurer]] and [[Saur]], rather than "za-ra-su". As such, in the years before that revelation was made clear, the character had continued to be called "Deszaras" on the [[Metrodome]] and [[Madman Entertainment]] DVD boxsets of the ''Victory'' cartoon.

At one point Hasbro appeared to be trying to steer things back in that direction with the cancelled [[Robot Heroes (toyline)|Robot Heroes]] figure, named "Dessaras". Only one letter off, there, guys!

Then, when Hasbro introduced [[Combiner Wars]] [[Liokaiser]], they used the spelling of "Dezarus." After having got it "right" in the past, one can only assume that Hasbro was feeling queasy about using the word "Death" in the names of one of their children's toys. Even if it ''is'' a bad guy.

===Foreign names===
*''Arabic:'' '''Deathsandar''' (دثساندر ''Dithsāndar'')
*''English:'' '''Deathsanras''' ([[Omni Productions]] dub)
*''Mandarin:'' '''Shènglā''' (Taiwan, 盛拉), '''Dà Kǒnglóng Sàlāsī''' (China, 大恐龙萨拉斯, "Big Dinosaur Saras")
*''Russian:'' '''Smertonosets''' (Смертоносец, "Death bringer")
*''Spanish:'' '''Zan Rás''' (America)
*''Ukrainian:'' '''Smertelnyi Sanraz''' (Смертельний Санраз)

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Censere

2016-07-31T18:18:39Z

Ravagekitteh: /* IDW Generation 1 continuity */

:''Censere is a [[Transformer]] from the [[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW portion]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Censere nightbeat the not knowing.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|You... rang?]]
They say that a mute [[Neutral]] known as the '''Necrobot''' travels the battlefields of the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]], administering posthumous rites to fallen Cybertronians. They say that he can determine the cause of death just by letting his shadow fall on the corpse and that he has devoted his life to recording the fate of every last Transformer. Whether there is any truth to these stories is unknown to most, but they persist.

In truth, he is an ordinary Cybertronian more properly known as '''Censere''', who has dedicated himself to the recording of every Cybertronian death.

==Fiction==
===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
'''Censere of the [[High-Ceilinged Manifold]]''' was a census office worker named in the ancient times before the [[First Cybertronian Civil War|war]] of the [[Thirteen Tribes]]. When he left the census office to retrain as a forensic pathologist, he drifted apart from a friend and co-worker named [[Tusk]]; when Tusk died, it went unreported, and Censere did not find out about it until years later. His friend's death moved Censere to begin a lifelong mission: chronicling the deaths of every Cybertronian. With the destruction of his hometown in the First Cybertronian Civil War, Censere relocated to a [[Necroworld|"scorched and forgotten" planet]] that Tusk had told him about, where he set up a base of operations filled with complex machinery that allowed him to keep track of spark signatures, and quantum technology that let him teleport all around the universe to record every fatality. He transformed the blasted world on which he dwelled into a beautiful garden, filled with holographic statues of every living Cybertronian, which he would switch off when the Cybertronian died. Around the bases of the statues, he planted flowers crafted from the residual spark energy of whoever the statue's real-life counterpart was responsible for killing. {{storylink|The Not Knowing}}

Swearing an oath of non-interference, Censere eventually became a figure of myth and legend among Cybertronians, glimpsed on battlefields across the cosmos silently recording deaths. Dubbed the "Necrobot" by the religious and/or superstitious, he was also known as the "Gatekeeper", or the "Mute Neutral", and was believed to be an envoy of [[Primus]], charged with ferrying departed [[spark]]s into the [[Afterspark|afterlife]]. {{storylink|The Not Knowing}} Conversely, skeptics like [[Ratchet (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ratchet]] dismissed his existence as a fairytale, attributing supposed sightings of him and his "portable apothecary" to visual glitches caused by freshly-constructed Cybertronians' senses "trying to run before [they] can walk", like the [[Shimmer]] or seeing [[Primus]]'s face in a mushroom cloud. {{storylink|Twenty Plus One}} [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] shared his lack of belief, comparing stories of the Necrobot to [[Sparkeater (creature)|Sparkeaters]] and the [[Moonbase One|Seething Moon]]. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 3: The Chaos of Warm Things|The Chaos of Warm Things}}

At some point, Censere got mixed up in some ''weird'' stuff, with mystery 'bots that liked a strange cog design and doing odd organic experiments. Censere had fifty to sixty organic beings stuffed in his basement, in stasis pod comas. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 2: The Sun in Flight|The Sun in Flight}}

[[File:Scavengers2-Necrobot.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.34|"Arthur Dent? Arthur ''Philip'' Dent? You're a jerk, a complete arsehole."]]
While on the planet [[Clemency]], itself littered with the bodies of dead (and occasionally not-so-dead) Transformers, [[Misfire (G1)|Misfire]] would periodically catch sight of what he believed was the Necrobot. He would then "chase it" for a few seconds before "losing sight of it" again, as observed by [[Krok (G1)|Krok]] who was not himself a believer. {{storylink|Rules of Disengagement (issue)|Rules of Disengagement}} One and a half years later, however, the Necrobot did indeed arrive on Clemency to add [[Flywheels]] to his list of dead Cybertronians, which also included several members of the ''[[Lost Light]]'' crew. {{storylink|Scavengers (Part 2): Who's Afraid of the DJD?|Who's Afraid of the DJD?}}

A selection of the crew of the ''[[Lost Light]]'' visited his planet of operations, the location of which was revealed by an info bullet from [[Dominus Ambus|Agent 113]]. Alarmed to see that multiple Transformers whose deaths he knew he had unambiguously recorded were alive and walking around in his garden, the Necrobot slammed the door to his complex shut, but when one such 'bot, Nightbeat, stood outside the door and refused to leave, Censere gave in to his curiosity and invited Nightbeat inside so he could explain his and the others' continued living (Nightbeat, he soon learned, had been revived by the properties of the [[Dead Universe]], while the others had never died - the deaths he had recorded were those of their quantum duplicates, created through a quantum generator accident). Censere went on to explain his true nature and how he carried out his work; though Nightbeat was dismayed by this revelation, having wanted to believe that the Necrobot was a mystic figure and proof that higher powers existed in the universe, Censere reminded him that his not being 'magic' did not mean the [[Afterspark]] did not exist. {{storylink|The Not Knowing}}

{{Spoiler|The Dying of the Light Part 6: Do Not Go Gentle|August 17th 2016}}

He would take Nightbeat's words to heart when he found one of [[Brainstorm G1|Brainstorm's]] time cases buried by Megatron. By linking it up to his teleport chamber, he was able to go back in time, recovering the Transformers on his list of the disappeared. The time traveling took it's toll on the passengers though, so he put them in comas and disguised them as organics to keep them safe from other Cybertronians. He was halfway down the list when the D.J.D showed up. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 6: Do Not Go Gentle}}

When [[Getaway]] launched his mutiny on the ''Lost Light'', he informed the [[Decepticon Justice Division]] that Megatron and his alleged sympathizers would be getting marooned on Censere's planet. Key to their plan was a fabricated distress signal, intended to lure the group there. However, Censere altered the signal minutes after it was sent, turning it into a psychic bombardment of the intended recipients' worst fears in an attempt to warn them off. The Division duly arrived, butchered Censere, and left his body with flowers stuffed in exit wounds for the Autobots to find. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light: (1) How Bright Their Frail Deeds|How Bright Their Frail Deeds}} While the Autobots were distracted with the ongoing siege, Censere, due to his great age, dissolved into ''[[sentio metallico]]''.

Left behind was the key to his stasis pod room. After the Autobots discovered it, they were unable to use Censere's teleport chamber to escape for fear of leaving the organics to die. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 2: The Sun in Flight|The Sun in Flight}}

==Notes==
*In the individual-issue printing of "Who's Afraid of the DJD?", Misfire stated that "[Flywheel's] ludicrous search for the Necrobot ends unfulfilled", yet in the previous issue, it was Misfire who was looking for the Necrobot. James Roberts admitted that he'd confused the two Scavengers; in the trade, Misfire's "ludicrous search" line was cut out.<ref>[http://forum.idwpublishing.com/viewtopic.php?p=313133&highlight=#313133 Roberts on the correction at the IDW forums]</ref>

==References==
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Mainframe (G1)

2016-07-31T17:58:33Z

Ravagekitteh: /* IDW Generation 1 continuity */

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:''Mainframe is an [[Autobot]] [[Action Master]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:Mainframe(G1) MTMTE.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Code Monkey like Fritos. Code Monkey like Tab and Mountain Dew. Code Monkey very simple man with big warm fuzzy secret heart: Code Monkey like you.]]
'''Mainframe''' is a dork. A computer dork, to be precise. (Both in that he is a computer that is a dork, and a dork about computers.) He'd rather tackle complex mathematical problems than join the [[Great War (G1)|inconvenient galactic conflict]] with the [[Decepticon]]s. Despite his distaste for combat, he won't shirk his duties when called upon. If anything, he hopes that if he simply ''must'' fight, that he'll have the chance to use his considerable brainpower to end things quickly.

Alas, his [[Action Master partner|partner]], [[Push-Button]], would rather convert to a piston rifle and blow stuff up than be stuck debugging Mainframe's programs. Naturally, the two don't especially get along.

==Fiction==
===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
[[File:Mainframe How to Say Goodbye and Mean it.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|[[Block coloring]]: Obscuring Transformers' identities since 1984.]]
At some point in history, [[Rewind (G1)|Rewind]] acquired footage of Mainframe. {{storylink|The Gloaming}}

Mainframe was one of the survivors of the [[Kimia Facility]] massacre. He got away aboard an escape pod piloted by [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] and [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]]. {{storylink|Chaos Part Three: Kings|Kings}} The pod was picked up by [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]], who told the survivors of [[D-Void]]'s plan to destroy the universe and brought them all to Cybertron to stop it. {{storylink|Chaos Part Four: Genesis|Genesis}}

When the ''[[Lost Light]]'' departed for unknown space to search for the [[Knights of Cybertron]], Mainframe was part of the bridge crew. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 1: How to Say Goodbye and Mean It|How to Say Goodbye and Mean It}} He was present among the assembled Autobots after their tumble through quantum space as [[Hot Rod/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rodimus]] addressed the troops. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 2: Hangers On|Hangers On}}

When crew member [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]] left on a stolen shuttle, Mainframe helped track it down. {{storylink|Remain in Light 1 of 5: The Fecund Moon|The Fecund Moon}} They followed Magnus to [[Moonbase One|Luna 1]], where the ship was invaded by [[Tyrest (G1)|Chief Justice Tyrest]]'s [[Legislator]]s and the crew subdued. {{storylink|Remain in Light 3 of 5: The Divided Self|The Divided Self}} Having been [[Reproduction#IDW Generation 1 continuity|constructed cold]], Mainframe was among those nearly killed by Tyrest's [[universal killswitch]]. {{storylink|Remain in Light 4 of 5: Arm the Lonely|Arm the Lonely}}

[[File:Mainframe magnus winners and losers.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|"I'm a pilot, not a...wait, I'm a pilot?"]]
Mainframe piloted the ''Lost Light'' into the right position for launching Rodimus, [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Orion Pax]], and others through a portal to the [[Dead Universe]]. {{storylink|Black Metal: Dark Cybertron Chapter 2|Black Metal}} In search for [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] he then navigated the ship to a [[Hydrophena|watery planet]] {{storylink|Winners & Losers: Dark Cybertron Chapter 3|Winners & Losers}} where they were attacked by a lot of [[Ammonite]]s. 2026<ref name="ammonites">The Ammonites' number was changed to 819 in the Hasbro exclusive cover variant of the issue available with the ''[[Transformers: Generations]]'' Deluxe Class [[Mini-Con Assault Team]].</ref> of them, according to Mainframe's estimation. {{storylink|Into the Abyss: Dark Cybertron Chapter 4|Into the Abyss}} After finding Metroplex, the crew used the Titan's [[space bridge]] to teleport him and the ''Lost Light'' back to Cybertron, where Mainframe lost control of the ship and crash-landed. {{storylink|Finis Temporis: Dark Cybertron Chapter 9|Finis Temporis}} Cybertron was subsequently invaded by another army of Ammonites, forcing Mainframe to get the ship airborne and away from the attackers. {{storylink|Black Planet: Dark Cybertron Chapter 11|Black Planet}} His contribution to the battle was contacting [[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]] before the ''Lost Light'' rammed [[Monstructor (G1)|Monstructor]], telling her to clean up the [[Pretender Monster|remains]] in a flowery, dramatic fashion too vague for her to understand. {{storylink|...And the Damage Done: Dark Cybertron Finale|...And the Damage Done}}

[[File:Tailgate mainframe jackpot words hang in the air.jpg|thumb|left|upright=2]]
Once Cybertron was saved, Mainframe went for drinks in [[Swerve's]] where he was approached by [[Getaway]] and [[Atomizer]], who asked him here he would stand if they were to stage a coup against Rodimus. {{storylink|No Guns, No Swords, No Briefcases}} He then continued to serve on the ''Lost Light'' as it returned to its journey with a new captain: a reformed [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]]. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 1: Towards Peace|Towards Peace}} He helped a plastered [[Jackpot (G1)|Jackpot]] to the medbay, running into [[Tailgate (G1)|Tailgate]] on the way. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 2: Words Hang in the Air|Words Hang in the Air}}

Mainframe was also a member of the crew on a quantum duplicate version of the ''Lost Light''. Then the [[Decepticon Justice Division]] showed up, and Mainframe [[Helex (DJD)|had his head torn off]]. {{storylink|slaughterhouse}} His corpse presumably vanished with the rest of his ''Lost Light'' when the main ''Lost Light'' crew shut down the duplicate ship's quantum engines. {{storylink|Slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}}

[[File:Mainframe births deaths and interventions.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|Look at my fingers! They're glorious!]]
While the ''Lost Light'' was disappearing piece by piece, Mainframe was seen evacuating the ship alongside Jackpot. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 3: Predestination: A Beginner's Guide|Predestination: A Beginner's Guide}} After the ''Lost Light'' reappeared, Mainframe along with [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]], [[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]], and [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailcutter]] landed on [[Ofsted XVII]] while awaiting further orders from Rodimus. Mainframe explained to Bluestreak who was curious that the planet was experiencing a lot of [[warp gate]]s appearing after a massive battle between [[Black Block Consortia]] and the [[Galactic Council]] with a few mechs over a ravaged ship in orbit. After First Aid called Bluestreak from a lecture theater, he and Mainframe went to meet up with him. They discovered a fatally wounded Cybertronian lying around in the wrecked room. Mainframe and Bluestreak decided to find out if the Cybertronian was an Autobot or Decepticon. After First Aid and Trailcutter returned with medical supplies, First Aid became furious with Mainframe and Bluestreak for moving the injured bot, giving him less time to live. Mainframe became unsure of donating some of his fuel when he mentioned the risks of donating too much energon. Next, Mainframe found a translator lying around and activated it. However, Bluestreak discovered the Cybertronian's face and discovered that with a switch on it, releasing spikes. Mainframe was now convinced that the injured bot wasn't an Autobot, and he and Bluestreak back out from donating their fuel and left the lecture theater. After the bot was revealed to the [[Vos (DJD)|Vos]], a member of the D.J.D. and attacked Trailcutter, First Aid went to go find Mainframe and Bluestreak to help. Mainframe was present when the three bots discovered that [[Kaon (DJD)|Kaon]] had murdered Trailcutter, and watched helplessly as Kaon crushed Trailcutter's brain module. {{storylink|Births, Deaths, and Interventions}} Afterwards, Mainframe and the others were nearly killed by the D.J.D. after they tried to blow up their shuttle and was soon rescued. {{storylink|The Custom-Made Now - An Elegant Chaos Prologue|The Custom-Made Now}}

Mainframe acted as shuttle pilot for Rodimus and the crew when they located the [[Censere|Necrobot]]'s port-of-call. In trying to decide whether to approach by stealth or storm, Mainframe found Rodimus's sarcasm and flippancy indecipherable, as do we all from time to time. {{storylink|The Not Knowing}}

When certain members of the crew were psychically attacked, Mainframe and [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] traced the source of the attack to an apparently unknown region of space. As Rodimus, Magnus, Megatron and the affected crewmembers prepared to leave in the [[Rodpod]] to investigate, Mainframe took the team's doctor [[Velocity (G1)|Velocity]] aside and suggested that she should take [[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]] along as some extra muscle. However, the psychic attack was a ruse concocted by the ''Lost Light''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s crew to rid themselves of Megatron, Rodimus and their supporters once and for all and Mainframe stood alongside Getaway on the ship's bridge as he informed Rodimus that they were being stranded on the Necrobot's planet at the tender mercies of the Galactic Council. Unbeknownst to them though, the Decepticon Justice Division had beaten them there. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light: (1) How Bright Their Frail Deeds|How Bright Their Frail Deeds}}

===''Classics''===
[[File:Invasion mainframe rad.jpg|thumb]]
Mainframe was overlooking the [[Construction station|Ironworks]] with [[Rad (G1)|Rad]] when [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] attacked the base with his squad of Decepticons. {{storylink|Invasion Prologue}} He argued with [[Rollout (G1)|Rollout]] while rebuilding Ironworks. When the [[Junkion (species)|Junkions]] attacked, he was captured and turned into one. {{storylink|Invasion (issue)|Invasion}}
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===IDW ''Beast Wars'' comics===
At the tail-end of the Great War, Mainframe was sent out to accompany [[Tigatron]] in an attempt to broker peace-talks between the Autobots and Decepticons, hoping to end the war without further carnage. Unfortunately, the first enemy camp they approached was headed by the renegade soldier [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], who sicced [[Predaking (G1)|Predaking]] on them. Mainframe fled before the gestalt could cut him down. {{storylink|Dawn of the Predacus}}

===''Of Masters and Mayhem''===
Mainframe was one of the many casualties of [[Toxitron (G1)|Toxitron]]'s attack on the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'s launch facility. {{storylink|The Toxic Transformer}}

==Toys==
===Generation 1===
[[File:G1-toy Mainframe.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|It figures a computer dork would want a BFG.]]
*'''Mainframe''' (Action Master, [[1990]])
**''Accessories'': "Vibro Pulverizer" rifle, Push-Button partner

:As an [[Action Master]], Mainframe is a non-transforming action figure of a robot with an indeterminate [[alternate mode]], but chances are he turns into one of those huge computers you see in those movies from the 70s and 80s, you know, the ones the size of refrigerators with the reel-to-reel magnetic tape. He is compatible with any Action Master vehicle or weapon. He was part of the second assortment of basic carded figures, and came with his [[Action Master partner|partner]]-robot [[Push-Button]].

:Note that his weapon bears a strong resemblance to the machine guns from the [[G.I. Joe (team)|G. I. Joe]] [http://www.yojoe.com/vehicles/89/arcticblast/ Arctic Blast] vehicle.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1990/Autobot/Mainframe/mainframe.htm More information on Mainframe at TFU.info]''
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==Notes==
*Mainframe is inexplicably on the cover of the 1990 [[Family Home Entertainment]] VHS release of the "[[Five Faces of Darkness]]" mini-series... a cartoon produced about four years before Mainframe's toy was released.
*According to his tech specs, he is equipped to store 200,000 megabytes of data. Which is really impressive unless you have $100 to spend on a USB hard drive.

===Foreign names===
*''French:'' '''Ordinateur''' (Canada)
*''Italian:'' '''Cronos'''

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Huffer (G1)

2016-07-25T21:37:59Z

Ravagekitteh: /* IDW Generation 1 continuity */

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{{picsneeded|Fictional appearances, Decoy mini-figure}}
:''Huffer is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Hufferg1.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|"Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they want me to fight a war on some backwater redneck dirt planet. You call that job satisfaction? 'Cause I don't."]]
To say that '''Huffer''' is cranky is an understatement. Huffer's the poster boy for whiny pessimism. He complains and grumbles his way through every day, especially since he's been shipwrecked on Earth. If he thought his existence was unbearable before, it's intolerable now, and he'll certainly let you know. There is no light in his dark hours... which is all the time.

Despite what a joy he is to be around, he's very effective at his job. A construction engineer, he can whip up anything of any complexity. Unfortunately, he'll be kicking and screaming the whole way.

{{bigquote|Oh, I say we leave right now and forget about traipsing after the stupid Decepticons.|Huffer's first line|"[[The Transformers (issue)|The Transformers]]"}}

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics====
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[[File:Huffermarvel1.jpg|left|100px|thumb|AAAH! MONSTER!]]
Among several selected by [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] to clear a path for their planet, [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], through an asteroid field, Huffer lay dormant on [[Earth]] after a Decepticon attack which forced both sides to crash land. Four million years later, he and the others were awoken, and Huffer was rebuilt to transform into an Earth-style truck cab. He immediately wanted to go home. Sadly, his solicited assessment of the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'s condition was bleak, and he feared he'd be "stranded on this scrapball forever." {{storylink|The Transformers (issue)|The Transformers}}

[[File:Ironhidehufferlaststand.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|KILL ALL HUMANS!]]
Their new human comrade, [[Sparkplug Witwicky]], was captured by the Decepticons to convert Earth fuel into something Transformers could use, but after he was rescued, it was learned that Sparkplug had given the Decepticons what they had wanted. Before further explanation could be made, Huffer demanded the "traitor" be punished. While Huffer and [[Ironhide (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ironhide]] bickered, Sparkplug made his short-lived escape; [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] tried to stop him with a wall of flame, but the aged human suffered a heart attack. {{storylink|The Last Stand}}

''When Brawn suffered a circuit glitch, Huffer was incredulous at reports that he actually tried to destroy Sideswipe while in a rage.'' {{storylink|The Enemy Within!}} ''Huffer was one of the Autobots who "fell before the might" of [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] during a surprise attack on the Ark by [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] and his Decepticons. After Megatron and Optimus Prime accidentally awakened the Ark's central computer system, [[Aunty]], Huffer—as well as nearly everyone else on board—was suddenly magnetically sealed to its walls. After some teamwork between the only two bots unaffected, [[Ravage (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ravage]] and [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]], everyone was set free, and the Decepticons were ejected from the Ark.'' {{storylink|Raiders of the Last Ark}}

Huffer caught Optimus Prime's attention to relay a message for [[Ratchet (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ratchet]]. In the memory banks of the Ark's computers, Ratchet had discovered evidence of a battle between [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] and the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] in the [[Savage Land]] four million years ago. However, with Autobot fuel reserves being so low, Optimus determined that the fates of Shockwave and the Dinobots mattered little at that moment. No, that wouldn't come back to bite him ''at all''.

Low on fuel, the Autobots used the [[Tubes of Transference]] to donate what energy the group had to its five mightiest warriors. Huffer was one of the five selected for this "last stand," and though he suffered a strafing from [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]], he survived through the bitter end to victory. ...for five seconds, before [[Shockwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Shockwave]] arrived and blew them all away. Thanks, Optimus. Thanks a lot. {{storylink|The Last Stand}}

Afterwards, Huffer's body spent a while strung up from the Ark's ceiling. Typical. {{storylink|The New Order}}

[[File:Hufferbomberbill.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|left|Complaining is Job One.]]
After Ratchet retook the Ark and repaired everyone, {{storylink|DIS-Integrated Circuits!}} Huffer complained of being homesick for his homeworld of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] and was obsessed with returning home to the point of distraction from his real duties. [[Prowl (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Prowl]], giving a tour to the [[human]] industrialist [[G.B. Blackrock]], was annoyed to find Huffer not rebuilding their communication center's [[ultra-frequency monitoring]], but tinkering instead with the [[transdimensional radiowave scrambler]] in hopes of contacting Cybertron. Prowl thought getting him out of the Ark would do him some good, so he sent Huffer on a mission to disrupt a Decepticon operation. En route, Huffer met with a trucker, [[Bomber Bill]], who was also homesick, due to the Decepticons nabbing his truck. The Decepticons, ironically, were up to building a transdimensional radiowave scrambler of their own, and Huffer was forced to choose between destroying the communications device, thus severing contact with his homeworld, or allowing the Decepticons to contact their brethren on Cybertron, ensuring enemy reinforcements would spill over onto Earth and thus spelling certain doom. Huffer ultimately made the right choice, but he hated it. Loudly. {{storylink|The Next Best Thing to Being There!}}

Using an eavesdropping system Huffer and Blackrock had set up previously, {{storylink|Brainstorm!}} the Autobots were able to overhear Shockwave's plans to drop the captured head of their leader, Optimus Prime, in a nearby swamp. Huffer was charged with towing Prime's body to the location. However, the head was actually a decoy head, which, when attached to the body, caused it to go on a murderous rampage. And then the Decepticons showed up! It took entirely too long for the real head to show up, allowing Prime to save from certain doom the few who remained functional. {{storylink|Prime Time!}}

''When Buster Witwicky introduced the human custom of [[Christmas]] to the Autobots, Huffer got into the swing of things. He and Brawn constructed a Cybertronian version of a Christmas tree in the Ark, and his hover platform allowed Buster to supervise the festivities.''{{storylink|Christmas Breaker!}} ''Later on, Huffer and Ironhide detected a speeding object approaching the Ark, which turned out to be the missing [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobot]], [[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]]. Under outside control, Swoop attacked his fellow Autobots. [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] and Huffer teamed up for the ol' one-two: a flash from Hound dazzled the Dinobot long enough for Huffer to punch him to the ground.'' {{storylink|The Icarus Theory}}

''During the Dinobot Hunt, Huffer was sent with [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] and [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] to Doonstown to capture the berserk [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]]. What they found instead was Grimlock and [[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]] locked in battle. Bluestreak was deactivated before the team could react, and when Huffer tried to wrangle the two crazed Dinobots, he was caught between them and rendered non-functional too. Just for trying to help, sheesh!'' {{storylink|Dinobot Hunt!}}

Rendered inoperative due to his injuries, Huffer convalesced in Ratchet's repair bay for some time, due to the lack of proper replacement parts. {{storylink|Rock and Roll-Out!}} Huffer was not seen in action for some time after this, until he appeared among the Earth-bound Autobots who witnessed the battle between Grimlock and [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] for Autobot leadership on [[Earth]]'s [[Moon (moon)|moon]]. {{storylink|Totaled!}}

''At some point in time and space, [[Dicet Alpha-zero]] witnessed the Transformers' war, and Huffer's role in it.'' {{storylink|The Quest!}}

====''Classics''====
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Fifteen years after the Autobot/Decepticon war ended on [[Klo]], Huffer was part of Grimlock's crew on the ''[[Graviton (Classics)|Graviton]]''. His attitude towards Earth had not improved with age. While pursuing [[Bug Bite (GoBots)|Bug Bite]]'s Decepticons, ultimately finding them back on Earth, [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|"Little Prime"]] ordered Huffer to stay on board the ''Graviton'' and keep an eye on both [[Bug Bite (GoBots)|Bug Bite]]'s ship (with orders to blow it out of the sky if it moved) and on [[Tyrannitron]] (with orders to keep him from "eating something important") while the rest of the Autobots went planetside. Just great. A brilliant engineer having to sit and petsit [[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]]'s gun. {{storylink|Games of Deception}}

====''Regeneration One''====
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[[File:RG1 92 cvrRI.jpg|left|thumb|CMOA.]]
Sometime around [[2007]], Huffer was amongst those suffering ill effects from the infusion of [[Nucleon (substance)|Nucleon]] into their systems. He was being held at the [[Nursery]] in a containment field and possibly some kind of Cybertronian shrink-wrap {{storylink|Natural Selection, Part One}} because his touch alone could precipitate a molecular meltdown in other Transformers. Thanks to technology brought to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] from [[Nebulos]] by the resurrected [[Decepticon leader]] [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]], Huffer was given a new Nucleon-free body alongside [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]], [[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]] and [[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]] at the [[Garage]]. Frustrated at their orders to remain inactive until their new bodies had been fully tested, Blaster patched into the Decepticons' communications network, alerting [[Soundwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Soundwave]] who promptly dispatched the [[Mayhem Attack Squad]] to eliminate him. In the ensuing battle Huffer acquitted himself admirably, taking down [[Snarler]] with a single devastating punch and disarming [[Roadblock (G1)|Roadblock]] with ease. {{storylink|Destiny, Part Two}}

Following the invasion of Cybertron by [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]]'s [[Blitz Engine]]s, Huffer found himself on the front line alongside [[Hound (G1)|Hound]], [[Siren (G1)|Siren]], [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] and [[Mirage (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Mirage]]. The fight went badly for the Autobots. {{storylink|Destiny, Part Four}} He survived however, and later helped dig [[Hot Rod/Marvel Comics continuity|Rodimus Prime]] out of a pile of rubble, following a less-than-diplomatic meeting with the [[Cybertronian (faction)|Cybertronian]] leader [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]] at [[Nova Point]]. {{storylink|The War to End All Wars, Part 2}}
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===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[John Stephenson]] (English), [[Masashi Ebara]] (Japanese), [[Yū Shimaka|Yutaka Shimaka]] (Japanese), [[Toshio Ishii]] (Japanese, "The Autobot Run")|[[Roberto Alexander]] (Latin American)}}

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Huffer was part of the original crew of [[Ark (G1)|Ark]]-based Autobots who crashed on Earth four million years ago. In 1984, he awoke and was reformatted into a mini semi truck cab. An engineer and not a warrior, Huffer loathed combat and hated being stationed on Earth, as he longed to return to Cybertron. [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] would often have to motivate Huffer, reminding him to remain courageous in the long fight. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 1}} During one of the first engagements on Earth, in which the Autobots attempted to stop the Decepticons from attacking an off-shore [[oil rig]], Huffer was trapped in the debris. [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]] came to his rescue, cutting Huffer loose from the wreckage.

[[File:Hufferg1animated.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|Great choice in cheerleaders, Prime.]]
Huffer was also part of the disastrous attempt to stop the Decepticons from raiding [[Sherman Dam]], and was on the mission to the [[ruby crystal mines of Burma]]. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 2}} Damaged in a fall from the top of the mines, Optimus Prime was encouraged by Huffer, [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]], and [[Gears (G1)|Gears]] as he painfully tried to transform back into [[robot mode]]. Huffer and the rest of the Autobots later rolled out in a last-ditch attempt to prevent the Decepticons launching [[Victory (G1)|their new space cruiser]]. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 3}}

[[File:DivideandConquer shutupHuffer.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Ironhide learned a pre-emptive alternative to "Shut up, Rattrap".]]
After Optimus Prime was severely damaged in a Decepticon attack, Huffer didn't rate their leader's chances very highly. [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] damaged Prime further, and it turned out that the replacement part they needed was on Cybertron, prompting yet another pessimistic comment from Huffer, which was stifled by [[Ironhide (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ironhide]]. He got his chance to complete the sentiment later, when they discovered that the full Decepticon force was about to attack, and Prime was still down. [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]]'s subsequent show of determination inspired Huffer, and he led the other Autobots in defending the base, decking [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] with a single punch. {{storylink|Divide and Conquer}}

When Optimus Prime authorized [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] and [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] to build robot dinosaurs, Huffer insisted that this was a waste of time. After the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] were completed and unveiled, Huffer remarked, "Dino''bots''? I thought you were supposed to make Dino''saurs''!" and laughed. This was followed by an awkward silence. {{storylink|S.O.S. Dinobots}} Despite the problems they had with the first three, Huffer took part in the building of two more — [[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]] and [[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]]. {{storylink|War of the Dinobots}}

[[File:CountdowntoExtinction Huffer.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|"I come in peace!"]]
After Spike repelled a Decepticon attack on Autobot Headquarters by dousing the invaders in fire-retardant foam, Huffer and Brawn were stuck mopping up the mess. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 1}} The volcano in which Headquarters rested became active as a result of Cybertron being brought into Earth's orbit, and Huffer, [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]] and Ratchet were expelled from it in a fiery eruption. They were saved by the timely intervention of [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]], who caught them on his jet mode. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 2}} Following Cybertron's departure, Huffer took part in cleanup efforts, but wasn't too busy that he couldn't razz Gears. {{storylink|Countdown to Extinction (episode)|Countdown to Extinction}}

[[File:HeavyMetalWar Huffer towing Prime's trailer.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|"Thirty-eight years and never missed a shipment. But I guess this is one delivery old Red won't be making." "Oh, yes he will. And on time, too."]]
Like the rest of the Autobots, Huffer turned out to watch Optimus fight [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]]. After Prime's shock loss and with their leader struggling to transform, Huffer was helpful enough to tow Prime's trailer back to the base. Prime told Huffer that he was a true friend. But then, Prime considers all the Autobots his friends, so that might not have been saying much. {{storylink|Heavy Metal War}} Huffer rolled out a couple more times — to save some gold miners, and to thwart Megatron's [[Solar Needle]] plan. {{storylink|Changing Gears}} During the first attempt to demonstrate the [[Wheeljack Instant Immobilizer|Immobilizer]], he hit the deck with the rest of the Autobots when Ironhide started shooting wildly at Hound's holographic Laserbeak. {{storylink|The Immobilizer}}

[[File:AutobotRun Brawn picks up Huffer.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|"I've had it with your orange and blue contrast, Huffer!"]]
Later, Huffer denounced [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike]] and [[Chip Chase|Chip]]'s idea for the Autobots to participate in a charity race and stayed at the base with Wheeljack, Ratchet, and Brawn. His bad feelings turned out to be well founded when Megatron used the [[Transfixatron]] to lock the Autobots in [[Alternate mode|vehicle mode]]. Huffer's dour attitude was so annoying that Brawn nearly bear-hugged him to death. He still took part in the rescue mission to save the rest of the Autobots. {{storylink|The Autobot Run}}

Huffer was one of the Autobots confronted with the conundrum that they had two Optimus Primes. After a series of tests, the Autobots were no closer to working out which was the real Prime, and at any rate had more urgent problems, as they'd detected strange energy readings from a crevice. During a battle with the Decepticons at the crevice, one of the Primes destroyed [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]], and Huffer pronounced him the real deal. As Optimus led them towards the crevice, they encountered Windcharger, who had discovered it was full of deadly [[korlonium crystal]]s. That and his disregard for Spike's safety betrayed the false Prime, and the Autobots blasted him. {{storylink|A Prime Problem}}

[[File:DinobotIsland1 Huffer taunts Dinobots.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|"Now remember, kids — If at first you don't succeed... I told you so."]]
After Bumblebee returned to Autobot HQ with Powerguide from a [[Dinobot Island (G1)|newly discovered island]], Huffer was among the Autobots who listened to his report. A debate ensued about the abilities of the Dinobots versus real dinosaurs. Huffer taunted Wheeljack when the Autobot scientist claimed that the Dinobots had been practicing their powers, declaring them complete dino-klutzes. The Dinotbots immediately demonstrated their attempt at “finesse” and proved Huffer right. {{storylink|Dinobot Island, Part 1}}

Later, Huffer wondered why Spike was still interested in dinosaurs after his numerous near-death experiences on Dinobot Island, when [[Teletraan I (G1)|Teletraan I]] sounded an alarm. Huffer complained that the alarm must mean bad news. He went with the team to investigate a time disturbance in the nearby city and was proven right.

[[File:DinobotIsland2 Huffer carrying mammoth.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|He is stronger than Pudzian...]]
Huffer and Optimus Prime were the first on the scene and discovered that city traffic was clogged for an unknown reason. Hound detected Bumblebee’s signal under a pile of rubble, and Huffer hurriedly moved in to clear the rubble away. He had to duck out of the way of flying debris when Sideswipe used his pile driver hands to speed up the job. When confronted by the time-displaced barbarians riding woolly [[mammoth]]s, Huffer wondered if they were new Earth forms the Autobots hadn’t seen yet.

Optimus ordered the Autobots to stop the random destruction caused by the mammoths and Huffer responded by wrestling one into submission, while declaring himself one of the strongest Autobots. He, Sunstreaker, Sideswipe, Hound and Ironhide herded the mammoths into Prime’s trailer, and then into the closing time portal. When the portal closed, Huffer breathed a sigh of relief, remarking that he thought they’d never leave. {{storylink|Dinobot Island, Part 2}}

[[File:Microbots Huffer charges.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4]]
The Autobots went to [[South America]] and were confronted by Megatron rendered ultra-powerful by the [[Heart of Cybertron]]. Huffer desperately tried to charge Megatron in a moment of uncharacteristic optimism, only to be blasted. He and the other Autobots limped back to Headquarters. {{storylink|Microbots}}

Huffer took part in the [[Autobot Day]] parade and was in the Mayor's office when Megatron's faked video was played, incriminating the Autobots in energy theft. The Autobots were subsequently found guilty by a court of law, and Huffer found himself sitting between [[Gears (G1)|Gears]] and [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]] on a spacecraft headed away from Earth. {{storylink|Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1}} When Ironhide started complaining about their situation, Huffer joined gamely in. Unfortunately, though Prime did agree he'd made a mistake, they were unable to change their flight plan, as the ship was locked on course for the Sun. It took Cosmos and the use of [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]]'s force field to get them back to Earth. {{storylink|Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2}}

[[File:MakeHoistHuffer.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|It's bigger on the inside!]]
When Megatron used the [[Voltronic Galaxer]] to block radio signals worldwide, Huffer was among the Autobots who rolled out to help the humans. {{storylink|Blaster Blues}} He also took part in sting operations in [[New York City]] in an attempt to catch car thieves. He and [[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]] observed that [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] seemed to prefer the company of humans. Later, Hoist was driving Huffer when they encountered a traffic jam and helped clear it. Huffer also fought Decepticon drones downtown alongside Ironhide and Windcharger, and was part of the assault on the Decepticons' drone manufacturing facility. {{storylink|Make Tracks}}

After a number of the Autobots and Decepticons were lost in a space bridge incident, Huffer watched [[Chip Chase]] unsuccessfully try to use Teletraan I to locate them. {{storylink|Child's Play (episode)|Child's Play}} He was part of an equally unsuccessful mission to try to fight the [[Insecticon clone]] army. While he was being repaired, Cosmos, Bumblebee and Spike were bringing [[robotic insecticide]] back from [[Floron III]]. Unfortunately, they also brought back [[Morphobot]]s, and Huffer was on the mission to rescue Cosmos from under the alien vegetation, though as usual, he didn't do much other than complain. {{storylink|Quest for Survival}}

[[File:QuestforSurvival Grapple repairs Huffer.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4]]
When Megatron sent [[Kremzeek]] to the Autobot base, [[Sparkplug Witwicky]] discovered that an insulating compound would protect the Autobots. However, by this point, Huffer had already fallen victim to the little electronic pest. {{storylink|Kremzeek!}} After Tracks and Bumblebee were kidnapped by big game hunter [[Chumley|Lord Chumley]], Huffer was one of the Autobots who scoured the city for them. Prime's call to return to Headquarters came just in time for him to avoid unsuspectingly being trapped himself. {{storylink|Prime Target (episode)|Prime Target}} Huffer didn't provide any input when the Autobots came up with a plan to disguise themselves as [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]] in order to uncover Megatron's latest plan, though he ended up having to go pull their fat out of the fryer when they were inevitably discovered. {{storylink|Masquerade}}

In [[2005]], Huffer helped [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] and [[Kup (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Kup]] build a roadblock when [[Hot Rod/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Hot Rod]] plowed through and ruined all of their hard work. {{storylink|The Transformers: The Movie}} Huffer was killed during the subsequent battle, and his remains were placed aboard an interstellar [[Autobot Mausoleum]], where they were later found by [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel Witwicky]]. Shortly afterward, due to a [[Quintesson]] plot, what was left of Huffer was plunged into a red sun with the rest of the mausoleum. {{storylink|Dark Awakening (episode)|Dark Awakening}}

{{note|Huffer’s involvement in the battle, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the comic mini-series ''[[Transformers: The Animated Movie]]''.}}

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====Japanese cartoon continuity====
=====''Cloud''=====
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=====''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' story pages=====
Huffer was a participant in a battle in New York City, early in the Autobot/Decepticon war taking place on Earth. The Autobots were victorious that day. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (story page)|Broadcasting on TV! Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers}}

=====Full Throttle Scramble Power!=====
When the Decepticons unleashed their new weapon, the [[Omega Whip]], upon the world, Huffer absolutely freaked out about it, teleconferencing with the other Autobots in [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] to do some anime wild takes. He got himself together in time to storm the Decepticons' base alongside the amassed Autobot forces. {{storylink|Full Throttle Scramble Power!}}

=====''The Battle of the Star Gate''=====
In the 1990s, Huffer was among the Autobots who engaged in a massive space battle with [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]], who had merged himself with the huge space station, the ''[[Trigger]]''. {{storylink|The Battle of the Star Gate}}

====Madman ''The Transformers'' comic====
In the year 2001, the Decepticons had managed to conquer Cybertron completely. The Autobots were forced to evacuate the planet, and Huffer boarded a ship to this end alongside Springer and Wheeljack while Optimus covered their escape. {{storylink|The Transformers (Madman)|The Transformers}}

====''Wings Universe''====
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Four million years ago, when the energies of Cybertron were in short supply, an Autobot exploration team including Huffer was formed to crew the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]], which soon departed. {{storylink|Battle Lines, Part 6}}

By 2012, memorial statues of Huffer, [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]], [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]], and [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] had been built at Autobot City. {{storylink|A Flash Forward, Part 2}}

===Sticker Adventures books===
Huffer helped fend off a Decepticon attack. As the Decepticons retreated, he stated with certainty that the Decepticons would soon return. He and the other Autobots then enjoyed an unusual lull in Decepticon activities for the next several days, only to find out they had been lulled into a false sense of security; the Decepticons had stolen the Autobots’ entire supply of fuel during this quiet time. Huffer and the other Autobots nonetheless attempted to fend off the Decepticons when they attacked once more. Thankfully, Optimus returned just in time with a new shipment of fuel.Re-energized, the Autobots forced the Decepticons to flee once again. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons}}
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===Marvel Storybooks continuity===
Huffer was amongst the Autobots gathered to hear [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] convey a message from [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] to [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus]]; [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] had been taken hostage, and was being held ransom for the Autobots' surrender. {{storylink|The Autobots' Secret Weapon}}
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===Marvel coloring books===
Optimus devised a trap for the Decepticons, and ordered Huffer to dig a really big hole over which Mirage would project the image of an Autobot factory to lure the Decepticons in. Though the trap fell through, the Autobots managed to defeat the Decepticons nonetheless, and Huffer held both Starscream and Thundercracker in his powerful grip, threatening to crush them. Both Decepticons surrendered. {{storylink|Decepticon Patrol}}

Huffer was part of the Autobot convoy that followed Optimus Prime into battle when the Autobots discovered that the Decepticons were using a [[molecular transfer device]] to steal fuel from all around the globe. He attempted to fight Starscream, but found the airborne Decepticon to be too fast for him... until Windcharger stepped in to help him out and used his magnetic powers to drag Starscream down into Huffer's range. <s>Ironhide</s> Huffer then punched a hole in the Decepticons' stronghold, allowing the Autobots to storm it. Once the Decepticons were defeated, Huffer helped redistribute the stolen fuel to its rightful owners. {{storylink|Summertime Coloring Book}}

{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|A Message From Outer Space}} {{storylink|Bumblebee's Dangerous Mission}} {{storylink|The Big Book of Coloring Fun}}}}

When the Autobots on Earth received word from [[Cosmos (G1)|Cosmos]] that the Decepticons were razing a human village to build a fuel plant in its place, they assumed their vehicle forms to sneak upon their enemies as they were working. Once they were in close enough proximity to the Decepticons, the Autobots transformed and launched a surprise attack. With the help of the Dinobots, whom they had concealed within their vehicle modes upon their approach, the Autobots beat up the Decepticons, shoved them down a pit, and covered them with quick-drying cement to keep them out of further trouble. {{storylink|The Autobot Spy in the Sky}}
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===Big Looker storybooks continuity===
[[File:Great Car Rally busy Huffer.jpg|thumb|And Dick Dastardly's "London Bridge" plan falls down!]]
Huffer was one of the Autobots that boarded a [[Ark (G1)|ship]] to clear a path for [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] through an asteroid belt. The ship and its crew came under attack from the [[Decepticon]]s, however, and crash-landed on [[Earth]], where both Autobots and Decepticons lay deactivated for four million years. A volcanic eruption awoke the Decepticons and a few Autobots, [[Bumblebee (G1)|one of whom]] found the humans [[Sparkplug Witwicky]] and [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] and brought them to the crash site to repair the other Autobots. Up and running once more, Huffer participated in a plan of [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]'s to lure the Decepticons into an ambush when they returned to destroy the Autobots. The plan worked. {{storylink|Battle for Cybertron}} Some time later, the Autobots participated in a car rally for a shot at the grand prize, consisting of a free supply of gas and [[oil]] for an entire year. Because they anticipated that the Decepticons would try to thwart their efforts, they had those who weren't going to race set up around the course to deal with sabotage attempts. Huffer was among those. When it was [[Hound (G1)|Hound]]'s turn to drive a mountainous part of the course, [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] destroyed the bridge right after a curve, planning for Hound to fall to his death. Huffer noticed this and repaired the bridge well before the racers arrived. {{storylink|The Great Car Rally}} Following a particularly harsh battle that left most of the soldiers on both factions badly injured, Huffer teamed up with [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] to repair their comrades. Soon after, the Autobots discovered a Decepticon plan to steal oil and went to stop them, except for Ratchet and Huffer, who were better occupied fixing the remaining patients. They prioritized [[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]], who ended up saving the day. {{storylink|Decepticon Hijack}}
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===Ladybird Books continuity===
{{voiceactor|[[Blain Fairman]] (English)}}
Huffer balked at Optimus Prime's suggestion that the Autobots could somehow harness the power of lightning as a source of energy, but nevertheless went to work constructing a device that allow them to do just that. With some equipment borrowed from Ratchet, a little heavy-lifting help from fellow complainer Gears, and a solid week of work, Huffer succeeded in creating a huge lightning rod atop a nearby mountain, connected to an energy converter in a cavern below. The other Autobots were decidedly skeptical, but Huffer's device was an unqualified success... especially at disabling the Decepticons who had snuck into the cavern to try and steal it! {{storylink|Autobots' Lightning Strike}}

Day to day, Huffer continued to work on repairing the Autobots' spacecraft, hoping he could get back to his beloved Cybertron. {{storylink|Megatron's Fight for Power}} After the Autobots had been stranded on Earth for a while, and Optimus Prime had been replaced as leader by [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]], Huffer was called upon to help [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] build a transmitter that would scramble radio communications between the Decepticons' new orbiting space stations. {{storylink|Galvatron's Air Attack}} Later still, when a partly-demolished human factory that the Decepticons had co-opted for use as a temporary base was destroyed in battle, Huffer was tasked with rebuilding it. Unfortunately, the overzealous Huffer wound up rebuilding the factory completely, necessitating that part of his work be undone! {{storylink|Decepticon Hideout}}

===Listen 'n Fun audiobooks continuity===
[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] ordered [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] and Huffer to plant false information indicating that the Autobots had located a new source of energy in order to mislead the Decepticons. Unfortunately the Autobots were still left with the problem that they actually needed to locate a new source of energy. {{storylink|Sun Raid (Listen 'n Fun)}}

===The Battle for Planet Earth===
{{voiceactor|[[Peter Marinker]] (English)}}
Huffer was among the Autobots who went on a mission to [[South America]] to search for energy sources, and carried [[John Gordon|John]] and [[Tim Gordon]] in his cab. He was the one to spot [[Mount Sheelah]]. After the humans explained the significance of the strange hollow mountain, the Autobots investigated further, but encountered the Decepticons. Luckily they retreated before the volcano erupted. {{storylink|Terror of Mount Sheelah}} After a hard day repairing the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]], Huffer and the other Autobots relaxed by watching [[television]], however a news report alerted them to the fact that the Decepticons were kidnapping humans. {{storylink|Bumblebee to the Rescue (G1)|Bumblebee to the Rescue}} When the Decepticons invaded [[Stanley Lake]], Huffer was among the Autobots who traveled there to foil their plan. {{storylink|Menace at the Dam}} Asked for his opinion on [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]'s possible defection, Huffer said the Decepticon was a cold-blooded villain. {{storylink|Espionage!!!!!}}

===Dinobots Strike Back===
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In the path where Mirage used a hologram of Optimus Prime to lure the four [[cerebro-shell]]-controlled [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] over the edge of [[Bandit's Bluff]] and into the ocean, Huffer was one of the Autobots crewing [[Seaspray (G1)|Seaspray's]] destroyer mode. He helped haul the unconscious quartet aboard for safe transport back to the Ark.

In an alternate path, [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]] was able to remove the cerebro-shells from 100 feet away with his magnetic powers, prompting a victory party that night. There, a frustrated [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] told Huffer that there was something important he couldn't quite remember. Huffer asked if it was something [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] said while controlling them, jogging the Dinobot's memory about there being a larger Decepticon plan afoot.
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===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
When [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] ordered an evacuation of Cybertron in the early days of the war, Huffer was seen loading boxes onto spacecraft at the [[Central Spaceport]]. {{storylink|The War Within issue 2|The War Within #2}} He was later present at [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] when [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] and his troops assaulted the city. {{storylink|The War Within issue 3|The War Within #3}} As the war raged on, Optimus Prime disappeared in a [[space bridge]] accident, leading to the Autobots splitting into several splinter groups. Huffer remained in the "main" faction of Autobots, now under the command of [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]]. {{storylink|Fragmentation (G1)|Fragmentation}}

Huffer was a part of the crew aboard the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' when it crashed into [[Earth]] four million years ago while clearing an asteroid in the path of Cybertron. After the Autobots defeated the Decepticons on Earth, they attempted to return home on the ''[[Ark II]]'', but the craft exploded, sending Huffer and the others into [[stasis lock]].

He was one of many Transformers captured and reprogrammed by arms dealer [[Lazarus|Adam "Lazarus" Rook]] for lease to terrorist organizations and shady governments requiring brutal military might. Fortunately, Autobots under the command of Optimus Prime repaired and re-reprogrammed Huffer and the remaining captive Autobots. Immediately, they were put to work on fighting Megatron's metallic virus, which had spread deep into [[Canada|Canadian]] territory. Huffer was seen to be very gung-ho about starting the blasting process when Wheeljack cautioned the group that the anti-virus required converting their own internal energy, and he needed complete commitment from them if his plan was to succeed. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 5|Prime Directive #5}}

Soon, the Canadian military arrived. Unfortunately, due to the recent attacks by both enslaved Autobots and Decepticons under the command of Rook, the Canadians attempted to stop the Autobots doing what they perceived to be an attack on their soil. When Wheeljack tried to explain what they were doing (in a rather aggressive manner), the Canadians soldiers panicked and fired upon the Autobots. Huffer was blasted by a tank shell while trying to aid the fallen Wheeljack. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 6|Prime Directive #6}}

Huffer was one of the Autobots who accompanied Optimus Prime to [[Alaska]] to investigate a mysterious summons from a crashed Autobot ship. Ambushed by Decepticons, the tide of the battle turned against the Autobots, then back when Optimus overcame Megatron. Then things turned stranger by the emergence of [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]] from the Autobot ship, who declared the Cybertronian civil war over. The sudden appearance of Shockwave and his troops from Cybertron threw everyone for a loop, especially Megatron, who ended up under Shockwave's heel. In the ensuing battle between the Autobots and Shockwave's group, Huffer was shot and set ablaze. Ratchet came to his rescue. {{storylink|New World Order}}

Huffer was with Prime's group when he and most of the Autobots surrendered to Ultra Magnus and returned to Cybertron under lock and key as war criminals. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} After being sprung from prison, Huffer joined up with the insurgency groups under [[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]] and [[Hot Rod]], who then united under Optimus Prime's leadership. During the assault on Shockwave's stronghold in Iacon, Huffer found himself directly in the path of Decepticon missiles. The Autobot leader took a missile to the torso that was intended for Huffer, causing him pain and damage that later contributed to his defeat at the hands of Shockwave. {{storylink|Countdown to Extinction (issue)|Countdown to Extinction}} With some help from Ultra Magnus and Grimlock, Prime finally overthrew Shockwave. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}}

After the revolution, Huffer and the rest of the ''Ark''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s crew were approached by [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] about returning to Earth. He had conceived of a new Autobot City constructed on the organic world as their new base of operations, in order to better protect it from ever-arising threats. {{storylink|Original Sin}} Huffer was requisitioned to contribute his construction engineering skills to the city's design. Huffer "huffed" about it, claiming the whole meeting was a waste of Energon, but eventually gave in to Prowl's request. {{storylink|Atonement}} Prowl made a point of reaching out to Huffer and acknowledging his sacrifice after the launch, as Cybertron slowly faded from sight. {{storylink|Lost and Found (issue)|Lost and Found}}

===''The Beast Within''===
Huffer participated in a savage battle against the Decepticons. {{storylink|The Beast Within}}
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===''Hearts of Steel''===
[[File:Hufferslumbers-HOS1.jpg|thumb|upright=1.0]]
Huffer was among the Autobots who ended up on Earth in the distant past, where they took on spiky organic modes and battled the Decepticons until an ice age threatened to destroy both factions. In order to continue their war at a later date, the Autobots went underground and powered down for a few million years. {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 1|Hearts of Steel #1}} When [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] was reactivated in the mid-19th century and learned about Decepticon activity, he woke several other Autobots up as well, including Huffer. {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 2|Hearts of Steel #2}}

===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
[[File:SpotlightBlaster GetawayKupHufferBroadside.jpg|left|upright=1.66|thumb|Huffer is such a downer that even Kup and Broadside shut up.]]
Huffer was one of the manual laborers seen disputing the Senate's attempts to automate their trade with drones. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 2|Megatron Origin #2}} Despite his laborer origins, Huffer has no known connection to the Decepticon movement, even in its earlier, less-violent days. When Zeta Prime was killed and the Decepticons assumed power, Huffer was at [[Maccadam's Old Oil House|Maccadam's]] when he heard [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s call to arms. He rallied with many others under the Autobot banner to retake the capital. {{storylink|Broadcast}} During the struggle, Huffer met the new Autobot leader personally and assured him they'd fight alongside him even though they weren't soldiers. {{storylink|Endgame}}

Millennia later, after the Battle of [[Thunderhead Pass]], Huffer was one of many Autobots engaged in trench warfare over what remained of their destabilized home planet. He was with [[Getaway]], [[Kup (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Kup]] and [[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]] awaiting a broadcast from [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] when the Decepticons made their big push against the Autobots. {{storylink|Spotlight: Blaster}}

[[File:Huffer A Rude Awakening.jpg|thumb|upright=1.0|right]]
After several more centuries of fighting and the Decepticons' [[Surge (event)|galaxy-wide assault]] on Autobot interests, Huffer found himself stationed on [[Earth]]. He told [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] to shush during one of [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]]'s speeches. {{storylink|Things Fall Apart, Part 2: "A Rude Awakening"|A Rude Awakening}} A few days later, Magnus requisitioned some energon from Huffer. {{storylink|Things Fall Apart, Part 4: "Enemies of the System"|Enemies of the System}}

Several months later, the Autobots and their [[Skywatch]] allies were victims of a Decepticon attack and forced to flee across the desert. Their caravan was then attacked by humans, and Huffer stayed true to his nature by complaining loudly and at length when Ultra Magnus chose to continue fleeing rather than fight back. He shut up once [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]] appeared and shot him. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 3: Woken Furies|Woken Furies}} The injured Autobots were dumped in a schoolyard in [[Albuquerque]], where they were held hostage by two humans carrying powerful Megatron-based handguns and were influenced by Megatron's own thoughts. Unable to fight back or defend themselves without risking human lives, Huffer and the others could only sit tight until they were saved by [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]], who killed one of the humans. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 4: Burning Chrome|Burning Chrome}}

Alongside the majority of Autobots, Huffer left Earth to return to a restored Cybertron. On board [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]]'s rocket mode, he and several others hoped to listen in on Optimus Prime's interrogation of Megatron. {{storylink|Chaos Theory Part 1|Chaos Theory #1}} Once they arrived, the Autobots fought to defeat [[Galvatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Galvatron]] and his [[Sweep (G1)|Sweep]] army. {{storylink|Chaos Part Two: Numbers|Numbers}} Huffer was among those who fled when [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] joined the battle. {{storylink|Chaos Part Three: Kings|Kings}}

When [[Prowl (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Prowl]] was faced with some [[Brawl (G1)|heavy lifting]] back on Earth, he wished that Huffer hadn't left. {{storylink|Police Action Part 2: Only Forward|Only Forward}}

[[File:FecundMoon-Impressive.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|left|oh god please not another 'goggles do nothing' quote]]
After the Chaos War ended, Huffer joined [[Hot Rod/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rodimus]] and the crew of the ''[[Lost Light]]'' in their search for the [[Knights of Cybertron]]. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 2: Hangers On|Hangers On}} {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 3: The Chaos of Warm Things|The Chaos of Warm Things}} Like most of the crew, he was at one point frozen in place by one of [[Brainstorm (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Brainstorm]]'s malfunctioning weapons. {{storylink|The Reluctant Specialist}} When the ''Lost Light'' ran into a mysterious portal in space, Huffer and many others gathered on the observation deck to have a look at it. {{storylink|Remain in Light 1 of 5: The Fecund Moon|The Fecund Moon}} When the Legislators suddenly materialized within their ship, Huffer, alongside [[Gears (G1)|Gears]] and [[Hound (G1)|Hound]], battled them. {{storylink|Remain in Light 2 of 5: House of Ambus|House of Ambus}}

After [[Shockwave (G1)| Shockwave attempted to destroy the universe, Huffer attended the trial of a captured Megatron. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 1: Towards Peace|Towards Peace}} Six months later, Huffer evacuated the Lost Light in the [[Rodpod]]. With Autobots disappearing in the shuttle, Huffer opted to lock both Megatron and Cyclonus in the engine room. He would soon disappear as well. {{storylink|Twenty Plus One}} An alternative version of him was slaughtered by the [[Decepticon Justice Division|DJD]] along with the rest of the crew. {{storylink|slaughterhouse}} He was eventually restored with all the other disappeared Autobots. {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}}
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{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Annihilation}} {{storylink|The Becoming: Dark Cybertron Chapter 10|The Becoming}} {{storylink|Earthfall Chapter 4: Full Fathom Five|Full Fathom Five}} {{storylink|The Dying of the Light: (1) How Bright Their Frail Deeds|How Bright Their Frail Deeds}}}}

==Commercial appearances==
Huffer and [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] once allowed a [[Mini-spy]] access to the Autobot base, only for the little rascal to start mucking around with [[Teletraan I (G1)|Teletraan I]]. The two Autobots then rushed in to check the Mini-spy's true allegiance, discovering it to be a Decepticon. The spy fled, with the two Autobots in pursuit. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Mini-Spies|Mini-spies commercial}}

==Games==
===Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons===
Huffer was amongst the Autobots held prisoner by the Decepticons. In order to rescue his troops, Optimus Prime partook in a mission to infiltrate the Decepticon's maze-like base, where Huffer and his Autobot compatriots were held captive. {{storylink|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons packaging blurb and game}}

===''Transformers Legends''===
Bumblebee recruited Huffer to join the [[Bee Team (G1)|Bee Team]], a secret strike force. {{storylink|The Bee Team}} Huffer was sent out with [[Grapple (G1)|Grapple]] and [[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]] to repair the stricken [[Powerglide (G1)|Powerglide]]. The three engineers ran into the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]], but instead of fighting instead bonded over their love of building. The truce was short-lived, as [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] and [[Deluge (G2)|Deluge]] turned up to remind [[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]] which side he was on, but the Autobot trio still managed to rescue Powerglide. {{storylink|The Master Builders (Legends)|The Master Builders}}
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[[File:BattleTacticsHuffer.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]

===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
Huffer participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He was a Common character that could be recruited by collecting 28 units of Cybermetal. {{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}
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==Toys==
===Generation 1===
[[File:G1Huffer toy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Oh, they gave me a mouthplate. I don't have a mouthplate.]]
*'''Huffer''' ([[Mini Vehicle]], [[1984]]/[[1985]])
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''14'''

:Huffer was part of the original 1984 assortment of Autobot Mini Vehicles. His mold was originally used for the ''[[Micro Change]]'' series of toys as an "American truck," which is either a terminal tractor (also called a "yard truck," a "mule" and several other things) or a single-axle semi truck of indeterminate, probably made-up model. The ''Micro Change'' toyline was meant to depict robots that transformed into toy cars, which accounts for the somewhat cartoonish proportions of Huffer's vehicle mode. In 1985, Huffer's rooftop [[Insignia|faction symbol]] decal was replaced by a [[rubsign]].

:This mold was used to make [[Pipes (G1)|Pipes]]; for the [[Hasbro]] line it was extensively [[retool]]ed, while in Mexico and some European markets, it was straight-[[redeco]]ed.

::*''[http://www.transformerland.com/wiki/toy-info/transformers-g1-mini-vehicles-hufer/67/ Patent info, price guide, and further reading on Huffer at Transformerland.com]''
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1984/Autobot/Huffer/huffer.htm More information on Mini Vehicle Huffer at TFU.info]''
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===''Transformers Collection''===
*'''Minibot Team''' (Multi-pack, [[2004]])
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''TFC-12'''

:In January of 2004, Huffer was reissued in a "[[The Transformers Collection]]" six-pack with [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys|Bumblebee]], [[Cosmos (G1)|Cosmos]], [[Gears (G1)|Gears]], [[Powerglide (G1)|Powerglide]] and [[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]]. There are no notable differences between the original and the reissue versions.

:This entire set was redecoed to make the "[[G1 GoBots]]" set; Huffer was used to make [[Road Ranger]].

===''Timelines''===
[[File:Botcon Huffer toy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Hey kids, it's me! Timmy the Tow Truck! Hyuck hyuck! Wuh-oh, looks like somebody's feeling a little grumpy today!]]
*'''Huffer''' (Scout, [[2007]])
**''Accessories:'' Crane boom/rifle, Earth-type Cyber Key

:Sold together in a bag with [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] and their instructions and bio cards, Huffer is a ''Classics''-themed [[BotCon 2007]] attendee [[exclusive]]. An orange and blue [[redeco]] of the ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (toyline)|Cybertron]]'' [[Armorhide (Cybertron)|Armorhide]] toy, Huffer transforms into a first-generation Volvo FH Globetrotter semi tractor-trailer cab with the badges and serial numbers filed off, and with a hook-crane attachment on the fifth wheel. Plugging a [[Cyber Key]] into the back of his cab flips his grill down, exposing a rack of eight (non-firing) missiles. This feature is also available in his [[robot mode]]. Huffer can store a Cyber Key using tabs on his hook-crane/rifle, and came with a silver-bordered, translucent orange [[Earth]] Key.

:This mold was also used to make the [[Movie (toyline)|live-action-movie-verse]] [[Armorhide (Movie)|Armorhide]] which was then [[Repurposing|repurposed]] into Shattered Glass [[Huffer (SG)|Huffer]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2007/Autobot/BCHuffer/huffer.htm More information on BotCon Huffer at TFU.info]''

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===''Generations''===
[[File:Generationstoy-Huffer.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|The only ones more whiny than Huffer are the fans.]]
*'''Huffer''' (Legends, 2015)
**''Series / Number'':
**''Accessories:'' Rifle

:A [[retool]] of ''[[Thrilling 30]]'' [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#GenerationsLegends|Legends Class Optimus Prime]] with a new head, ''[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]]'' Huffer is about the size of a ''[[Cyberverse]]'' Commander Class toy. He transforms from robot to generic cab-over truck and features [[5mm post|5mm-compatible]] hands and roof. Amusingly, his [[package art]] depicts Huffer as a retool of the entirely different ''[[Reveal the Shield]]'' [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#2010Legend|Legends Class Optimus Prime]] toy. Huffer includes a collector card featuring the aforementioned packaging art.

: This mold was redecoed into [[Pipes (G1)#Generations|Pipes]].

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==Merchandise==
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*'''Cybertron Hero Collection 22''' (Decoy multi-pack, [[1985]])

:In Japan, a red rubber mini-figure of "Drag" was available in part of a [[Decoy|massive multi-pack of similar mini-figurines]]. The number etched into his back is the sum total of his [[Tech Spec]] ratings, as these figurines were used as game pieces for a variety of ''Transformers'' board games in which this number had some meaning to how the game was played or something. Huffer mixes the [[character model|cartoon model]] with elements from the original toy (most notably tires on his shoulders and claws instead of hands).

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*'''Huffer''' (Decoy, [[1987]])
**''Decoy number'': '''27'''

:The [[Hasbro]] [[Decoy]] release of the Huffer game piece is almost identical to the Japanese version, except the number on his back is a simple "checklist" number. Like all Autobot Decoys, he was a randomly-chosen pack-in available with the carded [[Throttlebot]]s, [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]], [[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobots]] and [[Technobot (G1)|Technobots]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1986/Autobot/Decoys/Huffer/huffer.htm More information on Decoy Huffer at TFU.info]''
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==Notes==
*The bio card for [[Fun Publications]]' [[BotCon 2007]] exclusive toy lists the name as "Huffer®". Unfortunately, Hasbro hadn't actually attempted at the time to register the name, which technically made the claim illegal. SHAME ON YOU, FunPub. Obviously Hasbro [[Huffer (PCC)|''has'' rectified this]].
*A strange variation on Huffer's [[character model]] features a semi-circular hood behind his head instead of the normal rectangular shape. It appeared in Huffer's ''[[The Transformers Universe]]'' bio entry, and in the comic story "[[Totaled!]]".
[[File:Masterpiece Huffer.JPG|upright=1.1|thumb|He will complain about this until the end of time.]]
*A proposed design for a ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' Huffer toy is found in ''[[Transformers Generations 2011]]''.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Drag''' (ドラッグ ''Doraggu'')
*''French:'' '''Grognon''' (Canada, "Grouch")
*''Greek:'' '''Gígantas''' (Γίγαντας, "Giant")
*''Hungarian:'' '''Fortyogó''' ("Ebullier")
*''Italian:'' '''Turbo''', '''Piedone''' ("[[Divide and Conquer]]" only)
*''Mandarin:'' '''Huffer''' (Taiwan, 哈佛 ''Hā Fó''), '''Lú-măng''' (鲁莽 "Hot-headed")
*''Portuguese:'' '''Valentão''' (Portugal comics), '''Rabugento''' (Brazil comics, "Grumpy")
*''Russian:'' '''Nytik''' (Нытик, "Whiner")

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Nautica (G1)

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Ravagekitteh: /* IDW Generation 1 continuity */

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{{disambig2|the heroic Generation 1 Autobot|the evil ''Shattered Glass'' Autobot|Nautica (SG)}}
:''Nautica is a [[Caminus|Camien]] [[Autobot]] from the [[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW portion]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Nautica-MTMTE42covercropped.jpg|upright=1.6|thumb|Post-Dreamwave, characters are drawn to look like they're dancing on purpose.]]
An intellectual gifted to the point of possibly being an [[outlier]], '''Nautica''' has studied more subjects than you can shake a stick at, from literature to cartography to moral philosophy. By trade she's a quantum mechanic—an engineer with focus on faster-than-light starships—and as such can usually be seen carrying [[Nautica's wrench|her trusty wrench]]. Hailing from the colony world of [[Caminus]] alongside her friends [[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]] and [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]], Nautica is chipper, upbeat, peppy, and sometimes a bit socially clueless. She's rapidly learning the history of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] and the [[Great War (G1)|war]], and is always eager to learn from her new friends on the ''[[Lost Light]]''.

Nautica transforms into a submarine with limited space travel capabilities.

==Fiction==
===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
[[File:Windblade4-leavingCaminus.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.6|And nothing can go wrong!]]
Nautica was born on a distant world colonized by the [[Metrotitan (body-type)|Metrotitan]] known as [[Caminus]]. The Titan had carried within him an active [[hot spot]] upon leaving Cybertron, allowing new Cybertronians to be born from the colony. {{storylink|A 'Bot and Her City}} While studying to be a quantum mechanic, she roomed with [[Firestar (G1)|Firestar]]. Both of them were part of the same sorority and were [[Amica Endura]]... because on Caminus, serious adherents of the [[Way of Flame]] expect you to have an Amica in ten megacycles or be written off as "officially lonely". As soon as an equally desperate Firestar cited the [[Oath of Constancy]], Nautica accepted. While they tried, their personalities clashed badly: Firestar would lord her better artistic skills over her and patronizingly assumed Nautica needed to be more like her. Neither could break up as [[platonic severance]] gets you cast out. As Firestar tells it, Nautica tended to be part of a group rather than strike out on her own. To make matters worse, Camien society expected you to, if not be a performing artist, to at least try to do it and Nautica couldn't be bothered. That got her stuck with the loathed nickname "Naughty Nautica" and, even though she's a hyper-literate and intellectually skilled person, she became self-deprecating and didn't think much of her talents. {{storylink|The Sensuous Frame}} {{storylink|The Frail Gaze}}

Other sorority chums included [[Velocity (G1)|Velocity]], who kept failing her medical exams. {{storylink|The Sensuous Frame}}

When [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] wanted to recruit a team to look for Cybertron, Nautica was picked up (which Firestar didn't forgive). {{storylink|The Frail Gaze}} Nautica boarded the ''[[Vis Vitalis]]'' along with her crewmates, and they served under [[Thunder Clash|Thunderclash]] for a short time. {{storylink|Windblade issue 4|Windblade #4}} However, the arrival of [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]] brought to light the dire situation [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] was in. As the ''Vis Vitalis'' would be unable to reach the titan in time, Nautica went along with Windblade and Chromia in a smaller and faster craft. {{storylink|Burning Bright: Dark Cybertron Chapter 8|Burning Bright}} {{storylink|Windblade issue 2|Windblade #2}}

While inside the nigh-corpse of Metroplex, Nautica and Chromia encountered a group of [[Autobot]]s. After beaning [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]] with a hook, Nautica tried to act threatening towards the strangers, but failed; Chromia picked up the slack, demanding the Autobots' unconditional surrender. {{storylink|The Dead Are Not Enough: Dark Cybertron Chapter 7|The Dead Are Not Enough}} Ultimately, [[Getaway]] defused the situation by wiping the grime from Nautica's [[Insignia|Autobrand]], showing they were all on the same side. Introductions were interrupted by an [[Ammonite]] attack, forcing a retreat to Windblade's position. {{storylink|Burning Bright: Dark Cybertron Chapter 8|Burning Bright}} Along with the others inside Metroplex, Nautica was transported by the titan to Cybertron, where she saw Metroplex take down the [[Necrotitan]]. {{storylink|Finis Temporis: Dark Cybertron Chapter 9|Finis Temporis}}

Nautica and Windblade updated Ultra Magnus about Metroplex's condition as he healed thanks to the infusion of [[Ore-7]]. Nautica realized that Magnus wanted answers from Metroplex regarding the Knights of Cybertron and told Magnus that she once asked the titan the same question, only to get the response that none of them deserved to know the truth. {{storylink|The Becoming: Dark Cybertron Chapter 10|The Becoming}} Nautica was within Metroplex when a swarm of Ammonites large enough to blot out the sky attacked; Metroplex needed no persuasion to join the battle. {{storylink|Black Planet: Dark Cybertron Chapter 11|Black Planet}} The Ammonites all spontaneously combusted and died due to the actions of Metalhawk. The three Camiens watched as the ''[[Lost Light]]'' smashed onto [[Monstructor (G1)|Monstructor]], and they leapt out of Metroplex to finish off the separated component members of the combiner. {{storylink|...And the Damage Done: Dark Cybertron Finale|...And the Damage Done}}

After the turmoil on Cybertron settled down, an enthusiastic Nautica accompanied by Chromia attended crew auditions for the ''Lost Light'' hosted by [[Swerve (G1)|Swerve]]. Just as she was turned down for having a trisyllabic name, [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] burst in and revealed that the auditions were a joke by Swerve. Six months later, Nautica did end up on the ''Lost Light'', and became close friends with [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]]. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 1: Towards Peace|Towards Peace}} On her first day, [[Crosscut (Autobot)|Crosscut]] took the newbies on a tour and explained how [[Swerve's]] was the place where ''everything'' happened. {{storylink|No Guns, No Swords, No Briefcases}}

At [[Swerve's]], she discussed the latest issue of the ''Lost Light Insider'' with [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] and [[Riptide (G1)|Riptide]]. Riptide decided to have fun with a drunk [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailcutter]], and while Nautica initially joined in the laughter, left to return to her quarters. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 2: Words Hang in the Air|Words Hang in the Air}}

[[File:Nautica-mtmte-32-altmode.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Anybody having flashbacks to the [[Pretender]]s' [[package art]]?]]
Nautica was part of "Team Rodimus" called in to figure out the identity of the Rodimus corpse found within a coffin found in space. Nautica recognized [[Spectralism|Spectralist]] markings on the coffin, indicating that Drift, a practicing Spectralist, was the one who carved them. The mystery of the coffin was put on hold, however, as parts of the ''Lost Light'' began to disappear and Brainstorm's [[Early Early Warning System]] told them to "Run For Your Life!", forcing the crew to evacuate into shuttles. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 3: Predestination: A Beginner's Guide|Predestination: A Beginner's Guide}} Nautica found herself with nineteen others on the new [[Rodpod]], where she gave a short lesson about the ship's quantum generators, concluding with the theory that the ship was so advanced that it "proved itself impossible".

People began to disappear, and tensions began to rise amongst the crew. [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] aimed his gun at Nautica, prompting her to defend herself with [[Nautica's wrench|her wrench]], but the other Autobot was actually aiming past her at [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]], who had stowed away on their ship. Those present in the Rodpod started to disappear, and [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] finally made the connection that those left behind, including Nautica, were not part of the original crew of the ''Lost Light''. The mystery continued as the Rodpod stumbled upon the bisected remains of the ''Lost Light''. {{storylink|Twenty Plus One}}

The ship had been attacked and the crew killed. As a quantum engineer, Nautica's expertise was crucial to the group as they explored this disturbing discovery. She identified the [[quantum foam]] leaking from the shattered ship, as well as the danger it posed; teaming up with Nightbeat to check a section of the ship for survivors, she noted that local space was "worn down" from excess quantum activity, a further danger. She waded through Nightbeat's questions about life on Caminus while they searched the ship. When Nightbeat found Brainstorm's abandoned [[Time case|briefcase]] and opened it, only to find it empty, both Autobots were baffled - but failed to notice a bizarre time-skipping phenomena happening to them. The pair then discovered Overlord's corpse locked in a chamber beneath the ship, another piece of the puzzle. They rejoined the main group as the ship began reacting to the quantum foam... and as Ravage discovered a still-alive Rewind inside the empty [[Magnus Armor]].
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[[File:Nautica-mtmte-33-notagoodthing.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4]]
While the rest of the group tried to make sense of this, Nautica gazed out at the derelict [[quantum drum]]s floating in a field of [[quantum foam]], and suddenly worked out what had happened - the ''Lost Light'' had apparently duplicated itself at launch due to a malfunction in the quantum engines. Nautica hypothesized that shutting down the quantum engines completely would cancel out any effects that depended on them - restoring ''their'' version of the ship to reality. The group searched for Brainstorm's miniaturization gun to make at least one of their number small enough to make it through the loops of drifting quantum foam; during the search, Nautica was shocked to uncover Brainstorm's lifeless body - and startled when Nightbeat pointed out that the inventor had a Decepticon insignia painted on the inside of his faceplate! Once Megatron revealed that he could downsize himself, Nautica guided him and Rewind as they floated out into space to the drifting quantum drums and carried out the procedure, restoring the ''Lost Light'' as they had known it. The mission successful, she and Nightbeat puzzled over the survival of Rewind - and of Brainstorm's briefcase. {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken}}

Brainstorm would then poison the crew and use the briefcase to travel through time, attempting to ensure the war never happened and his love [[Quark]] would live. Nautica sat in on the Lost Light Internal Legal Affairs Committee's hearing into the affair and quietly stared at her wrench.[[Image:BRAINSTORM IS AN ASS.jpg|thumb|300px|right|''You got me And Butt-head, I got you'']] When Brainstorm made a joke about his being a Decepticon, she stormed out and left the wrench behind. In an attempt to patch things up between them, Ratchet (under pretence of a medical check-up) reminded her that Brainstorm had been a M.T.O. and if his plan had worked, he would have erased himself from the timeline: his actions could not be condoned but had not been selfish.

The two patched things up when Brainstorm added a new function to her wrench: a button that said "BRAINSTORM IS AN ASS!". {{storylink|Our Steps Will Always Rhyme}}

Brainstorm, [[Getaway]], and [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] interrupted her reading about [[Froid]] to teach her practical skills, as she'd asked... which were basically circus tricks. She protested until she realised hanging from the ceiling was ''cool''. This was interrupted by a visit to the ''Vis Vitalis'': Thunderclash was finally dying and everyone was invited to his pre-wake. Everyone at the pre-wake had an awesome dance party... except Nautica and some others who sat in the corner like saddos, with her lowering her face shield and grumping that nobody seemed to have noticed they weren't there.

''Firestar'' noticed though, having joined the ''Vitalis'' with half of their old sorority. The two attempted to catch up but Nautica was uneasy around Firestar, as the latter 'playfully' undermined the former's vocation and her accomplishments. After an awkward conversation, the two segregated. Hours later, she stuck around on the ''Vitalis'' with Skids so she can catch up with the old gang (and desperately told him "they're not ''all''... y'know"). He picked up something was wrong and she asked if she could borrow him for a minute {{storylink|The Sensuous Frame}} to practice dancing. To his surprise, she was a lot better than she had let on or thought. Relaxing, she admitted to him that she had befriended Firestar out of desperation and her frustrations.

That was when bizarre, horrific aliens attacked! Completely without combat skills, Nautica was overrun but shoved her fist into the recharge socket to vape the suckers. Nautica and Skids took refuge with Nightbeat, Getaway, Ravage, Firestar, and Velocity, who Nautica briefly caught up with. When the creatures, identified as [[personality tick]]s, broke in, Nautica detonated [[innermost energon]] to keep them back... which didn't work but never mind, [[Skater]] saved the day off-panel. She tried to convince Firestar to stay on space adventuring after that and was bluntly asked if "adventures" were really this nasty all the time ("maybe it is"). After encouraging her to ensure "Lotty" stuck to her career, she was aghast to learn Firestar, believing they just weren't a good fit, was willing to take the shame of platonic severance for her. Nautica refused to allow it and said that while they were different, they were still friends. {{storylink|The Frail Gaze}}

{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|The Not Knowing}} {{storylink|Silent Light}} {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 2: The Sun in Flight|The Sun in Flight}}}}

Nautica would attend Megatron's lessons on the [[Knights of Cybertron]], although she would spent much of her time tinkering with the Rodpod. In one lesson, Megatron pointed out the significance of a symbol that had popped up multiple times in their travels. Skids said it was the symbol he said seen when he went through Tyrest's portal, and Nautica had seen it on Troja Major. Along with the rest of 'Team Rodimus', she boarded the Rodpod to find the cause of a series of mental attacks. Using the teleport drive she had installed, they followed the source of the assault, ending up "supposedly" of the map. However, when things materialised it turned out they were on the [[Necroworld]]. They left the Rodpod to explore, but were immediately attacked by Decepticon fighters. Any chances of escape in the Rodpod were dashed when they were blown out of the sky, a stray missile blowing up part of Nautica's face. They retreated into the [[Censere|Necrobot's]] fortress! forced to dwell on the fact that their fellow crew mates ahad betrayed them and that the D.J.D were coming to kill them {{storylink|The Dying of the Light: (1) How Bright Their Frail Deeds| How Bright Their Frail Deeds}}

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Three weeks after the mutiny, a broadcast went through space of the abandoned crewmembers, guns to their heads, recording how they wanted their corpses to be disposed of. Nautica found herself unable to think of any last words to quote, berating herself for it, and requested to be buried in the shadow of the Fourth and Central Athenaeum. She tried to come up with a passage for her grave but found herself unable to care anymore, despair setting in. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light: (1) How Bright Their Frail Deeds|How Bright Their Frail Deeds}}

{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 3: Your Fierce Tears|Your Fierce Tears}} {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 4: At Close of Day|At Close of Day}}}}

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==Notes==
*Nautica and Chromia were originally planned to look less visually 'female' and more like "the default Cybertronian design", so that readers "wouldn't have clocked" they were female until the dialogue. [[James Roberts]] had to "shelve" this idea because IDW wanted to make it clear immediately that [[female Transformer]]s were in the series.<ref>[http://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2015/02/26/james-roberts-on-idws-transformers-more-that-meets-the-eye/ Women Write About Comics: "James Roberts on IDW’s Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye" 10:00 - 11:21]</ref>
*In "[[Twenty Plus One]]", Nautica is given an estriol-positive [[spark]] type as part of a world-building nod. Roberts had this edited in the trade paperback as he thought it would be lazy writing to have gender be down to sparktypes (and to use a feminine name)<ref>[http://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2015/02/26/james-roberts-on-idws-transformers-more-that-meets-the-eye/ Women Write About Comics: "James Roberts on IDW’s Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye" 15:06 - 16:40]</ref> and because it could be offensive (casting them as an "abnormal", and reinforcing a binary gender system). In the trade, Nautica is ferrum-positive.

==References==
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[[Category:Caminus]]
[[Category:Comic-only Autobots]]
[[Category:Engineers]]
[[Category:Female Transformers]]
[[Category:IDW Generation 1 Autobots]]
[[Category:Lost Light crew]]

User talk:Ravagekitteh

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Ravagekitteh:

{{welcome}}Welcome to the wiki! -[[User:Foffy the Sheep|Foffy the Sheep]] ([[User talk:Foffy the Sheep|talk]]) 18:24, 4 March 2016 (EST)

If anybody stumbles on this page, leave a comment or something. I dunno. [[User:Ravagekitteh|Ravagekitteh]] ([[User talk:Ravagekitteh|talk]]) 14:35, 4 May 2016 (EDT)

Ravage (G1)

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Ravagekitteh: /* IDW Generation 1 continuity */

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:''Ravage is a [[Decepticon]] [[Decepticon Mini-Cassette]] and later [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:Ravageboxart.jpg|upright=1.95|thumb|This is every comic book panel Ravage [[Character model#Model sheet poses used in fiction|has ever been in]]. Well, okay, sometimes they rotate him a bit.]]
No Decepticon has a stronger loyalty to [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] than '''Ravage'''. One of [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]'s most reliable [[Decepticon Mini-Cassette|spies]], Ravage believes unwaveringly in the Decepticon cause, and Megatron embodies that cause. To better serve Megatron and the Decepticons, Ravage has become the most efficient and deadly war machine under his command. He hides himself in the shadows, waiting for the perfect moment to strike with grim accuracy. His name is synonymous with stealth. His survivors are few.

Ravage's only weakness is bright light, which can temporarily blind him. Perhaps his absolute loyalty to Megatron can blind him as well.

Sometimes he's a talker, other times he just growls or hisses at anything that isn't Megatron or Soundwave.

At various times, Ravage has been referred to as '''Tripredacus Agent''', '''Tri-Predacus Agent''', or '''Black Panther Man''' (クロヒョウマン ''Kurohyō Man''). It's all very confusing.

{{quote|Decepticons forever!|Ravage|"[[The Agenda (Part 2)]]"}}

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics====
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[[File:Contentedfools.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Ravage, here in his first appearance, is the first Transformer to have dialogue in the first Transformers story.]]
''Ravage was a loyal bodyguard for the [[Overlord (rank)|Overlords]], the Autobots that once ruled all of Cybertron, for generations. He witnessed as their planet-wide rule crumbled into a loose collection of feuding city-states. Like ancient Rome, the last Overlord barely managed to hold together the autocracy through the gladiatorial games, which allowed the city-states to vent their frustrations over low fuel supplies on each other in scripted, controlled conflicts. A war broke out between [[Vos (polity)|Vos]] and [[Tarn (polity)|Tarn]], however, and Ravage and his partner [[Nightstalker (G1)|Nightstalker]] attempted to escort the Overlord to safety. Joined by the gladiators [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] and [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]], their journey was perilous. The Overlord was now an enfeebled mechanoid who required constant re-energization to survive, and constantly slowed them down. After Prime raced ahead to get help, Nightstalker self-destructed himself in a final loyal act to defend the Overlord, leaving the ruler alone with Megatron and Ravage. Though the Overlord was near death, Ravage refused to give the Overlord any of his energy, instead allying himself with Megatron, whom he believed would be the future ruler of Cybertron.'' {{storylink|State Games}}

[[File:Tellhimwhodefeatedyouthisday.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Holy crap, Ravage is HUGE!]]
As a member of Megatron's Decepticons, Ravage attempted to hijack the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] four million years ago, only to fail and fall into deactivation sleep until [[1984]]. The detonation of the volcano, [[Mount St. Hilary]], reactivated the Autobots and Decepticons, unleashing their war on Earth. The two factions soon found themselves battling on the site of a drive-in movie theatre, where Ravage was able to distract [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] from determining the location of [[Bumblebee (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Bumblebee]], who had gone missing. {{storylink|The Transformers (issue)|The Transformers}} The Decepticons found themselves in need of energy, so Megatron ordered Ravage to investigate [[Harrison Nuclear Power Plant]]. Jumping into one of the plant worker's cassette recorders, he learned not only of the energy-harnessing technology of this new world, but that its primary inhabitants were not the vehicles they transformed into, but their weird organic operators! Ravage and the other Decepticons immediately attacked Harrison Nuclear and claimed it for themselves. Afterwards, Ravage concealed himself within the boom box of [["O"]], the friend of [[Buster Witwicky (G1)|Buster Witwicky]], and learned that Buster had allied himself with the Autobots. He quickly returned to Megatron to report this information, and the Decepticons launched another attack, this time on Buster's neighborhood. Ravage jumped [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]], and the reluctant Autobot wrestled with the Decepticon until Ravage was knocked away by [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]]. The Decepticons retreated after kidnapping Buster's father, [[Sparkplug Witwicky]]. {{storylink|Power Play!}} Ravage returned with his comrades to the Decepticons' [[Fortress Sinister|new base]], constructed out of materials salvaged from Harrison Nuclear, and coerced Sparkplug into converting Earth fuel into a substance they could use. Soon, their base was infiltrated by [[Gears (G1)|Gears]] and the amazing [[Spider-Man]], and although the latter was as fast and agile as Ravage, the former put Ravage out of the fight with a punch. {{storylink|Prisoner of War!}}

[[File:RavageEnemyWithinColour.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|He's so cute when he's angry.]]
''Shortly into their stay on Earth, the ever-treacherous [[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]] attempted to build up support against Megatron by demanding action when Megatron cautioned patience, knowing his fellow Decepticons were getting restless for battle. Fearing that an outright execution of Starscream would turn popular opinion against him, Megatron asked Ravage to spy on the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] and find him an excuse to get rid of Starscream. Ravage was discovered, though, and critically injured by Starscream during their fight. Ravage managed to crawl home across the desert, however, and reported the betrayal to Megatron. Having dishonored himself by attacking his fellow Decepticon, Starscream was forced to engage in a trial by combat with the Autobot [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]], who had fallen into a similar situation by unrelated circumstances. After defeating Brawn in combat and flying back to Decepticon headquarters to declare his victory, Starscream was shot down by the vengeful Ravage on Megatron's orders. Ravage reported the Autobots were responsible for the attack, and thus Megatron was able to galvanize the Decepticons for battle himself, effectively stealing Starscream's thunder and punishing the mutineer in the process.'' {{storylink|The Enemy Within!}}

''As the Decepticons assaulted the Ark, Ravage fought against the magnetic Autobot [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]], employing his own electromagnetic shield to protect himself from his opponent's powers. When Optimus Prime attempted to awaken the ship's computer [[Aunty|Auntie]] during the battle, however, she awoke in a scrambled state and turned against all the Transformers, using magnetic force to hold all the combatants against her hull... except for Ravage and Windcharger. Forced to work together for the benefit of both their armies, they managed to deactivate Auntie.'' {{storylink|Raiders of the Last Ark}}

[[File:LastStand-Ravage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"Ravage, why must we fight, we are not enemies!"]]
Megatron ordered Ravage to sneak into the Ark and provide him with news of the Autobots' fuel situation. Fortunately for the Decepticons, the Autobots had failed to find a source of fuel, so the time came to strike. During the Decepticons' immediate attack on the Ark, Ravage singled out Mirage, intent on finishing the job he had begun earlier. Ravage ignored Mirage's pleas for a peaceful discussion and removed Mirage's arm with his teeth. Mirage's resolve against the Decepticons strengthened, he blasted Ravage, removing him fully from the rest of the battle. {{storylink|The Last Stand}} The chance arrival of [[Shockwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Shockwave]] was all that allowed ultimate Decepticon victory, and Ravage, his deposed leader Megatron, and several others were nursed back to full operating status. {{storylink|The New Order}} Though Megatron rebelled against his usurper, he failed, and Shockwave paraded Megatron's beaten form in front of Ravage and the other Decepticons. {{storylink|The Worse of Two Evils!}}

Ravage accompanied several other Decepticons, under the command of [[Soundwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Soundwave]], in an assault on the Autobots after they had been duped by a bogus Optimus Prime under Shockwave's control. Ravage, the impostor Prime, and the other Decepticons made short work of the Autobots until the real Prime was restored. The Autobot commander turned the tide easily and Ravage and the other Decepticons were defeated. {{storylink|Prime Time!}}

''While eavesdropping on the Autobots' arguments over whether or not to use the [[Matrix of Leadership|Creation Matrix]] to build an army of powerful superwarriors, Ravage's presence aboard the Ark was detected. The Decepticon spy made a run for it, but was caught in a web by Mirage and [[Hound (G1)|Hound]]. Ravage, however, is nearly impossible to kept locked up, and so he was able to quickly escape. Optimus Prime ordered Bumblebee to track him down, but Ravage's capture was part of a larger scheme, and he led Bumblebee right into a trap.'' {{storylink|Crisis of Command!}}

[[File:Laserbeakravageirobotmaster.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Ravage loves to play peek-a-boo.]]
While sitting in their [[alternate mode]]s inside a [[Portland]], [[Oregon]], electronics store, Soundwave, Ravage, and Laserbeak awaited news of Megatron's location during their former leader's disappearance. After his fuel-deprived body froze in nearby [[Wyoming base|mining pit]] in the [[Powder River Basin]], they left the store and brought fuel to Megatron. Here they successfully fought the American military and found a new ally, [[Donny Finkleberg]], who claimed to control the Transformers as the supervillain Robot-Master. {{storylink|I, Robot-Master!}}

''Ravage was given the task of being Finkleberg's "minder." He kept an eye on the fabricated supervillain even while "Robot-Master's" film crew captured a battle between Shockwave and Megatron for Decepticon leadership.'' {{storylink|Second Generation!}} Retaking command, Megatron re-established his Decepticons in the basin, at the protests of Shockwave, while Ravage continued to watching over Finkleberg. However, during a sudden Autobot attack, Ravage was distracted and Finkleberg was able to escape. {{storylink|Command Performances!}}

[[File:Showdown-RavageSkids.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"Nothing can sway him except, of course, rubbing him just in the right spot on his tummy-tum."]]
Ravage relentlessly tracked the human's scent across the [[Pacific Northwest]] towards [[Wyoming]], despite Finkleberg's discarding of most of his smell by exchanging clothes. At this point, Ravage had apparently given up on returning Finkleberg to the Decepticons alive, and had begun shooting to kill. This change in protocol resulted in a melted campsite where Finkleberg had abandoned his clothes, but little else. Days later, Ravage tracked the human down in Wyoming, where he was protected by the Autobot named [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] and the Autobot's human companion [[Charlene (cowgirl)|Charlene]]. Ravage chased the trio through a small downtown area where he subdued Skids. Skids (and Finkleberg, by extension) was rescued by an unlikely hero, [[Jake Dalrymple]], when Jake rammed his sports car into Ravage, toppling the Decepticon momentarily. After a protracted battle with Skids, Ravage was sent tumbling down a mine shaft and rendered inoperative on impact. {{storylink|Showdown!}}

At the Decepticons' [[Club Con|base in the Florida Keys]], Ravage tried to cheer up a down-in-the-dumps Megatron with some words of encouragement, but Megatron was too preoccupied to listen. {{storylink|Power Struggle}} Later, he informed Shockwave of [[Cobra]]'s arrival. {{storylink|Ashes, Ashes...}} Though the Decepticons and Cobra were allies for a time, the humans joined forces against the Autobots to stop a Decepticon ploy that would have destroyed the Earth. When a joint attack of Autobots, Cobra and G.I. Joe troops attacked the Decepticon base, Ravage stayed by Shockwave's side at his command post while the battle unfolded. {{storylink|...All Fall Down!}}

''Three years later, Ravage was awakened by a series of earth tremors, set off by the time storm raging throughout the universe. Finding much had changed since his deactivation, Ravage stumbled into the underground bunker of none other than [[Straxus (G1)|"Megatron"]] and [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]. Initially siding with his old leader(s?), during a battle with the [[Wrecker]]s, Ravage was surprised to learn that the presence of Galvatron and Scourge in the present was the source of the time storm. Though he was blasted by [[Carnivac (G1)|Carnivac]] (who had temporarily teamed up with the Wreckers), Ravage abandoned the battle and sought out the reclusive Shockwave. Shockwave was nearly catatonic over the irrationality of the time paradox that threatened to destroy them all, but Ravage managed to use logic to convince his former leader to come to his senses. At Ravage's suggestion, Shockwave gave up the body of [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]], tossing it into the timestorm, which ended the threat to the present and future.'' {{storylink|Time Wars}}

[[File:Megatrong1marveltwomegatrons.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|A common lament.]]
''In the aftermath, he hooked up with Megatron and they [[Decepticon heavy transport|returned]] to Cybertron to seek new fortunes. In the Decepticon capital city of [[Helex (polity)|Helex]], though, they found Autobots wandering around unmolested, and the area free of Decepticon supervision. After deposing the inadequate [[Triumvirate]], Megatron established a new beachhead for his conquests, with Ravage by his side.'' {{storylink|The Fall and Rise of the Decepticon Empire.}} ''Before long, though, Ravage's Megatron was destroyed by the original Megatron, who revealed that the Megatron from Time Wars was a reconstruction of Lord [[Straxus (G1)|Straxus]].'' {{storylink|Two Megatrons!}}

[[File:Weirdwolfthevoid.jpg|upright=0.6|thumb|Close your mouth, Ravage.]]
Ravage eventually resurfaced on Earth, working with Starscream and Shockwave in an auxiliary Decepticon army, planning to overthrow then-leader [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]. After recruiting more of Scorponok's disgruntled soldiers, including [[Triggerhappy]] and [[Mindwipe (G1)|Mindwipe]], {{storylink|Eye of the Storm}} Ravage returned with his fellow insurgents to an [[Nemesis (G1)|underwater headquarters]] to plan their attack. As Scorponok began to forge a very unpopular alliance with the Autobots due to the threat of [[Unicron]]'s coming, Ravage and the other Decepticon insurgents attacked the Decepticon base in [[New Jersey (Earth)|New Jersey]]. {{storylink|Surrender!}} Scorponok survived, and as he emerged from the wreckage, he swatted Ravage aside easily. {{storylink|...All This and Civil War 2}}

Their coup was interrupted when [[Primus]] summoned all the Transformers of Earth to Cybertron to do battle with Unicron. {{storylink|Out of Time!}} Ravage and the other teleported Transformers witnessed Primus, speaking through the body of [[Emirate]] [[Xaaron]], tell the history of their supernatural war with the Dark God. {{storylink|The Void! (US)|The Void!}} Ravage was last seen fleeing, along with several others, immediately after Unicron's approach. {{storylink|On the Edge of Extinction!}}
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=====Marvel UK future timelines=====
In [[2003]], Ravage was on a routine mission to infiltrate the Ark when he came across [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]'s huge new plans for a transforming fortress known as [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City: Earth]]. Upon hearing that [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] would be transporting a simulation tape of the City's blueprints to all the human leaders of Earth, Ravage skittered off to inform his [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticon]] comrades so that they could intercept the information in transit. {{storylink|Ark Duty}}

Five years later, Ravage was seen on the field of battle with Soundwave, when the Decepticon commander desperately radioed the Autobots for assistance against their [[Quintesson]] attackers. {{storylink|Space Pirates!}}

=====Earthforce=====
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[[File:Ravage uk258.png|left|100px|thumb|Imagine a plate of spaghetti in front of him here.]]
Ravage was seen when an alternate-reality [[Galvatron II|Galvatron]] probed [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]'s mind. Wheeljack remembered running into Ravage at [[Blackrock Aerospace Assembly Plant Number One]], following the [[Dinobot Hunt!|Dinobot hunt]], where Wheeljack was looking for the technology used to make [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] so he could repair the injured Autobots. Ravage and Wheeljack made a deal: In return for the technology, Wheeljack would use Ravage's [[neuro-control helmet]] to brainwash Jetfire into returning to the Decepticons. Despite not trusting Jetfire, Wheeljack backed out at the last minute. Good job too, as he later found out Ravage had destroyed the factory, meaning he'd almost betrayed his comrade for no end result. {{storylink|...Perchance to Dream}}

Ravage remained on the side of Shockwave and Starscream during the [[Decepticon Civil War]], fighting against his longtime commanders, Megatron and Soundwave. During a fight with the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]], Ravage was faced off against [[Slag (G1)|Slag]]. Not... exactly... equal. Poor kitty ended up taking the horns to the hind quarters before the Decepticons retreated. {{storylink|Two Steps Back!}}

Ravage was seen at the [[Enclave]], when the two Decepticon factions met to discuss peace and common goals. Someone brought him a saucer of milk. Awwwwwww. {{storylink|The Bad Guy's Ball!}}

Sometime later, the Decepticon factions managed to combine under the joint leadership of Soundwave and Starscream. Ravage began operating out of Soundwave's chest compartment again, just like old times. {{storylink|Divide and Conquer!}}
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{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Shooting Star!}} {{storylink|The Smelting Pool!}} {{storylink|The Bridge to Nowhere!}} {{storylink|Cold Comfort and Joy!}} {{storylink|Mind Games}} {{storylink|Plague of the Insecticons!}} {{storylink|Hunted!}} {{storylink|Victory!}}}}

====''Classics''====
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[[File:CrossingOver4-LaserbeakRavage.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.66|Quick, Laserbeak, let's remind them that we talk in this universe.]]
Fifteen years after the battle on [[Klo]], [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] resurfaced on [[Earth]], and the loyal Ravage joined his former leader. Ravage participated in a battle in [[South America]] where a strange anomaly had been detected. Megatron had Soundwave send Ravage and [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] after [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]], [[Landquake (Timelines)|Landquake]], and [[Skyfall (Cybertron)|Skyfall]]. All of them disappeared in a sinkhole, where they awoke to find a strange underground chamber. Ravage and Laserbeak attacked, though while Laserbeak was hit and sank into a strange pool, Ravage was able to escape the overwhelming odds.
{{storylink|Crossing Over: Part 4}}

Some time after this, while Ravage was patrolling their [[Ark (G1)|new base of operations]], he realized he was being scouted by [[Elita One]]. Though he was able to counter both her repartee and her [[Circuit-Su]], he was eventually blinded by the color-change properties of her skin and taken out of commission. {{storylink|Games of Deception}}

[[File:Recordicons10-RavageRavage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|And the winner is--'''Ravage!''' But which one?]]
Ravage was among the Decepticons on Earth when the planet was dragged into a negative universe. Disgusted by the existence of his [[Ravage (SG)|negative universe counterpart]], Ravage hunted down his doppelganger with the intention of removing his opposite from existence. When the other Ravage asked for a timeout to update [[Yatter]], Ravage turned him down and was met with a savage attack in response. {{storylink|Recordicons#Recordicons #10|Recordicons #10}} Ravage became convinced that Megatron had arrived on the ''Shattered Glass'' Earth, but in the past where the Decepticon leader had [[Beast Wars Shattered Glass|fought beasts and been rebuilt into a massive kaiju]]. Laserbeak and [[Buzzsaw (G1)|Buzzsaw]] assumed he'd gone nuts. {{storylink|Recordicons#Recordicons #24|Recordicons #24}}
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====''Regeneration One''====
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[[File:Ravage starscream shockwave war to end all wars.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|left]]
Ravage was present on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] when the [[Matrix of Leadership|Dark Matrix creature]] attacked the population and converted most of the Transformers into [[shadow-leech]]es. Thanks to his powers of stealth Ravage was able to escape this treatment but ultimately found himself cornered by a shadow leech comprising the remains of his former allies [[Soundwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Soundwave]], [[Overkill (G1)|Overkill]], [[Howlback (G1)|Howlback]], [[Slugfest (G1)|Slugfest]], [[Squawktalk (G1)|Squawktalk]], [[Beastbox (G1)|Beastbox]] and [[Wingthing (G1)|Wingthing]]. Just in the nick of time he was rescued by [[Shockwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Shockwave]] and [[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]] aboard the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]]. {{storylink|King of Shadows}} Subsequently, the three of them renounced their Decepticon ways and left Cybertron to travel the galaxy as ambassadors of peace. {{storylink|The War to End All Wars, Part 5}}
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===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Frank Welker]] (English), [[Yū Shimaka|Yutaka Shimaka]] (Japanese, "More Than Meets the Eye, Part 3")|[[Roberto Alexander]] (American Spanish, when speaking)}}

[[File:Ravageg1.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Ravage reveals his slef [sic] to humans.]]
One of the original team of Decepticons that accompanied [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] on the attack of the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] spacecraft, Ravage was reformatted by [[Teletraan I (G1)|Teletraan I]] as an audiocassette to better blend in for operations based on Earth. Ravage served loyally as a Decepticon spy. He was one of the first Transformers to have been encountered by a human, as [[Joe (MTMTE)|workers]] investigating a destroyed power station fell afoul of Ravage who pounced upon them and frightened them away. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 1}}

Shortly thereafter, Ravage accompanied [[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]] on an infiltration mission to gather data from Teletraan I. Though Soundwave was discovered, Ravage was captured in an energy net and held captive. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 2}} The Decepticon spy figured into a disinformation plot hatched by the Autobots, who purposely leaked the presence of a rocket fuel depository in the outlying desert. In truth, there was no rocket base—Autobot [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] projected a holographic illusion in the hopes of luring the Decepticons into a trap. The Autobots allowed Ravage to escape and report back to Megatron, who easily saw through the ruse. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 3}}

[[File:DivideAndConquer Ravage pins Spike.jpg|left|upright=1.2|thumb| Look Ravage, I don't swing that way!]]
When [[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]] and [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] tried to escape after being forced to take part in the Decepticon [[space bridge]] experiments, Soundwave sent Ravage after them. Ravage prevented Bumblebee from coming to Spike's aid when the lad tripped. During a fight in a cave, [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] stopped Soundwave from ejecting Ravage again. Ravage later got to guard Spike as the Decepticons prepared for another attempt to use the space bridge. {{storylink|Transport to Oblivion (episode)|Transport to Oblivion}} Ravage briefly got the better of [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]], until he was thrown off, and [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] blasted him, resulting in Soundwave soundly zapping Prowl in retaliation. The Decepticons retreated after [[Chip Chase]] lent a hand to the Autobots. Ravage was soon employed again, to kidnap Chip right out of his home. {{storylink|Roll for It}}

After [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] was badly injured and lay dying in Autobot Headquarters, Ravage took part in an all-out attack, being ejected to attack Spike. He had the boy pinned, until Bumblebee chased him off with especially bright headlights. {{storylink|Divide and Conquer}} After Autobots were found spying on a Decepticon operation in the [[Arctic]], Megatron sent Ravage to search for more intruders. He quickly found another group and pounced on [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]]. Optimus blasted him, and then Bumblebee caved the ice in on him. {{storylink|Fire in the Sky}}

[[File:SOSDinobots Ravage window.jpg|upright=1.5|thumb|HI! CAN I INTEREST YOU IN DOUBLE-GLAZING?]]
When the Decepticons attacked the [[Great Falls]], Ravage crashed through a window to stop a couple of humans radioing for help. {{storylink|S.O.S. Dinobots}} After Soundwave spotted Bumblebee, Spike and [[Luisa]] sneaking into an Incan temple through a secret passage, he sent Ravage in after them. The Decepticon caught up with his prey as they attempted to get [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]] online, and struggled with Bumblebee at length. Bumblebee kept him busy long enough for Spike to get Skyfire working, and the larger Autobot sent Ravage packing. {{storylink|Fire on the Mountain (episode)|Fire on the Mountain}}

Ravage took part in a special mission, helping [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] to distract the Autobots while Laserbeak kidnapped [[Sparkplug Witwicky]]. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 1}} During a battle after Cybertron was brought into Earth's orbit, Ravage boldly pounced on Optimus from behind. His victory was short-lived, as a falling tree limb caused him to come in contact with power lines, and he fled. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 2}} The Decepticons utilised Ravage's tracking skills in [[Bali]], and he led them to an escape pod that the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]]s had been using as a dwelling. Once the Decepticons caught up with the trio and took them to an oil refinery, Ravage took part in another battle against the Autobots. {{storylink|A Plague of Insecticons}}

[[File:RavagePet.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Prrrrrrrrrr]]
During Megatron's gladiatorial match with [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]], Ravage was let out to watch his master battle their nemesis. Soundwave also petted him. This would be cute if it wasn't creepy. {{storylink|Heavy Metal War}} Ravage and Laserbeak were utilised to round up a pair of gold miners, during another Decepticon plan. Ravage dragged his captive back by the pants leg. He was unleashed again during the battle at the [[Solar Needle]], and briefly got the better of Bumblebee until the Autobot kicked him off. {{storylink|Changing Gears}} He attacked Bumblebee again in a city, only retreating after Spike use jumper cables to deliver a nasty shock. Unbeknownst to the Autobots, he had planted a [[micro-bug]] on Bumblebee, allowing the Decepticons to learn of [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]'s latest invention, the [[Wheeljack Instant Immobilizer|Immobilizer]]. Megatron was very pleased. {{storylink|The Immobilizer}}

When a small group of Autobots came to the aid of their fellows, who'd fallen victim to Megatron's [[Transfixatron]], Soundwave sent Ravage to stop them using an [[anti-transfixation grenade]]. The jaguar pounced on Chip Chase, but was too late to prevent the boy from hurling the device, and the Autobots were freed from their paralysis. {{storylink|The Autobot Run}} When Soundwave sent Rumble and Ravage after Spike, Bumblebee and Wheeljack in [[Sub-Atlantica]], the pair instead discovered that [[Nergill]] intended to blow them all up. They made a token effort to stop him before fleeing. {{storylink|Atlantis, Arise!}} Ravage took part in another ambush, during which things went sour when the Autobots used [[dominator disc]]s to take control of [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]]. {{storylink|The Core}}

[[File:DinobotIsland1 Ravage listens.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|To me, my X-Men!]]
While Soundwave and Ravage were spying on the Autobots, they learned of the existence of [[Dinobot Island (G1)|Dinobot Island]], and Soundwave dispatched Laserbeak to investigate further. {{storylink|Dinobot Island, Part 1}} Ravage and the other cassettes attack an Autobot bunker, aiming to steal the [[Negavator]]. Despite briefly taking control of the device, the Autobot forces overwhelmed them, and they were forced to retreat. {{storylink|Auto Berserk}} During one of the Decepticons' many trips to South America, Ravage got to meet up with a real jaguar. Despite his resemblance, the non-robotic jaguar did not take kindly to Ravage's presence and engaged him in a "cat-fight". Ravage used his rocket boosters to scare away his living look-alike. {{storylink|Microbots}}

[[File:MMP2 Ravage with girl.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.34|Oh, no! My master told me never to allow my dinner to touch me!]]
During Megatron's attempt to convince the humans that the Decepticons were good and the Autobots were evil, Ravage was dispatched to track down [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] when the human searched for evidence that would exonerate the Autobots. Cornering the flesh creature in a studio control room, Ravage had a door closed on him, was electrocuted by a control panel, and had a shelf filled with video cassettes pushed onto him. {{storylink|Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1}} To make Ravage feel better, Soundwave took Ravage along with the other cassettes to a teen dance party, where Ravage was a big hit with the ladies. {{storylink|Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2}}

During another mission, Ravage ejected from Soundwave, but before he could jump out of the back of [[Ironhide (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ironhide]], [[Blaster (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Blaster]] grabbed him by the tail. While he and Blaster struggled, Soundwave wandered off to report to Megatron. Eventually Ironhide noticed the fight going on inside him and transformed, ejecting both combatants. Some time later, Ravage spontaneously ejected from Soundwave and began sniffing around on the ground, the first sign of a [[Cybertonium]] depletion that would affect all of the Transformers. During a subsequent fight with the Autobots, Ravage pounced on Optimus Prime, only for a malfunction to cause him to revert to his cassette mode. Optimus was highly amused and dropped him in one of the many metal barrels lying around. {{storylink|Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1}}

[[File:DecepticonRaider Ravage tugs at Rumble.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|"Hey, I'm not dead yet! Stop gnawing on me!"]]
Ravage led a group of Decepticons into the [[Dragon Mound]], and through a portal to 543 A.D. [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] immediately had them teamed up with Sir [[Wigend of Blackthorne]]. Ravage was sent after a spying [[Nimue]], but fell afoul of [[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]] and was forced to retreat without his prize. The Decepticons set about trying to discover the means to generate energy, resulting in a series of events which led to Blackthorne's castle being stormed by Warpath, [[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]] and Blackthorne's enemies. Ravage attacked Spike when the boy attempted to rescue Nimue, but was chased off by [[Solomon|an annoying bird]]. In the aftermath of the battle, Ravage attempted to pull Rumble out of the rubble. The Decepticons were taken prisoner and forced to return through the Dragon Mound back to present day, where they were reunited with Megatron. {{storylink|A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court (episode)|A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court}} During a mission in [[New York City]], Ravage and Rumble briefly pursued [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] and [[Raoul]]. They caught up with their quarry, but more Autobots arrived and, after struggling with [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]], Ravage fled. {{storylink|Make Tracks}}

[[File:G1 cartoon Ravage wheel running.JPG|left|upright=1.3|thumb|There are so many things wrong with this.]]
Some time later, Ravage, along with Starscream, [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]], and Soundwave, was transported to a [[Brobdingnag|planet with massive inhabitants]], along with a group of Autobots, in a space bridge accident. The first creature they encountered, [[Aron (G1)|Aron]], thought the Decepticons were toys. Ravage attempted to escape, but Aron's cat [[Nitro]] chased after Ravage like a mouse (how embarrassing). Aron put him with his pet hamster, [[Booper]], in his cage. Instead of immediately asserting his dominance by killing the beast, Ravage went and ran on the creature's exercise wheel. When captured by scientists, they attempted to dissect the Transformers, but Ravage was able to pick his locks and free the Decepticons, who hijacked the Autobots light beam to head back to Earth... and landed in a lake filled with alligators. That was a very bad day for Ravage. {{storylink|Child's Play (episode)|Child's Play}} When the Decepticons needed to obtain the [[Key to Vector Sigma]], Soundwave sicked Ravage on [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]]. {{storylink|The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1}}

[[File:RavageRatbat.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|The Bat The Cat The Pen-Oh, nevermind.]]
Ravage was still present with the Decepticons in 2005, During the [[Battle of Autobot City]], he was dispatched along with Rumble, Frenzy, and Ratbat to take out Blaster's communication tower and instead were pitted against his own cassette Autobots. After the battle, Ravage helped fight for Soundwave's bid for leadership of the Decepticons. {{storylink|The Transformers: The Movie}}
{{note|Ravage’s involvement in these events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the comic mini-series “[[Transformers: The Animated Movie]]” and the storybook “[[Transformers the Movie (Ladybird adaptation)|Transformers the Movie]]."}}

Ravage was still with the Decepticons after they were exiled to [[Chaar]]. One of his more notable adventures was when he, along with several other "[[primitive]]" Transformers, were summoned to fight [[Tornedron]]. Although Ravage was defeated by the energy monster, he and all the other drained transformers were restored back to normal thanks to the efforts of [[Grimlock (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Grimlock]]. {{storylink|Call of the Primitives}}
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====Japanese cartoon continuity====
=====''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' manga=====
While the other Decepticons fought many Autobots elsewhere, [[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]] and his Cassettrons took the time to ambush [[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]] and [[Kenji]] when they were on patrol in [[Japan]]. Ravage attacked first, only to be pushed aside by a rescuing [[Powerglide (G1)|Powerglide]]. Seizing the opportunity, Bumblebee ran off to hide and the Cassettrons were sent to uncover him. During their search, they ran into [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] and [[Ironhide (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ironhide]]. They attempted to retreat into Soundwave's chest, only to find it trashed from Bumblebee's sneak attack, allowing Cliffjumper to capture the Cassettrons. Kenji reported to [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] of their success against the Decepticons. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 2|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #2}}

=====''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' story pages=====
Ravage was one of the Decepticons who attacked New York City early in their conflict with the Autobots on Earth. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (story page)#Part 1|Broadcasting on TV! Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers}}

=====Scramble City: Mobilization=====
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=====Full Throttle Scramble Power!=====
The Decepticons constructed a new weapon to pursue their energy-plundering campaign on Earth, the [[Omega Whip]]. Though the Decepticons put the device to good use, it was destroyed when [[Jenny (G1)|Jenny]], a captive of the Decepticons, managed to reprogram Starscream into blowing up the Omega Whip's controls. The girl then attempted to flee alongside her fellow captives [[Toru]] and [[Hound (G1)|Hound]]. To bar their path, Soundwave sent out Ravage. No sooner had Ravage transformed that he was blasted away by [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]], part of a team of Autobots arriving on the scene as reinforcements. {{storylink|Full Throttle Scramble Power!}}

=====''Story of Binaltech''=====
At some point in time after [[1985]], but before [[2005]], Ravage was captured by the [[Earth Defense Command|EDC]] and kept as a prisoner. He was then kept stasis-locked in [[alternate mode|cassette mode]] inserted in his future/past self's tape deck, in order to provide his body with a "[[Spark|Life Essence Nucleus]]", as part of the [[Intelligence and Information Institute|III]]'s "[[X-9 Revival Plan]]". The Ravage of the present remained unaware of his time-tossed doppelganger. {{storylink|Ghosts of the Past}}

=====Controverse=====
At the trial of [[Primacron]], Ravage and the Decepticons crashed the proceedings after the verdict was rendered. Unfortunately, Primacron broke free and used a whistle to take control of all the Primitives in range, including Laserbeak, Ravage, the Autobot [[Stripes]], and the [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticon]]s. {{storylink|Controverse}}

=====''The Headmasters'' cartoon=====
{{voiceactor|[[Masashi Ebara]] (Japanese)|[[Roberto Alexander]] (American Spanish)}}

Ravage and [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]] joined Soundwave in infiltrating the Autobots' base, but they were discovered by [[Blaster (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Blaster]]. A brief battle between cassettes and communicators occurred, but it was only a taste of what was to come. Hours later in the Arctic, Soundwave and Blaster killed each other in mortal combat. {{storylink|The Mystery of Planet Master}} Ravage stood by with the rest of the cassettes as Soundwave was brought back on-line as Soundblaster. {{storylink|The Great Cassette Operation}} The Decepticon spies later infiltrated Cybertron's defenses and observed [[Vector Sigma]]'s work on the new super-metal, [[Cybertonuron]]. {{storylink|Cybertron Is in Grave Danger, Part 1}}

Following [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]'s takeover of the Decepticons, Ravage and the others were present with Soundblaster when Scorponok revealed his massive new [[Transtector]], [[Scorponok (G1)|MegaZarak]]. They also fought with Twincast who had snuck onto [[Chaar]] to spy on them. {{storylink|Explosion on Mars!! MegaZarak Appears}} Ravage and Laserbeak were seen spying on [[Punch (G1)|Counterpunch]], lamenting on how HE was bringing the good intel to Scorponok these days. After returning to Soundblaster, they all vowed to be better spies from then on. {{storylink|Return of the Immortal Emperor}} On the planet [[Master (planet)|Master]], Ravage and the cassettes stood guard over Scorponok's cavern base. {{storylink|Operation: Destroy the Decepticons}}

=====''The Headmasters'' manga=====
After Soundblaster crash-landed following his encounter with [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]]'s "Master Chrome Hurricane-Throw to the End of Hell" attack, Ravage and the other animal cassettes (minus [[Slugfest (G1)|Slugfest]] and [[Overkill (G1)|Overkill]]) stood stoically over his groggy form while [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] and [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] looked panicky. {{storylink|The Headmasters issue 8|The Headmasters #8}}

=====''15 Go! Go!''=====
[[File:TGGRavage.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|It's a mystery!]]
After a mystery assailant badly damaged [[Teletraan I (G1)|Teletraan I]], destroying vital data, the thinly-disguised (actually not-at-all-disguised) "Kurohyō Man" ("Black Panther Man") stationed on the artificial Earth satellite [[Nana]] ordered the mobile computers [[Teletraan 10]] and [[Teletraan 15]] to travel through time collecting data on Transformers of the past and future. {{Storylink|Information Administration Teletraan 15 Go! Go! Volume 1|15 Go! Go! Volume 1}}

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In this position, he recognized [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] when his ghost came to possess 15. {{Storylink|Starscream? Volume}} {{storylink|Starscream? Volume 2}}

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Although his plan was indeed to repair Teletraan I's databanks, Ravage had his own intentions for the information. He had traveled back from the future to the year 2005 in an attempt to use the "bio and tech specs" data stored inside the computer to manipulate the future and create a timeline free of "unnecessary conflict". When he was foiled by the unknown saboteur, he infiltrated the Autobots as Kurohyō Man and created the Information Control Center on Nana in order to control the recovery effort.

The bumbling Teletraan 15 (and eventually Teletraan 10 as well) resisted, escaping back in time using Ravage's Transwarp cruiser and becoming the very saboteur that caused her mission to begin. {{storylink|10 Volume}} Though annoyed that his scheme had been thwarted, Ravage expressed pride in the independence of his underlings and graciously ejected them into space—a survivable situation for the pair and their [[Kiss Player]] cassette friends. {{storylink|15 Volume: The Last Part}}
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=====''Beast Wars Metals'' cartoon=====
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=====''Story of Binaltech''=====
[[File:BinaltechRavageBoxart.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|Save me from this mockery of chronology!]]
The Government-run [[Intelligence and Information Institute]] unearthed a mysterious capsule during an archaeological dig. After the dissolution of III and the obtaining of [[Transformer]] probing technology, former III staff found that the container, dubbed "[[Schrödinger's Box]]", was the flight recorder of the Predacon Ravage's stealth ship, containing [[Central Consciousness File X-9]], a copy of the feline's personality and memory engrams deposited into his vessel before his final blaze of glory. When the scientists found a way to communicate with this personality, it offered them its knowledge of future events in exchange for a new body. III agreed, and used a fake [[Binaltech]] project (internally termed the [[X-9 Revival Plan]] and filled under the pretense of "technological synthesis tests") to provide their part of the bargain. However, to truly bring the new Ravage to life, III stole the present-day Ravage—who had been captured by the [[Earth Defense Command]] and stasis-locked into his cassette mode—and implanted him into the new Ravage, thereby 'fusing' the old and new Ravages into one. This new Ravage, however, had no intention of fulfilling his end of the bargain and, after eliminating his benefactors and learning to his shock that history did not change in his faction's favor, decided to rectify his mistake. {{storylink|Ghosts of the Past}}

First on his agenda was his former commander, Megatron; stealing an Autobot shuttle, he located and repaired the [[Kronosphere]] and—during a decisive battle between Megatron's and Optimus Prime's forces that would have normally ended with the Autobots being forced off of Cybertron and into their moon bases—turned the weapon on his own faction, trapping Megatron and his crew in a space-time rift. This alteration in the timeline served two purposes: first, it would give the Autobots the chance to retake Cybertron, which would then lead to them having to face off against the oncoming [[Unicron]] alone, severely weakening them in the process. The second, and more important, purpose was to keep Megatron alive and in good mental health (relatively speaking), thus preventing him from becoming the insane [[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]], and allowing him to lead the Decepticons to victory over the battle-weary Autobots. Ravage also [[Transmuter (Binaltech)|Transmuted]] [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] into a new Binaltech body of his own, so he could lead the remaining Decepticons in Megatron's absence, {{Storylink|Changing Lanes}} and secretly derailed many of the Autobots' supply missions, further weakening them for their battle with the Chaos Bringer.

Unfortunately for him, the Autobot named [[Overdrive]] became aware of Ravage's meddling in history, thanks to his acute sensitivity of the timestream, {{storylink|Reality Check}} and—with the help of [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]—captured the wayward Decepticon and forced a confession out of him. Ravage, however, was not without a trump card, revealing that his alterations might prevent the deaths of many of the Autobots destined to die in the normal timeline {{storylink|Project Bodyshop}} (which, as a distinction between the two, was dubbed 'Prime Time' by Wheeljack, Ravage's altered timeline being called 'Ravage Time'), though in the grand scheme of things, only Optimus could not be considered expendable, as he contained the one thing that could bring down Unicron (the [[Autobot]] [[Matrix of Leadership]]). By the time of his capture, however, Unicron had already been sighted on a collision course with Cybertron and, despite the temptation of preventing future deaths among his ranks, Optimus decided Ravage's plans to be too dangerous to allow to come to fruition. To that end, he roped [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]] into helping him fly to Unicron in a preemptive strike against the monstrous threat, while the other Autobots (left in the command of [[Skids (G1)|Skids]]), were to initiate "[[Operation: Distant Thunder]]", which involved sending a copy of Wheeljack's memories of what Ravage confessed to them, back in time to a point prior to the Decepticon panther's meddling, via the energies located on [[Dinobot Island (G1)|Dinobot Island]]. {{storylink|Darkest Hour (prose)|Darkest Hour}} If "Operation: Distant Thunder" worked as planned, Ravage's plans would be foiled, and any tremors in the timeline he caused would be smoothed over by "Project Body Shop" (aka, the Binaltech project). However, just as Skids gave the signal to transmit the memory engrams, the Autobot base was rocked by an entire fleet of Decepticons. The Autobots just barely managed to hold off the fleet, ensuring that "Operation: Distant Thunder" was a success (though a [[Optimus Primal|protector]] ended up separating the Binaltech timeline from the original, as supposedly the Binaltech-bodied Transformers have a higher purpose in the grand scheme of things). {{storylink|Binal Time}}

====''Wings Universe''====
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Ravage was part of the second group of [[Decepticon Mini-Cassette|Recordicons]] created along with Buzzsaw, following the original Laserbeak. He was altered from a normal Cybertronic [[Cougaraider]] to a full [[Transformer]] capable of changing into a standard [[Datatrax wafer]]. {{storylink|The Transformers Menagerie#Part 1|The Transformers Menagerie Part 1: Cassette Technology}}

====''Mars Attacks: The Transformers''====
Ravage was among the Decepticons who found themselves in the middle of a [[Martian]] invasion after suffering a loss at the hands of the Autobots. {{storylink|Mars Attacks: The Transformers}}

===Deadly Paradise===
[[File:DeadlyParadise-RavageattacksProwl.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.3]]
Ravage was stationed on [[Carob Island]], where the Decepticons had set up a mining an construction operation. Using a rare ore from the island, the Decepticons were building duplicate Autobots loyal only to Megatron. Ravage acted as a go-between the Decepticons and Madame [[Cee]], a human who's expertise and tinkering in mechanics were crucial in building the clones. Upon one of his visits to Madame Cee's workshop, Ravage came upon Madame Cee talking to the Autobot Prowl. Ravage attempted to attack Prowl, but Prowl evaded him and locked Ravage in a room. {{storylink|Deadly Paradise}}
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===Sticker Adventures books===
Under Megatron’s orders, Ravage snuck into the Autobots’ headquarters and stole all of their fuel. It wasn’t easy, but once the deed done, Ravage assured Megatron that the Autobots were as defenceless as Earth kittens. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons}}

===Marvel colouring books===
[[File:Decepticon patrol ravage.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Either Ravage is really big or that's a tiny elephant]]
Ravage is super-sneaky. He used the cover of an iceberg to board the Autobots' ship and tried to pounce on [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] and [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]], only to discover he'd fallen foul of a hologram. Outnumbered by the alerted Autobots, he fled the ship. During a later battle, he and the other Decepticons became accidental victims of [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]]'s earthquake. {{storylink|Search for Treasure Under the Sea}} Ravage was once successful in defeating [[Roller (G1)|Roller]]. [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] trapped him in a [[force field]] with [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] and Rumble. {{storylink|Bumblebee to the Rescue!}}

Searching for a factory suitable for manufacturing troops, Ravage looked in a jungle fruitlessly. When they eventually found a factory, Ravage realized it was an Autobot trick, and pounced on [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] who was providing the hologram. Mirage retaliated by throwing electric balls at Ravage. {{storylink|Decepticon Patrol}} Ravage was among the Decepticons who attacked [[Hoover Dam]], but were driven off by the Autobots. {{storylink|The Deadly Fuel Shortage}}

Ravage's spying alerted the Decepticons to a space communicator possessed by the Autobots, which allowed the Decepticons to send a fake message so they could take over the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]]. {{storylink|A Message From Outer Space}} Like [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], Ravage loved to follow Megatron's orders. When the Autobots interrupted the Decepticons in the process of tearing up a forest, Ravage leaped at [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] only to completely miss and go plunging off a cliff. {{storylink|Forest Rescue Mission}}

When [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] found a junk yard with a car compactor, Ravage came up with a cunning plan to lure the Autobots into it by disguising it as an [[Autobot Rest Stop]]. They compacted [[Gears (G1)|Gears]], but then the rest of the Autobots turned up, and [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] paralyzed Ravage with a cloud of dust. {{storylink|The Autobot Smasher!}}

{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|The Big Book of Coloring Fun}} {{storylink|The Autobot Spy in the Sky}} {{storylink|The Invasion of the Decepticon Camp}}}}

===Transformers Pop-Up Book===
Ravage was one of the Decepticons to participate in the battle at [[Castle Decepticon]]. He pounced out of Starscream's cockpit to attack Ultra Magnus. {{Storylink|Transformers Pop-Up Book}}

===''Big Looker'' storybooks===
Ravage was among the Decepticons who tried to steal an oil truck from near the Autobots' base. {{storylink|Decepticon Hijack}}

===Dinobot War===
[[File:Time sphere dinobot war.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Disco inferno!]]
Skulking around [[Disneyland]], Ravage hid himself inside a Walkman so that [[you]] would carry him inside [[Wizard's Cave|The Wizard's Cave]] attraction where workmen had uncovered a buried UFO. After you activated a [[time-sphere]], Ravage and Laserbeak were transported four million years back in time, where they planned to locate the crashed Ark and destroy the Autobots within. After a few battles with the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]], the two cassettes located the site of the flying saucer, intending to take the [[time-travelling alien]]s' advanced technology. {{storylink|Dinobot War}}
{{note|As "Dinobot War" is a [[multipath adventure]], there are multiple outcomes for Ravage:}}
*One of the aliens transported him and Laserbeak to times and places unknown.
*You transported him and Laserbeak back to the present day and they slunk away, or were lost in the time-stream.
There are also several endings where Ravage kills you. Presumably he and Laserbeak then go on to carry out their plan and the Decepticons ultimately conquer the Earth.
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===Ladybird Books continuity===
[[File:AutobotsFightBack Ravage hunting.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1]]
When the Decepticons were hit by a surge of power from a lightning collector built by the Autobots, they all began malfunctioning. Ravage spontaneously ejected from [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] and attacked [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], who batted him aside. Soundwave picked up the stricken "mechanical hound" as the Decepticons retreated. {{storylink|Autobots' Lightning Strike}}

On another occasion, the Decepticons spotted [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] spying on them and send Ravage after him. Ravage pursued the small Autobot, managing to fire off one of his missiles before Bumblebee used his sensitivity to bright light against him. After recovering from the eye-full of headlights, Ravage found Bumblebee had gone, but the cassette stumbled on a cave that would be perfect for testing the ion-drive for the space cruiser they were building. The news somewhat defused Megatron's temper at the escape of Bumblebee, and Ravage led the other Decepticons to his find. Ultimately, the Autobots got wind of the test and launched an attack, resulting in the ion-drive exploding and the tunnel collapsing on the Decepticons. {{storylink|Autobots Fight Back}}
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===Listen 'n Fun audiobooks continuity===
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Ravage followed [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]], and when the Autobot tried to abduct Doctor [[Heath Blaisedale]], Ravage decided to capture her for the Decepticons instead. After jumping onto Cliffjumper's hood in panther mode, he transformed to [[robot mode]](?!) and tried to grab the doctor, only for Cliffjumper to [[glass gas]] his right arm. The Autobot made off with Blaisedale, leaving Ravage in the dust, but the Decepticon notified Megatron who made alternate arrangements. When later the Decepticons wanted to attack the solar plant, Ravage successfully kidnapped Blaisedale as a diversion. He and the other Decepticon guards later fled when the Autobots came to rescue her. {{storylink|Sun Raid (Listen 'n Fun)}}

===The Battle for Planet Earth===
Ravage spied on [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] and a bunch of Autobots in the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] and reported to Megatron. He was on Megatron's team as they tracked [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] to [[South America]] and attempted to seize [[Mount Sheelah]]. Unfortunately the volcano blew up in their faces, trapping them with lava. {{storylink|Terror of Mount Sheelah}} Ravage was hanging out at the Decepticon fortress when [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] stole the Decepticons' [[global crystal]], but didn't detect the scout until it was too late. {{storylink|Bumblebee to the Rescue (G1)|Bumblebee to the Rescue}}

When [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] spotted a construction at [[Stanley Lake]], Ravage was the only Decepticon who knew his history well enough to recognize what a hydro electric station was, a method of generating power used on Cybertron "way way back in the mists of time." He accompanied Megatron to Stanley Lake on a fact-finding mission, and when the other Decpticons were washed away by a torrent thanks to the Autobots, Ravage alone escaped. He confronted [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]], only to be dazzled by the Autobot's [[sound and light show]] until the other Autobots arrived, and he had to retreat. {{storylink|Menace at the Dam}} Sore at all the defeats, the Decepticons discussed how to defeat the Autobots, and Ravage came up with the idea of infiltrating the Autobot ranks with a spy. This plan paid off when Starscream did so and reported on an Autobot [[Deuterium Orbital Laser Tracing System|super weapon]] being stored at [[Mount Levram]]. Of course, while the Decepticons were smashing Mount Levram, the Autobots demolished the Decepticon fortress, having gotten wise to Starscream and fooled him themselves. {{storylink|Espionage!!!!!}}

===Battle Beneath the Ice===
[[File:BBTI-Ravagetransforms.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|right]]
When human scientists discovered a mysterious city beneath the ice of the North Pole, they placed a call to Autobot City in order to get the Transformers' perspective on the discovery. The Decepticons also somehow learned of the city, and Ravage found a way to infiltrate it unnoticed. As he lurked, Ravage managed to record a conversation between one of the city-dwellers and the human Nyder, who were discussing stealing the warrior-factors from both the Autobots and Decepticons in order to encode it within themselves, thus turning their people into an army. He later came upon a group of humans as they were being given a tour of the city.

Making himself known, Ravage was threatened to leave at gunpoint by Hot Rod, who was accompanying the humans. Ravage assured him that if he had come as their enemy, he wouldn’t have let them see him. Ravage went on to explain that the Decepticons hadn’t shot down the humans’ plane, as the group had earlier been led to believe. One of the city-dwellers interrupted their conversation, and threatened to neutralize Ravage, pointing towards him a rod-like blaster. But Ravage was too quick for the city-dweller and pounced right for his throat. Before Ravage could reach him, Hot Rod discharged his photon lasers, and hit the city-dweller by accident. The city-dweller was revealed to be a robot, and Ravage played the conversation between Nyder and the [[Watcher]], the leader of the city-dwellers, he had previously recorded. Ravage and Hot Rod then forged a temporary alliance. Their group stumbled upon the city-dwellers analyzing a fight between Skydive and Vortex, programming themselves with the Autobots and Decepticons’ battle tactics. One of the young humans in the group, Jeff, asked Ravage to record the footage of the Gus Gopher Cartoon Show he had captured on his [[chronovid wristwatch]], and overwrite the city-dwellers’ computers with it. Ravage complied, noting that he liked this kind of sneaky plan.

Once the reprogramming was accomplished, and the city-dwellers began acting like cartoon characters, Ravage contacted the Combaticons above-ground and told them to cease fighting, and to follow the Aerialbots to the underground city. The city-dwellers defeated, the Decepticons honoured Ravage’s truce and left in Blast Off’s shuttle form peacefully. {{storylink|Battle Beneath the Ice}}

===Find Your Fate Junior===
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====Attack of the Insecticons====
Ravage alternatively spied on Decepticons of doubtful loyalty towards Megatron or prowled about Decepticon headquarters, keeping a lookout for intruders. He accomplished the first task in one possible adventure, where Shrapnel planned to overthrow Megatron with the use of an energy device called the Sun-Pak, and the later in another possible adventure where the Autobots attempted to retrieve the same device after it had been stolen by the Decepticons. {{storylink|Attack of the Insecticons}}

====Desert Flight====
Ravage was part of a Decepticon deployment stationed in a desert base. The Decepticons plotted to lure the Autobots in a trap through the use of an anti-gravity beam. Using the beam on a nearby human settlement, the Autobots would be duped into coming to the fleshliness’ rescue, only to be themselves trapped by the effects of the beam.

In the event that the Autobots used a trojan ruse to infiltrate the Decepticon base, and the Decepticons’ forcefield was disabled, Frenzy and Ravage tackled Powerglide after the later had burst into the Decepticons’ base, guns ablaze, only for the two Decepticons to crash into one another when Powerglide ducked.{{storylink|Desert Flight}}

====Decepticon Poison====
Ravage possessed an fighter jet alternate mode. He was also armed with [[proton bomb]]s. He was one of the many Decepticons who attempted to poison a water reservoir in order to turn the nearby human population into mindless slaves. Whether they succeeded or not depended on which choices the Autobots made. {{storylink|Decepticon Poison}}

====Autobot Alert!====
Ravage was stationed at the Decepticons’ command centre, working as a guard to make sure the Decepticons’ latest plan to conquer the Earth went smoothly. {{storylink|Autobot Alert!}}

====The Invisibility Factor====
In one possible scenario, Ravage accompanied Galvatron on a patrol in a desert at night. Upon spotting a spaceship that flickered in-and-out of sight, the patrol investigated. Finding the Autobots Kup and Hot Rod conversing with a woman at the ship’s landing site, Ravage and the others fired upon them, causing them to scramble away. Galvatron then ordered his troops to stay and scrutinize the spaceship instead of pursuing the Autobots.

If Hot Rod and Kup decided to attack immediately, the Autobots were easily defeated and destroyed by the Ravage and the other Decepticons.

If Hot Rod and Kup silently followed the Decepticons back to their hide-out in a nearby canyon, they managed to tricked Ravage and the others into thinking that they were being ambushed by a whole squadron of Autobots. Panicking, the Decepticons attempted to retaliate by firing in all directions. Amidst the confusion, Ravage began arguing with Thrust, both of them insisting that the Autobots were attacking from a different direction.

If Hot Rod snuck down and successfully snatched the Invisibility Device from Shockwave, the Decepticons gave chase to the young Autobot. They were unable to catch him before Kup fired down onto the canyon’s walls, causing it to collapse and burying the Decepticons under an avalanche of earth and rocks.

In an alternate scenario, Ravage and the other Decepticons decided to take off into space in Sarah Sander’s ship after acquiring the Invisibility Device. Whether the Decepticons succeeded in mastering the Invisibility Device and subsequently destroyed the Autobots, or were destroyed or defeated themselves depended on what choices the Autobots made from this point on.

In another possible scenario, Ravage and the other Decepticons happened upon Sarah Sanders’s ship before any Autobots had come in contact with her. While Scavenger held the woman captive, Ravage and the other Decepticons dragged the ship itself to a hidden location. In whichever scenario that followed, the Autobots managed to steal the Invisibility Device from the Decepticons, either dazzling Ravage and the others with their headlights while Hot Rod took the device right out of their hands, or tricking him and most of the other Decepticons into leaving the spaceship behind while they pursued the young Autobot on a wild goose chase. The Decepticons did not succeed in catching Hot Rod no matter what scenario ensued. {{storylink|The Invisibility Factor}}

===Frito-Lay posters===
Ravage was amongst a squad of Decepticons who attempted to get to the power source within [[Sherman Dam|Boulder Dam]]. While Megatron dueled Optimus, Ravage joined Starscream, Buzzsaw and Soundwave in an attack formation. The Decepticons were ultimately unsuccessful in gathering the data they were after. {{storylink|Battle in the Desert Valley}}
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===''Beast Wars'' cartoon continuity===
====''Beast Wars'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Lee Tockar]] (English), [[Toshiyuki Morikawa]] (Japanese)|[[Daoiz Cabezudo]] (Portuguese), [[Federico Romano]] (American Spanish)}}

[[File:BWRavage introduction.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|"I vill ask you only vuhnce more... vhere are moose and skvirrel?"]]
Ravage was one of the few Decepticon warriors who was granted amnesty at the end of the Great War and reformatted into a Predacon, complete with [[Accent|classy Russian accent]]. He was sent by the [[Tripredacus Council]] to capture [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]], clean up any messes he might have made, and deal with the rest of those on Earth. Ravage made the trip to prehistoric Earth in a specially modified stealth [[transwarp cruiser]]. He successfully contacted the [[Maximal]]s and allied with them to capture Megatron. Due to the stealth capabilities of his ship, and the fact that [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]] was also an agent of the council, Ravage and the Maximals easily captured Megatron and imprisoned him. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 1)}}

Megatron, however, had one more card to play. He knew that Ravage wasn't going to let any of the stranded Transformers live, and also knew he had the one thing that would turn Ravage to his side. Using a fragment from the [[Golden Disk (Voyager)|Golden Disk]], Megatron showed Ravage something which shocked him—a message from [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], the leader of the Decepticons. As a safeguard against potential defeat, Megatron had left instructions for the descendants of the Decepticons to use transwarp technology to return to prehistoric Earth. Although the message cut out before it was finished, Megatron's plan worked: Ravage, moved by the sight of his former master, released Megatron. After Megatron explained the rest of the message, Ravage joined the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] and turned on the Maximals. Megatron and Ravage attacked [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] and [[Optimus Primal/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]], at which point he transformed into his old mini-cassette alternate mode, jumped into the tape player on his ship, and started playing wicked guitar solos. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 2)}}

His latest treachery was short-lived. During the assault on the ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'', [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] infiltrated his ship and used [[Fusion weaponry#Fusion grenade|fusion grenade]]s to cause an explosion that destroyed the vessel and Ravage himself. As the inferno headed toward the bridge, Ravage raised a fist and shouted, "Decepticons forever!" to whomever heard or cared. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part III)}}

His head, seemingly all that remained of him, was knocked into the water below the ''Axalon'' by one of Tarantulas's [[Arachnoid]]s. {{storylink|Optimal Situation}}
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====3H comics====
[[File:Ravageiguanusrazorclawpd2.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Ravage 3 Bodies Evolution!<ref>http://groups.google.com/group/alt.toys.transformers.fanfic/msg/a5cd7fda89f12c7c?dmode=source&hl=en&pli=1</ref>]]

Even though the [[Maximal]]s had left Earth with [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]] were far from over! [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]]'s "death" was actually a cover for his return in a more powerful form that had ingested the power of the [[Vok]]! He revived Ravage into a new [[Transmetal 2]] body to help boost his forces, which also included [[Iguanus (BW)|Iguanus]] and [[Razorclaw (BW)|Razorclaw]], and prepared to begin the next stage of his evil plan. Meanwhile, the remnants of Ravage's previous body were recycled by the Vok to re-create [[Tigatron]]. {{storylink|Primeval Dawn Part 1}} {{storylink|Primeval Dawn II}}

Soon, Ravage led an attack on [[Primal Prime]], the Vok's new champion, and managed to separate Prime from Tigatron, [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]], and [[Ramulus]]. Ravage boasted of his "dark cloak" which shrouded him from even Airazor's impressive sensor array, and unleashed a volley of missiles which knocked her out of the sky. Meanwhile, Tarantulas encountered Primal Prime far from the main battle, and after a heated battle, the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] itself was ripped from his chest by the undead [[Unicron's Spawn|spawn of Unicron]]. {{storylink|Primeval Dawn Part 2}}

[[File:Ravagespittorpd3.jpg|left|upright=1.66|thumb|Transforms from catlike thing to catlike thing.]]
Back at [[Tarantulas's lair]], with the Matrix in their possession, Ravage oversaw the construction of a [[transwarp]] portal that would transport them deep within the maw of their new master, [[Unicron]]! Their newly-born ally, [[Spittor (BW)|Spittor]], expressed frustration at their unwillingness to finish off the Maximals during the battle, and Ravage responded brutally. Ravage was immune to Spittor's deadly venom-covered surface, but Spittor was not likewise protected from Ravage's savage claws, so Spittor quickly quit complaining. Once the portal was completed, Tarantulas allowed them to attack the Maximals; Ravage and the others had served their purpose. Ravage led them to the Ark, but warned them to not disturb the [[Autobot]]s or [[Decepticon]]s on board. But little did they know that the Vok themselves had taken control of Primal Prime's body, and remade it in their powerful image... {{storylink|Primeval Dawn Part 3}}

{{note|[[3H Productions]] dissolved before this storyline could be completed. Based on the subsequent ''Wreckers'' and ''[[Transformers: Universe (comic)|Universe]]'' storylines, it can be assumed that the Matrix of Leadership was restored to [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]'s body at the end of this altercation, that the Maximals were triumphant, and that Tarantulas somehow fled to return to Unicron. Ravage's fate is unknown.}}

====IDW ''Beast Wars'' comics====
While Ravage is considered by many to be loyal only to himself, his primary loyalty is actually to Megatron and the dream of Decepticon conquest. He views himself as carrying on where Megatron left off, scheming and operating constantly to end Cybertron's peace and bring back a conquering empire. Any plot and rebellion, you'll find Ravage there.

Also, he has psycho blasters, guns that ''give you seizures''. Don't mess with Ravage. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 15}}

As [[Magmatron]] was surveying the timestream, he witnessed several key events of the Beast Wars. Among those was Ravage having a conversation with the captured [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]]. {{storylink|The Gathering issue 1|The Gathering #1}}

[[File:RavageTheGathering4.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|[[IDW Publishing|IDW]] decided having his actual robot mode was a little too "Transformers"-y.]]
Magmatron recovered Ravage's heavily-damaged torso, which still contained his spark. He then inserted the spark into a blank [[protoform]], which had already been affected by the Transmetal 2 Driver, and Ravage was reborn. {{Storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook|Beast Wars Sourcebook}} In his Transmetal 2 body, he and his fellow Predacons, under the command of Magmatron, sought out [[Razorbeast]]'s band of Maximals. Viewing from a safe distance, Ravage ordered his soldiers to engage. Additional Maximal forces arrived, however, and Ravage's forces were defeated. Ravage retreated into the wilderness. {{storylink|Transformers, Beast Wars: The Gathering|The Gathering}}

Subsequently, Ravage would utilize all the Predacons under his command in a desperate attack as a diversion while he crept into the Maximal base to steal the [[chronal phase armband|chronal phase facilitators]] left behind by Magmatron. He was confronted by Razorbeast, who guessed incorrectly that Ravage intended to use them to board the Autobot shuttle and return to Cybertron. Ravage corrected him by stating that he intended to free Megatron and eradicate the Maximal forces. His ambitions, however, were thwarted by [[Snarl (BW)|Snarl]] who caught him off guard and gave Razorbeast the opportunity to knock Ravage offline. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 1|The Ascending #1}}

It is not certain if Ravage's intentions for Megatron were another ruse or if he was ''actually'' out of his kitty mind regarding the tactical feasibility of this endeavor.

[[File:Lio V Ravage.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Who's the big cat NOW?]]
However, what WAS a ruse was Ravage being offline — as soon as he had been tied up by Razorbeast, the Maximal commander had to leave to help on the battlefield—upon which Ravage stopped playing dead and broke loose rather easily, managing to obtain the chronal displacement bands that Razorbeast had put him right next to after pointing them out. (A tactical genius, that Razorbeast.) However, upon activating the bands, Ravage was pulled into Chronospace by the trapped Magmatron, who warned him of the apocalypse that was to come, and ordered him to form a truce with the Maximals to fight this menace. And after hearing the warning, Ravage heeded the sage advice, sneaking out of the base while [[Chronal phase|chronically displaced]] and re-emerging to the sight of several gun barrels from [[Lio Convoy]], Razorbeast, and the Pack. However, just as he explained the situation, [[Rartorata]] emerged from nowhere and turned Razorbeast into a frenzied monster. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 2|The Ascending #2}}

After introducing himself to Lio Convoy, Ravage agreed with him on a truce until they dealt with the menace of [[Shokaract]]. Commandeering his Predacons, Ravage's forces defeated Rartorata and Ravage extracted a sample of [[Angolmois]] energy from the [[Blendtron]]. When he told Lio Convoy to abandon the Angolmois-infected Razorbeast, the Pack's leader warned him that if he made light of his friend's peril again, he'd personally de-spark him. Ravage boarded the Pack's ship and returned to Cybertron with them, on the way analyzing the Angolmois capsule, to come up with a vaccine. However, as he explained, none of them were qualified scientists for the task. After arriving on Cybertron, Shokaract blasted the Maximal ship out of the sky. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 3|The Ascending #3}}

[[File:BWTheAscending4 Grimlock Convoys Ravage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Ravage was the fifth Maximal legend who left before they became famous.]]
Ravage survived the crash, along with the Pack, and visited Magmatron again. Magmatron told Ravage to chronally-displace Shokaract so he could "enlighten him". He then showed unusual concern for Razorbeast's Maximals, asking how they were doing. Ravage then returned to the battle and hit [[Herald of Shokaract|Shokaract's Heralds]] with a grenade at an opportune moment. After Shokaract's suicide, Ravage found Magmatron returned and they all lived happily ever after.

Until [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]] returned. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 4|The Ascending #4}}
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====''Timelines''====
Ravage was mentioned as being recruited along with fellow [[Mini-Cassette]]s [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] and [[Buzzsaw (G1)|Buzzsaw]] by the Predacon [[Divebomb (G1)|Divebomb]], but for some reason left them soon afterwards to become an operative for the [[Tripredacus Council]]. {{storylink|Dawn of Future's Past}}

===''Beast Wars Metals'' manga===
[[File:Metals2-22.jpg‎|thumb|right|300x|Ready to make kharakiri, my lord!]]
Ravage was on board the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' when it crashed onto [[Earth]]. {{storylink|Beast Wars Metals issue 5|Beast Wars Metals #5}}

Many millennia later, after his son, [[Jaguar]], went crazy and began killing everyone, even Predacons, Ravage disowned him. Ravage was later chosen by the [[Tripredacus Council]] to take an army to [[Earth|Energoa]] and defeat [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] and end the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]]. But before Ravage could leave Cybertron, he and his troops were attacked by Jaguar.

Ravage ordered his men to kill his son, but Jaguar easily slaughtered them all. Jaguar then told the corpse of his father that he would finish his mission and eliminate all the Transformers on Energoa. {{Storylink|Beast Wars Metals issue 2|Beast Wars Metals #2}}

===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
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[[File:Soundwavewarwithin.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|MUKNY NOT CATT]]
Ravage, with a much more arboreal alt mode, was part of the second assassination team Megatron sent after the new [[Prime (rank)|Autobot leader]] Optimus Prime, {{storylink|The War Within issue 1|The War Within #1}} {{storylink|The War Within issue 2|The War Within #2}} alongside Soundwave and the future [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]]. Ravage got savaged. First Prime blinded him with an energy burst from his own partner [[Kickback (G1)|Kickback]], then he tossed said Kickback into the feral Decepticon, squashing him against the wall. {{storylink|The War Within issue 3|The War Within #3}} Later, he was an operative of Shockwave's faction during the [[Dark Ages]]. They made war against the [[Chaos Trinity]] to upset the plans of [[The Fallen]]. {{storylink|Conflagration}} Ravage was also present at [[Tyger Pax]] when the Decepticons and [[Ultracon]]s reluctantly planned to sign a peace treaty with the Autobots, right before Megatron returned in all his glory, with the thousand-strong [[Air Warrior|Aerospace Extermination Squadron]] at his back. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath}}

Millions of years later, Ravage and the crew of the ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]'' awoke on Earth in 1984, and did battle with the crew of the ''Ark'' for some time. He and the rest of Megatron's army were eventually defeated and captured by the Autobots, but their return vessel to Cybertron, the ''[[Ark II]]'', was destroyed in mid-flight, leaving the Transformers apparently dead. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 1|Prime Directive #1}} Ravage and many others were recovered and reprogrammed by the human mercenary known as [[Lazarus]]. As a test of his control and their power, Lazarus sent his robots to destroy the [[Smitco Oil Refinery]], and Ravage was there to "pacify" any human resistance. Megatron soon broke free of Lazarus's control, however, and freed his fellow Decepticons in the process. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 2|Prime Directive #2}}

''When Megatron vanished from the face of the Earth, Ravage reluctantly joined Soundwave and many other Decepticons in following Starscream as the new leader. Starscream made his first act to take over the human city of [[Las Vegas]], turning it into a kingdom under his command. In order to ensure cooperation, he worked with the human population, promising them fame and protection in exchange for their obedience. Soundwave and his cassettes worked directly with the LVPD, supplementing their efforts with surveillance and Cybertronian based weaponry. Ravage personally intervened during a block war, dismembering a gang member before he could kill patrol officer [[Ryan O'Brien]]. The Decepticons weren't above silencing their detractors, though, and that same officer was beaten to death by some of his fellow cops later that evening, for conspiring against the Decepticons.'' {{storylink|Transformers: Hardwired|Hardwired}}

''Megatron returned from deep space sometime later, but the extent of his injuries at the hands of the [[Keeper (species)|Keepers]] left him unable to retake his command from Starscream. Instead, he voluntarily went into exile, but invited the other Decepticons to leave Starscream and join him. Ravage and Soundwave were among the Decepticons was eagerly accepted this invitation.'' {{storylink|Transformers: Annihilation|Annihilation}}

''After an enormous battle with the Keepers in Las Vegas, Megatron reclaimed leadership of the Decepticons from Starscream. To properly declare his return to power to the world, Megatron made a brazen assault directly on the White House in [[Washington, D.C.]] He had Ravage patrolling the alleyways, terrorizing civilians and running interference—the cat's efforts kept a large portion of the DCPD and National Guard occupied while Megatron had his "conference" with the [[President of the United States|President]]. Later, the President sought revenge on the Transformers during an ambush in the Nevada desert. He had American troops employ [[deconstructionite]]s, tiny microchip-sized projectiles reverse engineered from Cybertronian technology, with the power to drain energy away from Transformer systems. Ravage was caught in the initial barrage, and either his small size or limited processing power made him fall victim faster than others. Megatron had to carry Ravage to safety as the Decepticons retreated.'' {{storylink|Transformers: Fusion|Fusion}}

[[File:Ravagewarandpeace.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|RARRRRR yourself.]]
Sometime thereafter, Shockwave arrived on Earth with a detachment of Unified Cybertronian soldiers, equipped to take both Autobots and Decepticons into custody as enemies of the peace. Shockwave quickly granted clemency to Soundwave, Ravage, and the other Decepticons willing to swear fealty to him, after he disposed of Megatron. {{storylink|New World Order}} After returning to Cybertron, Soundwave was considering his options when a small sound caught his attention. He dispatched Ravage to investigate, but the poor kitty tried to tackle [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] and got a mouthful of [[null-ray]]. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} Starscream had plans of his own, and managed to convince Soundwave and his cassettes that following him would be more profitable than throwing in with Shockwave. During the chaos of the Autobot insurrection that soon followed, they arranged [[Sky Lynx (G1)|transport]] and fled back to Earth to loot its energy resources. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}}

===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===
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Ravage was among the Transformers laying dormant aboard the ''Ark'' when it was discovered by [[Cobra]], who took the alien robots and reprogrammed them to serve in [[Cobra Commander]]'s plot to conquer the world. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #2}} Along with Soundwave and the other cassettes, Ravage was sent to attack the [[SPS Research Facility]], where he protected [[Zartan]] as the ninja stole a necessary module from the facility. He fought against [[Quick Kick]] and [[Mutt]], and would've killed them if he hadn't been recalled to [[Cobra Island]] when Zartan got out and deemed the mission a success. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 3|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #3}} Shortly after the Decepticons returned, however, Cobra's control of them was broken by [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]'s tampering, and Soundwave sent out Ravage to punish his former captors. The jaguar knocked out [[Firefly]] and dragged him back to Soundwave to be used as a slave. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #4}} Ravage later attacked [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] only to be grabbed and crushed in the Autobot's fist. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #5}}

Two years later when [[Teletran 3]] had gone berserk, sending scores of Transformers and humans both forwards and backwards in time, Ravage was among the Decepticons who surrounded the tower where the disturbance had originated. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #2}}

In an alternate future in which the Decepticons had conquered Earth, packs of Ravages prowled the woods that a team of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joes]] and Cobra members were traveling through. A few of them were destroyed by [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]], causing the remaining ones to flee. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 3|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #3}}

===''Transformers/G.I. Joe''===
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Ravage was one of the Decepticons under [[Cobra]]'s command in [[1939]]. [[Storm Shadow|Stormshadow]] pitted him against [[Snake-Eyes]] during the two ninjas' duel among the [[Fera Islands]]. {{storylink|Transformed}} After a short but fierce battle, Snake-Eyes incapacitated Ravage with a hand grenade. {{storylink|Trial by Fire}} The injured jaguar re-emerged soon after Snake-Eyes had killed Stormshadow, but quickly lost his life to the ninja's katana. {{storylink|Trenches}}

===''Transformers Legends'' anthology===
Laserbeak and Ravage spied on Starscream after the Seeker's latest falling out with Megatron, and watched Starscream fall off a mountain. After reporting back to Soundwave, they spied some more and got footage of Starscream acting chummy with the Autobots. {{storylink|Redemption Center}}

===''The Beast Within''===
Ravage participated in an all-out Decepticon offensive, squaring off against Steeljaw as the carnage raged around them. {{storylink|The Beast Within}}

===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
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Before the war, Ravage and his pals Laserbeak and Buzzsaw were [[Reproduction#IDW Generation 1 continuity|constructed cold]] in animal forms for an unspecified purpose. Beast-form Cybertronians were looked down upon in their [[Functionism|Functionist]] society, so Ravage and the others were left with thankless jobs like grudgingly running errands for the [[Senate]]. One day they ran into a lost and confused 'bot named Soundwave, who was suffering from his inability to control his unique mind-reading powers. Sensing that Soundwave had the smell of an alright guy, Ravage shared his own experience with controlling over-sensitive senses (namely his nose) and taught him that the secret was finding something to focus on. The thankful drifter joined them, and the four lived on the streets together until they were approached by [[Ratbat (G1)|Senator Ratbat]], who employed Soundwave and had his partners modified into cassettes that could hide within him. {{storylink|Soundwaves (issue)|Soundwaves}}

When Ratbat learned of the rise of gladiatorial champion [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]], Soundwave was sent to negotiate with him on the corrupt Senator's behalf. Soundwave detected two spies, [[Bumper (G1)|Bumper]] and [[Fastback (G1)|Fastback]], watching their secret meeting and had Ravage, Laserbeak, and Buzzsaw capture and bring them to Megatron. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 2|Megatron Origin #2}} During this time, Soundwave learned that unlike the Functionists, Megatron saw Ravage and the birds as ''equals'' rather than animals and only wished to create a society without oppression. Moved by his resolve, Soundwave and his partners joined his revolutionary Decepticon movement. {{storylink|Soundwaves (issue)|Soundwaves}} Ravage was caught on tape during the earliest days of the Decepticons, sabotaging the industrial sector. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 3|Megatron Origin #3}} As part of a plan devised by Soundwave, the Decepticons lured the Senate to [[Kaon (polity)|Kaon]], where Ravage and the others aided [[Starscream (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Starscream]] in assassinating them. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 4|Megatron Origin #4}}

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After the war broke out, Soundwave ended up on the run from a team of Autobots and let out out Ravage to fight off [[Bumblebee (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Bumblebee]] and [[Hound (G1)|Hound]]. Ravage defeated the two pursuers, but was brought down by Hound in the process. [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] later asked Soundwave if they should go back for him, but the opportunity never came up. {{storylink|The Hunt for Soundwave}} Four million years ago, Ravage was helping Soundwave against the Autobots when [[Ironhide (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ironhide]] left him feeling a little...run down. {{storylink|The Iron Age}}

At some point in time Ravage fought against the Dynobots alongside Runamuck and Soundwave. They were thoroughly trounced for their efforts. {{storylink|Spotlight: Grimlock}}

[[File:Ravagespotlightsoundwave.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|left|Ravage, your puns bite! Get it?]]
Millions of years later, when [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] was ordered by Megatron to investigate the disappearance of [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Shockwave]], Megatron in turn ordered Soundwave to secretly keep an eye on him. Soundwave took Ravage and Laserbeak with him, and eventually followed Bludgeon and his accomplices to Earth, where Ravage took on the form of a cassette tape in the year 1984. Soundwave observed as a cassette tape player, he sent Ravage and Laserbeak to follow the [[human]] [[Facsimile construct|facsimiles]] constructed by Bludgeon to do his enigmatic work. Ultimately, the trail brought the three to Bludgeon's volcanic lair under [[Mount St. Helens]]. When Soundwave realized that Bludgeon's group intended to reawaken [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]], Soundwave, Ravage, and Laserbeak desperately attacked, but Ravage was impaled by Bludgeon's [[sword]]. He was later buried by a volcanic eruption, but dug out a year later by the human organization [[Skywatch]]. {{storylink|Spotlight: Soundwave}}

Years later in 2007, he was chained up in the Skywatch headquarters along with Laserbeak and reprogrammed to seek out the other Transformers. {{storylink|Escalation issue 6|Escalation #6}} On his first mission out with Laserbeak, however, the pair's signal from Skywatch was blocked by Soundwave. {{storylink|Devastation issue 1|Devastation #1}} {{storylink|Devastation issue 4|Devastation #4}}

Ravage sought out Soundwave in the bedroom of young [[Jimmy (G1)|Jimmy]], bursting through his household wall. Soundwave had been stuck in his small tape-player altmode for 25 years, so the assistance of Laserbeak was required to haul his small form away. Ravage regrouped with them both at the base of Mount St. Helens, but it was taking all of Soundwave's fast-dwindling energy to keep blocking Skywatch's mind control signals. Fortunately, they had an ally in Shockwave. {{storylink|Maximum Dinobots issue 4|Maximum Dinobots #4}} Soundwave and Shockwave struck a deal which would lead to Soundwave being freed from his altmode prison, leaving Ravage and Laserbeak to be found by Skywatch as part of the plan. As soon as Soundwave could transform again, the two cassettes killed their captors and reunited with him. {{storylink|Maximum Dinobots issue 5|Maximum Dinobots #5}}

[[File:AHM2RavageAndy.jpg|right|upright=1.1|thumb|I'll give you dog, pal!]]
A year later, Ravage helped defeat the Autobot regiment on Earth, making way for Decepticon conquest of the planet. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 7|All Hail Megatron #7}} After a failed human counter-attack in [[New York City]], Ravage went after the pilot [[Andy Reid]] so as to prevent him reporting back to his commander. He had the military human and a civilian pinned, when a second human male threw an explosive at him. It detonated on his face, distracting him long enough for the humans to escape. This annoyed him only slightly less than the fact Andy kept calling him a dog. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 2|All Hail Megatron #2}}

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After the Decepticons' defeat, they abandoned Earth, leaving Ravage and others behind. [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] headed a military regiment to hunt down surviving Transformers and found Ravage in an abandoned building. Ravage attacked Spike but got blasted for his efforts. At least he put Spike in the hospital, though. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 16|The Man of Steel}}

Ravage presumably spent the next couple of years in Skywatch custody, until the Decepticons finally returned to Earth and freed their captured comrades. He was seen among the troops who were eager to watch another duel between Megatron and [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime]]. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 5: Enemy Mine|Enemy Mine}} A short time later, Megatron used the [[space bridge]] technology built into his new body to summon the Decepticon army to Cybertron, where Ravage pounced on [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] and had a scuffle with [[Bob (IDW)|Bob]]. The Decepticons were then mind-controlled by [[Galvatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Galvatron]] into forming the "[[Deceptigod]]". {{storylink|Chaos Part Three: Kings|Kings}}

Following the defeat of Galvatron, Ravage and the other weakened Decepticons were outfitted with [[Inhibitor/deterrence chip|I/D chips]] and imprisoned by the Autobots. They were, however, let out to serve as crowd control during a [[NAIL]] riot. {{storylink|Transformers: The Death of Optimus Prime|The Death of Optimus Prime}} Ravage was present when Ratbat protested against the treatment of the Decepticons. {{storylink|The Autonomy Lesson (issue)|The Autonomy Lesson}} After the I/D chips were overridden by Shockwave and Soundwave, Ravage was present when Skywarp teleported back to the Decepticon prison and informed everyone that [[Horri-Bull]] had been executed. {{storylink|The World & Everything in It}} Shockwave would charge Ravage and the [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]] trio with the task of stealing [[Turmoil]]'s ship from Autobot custody. {{storylink|Night and the City}}

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As he returned to Shockwave to assure him nobody that nobody had seen him sneak Reflector into the ship, Ravage was distracted by a strange smell. He was about to leave to track down and kill [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]] when that smell turned out to be that of [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]], who stabbed him in the neck before defeating and capturing the rest of Shockwave's allies. {{storylink|The End of the Beginning of the World}} They were taken to the [[Black Room]] where they were repaired and upgraded into new forms by [[Prowl (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Prowl]], who was under Decepticon control. {{storylink|The Verge}} Ravage then helped capture Bumblebee and [[Metalhawk (Masterforce)|Metalhawk]] on behalf of a returning Megatron. {{storylink|Before the Dawn}} He proceeded to participate in the battle over Cybertron, {{storylink|Plan for Everything}} but the Decepticons lost and were exiled into the wilderness. {{storylink|Heavy Is the Head}} As a [[Reproduction#IDW Generation 1 continuity|cold constructed]] Transformer, Ravage was a victim of [[Tyrest (G1)|Chief Justice Tyrest]]'s [[universal killswitch]] and came close to dying, causing Soundwave much distress. {{storylink|Remain in Light 4 of 5: Arm the Lonely|Arm the Lonely}}

Learning that Shockwave had abandoned them during the battle, Soundwave apologized to Ravage for having him work with the deserter and gathered the Decepticons for an attack on his location. Or at least that's what he wanted to do, but the other 'cons refused because of their recent failures and the [[Triple Changer]]s even attacked him, causing Ravage and the others to protect him. {{storylink|Shockpoint}} Aided only by his loyal cassettes, Soundwave left to confront Shockwave at his [[Crystal City]] base. During the course of battle, Ravage leapt to Soundwave's rescue and took a lethal shot from Shockwave, only to be instantly revived and repaired by the [[Ore-14]] infused in the city. Realizing there was no point in fighting a battle that neither side could lose, the group retreated to try again in recruiting the help from their fellow Decepticons. {{storylink|Soundwaves (issue)|Soundwaves}}

After convincing the Decepticons, Soundwave led them in an attack on Shockwave's [[Necrotitan]] only to end up in conflict with Bumblebee's Autobots. {{storylink|Black Metal: Dark Cybertron Chapter 2|Black Metal}} Ravage was defeated before witnessing the Titan unleash a deadly energy wave that caused casualties on both sides, {{storylink|Winners & Losers: Dark Cybertron Chapter 3|Winners & Losers}} after which he was in favor of teaming up and destroying the giant. {{storylink|Into the Abyss: Dark Cybertron Chapter 4|Into the Abyss}} Instead Soundwave and Bumblebee took the fight to Shockwave himself, but the mad scientist summoned the Necrotitan to his side, injuring Ravage who had to be carried to safety. {{storylink|Finest Hour: Dark Cybertron Chapter 5|Finest Hour}}

The defeated Decepticons and Autobots retreated back to Iacon to protect it from the advancing Titan. {{storylink|No Exit: Dark Cybertron Chapter 6|No Exit}} A recovered Ravage participated in the battle, but ran away when he smelled an energon leak that would cause a nearby building to explode. {{storylink|Burning Bright: Dark Cybertron Chapter 8|Burning Bright}} He joined in the celebrations after the Necrotitan was brought down by [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]], but the fun soon came to an end when he noticed the stars were disappearing—blocked out by an army of [[Ammonite]]s sent by Shockwave. {{storylink|The Becoming: Dark Cybertron Chapter 10|The Becoming}} Soundwave and the cassettes intended to help defeat Shockwave in his lair, but stayed behind to fight the Ammonites so as to not overload [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]]'s teleportation powers. {{storylink|Black Planet: Dark Cybertron Chapter 11|Black Planet}} Shockwave was finally defeated thanks to Megatron, giving Ravage some hope that the Autobots would hail him as a hero, only for Soundwave to find out that their leader had betrayed them and ''become'' an Autobot. {{storylink|...And the Damage Done: Dark Cybertron Finale|...And the Damage Done}}

Soundwave dispatched Ravage to spy on Megatron and confirm if his change of heart was genuine, and if so was the case, assassinate him. His first move was to test Megatron by freeing a group of captive Decepticons and having them storm their leader's trial, but Megatron rejected the chance to escape. {{storylink|slaughterhouse}} Ravage went on to sneak onto the ''[[Lost Light]]'' when Megatron became its co-captain, coming along on its journey and constantly spying on his former leader, including his psychiatric evaluation by [[Rung (G1)|Rung]]. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 1: Towards Peace|Towards Peace}} When the ''Lost Light'' disappeared completely, Ravage stowed away in the [[Rodpod]]. During a standoff in between the tense crew, caused by power failures and crew disappearances, [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] spied Ravage. The cat-bot jumped at him only to be shot unconscious by Megatron, when the lights failed again. Ravage was, however, fully conscious and was [[Chirolinguistics|chirolinguistically]] ordered by Megatron to keep still and play dead. {{storylink|Twenty Plus One}}

When the crew of the Rodpod found the wreckage of another ''Lost Light'', Ravage was brought along to sniff out the crew and, after enduring some patronizing from [[Nautica (G1)|Nautica]] who mistook him for a pet, located the remains of [[Minimus Ambus]]. Suspecting a future version of himself for the destruction, Megatron had himself locked in a cupboard with Ravage who, angry and disappointed, confronted him on his betrayal. Megatron admitted he'd switched sides because he'd grown to see himself as a monster, saddening Ravage who still saw him as the embodiment of the Decepticon cause, but their heart-to-heart was then interrupted by the discovery of more bodies. Realizing the [[Decepticon Justice Division]] was responsible, the two regrouped with the others, where Ravage sniffed out a still living [[Rewind (G1)|Rewind]]. {{storylink|slaughterhouse}} Once the alternate ''Lost Light'' was dealt with and their own version restored to reality, Ravage offered to return to the other Decepticons, but Megatron gave him a counter-offer to join his crew instead, asking if he truly wished to remain with the Decepticons after having seen the D.J.D.'s dirty work. {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}} It seemed Ravage took up Megatron with his offer, as he was seen in Megatron's quarters with the former Decepticon leader as he quietly regarded his [[Rodimus Star]], {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 3: Predestination: An Expert's Guide|Predestination: An Expert's Guide}} and soon covertly fetched one of Brainstorm's [[Time case|briefcase]]s for Megatron. {{storylink|Our Steps Will Always Rhyme}}

Ravage began interacting more with the crew, and visited ''[[Swerve's]]'' for a drink with [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]]. He would go aboard the ''[[Vis Vitalis]]'' (presumably as part of [[Thunder Clash|Thunderclash]]'s "pre-wake"), but fled in horror from the invisible creatures infesting the ship, screaming that they "won't stop looking at [him]." {{storylink|The Sensuous Frame}} He recovered soon enough to help [[Getaway (G1)| Getaway]] and [[Nightbeat (G1)| Nightbeat]] fend off an attack from the [[Personality tick| strange creatures]] that were watching him before. The group met up with some of the other members of the crew, but were overrun by the ticks and Ravage was knocked out {{storylink| The Frail Gaze}}

Ravage accompanied Megatron to the [[Necroworld]], where he questioned the point of the excursion. His response was that he had no intention of rushing to his fate head on, rather to have more time. He accompanied him to his statue where Megatron was given a visual representation of the billions of deaths he was responsible for. {{storylink|The Not Knowing}}

{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Earthfall Part 1: Hello Cruel World|Hello Cruel World}} {{storylink|The Lopsided Triangle}} {{storylink|The Dying of the Light: (1) How Bright Their Frail Deeds|How Bright Their Frail Deeds}} {{storylink|No Guns, No Swords, No Briefcases}} {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 2: The Sun in Flight|The Sun in Flight}} {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 3: Your Fierce Tears|Your Fierce Tears}}}}

===''Hearts of Steel''===
[[File:Marktwainvsravage.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Tales of my lion-taming have been greatly exaggerated.]]
[[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] sent Ravage to kill [[Tobias Muldoon]], who had deserted the Decepticons when he learned they were evil. Ravage tracked him to [[Stanford Merriweather]]'s house in [[San Francisco]] and crashed into the household, startling Muldoon, Merriweather, Merriweather's daughter [[Kitty Merriweather|Kitty]], and [[Mark Twain]]. The humans fled the house as Ravage broke through the wall.

He then pretty much got his ass kicked by Mark Twain, who took advantage of Ravage being momentarily trapped in rubble to flick a [[cigar]] at him, thus igniting a gas leak. The explosion flung Ravage into the bay, never to be seen again. {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 3|Hearts of Steel #3}}
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===''Q-Robo Transformer''===
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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' pack-in manga===
[[File:Henkei ravage petted.jpg|thumb|"Who's my kitty? Who's my kitty?"]]
Ravage stole a sack of energon cubes for [[Starscream (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! pack-in manga|Starscream]], deftly avoiding the pursuing [[Hound (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! pack-in manga|Hound]] and delivering the booty to his waiting master. Just before Starscream could put the energon to use, however, the pair were attacked by [[Cheetor (BW)#Henkei! Henkei! pack-in manga|Cheetor]], who stabbed Ravage in the side with one of his throwing stars and pinned both Decepticons beneath his feet. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 8}}

===''Henkei! Henkei!'' Bun Bun manga===
When [[Starscream (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! Bun Bun manga|Starscream]] attacked a power plant with the help of the brainwashed [[Jetfire (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! Bun Bun manga|Skyfire]], Ravage stealthily observed and recorded the battle with the Autobots that followed. Ravage took his recording back to [[Megatron (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! Bun Bun manga|Megatron]], and then curled up in his leader's lap as he reviewed the footage. {{storylink|Wataru's Power}}

===''Henkei! Henkei! Transformers -Visualize-''===
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===''Device Label''===
Ravage had been given the mission to root out and interfere with the Autobot activity taking place within the computer under Megatron and Soundwave's command. {{storylink|Ravage (G1)/toys#Device Label|Ravage's Device Label Bio}}

===''Recordicons''===
Ravage was at a bar that Laserbeak, Buzzsaw, and [[Lazorbeak]] were at. {{storylink|Recordicons|Recordicons 16}}

===Robot Heroes===
Soundwave hid in his harmless-looking alternate mode... until it was time to strike! He then loosed Laserbeak and Ravage from his chest compartment. {{storylink|I Am Optimus Prime (Robot Heroes)|I Am Optimus Prime}}

===''Kre-O'' comic===
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Ravage was standing upright among the Decepticon forces when they introduced the Predacons. {{storylink|Behemoth Combination! But They're Cute? The Predacon Unit}}

While [[Soundwave (Kre-O)|Soundwave]]'s plan to brainwash humanity unfolded, the Decepticon patted Ravage's head. {{storylink|Soundwave's Trap? Stop Operation Brainwash Humanity!}}

Ravage was seen flying into battle with Soundwave in [[Isami Tatewaki|some kid's]] living room. {{storylink|Robots in Disguise! The Transformers Are by Your Side!?}}

===''Transformers vs. G.I. Joe''===
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Part of a troupe of Decepticons sent to Earth to demand the humans surrender to Megatron, Ravage met with the human representative, [[Hawk (G.I. Joe)|Hawk]], and quickly learned that [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] wasn't so keen on the idea of surrendering. The Decepticons seemed to have the upper hand in the ensuing battle and Ravage again invited Hawk to surrender, but the human only responded by cleaving the cat's head with his mysterious tomahawk. {{storylink|I Saw Three Ships}} Ravage was then captured by G.I. Joe and fell under the control of [[Doctor Venom]] when he turned Soundwave's body into a human-controlled mech suit. During a battle with [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], Venom unleashed Ravage from Soundwave's chest compartment to attack the Autobot. {{storylink|Expelled from the Garden}}

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===''Transformers: All Spark''===
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===''Cloud''===
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===''Transformers Legends'' comic===
Ravage was the manager of a toy store, where he was puzzled by customer [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]]'s attempts at using telepathy at him. {{storylink|Transformers Legends (comic)#untitled|Legends #1}} He was later shocked when Rattrap showed up to buy toys in the form of a real Transformer. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 1|Bonus Edition Vol. 1}} During [[Christmas]], Ravage was standing outside his store, wielding guns and advertising the [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|newest ''Transformers'' series]]. {{storylink|Transformers Legends (comic)#Christmas|Merry X'mas!!}}

==Commercial appearances==
Commercials that featured original footage of Ravage include:
*A battle he took part in a battle against the Dinobots alongside [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] and [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]]. Ravage blasted [[Slag (G1)|Slag]], only to find himself face-to-face with a robotic Triceratops when his opponent assumed his beast mode. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Dinobots|Dinobots commercial}}
*When [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] was duped into bringing [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] into the Decepticons' headquarters, thinking the Autobot was just a normal radio, Soundwave dispatched Laserbeak and Ravage to deal with the intruder. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Blaster|Blaster commercial}}

==Games==
===Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons===
When Optimus embarked on his mission to rescue the Autobots' [[Mini Vehicle|Minicar]] troops from the Decepticons, Ravage could interfere with Optimus Prime's progress. {{storylink|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons packaging blurb and game}}

===''The Transformers'' (Commodore 64)===
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===''Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals'' (N64)===
{{voiceactor|[[Martin Roach]] (English)}}
[[File:N64Ravage.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Stupid sexy Ravage.]]
Ravage betrayed the Predacon Megatron, then entered the ancient Autobot battle cruiser, the Ark. Using a prototype cloning device based on transreplication technology, he produced clones of the ancient Decepticons, with memories and personalities intact. One by one, he downloaded protoform cloning data of the legendary warriors: (Decepticon) Megatron, Skywarp, Starscream, Thundercracker, Reflector, Rumble, Frenzy, Laserbeak, Buzzsaw, and Soundwave. With his clone army, Ravage returned to Predacon space with plans of conquest. {{storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (N64)}}

{{note|Each character possessed an alternate ending, displayed if the game was beaten with said character. Each character has only their own ending listed on their pages, see the other characters' pages for Ravage’s fate in those outcomes.}}
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===''Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals'' (PS)===
{{voiceactor|[[Martin Roach]] (English)}}
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===3D Battle Card Game===
Ravage fights under the command of [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] once more, this time with several allies from (potentially) different universes and/or timelines. {{storylink|3D Battle-Card Game#Energon Wars expansion|Energon Wars Expansion Set}}

===''Transformers Legends''===
Ravage took part in a covert infiltration of the Autobot base led by Soundwave, allowing them to pass information back to the Decepticons and ensure a string of Decepticon victories. They were eventually uncovered by [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]], [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] and [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]], and sent packing. {{storylink|Covert Operations}}

Ravage aided the Decepticon Powermasters in a battle against their hated rivals, the Autobot Powermasters. {{storylink|End of the Road (Legends)|End of the Road}}

Ravage was part of a group of Decepticons who teamed up with the Autobots [[Windblade (G1)|Wingblade]] and [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] to battle the Ammonites on a distant planet. Together, they were able to drive off several Ammonite attacks, but the two factions soon started fighting one another over differing opinions. Eventually, the Autobots defeated the Ammonites and sent the Decepticons packing. Though angered by this turn of events, Ravage and the other Decepticons found consolation that the Ammonites also tasted defeat at the Autobots' hands, and returned to their starship. {{storylink|Into the Abyss}}

Ravage was among a group of Decepticons who accidentally time travelled back to the sixth century and ended up having to battle some similarly displaced Autobots using medieval technology. They lost, and returned to the present as prisoners of the Autobots. {{storylink|A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court (Legends)|A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court}}
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===''Transformers: Devastation''===
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===''Angry Birds Transformers''===
{{note|Ravage appears as a wearable accessory for [[Chef Pig]] in the game.}}
{{storylink|Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers}}
{{charstubgame|Does he do anything, game-play wise? How about adding to the note how much it costs?}}

===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
[[File:Battle-Tactics-Ravage-(TM).jpg|thumb|400px]]
Ravage (TM) participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He was an Epic character first available as a reward to ''60'' players in the "Beast Wars: Episode 4" event.
{{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}
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===''Transformers: Frontiers''===
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==Toys==
{{main|Ravage (G1)/toys}}

==Notes==
*A working name for Ravage was "Stalker".<ref>[http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/conventions-15/botcon-2010-bob-budiansky-panel-coverage-170041/ Bob Budiansky Botcon Panel Coverage]</ref>
*As given in early ''[[The Transformers Universe|Universe]]''-style profiles published in ''[[The Transformers Comics Magazine]]'', Ravage's nickname is Cat'''.
*Alternate names, narration and in-universe descriptions by other characters over the years have inconsistently described the specific sub-genus of feline which Ravage represents as a jaguar, a panther, a puma, and sometimes even as a canine.
*Ravage's original [[package art]] is by far the most-copied depiction of any Transformer. It was, of course, adapted for his ''[[The Transformers Universe|Transformers Universe]]'' profile, but was also used (twice) in 1984's "back-of-the-box" battle scene,<ref>http://www.botchthecrab.com/galleryImage.asp?gallery=7&image=33</ref> and was copied in licensed coloring books and storybooks; the pose also showed up repeatedly in the Marvel Comics. In "[[Time Wars|Time Wars Part 2]]" (Marvel UK #200), artist [[Robin Smith]] copied the art multiple times across several subsequent panels. And it was, of course, recolored for [[Howlback (G1)|Howlback]]'s card-art. Yikes.
*According to the [[The Transformers Adventure Game Books|''Transformers'' Adventure Game Book]] "[[Dinobot War]]", Ravage's cassette mode is labelled as the soundtrack to the musical ''[[Cats]]''.
*In the Japanese dub of the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|original ''The Transformers'' cartoon]], all of [[Frank Welker]]'s various growling and snarling sounds for Ravage were maintained and not redubbed with a Japanese voice actor (though [[Yū Shimaka|Yutaka Shimaka]] ''did'' speak as Ravage during the character's one lone instance of dialogue in "[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 3]]"). Frank Welker was not credited in the Japanese version, either. Jerks.
**Exactly the same thing happened in the Brazilian dub for the series, but to be fair, voice actors in Brazil were never credited for their work until the late nineties. Welker only received the same treatment.
*Ravage's ''Beast Wars'' [[robot mode]] is simply a modified Transmetal Cheetor with Tigatron's beast head.
*Ravage's transformation to cassette mode in "[[The Agenda (Part 2)]]" was accompanied by the Generation 1 transformation sound effect.
*Ravage's profile in the IDW [[Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook|Beast Wars Sourcebook]] seems to suggest that, in the body he is first seen in the ''Beast Wars'', he possess three separate modes; robot, beast and cassette.
*Reportedly, Hasbro wanted to bring Ravage's "Jaguar X-9" figure over to the States as part of the Beast Wars 10th Anniversary line, but they couldn't find the mold. Bummer.
[[File:RiseOfCobraRobotPanther.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Note: not Baroness, not Ravage, '''and''' not actually from ''Pursuit of Cobra''. Nice going, slide. (Furthermore: panther sadly confirmed not able to use Ravage's G1 weapons.)]]
*The name "Ravage" became unavailable as a [[trademark]] during ''Beast Wars'', so Hasbro used the alternative "Shadow Panther" instead, and when even ''that'' turned out to be off-limits, used the somewhat clunky name "Tripredacus Agent". The name "Ravage" eventually became available again in time for ''[[Transformers: Energon (toyline)|Energon]]'', but apparently Hasbro decided to play safe and added a prefix, thus releasing the ''Energon'' toy under the compound name "[[Battle Ravage]]" (and later, its redeco as "[[Command Ravage]]"). Hasbro also used "Battle Ravage" for the ''[[Transformers: Alternators|Alternators]]'' toy and ''also'' intended to use it for the [[Generation 1 reissues|reissue]] of the original Generation 1 toy available with the [[Toys"R"Us]] [[exclusive]] ''[[Transformers: Classics|Classics]]''-affiliated "Commemorative Edition" reissue of [[Soundwave (G1)/toys|Soundwave]]... but then decided that the single name "Ravage" would work just as fine. Thus, the reissue is still named "Battle Ravage" on the packaging, but simply "Ravage" in the [[instructions]]. Following that, multiple subsequent toys have simply used the name "Ravage" again.
*At JoeCon 2011, [[Rik Alvarez]] and [[John Warden]] participated in a "Treasures from the Hasbro Archives" panel, which revealed that an unproduced ''Rise of Cobra'' "[[Baroness|Arctic Baroness]]" figure would have come with a robot panther modeled on Ravage. While Alvarez was ambiguous about the figure's identity, Warden consistently denied that it was actually going to '''be''' Ravage, though admitted the use of Ravage design cues was intentional. Neither the Baroness or the robot panther were tooled, with the panther in the photo being the only one in existence.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Jaguar''' (ジャガー ''Jagā''), '''Ravage''' (ラヴェッジ ''Ravejji'')
*''French:'' '''Saboteur''' (Canada)
*''Hungarian:'' '''Romboló''' ("Ravager")
*''Italian:'' '''Iena''' ("Hyena"), '''Ursus''' (''Beast Wars'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Phò-hùai''' (Taiwan, 破壞, "Ravage"), '''Robin''' (Taiwan ''Beast Wars'', 羅賓 ''Lúo Pīn''), '''Jīqì Gǒu''' (China, 机器狗, "Mechanical Dog")
*''Polish:'' '''Dewastator''' (''Beast Wars'', "Devastator")
*''Portuguese:'' '''Raiva''' (Portugal comics, "Rage"), '''Selvagem''' (Brazil comics, "Wild"), '''Destruição''' (Brazil ''Beast Wars'', "Destruction")
*''Russian:'' '''Grabitel'''' (Грабитель, "Robber")
*''Spanish:'' '''Destructor''' (Spain, "Destroyer"), '''Devastador''' (''Beast Wars'' Latin American dub, "Devastator")
*''Swedish:'' '''Utplånaren''' (''Generation 2'', "Obliterator")
*''Ukrainian:'' '''Spustoshuvach''' (ICTV dub, Спустошувач, "Ravage")

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.tfu.info/1984/Decepticon/Ravage/ravage.htm Ravage at TFU.info]

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Ark-7

2016-04-14T15:53:40Z

Ravagekitteh: /* IDW Generation 1 continuity */

{{disambig3|Ark}}
:''Ark-7 is an [[Autobot]] [[Starships|starship]] from the [[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW portion]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Ark-7 RID-28.jpg |250px|thumb]]
The '''''Ark-7''''' is one of a fleet of numbered Autobot ships designated Ark, named after the first legendary lost ''[[Ark (G1)#IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ark]]''. It is identical in outward appearance to ''[[Ark-27]]'' and ''[[Ark-32]]''.

Her crew includes:
{{collist|2|
*[[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]]
*[[Cosmos (G1)|Cosmos]]
*[[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]]
*[[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] (pilot)
*[[Kup (G1)|Kup]] (security chief)
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime]]
*[[Prowl (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Prowl]]
*[[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]]
*[[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]]
}}

Also on the Ark-7 is Prowl's "Team":
{{collist|2|
*[[Bonecrusher (G1)|Bonecrusher]]
*[[Hook (G1)|Hook]]
*[[Long Haul (G1)|Long Haul]]
*[[Mixmaster (G1)|Mixmaster]]
*[[Scavenger (G1)|Scavenger]]
}}

==Fiction==
===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
The ''Ark-7'' was the ship chosen by Optimus Prime to go to [[Earth]] to search for [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]]. Upon arriving at the planet, the ship was greeted by a volley of wall-burrowing missiles that the ship's deflectors couldn't defend against and a detection system that [[ghost shield|ghost shields]] were useless against. To continue the mission, Optimus Prime ordered Jetfire to set the ship in orbit of the far side of the moon (much to Jetfire's chagrin) and boarded Sky Lynx alongside Prowl, Sideswipe, Kup, Arcee, and <s>Jaws</s> Jazz with the intention of reaching the planet's surface through other means. {{storylink|Earthfall Part 1: Hello Cruel World|Hello Cruel World}} While Prime's team was dealing with the [[Earth Defense Command|EDC]]-Decepticon alliance on Earth, the ''Ark-7'' was recovering from the missiles (which had turned into Microbots) on the far side of Earth's [[moon (moon)|moon]]. Jetfire resolved to eradicate the Microbot infestation by spraying them with an aerosol form of the ship's liquid memory core, but found the rest of the infestation eliminated by Prowl's "team", the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]]. {{storylink|Earthfall Part 2: Detonation Boulevard|Detonation Boulevard}}

Prime's team returned to the ''Ark-7'' in Sky Lynx after the EDC detonated the "Mind Bomb" to take down the Decepticons. While on the ship Prime and Prowl argued on the merits of the Constructicons merging to form Devastator until Jetfire interrupted to confirm that he had found out the location of Alpha Trion. This conversation was sent to the Decepticons by their double agent: Scavenger. {{storylink|Earthfall Chapter 3: The Mind Bomb|The Mind Bomb}}

Prime and Alpha Trion disembarked from the ''Ark-7'' in the ''[[Skyroller]]'' and went round to the far side of the moon, setting of alarms. {{storylink|The Crucible}} Following the revelations made there, Optimus left for Cybertron, once again in the ''Skyroller''. It was their to pick up Sky Lynx and his team {{storylink|Onyx Interface Part One: Signals, Calls, and Marches|Signals, Calls, and Marches}} and Prowl and the Constructicons left soon after in him to pursue [[Spike Witwicky (G1)#IDW Generation 1 continuity| other objectives]]. {{storylink|Onyx Interface Part Two: Vs.|Vs.}} It was also the location of an argument between Kup and Sideswipe {{storylink|Onyx Interface Part Three: ONoffON|ONoffON}} which led to them taking Sky Lynx down to stop Prowl. {{storylink| The Onyx Interface Conclusion: The Obliterati| The Obiterati}}

After a particularly tiring mission, Cosmos returned to the ''Ark 7'', collapsed on his recharge slab and snuggled up with [[D.0.C.]] {{storylink|South of Heaven}}

{{stub|{{storylink|Earthfall Chapter 5: I Dream of Wires|I Dream of Wires}} {{storylink|Now and On Earth}} {{storylink|Sins of the Wreckers issue 1|Sins of the Wreckers #1}} {{storylink|The Nothing Man}} {{storylink|Conquerors Part 1: Aphelion|Aphelion}} {{storylink|Conquerors Part 2: Lagrange|Lagrange}} {{storylink|Conquerors Part 4: Perihelion|Perihelion}} {{storylink|All Hail Optimus Part 1: Once Upon a Time on Earth|Once Upon a Time on Earth}}}}

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Ark-7

2016-04-11T17:23:02Z

Ravagekitteh: /* IDW Generation 1 continuity */

{{disambig3|Ark}}
:''Ark-7 is an [[Autobot]] [[Starships|starship]] from the [[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW portion]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Ark-7 RID-28.jpg |250px|thumb]]
The '''''Ark-7''''' is one of a fleet of numbered Autobot ships designated Ark, named after the first legendary lost ''[[Ark (G1)#IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ark]]''. It is identical in outward appearance to ''[[Ark-27]]'' and ''[[Ark-32]]''.

Her crew includes:
{{collist|2|
*[[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]]
*[[Cosmos (G1)|Cosmos]]
*[[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]]
*[[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] (pilot)
*[[Kup (G1)|Kup]] (security chief)
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime]]
*[[Prowl (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Prowl]]
*[[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]]
*[[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]]
}}

Also on the Ark-7 is Prowl's "Team":
{{collist|2|
*[[Bonecrusher (G1)|Bonecrusher]]
*[[Hook (G1)|Hook]]
*[[Long Haul (G1)|Long Haul]]
*[[Mixmaster (G1)|Mixmaster]]
*[[Scavenger (G1)|Scavenger]]
}}

==Fiction==
===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
The ''Ark-7'' was the ship chosen by Optimus Prime to go to [[Earth]] to search for [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]]. Upon arriving at the planet, the ship was greeted by a volley of wall-burrowing missiles that the ship's deflectors couldn't defend against and a detection system that [[ghost shield|ghost shields]] were useless against. To continue the mission, Optimus Prime ordered Jetfire to set the ship in orbit of the far side of the moon (much to Jetfire's chagrin) and boarded Sky Lynx alongside Prowl, Sideswipe, Kup, Arcee, and <s>Jaws</s> Jazz with the intention of reaching the planet's surface through other means. {{storylink|Earthfall Part 1: Hello Cruel World|Hello Cruel World}} While Prime's team was dealing with the [[Earth Defense Command|EDC]]-Decepticon alliance on Earth, the ''Ark-7'' was recovering from the missiles (which had turned into Microbots) on the far side of Earth's [[moon (moon)|moon]]. Jetfire resolved to eradicate the Microbot infestation by spraying them with an aerosol form of the ship's liquid memory core, but found the rest of the infestation eliminated by Prowl's "team", the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]]. {{storylink|Earthfall Part 2: Detonation Boulevard|Detonation Boulevard}}

Prime's team returned to the ''Ark-7'' in Sky Lynx after the EDC detonated the "Mind Bomb" to take down the Decepticons. While on the ship Prime and Prowl argued on the merits of the Constructicons merging to form Devastator until Jetfire interrupted to confirm that he had found out the location of Alpha Trion. This conversation was sent to the Decepticons by their double agent: Scavenger. {{storylink|Earthfall Chapter 3: The Mind Bomb|The Mind Bomb}}

Prime and Alpha Trion disembarked from the ''Ark-7'' in the ''[[Skyroller]]'' and went round to the far side of the moon, setting of alarms. {{storylink|The Crucible}} Following the revelations made there, Optimus left for Cybertron, once again in the ''Skyroller''. It was their to pick up Sky Lynx and his team {{storylink|Onyx Interface Part One: Signals, Calls, and Marches|Signals, Calls, and Marches}} and Prowl and the Constructicons left soon after in him to pursue [[Spike Witwicky (G1)#IDW Generation 1 continuity| other objectives]]. {{storylink|Onyx Interface Part Two: Vs.|Vs.}} It was also the location of an argument between Kup and Sideswipe {{storylink|Onyx Interface Part Three: ONoffON|ONoffON}} which led to them taking Sky Lynx down to stop Prowl. {{storylink| The Onyx Interface Conclusion: The Obliterati| The Obiterati}}

After a particularly tiring mission, Cosmos returned to the ''Ark 7'', collapsed on his recharge slab and snuggled up with D.0.C. {{storylink|South of Heaven}}

{{stub|{{storylink|Earthfall Chapter 5: I Dream of Wires|I Dream of Wires}} {{storylink|Now and On Earth}} {{storylink|Sins of the Wreckers issue 1|Sins of the Wreckers #1}} {{storylink|The Nothing Man}} {{storylink|Conquerors Part 1: Aphelion|Aphelion}} {{storylink|Conquerors Part 2: Lagrange|Lagrange}} {{storylink|Conquerors Part 4: Perihelion|Perihelion}} {{storylink|All Hail Optimus Part 1: Once Upon a Time on Earth|Once Upon a Time on Earth}}}}

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Bluestreak (G1)

2016-04-11T16:42:10Z

Ravagekitteh: /* IDW Generation 1 continuity */

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{{disambig3|Bluestreak}}{{suite}}
:''Bluestreak is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Anime Bluestreak boxart.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|I'm f***ing PONDEROUS, man. PONDEROUS, f***in' PONDEROUS.]]
'''Bluestreak''' is a talker. He talks a lot. Any subject, any time of the day, his lips are flapping while his Autobot comrades are rolling their eyes. Could be about things on Earth, could be about things on Cybertron, could be about just about anything, but the point is, y'know, he's talking. Words are coming out of his mouth in a near constant prattling stream. Some think he's vapid, that his mouth just moves a billion times faster than his brain, if his brain is moving at all. Or they imagine that he's a fool who doesn't know when to shut up, that he drones on and on and on and on because maybe he just likes to hear himself speak or something.

His friends realize, however, that his jabbering hides a deeper pain. At the beginning of the [[Great War (G1)|war]], Bluestreak's [[Praxus|home city]] was totally destroyed by [[Decepticon]]s. He was the only survivor. It's as if by talking he tries to drown out his own fears and memories somehow. "There's some demons runnin' loose inside that boy," says [[Hound (G1)|Hound]], "and sometimes I think they grab hold of him and won't let him go." He hated war, he still does, but ever since, he's hated Decepticons even more. It is odd to see a bot of peace so willingly take up arms, but Bluestreak's got a score to settle.

Talk may be cheap, but it keeps him sane.

Sometimes he is known as '''Silverstreak'''.

==Fiction==
===Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics===
{{noteukonly}}
[[File:Bluestreakandthereshallcome.jpg|left|upright=0.85|thumb|"The War Within" forgot about this design... thankfully!]]
''Millions of years ago on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], Bluestreak was escorted by [[Fusion]] on a mission to deliver shatter bombs to the Autobot military commander [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]]. Fusion was focused on picking off the Decepticon jets which were hounding his partner when a blast from one of these Decepticons killed Fusion. Bluestreak was able to complete the mission thanks to his friend's efforts, but he swore revenge. {{storylink|And There Shall Come...a Leader!}}''

[[File:Miragebluestreakfirst.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|You can taste his sarcasm. To be fair, nobody likes Mirage.]]
Bluestreak arrived on [[Earth]] with his fellow Autobots four million years ago and remained inactive until 1984. Along with [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] and [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]], Bluestreak was one of the less sympathetic of the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'s crew when it came to humans. {{storylink|The Transformers (issue)|The Transformers}} In an early mission in the [[United Kingdom]], he provided covering fire for an Autobot convoy, using his sharpshooting skills to knock [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] out of the sky with '''one shot'''. Don't mess. {{storylink|Man of Iron (issue)|Man of Iron}}

He suggested repairing the Ark and simply abandoning Earth's people to the Decepticons after learning that [[Sparkplug Witwicky]] had allegedly provided their foes with a fuel conversion process while he was their prisoner. Despite their conflicting views, Optimus Prime still recognized Bluestreak's skill as a sharpshooter and chose him to be one of the five Autobots recharged in the [[Tubes of Transference]], in the hopes that at least some Autobots would be at full capacity when the inevitable Decepticon attack came. When it did, Bluestreak was brazen enough to attack [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] himself, head-on. Despite their temporary victory, the battle-weary Autobots were blindsided by the returning Decepticon [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]], who knocked them all down with a single blast. {{storylink|The Last Stand}}

Bluestreak was next seen being hung from the ceiling of the Ark, prepared by Shockwave to be used as spare parts for the next generation of Decepticons. {{storylink|The New Order}} {{storylink|Warrior School!}} [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]], the only surviving Autobot, managed to re-secure the Ark, and Bluestreak was subsequently rebuilt. {{storylink|DIS-Integrated Circuits!}}

[[File:Bumblebeebluestreakbrainstorm.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|Will talk without end for forever about nothing at all, yet doesn't mention that Prowl is speaking from Ratchet's body.]]
During a mission to stop [[Soundwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Soundwave]] from broadcasting a transmission to their Decepticon brethren back on Cybertron, Bluestreak was one of the first Autobots to confront the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]]. This effort almost ended badly when the Constructicons revealed they could merge into the mighty [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]], but Bluestreak and the others were saved by Huffer and the human trucker [[Bomber Bill]]. {{storylink|The Next Best Thing to Being There!}} It soon became apparent to the Autobots that [[Buster Witwicky (G1)|Buster Witwicky]]'s life was in danger so long as he carried the [[Matrix of Leadership|Creation Matrix]] while the Decepticons kept hostage the head of Optimus Prime, so Bluestreak and [[Bumblebee (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Bumblebee]] were assigned to guard him. Bluestreak's embarrassing line of questioning about what [[kiss]]ing entailed was interrupted when he and Bumblebee were assaulted by the Decepticon prototype warrior [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]]. After he suffered heavy wounds, his life was saved once again by a human; Buster Witwicky used the power of the Creation Matrix to disassemble Jetfire before their eyes. {{storylink|Brainstorm!}}

''As the Witwickys celebrated Christmas at the ''Ark'', Bluestreak argued with Prowl over the strategic value and social utility of a Christmas tree. {{storylink|Christmas Breaker!}} Bluestreak was one of the Autobots involved in the argument over Prowl's plan to create dedicated Autobot warriors using the Matrix. {{storylink|Crisis of Command!}} He was also at the Ark when attacked by [[Peter Anthony Morris]] using the Dinobot, [[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]]. {{storylink|The Icarus Theory}}''

[[File:Newyorkunderbase.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|And the rest... is silence.]]
While Bluestreak and Bumblebee were helping Buster, Optimus Prime had been restored, but not without cost to the Autobot ranks. To help offset this, Bluestreak and [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] assisted with the [[Rite of the Autobrand]] on Jetfire, whom Optimus Prime had recently given life. {{storylink|Rock and Roll-Out!}}

''During the Dinobot Hunt, Bluestreak was sent with [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] and [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]] to [[Doonstown]] to capture the berserk [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]], but they were surprised to find Grimlock locked in battle with [[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]]. Bluestreak was the first member of the team down, deactivated by the crazed Dinobots before he had a chance to react.'' {{storylink|Dinobot Hunt!}}

When Bumblebee was targeted by the Decepticons, Bluestreak was part of the Autobot squad dispatched to intercept the enemy and rescue his friend. {{storylink|Plight of the Bumblebee!}} ''He was also present at the Ark shortly before Optimus Prime's first encounter with the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]]. {{storylink|Prey!}}''

During Grimlock's command, Bluestreak watched Grimlock fight [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] on Earth's [[Moon (moon)|moon]] for Autobot leadership. Bluestreak left the Ark to cheer beside the other Autobots. {{storylink|Totaled!}} After Blaster rejoined the Autobots, Bluestreak helped put him through his paces in a training exercise. {{storylink|Club Con!}} He battled the [[Underbase]]-empowered [[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]] in [[New York City]], but not before some choice words. Starscream noted that Bluestreak spoke "freely, but foolishly," and ended his life, and others', with little effort. {{storylink|Dark Star}}
{{-}}

===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Casey Kasem]] (English), [[Kōki Kataoka]] (Japanese), [[Masashi Ebara]] (Japanese, "More Than Meets the Eye, Part 3", "Divide and Conquer", "SOS Dinobots"), [[Takurō Kitagawa]] (Japanese, "The Immobilizer"), [[Yoku Shioya]] (Japanese, "Enter the Nightbird"), [[Toshio Ishii]] (Japanese, "Microbots"), [[Kenyū Horiuchi]] (Japanese, "Trans-Europe Express"), [[Keiichi Nanba]] (Japanese, "Fire on the Mountain"), [[Katsumi Suzuki]] (Japanese, "Attack of the Autobots" and "Day of the Machines")|[[Ulises Cuadra]] (Latin-American Spanish), [[Mário Monjardim]] (Brazilian Portuguese)}}

[[File:MTMTE3 Bluestreak rescues Ironhide.jpg|thumb|upright=1.34]]
Bluestreak was one of the original crew members of the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] when it set off from Cybertron in search of new sources of fuel and energy. Attacked en route by the Decepticon flagship ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]'', the Ark crashed into a volcano, and the Autobots lay dormant for millions of years. When the volcano erupted and activated [[Teletraan I (G1)|Teletraan I]] in 1984, Bluestreak was reformatted into a Datsun 280Z. Shortly after Hound and [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] discovered [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]]'s plans, Bluestreak was part of the Autobot battle group dispatched to follow Megatron's raid on an off-shore oil rig, despite not having been ordered to do so. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 1}}

After rescuing the humans, he was also among the Autobots who responded to the Decepticon attack on [[Sherman Dam]] and the [[ruby crystal mines of Burma]]. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 2}}. Then, when the Decepticons managed to extricate themselves from the mine explosion, Bluestreak and [[Ironhide (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ironhide]] took to the air and engaged in a dogfight with [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]]. He avoided injury, but abandoned the chase when Ironhide was shot down and managed to drag his friend to safety after a water landing. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 3}}

[[File:G1 Prowl Bluestreak Rollforit.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Prowl always dreads the family reunions.]]
After Megatron was seemingly lost forever inside the [[space bridge]], the Autobots thwarted an ill-planned Decepticon attack on yet another hydroelectric power plant under the command of [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]]. Chasing after the escaping Decepticons, Bluestreak managed to damage both Starscream and Thundercracker significantly with a single blast from his shoulder cannons. He and his twin brother [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] followed the fleeing villains to a human aircraft hangar, from which the Decepticons were scavenging parts. Bluestreak accused Starscream of having a [[Anatomic euphemism#Manifold|manifold]] for a mouth. It was hilarious, but both Autobots were outnumbered when Soundwave unleashed Ravage. Fortunately, their human friend [[Chip Chase]] took control of Prowl's systems and sent the Decepticons packing. {{storylink|Roll for It}}

Bluestreak accompanied Ironhide, [[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]], and [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] to Cybertron to get a [[cosmitron]] for the dying [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]]. He was attacked by the [[Rainmaker]]s' [[acid rain]] just outside of [[Wheeljack's workshop]] and was nearly deactivated. Once given a pep talk by [[Chip Chase]], he shot down the Rainmakers, enabling the Autobots to get the cosmitron. {{storylink|Divide and Conquer}} Bluestreak was present during the unveiling of the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] and responded in awe. Later on, he was with the Autobots during the Decepticon ambush at the [[Great Falls]]. He shot at [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]], but was unable to hit him. Defeated, the Autobots were all tied up by the Decepticons. [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] used Bluestreak's bolt gun to give the Autobots an instant recharge {{storylink|S.O.S. Dinobots}} Bluestreak was in the Autobot group who flew with [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]] to [[Peru]]. He fried Laserbeak during one of the skirmishes, and used his lights so Skyfire could see Wheeljack. {{storylink|Fire on the Mountain (episode)|Fire on the Mountain}} When the New Dinobots were created, Bluestreak was one of the Autobots selected for a mock battle against [[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]] and [[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]]. He was defeated along with the rest of the group and jokingly commented on the battle saying they would have won if it was real... Maybe. {{storylink|War of the Dinobots}}

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Bluestreak's skill as a gunner was frequently employed in combat. On one occasion, [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] was trying to fly off with [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]], and Bluestreak was able to target and shoot one of the tin turkey's legs without hitting Spike to free him. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 2}} When the Autobots surfed towards the Decepticons, he was the first to notice the tidal wave about to engulf the group. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 3}} He was present with the rest of Autobots during the staged battle between Optimus Prime and Megatron. {{storylink|Heavy Metal War}}

Some of Bluestreak's spare parts were used on Sparkplug's [[Autobot X (G1)|Autobot X]], including one of the door-wings. Later Bluestreak was one of the Autobots that went to go help Autobot Spike during his confusion. {{storylink|Autobot Spike}} Bluestreak was one of the Autobots that reacted to a Decepticon attack at a mining colony and also present at the Ark when Megatron's solar needle caused an avalanche. He had to run away from a boulder to avoid being crushed by it. {{storylink|Changing Gears}} Bluestreak accompanied Optimus Prime to [[New York City]] to stop Megatron from converting the city into his base. He was the first to notice Prime's missing arm on top of the [[Empire State Building]] and later blasted a subway car piloted by Frenzy. {{storylink|City of Steel (episode)|City of Steel}}

[[File:Bluestreakg1.jpg|left|upright=1.34|thumb|You get the feeling Blurr trained under this guy at some point.]]
Bluestreak was a victim of Megatron's [[personality destabilizer device]] that was placed in the Autobots' recharging chambers. Once under Decepticon control, Bluestreak attacked Bumblebee and tried to make him recharge, but was disabled by [[Jazz (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Jazz]]. After regaining consciousness, he was the first to be brought back using Sparkplug's new invention, the [[attitude exchanger]]. Afterward, he accompanied Jazz and Sparkplug to return the other Autobots to normal. When they needed to get Skyfire's attention, Bluestreak fired at him with the results they wanted. {{storylink|Attack of the Autobots (episode)|Attack of the Autobots}}

Bluestreak was present in the Ark when Cliffjumper first accused Mirage of being a traitor and also present later when Mirage was being repaired and Cliffjumper was accusing him again. {{storylink|Traitor}} Bluestreak was the second Autobot to be hit by the Immobilizer when the Autobots went to retrieve it. {{storylink|The Immobilizer}}

[[File:Immobilizer Bluestreak immobilized.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Now I really am Silverstreak!]]
Bluestreak participated in the Autobot race for charity. He was hit by the [[Transfixatron]], rendering him unable to transform. Then [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] disabled him. He was later one of the first to be restored by the [[anti-transfixation grenade]]. {{storylink|The Autobot Run}} Bluestreak assisted with the Autobot attempt to recapture the irreplaceable robot ninja [[Nightbird (G1)|Nightbird]] for the famous scientist [[Doctor Fujiyama the Famous Scientist|Doctor Fujiyama]] after the Decepticons turned her against humanity. Optimus Prime was insistent the Autobots not shoot or harm Nightbird, but Bluestreak saved Prime anyway from the attacking ninja by cleanly shooting Nightbird's laser [[sword]] out of her hands. {{storylink|Enter the Nightbird}}

Bluestreak was around when the Autobots were confused about who was the real Optimus Prime when Megatron's clone infiltrated the Autobot base. {{storylink|A Prime Problem}} He was part of the attack against the Decepticons to try to get [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] on the Autobot side. He succeeded in knocking all three seeker jets out of the sky with a missile barrage, but was later kicked down by Devastator. {{storylink|The Core}} Bluestreak suddenly appeared in the group of Autobots that attacked the Decepticons in [[South America]]. {{storylink|Microbots}} Bluestreak was present when Optimus Prime thanked Spike, Carly, and the Dinobots for what they did for the Autobots. {{storylink|Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 2}}

Bluestreak was in the group of Autobots that responded to the distress call from the [[Haley Observatory]]. They were late and Megatron got away with the [[Voltronic Galaxer]]. {{storylink|Blaster Blues}} Bluestreak was part of the second Autobot group that tried to attack the electrum-covered Decepticons, but was defeated. He was later present in the battle at the golden lagoon, which ended in victory for the Autobots {{storylink|The Golden Lagoon (episode)|The Golden Lagoon}} When [[Kremzeek]] attacked Bluestreak was one of the many Autobots deactivated before [[Sparkplug Witwicky]] was able to coat a few with insulating foam. {{storylink|Kremzeek!}}

[[File:TripleTakeover Bluestreak Altmode.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1]]
Bluestreak entered [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]]'s zone defense around the football stadium, but was severely damaged and built into a throne by [[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]]. {{storylink|Triple Takeover}} When the Decepticons took control of the [[Key to Vector Sigma]], Bluestreak left the base when the Autobots left to attack them. {{storylink|The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 2}}

[[File:TransEuropeExpress riding Wildrider.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgUbRpdUN1w|"What did they expect? THIS!"]]]
Along with several fellow Autobots, Bluestreak participated in the [[Europa 2000]], an international charity race stretching from Paris to Istanbul. When the arrogant racing driver [[Auggie Cahnay (G1)|Auggie Cahnay]] cut across Bumblebee, an indignant Bluestreak helped his understandably angry friend catch up to the American and attempt to teach him some manners. Later, after running afoul of the [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]], Bluestreak learned of Megatron's plan for the [[Pearl of Bahoudin]] from [[Teranova|Professor Teranova]] and deduced that the missing Autobots must have been disabled by the Stunticons.

[[File:Trans-europe-express-bluestreak-reacts.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1]] After Cahnay's car was stolen by the Decepticons to use as raw materials for a weather control machine, Bluestreak allowed the hotshot driver to race him to victory at the finish line. Together, Bluestreak, [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] and Bumblebee headed out to confront the Decepticons, but when the Pearl was lost in a tornado, Megatron unleashed [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] onto the Autobots. Ironically, it was Cahnay who defeated Menasor by sacrificing his car, much to Bluestreak's surprise. {{storylink|Trans-Europe Express}} Bluestreak was at the Autobot base after the Stunticons were captured by the other Autobots. {{storylink|Masquerade}}

In the year [[2005]], Bluestreak helped [[Kup (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Kup]] move a roadblock on [[Lookout Mountain]], just before [[Hot Rod/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Hot Rod]] and [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel Witwicky]] crashed through it. {{storylink|The Transformers: The Movie}}

{{note|The noticeable lack of shoulder cannons means the [[Character model|animation model]] used for Bluestreak's brief appearance in ''The Transformers: The Movie'' was actually Prowl's.}}
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====Japanese cartoon continuity====
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=====''The Battle of the Star Gate''=====
Bluestreak was part of a team of Autobots who attended the field-test for the [[C-X]]. As Optimus and the C-X unit battled one another during the test, Bluestreak suggested ways to improve the C-X’s A.I. and targeting systems. When the C-X suddenly went berserk, Bluestreak jumped into action to help out Optimus Prime against it. The C-X unit simply kicked Bluestreak out of its way, leaving Optimus to disable it on his own. {{storylink|Divided Views}}

Bluestreak was amongst the Autobots who once more confronted Megatron and his Decepticons at the'' [[Trigger]]'' in Earth orbit. When Starscream combined himself with the Trigger to create a powerful new body for himself, Bluestreak had to contend with the volley of asteroids thrown towards both Autobots and Decepticons from Starscream’s star gate. He was then almost sucked into a portal to a black hole when Starscream neared defeat, but was instead sent plummeting down to Earth when Optimus and Megatron worked together to defeat Starscream. {{storylink|The Battle of the Star Gate}}

=====''Story of Binaltech''=====
[[File:BinaltechStreakBoxArt.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Doors of silver, nerves of steel.]]
Suffering from the [[Cosmic Rust (disease)|Cosmic Rust]] virus, Bluestreak was one of the first Autobots reconstructed using [[Binaltech]] technology. Alongside [[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]], [[Hound (G1)|Hound]], [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]], and [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]], he helped [[Earth Defense Command]] drive the Decepticons off of Earth. Bluestreak continued serving on Earth at Autobot City, under [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]]'s overall command. {{storylink|Binaltech Is...}}

As the conflict raged on, thanks to the time- and space-warping actions of both [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] and a mysterious entity known as [[Optimus Primal/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|The Protector]], the events of the Binaltech conflict were branched off to become their own, distinct parallel universe (the "[[BT World]]") separate from [[OG World|the "mainstream" timeline]]. {{storylink|Binal Time}}

{{Note|At this point, the original timeline was retroactively restored and the events of the ''Story of Binaltech'' diverged into a parallel universe. Exactly how many (if any) of the events related in this section, even prior to the divergence, occurred in the original unaltered timeline are unknown.}}

When the spark of Prowl from the "BT World" was lost in interdimensional [[Transwarp|subspace]], it re-emerged in the mainstream timeline, and was discovered by Bluestreak and the other Autobots. Soon after, a strange energy surge came across the dimensions from the "BT World" and made contact with Prowl's spark, driving into a dangerously unstable state. To save the life of this Prowl he had never even known, Bluestreak tracked the energy back across the dimensions and traveled to the "BT World", meeting up with the local versions of [[Grimlock (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Grimlock]] and "[[Prowl II]]" (a duplicate Prowl powered by the consciousness of [[Chip Chase]]). The pair brought him back to the Autobots' headquarters, where he explained the situation to Ultra Magnus. {{storylink|Unfinished Business, Part 1}}

Jazz used the data Bluestreak had brought with him to pinpoint the source of the energy surge. During the subsequent raid, Bluestreak and the Autobots discovered that the surge was the work of [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] and the [[Concurrence]], who were using a subspace node to drain energy from Prowl's spark, which they then used to power a giant robot made of synthetic [[electrum]]. Once Jazz had taken out the node, Bluestreak took down the robot with some well-placed shots. They were then contacted by [[Overdrive]] from Bluestreak's dimension, who reported that Prowl's spark had stabilized, but that it would be too dangerous to send it back through subspace unshielded. Instead, Chip's consciousness was removed from the "Prowl II" body and returned to his human frame, and the Binaltech shell was then taken back across the dimensions by Bluestreak so Prowl's spark could be implanted in it. {{storylink|Binaltech|Unfinished Business, Part 2}}

=====Controverse=====
Bluestreak was present at the trial of [[Primacron]] when the Decepticons crashed the party. {{storylink|Controverse}}

===Marvel Storybooks continuity===
Bluestreak was among the Autobots who confronted Megatron at the Decepticon fortress over the Global building crisis. {{storylink|Battle for Earth}}

===Marvel coloring books===
With Sparkplug acting as their referee, Bluestreak and Sideswipe raced one another in order to determine who was the fastest. The race ended in a tie, with Sparkplug declaring them both winners. Just then, Thundercracker and Starscream swooped down onto the trio, and cast [[Sleep Net]]s unto them, rendering them unconscious. Bluestreak was brought to Megatron's newly constructed prison, and was incarcerated within. Luckily, Bumblebee had not been captured, and managed to free the other Autobots. Upon their escape, Bluestreak and Sideswipe shot Starscream and Thundercracker out of the sky. {{storylink|Bumblebee to the Rescue!}}

Bluestreak spotted the Decepticons attacking Sparkplug and Buster Witwicky. He charged to their rescue, and with the help of the other Autobots, saved both of the humans. He later helped the Autobots protect the Hoover Dam. {{storylink|The Deadly Fuel Shortage}}

Bluestreak was one of the many Autobots who followed Optimus into battle when it was discovered that the Decepticons were stealing fuel from all across the globe with the help of a [[molecular transfer device]]. {{storylink|Summertime Coloring Book}}

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===Big Looker storybooks continuity===
Upon awakening on Earth after being offline for about 65 million years, Bluestreak was one of the Autobots who attempted to take the Decepticons by surprise while the evil robots still did not know what Earth forms the Autobots had taken. 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}}

===Decepticon Poison===
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Bluestreak was amongst the Autobots getting topped up with their latest batch of fuel when Red Alert burst into Autobot headquarters, warning everyone about Ramjet being spotted nearby. The Autobots’ latest batch of fuel had been poisoned by the fleeing Decepticon, leaving Bluestreak unable to transform.

In one possible sequence of events that ensued, Perceptor gave out the right amount of an antidote the Autobot scientist had created, allowing Bluestreak to resume his robot form and take arms against an incoming squadron of Decepticons. The antidote having given Bluestreak and the rest of the cured Autobots a case of battle fever, the bunch were eager to take on the Decepticons head on in combat. The more level-head Prowl suggested instead a more conniving approach, where the Autobots would ambush their assailants.

If Optimus allowed Bluestreak and the rest of the refuelled Autobots to venture headlong into battle, the group fond themselves fighting against Megatron himself, accompanied by a squad of Decepticon jets. Though Bluestreak's squad started out strong, they soon found themselves overpowered by Megatron, prompting Optimus to lead a second wave into battle. The second wave soon ran out of fuel, prompting the Autobots to call a retreat. Thankfully, the Decepticons were damaged enough through the course of the battle, causing them to retreat as well.

If Optimus instead followed Prowl’s plan, he instructed Bluestreak and the others to transform into [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] and play dead. The Decepticons, believing the Autobots to be already dead, 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 each Autobot. Though Bluestreak initially cheered, finding himself able to transform once more, he soon found himself literally falling to pieces. The Autobots finding themselves completely outmatched against an all-out Decepticon attack were made short work of by the Decepticons.

In yet another possible scenario, the Autobots used the tainted fuel to create a toxic cloud that successfully fended off the Decepticons attack. This plan gave Perceptor the time he needed to cure Bluestreak and the others with his antidote. Their ranks fully replenished and the Decepticons turning tail meant the Autobots had earned themselves another victory.

In completely different possible sequence of events, Optimus successfully retrieved the antidote to the poison from the Decepticons’ poison lab, and with Ratchet’s help, brought Bluestreak and the rest of the poisoned Autobots back from the precipice of death. Now cured, the Autobots discussed their next course of action; they had to prevent the Decepticons from poisoning the nearby water reservoir.

If Optimus decided to head for the water reservoir, Bluestreak was one of the Autobots who accompanied him. In one possible scenario, confronted with a swarm of Decepticon jets crowding over the water reservoir, Bluestreak and the other Autobots attempted to lure the Decepticons away from the reservoir, and into a nearby forest where the Autobots would have some cover. Finding themselves under heavy fire before they could reach the treeline, the Autobots were forced to fight back in the open. Bluestreak was then killed by Megatron. {{storylink|Decepticon Poison}}

===Ladybird Books continuity===
Bluestreak chuckled at [[Gears (G1)|Gears]] and [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]]'s efforts to create a lightning collector, while giving what can only be described as a demon-hillbilly grin that will haunt your dreams until your dying day. {{storylink|Autobots' Lightning Strike}}

===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
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When the Autobot/Decepticon war first erupted over 8.7 million years ago, Bluestreak's home city-state of [[Praxus]] was utterly destroyed. ''The entire population of Praxus was killed, with Bluestreak, who had been protected by [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]]'s troops, being the sole exception. This was a deliberate action on Megatron's part, as he wanted a sole survivor to bear witness to his power, and spread his message of terror.'' {{storylink|Transformers: Hardwired|Hardwired}} Originally a merchant, Bluestreak then joined the Autobot army. 500,000 years later, he visited his friend [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optronix]] at the [[Vaults]] and related [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]]'s death, {{storylink|The War Within issue 1|The War Within #1}} and later served in the last-ditch attempt to defend [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] from [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]'s forces. {{storylink|The War Within issue 5|The War Within #5}}

7.4 million years ago, Bluestreak remained with the Autobot faction after the apparent death of Optimus Prime. He and [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] remained at [[Autobase]] while [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] led a task force against [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]. While there, they met [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] and apprised him of the current situation on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. {{storylink|Devastation}} 1.4 million years later, Bluestreak and an Autobot/Decepticon/[[Ultracon]] force helped defend a peace ceremony at [[Tyger Pax]] from the [[Predacon (War Within)|Predacons]]. They were successful against the Predacons, but soon fell before the return of Megatron, and his [[Air Warrior|Aerospace Extermination Squadron]], ushering in the Age of Internment. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath}} {{storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.2}}

Bluestreak was among the crew of the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' when it crashed on [[Earth]] 4 million years ago, and awoke in 1984 to battle the Decepticons. After years of fighting, Bluestreak and the other Autobots took part in [[Operation Liberation]] in 1998, a joint human/Autobot operation that defeated and captured the Earth-bound Decepticons. However, the ''[[Ark II]]'', which was meant to convey the Autobots, the captured Decepticons, and a number of humans back to Cybertron, was sabotaged by General [[Robert Hallo]], sending Bluestreak and his comrades to the bottom of the [[Arctic Ocean]].

Bluestreak was later recovered by the sinister [[Lazarus]], and his deactivated form was used to power [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron's]] deadly metal virus weapon, after the Decepticons broke free of Lazarus's control. By the time he was rescued by Optimus Prime, Bluestreak's energy had been almost fatally depleted. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 4|Prime Directive #4}}

''Bluestreak recovered, however, and rejoined his newly active comrades. He was with Optimus Prime and [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] in Tokyo, Japan, trying to rebuild their rep with the humans when Megatron attacked. During the battle, a lattice of red and blue energy struck down from the heavens, scooping up the four Transformers and over 200 humans in the immediate area, blasting them back out into space. Their hosts were a group of enigmatic beings known as the [[Keeper (species)|Keepers]], who were transporting them through deep space to their base of operations, the [[Labyrinth]]. During their travels, Bluestreak was forced to experience a full-sensory recreation of Praxus, and its last hours before Megatron destroyed it. The Keepers also showed Bluestreak, for the first time, how Megatron used him as a messenger of doom. Horrified at the part he unwittingly played in the Decepticon war engine, Bluestreak swore to destroy Megatron.''

''In the Labyrinth, the Keepers forced the Transformers to participate in battledome combat, fighting alien opponents and each other, with their lives and the lives of the humans taken with them hanging in the balance. Bluestreak and Jazz were forced to fight each other to the death amidst a random assortment of humans, held in place around the battledome by the Keepers' power. Failure to continue the battle resulted in a "penalty", where the Keepers would callously murder the humans to keep the Autobots fighting, but the fighting itself was just as potentially dangerous for the civilians in the arena. The battle only ended when Bluestreak deliberately took a critical blast from Jazz's [[photon rifle]] in order to save one of the humans from certain death. The Keepers forced Jazz to finish the job, executing his friend at point blank range to avoid any additional deaths. Bluestreak died consoling Jazz that he had done the right thing.''

''But he did not die for long. After the Keepers were revealed as vast techno-organic lifeforms, Optimus Prime was able to manipulate the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] to help bring him, Megatron, Jazz and the surviving humans back home. Unfortunately, the Keepers came too, having assembled a menagerie of host bodies for themselves in order to more directly interact with other beings. One of those host bodies was Bluestreak's animated corpse.'' {{storylink|Transformers: Hardwired|Hardwired}}

''The Keepers took up residence in [[Las Vegas]], a city [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] had claimed in the Decepticon name with Megatron absent. Through their host Bluestreak, the Keepers attempted to make Starscream submit to their rule. When he refused, Keeper-Bluestreak overloaded him with raw energy, bringing Starscream to the brink of death so that his body could be taken by the Keepers as well. The remaining Decepticons loyal to Starscream were contained behind an impenetrable energy barrier.''

''The free Autobots and Decepticons of Earth joined forces with the human military forces in an effort to retake Las Vegas. The Keepers possessing Bluestreak and Starscream were immensely powerful, but their host bodies were still damaged during the conflict. To better confront their adversaries, they merged the two Cybertronians into a single, massive host. This proved to be their undoing. Bluestreak's consciousness survived, lost in an astral void while the Keeper controlled his body, unable to communicate or interact with anything. Starscream was in the same state until their bodies merged, allowing their minds to touch as well. Together, Bluestreak and Starscream exerted their will over their unwanted passengers, forcing the Keepers out and reclaiming their own separate bodies. In the end, Optimus Prime used the power of the Matrix to capture and redirect the force of a nuclear missile strike and a vein of pure Energon to eradicate the Keepers.'' {{storylink|Transformers: Annihilation|Annihilation}}

''Unfortunately, the Keepers were not done yet. Not quite. They still existed in the Void, a non-space outside of the dimensional walls. Their human agent, [[Franklin Townsend]], was able to use the lingering power of the Keepers to take control of Bluestreak and Starscream, forcing them to serve him in paving the way for the Keepers' return. This was not true possession, however, but a form of mental compulsion, which Bluestreak was able to at least partially resist. Despite this, Townsend was still able to acquire the Matrix and the services of [[Allister Greaves]], a human who was forced to create a gateway for the Keepers.''

''A final battle occurred at Greaves estate, where the gateway was constructed. Optimus and Megatron arrived with support from [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] and the [[Omega Sentinel (G1)|Omega Sentinel]]. As Bluestreak and Starscream were forced to defend the gateway, the Autobot finally broke free of his mental domination. He was ready to kill Franklin in cold blood for revenge, but [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] arrived and tried to talk him out of it. As they were arguing, Franklin attacked [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] to regain control of the gateway, and Bluestreak blasted him in order to save Spike. Optimus finally sealed the gateway and the Keepers were trapped in the Void forever.'' {{storylink|Transformers: Fusion|Fusion}}

When Shockwave came to Earth and announced that the Autobot/Decepticon wars were over and that the two factions had been united, Bluestreak was more than skeptical, suggesting it was a trick. The memory of his destroyed home-city still haunted him, and he would not believe the same beings who killed innocents could change their ways. His views clashed those of with [[Gears (G1)|Gears]], who did not see the point in fighting wars that had been ended. {{storylink|New World Order}} Despite his objections, Bluestreak was among the Autobots who joined Optimus Prime in surrendering to Shockwave's lieutenant, [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} Ferried back to Cybertron by [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]], Bluestreak and the others were imprisoned and scheduled for execution, but were freed by [[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]] and taken to an underground hideout. {{storylink|Cold War (issue)|Cold War}} He fought in the battle to retake Iacon and witnessed Shockwave activating the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. Victorious, Bluestreak and his comrades began to rebuild their planet. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}}

Shortly after Ultra Magnus recovered from injuries he suffered when the Autobots overthrew Shockwave, Bluestreak and the rest of the ''Ark''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s crew were approached by Prowl about returning to Earth. {{storylink|Original Sin}} Prowl wanted to establish a more permanent Autobot presence on Earth, due in part to some curious data he had come across while researching the clone entity known as [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]]. Bluestreak was by far the most talkative of the Autobots at the meeting, weighing in on both sides of the discussion as the debate over returning raged back and forth. Unfortunately for Bluestreak, no one was listening to a word he said. {{storylink|Atonement}} Prowl eventually convinced all of the ''Ark''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s crew to return with him and begin construction of [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]] on Earth, and they departed from Cybertron shortly thereafter. {{storylink|Lost and Found (issue)|Lost and Found}}
{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Revelation (The Dark Ages)|Revelation}} {{storylink|Passive Aggression}}}}

===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===
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Bluestreak was among the deactivated Transformers found, rebuilt and reprogrammed by [[Cobra]], who proceeded to use the alien robots for their plan to conquer the world. Along with Prowl, Bluestreak now transformed into a Cobra [[Firebat]] jet, but was eventually freed from the humans' control by [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack's]] tampering. Joining Prowl, [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] and [[Gears (G1)|Gears]], he confronted [[Cobra Commander]] and fought against his [[S.N.A.K.E.]] guards. Bluestreak was horrified when [[Storm Shadow]] killed Trailbreaker during the fight, but the shock quickly turned to anger, and he and his comrades attacked the human and ripped his mech apart. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #5}} Bluestreak was later seen fighting Decepticon [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]] in the sky when the [[SPS Satellite]] went out of control and started firing at [[Cobra Island]] randomly. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 6|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #6}}
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===''The Beast Within''===
After a brutal battle during which [[Beast (G1)|The Beast]], a monstrous gestalt of unimaginable power, was released, Bluestreak’s butchered form lay smoldering in a mass grave of both Autobot and Decepticon corpses. {{storylink|The Beast Within Part 2, Consequences}}
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===IDW ''Hearts of Steel'' comics===
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Bluestreak was among the Autobot forces who fought the Decepticons on Earth in the distant past until an incoming ice age threatened to deactivate all the Transformers. Both sides went into hiding underground until the danger had passed, remaining in stasis until the mid-19th century. When they woke up, the war against the Decepticons started anew, though Bluestreak was not seen partaking in any of the action. {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 1|Hearts of Steel #1}}
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=== IDW Generation 1 continuity===
{{note|IDW continuity is inconsistent about Bluestreak's name, calling him Bluestreak in most stories but Silverstreak in the [[The Transformers (IDW)|2009-2011 ongoing series]] and ''[[The Transformers: Ironhide|Ironhide]]'' miniseries.}}
At the very beginning of the Cybertronian civil war, Bluestreak worked in Security Services under Sentinel Prime. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 4|Megatron Origin #4}} Later, but still very early in the war, Bluestreak helped defend the planet from [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] as part of [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]]'s harassment team. {{storylink|The Illusion of Control}} At a later point still, he was part of an extraction team led by [[Ironhide (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ironhide]] that retrieved a damaged Jazz and Tracks from their skirmishing with the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacon]]s. Bluestreak's sharpshooting skills took out [[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]] just in time to keep Jazz on-line. {{storylink|Spotlight: Jazz}}

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Bluestreak would become the longest-standing patient of Autobot psycho-analyst [[Rung (G1)|Rung]], presumably due to his survivor's guilt over the destruction of [[Praxus]]. {{storylink|Bullets}}

Four million years ago, <s>Bluestreak</s> <s>Silverstreak</s> good ol' Streak was present at a victory celebration after the Autobots successfully prevented a supply of energon from reaching the enemy camp. He was too busy getting drunk on energon to really heed Ironhide's security concerns about a [[Axer (G1)|suspicious-looking Autobot]] at the party. {{storylink|The Iron Age}} 500,000 years ago he fought Decepticons during [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]]'s final stand. {{storylink|Earthfall Part 1: Hello Cruel World|Hello Cruel World}}

Roughly 500 years ago, Bluestreak was on Blaster's orbital array during the Decepticons' post-[[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] advance, shortly before the planet was abandoned, and fought against their final big push. {{storylink|Spotlight: Blaster}}

Much later, Bluestreak was in command of the Autobot tactical response unit, seen briefly on the Autobots' orbital command hub. {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 1|Stormbringer #1}} On [[Varas Centralus]], in the [[Kol System]], Bluestreak's unit was joined by the [[Wrecker]]s during Phase Six. The Wreckers assaulted the Decepticon [[Infiltration protocol|siege mode armature]], but Bluestreak kept his own squad out of the fighting, citing the planet as a lost cause. [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] attempted to talk Bluestreak into attacking the Decepticons with the Wreckers, before Springer's crew were pulled from Varas Centralus to deal with the crisis created by the revival of [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]]. The final fate of Varas Centralus is unknown, but probably could be categorized as "not good". {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 2|Stormbringer #2}}

Bluestreak later returned to [[Autobot Orbital Command Hub]] in order to greet [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] personally upon his revival. Because he had been present on the orbital array when Blaster was first attacked and went missing centuries ago, however, Bluestreak was one of the Autobots (along with [[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]], [[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]] and Mirage) suspected of trying to assassinate Blaster. {{storylink|Spotlight: Blaster}}

[[File:IDWBluestreakSilverstreak.jpg|upright=2.0|thumb|Oh, come on!]]
After the [[Surge (event)|Surge]], Bluestreak was in command of unit operating on [[Hydrus 5]]. One of his subordinates was [[Flattop (Autobot)|Flattop]]. {{storylink|Bullets}}

Silverstreak was among the Autobots who ended up on Earth following the effects of the Surge. Like several others he grew sick of hiding on the planet and joined [[Hot Rod/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Hot Rod]] when he defected. {{storylink|Things Fall Apart, Part 1: "New Arrivals, Old Encounters"|New Arrivals, Old Encounters}} Despite this, he was seen with the Autobots who stayed behind, cheering for [[Bumblebee (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Bumblebee]] when he was chosen to lead them. {{storylink|The Hanging Sword}} Silverstreak helped with the construction of a space cruiser alongside Hot Rod and [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]]'s united faction. {{storylink|Things Fall Apart, Part 3: "Seasons in Flight"|Seasons in Flight}}

{{note|Bluestreak's appearance in [[The Transformers: Bumblebee]] may simply be an error. Another possibility, though less likely, is that Bluestreak and Silverstreak are two different characters in IDW, much like Bumblebee and [[Goldbug (IDW)|Goldbug]] or [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]] and [[Galvatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Galvatron]].}}

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Like many Autobots, Silverstreak had some difficulties working with the Decepticons. He got suspicious when Swindle and the [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]] spent so much time working to repair [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]], the latest Decepticon they had rescued from [[Skywatch]]. Hot Rod (now calling himself "Rodimus") told him to let the old mistrust between the factions go, but Silverstreak proved to have good instincts—Swindle had installed combiner technology in the Stunticons, creating the menace of [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] which he turned against their new Autobot "comrades". {{storylink|Things Fall Apart, Part 4: "Enemies of the System"|Enemies of the System}} After Menasor was defeated, Silverstreak chastized Rodimus for failing to predict someone named "Swindle" might be less than trustworthy. As Rodimus fled Earth in Ultra Magnus's shuttle, Silverstreak, [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] and the rest of the splinter faction apparently rejoined Bumblebee and the rest of the Autobots. {{storylink|Things Fall Apart, Part 5: "Earthworks"|Earthworks}}

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After the Autobot factions reunited, they formed an alliance with Skywatch. When the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]] were causing trouble in [[South Korea]], several Autobots were sent to fight them while Silverstreak was left behind in a Skywatch hangar, where he was forced to listen to [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]] complain about not being picked. He decided to give his "unpleasant" comrade some constructive criticism, telling him that nobody likes angry and moping whiners. On the other hand, everybody loves optimists, like for example Silverstreak! Somehow, this didn't improve Brawn's mood any, so Silverstreak went back to drinking with [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]]. {{storylink|International Incident Part 3: "Hawk Among the Sparrows"|Hawk Among the Sparrows}} When the Autobots in Korea were faced with the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]], Silverstreak was horrified that he couldn't help them, and asked [[Kyle Pennington|Pennington]] what a "nightmare" was so that he could properly compare the situation to one. The battle was eventually won, though it led to the secret Autobot-Skywatch alliance getting revealed to the world. Silverstreak and Brawn stood by Bumblebee as he tried to calm the human crowds, but failed to protect him from a human assassin with an energy gun. {{storylink|International Incident Part 4: "All My Sins Remembered"|All My Sins Remembered}}

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Things only went downhill from there. The human riots continued, the energy gun appeared to be none other than Megatron himself, the plane carrying the Korea team home was shot down, and finally the Decepticons returned to Earth and attacked the Skywatch base where Silverstreak and the others were based. The Autobots were incapacitated by [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]]'s sonic attacks and failed to stop the Decepticons from freeing their captured brethren. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 1: The Demolished Man|The Demolished Man}} Ultra Magnus took command and had the base evacuated, though Silverstreak worried about moving an injured Pennington around. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 2: Altered Carbon|Altered Carbon}} As they fled towards [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]], the Autobots were attacked by more angry humans with energy guns (now known to only be replicas of Megatron's [[alternate mode]]) and Silverstreak sustained damage to a tire. Then things went downhill again, with Megatron himself showing up in a new, more powerful form and defeating the entire Autobot convoy single-handedly. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 3: Woken Furies|Woken Furies}}

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The injured Autobots were dumped in [[Albuquerque]] to be held hostage by additional armed, paranoid humans. They were saved, but at the cost of Jazz killing one of the humans, which only served to further ruin their reputation amongst humanity. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 4: Burning Chrome|Burning Chrome}}

Some six weeks later, Silverstreak was shocked to learn that Rodimus had returned to Earth with the [[Matrix of Leadership]] and several Autobots who were thought dead or long lost, and brought these news to a repaired Bumblebee. After relaxing with [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]], he joined the rest of the Autobots in volunteering to return to Cybertron and fight [[Galvatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Galvatron]]. {{storylink|Space Opera—Final Tableaux: Orphans of the Helix|Orphans of the Helix}} On the way home, Silverstreak listened to Ironhide tell the story about the time he met [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]]. {{storylink|Chaos Part One: Lamentations|Lamentations}} On Cybertron, as the battle against Galvatron's [[Sweep (G1)|Sweep]]s raged on, he bore witness to Megatron's battle with the monstrous "[[Deceptigod]]". {{storylink|Chaos Part Four: Genesis|Genesis}}

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Once the war was over and Cybertron was restored, Silverstreak tried to sign up for the ''[[Lost Light]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s journey but didn't make it in. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 1: Towards Peace|Towards Peace}} Remaining on Cybertron, he was seen wandering around in a crowd of [[NAIL]]s who had returned home after the war. {{storylink|The Autonomy Lesson (issue)|The Autonomy Lesson}} Later, he was on patrol in the reclamation tunnels where captured Decepticons worked and guarded [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]] after he witnessed [[Skydive (Predator)|Skydive]]'s murder. {{storylink|Devisive}} Together with [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] and [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]], Silverstreak visited [[Maccadam's Old Oil House]] the morning it reopened for business. {{storylink|A Better Tomorrow}} He apparently really liked the place, as he was still there when Bumblebee came to talk to the bartender, [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]]. {{storylink|Night and the City}} Later, Silverstreak was present when Megatron's returned from the Cybertronian wilderness. After the Decepticon had been subdued and imprisoned, Streak was on guard duty at the makeshift prison in the city. When Starscream came in for a friendly chat with his former leader, he referred to Streak as "Bluestreak." {{storylink|City on Fire}} Shortly afterwards, the Decepticons invaded the prison in order to free Megatron. Bluestreak was confident that he, [[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]] and [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] could defend the place all by themselves, but instead became the first one to fall after taking a shot to the head. {{storylink|The Verge}} He survived the injury and was safely hidden away from the Decepticons by none other than Swindle. {{storylink|Heavy Is the Head}}

After recovering, Bluestreak was banished into the wilderness alongside his comrades when Iacon became a neutrals-only city. {{storylink|Dark Dawn: Dark Cybertron Chapter 1|Dark Dawn}} He returned after the [[Necrotitan]] was taken down, celebrating its defeat at [[Swerve's]] alongside [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]]. {{storylink|The Becoming: Dark Cybertron Chapter 10|The Becoming}} As the ''Lost Light'' prepared to take off again, Bluestreak made his second attempt to sign up only to be stopped by [[Swerve (G1)|Swerve]], who told him during the "crewditions" that people who looked like [[Prowl (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Prowl]] weren't allowed on board. He was present for Megatron's [[Luna 2]] trial. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 1: Towards Peace|Towards Peace}} He was just messing around, though, and Bluestreak was indeed allowed to join the crew, now under the unexpected command of a reformed Megatron. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 2: Words Hang in the Air|Words Hang in the Air}} Bluestreak was appointed entertainments officer aboard the ship and began regular screenings of Earth movies such as ''[[Zulu]]'' in Swerve's, though circumstances dictated that he evacuate the ship along with everyone else when the ''Lost Light'' literally began to disappear around them. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 3: Predestination: A Beginner's Guide|Predestination: A Beginner's Guide}} Soon afterwards, the shuttle in which he escaped also disappeared.

{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|The Gloaming}} {{storylink|Births, Deaths, and Interventions}} {{storylink|The Custom-Made Now - An Elegant Chaos Prologue|The Custom-Made Now}} {{storylink|Earthfall Chapter 4: Full Fathom Five|Full Fathom Five}} {{storylink|Earthfall Chapter 5: I Dream of Wires|I Dream of Wires}} {{storylink|The Dying of the Light: (1) How Bright Their Frail Deeds|How Bright Their Frail Deeds}} {{storylink|No Guns, No Swords, No Briefcases}}}}

===''Henkei! Henkei!'' pack-in manga===
Bluestreak and [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] were unwittingly both chasing the same Decepticon, the [[Triple Changer]] [[Octane]]. Once he revealed himself, the two Autobots teamed up against Octane. Bluestreak got buried face-first in the fight, but Sideswipe drove off their attacker. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 6|Henkei! Henkei! #6}}

===''Henkei! Henkei! Transformers -Visualize-''===
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===''Q-Transformers'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Fukujurō Katayama]] (Japanese)}}
{{Charstubfiction|{{storylink|Mystery of Game Balance}} {{storylink|Mystery of a Certain Psychic}} {{storylink|Mystery of Return of Convoy}}}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
In [[Primax 085.0 Eta]], Silverstreak was selected to be a member of team which was to travel to [[Gargent 087.0 Kappa|an alternate universe]], designated the 22nd Strata, to find and stop the source of a series of environmental disasters threatening Cybertron. [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], [[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]], [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]], and [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] comprised the rest of the team; they dubbed themselves [[Spy Changer]]s because they aimed to achieve their goal with stealth and diplomacy. The Spy Changers modified their bodies to match the Strata 22's native cyborgs using data acquired from the [[Sky Spy]] and then traveled there. However, they were soon attacked by the local [[Guardian (GoBots)|Guardian]]s, who mistakenly presumed them to be [[Renegade]]s. The Spy Changers were then rescued by the real Renegades, who presumed them to be potential allies and took them back to their flagship, the ''[[Rogue Star]]''. Renegade leader [[Cy-Kill (GoBots)|Cy-Kill]] attempted to court the Spy Changers as allies, but Optimus saw through Cy-Kill's deception. Eventually, the Autobots formed a secret alliance with the Guardians as well as discovered the cause of Cybertron's troubles: Renegade bases on [[Moebius]] were draining the planet's energy. The planet's geometry had turned it into a crude [[Dimensional Interfacer]], and Moebius was tapping into Cybertron to sustain itself. Hoist was able to end the crisis by triggering the bases' remote detonation sequence. Cy-Kill was furious, but in the ensuing battle, the Autobot-Guardian alliance triumphed over the Renegades. Optimus Prime and [[Leader-1 (GoBots)|Leader-1]] shook hands as a symbol of the transdimensional friendship, and the Autobots returned to their home reality, secure in the knowledge that they had allies in places as distant as alternate realities. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 30/9/2015}}

==Games==
===Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons===
When Optimus embarked on his mission to rescue the Autobots' [[Mini Vehicle|Minicar]] troops from the Decepticons, Bluestreak could come to Optimus Prime's aid, helping him navigate more quickly through the Decepticons' maze-like base. {{storylink|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons packaging blurb and game}}
===''The Transformers'' (PS2)===
{{Note|Bluestreak is a non-playable character. He appears among the legion of Autobot duplicates in the Decepticon campaign.}}

{{storylink|The Transformers (PS2)|The Transformers}}
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===''Transformers Legends''===
Silverstreak was among the Autobots handpicked by [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] for a mission to deliver energon to a hidden Autobot base. Unfortunately their plan was foiled by the interference of [[Rampage (G1)|Rampage]], [[Tantrum (G1)|Tantrum]] and [[Headstrong (G1)|Headstrong]]. {{storylink|Road to Ruin}} He was among the Autobots affected by Megatron's sabotage of the Autobot [[recharging chamber]] and began to act erratically. He was the only one left when the other Autobots went to attack [[Rutter U.S. Military Base|Rutter Military Base]] and was subdued by Jazz and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], who had escaped the affliction. He and the other Autobots were returned to normal by [[Sparkplug Witwicky|Sparkplug]]'s [[attitude exchanger]]. {{storylink|Attack of the Autobots (Legends)|Attack of the Autobots}}

Silverstreak, [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] and [[Gears (G1)|Gears]] were sent to [[South America]] where the Decepticons were attempting to build a cannon to harness the energy of the [[Crystal of Power]]. Even joined by [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]], the Autobots were unable to prevent the cannon's completion, but later destroyed it and capped the shaft on which the crystal had stood. {{storylink|Fire on the Mountain (Legends)|Fire on the Mountain}} When Spike had the genius idea of holding a charity race, Silverstreak and [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailcutter]] talked the other Autobots into it. Unfortunately the Constructicons zapped them all with the [[Transfixatron]] during the race, and the Autobots, now stuck in [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]], had to hold the Decepticons off long enough for their scientists to reverse the effects. {{storylink|Autobot Run}}

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

==Notes==
[[File:Bluebluestreak.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Sadly, we can't just put this note in the "Does not exist" category.]]
*One of the longest-running [[Misconceptions and urban legends about Transformers|myths about Transformers]] is the existence of the "blue-sided Bluestreak". This misconception has its origins in Bluestreak's [[Package art|box art]] and [[Instructions|instruction sheet]], as well as the original 1984 [[Catalog|toy catalogs]],<ref>[http://tfarchive.com/toys/catalogues/generationone_catalogue/84a_catalog.jpg Transformers catalog, circa 1984 (Autobots)]</ref> all of which used the blue-sided ''[[Diaclone]]'' variant of the Fairlady mold. No sealed samples of the blue-sided Bluestreak in a ''Transformers'' box have ''ever'' been found. Oddly enough, numerous other Transformers toys from that era were depicted in both catalogues and packaging art with colors they were never released in —[[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]], [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]], and the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]], for example— yet Bluestreak is the only one to be (mis)remembered in this manner, perhaps because his name is ''Blue''streak, so he had to have been blue, right?
*Compounding the confusion, a second Diaclone variant exists, with a black hood and silver sides. Oddly, it does not seem as sought after as the blue side variant, despite being less common ''and'' the basis for Bluestreak's animation model (and thus more [[show-accuracy|screen accurate]]).
*The Bluestreak/Prowl head design was used as the basis for the head of [[Natron]], the Autobot [[Tyco]] [[Electric Racing Set]] car.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Streak''' (ストリーク ''Sutorīku'')
*''French:'' '''Jaseur''' (Canada, "Chatty")
*''Hungarian:'' '''Kékvillám''' ("Blue Lightning")
*''Italian:'' '''Ariete''' ("Ram")
*''Mandarin:'' '''Lán Wén''' (Taiwan, 藍紋, "Blue Streak"), '''Lán Pīlì''' (China, 蓝霹雳, "Blue Thunderbolt")
*''Portuguese:'' '''Raio Azul''' (Portugal comic, "Blue Ray"), '''Raio''' (Brazil comic, "Ray")
*''Russian:'' '''Molniyevik''' (Молниевик, "Lightning-Maker")

==References==
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Riptide (G1)

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:''Riptide is an [[Autobot]] [[Hydrobot]] from the [[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW portion]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''
[[File:RiptideR.jpg|upright=1.33|thumb|Lady, running down to the riptide, taken away to the dark side, I wanna be your left hand man]]
'''Riptide''' has never really been particularly smart. Preferring to enjoy the simpler things in life, such as drinking at [[Swerve's]] and pulling pranks on his fellow 'bots, Riptide fits perfectly into the ''[[Lost Light]]<nowiki>'s</nowiki>'' already dysfunctional crew. He's also a bit of a chatterbox, especially when worried or scared.

==Fiction==
===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
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Riptide was [[Reproduction|constructed cold]] as a [[M.T.O.]] in response to the [[Simanzi Massacre]], specifically to combat the [[Forced Flood]].

Riptide was present when [[Drift (G1)|Drift]] and [[Pipes (G1)|Pipes]] purchased the ''[[Lost Light]]'' from a pair of [[NAIL]]s in [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]]'s religious quarter. Suspicious of the original owners, Riptide offered to go back to get a receipt of sale but found the NAILs laughing about how they had sold a ship that contained a [[Sparkeater (creature)|Sparkeater]]. In response Riptide attacked them but was instead knocked out for two days, preventing him from joining the original ''Lost Light'' crew. {{storylink|Twenty Plus One}}

He finally got a second chance to join up a few years later when the ''Lost Light'' briefly returned to Cybertron. As the ship prepared to get back to its mission, a disinterested Riptide was roped into helping [[Swerve (G1)|Swerve]] and [[Crosscut (Autobot)|Crosscut]] with his fake new crewmember interviews. He was also present for [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]]'s trial at [[Raskol Arena]]. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 1: Towards Peace|Towards Peace}}

[[File:Nautica-mtmte-33-notagoodthing.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.2|I love you when you're singing that song and I got a lump in my throat 'cause you're gonna sing the words wrong]]
Reading the ''[[Lost Light Insider]]'' at Swerve's, Riptide managed to convince [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailcutter]] to break into the Medbay and steal Megatron's "super fuel". When communications with the Forcefield Specialist broke down, Riptide brushed off [[Skids (G1)|Skids]]' concerns. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 2: Words Hang in the Air|Words Hang in the Air}} Not long afterwards when it became apparent that the ''Lost Light'' was disappearing around them, Riptide abandoned the ship along with twenty other 'bots aboard the [[Rodpod]], though his fellow escapees continued to vanish. After [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] worked out that those left behind were ''not'' part of the ''Lost Light'''s crew at launch, the Rodpod arrived at [[Ofsted XVII]] to find their ship, apparently broken in half. {{storylink|Twenty Plus One}}

Upon boarding the shattered remains, the Lost Lighters were stunned to recognise their landing zone as Swerve's bar. Megatron enlisted the aid of stowaway [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] to help look for survivors, and in response Riptide took to mocking the Decepticon feline, getting a few digs in when Ravage claimed to smell [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]] but instead turned up Minimus Ambus instead. Megatron chastized him for being so flippant in front of a dead body and Riptide felt sufficiently ashamed enough to apologise. He was later teamed with Skids and [[Getaway]] as they searched for clues, and was the first to discover a room full of dead Lost Lighters, all in their altmodes and missing their [[transformation cog]]s. When both Skids and Megatron reached the conclusion the Lost Light they were aboard had been attacked by the [[Decepticon Justice Division]], Riptide helped explain the group to [[Nautica (G1)|Nautica]], and hurriedly informed the team he'd repaired the Rodpod as the ''Lost Light'' shook. {{storylink|slaughterhouse}}

After Nautica mentioned the Lost Light's quantum drums floating in space, Riptide suggested that the profession just involved placing the word 'quantum' before other words. Nautica responded with a badly-executed joke, prompting him to remark on her failed effort. He later ends [[Rewind (G1)|Rewind's]] tale about the DJD's attack by noticing that the quantum foam outside of the ship was beginning to spread. {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}}
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{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 3: Predestination: A Beginner's Guide|Predestination: A Beginner's Guide}} {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 1: All Our Parlous Yesterdays|All Our Parlous Yesterdays}} {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 2: Stet|Stet}} {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 3: Predestination: An Expert's Guide|Predestination: An Expert's Guide}} {{storylink|Our Steps Will Always Rhyme}} {{storylink|The Frail Gaze}} {{storylink|The Not Knowing}} {{storylink|Speak, Memory: Part 1}} {{storylink|The Dying of the Light: (1) How Bright Their Frail Deeds|How Bright Their Frail Deeds}} {{storylink|No Guns, No Swords, No Briefcases}}}}

==Notes==
[[File:RiptideV.jpg|thumb|I love you when you're singing that song and I got a lump in my throat 'cause you gone and sank the world's wolf]]
*Riptide's robot and vehicle modes were revealed by [[Alex Milne]] on Twitter on [[March 29]], [[2014]].
*Milne partially based Riptide's color scheme on the Water Tribe from television series ''{{w|Avatar: The Last Airbender}}''.

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Sky-Byte (G2)

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:''Sky-Byte is a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] or [[Decepticon]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:SkyByteTimelines-boxart.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Put your best knee forward.]]
'''Sky-Byte''' is a storyteller. A poet. In times of peace, he loves nothing more than to perform on stage in front of an adoring crowd. When things aren't so peaceful, Sky-Byte is a capable and ferocious fighter with a strong sense of loyalty to his allies, though sometimes he falls on the side of the Decepticons merely because of an existing rivalry he's maintaining with an [[Autobot]]. Even in battle, he doesn't miss a chance to regale those present with his latest haiku.

==Fiction==
===''Car Robots'' cartoon===
{{main|Sky-Byte (RID)#2001 Robots in Disguise cartoon}}
{{note|While the [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 cartoon)|2001 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon]] is considered to be [[Viron|the basis of its own]] [[continuity family]], the Japanese cartoon it adapts, ''Car Robots'', is part of the [[Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]. See the 2001 ''Robots in Disguise'' Sky-Byte's article for details of ''Car Robots'' Gelshark.}}

===''Wings Universe''===
[[File:G2Redux-SkyByte.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.66|Here to you Dantes! This is for Pushkin!]]
Created as an agent of the [[Quintesson]]s, Sky-Byte was the commander of the new generation of [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticon]]s. Unlike his dim-witted troops, Sky-Byte exhibited a scientific and creative nature, whether it be by making new advances in technology or writing haiku to express himself during tense and exciting moments.

In [[2010]], Sky-Byte was sent to Earth by the Quintessons as part of an alliance with the Decepticon outlaw [[Clench (G1)|Clench]]. His army of next-generation Sharkticons successfully empowered Clench's Decepticon Syndicate, and they were able to take control of the Large Hadron Collider in [[Switzerland]].

There, Sky-Byte worked with Clench to realize the potential of the low-grade fuel [[forestonite]]. He determined that bombarding the forestonite with high-energy particles allowed it to alter Transformers, granting them extraordinary power. Pyro teased Clench for hanging around with Quintesson flunkies, and Sky-Byte responded with pride about how his new forestonite fuel would tip the balance of power. Sky-Byte may have oversold the stuff, however, as Clench impulsively fed some to [[Cindersaur (G1)|Cindersaur]]—''and it wasn't meant to be taken orally!''—and then insisted that Sky-Byte himself be one of the next round of test subjects.

[[File:G2Redux-SkyBytealtmode.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|right]]
When the Autobots burst into the facility in an attempt to rescue [[Pyro (G1)|Spark]], Sky-Byte taunted them with a haiku and, when that was poorly received, then tried to zap them all with his "[[Tsunami Blaster]]", a new and deadly ability bestowed upon him by the forestonite. The battle was ultimately decided when a nervous Breakdown shot the canisters of forestonite, thinking they would explode. Instead, the chemical spread out in gaseous form all over the remaining Transformers, equaling the balance of power for the Autobots. [[Rapido]] gained the power to outrun Sky-Byte's shark missile attack, and soon the Decepticons were thoroughly routed. At this point, Sky-Byte fled the scene with his Sharkticons and a sample of forestonite. Without his additional muscle, Clench was forced to retreat as well.

And, yes, even while running for his life, Sky-Byte had the frame of mind to write a pretty haiku. {{storylink|Generation 2: Redux}}

Two years later, Sky-Byte teamed up with [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]], providing the Decepticon with large quantities of forestonite. {{storylink|A Flash Forward, Part 2}} His duties included preparing the ship for takeoff to [[Nebulos]]. {{storylink|A Flash Forward, Part 3}} [[File:Sky-ByteRampageandTantrum-ACommonFoe.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|left]] He was almost run down by [[Side Burn (G1)|Side Burn]] as the latter drove through the base, prompting him to shoot a furious haiku at the Autobot. {{storylink|A Flash Forward, Part 5}} Following the destruction of Jhiaxus's base on [[Qre]], Sky-Byte and his associate watched the Autobots leave with several of the clones, and Jhiaxus confided in him that the whole experience had been a test. {{storylink|A Flash Forward, Part 6}}

At some point, Sky-Byte secretly joined forces with the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]]. {{storylink|A Common Foe}} After the construction of a massive clone army and its prolonged siege on Cybertron, Sky-Byte accompanied Jhiaxus when he arrived on the planet to offer the native Autobot-Decepticon resistance and [[Megaplex (MW)|his wayward clone commander]] a final choice. {{storylink|Termination}} Despite Sky-Byte's assistance, the [[Cybertronian (faction)|Cybertronian]] invasion lost the following battle. The Predacon fled and raided Jhiaxus's secondary laboratory of its stasis pods before the laboratory could be discovered by the Autobots and the Decepticons. The stasis pods were brought to the other Predacons so they could create [[Predacon (BW)|their own army]] in the aftermath of the [[Pax Cybertronia|peace treaty]] between the Autobots, Decepticons, and Jhiaxus's clones. Included in the batch were four mysterious capsules, one of which included [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]]. {{Storylink|A Common Foe}}
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===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
[[File:ABetterTomorrow-reputation.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.66|Who's the most moderate shark in town?]]

More than four million years ago, Sky-Byte was a Decepticon, but atrocities committed by the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] on [[Varas Centralus]] convinced him to flee the war and his homeworld. Before Sky-Byte's retreat, he had a rivalry with [[Ironhide (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ironhide]]. {{storylink| A Better Tomorrow}} At some point during the war, a statue of Sky-Byte was made by the [[Censere| Necrobot]]. {{storylink| The Not Knowing}}

In the current era, [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] was rebooted into a primordial state and [[Vector Sigma]] sent out a signal to its planet's scattered people to return. Sky-Byte heeded this call, but had reservations about the uneasy politics between the Autobots, the Decepticons, and the [[NAIL|nonaffiliated]]. The ex-Decepticon poet pursued some solitude, musing over a decapitated [[Sweep (G1)|Sweep]], when he was interrupted by Ironhide. Sky-Byte expected a fight from his old rival, but Ironhide surprised him with his ease and candor. Still, Sky-Byte expressed his suspicions towards the Autobots, and so Ironhide suggested he check out the Decepticons as well to see if they were any better. Sky-Byte followed Ironhide's suggestion and met with the Decepticons, but he was followed by [[Prowl (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Prowl]]'s Autobots so that they could make arrests. Things quickly got out of hand and a battle erupted until Ironhide settled everyone down.

[[File:InterferencePatterns Jazz and Sky-Byte.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Kids these days and their music!]]
Later, Sky-Byte joined Prowl for a drink at [[Maccadam's Old Oil House]], which Ironhide and [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] had re-opened as a place where Transformers could meet in peace regardless of affiliation. Ironhide explained to them why he had changed -- he had seen a vision of the distant future where he was alive but the war was dead... because so were Sky-Byte, Prowl, and the rest of the Autobots and Decepticons. {{storylink|A Better Tomorrow}} Sky-Byte was later performing a musical/poetic duet with [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] at Maccadam's Old Oil House. {{storylink|Interference Patterns}} Some time after sharing some poetry with [[Starscream (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Starscream]], Sky-Byte joined a crowd of neutrals and Decepticons recruited by him in an attempt to pressure [[Prowl (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Prowl]] into revealing one of his secret discoveries below ground on Cybertron. When they followed Starscream and Prowl into the cave, they witnessed a [[Metrotitan (body-type)|Metrotitan]] declare that Starscream was the Cybertronian destined to unite their whole race. {{storylink|Primus: All Good Things}}

When the Decepticon population began rioting in the wake of [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]]'s return, Sky-Byte holed up inside Maccadam's alongside Jazz and some other neutrals. {{storylink|City on Fire}} They were eventually forced to abandon their hideout after the rioters burned it down, {{storylink|The Verge}} and relocated to [[Fixit (G1)|Fixit]]'s med-center. {{storylink|Before the Dawn}} During Megatron's subsequent conquest of the city, the med-center was the attacked by [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]], and Sky-Byte offered to help his partner Jazz fight the giant. Jazz turned him down, telling him to get the injured to safety instead. {{storylink|Plan for Everything}} Together with some of his neutral friends, he later prevented [[Needlenose (G1)|Needlenose]] from killing [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] for helping injured Autobots. {{storylink|Heavy Is the Head}}

After the battle ended with Starscream claiming leadership of the neutrals and banishing both Autobots and Decepticons, Sky-Byte returned to Maccadam's to help rebuild it. {{storylink|Three Monologues}} When the [[Necrotitan]] unleashed a destructive energy wave upon Iacon, Starscream used his body to shield several of his citizens, including Sky-Byte. {{storylink|Winners & Losers: Dark Cybertron Chapter 3|Winners & Losers}} In the wake of the destruction, the poet listened to [[Scoop (G1)|Scoop]] accuse Starscream of embodying a dark prophecy that would destroy them all. {{storylink|Into the Abyss: Dark Cybertron Chapter 4|Into the Abyss}} He was then injured during the Necrotitan's assault on the city and had to be carried to safety by Scoop and [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]]. {{storylink|Burning Bright: Dark Cybertron Chapter 8|Burning Bright}} He recovered in time to celebrate the Titan's defeat alongside other survivors. {{storylink|The Becoming: Dark Cybertron Chapter 10|The Becoming}}

[[File:WorldOfTomorrow-WaspySkyByte.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.67|TURN AROUND BRIIIIGHT EYES]]

Six months later, Sky-Byte was still hanging out at Blurr's bar. [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] didn't know what to make of him. {{storylink|A 'Bot and Her City}} When Windblade and several neutrals were imprisoned by Starscream, he and Swindle aided [[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]] in breaking them out. {{storylink|Windblade issue 3|Windblade vol. 1 #3}} Around that time, having returned to a life of war, Jazz would fondly remember his duets with Sky-Byte. {{storylink|Earthfall Chapter 4: Full Fathom Five|Full Fathom Five}}

Sky-Byte continued frequenting Maccadam's and helped celebrate [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]'s return there. He and [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] shared a song. {{storylink|The World of Tomorrow}} A statue of Sky-Byte was present on the [[Censere|Necrobot]]'s world when the ''[[Lost Light]]'' stopped there. {{storylink|The Not Knowing}} After the establishment of a Decepticon commune near [[Jupiter]], Sky-Byte traveled there on the ''[[Peace Without Tyranny]]''. {{storylink|Conquerors Part 1: Aphelion|Aphelion}} When [[Cosmos (G1)|Cosmos]] came aboard the commune and voiced his anger at [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] and [[Galvatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Galvatron]]'s plans, Sky-Byte did not join his fellow Decepticons in aiming their weapons at the Autobot and merely looked on. After Soundwave ordered the Decepticons to stand down, Sky-Byte voiced his approval, stating that they would win because of their ideals and not because of their firepower. {{storylink|Conquerors Part 2: Lagrange|Lagrange}} When Sky-Byte learned the ''other'' Decepticons had raided the ''Ark-7'', possibly killed everyone on board, and pointed it at Earth to begin a new Decepticon invasion, he was...not as approving. {{storylink|Conquerors Part 4: Perihelion|Perihelion}}
{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|All Hail Optimus Part 1: Once Upon a Time on Earth|Once Upon a Time on Earth}}}}
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==Games==
===''Transformers Legends''===
[[File:TFLegends SkyByte.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.67]]
Sky-Byte was part of a group of Decepticons who were sent to investigate a mysterious enemy. They teamed up with [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] and Windblade to fight the [[Ammonite]]s, but soon fell out with their Autobot allies. Defeated by the pair, the Decepticons returned to their own starship. {{storylink|Into the Abyss}}
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==Toys==
===Robots in Disguise (2001)===
[[File:RID Sky-Byte Toy.jpg|right|upright=1.95|thumb|Sing of happy - not sad! Sing of good sharks - not bad!]]
*'''Sky-Byte''' (Mega, 2000/2001)
**''Japanese ID Number'': '''D-005'''
**''Accessories'': Launcher, 2 missiles
{{note|''Robots in Disguise'' [[Sky-Byte (RID)|Sky-Byte]] was [[Repurposing|repurposed]] as Sky-Byte by ''Transformers Legends''.<ref>Although the Gelshark release of this toy did already represent a Generation 1 character, if you want to get technical about it.</ref>}}

:An extensive [[redeco]] of the [[Transmetal|Transmetal 2]] [[Maximal]] [[Cybershark]], Sky-Byte transforms into a large, monstrous, bio-mechanical great white shark. His tail has a gear system that spins the fins like a propeller when a wheel in his side is turned. This system becomes his left arm, forming a spinning claw weapon. He also has a double spring-loaded missile launcher concealed in his shark mouth that also serves as a hand weapon.

:First available as part of the ''Car Robots'' line in Japan, there are no noteworthy differences between the [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] and [[Hasbro]] versions.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2001/Predacon/SkyByte/skybyte.htm More information on Sky-Byte at TFU.info]''

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===Timelines===
[[File:Timelinestoy-SkyByteG2Redux.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|This mold's not for [[Wings of Honor|Scourge]]? At the time we were confused. Now we understand.]]
*'''Generation 2: Redux''' (BotCon 2010 box set)
**''Accessories'': 2 missiles

:Sky-Byte is a [[retool]] of ''[[Transformers: Energon (franchise)|Energon]]'' [[Sharkticon (Energon)#Energon|Sharkticon]] with a new head, transforming into a Cybertronic submarine/battleship with dimly animalistic styling. His colors and head sculpt are heavily based on [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 franchise)|''Robots in Disguise'' (2001)]] [[Sky-Byte (RID)|Sky-Byte]]. His small gun turrets are movable, plus his side panels can extend outward to reveal spring-loaded missile launchers. The area where Sharkticon's spark crystal once resided is now considered Sky-Byte's "Tsunami Blaster".

:Sky-Byte is part of the [[BotCon 2010]] boxed set, alongside [[Breakdown (G1)#Timelines|Breakdown]], [[Pyro (G1)#Timelines|Spark]], [[Streetwise (G1)#Timelines|Streetstar]], and [[Clench (G1)#Timelines|Clench]].

:The original version of this mold was also used to make Sky-Byte's fellow BotCon 2010 exclusives, the [[Sharkticon (G1)#Timelines|Sharkticons]], as well as ''[[Transformers United|United]]'' [[Axalon (BW)#United 2|Axalon]].

::*''[http://tfu.info/2010/Predacon/Sky-Byte/sky-byte.htm More information on Sky-Byte at TFU.info]''
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===Generations===
[[File:TFGenerations Voyager Sky-Byte.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Under the sea, under the sea!]]
*'''Sky-Byte''' (Voyager, 2014)
**''Series / Number:'' '''02 / 007'''
**''Accessories'': 1 missile
{{note|This toy was [[Repurposing|repurposed]] to represent Sky-Byte on [[:File:MTMTE27 subcvr.jpg|the cover]] of [[The Becoming: Dark Cybertron Chapter 10|issue #10 of Dark Cybertron]].}}

:A new-mold toy released in wave 5 of the Voyager Class ''[[Thrilling 30]]'' series of the ''[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]]'' toyline, Sky-Byte once again transforms into a bio-mechanical great white shark. He lacks the mouth-based missile launcher of his previous toy, instead having a single missile firing from the center of his (still gear-activated) spinning claw weapon. His [[beast mode]] articulation consists of an opening mouth and a tail that moves up and down. There is a hexagonal peghole underneath him which is compatible with some collector display stands.

:In [[robot mode]] the missile launcher in his claw weapon still functions. Sky-Byte is much less of a [[shellformer]] than his original form, with many parts of his robot mode actually becoming parts of the shark mode, though much of it still piles up on his back. These parts can be arranged in a variety of ways to form a more [[Show-accuracy|show-accurate]] or cleaner robot mode.

:This mold was used by ''[[Transformers Cloud|Cloud]]'' [[Skywarp (G1)/toys#Cloud|Hellwarp]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2014/Predacon/Sky-Byte/sky-byte.htm More information on ''Generations'' Sky-Byte at TFU.info]''
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==Notes==
*''Car Robots'', the Japanese version of [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 cartoon)|the 2001 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon]], is regarded as part of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]] and the [[Primax]] [[Universal stream|universal cluster]]. However, ''Robots in Disguise'' itself constitutes a different continuity family and is designated as the [[Viron]] universal cluster. To prevent duplication of information, see [[Sky-Byte (RID)#2001 Robots in Disguise cartoon]] for "Generation 1" Sky-Byte/Gelshark's exploits in the cartoon.
* The identity of Sky-Byte was the subject of the "Who is the Wildcard?" contest held by [[Fun Publications]] on their [[Transformers Collectors' Club]] forums, with ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (toyline)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' Voyager [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] and [[Breakaway (ROTF)|Breakaway]] as prizes to who guessed the character first. Other than the "wildcard" hint, the only other hint given was that the character was "never seen in Generation 2". TCC board member EmeraldBeacon guessed Sky-Byte soon thereafter, ending the contest, but whose among all the guesses that day was the correct guess was not known until the [[BotCon 2010]] brochure went online.
* Although Sky-Byte's design in the IDW G1 ''Robots in Disguise'' comic is not exactly the same as his namesake's, it ''is'' based on it.<ref>http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/transformers-robots-in-disguise-ongoing-skybyte-character-design/24724/</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Convention-original characters]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Decepticons]]
[[Category:Generation 2 characters]]
[[Category:IDW Generation 1 Decepticons]]
[[Category:Neutrals]]
[[Category:Poets]]
[[Category:Quintessons]]
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[[Category:Timelines characters]]
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Stockbridge

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''Stockbridge is an [[EDC]]-aligned [[human]] from the [[IDW Generation 1 continuity]]''

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Despite working on the [[Jupiter]] commune, '''Stockbridge''' has never met a [[Transformers | Cybertronian]] before, but [[Astrotrain (G1)| they]] seem cool.

== Fiction ==

Stockbridge was operating the docking systems of the commune when the first [[Decepticon]] visitors arrived. Due to the lack of external sensors the docking wasn't as gentle as he could have hoped. Luckily, Astrotrain didn't mind, relieving Stockbridge. His friend promptly called him an idiot. {{storylink| South of Heaven}}

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Perceptor (G1)

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:''Perceptor is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:G1 Perceptor reissueart.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|"Back off, man. I'm a scientist."]]
'''Perceptor''' is a scientist, one of the most astute minds the whole of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] can offer. He is perpetually seeking to increase knowledge, and his discoveries have repeatedly proven invaluable. Though his specialties lie in metallurgy, electrical engineering, and additional sciences closely concomitant to Transformer physiology, his thirst for knowledge has made him a kind of scientific jack-of-all-trades.

One of Perceptor's most infamous mannerisms is his tendency to engage in verbal communication using scientific terminology. This has the unforeseen result of exasperating and occasionally frustrating his comrades. One might hypothesize that the jovial mechanoid is unaware that not everyone with whom he seeks to communicate shares his extensive vocabulary.

Engaging in physical melee is not his preferred activity. He is content to make his contributions to the Autobot cause in the manner in which he deems sufficient, but will engage in combat if the situation requires. [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] often relies on Perceptor's perspicacity, and considers him as inestimable as any of his officers.

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Paul Eiding]] (English), [[Ken Shiroyama|Chikao Shiroyama]] (Japanese)|[[Carlos Agosti]] (American Spanish), [[Reinhard Brock]] (German), [[Claus Brockmeyer]] (German, The Movie and Generation 2), [[Dario de Castro]], (Brazilian Portuguese, The Movie)}}

[[File:DinobotIsland2-Perceptor.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.66|buymebuymebuymebuymebuymebuymebuymebuyme]]
Perceptor appeared on [[Earth]] during a period of time occurring after the initial impact of the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] into the planet. {{storylink|Dinobot Island, Part 2}} It is unknown exactly when he had arrived, but the malfunctions he suffered during the [[Cybertonium]] depletion crisis would lead one to conclude that he had been present when the Ark crashed onto prehistoric Earth during the encounter with the [[Nemesis (G1)|Decepticon starship]]. {{storylink|Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1}} When the humans [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] and [[Chip Chase]] were investigating the chronal anomalies which plagued the Autobots with visitors from various eras of Earth's past, Perceptor introduced himself to them and offered his expertise as a "''true'' scientist." And then he transformed into a microscope. {{storylink|Dinobot Island, Part 2}}

[[File:Microbots shrink.JPG|thumb|upright=1.1|All my tubes and wires and careful notes!]]
During his period of habitation on that planetary body, he experienced a myriad of adventures. Included in that scope were incidents such as reconfiguring his mass ratio to a microscopic scale using the [[transmat reduction beam]] in order to sever the connection of the [[Heart of Cybertron]] to [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]]'s body. Upon doing so, he proceeded to dispose of the object by having [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]] throw the volatile energy source approximately two thousand feet into the sky and shooting it with his mobile cannon mode. {{storylink|Microbots}}

When Megatron perpetrated an egregious assault on the Autobots' reputation and had them forcibly expelled from their residency on Earth, Perceptor was indubitably among their number. A fortuitous sequence of events allowed the Autobots to return to their former planetary location and extradict the Decepticons from their dominion over the [[human]]s. {{storylink|Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2}} During another adventure, a series of aberrant mechanical malfunctions began afflicting the Autobots. Perceptor was incapable of altering from his microscope configuration, and expeditiously determined that the complication was a depletion of [[Cybertonium]]. {{storylink|Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1}}

During a constitutional along a seaboard, Perceptor, [[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]], [[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]], [[Powerglide (G1)|Powerglide]] and [[Seaspray (G1)|Seaspray]] were assailed by an assortment of Decepticons. Remarkably, [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] appeared impervious to damage, and both Perceptor and Seaspray were captured and escorted to the submerged Decepticon headquarters. With the inclusion of Beachcomber, the three Autobots were able to effect an adequate escape and rejoin their cohorts in time to confront the [[Electrum]]-coated Decepticons. {{storylink|The Golden Lagoon (episode)|The Golden Lagoon}}

In an endeavor to assist [[Cosmos (G1)|Cosmos]], who had run into difficulty on [[Titan (moon)|Titan]], one of [[Saturn]]'s attendant moons, Perceptor and [[Jazz (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Jazz]] traversed space in [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]]. Although Omega's energy was depleted by the journey, Perceptor was able to locate a prodigious accumulation of [[energy crystal]]s, with which he subsequently reenergized Omega, allowing them to repel the Decepticon invaders and effect a peregrination back to Earth. {{storylink|The God Gambit}}

[[File:G1 cartoon Perceptor Pencil sword.JPG|left|upright=1.1|thumb|The pen...cil is mightier than the sword!]]
On another occasion, Perceptor and an assemblage of Autobots and Decepticons were propelled across the interstellar void by the [[space bridge]], landing on an unexplored world in which Cybertronian lifeforms were minuscule in relation to the immense indigenous population. After a series of alarming endangerments, Perceptor determined that a toy rocket ship possessed by the boy [[Aron (G1)|Aron]], whose abode they had happened into, could be modified to return the Autobots home. {{storylink|Child's Play (episode)|Child's Play}} Calamitously, their mode of transport was intercepted by an alien named [[Bosch]], who utilised a mechanism to place the Autobots in a submissive state, intending to barter them for energon. [[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]] was eventually able to emancipate Perceptor and his fellows with the assistance of the bounty hunter [[Devcon (G1)|Devcon]]. {{storylink|The Gambler}}

Examining a sample of extraterrestrial matter transported to Earth on [[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]]'s back, Perceptor was able to ascertain that Cosmos had inadvertently imported [[Morphobot]]s, a genus of robotic flora which consumed mechanical life. His exhortation was sufficient to save Cosmos and the Morphobots were soon dispatched to a more suitable biosphere; however, the sample he had acquired had also propagated to the point where it threatened to consume him along with his laboratory. {{storylink|Quest for Survival}}

Perceptor's spectrographic analysis of an ore sample determined that the asteroid from which it originated was, in fact, alive. In an unfortunate turn of events, [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] had just commanded Omega Supreme to obliterate said asteroid. {{storylink|The Secret of Omega Supreme (episode)|The Secret of Omega Supreme}} Yet another enterprise took Perceptor to a world inhabited by transforming organic creatures who had been enslaved by the Decepticons. He assisted in liberating the [[Tlalakan]]s, and was subsequently bemused by Bumblebee's notion that they should make a wish on the first stellar object they sighted. {{storylink|Sea Change}}

[[File:Cosmic Rust Perceptor kick.JPG|thumb|upright=1.1|I don't believe it! There she goes again! She's tidied up and I can't find anything!]]
He also synthesized a panacea to remedy all corrosion, with the appellation [[corrostop]], and was decorated by the humans for his ingenuity. Megatron also coveted his assistance, but for a dire emergency — the Decepticon had become afflicted by [[Cosmic Rust (disease)|Cosmic Rust]] and it transpired that corrostop was the only counteragent. Not content with merely being ameliorated, Megatron exploited Perceptor in a machination to infect the Autobots with Cosmic Rust, and all sources of [[Ingredient X]], an imperative component of corrostop, had been exhausted. Perceptor and [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] labored to make the [[matter duplicator]] operational so that more corrostop could be constituted and the Autobots saved. {{storylink|Cosmic Rust (episode)|Cosmic Rust}}

Perceptor and [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] discovered a disquieting fact — that an aberrant disruption emanating from Cybertron was causing a shift in Earth's orbit, resulting in the planet's imminent collision with the nearest stellar body! The Autobots and Decepticons were forced to collaborate to avoid destruction in the [[Sun]]; however, the Insecticons masticated the space bridge controls, rendering the possibility of its use dubious. With donated components, Perceptor repaired the space bridge and dispatched the amalgamated force to Cybertron to subjugate the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]]. {{storylink|The Revenge of Bruticus}}

[[File:Rumblevsperceptor.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|I can smell the chemicals!]]
Perceptor's actions continued to be of intrinsic strategic import, particularly following the distinct tactical deficiencies during the [[Battle of Autobot City]] that resulted in the expiration of Wheeljack, and pointing out that "gamma waves in this sector of space create marginal navigation probabilities" as the Autobots fled Earth. As a member of Ultra Magnus's company, he was marooned on planet [[Junkion (planet)|Junk]], where he contended with the indigenous race of mechanisms, designated [[Junkion (species)|Junkions]]. During the decisive battle against [[Unicron]], Perceptor was stationed aboard the Junkion vessel when Unicron crushed it in his grasp, though fortunately was not a casualty of the catastrophe and could later be distinguished celebrating the antagonist's defeasance. {{storylink|The Transformers: The Movie}}
{{note|Perceptor’s involvement in these events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the comic mini-series “[[Transformers: The Animated Movie]]” and the storybook “[[Transformers the Movie (Ladybird adaptation)|Transformers the Movie]]."}}

Perceptor had a mission of paramount importance and tasked it to [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] and [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]]. After the Galactic Olympics were disrupted by unknown assailants, he examined some debris but was unable to determine the exact nature of the attackers. He proposed he accompany [[Hot Rod/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Rodimus Prime]] on an undertaking to investigate the Decepticons, but Rodimus elected to procure [[Grimlock (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Grimlock]]'s abetment instead. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1}} Perceptor later valiantly defended Cybertron against Decepticon intrusion. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5}}

The inexplicable resurrection of Optimus Prime led Perceptor and the rest of the Autobots on a mission of retaliation against the [[Quintesson]]s for the supposed termination of a selection of Autobots, including Rodimus Prime. When it transpired that a shuttle Optimus commanded the Autobots fire on in fact contained their still-functioning comrades, Perceptor was all too happy to arrest the ill-fated assault. {{storylink|Dark Awakening (episode)|Dark Awakening}}

[[File:G1 ForeverIsALongTime Pipes Rodimus Perceptor.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Pipes, I don't care what you call him, please put "Little Pipes" back in your pants!]]
On a second entanglement with the Quintessons, Perceptor was incapacitated early in the conflict and unable to prevent several of his fellow Autobots from traversing a [[Time Window|chronal displacement aperture]] to Cybertron's distant past. Although [[Pipes (G1)|Pipes]] was an adequate physician, Perceptor regained normal function subsequent to the resolution of the situation. {{storylink|Forever Is a Long Time Coming (episode)|Forever Is a Long Time Coming}}

After [[Fort Knox]] dematerialized, a preliminary examination by Perceptor of [[energon cube]]s discovered at the locale indicated they were contaminated with [[Dinosaur transform static]]. Further analysis indicated the cubes were of Decepticon manufacture, exonerating the Dinobots and [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]]. Tracing the point of origin to [[Socialist Democratic Federated Republic of Carbombya|Carbombya]], the Autobots located the appropriated architecture and liberated the country from the habitation of the Decepticons. {{storylink|Thief in the Night}}

Perceptor was part of an ambush set for [[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]] when the incorporeal spirit of [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] possessed [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]]. {{storylink|Starscream's Ghost}} When Wheelie and the [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Spike's immature offspring]] developed curiosity over Ultra Magnus's construction date, they consulted Perceptor, who suggested they scrutinize the [[Hall of Records]], unaware of the endangerment the pair would soon face. {{storylink|Surprise Party}} Investigating another disappearance on the part of Daniel, this time complemented by Grimlock, Perceptor operated a Quintesson contrivance which transposed a rescue party to the domain of [[Menonia]]. {{storylink|Madman's Paradise}} While excavating [[isidrite]] in an asteroid belt, a team of Autobots was beleaguered by Decepticons, however as Perceptor observed, Galvatron was wreaking more havoc with his own troops than the Autobots. {{storylink|Webworld}}

[[File:CarnageCMinor Perceptor microscope.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|That's not where you look into a microscope, Hot Spot.]]
Perceptor's calculations later tracked the Decepticons down to a comet, where the blackguards were installing an apparatus to propel it into [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]]. During the altercation, a [[Harmony|resonance]] of extreme amplitude disrupted proceedings, causing all present to expeditiously descent towards a nearby planetary body named [[Eurythma]]. As the Decepticons prepared to resume hostilities, Perceptor dismantled [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] with one discharge of his artillery mode. He proceeded to participate in a diversionary engagement while Ultra Magnus and [[Blaster (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Blaster]] contacted the indigenous sentient life who communicated entirely in melody. {{storylink|Carnage in C-Minor}}

Detecting an aberrant semaphore on a Quintesson frequency, Perceptor allocated the mission to Sky-Lynx, Blaster and [[Outback (G1)|Outback]]. {{storylink|The Quintesson Journal}} He later oversaw the installation of a new power core on Cybertron. Not long after this occurrence, Galvatron unleashed a [[Dweller|grotesque monstrosity]] with the ability to metamorphose Transformers into energy vampires. Perceptor not only formulated a remedy involving the infusing of a plethora of energy, but was able to effect the catharsis of the Dweller from Cybertron. {{storylink|The Dweller in the Depths}} He was equivalently successful in restoring Ultra Magnus, Rodimus, [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] and [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] to their mechanoid forms after they were transplanted into organic bodies. {{storylink|Only Human}}

[[File:PerceptorNijika01.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Memoirs of a tiny alien robot geisha with a male alien robot's transplanted brain]]
During the instatement of another power generator, Perceptor expressed a desire for an increase in the Dinobots' brainpower, to which Grimlock responded with an aggressive exclamation regarding his fist and Perceptor's cranium. Malfunctions caused by strange energy emanating from the generator resulted in Grimlock's intelligence being increased manifold, outstripping even Perceptor's own acumen. The Autobots journeyed to Unicron's skull in orbit around Cybertron, where they were incapacitated by [[anti-electron]]s. Providentially, Grimlock was able to construct a brigade of [[Technobot (G1)|Technobot]]s to salvage the situation. {{storylink|Grimlock's New Brain}}

During one of his final known excursions with Rodimus, Perceptor plummeted onto an [[Zamojin (planet)|alien world]] in a state of [[transformation paralysis]]. What's worse, his [[universal emulator]] was taken from his body and transplanted into the [[Zamojin (species)|Zamojin]] construct called [[Nijika]], which resulted in Perceptor's consciousness taking up residence within that form. All things considered, he took it quite well, and his alterations to the emulator resulted in the Quintessons inadvertently extricating the world from its incarceration. {{storylink|The Face of the Nijika}}
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====Rodimus vs. Cyclonus====
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====Japanese cartoon continuity====
=====''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' manga=====
Alongside several other Autobots, Perceptor tried and failed to defend Yokohama from an attack by [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]], [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] and [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]]. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 4|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #4}} He later came with [[Kenji]], [[Seaspray (G1)|Seaspray]] and [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] to an uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean, where they were supposed to meet some other Autobots. They soon found that the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] had captured their friends and were using the island as a build site for the humongous [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]. By magnifying one of Hound's holograms through Perceptor's lens, the Autobots tricked Trypticon into attacking a fake [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] and falling into the ocean. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 6|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #6}}

=====''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' story pages=====
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=====Full Throttle Scramble Power!=====
Perceptor accompanied the massive Autobot reinforcements called in to counter Megatron's nefarious [[Omega Whip]]. {{storylink|Full Throttle Scramble Power!}}

=====''The Battle of the Star Gate''=====
Perceptor attended a lecture on Earth about the human’s earthquake-prediction technology. Perceptor mostly attended for the off-chance that he could show off how smart he was. Before any plans could be made for Perceptor to talk at the next forum, an Earthquake struck the area, leading to the Autobots to suspect the Decepticons were somehow causing tremors nearby. Perceptor and Professor Ohnishi were mostly to thank for the deduction, as they had noticed despite the recent seismic activity, there was a lack of “earthquake clouds.” Perceptor was later part of the small team of Autobots who came upon Megatron and Starscream to foil their Energon-gathering scheme, and explained in simple terms how they discovered them to Starscream. He then transformed into his tank mode and engaged him in combat. {{storylink|Activation}}
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=====''Story of Binaltech''=====
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=====''Victory'' cartoon=====
[[File:Minerva victory.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Two are red, two have shoulder-mounted weapons, and two have weird ears. They '''almost''' have so much in common!]]
{{voiceactor|[[Masaharu Satō]] (Japanese), [[Rik Thomas]] (English)|[[Roberto Alexander]] (Latin American)}}

Perceptor voyaged back to Earth with [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] and [[Minerva (Masterforce)|Minerva]] in response to an urgent communique from [[Star Saber (Victory)|Star Saber]] to the effect that [[Ginrai|God Ginrai]] had been grievously wounded. A preliminary examination of the patient suggested his termination was inevitable, however Wheeljack had an alternative treatment—transplant God Ginrai's internal mechanism into a new assemblage. Despite Perceptor's misgivings, the stratagem was put to God Ginrai, and his approval obtained for commencement. With limited time available, the trio initiated the operation. {{storylink|Ginrai Dies!!}} The procedure achieved a favorable outcome, resulting in God Ginrai's rebirth in the new form of [[Victory Leo]]. Perceptor and his cohorts turned their attention to Star Saber, who had also been seriously damaged.

When Victory Leo proved mentally unstable, Perceptor assured [[Jan Minakaze]] that such instability occasionally occurred in robotic lifeforms. Perceptor advised against Star Saber going into battle as repairs on him were not yet completed, and consequently Victory Leo was sent out as a substitute. {{storylink|Fight!! Victory Leo}} Following successful completion of Star Saber's repairs, Perceptor and his team commenced installation of a unique unification circuit to allow Star Saber to combine with Victory Leo. {{storylink|Awaken! Victory Leo}} Despite Perceptor's grave misgiving about the potential risks, Star Saber went ahead with his first combination with Victory Leo in order to terminate the threat of the missiles [[Deathsaurus (Victory)|Deathsaurus]] had created to threaten the planet. {{storylink|The Tide Is Turned! The Ultimate Weapon, the Victory Unification}} Perceptor later departed Earth to rejoin the Autobot forces in space. {{storylink|Jan - Defend the Campus!!}}
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=====''G-2'' story pages=====
[[File:G2StoryPageWheeljackPerceptor1.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|Look at him, all tiny back there.]]
Perceptor, along with Wheeljack and [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]], discovered [[Reconfiguration Matrix|new properties]] of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] which allowed Optimus Prime to revive himself as Laser-Rod Optimus Prime subsequent to a crushing defeat by Megatron. {{storylink|Transformers: G-2 (story page)|G-2 Part 4}}
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=====''15 Go! Go!''=====
[[File:TGGPerceptor1.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|The doctor is in...sane.]]
Sent to gather data on Perceptor, [[Teletraan 15]] found him giggling creepily over a microchip and telling it that it was time for its check-up.

[[File:TGGPerceptor2.jpg|left|upright=0.85|thumb|Wheeee!]]
As she recoiled in horror, Perceptor's tone became clinical and, retracting his faceplate, he demanded that she identify herself. After Teletraan 15 recorded her notes on the Autobot scientist, he transformed into his seldom-seen mobile battle mode and took her for a ride...whether she wanted it or not. {{storylink|Perceptor Volume}}
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=====e-HOBBY comics=====
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Perceptor and [[Ironhide (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ironhide]] were sent out by Optimus to help out with a battle with an underwater “monster” that was not going too well for fellow Autobot Splashdown. While on-route, they encountered Starscream’s gargantuan ghostly form. {{storylink|MP-3G Destron Air Commander / Starscream Ghost Ver.}}

=====''Black Body''=====
Perceptor put Optimus through the paces necessary to upgrade himself with a “[[black body]]” coating in order to more effectively absorb energy into himself. The Autobot scientist put Optimus in an isolation for this process, as the black body coating would absorb energy from all nearby machinery, including transformers. Unfortunately, Decepticons had falsified some of Perceptor’s data, leading to Optimus being left in a volatile state. So that his new body would not drain the energy of all those near him, Optimus went to seclude himself in an uninhabited canyon, while Perceptor and Wheeljack tried to figure out how to reverse their leader’s condition. {{storylink|Black Body}}

====''Wings Universe''====
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After the [[Autobot]]s' first battle with [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]], Perceptor assisted in repairing the wounded. Later, he was left behind when the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] departed. With his other comrades on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], Perceptor underwent stasis hibernation till new energy sources were detected on the planet. {{storylink|Battle Lines, Part 6|Battle Lines #6}}

====''Deviations''====
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===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics====
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[[File:TheSmeltingPool-Perceptor.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.1|Oh, you mean we're drawing a mouth on him, and we shouldn't color his face like he has his toy's [[mouthplate]]? Well, crap.]]
On Cybertron, Perceptor was often considered an officer or otherwise highly ranked personage by other Cybertronic life forms in the vicinity, inspiring in the aforementioned others a tendency to view him as a "commander" of a [[Cybertron Seven|faction of Autobots]] who engaged in armed conflict against localized enemy forces. The Autobot communications officer, heretofore known as "Blaster", would routinely cause superfluous amounts of mischief for Perceptor, largely due to the former's overdeveloped anti-hero circuitry. Annoyingly, this endeared Blaster to their shared peers more so than to Perceptor, despite Perceptor's rational decision-making and refusal to risk lives unnecessarily. A pertinent example, if we were to belabor the matter, would be when Blaster felt irrational concern over the unreliable Autobot scout, [[Scrounge (G1)|Scrounge]]. Despite the obvious danger and the expendability of Scrounge, Blaster's utilization of charisma and other personality-based social tools were able to persuade Perceptor's team to search [[Polyhex]] for him. Perceptor warned of the futility of such actions, and, true to the probabilities calculated, Scrounge was not located. Blaster would predictably leave to find Scrounge on his own, returning later to report that Scrounge had sacrificed himself to bring news of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s apparent survival, somewhere on a planet called [[Earth]]. {{storylink|The Smelting Pool!}}

[[File:AerialbotsoverAmerica-soswearsCircuitBreaker.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4]]
Perceptor remained in the position of commander until such a point as the aforementioned combat unit, or the surviving portions thereof, crossed the multidimensional warp system for transport, otherwise known as the space bridge, to join the forces based on the planetary body known to the overwhelming majority of those of his species who had shifted their operations to its locality as Earth. {{storylink|The Bridge to Nowhere!}} Perceptor's band was immediately spotted by a squadron of airborne Decepticons, but it seemed, at least on a superficial level not readily able to withstand a more critical analysis, that the Decepticons were more generally annoyed than willing to engage in combat, and thusly departed. {{storylink|Command Performances!}}

The dubious function of counter-Autobot measures was instead transferred to a team of battle-acclimated natives, known amongst themselves as the anti-Transformers task force known as [[Rapid Anti-robot Assault Team|RAAT]]. These ruffians were led by a [[human]] female who was able to levitate herself using a patchwork coating of circuitry, in a surprising lack of modesty, if one must dwell on such matters. Suffice to say, this [[Circuit Breaker (G1)|Circuit Breaker]] was able to disable Perceptor and his fellow Autobots through the release of atomic micro-batteries at a 300,000-volt blast of electricity, which short-circuited them succinctly. The removal of Perceptor's face was subsequent, and it and the faces of his compatriots were hung up on a vertical surface, or wall, while his body was experimented on for educational purposes, admirably enough. {{storylink|Heavy Traffic!}} Perceptor would remain in such a sorry state for a short period of time, up until his services were needed, in conjunction with that of his fellow captors, to be assembled into a [[Circuit Breaker's Autobot suit|mega robot designed specifically to counter a targeted duo of Decepticons]] until such a time that services had been rendered, thus guaranteeing their freedom. {{storylink|Decepticon Graffiti!}}

[[File:FallenAngel-Perceptor.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.66|That's one microscope you don't want to look in the wrong way.]]
''Perceptor and his Autobots were being directed towards the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]], the Autobots' headquarters, by an Autobot daydreamer designated "[[Skids (G1)|Skids]]," when suddenly Skids disappeared in a flash of light and sound, leaving nothing but a charred area of organic floor surfacing where he had stood previously. To make matters worse, that is to say unfavorably ranked versus other incidents along a spectrum of agreeableness, Perceptor's band of Autobots was soon under attack by a strange and powerful Decepticon named [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]. Despite Perceptor's rare usage of his tank alternate form, alongside his peer [[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]]'s similar mode, the two were responded to in kind and found themselves summarily removed from battle capability, that is to say, consciousness.'' {{storylink|Fallen Angel}}

''Rescued from destruction by the vagrant [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]], Perceptor's group, regrettably still sans Skids, finally traversed the remaining distance between their arrival coordinates and the Ark, where the Autobots there were surprised to hear of Galvatron's return to their chronal locality. Perceptor attempted, valiantly, to explain to [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] that their surprise was without merit, but in a characteristically erudite fashion that left the simple-minded relic dumbfounded. But it was soon Perceptor's opportunity to be dumbfounded as it was learned that Optimus Prime had recently perished, his body found in tatters, no doubt the work of the Decepticons. A [[Transformer funerary practices|funeral]] was, indeed, called for in due course, and the Earthbound Autobots felt that their late commander would have wanted to be buried according to the customs of Earth's dominant simian life form. Blaster, in a rare moment of propriety, quietly expressed his misgivings about this approach to Perceptor, who quietly agreed with his colleague that this method of burial was crude. Their complaints were soon rendered moot, as before their eyes Optimus Prime materialized, no worse for wear, and revealed his death had been but a ruse.'' {{storylink|Resurrection!}}'

''Immediately after Optimus Prime's death had been declared a hoax,'' the Autobots' legendary Earthbound commander left with the [[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobots]] on a mission of medium importance and had returned in less than satisfactory condition. As Perceptor and the other functioning Autobots looked on, [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] failed, despite his best efforts as the Autobots' chief medical officer, to revive him, and Optimus Prime was declared deceased, that is, nonfunctional. Perceptor, though a newcomer to the Earthen stage of the Cybertronian wars, was selected to deliver Optimus Prime's eulogy before their late commander's inert chassis was ejected into the void surrounding their new home planet, via a rocket-powered funereal containment unit. Adjacent within the chronal dimension, a human intruder was able to repurpose the Ark's defensive instruments against the mourning Autobots, and destructive tools of various forms turned themselves on their makers. Perceptor, acting with regards to the long term, forbid the Autobots from responding in kind, noting that were the Ark to suffer damage, the Autobots would be unable to repair their home to the tolerances required to return them to their original planet. Ratchet, who had neglected to appear at Optimus Prime's funeral, was capable enough to disable the threat from within the Ark. {{storylink|Funeral for a Friend!}} Following the Funeral, Cobra [[Tele-Viper]]s attacked the Autobot base. Perceptor helped defend it, though he and the other Autobots had to do little more than pick off stragglers while Omega Supreme handled the bulk of the aggressors. {{storylink|Ashes, Ashes...}}

[[File:Democracykingofthehill.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.66|Why are you running things, Perceptor? You just got here!]]
With Optimus Prime deceased, it became pertinent for the Autobots to congregate and [[democracy|deliberate]] on a replacement for his managerial position, a crucial task for which Perceptor summoned high-ranking representatives. The proceedings were according to plan until, with reckless abandon, the brutish commander of the Dinobots, [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]], interrupted and threw the process into disarray. Grimlock carried no positive feelings about Optimus Prime's leadership style, and the Dinobot commander implied he would prefer to take his post by force, but Perceptor, [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]], and [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] cut short his charade with a verbal assault. However, following a siege orchestrated by the massive but articulate Decepticon [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]], Perceptor had altered his initial position, having seen Grimlock's selflessness and leadership in battle against their opponent. The Autobots hailed Grimlock as their new commander. {{storylink|King of the Hill!}}

[[File:DarkStar-PerceptorTentakil.jpg|thumb|upright=0.85|Fangirls, you can stop squeeing right now. We can hear you through the Internet.]]
After suffering through months of Grimlock's actual leadership style, Perceptor once again changed his assessment; moreso, he had decided that, in fact, Blaster would make the perfect replacement for their thuggish Dinobot leader, despite his appraisal of Blaster's strategic deficiencies back on Cybertron. {{storylink|Spacehikers!}}

Regardless of such trivialities, Optimus Prime himself returned to command, and Perceptor was next seen suffering from defective circuits in the Arctic, preventing him from detecting the presence of the [[Seacon (G1)|Seacon]] of the [[Tentakil (G1)|multipod variety]]. {{storylink|Dark Star}} He was later listed as deactivated for a somewhat extended period of time, by human standards if not by those of his species, by the opposing faction (as judged by an outside observer who insists on a binary classification system) as a result of the [[Underbase]] conflict, so named for the goal of the conflict, a legendary storehouse of Cybertronic knowledge. {{storylink|Yesterday's Heroes!}}

=====Marvel UK future timelines=====
In a parallel junction of quantum-temporal values, Perceptor aided his fellow residents of [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]] in the initiation of combat proceedings against unwanted [[Quintesson]] visitors possessing acutely nefarious intent. Unfortunately, said combat proceedings proved to be incapable of properly sustaining the necessary level of applied force to rebuke and rebuff the forward progress of the invading hostile xeno-biological entities, leading to a cessation of proper operating status for Perceptor and several of his Autobot co-actors. {{storylink|Space Pirates!}}

One solar-terrestrial revolution cycle later, Perceptor again responded to the presence of hostile activities when an Autobot interstellar transport shuttle made a sudden and disastrous relocation from space to earth at velocities far exceeding safety protocols. At the shuttle's location, Perceptor fell into a paradoxical situation necessitating that the Autobots save their commander [[Hot Rod/Marvel Comics continuity|Rodimus Prime]] from his own disparate mental status. {{storylink|White Fire}}

{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Aerialbots over America!}} {{storylink|The Legacy of Unicron!}} {{storylink|Totaled!}} {{storylink|Club Con!}} {{storylink|Back from the Dead}} {{storylink|Shadow of Evil}} {{storylink|The Planet-Eater!}} {{storylink|Judgment Day!}} {{storylink|The Final Battle!}}}}

====Marvel ''Generation 2'' comic====
Perceptor did not engage in random fisticuffs and altercations with the [[Cybertronian (faction)|Cybertronians]], for that would most emphatically be in a milieu of activity not of his preference. Alternatively, he participated in an expedition of a scientific nature to the lunar orbiting body of [[J'asik]] to determine what nefarious entity had structurally destabilized the populace at a molecular level. His findings unveiled astonishing and almost inarticulable obfuscations from deep in the Cybertronian past. {{storylink|Swarm (issue)|Swarm}}

At a subsequent juncture, Perceptor applied reasoning to the impending conundrum of the Cybertronian pseudo-biologic entity dubbed "[[Swarm (G2)|the Swarm]]" and its imminent arrival. {{storylink|A Rage in Heaven!}}

====''Classics''====
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As the Autobots renewed their connection with Earth after the Unicron war, Perceptor took up residence at the ''Ark II'' in Canada. When the [[Terminus Blade]] opened a rift in space-time, Perceptor and the Autobots attempted to protect the human population as their universe was literally destroyed around them. Only the Earth itself survived the cataclysm, passing over into the negative polarity universe. {{storylink|Invasion (issue)|Invasion}}

Perceptor was interviewed by [[Esmeral (SG)|Esmeral]] of the [[DBN|Decepticon Broadcasting Network]] when they arrived on negative-Cybertron. {{storylink|Solar Requiem}}

He continued his research into Rarefied Energon on his own Earth, and discovered anomalies indicating the substance was actually alive. As the planet itself came apart transforming into a robot mode, Perceptor and his allies were ferried off-world by Grimlock in a shuttle. {{storylink|The Future Buried...}}
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====''Regeneration One''====
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Twenty-one chronological solar intervals subsequent to the ultimate conflict on the cosmological body commonly referred to as [[Klo]], Perceptor was operational on Cybertron. He ably provided assistance to the [[Wrecker]]s special operations team as they rebelled against the explicit orders issued by Optimus Prime and performed a non-lethal siege-breaking manoeuvre within the [[Pax Cybertronia Decommissioning Depot]] located in the polity of [[Kalis]], necessitating the defusing of a [[Warbird|Type-K Warbird ballistic missile]] and its cobalt-60 warhead through the issue of an emergency stand-down protocol code, which he readily supplied. {{storylink|Loose Ends, Part 1}}

Postliminary to the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobot]] [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]]'s return from his sojourn to the planet [[Nebulos]], the temporary Autobot commander Hot Rod ordered Perceptor to interrogate him concerning his experiences during the span of his time away, not least with regard to the restoration of his transformative abilities. Grievously, the tergiversating Grimlock seized upon this circumstance as an opportunity to upload the nefarious resurrected Decepticon villain [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]'s [[Gene Key]] into Perceptor's personal infrastructure, supplanting his [[CNA]] and functionally overwriting his core programming into that of a Decepticon. Subsequently, the now-morally compromised former resistance cell leader issued a most sinister indication to the inattentive penal custodian [[Kick-Off (G1)|Kick-Off]] that he could, in all safety, facilitate Perceptor's egress from his current confinement. {{storylink|Natural Selection, Part Two}}

The former [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] commander put Perceptor to work on the construction of a considerably upscaled version of the Gene Key in the vicinity of the [[Sonic Canyons]], with the calamitous intent of utilizing the unique properties of the canyons to propagate the Key's CNA-overwriting signal across all of Cybertron, facilitating the forced conversion of every Autobot on the planet. {{storylink|Natural Selection, Part Three}} As Perceptor put his talents to use in the creation of the Key, Scorponok aggrandized about his role in the ultimate unification of the Transformer race under the Decepticon banner, closing the rift in [[Primus]]'s grand plan that he perceived to have developed due to the incitement and prolongation of the Cybertronian civil war. Perceptor offers the opinion that, with chaos being the natural order of things, perhaps the conflict was ''part'' of Primus's design. Scorponok was forced to repress a sudden swell of rage at the thought of his plan being questioned, as Perceptor observed, without interrupting his work. {{storylink|Natural Selection, Part Four}}

Perceptor announced another delay in the successful completion and activation of the Key, citing a minor technical difficulty. The statement infuriated Scorponok enough to forcefully remove [[Roadblock (G2)|Roadblock]] from his immediate vicinity in a pique of anger, sending the hapless Decepticon lackey plummeting into the depths of the canyons. Scorponok was not impeded in his ranting, as the other Decepticons in the area observed with silent concern, until Grimlock unexpectedly arrived via [[Sky-sled]] and engaged the would-be conqueror in battle. Gaining a distinct tactical advantage over Grimlock, Scorponok ordered Perceptor to activate the Gene Key, while continuing to pontificate to the Dinobot about the true unification of Cybertron and his role in it. Much to Scorponok's astonishment, however, the Key's effect caused a regression of the alterations that had already been individually performed on various Autobots, restoring them to their original personalities!

It was revealed that Grimlock had merely demonstrated the existence of the Gene Key to Perceptor, choosing not to actually utilize its full capability upon him. Thus, Perceptor's CNA had not been overwritten, allowing the scientist to serve as Grimlock's "inside man" so that he could actually sabotage the larger Key, foiling Scorponok's scheme. Scorponok prepared to turn on Perceptor, but Grimlock was joined by his fellow Dinobots in striking back at Scorponok. With their temporary commander's plans reduced to a shambles, the remaining Decepticons opted for a discretionary withdrawal, leaving Perceptor behind to bear witness as Grimlock dislodged Scorponok and himself from the bridge over the Sonic Canyons, the two warriors grappling as they plummeted into the murky depths. {{storylink|Natural Selection, Part Five}} In the aftermath, Perceptor briefed Hot Rod and the others on the lingering effects of the Gene Key, resembling shock or PTSD among the Autobots afflicted. {{storylink|Destiny, Part One}}

During the Decepticon invasion of Cybertron, Perceptor and Prowl correctly identified the [[Warworld]] as the broadcast source for the Blitz Engines' power, identifying it as primary target for the [[Wrecker]]s. {{storylink|Destiny, Part Four}}

Perceptor and the Autobot leadership assessed the damage after the Decepticon assault. {{storylink|The War to End All Wars, Part 1}} He also ran sensor probes of Jhiaxus's vessel when it arrived, but was unable to penetrate their security. {{storylink|The War to End All Wars, Part 2}} As the shadow-creatures raced over Cybertron, it was Perceptor's analysis that confirmed they were former Cybertronians transfigured by some dark force. {{storylink|The War to End All Wars, Part 5}}

===Sticker Adventures books===
Perceptor was part of the crew of an Autobot ship that was studying the Universe. After being hit by meteors, they were forced to make landfall on the nearby Junk planet. There, he helped Springer and Arcee fix the ship, until the native Junkions attacked them. The fighting stopped when Kup arrived on-world, and used the universal greeting to calm down the Junkions. Now friends, the Junkions and the Autobots worked together to fix the damaged ship. Perceptor and the Autobots then blasted off and went on their way. {{storylink|Battle on the Junk Planet}}
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===Marvel coloring books===
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===Find Your Fate Junior===
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====Decepticon Poison====
After the Autobots’ latest batch of fuel had been poisoned by Ramjet, leaving a number of Autobots unable to assume their robot forms, Perceptor tasked himself with finding an antidote. Perceptor also suggested that the Autobots who hadn’t been been poisoned stay at Decepticon headquarters to guard against Decepticon attacks. Prowl disagreed with the scientist, opting for a more aggressive course of action.

If Optimus went along with Perceptor’s plan, the Autobot scientist worked feverishly to concoct a cure, and was soon told to dispense the untested formula he had created when Optimus informed him that the Decepticons were already moving in on their position. Before Perceptor complied, he informed Optimus of some of his findings; the poison put into the Autobots’ fuel was not a complex one, and could be used to create a poisonous smog if the fuel was burned. Perceptor presented Optimus with two choices; either the Autobots could risk his untested antidote, despite whatever side-effects it might have, or they could burn the remaining tainted fuel they had on hand, putting the rest of the Autobots at risk, but also gain the chance of poisoning the Decepticons themselves.

If Optimus decided to risk Perceptor’s antidote, the scientist had to try and figure out on the spot how much antidote to give to each Autobot. Too little, and the poison would not be neutralized. Too much, and the Autobots would risk an averse reaction to his solution.

If Perceptor decide to dispense one millilitre of his solution to each Autobot, his cure successfully cleared the Autobots’ systems of the Decepticon poison, allowing them to resume their [[robot mode]]s and ready themselves against the incoming Decepticons.

In another possible scenario, where Optimus followed a plan courtesy of Prowl, the Autobot leader instructed his troops to transform into [[alternate mode|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 each Autobot. The Autobots who received the antidote soon found themselves falling apart, leaving Perceptor and the rest outmatched against the greater number of Decepticons.

In yet another possible sequence of events, the Autobots decided to use the tainted fuel as a weapon against the Decepticons. Lighting the fuel to create a toxic cloud allowed the Autobots to ward off the Decepticons, allowing Perceptor enough time to safely create a cure for the poisoned Autobots. {{storylink|Decepticon Poison}}
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====Autobot Alert!====
[[File:AutobotAlertSuperBooster.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
Perceptor had been recently busying himself inventing new devices and weapons for the Autobots. Among these were “laser-ignited explosives,” and a “rapid-fire, high-intensity rifle cannon." He told his fellow Autobots that the later invention could “blow away a skyscraper at a close range.”

In one possible scenario, the Autobots had retrieved a cybertite sphere containing the formula for an ancient Autobot power-booster. Perceptor went to work, and successfully produced a first batch of the power-booster, ensuring that the war would soon tip in favour of the Autobots. {{storylink|Autobot Alert!}}
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===3H comics===
[[File:Skidswreckers2.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.1|"Rodimus, a cursory evaluation of Decepticon capability indicates a distinct tactical deficiency! ...it's you."]]
Perceptor counseled [[Hot Rod|Rodimus Prime]] against making a leadership decision that, when one considers both the opinions of observers that are generally regarded as wise, to such an extent as observers with finite capacity for knowledge can comprehend the infinite, and the final results of the decision in question, could be regarded as less than optimal.

Knowing the commander in question, many of those reading this documentation may surmise the result... {{storylink|Betrayal}}
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===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
[[File:AgeofWrath3-Perceptor.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.1|You should see me when I'm ''not'' on steroids!]]
Perceptor was again held to be an officer or leader, a position he occupied with [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]], among a group of underground Autobots on Cybertron after the unexpected return of [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], who had disappeared along with Optimus Prime many years ago in an early [[space bridge]] test, commanding the [[Air Warrior|Aerospace Extermination Squadron]], an army of [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]]-form drones. The combat efficiency of these Air Warriors, as they were also known, led to a Decepticon conquest of Cybertron, as well as the enslavement of many Autobots. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.2}} During this period, Perceptor theorized that if Megatron had survived the space bridge explosion, one could logically conclude that Optimus Prime also survived. At [[Iacon Command]], Perceptor designed and built a [[Dimensional Interface Assembly|device]] intended to locate Optimus Prime. Before a proper test of the device could be conducted, Perceptor's group managed to capture an Air Warrior, with the intentions of examining its systems with the hope of finding an effective counter measure against the drones. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.3}}

[[File:BrothersBurden-Perceptor.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Perceptor use small words for dumb friends.]]
Millions of years after the aforementioned events, Perceptor again allied with a group of Autobots who opposed the oppressive regime of the Decepticon [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]], but these activities were covert in nature and he publicly remained a respected Autobot scientist. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} He presented evidence of Shockwave's unorthodox experiments on various Transformers, as well as the fact that Cybertron's spatial coordinates seemed to have changed, to the [[Autobot High Council|High Council]]. The High Council was unwilling to take any constitutional action against Shockwave, over feelings of gratitude for his assistance in restoring the peace, even after they were verbally accosted by [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]. Ultimately, any censure or movement against Shockwave was discontinued due to a rampage on the part of the [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]]. {{storylink|Cold War (issue)|Cold War}} After Optimus Prime escaped custody and united the various resistance movements, Perceptor participated in the [[Prime (rank)|Autobot leader]]'s offensive against [[Shockwave's Tower|Shockwave's fortifications]] within Hub Capital Iacon. He also helped to repair [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]], commander of the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]], despite the latter's well known bias against intellectuals. {{storylink|Countdown to Extinction (issue)|Countdown to Extinction}}
{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Fragmentation (G1)|Fragmentation}} {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}} {{storylink|Generation 1 issue 0|Generation 1 #0}} {{storylink|Original Sin}}}}

===''Transformers/G.I. Joe''===
In the year 1985, Perceptor and [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] hastily took off for [[Earth]] in an starship poorly-suited for interstellar travel, despite Perceptor's protests. Upon arrival, they unsurprisingly crashed, landing in the forests of [[Oregon]] near [[Mount St. Hilary]]. They were discovered there by a [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] team led by [[Flint (G.I. Joe)|Flint]]. {{storylink|Targets of Opportunity}}

{{note|Due to Dreamwave's bankruptcy, Blaster and Perceptor's motivations for coming to Earth—and pretty much anything else—were never revealed.}}

===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===
[[File:JoevsTFII1-Perceptor.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.66|You never see him do this in any of the slashfic.]]
Perceptor accompanied [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] to [[Teletran 3]], where he providing covering fire for Magnus and captured [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] with [[energon chains]]. He then tapped into Teletran 3 and learned that it had transported a random number of Cybertronians into various points in [[Earth]]'s timeline, which would cause a temporal feedback that would destroy the planet unless they were retrieved. Thankfully, [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] and [[Cobra]] were happy to save their planet, and Perceptor operated Teletran 3 to send them after the missing Transformers. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 1|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #1}} After that, all he could do was wait inside the slowly dying force field erected around Teletran 3. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #2}} Unfortunately, the field went down before all the rescue teams had returned, and the Autobots were captured by [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]], who taunted Perceptor as he allowed his Earth-destruction scenario to play out. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 3|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #3}} It was not to be, however, as the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] were retrieved from Earth's distant past and ripped Shockwave's forces apart, saving Perceptor and the other prisoners. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #4}}

Some time later, Perceptor was sent to [[Area 52 (G1)|Area 52]] on Earth to oversee the decommissioning of Cybertronian technology along with [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]], [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] and [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]]. Before he had time to do much other than greet [[Mainframe (G.I. Joe)|Mainframe]] and deliver a message from Optimus Prime, the facility came under attack by Cobra, and Perceptor had to help fight them off. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 1|The Art of War #1}} Bumblebee went missing during the battle, and the Autobots followed his [[energy signature]] to the lowest areas of Area 52, only to find the head of [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], deactivated two years earlier. Perceptor was outraged that the humans had been experimenting with something so dangerous, but [[Hawk (G.I. Joe)|Hawk]] insisted that he had been completely unaware. As it turned out, Megatron's remains had been used to make the dangerous and hostile [[Serpentor|Serpent Organic Robot]], who forced the [[G.I. Joe battle mech|Joes' mech suits]] to fight against Perceptor and the other Autobots before warping to Cybertron. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 2|The Art of War #2}}

The Autobots and Joes followed him, and Perceptor called [[Capitol City]] for reinforcements before discovering the movement signals of several [[cannibalizer]]s around them. They escaped from the monstrosities, only to run straight into Serpent O.R.'s newly recruited Decepticon army, who captured them before Perceptor's reinforcements had time to arrive. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 3|The Art of War #3}} They were eventually freed thanks to [[Snake-Eyes]]'s ninja tricks. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 4|The Art of War #4}} While fighting their way out of the Decepticon base, the Autobots learned that Serpent O.R. had also captured Optimus Prime, and they went to rescue him. When they arrived, Serpent O.R.'s body had been transformed by the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] and was now being controlled by [[Cobra Commander]]. The Cobra leader used his tentacles to smash Perceptor's shoulder to pieces, and with a cry of "Goodness!", the scientist was taken out of action. After Cobra Commander was defeated by Hawk, Perceptor listened to [[Roadblock (G.I. Joe)|Roadblock]] tell funny stories about [[Barbecue]]. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 5|The Art of War #5}}

===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
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In the time preceding the war, Perceptor worked for security control for Sentinel Prime's government.{{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 2|Megatron Origin #2}} In the earliest days of the war, Perceptor was part of [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]]'s science team when they were sent to search the former location of the [[Toraxxis mega-refinery]] for signs of [[energon]]. His colleague [[Ratchet (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ratchet]] believed something to be living in the crater, but Perceptor assured him the odds of life existing in the high-pressure underground environment were very low. {{storylink|Fallout (issue)|Fallout}} When they discovered a lake of energon in the caves, Perceptor found unstable particle anomalies within it, and indeed something proved to be very wrong when Ratchet fell in and was turned into a growling beast who mindlessly attacked Perceptor. He calmed down, but the team was in turn attacked by actual monsters who against Perceptor's earlier conclusion were native to the tunnels. Fleeing to another cave, the scientists stumbled onto the dormant form of a [[Trypticon (G1)|much larger monster]], seemingly sealed away since ancient times. {{storylink|Underworld (IDW)|Underworld}} After reporting their findings to [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime]], Perceptor shared some new low odds with Ratchet—this time, the odds of their survival if the giant monster was to wake up. {{storylink|Prey (issue)|Prey}} During a major Decepticon assault on [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], Perceptor reported to Optimus Prime that the city's coolant plants had been ruptured, causing extensive flooding and [[acid rain]]. {{storylink|Primacy issue 3|Primacy #3}}

At some point during the war, Perceptor fought alongside Ultra Magnus, Springer and Wheelie. Unfortunately, like most other bots, he had a tendency to overlook Wheelie, due to the latter's small stature. {{storylink|Spotlight: Wheelie}}

More than five hundred years ago, Perceptor was one of the cross-factional scientists consulted by [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] when he first identified Cybertron's failing energon resources. {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 1|Stormbringer #1}}

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In the 21st century, Perceptor led an expedition aboard the ''[[Ark-17]]'', along with [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] and others in a mission to rescue an insane [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] from [[Tsiehshi]]. The old Autobot was deranged from his ordeal, and attacked any rescuers who came down to the heavily-irradiated planet. Perceptor voiced concerns to Springer that he was needlessly risking lives in an effort to recover one Autobot. Luckily, the force field specialist [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] soon arrived and recovered Kup without any further loss of life. {{storylink|Spotlight: Kup}}

Perceptor later served on the [[Autobot Orbital Command Hub]], working as a peer to acting-commander [[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]]. He appeared to know [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] of old, and welcomed the communications officer back from his long absence. Perceptor helped Blaster with his investigation into who tried to assassinate him years ago, the attack which prompted his disappearance. {{storylink|Spotlight: Blaster}}

[[File:SpotlightBlaster Perceptor whitestatic.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Cut the crap, Perceptor, and just get the cable back up!]]

After Jetfire and the [[Technobot (G1)|Technobot]]s recovered and improved upon the unstable [[Pretender]] technology, Perceptor worked with Brainstorm at the [[Kimia Facility]] to apply a variation of the tech to help repair Kup. Overseeing the operation, [[Prowl (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Prowl]] also had Perceptor secretly install subroutines into Kup that would allow Prowl to have control over the old codger. Though Perceptor opposed this, he followed his orders. Perceptor also was assigned to Kup's unit to keep a supply of [[cy-gar]]s handy to keep Kup sane. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 15#Everything in Its Right Place|Everything in Its Right Place}}

[[File:LostNFound-brainiac.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|"...half naked..."]]
Perceptor later accompanied Kup on a mission to rescue some captured [[Wrecker]]s and was badly injured during the operation, but was saved by [[Drift (G1)|Drift]]. {{storylink|Spotlight: Drift}} After healing from his injuries, Perceptor decided to make some upgrades to his body, making him more useful as a warrior. He gave himself a [[adamant crystal|near-impervious]] breastplate, aiming arm stabilizers and a monocle-like targeting optic. He demonstrated these to great effect, taking out [[Monstructor (G1)|Monstructor]] in one blast during a rescue of [[Hot Rod/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Hot Rod]]. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 15#Lost & Found|Lost & Found}}

Sporting a decidedly dour demeanor, Perceptor obtained a modicum of prominence on Kup's team. Perceptor opted to become more directly involved in deeply discomfiting the Decepticons... until their inopportune crash-landing on Cybertron. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 5|All Hail Megatron #5}} When some [[Insecticon swarm|swarms of Insecticons]] made an appearance, he once again displayed his disturbing targeting proficiency, inflicting immediate and conclusive damage on one scout with only minimal effort. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 6|All Hail Megatron #6}} {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 7|All Hail Megatron #7}}

[[File:AHM8-Perceptor.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|IDW Transformers drinking game: Take a sip for every panel of Perceptor shooting things while looking bad ass.]]
Later, when the Autobots fled from the Swarm, they had planted some explosive charges to several bridges in order to cut off their pursuers. When they passed one of the bridges, Kup ordered Perceptor to shoot the charges, which he did with two small hand-blasters. However, he was taken out by a dart fired off by a Swarm (who got blasted for its effort). {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 8|All Hail Megatron #8}} He was soon back on his feet, helping the other Autobots set up a defensive turret at their base. This saddened Ratchet, who would rather have had the "old" Perceptor help him and [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] repair Optimus Prime. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 9|All Hail Megatron #9}} After almost getting overrun by the Swarm, Perceptor and the other Autobots were rescued by [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]], who carried them all to [[Earth]]. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 10|All Hail Megatron #10}}

Perceptor was still by Kup's side three years later, by which time both of them had joined the [[Wrecker]]s. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 1|Last Stand of the Wreckers #1}}

When they stumbled upon the injured former Wrecker [[Impactor (G1)|Impactor]], Perceptor checked up on him and found a [[deterrence chip]] embedded in his skull. He soon had to switch mindsets from scientist to sniper again, though, as the Wreckers were sent to liberate [[Garrus-9]] from [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]]'s clutches. During the initial attack, Perceptor shot down Decepticon jets while hanging upside-down from the Autobots' drop pod. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 2|Last Stand of the Wreckers #2}}

[[File:LastStandoftheWreckers2 Perceptor Sniping.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.1|*sip*]]
After their drop pod had crash-landed inside Garrus-9, Perceptor and his team found themselves surrounded by Decepticons and confronting Overlord himself. Overlord killed [[Rotorstorm (G1)|Rotorstorm]] right in front of them and told the Wreckers to surrender. Perceptor calmly ordered [[Pyro (G1)|Pyro]] to protect the stowaway [[Verity Carlo]], while he, [[Ironfist (G1)|Ironfist]], and [[Topspin (G1)|Topspin]] launched themselves at the Decepticon. Overlord easily thrashed all of them, and upon hearing that there were Wreckers in another part of Garrus-9, offered freedom to any other Decepticon who brought him the head of a Wrecker. The Wreckers beat a hasty retreat as a mob of Decepticons started after them, and Perceptor managed to delay them by sniping and detonating a spare fuel tank they had brought along.

Perceptor and Topspin had to take a moment to deal with a shaken Ironfist’s anxiety over Rotorstorm’s death, then set to finding their main objective; [[Aequitas]]. Perceptor located the chamber in which it was housed and a ravaged [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]], who had been made into a "living lock pick" for the door. Perceptor had the access codes and got everyone in, revealing Aequitas to them. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3|Last Stand of the Wreckers #3}}

Perceptor explained what Aequitas was to the others, and he quickly set to work on trying to find an access terminal for it. When he finally did locate it, he discovered a problem; Aequitas was protected by a “suicide lock”. Perceptor told the others that someone had to willingly donate their spark to bypass it, and it couldn’t be him, as he was the only one who could operate the supercomputer. After some argument, Ironfist agreed to be the sacrifice, only to be beaten to the punch by Topspin. With Topspin’s death, Perceptor gained access to Aequitas’ system. He copied the hard drive and uploaded it into Ironfist for safekeeping. As Decepticons began to break through the chamber’s door, Perceptor pointed out he could kill them all by triggering their deterrence chips through Aequitas.

[[File:LastStandoftheWreckers5- Ironfist Perceptor Verity.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|And now you have alcohol poisoning.]]
Pyro and Verity were against this, as it meant Impactor would die as well, but Perceptor denied Verity a vote and looked to Ironfist for the tie-breaker. Ironfist, having learned the truth of Impactor’s crimes from the Aequitas upload, glumly cast his lot in with Perceptor. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4|Last Stand of the Wreckers #4}}

Verity continued to argue against it, arguing that the Wreckers as idealized by Ironfist would never take the easy way out. Perceptor changed his mind, deciding that Verity was right and they’d simply fight their way out. Pyro volunteered to stay behind and buy them time to escape, and once the door was breached, Perceptor and Ironfist slipped by the Decepticons. At Ironfist’s prompting, they headed to Garrus-9’s armory.

Shortly thereafter, Perceptor and the others arrived outside, where the remaining Wreckers were fighting Overlord. As the Decepticon held Springer up with one arm, Perceptor sniped his hand off, forcing him to drop the Wreckers’ leader. But Overlord managed to tear Springer’s face off and blast Perceptor into unconsciousness before finally being defeated by Ironfist, Verity, and the revived Impactor. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 5|Last Stand of the Wreckers #5}}

After the liberation of Garrus-9, Perceptor resumed working at Kimia for a while. Alongside [[Xaaron]], he would later rejoin the main Autobot force as it headed towards Cybertron on board Omega Supreme. Together with Ratchet, he scanned a surrendered [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]] for any hidden weapons or bombs, but found nothing. Ratchet was worried about an old legend that their prisoner had the ability to draw [[antimatter]] from [[black hole]]s, but Perceptor dismissed this as "stupid" and deemed Megatron safe. {{storylink|Chaos Theory Part 1|Chaos Theory #1}}

[[File:Brainstorm Hangers On.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|left]]
During the Autobots' battle with [[D-Void]] on Cybertron, Optimus Prime used the [[Matrix of Leadership]] and [[Vector Sigma]] to "reset" the entire planet into a primordial state, an event that probably even Perceptor couldn't explain. Once it was all over, Prime had Perceptor and [[Rewind (G1)|Rewind]] examine the core of the Matrix, which had been split in two in the process. Together, they found that the artifact was a complex synthetic structure, designed to be split open to reveal a message from the ancient [[Knights of Cybertron]]. Along with this message was a star map, which the Autobots assumed showed the way to [[Cyberutopia]]. {{storylink|Transformers: The Death of Optimus Prime|The Death of Optimus Prime}}

Hoping to find the Knights of Cybertron using the Matrix map, Rodimus asked for any willing Autobots to join him on the ''[[Lost Light]]''. Perceptor was among those who volunteered, but an explosion during launch caused the ship to [[quantum jump]] to an unknown point in space. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 1: How to Say Goodbye and Mean It|How to Say Goodbye and Mean It}} As the crew set the ''Lost Light'' down on a nearby planet, Perceptor worked with [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]] to inspect and repair its [[quantum generator]]s. They found [[Ore]] jammed into one of them, but Perceptor didn't want to make an official statement until he had done numerous tests. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 2: Hangers On|Hangers On}} Later, a [[Sparkeater (creature)|Sparkeater]] was unleashed aboard the Lost Light. Rodimus cornered it by an engine block and ordered Perceptor to quantum jump, mashing the Sparkeater into the quantum generator. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 3: The Chaos of Warm Things|The Chaos of Warm Things}}

[[File:Perceptor floor The Waiting Game.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.3]]
Perceptor attended an award ceremony for [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]], Brainstorm and [[Highbrow (G1)|Highbrow]] after they'd heroically repaired a hull breach. {{storylink|The Reluctant Specialist}} Shortly thereafter he was sent on a scavenging mission to the planet [[Deimus]], but the shuttle ended up crashing and causing overheating coils to melt his legs into the floor (or the ceiling, since the craft ended up upside down). When his crewmate [[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]] ran into an illusions of [[Tarn (DJD)|Tarn]], Megatron, [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Shockwave]], [[Sixshot]] and [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] on the surface of the planet, Perceptor theorized that Deimus was protected by a [[phobia shield]], a device that caused Transformers to see their worst fears. As they were attacked by an illusory [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]], Hoist carried Perceptor to safety before knocking him unconscious to keep the phobia shield from accessing his mind. {{storylink|The Waiting Game}}

[[File:MtMtE13 - Perceptor.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.34|He gives Swerve a taste of his own medicine.]]
While attending [[Tailgate (G1)|Tailgate]]'s [[Act of Affiliation]] ceremony, Perceptor got word that Ore had mysteriously come back to life. Worried that the quantum generators might trigger another random jump if he panicked, he advised that they avoid telling Ore about his condition for the time being. {{storylink|Primus: You, Me, and Other Revelations|You, Me, and Other Revelations}} In an attempt to repair the damage to the psychiatrist [[Rung (G1)|Rung]]'s brain, [[Rewind (G1)|Rewind]] gathered Perceptor, [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]], [[Siren (G1)|Siren]], [[Gears (G1)|Gears]] and Sunstreaker together in [[Swerve's|Swerve's bar]] to tell a story, indicating that they had all shared an adventure at some point in the past. The attempt was unsuccessful, possibly due to the overbearing volume of Siren's voice. {{storylink|Shadowplay (Conclusion): An Intimate Beheading|An Intimate Beheading}} Perceptor then participated in the battle with a rogue group of Decepticons discovered on [[Temptoria]]. {{storylink|Before & After}} At one point he helpfully explained to a curious Swerve why the ''Lost Light''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s initial disappearance looked like an explosion from the outside, but Swerve didn't understand a word of it. {{storylink|Cybertronian Homesick Blues}}

Having found that it was impossible to copy or even memorize the star map within the Matrix, Perceptor reported his discovery to Rodimus, who much to his annoyance forced him use layman's terms. Their conversation was cut short when the alarm alerted them that somehow Overlord was loose on their ship, causing both Autobots to rush into action. {{storylink|Under Cold Blue Stars}} {{storylink|Signal to Noise}} He later rushed an injured [[Tripodeca]] into Swerve's, now repurposed as a triage centre, and set him down as Hoist got to work on him. He then left to continue fighting Overlord. {{storylink|No Guns, No Swords, No Briefcases}}

When Ultra Magnus's dying body disappeared after the fight with Overlord, the ''Lost Light'' followed his signal through a space warp and miraculous came across the long missing [[Moonbase One|Luna 1]]. Perceptor did the initial scans of the planet's surface for Rodimus and got back what he was sure must be flawed data: despite an utter lack of signs of settlement or civilization, lifesigns registered in the neighborhood of ONE BILLION inhabitants. Perceptor joined the away team with Rodimus as they set off to investigate the moon, only to have an enormous [[hot spot]] ignite when they touched down. Perceptor's methodical, scientific ways shrieked in conflict with Brainstorm's impulsive curiosity, as the weapons engineer started ''harvesting'' a [[Point One Percenter]] spark right there on the field. The discussion became academic when a team of Decepticon [[Titan Hunter]]s suddenly arrived and attacked. {{storylink|Remain in Light 1 of 5: The Fecund Moon|The Fecund Moon}}

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The Autobots were soon overcome by the Hunters and brought before their unexpected leader, [[Tyrest (G1)|Chief Justice Tyrest]]. {{storylink|Remain in Light 2 of 5: House of Ambus|House of Ambus}} They were incarcerated in a cell for "harboring a criminal suspect", a charge that more light was shed upon after the arrival of their crewmate Skids, captured and dropped into [[Star Saber (Victory)|Star Saber]], new Enforcer of the Tyrest Accord. {{storylink|Remain in Light 3 of 5: The Divided Self|The Divided Self}} Turned out Prowl had tapped Tyrest for some light [[shadowplay]]-enforced treatment, and sent Skids and Getaway of Special Ops to deliver it via [[nudge gun]]s. They were stopped and Getaway captured as Skids escaped to the ''Lost Light'', ensuring Tyrest's antipathy towards the crew. Learning that Tyrest planned to eliminate all Cybertronians who were [[Reproduction#IDW Generation 1 continuity|constructed cold]] using his "[[universal killswitch]]", Perceptor and the crew escaped their cell and confronted the chief justice. Unfortunately, he managed to incapacitate the heroes and triggered the killswitch. {{storylink|Remain in Light 4 of 5: Arm the Lonely|Arm the Lonely}} After Tailgate surprised and disabled Tyrest's incapacitator, Perceptor rigged up a defense to the killswitch. By linking up Rodimus and his half-Matrix to the sparkcode frequency targeted by Tyrest's device, he succeeded in reinstating the code and preventing the deaths of a major percentage of the Cybertronian race. {{storylink|Remain in Light 5 of 5: This Calamitous Life|This Calamitous Life}} In the aftermath, Perceptor managed to adapt Tyrest's communication equipment to their purposes, and finally make contact again with Cybertron. And... Starscream?!? {{storylink|The Sound of Breaking Glass}}

Continuing to work with the communicator, Perceptor later picked up an incoming call from Starscream. {{storylink|Dark Dawn: Dark Cybertron Chapter 1|Dark Dawn}} As the crew debated whether to chase after [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]] or track down [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]], Perceptor was in favor of the latter, convincing Ultra Magnus to follow the Titan's signal to [[Hydrophena]]. {{storylink|Winners & Losers: Dark Cybertron Chapter 3|Winners & Losers}} As they arrived and were faced with a group of robots, Perceptor offered his theory as to where they came from, and was parroted the entire time by Brainstorm. Once their identities were revealed as hostile [[Ammonite]]s, he set out on board the [[Rodpod]] alongside some others, leading to their discovery of Metroplex nearby. {{storylink|Into the Abyss: Dark Cybertron Chapter 4|Into the Abyss}} Entering the Titan's body, the crew tried to explore him only to get lost within his labyrinthine insides and find themselves where they started. And then the Rodpod blew up. {{storylink|No Exit: Dark Cybertron Chapter 6|No Exit}} After interrogating the Ammonite who sabotaged it, the team was approached by [[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]] and [[Nautica (G1)|Nautica]], {{storylink|The Dead Are Not Enough: Dark Cybertron Chapter 7|The Dead Are Not Enough}} guardians of Metroplex's brain. Interrupted by more Ammonites, Perceptor and several others stayed behind to fight off the intruders while the others made it to the brain. {{storylink|Burning Bright: Dark Cybertron Chapter 8|Burning Bright}} After Metroplex warped back to Cybertron, Perceptor relocated to the brain room where he got to watch the defeat of the [[Necrotitan]] and listen to Brainstorm's dumb jokes. {{storylink|Finis Temporis: Dark Cybertron Chapter 9|Finis Temporis}}

A brief celebration and reunion with the other Autobots ensued, but was interrupted by the arrival of an army of Ammonites summoned by [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Shockwave]]. {{storylink|The Becoming: Dark Cybertron Chapter 10|The Becoming}} [[Bumblebee (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Bumblebee]] tried to organize an evacuation, but Perceptor warned that there was nowhere to run, as evidence was suggesting Shockwave was trying to end the entire universe. {{storylink|Black Planet: Dark Cybertron Chapter 11|Black Planet}} The ''Lost Light'' was able to take out some ten thousand of the invaders, but as Perceptor pointed out, it didn't even make a dent in the ''seventy billion''-strong army. Nevertheless, it all worked out in the end. {{storylink|...And the Damage Done: Dark Cybertron Finale|...And the Damage Done}} He continued to serve on the ''Lost Light'' under the command of a reformed Megatron, {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 1: Towards Peace|Towards Peace}} and evacuated alongside everyone else when the ship suddenly began disappearing piece by piece. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 3: Predestination: A Beginner's Guide|Predestination: A Beginner's Guide}} Perceptor ended up disappearing himself, along with most of the crew. The remaining Autobots stumbled upon a quantum duplicate ''Lost Light'' in ruins, where all aboard had been slaughtered by the [[Decepticon Justice Division]]. The duplicate Perceptor had been shredded alive by [[Tesarus (DJD)|Tesarus]] {{storylink|slaughterhouse}} When the duplicate ship's quantum engines were shut down, the missing crew members reappeared, Perceptor included. {{storylink| slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}}
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{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|The Gloaming}} {{storylink|Little Victories}} {{storylink|The Custom-Made Now - An Elegant Chaos Prologue|The Custom-Made Now}} {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 1: All Our Parlous Yesterdays|All Our Parlous Yesterdays}} {{storylink|The Not Knowing}} {{storylink|The Dying of the Light: (1) How Bright Their Frail Deeds|How Bright Their Frail Deeds}}}}

===''Transformers United''===
With the Autobots on Earth infected with a deadly nano-virus, Perceptor worked tirelessly to find a cure, despite being afflicted himself. With the Autobots' ally, Supreme Scientist Zella, having successfully synthesized a cure, Perceptor sent out a team of Headmasters and Targetmasters, the only Autobots unaffected by the virus, to retrieve it. {{storylink|The Fierce Fighting on Planet Nebulos}}
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===''Cloud''===
[[File:Cloud Perceptor.jpg|thumb|]]

{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Awakening (Cloud)|Awakening}} {{storylink|Wandering}} {{storylink|Shock (Cloud)|Shock}} {{storylink|Eagerness}} {{storylink|Metamorphosis (Cloud)|Metamorphosis}}}}

===''Transformers vs. G.I. Joe''===
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Together with [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] and [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]], Perceptor investigated [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] after the abandoned city had been covered in foliage due to a [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] attack on Cybertron. Perceptor inspected one of the [[G.I.Rocket|creeper plants]] left behind by the Joes' attack, only to be taken aback by the organism's rapid growth. The Autobots were then caught up in a Decepticon attack against the invading humans, and Perceptor was captured by [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]]. Thankfully, Mirage escaped the Decepticons' notice, and managed to save his allies from Megatron's throne room within [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]. {{storylink|Targetmasters (issue)|Targetmasters}}

The trio made it back to [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]], bringing the Joes along as captives. The humans were presented to [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]], who promptly dropped them in a pool filled with [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticons]]. Not waiting around for the show, Perceptor, Brawn and Mirage took off to find Wheeljack. They found the Autobot being vivisected within the Joes' base camp. Perceptor 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 readied to take up arms once more when [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] showed up, accompanied by [[Breaker]], [[Jinx]], [[Cover Girl]] and [[Clutch (G.I. Joe)|Clutch]]. Grimlock declared a truce between the Joes and the Autobots had been reached, and both factions partied together to cement their alliance. {{storylink|Form Follows Function}} After the Joes moved into [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]], Perceptor confided in Wheeljack that he had reservations about the Autobots allying themselves with the humans. {{storylink|Everybody Hates Metroplex}} As it turns out, Perceptor had more elaborate reasons to express his distrust of the Joes... As [[Tunnel Rat]] found out, he was really a double-agent, working for the Decepticons! Under [[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]]<nowiki>'</nowiki>s supervision, Perceptor performed an autopsy on [[Wild Bill]]'s body. {{storylink|Expelled from the Garden}}

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===Ask Vector Prime===
In [[Primax 085.0 Eta]], the Autobots defeated the Decepticons on Earth and recaptured control of Cybertron. Peace reigned for a time, but a series of [[Earthquake (event)|cyberquake]]s and [[Devastator Winds|Devastator storm]]s began, threatening Cybertron. Perceptor eventually determined the source of the crisis to be the planet [[Moebius]] in [[Gargent 087.0 Kappa|an alternate universe]], designated the 22nd Strata. Perceptor devised a method of crossing dimensions, the [[Reality Bridge]], and sent a [[Sky Spy]] through. The Sky Spy returned with hazy images of local cyborg lifeforms. [[Optimus Prime (G1)#The Battle for Planet Earth|Optimus Prime]] assembled a team to travel to the 22nd Strata to stop the crisis. Modifing themselves based on Perceptor's technical readouts, they dubbed themselves the [[Spy Changer]]s. Eventually, the Spy Changers succeeded in securing Cybertron's safety. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 30/9/2015}}

==Commercial appearances==
*Perceptor joined the battle against the Decepticons just as [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] unleashed [[Triple Changer]]s, "the most evil Decepticons of all!" In the middle of a fight against [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]], [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus]] used Perceptor's microscope mode to inspect some Decepticon debris. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Triple Changers and Perceptor|Triple Changers and Perceptor commercial}}
*Blaster, Cosmos and Perceptor had a dance-off against Soundwave, Rumble and Frenzy. {{storylink|Blaster VS Soundwave 2013}}

==Games==
===The Transformers (PS2)===
{{note|Perceptor is a non-playable character. He appears among the legion of Autobot duplicates in the Decepticon campaign.}}
{{storylink|The Transformers (PS2)|The Transformers}}

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===''Transformers Legends''===
Perceptor was around when a short alliance was formed between several bots with a love for construction from both side of the Autobot/Decepticon war. Perceptor himself was not an active participant in the event proper, however. {{storylink|The Master Builders (Legends)|The Master Builders}}

Perceptor was an active participant in the Autobot/Decepticon war when Ultra Magnus decided to reunite with his unit from the planet Junkion, only to be attacked by the Insecticons. {{storylink|Junkion Reunion}} Perceptor was shocked when [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] rushed off to battle the Constructicons after the Decepticon team took over an asteroid. He and [[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]] attempted to warn Omega about the space beast contained in the asteroid, but were forced to defend [[San Diego]] when the creature was released. {{storylink|The Secret of Omega Supreme (Legends)|The Secret of Omega Supreme}}

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===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
Perceptor participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He appeared in multiple different bodies:
*''Perceptor'' — This Epic character could be acquired as a reward in the "Scary Smart" event.
*''Generations Perceptor'' — This Epic character could be recruited by collecting 500 units of Cybermetal, 250 units of Transmetal, and 50 cores of this character.
{{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}

===''Transformers: Frontiers''===
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==Toys==
===Generation 1===
[[File:G1toy-Perceptor.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Because it's easier to see small things when you have a giant laser cannon aiming at them.]]
*'''Perceptor''' (Autobot, 1985)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''39'''
**''Accessories:'' [[concussion weapon|Concussion rifle]], missile launcher, 3 missiles

:Formerly a [[Micro Change|Microchange]] MC-20 Micro Scope, Perceptor transforms into a predominantly red, functional microscope. His magnification is limited to 14X<ref>Perceptor's [[instructions]].</ref> due to the relatively crude nature of his lens. In [[robot mode]], Perceptor is armed with a red "Concussion Rifle" and a spring-loaded rocket launcher that can fire one of three red missile-shaped projectiles (functional only in the Takara release).

:A holdover from his Microchange origins, Perceptor can also transform into a 'tank' mode.

:The Japanese version does ''not'' launch missiles from the scope, despite what some sources say.

:There is an odd variant of this toy: some have a more golden-hued chrome than the normal silver. This is not a very common variant.

:The mold was later [[redeco]]ed to make [[Magnificus (G1)|Magnificus]].
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1985/Autobot/Perceptor/perceptor.htm More information on Perceptor at TFU.info]''
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===The Transformers Collection===
*'''Cybertron Perceptor''' (Transformers Collection, Japan 2005)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''TFC-19'''
: Perceptor was [[Generation 1 reissues|reissued]] in Japan as part of [[TakaraTomy|Takara]]'s ''[[The Transformers Collection|Transformers Collection]]'' line.
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===Classics===
[[File:ClassicsLOCPerceptor toy.jpg|thumb|"I will blow up your whole city. For science."]]
*'''Perceptor''' (Legends, 2006)

:Available as part of the first assortment of ''[[Transformers: Classics|Classics]]'' ''[[Legends Class (2005)|Legends of Cybertron]]'', Perceptor is a [[redeco]] of the ''Legends of Cybertron'' [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]]. He transforms into a BTR-90 armored personnel carrier with a large missile/laser cannon/microscope/telescope.

:This mold was also used to make ''[[Transformers: Universe (2008 toyline)|Universe]]'' [[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2006/Autobot/ClassicsPerceptor/perceptor.htm More information on ''Classics'' Perceptor at TFU.info]''
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===Universe (2008)===
[[File:Universe2008-Perceptorreissue.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Free him from his prison, so that he may think ''outside'' the box!]]
*'''Perceptor''' (2009)
**''Series'': '''G1 Series'''
**''Accessories'': Concussion rifle, missile launcher, 3 missiles

:Hasbro did their own reissue of Perceptor as part of the [[Transformers: Universe (2008 toyline)|''Universe'' line]]. The [[Toys"R"Us]] [[exclusive]] was issued in a box with an opening front cover and advertised as a "Commemorative Edition", much like the earlier [[Soundwave (G1)/toys|Soundwave]] and the Insecticons (which were released at the same time as Perceptor).

:Strangely, the spring of the missile launcher was not weakened like most Generation 1 toys, but were straight-out omitted from the gun. This makes the missiles totally useless, because they don't even clip into the gun.
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===Transformers (2010)===
[[File:TF2010toy-Perceptor.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66| Thank you [[Aaron Archer|Aaron]], and your love of Perceptor!]]
*'''Perceptor''' (Deluxe, 2011)

:Part of the sixth wave of the [[Transformers (2010 toyline)|2010 ''Transformers'' toyline]], Perceptor is based on a combination of Generation 1 Perceptor and [[Perceptor (Animated)|''Animated'' Perceptor]]. His [[alternate mode]] is a generic "scientific expedition" vehicle with the front half resembling a modern off-road vehicle similar to a [[Wikipedia:Land Rover Defender|Land Rover Defender]] or a [[Wikipedia:Jeep Commander|Jeep Commander]]. The rear section features treads instead of wheels, making it a half-track vehicle (which aren't actually produced anymore).

[[File:PerceptorHasbroStock.jpg|right|thumb|120px|Lack of G1 chrome was deemed "not nerdy enough".]]
:The gun on top of his truck mode can also be turned into a small microscope in a nod to his original toy's alt mode. His license plate reads "MR 51409", the exact significance of which is not yet known (though it might have something to do with the possible birth date of [[Bill Rawley]]'s daughter). In addition, Perceptor has some [[Vacuum metallizing|vacuum-metalized]] parts, which are kind of unusual for a mainline Hasbro toy. The chromed dials on his forearms feature bars compatible with [[C joint]] accessories. Like all ''[[Reveal the Shield]]'' [[subline imprint]] figures, Perceptor has a [[rubsign]], which is located behind a translucent door on his chest that can be opened. His hands are compatible with [[5mm post]]s, such as the ones on the guns of his original toy.

:The [[instructions]] incorrectly tell you to position the feet horizontally in vehicle mode, which causes them to press against his knees and prevent the vehicle mode from tabbing correctly in numerous places, when they are meant to be positioned vertically and rest against the trunk. Strangely, the correct position can be seen in the numerous steps depicting the underside of the vehicle, but it immediately switches to the incorrect position on the steps concerning the feet. Additionally, [[packaging]] [[stock photography]] depicts a considerably different Perceptor than the final product. The photos show him having silver [[paint operation]]s on his upper legs and inner forearms, but said parts appear to be made of [[unpaintable plastic]], rather understandably causing the paint operations to be dropped. Additionally, the shoulder laser, chest, and arm knobs sport silver paint rather than chrome.

:According to Hasbro back at [[BotCon 2010]], the toy was planned to eventually be retooled into [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]], using a new head that looks like Perceptor's original toy head.<ref>http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/conventions-15/botcon-2010-hasbro-designers-panel-170066/</ref> This head mold was used when the mold was [[retool]]ed into ''[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]]'' [[Magnificus (G1)#Generations|Magnificus]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2011/Autobot/Perceptor/perceptor.htm More information on ''Reveal the Shield'' Perceptor at TFU.info]''
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===United===
[[File:Unitedtoy-Perceptor.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Maybe my [[C joint]]s will work!]]
*'''Autobot Perceptor''' (Deluxe, 2011)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''UN-15'''

:''[[Transformers United|United]]'' Autobot Perceptor features several differences from his Hasbro ''Transformers'' (2010 toyline) counterpart, covering his red vehicle panels with metallic red paint, replacing the clear yellow with colorless clear plastic, and adding some additional detailing to his vehicle mode and robot mode. Other notable details are blue translucent paint on the eyes, as well as silver detailing on his chest. As with all ''United'' versions of the ''Transformers'' (2010) toys, Perceptor lacks a heat-sensitive [[rubsign]], replacing it with a [[tampograph]]ed Autobot sigil. Surprisingly, he lacks any of the chrome from the Hasbro release, leaving those corresponding parts either painted silver or unpainted light gray plastic.
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===Platinum Edition===
*'''Autobot Intel Ops''' (2015)
**''Accessories'': Concussion rifle, missile launcher, 3 missiles, 6 slides, slide holder

:Hasbro again re-released G1 Perceptor in 2015 in the [[Transformers: Platinum Edition|''Platinum Edition'']] toyline. He was co-packed with [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]], [[Eject (G1)|Eject]], [[Ramhorn (G1)|Ramhorn]], and [[Steeljaw (G1)|Steeljaw]] in a box with an opening front cover.

:A new feature included in this set specifically for Perceptor are six 'microscope slides' featuring different pictures, and a slide holder / cage which can hold all six slides. The slides fit snugly onto the mirror of Perceptor's mounting platform, although looking at them through the scope is an underwhelming experience, to say the least.

:Although Perceptor's missile launcher is included, once again the firing mechanism is completely gutted, with the trigger glued into the launcher. However, the missiles are still able to plug into the launcher and are held firmly in place by friction.
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==Merchandise==
===Decoy===
[[File:Decoy Perceptor.jpg|upright=1|thumb|Red and rubbery with science!]]
*'''Cybertron Hero Collection 22''' (Decoy multi-pack, 1985)

:Perceptor was among the many characters rendered by [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] as part of their series of 1.5" soft rubber ''keshigomu'' figurines. Like all the figures in the series, Perceptor featured a number sculpted into his back that was the sum total of his [[Tech Spec]]s, for use in the various games that could be played with the figurines. He was available in red as part of a 22-piece box set of Autobot figures, in peach as part of various other randomly-packed box sets released by Takara subsidiary [[Seven]], and in a wide variety of different colors in "gachapon" capsule machines.

*'''Perceptor''' (Decoy, 1987)
**''Decoy number'': 30

: The Perceptor figurine was later brought over to [[Hasbro]] markets as part of the [[Decoy]] promotion, largely identical to the Japanese release except for the fact that the number on his back was replaced with a simple "checklist" number. Like all Autobot Decoys, he was a randomly-chosen pack-in available with the carded [[Throttlebot]]s, [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]], [[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobots]] and [[Technobot (G1)|Technobot]]s.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1986/Autobot/Decoys/Perceptor/perceptor.htm More information on decoy Perceptor at TFU.info]''
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===Super Collection Figure===
[[File:HOC Perceptor.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|What's the deal with corn nuts?]]
*'''Perceptor''' (2002)

:''[[Heroes of Cybertron|Super Collection Figure]]'' Perceptor is a non-transforming three-inch tall figure. In Japan, he was released [[blindpacking|blindpacked]] in the ''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Victory (franchise)|Victory]]''-themed "Act 7" of the line, and came with the rifle necessary to build [[Star Saber (Victory)|Star Saber]] into Victory Saber.

===Heroes of Cybertron===
*'''Perceptor''' (2003)

:Perceptor was released in the fourth wave of the ''[[Heroes of Cybertron]]'' line as a mostly unaltered version of the Perceptor figurine from the Japanese ''Super Collection Figure'' line, though as a HOC he uses the standard "all clear-blue plastic painted over" coloring process to give him light-piped eyes. He was released on a separate card instead of a blindpacked box, and came with the head and sword of the [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] build-a-figurine.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2002/Autobot/HoCPerceptor/perceptor.htm More information on ''Heroes of Cybertron'' Perceptor at TFU.info]''
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===Robot Heroes===
[[File:Robotheroesperceptorhardshell.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Now competing on "Iron Chemist"]]
*'''Perceptor vs. Hardshell''' (2009)

:Part of the fourth wave of ''[[Transformers: Universe (2008 toyline)|Universe]]'' ''[[Robot Heroes (toyline)|Robot Heroes]]'', Perceptor is a super-cute figure packed versus [[Bombshell (G1)|Hardshell]] as part of the "Generation 1 Series".

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2009/Autobot/RHPerceptor/perceptor.htm More information on ''Robot Heroes'' Perceptor at TFU.info]''
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==Notes==
[[File:G1PerceptorProtoColors.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Perceptor's long-lost fraternal twin, Perceivor.]]
[[File:GenerationsDeluxe-AMPerceptor.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|He couldn't stop at just one.]]
*The initial inspiration for Perceptor came from the anime series [[wikipedia:Armored Trooper Votoms|''Armored Trooper Votoms'']]. [[Shinji Aramaki]], designing toys for Takara at the time, liked the microscope look of the heads of the mecha from that series and applied it in a more literal sense with the Micro Change toy, but his involvement ended at the conceptual stage.
*Perceptor's toy has a mouthplate, whilst his character model doesn't. Bizarrely, his original Marvel comics colour scheme has a splash of blue across the bottom half of his face, where his non-existent mouthplate would be. Unlike [[Soundwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|certain other characters]], ''Regeneration One'' chose to maintain Perceptor's unique Marvel colours, and the artwork depicted the blue area as a recessed mouth, ala [[Blackarachnia (BW)|''Beast Wars'' Blackarachnia]].
*According to [[Aaron Archer]] at [[OTFCC 2004]], he chose to name the ''Armada'' [[Mini-Con]] combiner robot "[[Perceptor (Armada)|Perceptor]]" to honor the [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] employee who engineered the [[Street Action Mini-Con Team|Street Action Team]] because that employee was also responsible for engineering the original Perceptor toy. It's ''likely'' this was [[Hideaki Yoke]], given his [http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/japanese-transformers-40/interview-with-takara-lead-designer-hideaki-yoke-174597/ favorite Transformer is G1 Perceptor], but Archer did not specify at the time. Since Shinji Aramaki was long gone from Takara and directing the animated movie ''Appleseed'' in 2004, though, Occam's razor suggests that Hideaki Yoke engineered both of the Perceptors in question.
*In the animated portion of Perceptor's original toy commercial, he is presented as being quite small, the size a microscope would be in relation to Prime's robot form, and not growing at all, but remaining just as tiny in robot form.
*While the color scheme of the original Perceptor toy was created for the North American market (the ''[[Microman]] [[Micro Change]]'' toy was black and silver), there was apparently some indecision about its exact layout. A prototype toy in the 1985 U.S. [[catalog]] and Perceptor's own [[package art|box art]] show him with his colors shifted around; compared to the final toy, the prototype's black parts are red, the blue parts are black, and the orange parts are blue. Although the same prototype resurfaced in an early Japanese guidebook for the toyline, Perceptor's only known fictional appearance in this color arrangement is the original, [[Dreamwave]]-colored version of "[[Betrayal]]," the second part of ''[[Transformers: Universe (comic)|Transformers: Enter the Wreckers]]''.
**Rather than the bright blue originally intended, the finished Perceptor toy uses a greenish-blue for his biceps and thighs. The original, blue-limbed figure can be seen in Perceptor's commercial; his [[character model]] was also created and colored based on this earlier layout, so he appeared blue all throughout the Generation 1 cartoon and comic. Modern fiction and toys of the character tend to oscillate back and forth between cartoon-blue and toy-greenish-blue.
*Perceptor's Generation 1 [[character model]] and toy [[instructions]] position his scope/cannon of his left shoulder. You ''can'' put it in that position on the toy, but it won't sit flush; it's supposed to go on his ''right'' shoulder.
*A Perceptor [[Action Master]] was planned at one point, but apparently went no further than a concept sketch. Unlike some other Action Masters, the art is based solely on the toy, including its faceplate. It has the distinction of carrying on Perceptor's well-armed legacy, with not just one but TWO shoulder-mounted microscope cannons, arm shields, and a large crossbow-like handgun.<ref>''[[Transformers Generations Deluxe]]'', p110</ref>
*Like a lot of other Transformers, Perceptor was never released in the UK.{{fact}} As a result, the Commemorative Edition was the first version sold in the country and was an Amazon exclusive.
*In a rather surprising twist of events, part of this article has been placed on the cover of [[All Hail Megatron issue 15|''All Hail Megatron'' #15]]. The result is a [[micro-continuity]] in which Perceptor reads this Wiki. What is this "fourth wall" you speak of, reader?

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Perceptor''' (パーセプター ''Pāseputā'')
*''English:'' '''Doctor Baster''' ([[Omni Productions]] dub)
*''French:'' '''Percepto''' (Canada)
*''Hebrew:'' '''Taffsán''' (תפסן, "Perceptor")
*''Hungarian:'' '''Észlelő''' ("Perceptor"), '''Látó''' ("Seer", 1st movie dub)
*''Italian:'' '''Supervista''' ("Supersight")
*''Mandarin:'' '''Kǎn-Yìng Chě''' (Taiwan, 感應者, "Perceptor"), '''Gǎnzhīqì''' (China, 感知器, "Perceptron")
*''Russian:'' '''Microscope''' (Микроскоп ''Mikroskop'')
*''Ukrainian:'' '''Lovillnik''' (Ловильник, "Catcher")

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Riptide (G1)

2016-03-06T20:37:31Z

Ravagekitteh: /* IDW Generation 1 continuity */

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{{disambig2|the Generation 1 Autobot|the ''Armada'' Autobot|Riptide (Armada)}}
:''Riptide is an [[Autobot]] [[Hydrobot]] from the [[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW portion]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''
[[File:RiptideR.jpg|upright=1.33|thumb|Lady, running down to the riptide, taken away to the dark side, I wanna be your left hand man]]
'''Riptide''' has never really been particularly smart. Preferring to enjoy the simpler things in life, such as drinking at [[Swerve's]] and pulling pranks on his fellow 'bots, Riptide fits perfectly into the ''[[Lost Light]]<nowiki>'s</nowiki>'' already dysfunctional crew. He's also a bit of a chatterbox, especially when worried or scared.

==Fiction==
===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
{{ongoing}}
Riptide was [[Reproduction|constructed cold]] as a [[M.T.O.]] in response to the [[Simanzi Massacre]], specifically to combat the [[Forced Flood]].

Riptide was present when [[Drift (G1)|Drift]] and [[Pipes (G1)|Pipes]] purchased the ''[[Lost Light]]'' from a pair of [[NAIL]]s in [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]]'s religious quarter. Suspicious of the original owners, Riptide offered to go back to get a receipt of sale but found the NAILs laughing about how they had sold a ship that contained a [[Sparkeater (creature)|Sparkeater]]. In response Riptide attacked them but was instead knocked out for two days, preventing him from joining the original ''Lost Light'' crew. {{storylink|Twenty Plus One}}

He finally got a second chance to join up a few years later when the ''Lost Light'' briefly returned to Cybertron. As the ship prepared to get back to its mission, a disinterested Riptide was roped into helping [[Swerve (G1)|Swerve]] and [[Crosscut (Autobot)|Crosscut]] with his fake new crewmember interviews He was also present for [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]]'s trial at [[Raskol Arena]]. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 1: Towards Peace|Towards Peace}}

[[File:Nautica-mtmte-33-notagoodthing.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.2|I love you when you're singing that song and I got a lump in my throat 'cause you're gonna sing the words wrong]]
Reading the ''[[Lost Light Insider]]'' at Swerve's, Riptide managed to convince [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailcutter]] to break into the Medbay and steal Megatron's "super fuel". When communications with the Forcefield Specialist broke down, Riptide brushed off [[Skids (G1)|Skids]]' concerns. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 2: Words Hang in the Air|Words Hang in the Air}} Not long afterwards when it became apparent that the ''Lost Light'' was disappearing around them, Riptide abandoned the ship along with twenty other 'bots aboard the [[Rodpod]], though his fellow escapees continued to vanish. After [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] worked out that those left behind were ''not'' part of the ''Lost Light'''s crew at launch, the Rodpod arrived at [[Ofsted XVII]] to find their ship, apparently broken in half. {{storylink|Twenty Plus One}}

Upon boarding the shattered remains, the Lost Lighters were stunned to recognise their landing zone as Swerve's bar. Megatron enlisted the aid of stowaway [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] to help look for survivors, and in response Riptide took to mocking the Decepticon feline, getting a few digs in when Ravage claimed to smell [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]] but instead turned up Minimus Ambus instead. Megatron chastized him for being so flippant in front of a dead body and Riptide felt sufficiently ashamed enough to apologise. He was later teamed with Skids and [[Getaway]] as they searched for clues, and was the first to discover a room full of dead Lost Lighters, all in their altmodes and missing their [[transformation cog]]s. When both Skids and Megatron reached the conclusion the Lost Light they were aboard had been attacked by the [[Decepticon Justice Division]], Riptide helped explain the group to [[Nautica (G1)|Nautica]], and hurriedly informed the team he'd repaired the Rodpod as the ''Lost Light'' shook. {{storylink|slaughterhouse}}

After Nautica mentioned the Lost Light's quantum drums floating in space, Riptide suggested that the profession just involved placing the word 'quantum' before other words. Nautica responded with a badly-executed joke, prompting him to remark on her failed effort. He later ends [[Rewind (G1)|Rewind's]] tale about the DJD's attack by noticing that the quantum foam outside of the ship was beginning to spread. {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}}
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{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 3: Predestination: A Beginner's Guide|Predestination: A Beginner's Guide}} {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 1: All Our Parlous Yesterdays|All Our Parlous Yesterdays}} {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 2: Stet|Stet}} {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 3: Predestination: An Expert's Guide|Predestination: An Expert's Guide}} {{storylink|Our Steps Will Always Rhyme}} {{storylink|The Frail Gaze}} {{storylink|The Not Knowing}} {{storylink|Speak, Memory: Part 1}}}}

==Notes==
[[File:RiptideV.jpg|thumb|I love you when you're singing that song and I got a lump in my throat 'cause you gone and sank the world's wolf]]
*Riptide's robot and vehicle modes were revealed by [[Alex Milne]] on Twitter on [[March 29]], [[2014]].
*Milne partially based Riptide's color scheme on the Water Tribe from television series ''{{w|Avatar: The Last Airbender}}''.

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Tailgate (G1)

2016-03-05T14:45:44Z

Ravagekitteh: /* IDW Generation 1 continuity */

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

[[File:Tailgate universe.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Shake harder, boy!]]
The naïve '''Tailgate''' needs to be liked. It's hardly the most unique of flaws, but he has an unfortunate, childlike tendency towards extremes. Placed in a situation with [[Autobot]]s who don't know him from [[Primon]], this sanitation 'Bot will spin a tall tale the height of a [[Metrotitan (body-type)|Metrotitan]] in an attempt to impress his fellows before it all comes crashing down. And it ultimately will - while he's a 'Bot with a spark of gold, he's broadly unfocused, frequently distracted and easily led, and often gets impulsive, irrational obsessions. And his timekeeping ''sucks''.

Easily his most distinctive mental issue is his occasional inability to tell the difference between a non-living [[Earth]] machine and sentient robotic life such as himself. While it's a [[:File:Ratchetfriendtrafficsignal.jpg|mistake many other Cybertronians have made at first]], typically they learn quickly and let it go. Not Tailgate. Once he gets it into his head, his compassion turns to rage against the "enslavers", and is quite vocal in his desire to "free" the machines of Earth.

[[Wheeljack's Bizarre Invention! Optimus Power Up!?|That boy ain't right]].

Sometimes, he acts as a scout—with strict orders not to break cover for any reason. In this, he is aided by a ridiculously powerful iron-cobalt magnet installed behind his bumper, which he can use to follow closely behind other vehicles and travel far into enemy territory using minimal fuel.

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==Fiction==
===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' manga====
[[File:FSRLmanga7 Tailgate.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Rumors help him grow. Paranoia nurtures him.]]
With the [[Autobot]]s being framed by the [[Decepticon Trailer Corps]] for numerous crimes, [[Kenji]] was feeling a bit dejected at how his schoolyard chums were suddenly turning on them. Tailgate appeared to give him a lift home from school and attempted to cheer him up, reminding him that as an [[Honorary Autobot]] he had nothing to worry about. Their drive was interrupted by a crowd gathering around a display put on by a pair of robed figures (secretly [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] and [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]]), decrying the Autobots and preaching the heroism of the [[Decepticon]]s. The rest of the Autobots soon arrived to straighten things out. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 7|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #7}}

Tailgate later responded to a distress signal sent from [[Powerglide (G1)|Powerglide]], who was fighting to rescue a [[Murdered puppy|puppy]] that was brimming over with [[Decepticon super science]] from the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]]. Dying from its wounds, the dog transferred the super science into Powerglide, giving him brief access to [[Scramble Power]]. Along with the other [[Mini Vehicle|Minibot]]s, Tailgate merged with Powerglide into a [[Minibot combiner]] and swiftly defeated [[Bruticus (G1)|Bructicus]]. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 8|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #8}}
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====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Ted Schwartz]] (English), [[Ken Shiroyama]] (Japanese)}}

[[File:FFoD5 MiniVehicles.jpg|upright=1.2|thumb|"That machine is alive I tell you! Aliv—" "WE KNOW, TAILGATE!"]]
Tailgate was one of a group of [[Mini Vehicle|Minibots]] stationed at the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] in 2006. When the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] built [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] out of a human city, [[Mount St. Hilary]] and the Ark were the first stop on his journey to destroy Metroplex. Tailgate and the other Autobots on duty rolled out to defend the Ark with all the firepower at their disposal. It didn't go very well. The Ark was left devastated in Trypticon's mighty wake, and Tailgate's troops were beaten and scattered by the colossal dinosaur. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5}}
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====''Wings Universe''====
{{Wingsnote}}
[[File:BattleLines6-UltraMagnus.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.66]]
Tailgate was present at the first "meeting" of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]] nine million years ago. {{storylink|Battle Lines, Part 6}}
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===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics====
{{noteukexclusive|Tailgate}}
[[File:Underworld!-TailgateFlattopSubsea.jpg|thumb|"I'M NOT A COWARD!"]]
Tailgate was one of the Autobots working with [[Emirate]] [[Xaaron]] and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]'s covert cell on Cybertron, and was briefly seen when [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] came to Cybertron and rallied the troops for an assault on [[Darkmount (Cybertron)|Darkmount]]. {{storylink|Resurrection!}}

He eventually finished his training at the [[Autobot Military Academy]], but upon graduation was provoked into joining [[Flattop (Autobot)|Flattop]] and [[Subsea]] in venturing [[Underworld|underground]], in order to prove his courage. When a group of [[Mutant (G1)|Cybertronian Mutants]] attacked and slaughtered his fellow cadets, Tailgate stood his ground. A blast into [[Smeltdown]]'s chest-furnace obliterated most of the sewer-dwellers, leaving only the ape-like [[Rotgut]]. However, a little quick thinking, and Tailgate was able to use the larger machine's bulk against him, flipping Rotgut into the pyre left in Smeltdown's wake. Thus, he proved he was not a coward... and also not very good at watching his friends' backs in a fight. [[Pipes (G1)|Pipes]] and [[Outback (G1)|Outback]] eventually arrived as Tailgate surfaced and let them know of his fellow cadets' fate.

Unfortunately, Tailgate's actions inadvertently [[Demon|woke something ''worse'' than the Mutants]]... {{storylink|Underworld!}}
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====''Regeneration One''====
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[[File:Decepticons attack destiny.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|It doesn't get much better than this. Sorry, Tailgate.]]
Tailgate participated in the defense of [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] against the onslaught of the [[Blitz Engine]]s and the Decepticon crew of the [[Warworld]]. He didn't have time to do much of anything except get shot by [[Needlenose (G1)|Needlenose]]. {{storylink|Destiny, Part Five}} He survived, and travelled to the [[Hub (G2)|Hub Network]] with [[Hot Rod/Marvel Comics continuity|Rodimus Prime]] to battle [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]] and survived that too. Almost immediately upon returning to Cybertron, however, he was attacked and killed by a [[shadow-leech]]. Ouch. {{storylink|The War to End All Wars, Part 5}}
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===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
[[File:BlackSunshine Autobot training failures.jpg|thumb|left]]
Tailgate was among the Autobot civilians who watched [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]'s anti-Optimus-Prime propaganda broadcasts. {{storylink|Cold War (issue)|Cold War}} Didn't seem to do the trick, though, as he was later seen training alongside several Autobot recruits against [[auto-combatant]]s following Shockwave's defeat. None of them fared particularly well in training, however, much to [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] and [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]]'s dismay. {{storylink|Black Sunshine}}
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===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
{{ongoing}}
[[File:MTMTE1 tailgate damaged.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|It's a scratch, he'll just walk it off... oh, right.]]
Tailgate was born in [[Rivets Field]] six million years ago, two weeks before the launch of the [[Ark (G1)|Ark-1]]. {{storylink|Remain in Light 5 of 5: This Calamitous Life|This Calamitous Life}} Assigned the role of fourth-class sanitation 'bot, he was tasked with cleaning out the craft's coolant tubes before take-off, {{storylink|Cybertronian Homesick Blues}} but ran late to the job and made the mistake of trying to make up the time by short-cutting across the fragile [[Mitteous Plateau]]. The terrain collapsed out from under him, leaving him badly damaged and trapped underground, but he soon hit upon the plan of detonating the trailer-full of [[energon]] rations he had brought with him in hopes of blasting his way out. Unfortunately for him, he kept repeatedly passing out as he set this up, and with his chronometer damaged had no way of measuring the passage of time. He finally succeeded ''six million years later'', and was dragged from his pit by a group of Autobots who were on their way to depart the planet on the starship ''[[Lost Light]]''. Suffering a panic attack and passing out when he saw his explosion had damaged [[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]], the unconscious Tailgate was brought aboard the ''Lost Light'' by the Autobots, since he'd mentioned "the launch" and they had no idea who he was. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 1: How to Say Goodbye and Mean It|How to Say Goodbye and Mean It}}

Due to an accident with the quantum engine, the ''Lost Light'' was duplicated and ''another'' Tailgate woke up to bond on a different ''Lost Light''. What did he do? We dunno because the [[Decepticon Justice Division]] showed up and killed everyone! {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}}

[[File:MTMTE2 Tailgate.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|Just your average kick-boxing, bomb disposing, metaphysics and epistemology student, and I once caught a fish ''this big!'']]
[[Ratchet (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ratchet]] soon discovered Tailgate's age when he studied his ancient systems, and called [[Swerve (G1)|Swerve]] in to carbon-date him. Tailgate woke up before that was necessary (happily observing that he hadn't killed "Nut-Job", as he mistakenly thought Whirl was called), so Swerve instead gleefully took it upon himself to inform him how long he'd been offline. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 2: Hangers On|Hangers On}} Tailgate was horrified and heartbroken: by all rights, he should have been found in days, but the length of his absence made it clear he was so unimportant that nobody had noticed or ''cared'' he was missing. Since there was nobody around who knew the truth, and since he had always wanted to do something big and heroic with this life, Tailgate decided to make up a dramatic, overblown past for himself. {{storylink|Cybertronian Homesick Blues}} He and Swerve went for a walk, during which he claimed that the damaged "Waste Disposal" decal on his arm actually read "Bomb Disposal", and that he had been part of the [[Primal Vanguard]], though Swerve was more interested in seeing his [[alternate mode]]. After Tailgate was introduced to [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] and [[Rewind (G1)|Rewind]], the group were caught up in a battle between the amnesiac [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] and some [[Legislator|strange robots]], in whose repeated chanting of "nineteen-eighty-four" Tailgate took an interest.

A little later, back on the ''Lost Light'', Swerve finally convinced Tailgate to attempt to transform, {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 2: Hangers On|Hangers On}} but he wound up getting stuck halfway. It was at this inopportune moment that the crew were ordered back to their rooms, since a [[Sparkeater (creature)|Sparkeater]] had been reported loose aboard the ship; spotting [[Cyclonus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Cyclonus]], another Transformer from his time, Tailgate asked for some help getting to a room. Cyclonus carried the half-transformed Tailgate there and quite rudely dumped him on the ground. As the Sparkeater situation unfolded outside, the two ancient 'bots discussed the six million year gap in history they missed; Cyclonus described the [[Great War (G1)|Autobot-Decepticon conflict]] to Tailgate as he understood it, romanticizing the Decepticons' position enough that later, as Ratchet was unsticking his half-transformed body, Tailgate declared that he wanted to ''be'' a Decepticon! {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 3: The Chaos of Warm Things|The Chaos of Warm Things}}

[[File:Cyclonus Tailgate LifeAftertheBigBang.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Tailgate goes to see his KRAK dealer.]]
Learning of Tailgate's aims, [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]] insisted that ship's captain [[Hot Rod/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rodimus]] set the "confirmed Decepticon sympathizer" straight, so Rodimus recruited Rewind to beam a compressed visual history of the war directly into Tailgate's head. Sobered by what he saw and realizing that the Decepticons were the "bad guys", Tailgate fumed at Cyclonus for misleading him and impotently struck him, leading his icy roommate to reciprocate with a vicious backhand. Leaving their room, Cyclonus kicked the downed Tailgate on his way out, leaving him cowering on the floor. {{storylink|Life After the Big Bang}}

[[File:IDW MtMtE5 MagnusTailgateAttentionDirt.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.66]]
Determined to be one of the "good guys", Tailgate requested that Ultra Magnus teach him the [[Autobot Code]]. By this point, Tailgate had edited his own [[Autopedia]] entry to reflect the false history he had created for himself—claiming he had studied metaphysics under [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]], was a champion kick-boxer who graduated from the [[Ibex School of Epistemology]], helped invent the idealised heat engine, coordinated a search for the long-lost [[Moonbase One|Luna 1]], and he was part of [[Nova Prime]]'s inner circle, encouraging him to explore space—and the impressed Magnus agreed to educate him. Alas, Tailgate was soon to discover this meant an excruciating slog through an intense analysis of ten thousand pages of text. He was briefly interested in section 19, subsection 80, paragraph four because it reminded him of the robots that attacked Skids, {{storylink|How Ratchet Got His Hands Back}} but by and large the experience was a grueling one, and he moaned long and loud about it in [[Swerve's|Swerve's bar]], especially once he discovered there was an ''abridged'' version of the Code. {{storylink|Interiors}}

After the Lost Light was impacted by a discarded thumb from Metroplex, and was subsequently repaired, Tailgate attended an award ceremony honoring Brainstorm, Chromedome and Highbrow for their part in saving the ship. He chatted with Chromedome during the celebration, and noted how the three honored Autobots had head-related names. Later, Tailgate was having a conversation with Huffer when they, along with nearly everyone on board of the Lost Light were frozen in place due to one of Brainstorm's experimental weapons accidentally going off. After he recovered, he was awarded a Rodimus Star "for exceptional endurance in the face of adversity." {{storylink|The Reluctant Specialist}}

[[File:MTMTEannual rodimus writes on tailgate.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4]]
Ultimately, Tailgate passed his Autobot Code exam, though he professed it was not with "his best grades ever". Asking Cyclonus to attend his [[Act of Affiliation]], a step on the way to the full [[Rite of the Autobrand]], he was seemingly ignored - although his fellow Ancient Cybertronian would secretly attend. At the ceremony itself, however, Rodimus was briefly possessed by a [[Metrotitan (body-type)|Metrotitan]] and, rather than drawing his probationary Autobot symbol, scrawled "Set Me Free" in [[Cybertronian language#IDW Generation 1 continuity|Old Cybertronian]] on his chest. {{storylink|Primus: You, Me, and Other Revelations|You, Me, and Other Revelations}}

Tailgate loved "Movie Night" in Rewind and Chromedome's quarters, where he watched such films as the old public information piece "[[Proteus's Promise]]", with several other members of the crew {{storylink|Scavengers (Part 2): Who's Afraid of the DJD?|Who's Afraid of the DJD?}} and would later recall it as the happiest time of his life. {{storylink|Before & After}} He was invited to listen in on Rewind's third communal storytelling session, part of an attempt to help the damaged [[Rung (G1)|Rung]] regain his memories; Tailgate had to interrupt Drift to ask what a [[Relinquishment Clinic]] was, {{storylink|Shadowplay, Part 1: Post Hoc|Post Hoc}} and was particularly impressed by the skills of one Orion Pax {{storylink|Shadowplay, Part 2: Patternism|Patternism}} even though he hadn't realized that Orion was actually [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime]], despite the notes he'd been making to keep track of all the characters. {{storylink|Shadowplay (Conclusion): An Intimate Beheading|An Intimate Beheading}}

[[File:MTMTE12 panic keeps me focused.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4]]
Tailgate joined a mission to [[Temptoria]] to investigate the possibility that the [[Circle of Light]] were being held there. While the larger Autobots roughed up the occupying Decepticons, Tailgate and Rewind investigated the contents of [[Battery|The Battery]] only to find that the Decepticons didn't have the Circle and were merely converting the native life forms to [[energon]], and had rigged up a bomb. {{storylink|Before & After}} Now forced to actually dispose of a bomb, Tailgate tricked Rewind into telling him how to actually do it. {{storylink|Cybertronian Homesick Blues}} Unfortunately he accidentally triggered a timer, and when he refused to stop work and escape, he had to be physically thrown from the room by Cyclonus. Cyclonus and Rewind were caught in the bomb's explosion, and Tailgate dragged the severely-damaged Cyclonus back to the ''Lost Light''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> medibay on his own. Observing the other Autobots leaving offerings of [[innermost energon]] for Rewind, Tailgate attempted to leave an offering for Cyclonus, only for it to be rebuked. Cyclonus did seem to have a change of heart after seeing Rewind's offerings, and helped Tailgate pick up the pieces of the shattered vial. {{storylink|Before & After}}

‎[[File:MtMtE13-BabyTailgate.jpg‎|thumb|"Congratulations! It's a beautiful baby boy... [[Tailgate (G1)#Notes|We think.]]]]
Some time later, he went to the bars on [[Hedonia]] with his usual crowd (his psycho-reactive [[holomatter|holomatter avatar]] taking the form of a human baby). {{storylink|Cybertronian Homesick Blues}} After abandoning Swerve with a drunken Ultra Magnus, Tailgate and the others explored a gift shop. Tailgate grew bored as Skids tried on hats but decided not to wait outside with Whirl, who was banging his head on a display case. {{storylink|Signal to Noise}} When Rewind was about to show a recording of the ''Ark-1'' opening ceremony that included the naming of its original crew, Cyclonus suddenly flew into a "drunken rage" that disrupted the proceedings. Tailgate ushered the others away so he could calm him down; after they had departed, it became clear Cyclonus had done this so the others wouldn't realize Tailgate wasn't part of the crew. Cyclonus revealed he had known from the start that Tailgate had been lying, and the little 'bot broke down and admitted to having falsified his past, and his grief over being a nobody. Cyclonus took pity on Tailgate and taught him how to sing an Old Cybertronian anthem. {{storylink|Cybertronian Homesick Blues}}

[[File:MTMTE22 tailgate altmode.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4]]
While lounging around in the ship's oil reservoir, Tailgate, Swerve and Rewind took to discussing the cool alternate modes of their crew-mates, and entered into a wager to see who could be the first to solve the longstanding mystery of what Rung turned into. Tailgate tried to trick Rung into transforming by holding an "alt mode party", claiming they were all the rage back in his day, but since Rung hailed from the same time as him, it proved an unconvincing gambit. Interviewed by Rewind for a documentary movie about life on the ship not long thereafter, Tailgate continued making up accolades for himself, but openly admitted to never having been happier than he was on the ship, and looking to the future with glee. {{storylink|Little Victories}}

Tailgate and Cyclonus remained close after their experiences on Hedonia; Tailgate was in the ship's workshop crafting a new horn to replace Cyclonus's missing one when the 'bot in question angrily came storming in after learning that their quarters were to play host to "Movie Night". {{storylink|Under Cold Blue Stars}} That concern melted away in the face of [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]]'s subsequent rampage through the ship; Cyclonus and Tailgate sat together during the funeral for the crewmembers who lost their lives in the chaos. After the ceremony, Tailgate went to help Ratchet to care for the dying Ultra Magnus, but accidentally scanned himself with Ratchet's "death clock", which announced that Tailgate had only three days to live. {{storylink|The Gloaming}}

[[File:Tailgate Cyclonus Hope Is A Lie.jpg‎|thumb|upright=1.4|The Hope is a Lie]]
An examination by Ratchet revealed that he had a terminal case of [[cybercrosis]], and Tailgate elected to trust only Cyclonus with the news, though Cyclonus seemed almost disinterested in the tragic announcement. Tailgate went to Swerve's Bar to drink away his sorrows, oblivious to the massive portal that the ''Lost Light'' was about to travel through. When Luna 1 was discovered to lie on the other side of the portal, an evidently distressed Cyclonus made up for his behavior by inviting Tailgate onto the team who would explore the moon. He insisted it was just for the experience, with the caveat that despite Luna 1's reputation as a "Miracle Moon", Tailgate must not hope for a cure. {{storylink|Remain in Light 1 of 5: The Fecund Moon|The Fecund Moon}}

On arrival on Luna 1, Tailgate was captured and imprisoned with most of the ''Lost Light'' away team, becoming separated from Cyclonus, remained free. As none of the others knew he had less than three days to live, Tailgate's claims of impatience and panic at being in captivity were dismissed. {{storylink|Remain in Light 2 of 5: House of Ambus|House of Ambus}} Things looked brighter once their co-prisoner [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Minimus Ambus]] revealed that he was really a healed Ultra Magnus; when Tailgate asked how he could have cheated his impending death, Minimus declared that the [[Tyrest (G1)|Chief Justice Tyrest]], who has using the moon as a base, had doctors that could apparently work miracles. {{storylink|Remain in Light 3 of 5: The Divided Self|The Divided Self}}

[[File:MTMTE21 tailgate amends law.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.66|Chekhov's [[semicolon]]!]]
Tailgate's clock was down to one day and twelve hours by the time [[Getaway]] sprang the group from the cell, by which time he could no longer walk and had to be carried by Rodimus, though he played off his paralysis as seized-up servos. Reuniting with Ratchet, Tailgate told him of the moons' "miracle medibay", but Ratchet solemnly informed him that only Tyrest's medical minion [[Pharma (G1)|Pharma]] could really use the tools within it. The group proceeded to confront Tyrest and were all apparently immobilized by a "thought weapon" that paralyzed their bodies. {{storylink|Remain in Light 4 of 5: Arm the Lonely|Arm the Lonely}} Tailgate's cybercrosis, however, had rendered him deaf to the frequency of the suggestion weapon. He managed to jump Tyrest and jab him in the head through the "cleansing" hole Tyrest drilled in his own brow. Tailgate deactivated the weapon while Tyrest was distracted, only to be taken hostage by the Chief Justice. Though he urged Rodimus to open fire, admitting his terminal condition, Tailgate was saved moments later by [[Minimus Ambus]]. As the room was swarmed by [[Legislator]]s responding to Tyrest's distress call, Tailgate put his knowledge of the Autobot Code to good use, using Tyrest's computer to amend and repeal the law in its totality. He barely had time to celebrate his achievement before collapsing.

[[File:Cyclonus SparkTransfusion ThisCalamitousLife.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4]]
The next day, back on the ''[[Lost Light]]'', Tailgate asked Cyclonus to spare him a lingering death by terminating him, but Cyclonus refused. Though a cure was subsequently found, thanks to Tyrest's collection of esoteric medical equipment, Tailgate's spark had faded to a point where the process would no longer be viable. However, on Whirl's suggestion, Cyclonus used his [[Great Sword]] to directly transfuse energy into Tailgate's spark, boosting it to a condition that allowed the small 'bot's life to be saved. {{storylink|Remain in Light 5 of 5: This Calamitous Life|This Calamitous Life}} Tailgate underwent a period of recovery. {{storylink|The Sound of Breaking Glass}}

After about six months, Tailgate was fully recovered from his cybercrosis, and could even fully transform again. He playfully charged Cyclonus when he first got out of the medbay, demonstrating his new signature move of "finger to the head". Tailgate was surprised by all that had gone on in his absence, including the new captain Megatron and ''Swerve's'' using [[Ten|one of the Legislators]] as a bouncer. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 2: Words Hang in the Air|Words Hang in the Air}} He'd learned from his experiences ahahahaha just kidding, one of the first things he did was talk up his actions on Luna 1 at the bar. [[Getaway]] began talking him, telling him his heroics were Prime-worthy and when Tailgate admitted to having lied about his old job, the agent bonded with him over his own dull past (Tailgate didn't notice Cyclonus storm out).

This was all interrupted when the ship had to be abandoned on account of ''vanishing'' {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 3: Predestination: A Beginner's Guide|Predestination: A Beginner's Guide}} and Tailgate was stuck on a crowded [[Rodpod]] with twenty others. When they started vanishing too, Tailgate (pumped up from false bravado from his recent praising) immediately aimed his guns at an amused Megatron—causing a standoff that, to Tailgate's horror, included Cyclonus too. As the vanishings went on, erasing all the original crewmembers, Tailgate had time to see all the other escape ships disappear before he too was claimed. {{storylink|Twenty Plus One}} The cause was identified as the ''Lost Light'' running across the duplicate ''Lost Light'' (where [[Nautica (G1)|Nautica]] and [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] came across the other Tailgate's corpse) and everything was fixed. And the quantum duplicate Rewind was back too! {{storylink|slaughterhouse}} {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}} And then Getaway told him he thought he could ''be a [[Wrecker]]''! {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 2: Stet|Stet}} Tailgate would've been really pleased about all this if he and everyone else hadn't been whacked unconscious by poisoned engex at Swerve's! {{storylink|slaughterhouse}} {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}}

Tailgate was fixed up and made part of a time-travel team (due to a compatible spark), pursuing the poisoner Brainstorm before he could alter the timeline. That meant he got to meet ''ORION PAX OMG''. He squeed about how awesome he was for trying to save infant sparks (and tried to get Cyclonus to agree) and then actually got to ''work with him''! {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 1: All Our Parlous Yesterdays|All Our Parlous Yesterdays}} They went further back to pre-war [[Rodion]] and Tailgate had to take control of Cyclonus's comms while the ancient stared into the distance. When Tailgate babbled about the time-travel mechanics freaking him out, he found out Cyclonus was silent because of the chance to once again see an undamaged Cybertron.

Cyclonus then apologised for hitting him. "Noted", replied Tailgate.

A further time-jump took them to Maccadam's New Oil House, waiting to see what happened. He listened to pre-war Megatron's poetry, had a drink, and asked for a [[curly straw]]. Rung getting him a curly straw started a bar fight that got Megatron arrested, so it's important to know that Tailgate is responsible for the Great War. {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 2: Stet|Stet}} Their final trip went to Megatron's birth and Tailgate was amused to see he was born in a Con facility (as in -structed Cold). During the whole time travel chaos, it was Tailgate that "why don't we use time travel to send the ''Lost Light'' a message from the post telling them ''not'' to do all this bad stuff?". {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 3: Predestination: An Expert's Guide|Predestination: An Expert's Guide}} That message made it to the day the ''Lost Light'' launched but nobody heard it. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 1: How to Say Goodbye and Mean It|How to Say Goodbye and Mean It}} A ticked off Cyclonus pointed out that ''all'' of those bad things turned out well, including that Tailgate himself ''didn't die of cybercrosis''.

Once back in the present day, Tailgate and the crew watched ''{{w|Back to the Future Part II}}'' and it was so awesome {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 3: Predestination: An Expert's Guide|Predestination: An Expert's Guide}} that he went and got his ''own'' [[hoverboard]] and annoyed the crap out of the ''Lost Light'' crew by zooming about on it inside.

[[File:Getaway's innocent conversation with Tailgate.jpg‎|left|upright=1.67|thumb|''Gaslight'', starring Tailgate of Rivets Field as Paula]]
He and Getaway got together to go Legislator fishing in the oil reservoir, starting with a friendly booze-up in Mirage's bar [["Visages"]]. After telling him a ''slight'' fabrication of their recent time travel escapades, Getaway just ''happened'' to ''accidentally'' mention that Cyclonus had been saying mean things about Tailgate behind his back. Tailgate was horrified to learn Cyclonus had been insulting him for being scared on his death bed but don't worry Tailgate, Getaway's got your back and another drink would help even if you don't want it and oh don't mention to Cyclonus that he told you this, eh? {{storylink|Our Steps Will Always Rhyme}}

At [[Thunder Clash|Thunderclash]]'s pre-wake, Tailgate used the hoverboard to ''kill it'' on the dance floor! {{storylink|The Sensuous Frame}} Afterwards, at a subsequent EarthDance party at "Swerve's", he had "The Power Of Love" requested and planned to ask Cyclonus to dance with him. When Cyclonus refused and said begging him would be embarrassing, Tailgate muttered "like I don't normally embarrass you" under his breath and went off to dance with Getaway (not noticing Cyclonus had changed his mind). {{storylink|The Frail Gaze}}

Later, he presented First aid with a farewell present from the crew despite the fact the medic's absence was only temporary. Soon after he was drafted into the team sent to 'Swearth' in order to save Swerve from an unknown illness and while on the strange sitcom world, he found a comic book series detailing the crew of the ''Lost Light'''s adventures. By the time the others had arrived back he was on issue #21 and pointed out that Swerve had opened Brainstorm's briefcase. For the benefit of the mission he skipped to issue #43 (The Swerve disappears story) and discovered a 'story so far page' by the bartender that explained everything. Rung realised the comic book was Swerve's way of reaching out to them and Tailgate witnessed the combination of the three neighbours into Swerve. When Swerve refused to say where the issue was, Tailgate deduced that he had found his happy place and didn't want to leave. After Cyclonus gave Swerve a moralising speech, Tailgate noticed Swerve's shoulder wound and he declared the story wrapped up. {{storylink|The One Where They Go to Earth}}

{{charstubfiction| {{storylink|The Not Knowing}} {{storylink|The Lopsided Triangle}} {{storylink|Speak, Memory: Part 1}} {{storylink|Speak, Memory! (Part 2)}}}}

====Prevenge====
{{voiceactor|[[Susan Blu]] (English)}}
Tailgate was suffering through one of Ultra Magnus's lectures on the Autobot code when his teacher was suddenly whisked away through a trans-dimensional portal. Tailgate was left to ponder if he had caused the portal to open with his brain... for about six seconds, after which Ultra Magnus reappeared. Ultra Magnus told Tailgate that they could call it a day on the lecture, so long as Tailgate promised never to speak of what had just transpired. {{storylink|Prevenge}}

===''Transformers Legends'' comic===
[[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] had a dream in which he appeared in the middle of a battle of Tailgate and [[Swerve (G1)|Swerve]] versus [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]], a battle that went poorly, with Tailgate being easily kicked aside and Swerve stomped into the ground. As Tailgate picked Swerve back up using his Mini-Con partner, [[Neutro|Groundshaker]], Rattrap asked the two Minibots why they'd even taken on such a huge enemy. The Autobots responded that size has nothing to do with it, telling Rattrap that their Mini-Cons were just as small as him, but nevertheless valuable allies. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 8|Bonus Edition Vol. 8}} After Tailgate mentioned that his partnership with Groundshaker let him work with bomb disposal, Rattrap got curious about what Mini-Cons were, prompting Tailgate to explain the history behind the little 'bots. The enamored Rattrap then wanted to be a Mini-Con ''too'', and had an uncomfortable Tailgate wield him into battle with Trypticon. {{storylink|Transformers Legends (comic)#Transformers 2015 Tailgate/G1 Micron Chapter|Transformers 2015 Tailgate/G1 Micron Chapter}}

==Games==
===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
[[File:BattleTacticsTailgate.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]

Tailgate participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He was a Common character that could be recruited for 16 units of Cybermetal. {{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}
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==Toys==
===Generation 1===
[[File:G1 Tailgate toy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|White Rider.]]
*'''Tailgate''' (Mini Vehicle, [[1986]])
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-61'''

:Tailgate is a white-and-blue [[retool]]ing of the 1984 Autobot, [[Windcharger (G1)#Generation 1|Windcharger]], transforming into a Pontiac Firebird Trans Am sports car. His head sculpt is much more elaborate than the earlier toy's (which shared the ''[[Micro Change|Microchange]]'' sculpt), and his chest sticker bears an odd resemblance to a portable radio.

:The original version of this mold was used by [[Camaro]] and [[Rook (Universe)|Rook]], as well as the Mexican versions (yes, plural) of Tailgate, which were only redecos of Windcharger. Tailgate's toy was also used as the non-toy comic model for [[Wipe-Out]].

::*''[http://www.transformerland.com/wiki/toy-info/transformers-g1-mini-vehicles-tailgate/1179/ Patent info, price guide, and further reading on Tailgate at Transformerland.com]''
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1986/Autobot/Tailgate/tailgate.htm More information on Tailgate at TFU.info]''
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===Encore===
[[File:Encore Tailgate.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Immediately, something like scales fell from Tailgate's eyes, and he could see again.]]
*'''Bumble & Minibots''' (Multi-pack, [[2008]])
**''Encore number'': '''10'''

:In 2008, Tailgate was reissued in the ''[[Transformers Encore|Encore]]'' line, bundled with [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#Encore|Bumblebee]], [[Pipes (G1)#Encore|Pipes]], [[Swerve (G1)#Encore|Swerve]], and [[Outback (G1)#Encore|Outback]]. This version of Tailgate has extra paint details on his face.
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===Generations===
[[File:Generationstoy-Tailgate.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Autobot Tailgate & Groundbuster''' (Legends Class, [[2014]])
**''Series / Number'': '''02 / #008'''

:Part of the sixth wave of [[2012]]-onwards ''[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]]'' [[Legends Class (2005)|Legends Class]] toys, ''[[Thrilling 30]]'' "Autobot Tailgate" is a new mold that's roughly the size of a ''[[Cyberverse]]'' Commander Class toy. He transforms from a white muscle car into a [[robot mode]] largely based on [[Nick Roche]]'s design for [[IDW Publishing|IDW's]] ''[[The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More than Meets the Eye]]'' comic, with some blue flame-decals on his hood likely inspired by his ''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Prime]]'' [[Tailgate (Prime)|counterpart]]. He comes with [[Neutro#Generations|Groundbuster]] (based on the [[Micromaster]] Neutro), who transforms into a robot, a bomb disposal skid loader,<ref>[http://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/96686-generations-legends-targetmaster-moulds/?p=2423893 Designer Joe Kyde on "The Allspark" messageboard]</ref> and an extended claw for Tailgate to wield via its [[5mm post]], or mount onto the peg-hole on Tailgate's hood in vehicle mode.

:This mold was retooled into ''Generations'' [[Windcharger (G1)#Generations|Windcharger]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2014/Autobot/GenTailgate/tailgate.htm More information on ''Generations'' Tailgate at TFU.info]''
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===Legends===
*'''Swerve & Tailgate''' (Multi-pack, [[January 24|1-24]]-[[2015]])
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''LG08'''

:''[[Transformers Legends (franchise)|Legends]]'' Tailgate is a redeco of ''Generations'' Tailgate with a closer resemblance to his original toy, with changes such as a darker shade of teal, an Autobot sigil on his stomach and black car mode windows. He also lacks the flame deco on his hood but instead features a silver-painted grill. Tailgate and Groundbuster were sold exclusively in a two-pack with [[Swerve (G1)#Legends|Swerve]] and [[Phaser#Legends|Phaser]].

==Notes==
[[File:ToyFair1986-TFpage01a-TailgateHubCap.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Little. Yellow. Different.]]
*In the pre-[[Toy Fair 1986]] catalog, Tailgate is featured with a yellow car body, a black chest/torso, and a red face. Fellow 1986 [[Mini Vehicle]] [[Hubcap (G1)|Hubcap]] is featured with a white car body. Hmmmmm.
*While Tailgate did not appear himself in the [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]] [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|US comics]], [[Wipe-Out]]'s [[character model]] was based on Tailgate's toy.
*Fan speculation about Tailgate's gender—always presented as male—broke out across Tumblr (because ''of course'') when a ''[[The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More than Meets the Eye]]'' promo called him [[:File:MTMTEpromo tailgate.jpg|"The Ingenue"]], a term for a ''female'' stock character.<ref>As debated [http://konora.tumblr.com/post/84182229574 here], [http://konora.tumblr.com/post/84182229574 here], [http://raelling.tumblr.com/post/84200154095 here]...</ref> This was ''completely'' unintentional but Roberts was "pleased" to find out what he'd accidentally done.<ref>[http://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2015/02/26/james-roberts-on-idws-transformers-more-that-meets-the-eye/ Women Write About Comics: "James Roberts on IDW’s Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye" 18:00 - 18:08]</ref> He went on to approve of [[Susan Blu]] being cast as Tailgate in "[[Prevenge]]" when it was run by him pre-[[BotCon]] and say at an Autoassembly panel that he was convinced Tailgate's holoform was a girl baby. It can happen even though it's not on [[Hub Network|the Hub]]!

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Tailgate''' (テイルゲイト ''Teirugeito'')
*''French:'' '''Hayon''' (Canada)
*''Mandarin:'' '''Dǎngbǎn''' (挡板, "Tailgate")

==Footnotes==
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Siren (G1)

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:''Siren is an [[Autobot]] [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:G1 Siren boxart.jpg|upright=1.6|thumb|Known for his "thumbs-aside" attitude.]]

'''Siren'''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s voice modulator goes to eleven—and stays there. Thanks to his ear-splitting upbringing in the [[Sonic Canyons]], he operates at full volume all the time. While this may annoy his pals [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] and [[Hosehead (G1)|Hosehead]], it drives his partner [[Quig]] nuts. Eventually, Quig's efforts to teach Siren about the concept of an "indoor voice" may succeed, but for now Siren doesn't really listen to him, either because he can't hear him or because he doesn't ''want'' to.

Sometimes he is known as '''Loudmouth'''.

{{bigquote|Loud, brash... and totally ''brain dead!''|Nightbeat, regarding Siren|"[[On the Edge of Extinction!]]"}}

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics====
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[[File:Sirennightbeatbigshutdown.jpg|left|upright=1.8|thumb|Siren, you hypocrite, your motto is "Act first, ask questions later."]]
''Shortly after being made a [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] and joining [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s crew on Earth, Siren accompanied Nightbeat to Earth to investigate a mysterious robot corpse which had seemingly washed up on the California shoreline. At the scene of the crime, they found a pair of Transformers hovering over [[Playback|the body]], who quickly burned rubber once they spotted the Autobots. Siren was sent to chase them down, and after he had cornered the two in an alley, he learned that the two were actually Autobots! Though [[Hosehead (G1)|Hosehead]] and [[Horsepower (G1)|Horsepower]] made their introductions, the latter exploded in gunfire as the real culprit, the [[Decepticon]] leader-in-training [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] announced his presence. The two barely managed to escape, and Hosehead explained that the well-armed Decepticon was hunting down purposefully-released Autobot prisoners. Nightbeat and his partner [[Muzzle]] were able to detonate the inspected corpse's fuel core at close enough range to send Thunderwing packing into the waves to dose the flames. Hosehead then returned to the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] with Nightbeat and Siren.'' {{storylink|The Big Shutdown!}}

[[File:AssaultontheArk a noble sentiment.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.3]]

''When the Autobots received a distress call from Earth's surface, Nightbeat assembled a combat team that included Siren, [[Landmine (G1)|Landmine]], Hosehead, [[Getaway]], and himself. Under Optimus Prime's command, they rushed to Earth to help their fallen comrades, but there they found the [[Deathbringer (Marvel)|Deathbringer]], who had come to cleanse the planet of life. Ironically, Deathbringer was powered by the energies of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Creation Matrix]], the very thing Prime had desired earlier to restore his fallen warriors! And it must be destroyed to save Earth! Siren and the others fought valiantly, but were getting slaughtered. Nightbeat used its own programming against it, and the Deathbringer destroyed itself, removing Siren and the others from danger.'' {{storylink|Deathbringer (issue)|Deathbringer}}

''Siren was relaxing on the Ark, playing a board game with Nightbeat, when the spacecraft came under attack from a small detachment of Decepticon lead by Thunderwing, who was hungry for revenge against Siren, Nightbeat, and Hosehead for his earlier defeat at their hands. Though shocked to see Thunderwing alive, Siren realized that the Decepticon had come for him and his friends, and was unwilling to let Optimus Prime risk his life in battle for him. Fortunately, the Autobots far outnumbered Thunderwing's team, and the villains were soon driven off with relative ease.'' {{storylink|Assault on the Ark!}}

[[File:Sirengeethanks.jpg|left|upright=1.6|thumb|Siren: Worst Green Lantern ever.]]
In search of the Creation Matrix, Siren, Nightbeat, and Hosehead took a journey to the planet [[Pz-Zazz]]. Nightbeat's zeal quickly got them in trouble with both local mobs, and in the midst of a skirmish, Siren found himself in possession of the artifact both mobs desired—the [[bird]]. Though with the help of Miss [[Fatale]], Siren, Hosehead, and Nightbeat were able to use the artifact to restore the decrepit planet, they failed to find the Matrix. However, they ''did'' manage to get shot in the back and captured by Thunderwing and the [[Mayhem Attack Squad]]. {{storylink|Bird of Prey!}} Siren demonstrated remarkable self-control in not revealing information to Thunderwing while being tortured by [[Thunderwing's ship|his ship]]'s [[Mind Leech]], despite the incredible pain. {{storylink|Kings of the Wild Frontier.}}

[[File:Sirenendoftheroad.jpg|right|upright=1|thumb|Do you not understand? It's [[Furmanism|Over! '''Finished!''']]]]

Presently, due to a system malfunction caused by [[Ruckus (G1)|Ruckus]] colliding with the machinery when he was "disciplined" by Thunderwing, {{storylink|Dark Creation}} Siren and his comrades were able to break free. Finding themselves on the Ark in the middle of a fierce battle against Thunderwing, who had become possessed by the Matrix, Nightbeat quickly hatched a plan. After Nightbeat harpooned Thunderwing to a shuttle, Hosehead released the [[artificial gravity]], and after Thunderwing and the shuttle had been sucked out, Siren pulled Nightbeat back into the Ark's ship bay. {{storylink|All Fall Down}}

After the [[Matrix Quest]] ended, the Autobots enjoyed some much-needed downtime. Siren and Hosehead spent time watching mystery films on one of the Ark's monitors; Siren was even able to guess that the servo-droid was the culprit. Later, Siren told Hosehead a joke he'd already heard. {{storylink|Eye of the Storm}} This holiday was interrupted when the gruesomely-combined [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]]/[[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] went on a rampage through the Ark, and Siren expressed displeasure when Optimus Prime made the unpopular decision to spare the creature. {{storylink|The Pri¢e of Life!}}

After the second [[Decepticon Civil War]], Siren and the rest of the Earthbound Transformers were teleported to Cybertron to battle [[Unicron]]. {{storylink|The Void! (US)|The Void!}} During this costly battle, despite the incredible foe he and his race faced, he raced recklessly on his [[sky-sled]] for his personal amusement. Despite Nightbeat's warnings, this resulted in him colliding with Jazz. {{storylink|On the Edge of Extinction!}}

With Unicron defeated, the Autobots secretly followed the Decepticons to [[Klo]], but their presence became known, and they were ambushed upon arrival. Siren managed to survive the first round of the massacre, desperately grabbing for his weapon under the feet of [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]], but he was noticed and put out of his misery. The [[Last Autobot]] arrived to revive all the Autobot casualties magically, and Siren was presumably revived as well. {{storylink|End of the Road! (US)|End of the Road!}}
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=====Marvel UK future timelines=====
[[File:ShadowofEvil siren blasted.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5]]
In an alternate [[2009]], Siren was one of the Autobots who had to abandon Cybertron to [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] and the Decepticons after the [[Time Wars]] rebooted history. To make matters worse, their ship crashed on Earth after their leader, [[Hot Rod/Marvel Comics continuity|Rodimus Prime]], was possessed by Unicron's corrupting influence. Siren was seen being blasted around the landscape by his fearless leader after impact. {{storylink|Shadow of Evil}}

====''Transformers Comic-Magazin''====
Siren was present when Powermaster Optimus Prime led the Autobots against the joint Decepticon leaders Shockwave and Megatron, who had tried to hijack the oil reserves of [[Alaska]]. Siren was hit by a laser, causing him to transform into vehicle mode. The Autobots drove off the Decepticons, but not before [[Quickmix (G1)|Quickmix]] shot a Minibot because he turned off his targeting computer. Optimus then sat his troops down and explained to them the differences between Autobots and Decepticons. {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 2|Attack at Dawn}}

Siren was among the Autobots who responded to a Decepticon attempt to steal the United States military's [[Nevada Alpha]] arms cache, making a path through traffic for his team-mates with his lights and sirens. During the battle, his right leg was badly damaged by [[Snarler]], but the Autobots soon triumphed and Siren and the other wounded were taken to receive medical treatment from [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]]. {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 8|Save Nevada Alpha}} He wasn't so lucky during later battles, falling alongside [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]]. {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 11|He Who Laughs Last...}}

Recordings of of the attack on Alaska, along with Optimus Prime reviewing Siren's characteristics to Bumblebee, were used in a wayward simulation experienced by [[Bumblebee (G1)|Goldbug]]. {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 15|Memories of Bumblebee}}

====''Classics''====
{{noteclassics}}
[[File:Nightbeatsirencheapshots.jpg|left|upright=1.8|thumb|Yet to discover the fine art of whispering.]]
When the war ended with the Decepticons' defeat on Klo, Nightbeat and [[Muzzle]] formed their own team. They, Siren, his partner [[Quig]], [[Lug]], [[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]], [[Slag (G1)|Slag]], and a new [[human]] recruit, [[Minerva (Masterforce)|Minerva]], scoured the galaxy for mysteries to solve.

Nightbeat's crew once had to set their ship down on the planet [[Azure]] for repairs, and they were stranded there for the interim. After a barroom brawl initiated by Nightbeat's crew (and aggravated by Siren), Nightbeat found that he was a person of interest to a potential client, a sentient ship named ''[[Amory]]''. ''Amory'' required the services of Nightbeat and his team in finding her pilot, [[Phyrion]]. However, the entire arrangement was a setup put together by the Decepticons [[Ruckus (G1)|Ruckus]] and [[Needlenose (G1)|Needlenose]], who had assembled an alleged "new [[Mayhem Attack Squad]]" by promising payment to [[Octopunch (G1)|Octopunch]] and [[Stranglehold]] for their assistance. Ruckus wasn't very smart, however, and had brought his hostage with him. Soon after Siren disoriented Ruckus with his [[sonic-screamer pistol]]s and Slag separated Ruckus from the hostage by ''chopping off his arm'', the Decepticons were defeated and Phyrion was returned to ''Amory''. Regretting her involvement, ''Amory'' paid the Autobots for their services.

Despite their short run-in with good luck, Siren and the rest of the crew were still stranded on Azure without a working ship. In the meantime, surely someone was in need of a detective... {{storylink|Cheap Shots}}
{{-}}

====''Regeneration One''====
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[[File:LessThanZero yow siren.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1]]
Twenty-one years after the battle on Klo, Siren was stationed on Cybertron and alongside [[Grapple (G1)|Grapple]], [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] and [[Hosehead (G1)|Hosehead]] was charged by [[Hot Rod/Marvel Comics continuity|Hot Rod]] with keeping the renegade [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]] in custody. They managed to keep him for about thirty seconds before he apparently infected Perceptor with [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]'s [[Gene Key]] and escaped to look for his [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]]. {{storylink|Natural Selection, Part Two}} Siren presumably fell victim to the Gene Key around this time; when Grimlock met up with Grapple, Hosehead, [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]], and [[Crosshairs (G1)|Crosshairs]] later, they believed themselves the only Autobots to escape conversion.

When Rodimus Prime was sent on a journey through space and time via [[Zero Space]], he was transported back to the time of the Deathbringer's attack on Earth, and narrowly avoided being struck by Siren when the loud-mouthed Autobot was sent hurtling through the air and smashed through a window. {{storylink|Less Than Zero}}

During the invasion of Cybertron by [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]]'s [[Blitz Engine]]s, Siren found himself fighting on the front line along with [[Hound (G1)|Hound]], [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]], [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]], [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]], and a horde of other Autobots, most of whom were slaughtered in the first action. {{storylink|Destiny, Part Four}} Siren, by contrast, survived and was seen after the battle arresting [[Krok (G1)|Krok]]. {{storylink|The War to End All Wars, Part 1}}
{{--}}

===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
[[File:Sirendarkages.jpg|upright=1.5|thumb|We'd tilt back too if we were carrying those things around.]]
Siren was part of [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] and [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]]'s organized resistance to Decepticon rule during the [[Age of Internment]]. Along with [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]], [[Hosehead (G1)|Hosehead]], [[Slapdash (G1)|Slapdash]], [[Getaway]], and [[Joyride (G1)|Joyride]], he participated in a bait-and-capture mission in [[Nova Cronum]] to disable one of the [[Air Warrior|Aerospace Extermination Squadron]] and bring it in for study. Curiously, they engaged a group of three of the Air Warriors, disabled the first two, and the third just shut down. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.2}} However, when Nightbeat tried to apply an [[inhibitor claw]], the Air Warrior automatically upgraded into enhanced attack mode and began to attack them again. The ensuing onslaught was overwhelming, but while Siren ended up being blinded by one of the Air Warrior's blasts, he and Joyride latched their [[alternate mode]]s together, rammed their opponent into a spike on the wall, and finally attached the inhibitor claw. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.3}}
{{-}}

===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
{{ongoing}}
[[File:SpotlightKup Siren.jpg|left|upright=1|thumb|It seems [[Springer (G1)|somebody]] better be careful.]]
Initially stationed on the [[Autobot Orbital Command Hub]], {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 1|Stormbringer #1}} Siren was requisitioned into action on board the ''[[Ark-17]]'' for a mission to rescue [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] from [[Tsiehshi]]. Unfortunately, Kup had been driven mad by the planet's [[Ore-8]] radiation and, unable to recognise his would-be rescuers thanks to the antique anti-radiation armor they were wearing, believed the were [[zombie]]s and attacked them. Siren was the only one to escape alive (minus an arm), and loudly berated both [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] and [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] on the foolhardy rescue mission, which had cost loyal Autobots their lives. Though Springer reminded Siren of how valuable Kup's training had been to all the Autobot soldiers, the [[Wrecker]]s commander was silenced when Siren stated that no Autobots deserved to die at the hands of their comrades, especially by the hand of somebody as revered as Kup. {{storylink|Spotlight: Kup}}

Sometime later, [[Prowl (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Prowl]] had hatched a plan to boost Autobot morale by rebuilding and rehabilitating Kup using [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]]'s [[Pretender]] technology that [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] and the [[Technobot (G1)|Technobots]] had perfected. To maintain Kup's mental stability, it was agreed that he would never be told what he did to the ground teams from ''Ark-17'', and survivors such as Siren and [[Sizzle (G1)|Sizzle]] were sworn to silence. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 15|All Hail Megatron #15}}

After Cybertron was reborn in the wake of [[D-Void]]'s attack, Siren joined [[Hot Rod/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rodimus]]'s mission to use the map within the [[Matrix of Leadership]] to find the [[Knights of Cybertron]] at [[Cyberutopia]]. Their departure aboard the ''[[Lost Light]]'' was interrupted by an explosion within the ship, sending it into premature [[quantum jump]]. The resulting hull breach sucked Siren out of the ship, {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 1: How to Say Goodbye and Mean It|How to Say Goodbye and Mean It}} but he survived the experience and was soon recovered and repaired. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 2: Hangers On|Hangers On}}

[[File:IntimateBeheading BRILLIANT.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.75|thumb|You know you're loud when you can make [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] ''cringe''.]]

''Someone'' thought it was a good idea to give Siren the PA system and let him do the ship-wide announcements. He reported on the hostage situation taking place in [[Rung (G1)|Rung]]'s office. {{storylink|Interiors}} Later, he was invited to [[Rewind (G1)|Rewind's]] first attempt to awaken Rung from his coma with a storytelling session alongside [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]], [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]], [[Gears (G1)|Gears]], [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]], and [[Bob (IDW)|Bob]], though his piercing voice caused his fellow Autobots to shield their ears. {{storylink|Shadowplay (Conclusion): An Intimate Beheading|An Intimate Beheading}}

Some time later, Siren and the rest of the crew of the ''Lost Light'' returned to Cybertron to help thwart the machinations of [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Shockwave]]'s "[[Dark Cybertron (IDW)|Dark Cybertron]]" prophecy. {{storylink|The Becoming: Dark Cybertron Chapter 10|The Becoming}} In the aftermath, Siren was a spectator at the trial of [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]] on [[Moonbase Two|Luna 2]]. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 1: Towards Peace|Towards Peace}} Six months after that, once the ''Lost Light'' was back on its quest, Siren sat in rapt attention as [[Tailgate (G1)|Tailgate]] related the story of how he saved the universe. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 3: Predestination: A Beginner's Guide|Predestination: A Beginner's Guide}}
{{--}}

A while afterwards, Siren was walking through the ''Lost Light'''s corridors when a [[Hoverboard|hoverboard]] riding [[Tailgate (G1)|Tailgate]] almost knocked his head off. {{storylink|Our Steps Will Always Rhyme}}

==Commercial appearances==
[[File:SmallHeadmastersCommercial autobots.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.3]]
Siren raced across the surface of an unknown planet in alternate mode alongside Nightbeat and Hosehead. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Small Headmasters|Small Headmasters commercial}}
{{--}}

==Toys==
===Generation 1===
[[File:G1Siren toy.jpg|upright=1.7|thumb|CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? WHAT? WHAT?!]]
*'''Siren''' (Headmaster, [[1988]])
**''Accessories'': "Quig" Headmaster pilot, helmet/seat, "C02 Shotgun", left & right "[[Sonic-screamer pistol|Sonic-Screamer Pistols]]"

:Siren transforms into a grey [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes#Mazda RX|Mazda RX-7]] with "Fire chief" decorations. The roof is hinged and can be opened to reveal an interior in which his Headmaster unit, Quig, can sit, with the helmet portion of the head forming a seat of sorts. His head guns can be stored on the hood while his rifle can be plugged onto the roof.

:In [[robot mode]], like all Headmaster toys, Siren has a flip-down panel on his chest which covers a spring-loaded mini-[[Tech Spec|Tech-Spec]]-meter which gives reads for Speed, Strength and Intelligence. The tumblers are activated when Quig (or any other Headmaster unit) is plugged into his neck socket. Quig has Siren's face plainly visible on his back because, as a smaller Headmaster toy, he lacks the flip-down panel featured on larger Headmasters.

:The same mold was [[redeco]]ed into Japanese [[Headmaster Junior]] [[Shūta Gō|Goshooter]]. A Siren-colored version of Shūta was also offered in Japan via [[Robot Point]] offer.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1988/Autobot/Siren/siren.htm More information on Siren at TFU.info]''
{{-}}

===Generations===
*'''Loudmouth''' (Titan Master, 2016)

{{comingsoontoy}}

==Notes==
[[File:Nightbeatsirenswappedheads.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Clockwise from top left: Toy Nightbeat, toy Siren, comic Nightbeat, comic Siren.]]
* According to the Deluxe editon of ''[[Transformers Generations]]'', Siren was originally conceived as either an upgrade or homage to [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]]. While the [[robot mode]] was largely blue, unlike Red Alert, its head was similar to that of the earlier Autobot. The car mode featured a near carbon copy of Red Alert's paint scheme. The Red Alert references were dropped early in the design process.
* For the animation/comic book models, the face/Nebulan and helmet/seat pieces of [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] and Siren were inexplicably switched. (It is difficult to tell for sure, but they may have kept the correct antennae/guns judging by the basic shapes involved.) This switch gave comic book Nightbeat the "shades" he's remembered for, as well as the crest on his forehead, while comic book Siren ended up with his trademark combined brow/nosepiece. How or why this switch happened, and in what stage of development it occurred, is unknown.

===Foreign names===
*''French:'' '''Sirène''' (Canada)

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MediaWiki:TFWiki.net 2016 Transformers Hall of Fame Auditions/Underrated

2016-03-05T08:42:30Z

Ravagekitteh: /* Poll entries */

This is the page for the '''TFWiki.net Transformers Hall of Fame Underrated Character Auditions''' entries. The rules are as follows:

#You must pick your top '''three''' UNDERRATED ''Transformers'' characters, from any era. They must actually '''be''' Transformers; sorry, but no humans, non-Transformer aliens, non-Transformer robots, or anything else of the sort are being considered for the Hall of Fame. Any votes for such entities will '''not''' be tabulated. It is the sole discretion of the contest organizers to decide what does and does not count.
##"Favorite Transformers Character" (fictional robot character) votes '''[[Transformers Wiki:TFWiki.net 2016 Transformers Hall of Fame Auditions/Character|go here!]]'''
##Do not vote for the same characters in both categories.
#Take your top three list and '''put it in alphabetical order'''. Order of preference does not matter. Feel free to denote the character's franchise of origin, although these distinctions may or may not figure into the final results.
#You '''cannot''' pick a specific version of '''Arcee, Bumblebee, Dinobot, Grimlock, Ironhide, Jazz, Megatron, ''Beast Wars'' Megatron, Optimus Prime, Predaking (combiner), Prowl, Ratchet, Rodimus, Shockwave, Soundwave, Starscream, Ultra Magnus, Waspinator, or Wheeljack.''' They've already been inducted!
#However, '''you CAN vote''' for [[Optimus Primal]]'''! Hasbro considers him separate!
#Only one entry per user.

Please put your characters of choice and user name below in the following manner:

*Emirate Xaaron, Strika, Thunderblast--<nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>

Poll entry period ends at 3pm on '''[[March 9]]th, 2016'''. --[[User:Monzo|Monzo]] ([[User talk:Monzo|talk]]) 13:01, 2 March 2016 (EST)

==Poll entries==







*Botanica, [[Fasttrack (Scorponok)|Fasttrack]], [[Slammer]] --[[User:FortMax|FortMax]] ([[User talk:FortMax|talk]]) 13:23, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Botanica, Broadside, Elita One --[[User:Riptide|Riptide]] ([[User talk:Riptide|talk]]) 13:36, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Barricade-Bayverse,Hound, Mirage -regdog
*Override (Cybertron), Scrounge, Under-3 -[[User:Foffy the Sheep|Foffy the Sheep]] ([[User talk:Foffy the Sheep|talk]]) 13:48, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Cy-Kill, Nickel, Spacewarp. --[[User:Giggidy|Giggidy]] ([[User talk:Giggidy|talk]]) 13:50, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Hot Spot (G1), Scrapper (G1), Skids (G1) - [[User:Ironhold|Ironhold]] ([[User talk:Ironhold|talk]]) 14:05, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Brainstorm, Rampage (BW), Sixshot --[[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 14:07, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Elita One, Nautica, Sideways - [[User:Sky Shadow|Sky Shadow]] ([[User talk:Sky Shadow|talk]]) 14:13, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Cryotek, Shokaract, Under-3 --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] ([[User talk:ItsWalky|talk]]) 14:23, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Computron, Steeljaw (RID), Thunderhoof -- [[User:Grum|Grum]] ([[User talk:Grum|talk]]) 14:34, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Heinlad, Nightbeat, Skids -- [[User:Danja|Danja]] ([[User talk:Danja|talk]]) 14:38, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Dion, Shokaract, Star Dust --[[User:Aitherion|Aitherion]] ([[User talk:Aitherion|talk]]) 14:42, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Scrounge, Spacewarp, Under-3 [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 15:04, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Heinlad, [[Nightstrike]], Tigatron --[[User:Munkky|Munkky]] ([[User talk:Munkky|talk]]) 15:08, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Barricade (Tyran), [[Devcon (G1) |Devcon]], Scourge --[[User:Stranded With Autobots|Stranded With Autobots]] ([[User talk:Stranded With Autobots|talk]]) 15:16, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Botanica, Scrounge, Signal Lancer--[[User:NanoxVox|My Sarcasm Is Undeniable]] ([[User talk:NanoxVox|talk]]) 15:34, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Hoist, Tow-Line (RID), Whirl--[[User:Phantom Dusclops'92|Phantom Dusclops'92]] ([[User talk:Phantom Dusclops'92|talk]]) 15:46, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Blades, Brushguard, Hot Shot --[[User:Wasp-shot23|Wasp-shot23]] ([[User talk:Wasp-shot23|talk]]) 15:50, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Lugnut, Misfire, Sideways --[[User:Misfire78|Misfire78]] ([[User talk:Misfire78|talk]]) 16:12, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Elita-One, Swerve, Trailbreaker --[[User:Wtrz|Wtrz]] ([[User talk:Wtrz|talk]]) 16:26, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Lord Imperious Delirious, Sari Sumdac, Signal Lancer [[User:Awa64|Awa64]] ([[User talk:Awa64|talk]]) 16:27, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Scrounge, Skids, Transquito [[User:Carprillo|Carprillo]] ([[User talk:Carprillo|talk]]) 16:37, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Blitzwing, Sari Sumdac, Wreck-Gar --[[User:TeionneAi|TeionneAi]] ([[User talk:TeionneAi|talk]]) 17:12, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Crosswise, Override, Signal Lancer--[[User:Stardust262|Stardust262]] ([[User talk:Stardust262|talk]]) 18:10, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*High Wire, Longrack, Signal Lancer--[[User:SoundJack426|SoundJack426]] ([[User talk:SoundJack426|talk]]) 18:31, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Misfire, Scrounge, Signal Lancer ----[[User:Projectus|Projectus]] ([[User talk:Projectus|talk]]) 18:40, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Nautica, Rung, Tarn - [[User:Queso|¡Usa El Queso!]] [[User talk:Queso|Complain here]] 21:00, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Air Hammer, Evac (Cybertron), Spacewarp, [[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]]) 21:36, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Botanica, Nautica, Override (Cybertron) [[User:LordTacos|LordTacos]] ([[User talk:LordTacos|talk]]) 21:58, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Ginrai, Thunderwing (G1), Vector Prime --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] ([[User talk:Sabrblade|talk]]) 22:17, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Leobreaker, Override (Cybertron), Signal Lancer [[User:NovaSaber|NovaSaber]] ([[User talk:NovaSaber|talk]]) 22:55, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Broadside, Signal Lancer, Tow-Line (RID) --[[User:Flicky1991|flicky]][[User talk:Flicky1991|1991]] 01:28, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Nightbeat, Trailbreaker, Vector Prime --[[User:AkibaSilver|AkibaSilver]] ([[User talk:AkibaSilver|talk]])) 02:22 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Barricade, Depth Charge, Roadbuster --[[User:BattleBlade|BattleBlade]] ([[User talk:BattleBlade|talk]]) 02:52, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Flywheels, Guzzle, Trailbreaker --[[User:Emvee|Emvee]] ([[User talk:Emvee|talk]]) 06:26, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Hound, Scrounge, Seaspray --[[User:Bobpiecheese|Bobpiecheese]] ([[User talk:Bobpiecheese|talk]]) 08:04, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Alpha Trion, Tigatron, Vector Prime -- [[User:DalekSupreme13|DalekSupreme13]] ([[User talk:DalekSupreme13|talk]]) 09:59, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Nautica, Rampage (Beast Wars), Stockade (Movie/Titan Magazines) -- [[User:Charles RB|Charles RB]] ([[User talk:Charles RB|talk]]). 15:17, 3 March 2016 (GMT)
*Doubledealer, Quickswitch, Scrounge -- [[User:HunterCham|HunterCham]] ([[User talk:HunterCham|talk]]) 12:53, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Impactor, Nautica, Rung - [[User:Cattleprod|Cattleprod]] ([[User talk:Cattleprod|talk]]) 13:24, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Botanica, Spacewarp, Transmutate [[User:RevTibe|RevTibe]] ([[User talk:RevTibe|talk]]) 13:50, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Ironfist, Rung, Sari Sumdac -- [[User:JediFlaherty|JediFlaherty]] 14:32, 3 March 2016 (CST)
*Drift, Rung, Swerve -- [[User:Lozalot|Lozalot]] ([[User talk:Lozalot|talk]]) 22:10, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Scourge (RID), Shokaract, Under-3 --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 17:20, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Nickel, Scrounge (G1), Skids (G1)--[[User:Arazyr|Arazyr]] ([[User talk:Arazyr|talk]]) 19:49, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Elita One, Sideways, Sky-Byte--[[User:Autobot62695|Autobot62695]] ([[User talk:Autobot62695|talk]]) 19:40, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Blitzwing, Wheelie, Wreck-Gar--[[User:Glowingsupernova|Glowingsupernova]] ([[User talk:Glowingsupernova|talk]]) 22:19, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Doublecross, Swindler, Vector Prime --[[User:MaximalBroadjaw|MaximalBroadjaw]] ([[User talk:MaximalBroadjaw|talk]]) 22:21, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Cy-Kill, Ratbat, Thundercracker--[[User:RAKninja|RAKninja]] ([[User talk:RAKninja|talk]]) 00:37, 4 March 2016 (EST)
*Brainstorm, Rewind, Swerve -- [[User:Dark T Zeratul|Dark T Zeratul]] ([[User talk:Dark T Zeratul|talk]]) 02:36, 4 March 2016 (EST)
*Alpha Trion, Overlord, Double Punch -- [[User:S-NFS|S-NFS]] ([[User talk:S-NFS|talk]]) 0:14, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
*Deszaras, Nautica, Overlord -- [[User:OvermanXAN|OvermanXAN]] ([[User talk:OvermanXAN|talk]]) 15:29, 4 March 2016 (PST)
*Countdown, Flame (Motorvator), Stalker -- [[User:Stealthyboy|Stealthyboy]] ([[User talk:Stealthyboy|talk]]) 18:54, 4 March 2016 (EST)
*Drift (IDW), Rung (IDW), Overlord (IDW) --[[User:EpsilonMagnus|EpsilonMagnus]] ([[User talk:EpsilonMagnus|talk]]) 01:07, 5 March 2016 (EST)




*Ammo, Buzzsaw, Ravage (SG) -- [[User:Ravagekitteh|Ravagekitteh]] ([[User talk:Ravagekitteh|talk]]) 03:42, 5 March 2016 (EST)

[[Category: TFWiki.net]]

Velocity (G1)

2016-03-05T08:35:28Z

Ravagekitteh: /* IDW Generation 1 continuity */

{{factions|autobot}}
{{disambig2|the female Camien from IDW|the episode of ''Transformers Animated''|Velocity (episode)}}
:''Velocity is a [[Caminus|Camien]] [[Autobot]] from the [[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW portion]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Velocity-IDW.jpg|right|thumb|250px|That's my speed and direction.]]
'''Velocity''' is fairly new at this whole "universal adventuring" thing, but she's ready to use her skills to help the crew of the ''[[Vis Vitalis]]''.

==Fiction==
===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
Born on [[Caminus]], she was in a sorority on with [[Nautica (G1)|Nautica]] and [[Firestar (G1)|Firestar]]. She was never very good at her exams {{storylink|The Sensuous Frame}} and worse still, Camien culture's focus on the performing arts as worthy left Velocity believing that her medical studies weren't as worthwhile. {{storylink|The Frail Gaze}}

Having finally passed her exams (it took ten goes!), Velocity was with Firestar and many of her former classmates {{storylink|The Sensuous Frame}} on a search for Windblade when their pilot, [[Vertex]], died at the ship controls after they visited the planet [[Marasma]]. Luckily they were rescued by the ''[[Vis Vitalis]]'' and fell into the heroic [[Thunder Clash|Thunderclash]]'s crew. {{storylink|The Frail Gaze}} She served as an extra medic but after a passing doctor fixed his spark, he abruptly took a turn for the worse.

Rather than attend the dying Thunderclash's pre-wake dance party, Velocity stayed in Thunderclash's med-bay, bringing [[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]] and [[Minimus Ambus]] up to date with what had happened to Thunderclash since she joined up; the leader's ever-failing health, and his single-minded devotion to carving a map to [[Cyberutopia]] into the nearby wall. First Aid soon discovered that Thunderclash ''shouldn't be dying'', as his war wound, the thing that was ''supposed'' to be killing him, was healed... he was dying from something else, something unknown. When pressed for information on who fixed the damage to Thunderclash's spark, Velocity was unable to describe the passing medic to performed the miracle, able to only come up with "she was ''normal''" despite her best efforts.

The group then realized that Thunderclash was manipulating the readouts of the medical machines to send a warning to the crew. Before they could make sense of it, a knock from Thunderclash's trailer interrupted them {{storylink|The Sensuous Frame}} and they were besieged by monsters! Only a revived Thunderclash allowed them to escape and take refuge with some others... including Nautica, who congratulated "Lotty" on passing her exams. She helped [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] identify their opponents as [[personality tick]]s and how to stop them, only for the things to burst in and overrun them... but don't worry, [[Skater|some other dude]] sorted it. Afterwards, Firestar successfully encouraged Velocity to join the ''[[Lost Light]]'' instead of returning home: to "help Nautica" but really to give her a place to properly work on her medical skills. {{storylink|The Frail Gaze}}

She had only just unpacked when First Aid had to leave, following orders from [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]. However, his leaving was interrupted when [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] burst in carrying a wounded [[ Swerve (G1)|Swerve]]. The two of them diagnosed his various problems but Swerve was too weak to operate on without knowing the exact cause of the illnesses. This meant the rest of the crew had to project their [[Holomatter|Holomatter avatars]] down to [[Swearth|the enormous planet he was projecting]].

After he had been found and diagnosed with a shoulder infection, she operated on him and saved his life, the first time she had ever done that to somebody. While he was flying away, First Aid realised something important and ordered her to operate on Swerve's shoulder again, where she found [[Agent 113|a mysterious bullet]]... {{storylink|The One Where They Go to Earth}}

{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|The Not Knowing}} {{storylink|The Lopsided Triangle}} {{storylink|Speak, Memory: Part 1}} {{storylink|Silent Light}}}}

==External links==
*[http://markerguru001.tumblr.com/post/118895753987/so-here-are-some-of-the-characters-ive-been Design and commentary on Alex Milne's Tumblr]

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Tailgate (G1)

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Ravagekitteh: /* IDW Generation 1 continuity */

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

[[File:Tailgate universe.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Shake harder, boy!]]
The naïve '''Tailgate''' needs to be liked. It's hardly the most unique of flaws, but he has an unfortunate, childlike tendency towards extremes. Placed in a situation with [[Autobot]]s who don't know him from [[Primon]], this sanitation 'Bot will spin a tall tale the height of a [[Metrotitan (body-type)|Metrotitan]] in an attempt to impress his fellows before it all comes crashing down. And it ultimately will - while he's a 'Bot with a spark of gold, he's broadly unfocused, frequently distracted and easily led, and often gets impulsive, irrational obsessions. And his timekeeping ''sucks''.

Easily his most distinctive mental issue is his occasional inability to tell the difference between a non-living [[Earth]] machine and sentient robotic life such as himself. While it's a [[:File:Ratchetfriendtrafficsignal.jpg|mistake many other Cybertronians have made at first]], typically they learn quickly and let it go. Not Tailgate. Once he gets it into his head, his compassion turns to rage against the "enslavers", and is quite vocal in his desire to "free" the machines of Earth.

[[Wheeljack's Bizarre Invention! Optimus Power Up!?|That boy ain't right]].

Sometimes, he acts as a scout—with strict orders not to break cover for any reason. In this, he is aided by a ridiculously powerful iron-cobalt magnet installed behind his bumper, which he can use to follow closely behind other vehicles and travel far into enemy territory using minimal fuel.

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==Fiction==
===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' manga====
[[File:FSRLmanga7 Tailgate.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Rumors help him grow. Paranoia nurtures him.]]
With the [[Autobot]]s being framed by the [[Decepticon Trailer Corps]] for numerous crimes, [[Kenji]] was feeling a bit dejected at how his schoolyard chums were suddenly turning on them. Tailgate appeared to give him a lift home from school and attempted to cheer him up, reminding him that as an [[Honorary Autobot]] he had nothing to worry about. Their drive was interrupted by a crowd gathering around a display put on by a pair of robed figures (secretly [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] and [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]]), decrying the Autobots and preaching the heroism of the [[Decepticon]]s. The rest of the Autobots soon arrived to straighten things out. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 7|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #7}}

Tailgate later responded to a distress signal sent from [[Powerglide (G1)|Powerglide]], who was fighting to rescue a [[Murdered puppy|puppy]] that was brimming over with [[Decepticon super science]] from the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]]. Dying from its wounds, the dog transferred the super science into Powerglide, giving him brief access to [[Scramble Power]]. Along with the other [[Mini Vehicle|Minibot]]s, Tailgate merged with Powerglide into a [[Minibot combiner]] and swiftly defeated [[Bruticus (G1)|Bructicus]]. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 8|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #8}}
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====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Ted Schwartz]] (English), [[Ken Shiroyama]] (Japanese)}}

[[File:FFoD5 MiniVehicles.jpg|upright=1.2|thumb|"That machine is alive I tell you! Aliv—" "WE KNOW, TAILGATE!"]]
Tailgate was one of a group of [[Mini Vehicle|Minibots]] stationed at the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] in 2006. When the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] built [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] out of a human city, [[Mount St. Hilary]] and the Ark were the first stop on his journey to destroy Metroplex. Tailgate and the other Autobots on duty rolled out to defend the Ark with all the firepower at their disposal. It didn't go very well. The Ark was left devastated in Trypticon's mighty wake, and Tailgate's troops were beaten and scattered by the colossal dinosaur. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5}}
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====''Wings Universe''====
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Tailgate was present at the first "meeting" of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]] nine million years ago. {{storylink|Battle Lines, Part 6}}
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===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics====
{{noteukexclusive|Tailgate}}
[[File:Underworld!-TailgateFlattopSubsea.jpg|thumb|"I'M NOT A COWARD!"]]
Tailgate was one of the Autobots working with [[Emirate]] [[Xaaron]] and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]'s covert cell on Cybertron, and was briefly seen when [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] came to Cybertron and rallied the troops for an assault on [[Darkmount (Cybertron)|Darkmount]]. {{storylink|Resurrection!}}

He eventually finished his training at the [[Autobot Military Academy]], but upon graduation was provoked into joining [[Flattop (Autobot)|Flattop]] and [[Subsea]] in venturing [[Underworld|underground]], in order to prove his courage. When a group of [[Mutant (G1)|Cybertronian Mutants]] attacked and slaughtered his fellow cadets, Tailgate stood his ground. A blast into [[Smeltdown]]'s chest-furnace obliterated most of the sewer-dwellers, leaving only the ape-like [[Rotgut]]. However, a little quick thinking, and Tailgate was able to use the larger machine's bulk against him, flipping Rotgut into the pyre left in Smeltdown's wake. Thus, he proved he was not a coward... and also not very good at watching his friends' backs in a fight. [[Pipes (G1)|Pipes]] and [[Outback (G1)|Outback]] eventually arrived as Tailgate surfaced and let them know of his fellow cadets' fate.

Unfortunately, Tailgate's actions inadvertently [[Demon|woke something ''worse'' than the Mutants]]... {{storylink|Underworld!}}
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====''Regeneration One''====
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[[File:Decepticons attack destiny.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|It doesn't get much better than this. Sorry, Tailgate.]]
Tailgate participated in the defense of [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] against the onslaught of the [[Blitz Engine]]s and the Decepticon crew of the [[Warworld]]. He didn't have time to do much of anything except get shot by [[Needlenose (G1)|Needlenose]]. {{storylink|Destiny, Part Five}} He survived, and travelled to the [[Hub (G2)|Hub Network]] with [[Hot Rod/Marvel Comics continuity|Rodimus Prime]] to battle [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]] and survived that too. Almost immediately upon returning to Cybertron, however, he was attacked and killed by a [[shadow-leech]]. Ouch. {{storylink|The War to End All Wars, Part 5}}
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===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
[[File:BlackSunshine Autobot training failures.jpg|thumb|left]]
Tailgate was among the Autobot civilians who watched [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]'s anti-Optimus-Prime propaganda broadcasts. {{storylink|Cold War (issue)|Cold War}} Didn't seem to do the trick, though, as he was later seen training alongside several Autobot recruits against [[auto-combatant]]s following Shockwave's defeat. None of them fared particularly well in training, however, much to [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] and [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]]'s dismay. {{storylink|Black Sunshine}}
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===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
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[[File:MTMTE1 tailgate damaged.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|It's a scratch, he'll just walk it off... oh, right.]]
Tailgate was born in [[Rivets Field]] six million years ago, two weeks before the launch of the [[Ark (G1)|Ark-1]]. {{storylink|Remain in Light 5 of 5: This Calamitous Life|This Calamitous Life}} Assigned the role of fourth-class sanitation 'bot, he was tasked with cleaning out the craft's coolant tubes before take-off, {{storylink|Cybertronian Homesick Blues}} but ran late to the job and made the mistake of trying to make up the time by short-cutting across the fragile [[Mitteous Plateau]]. The terrain collapsed out from under him, leaving him badly damaged and trapped underground, but he soon hit upon the plan of detonating the trailer-full of [[energon]] rations he had brought with him in hopes of blasting his way out. Unfortunately for him, he kept repeatedly passing out as he set this up, and with his chronometer damaged had no way of measuring the passage of time. He finally succeeded ''six million years later'', and was dragged from his pit by a group of Autobots who were on their way to depart the planet on the starship ''[[Lost Light]]''. Suffering a panic attack and passing out when he saw his explosion had damaged [[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]], the unconscious Tailgate was brought aboard the ''Lost Light'' by the Autobots, since he'd mentioned "the launch" and they had no idea who he was. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 1: How to Say Goodbye and Mean It|How to Say Goodbye and Mean It}}

Due to an accident with the quantum engine, the ''Lost Light'' was duplicated and ''another'' Tailgate woke up to bond on a different ''Lost Light''. What did he do? We dunno because the [[Decepticon Justice Division]] showed up and killed everyone! {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}}

[[File:MTMTE2 Tailgate.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|Just your average kick-boxing, bomb disposing, metaphysics and epistemology student, and I once caught a fish ''this big!'']]
[[Ratchet (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ratchet]] soon discovered Tailgate's age when he studied his ancient systems, and called [[Swerve (G1)|Swerve]] in to carbon-date him. Tailgate woke up before that was necessary (happily observing that he hadn't killed "Nut-Job", as he mistakenly thought Whirl was called), so Swerve instead gleefully took it upon himself to inform him how long he'd been offline. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 2: Hangers On|Hangers On}} Tailgate was horrified and heartbroken: by all rights, he should have been found in days, but the length of his absence made it clear he was so unimportant that nobody had noticed or ''cared'' he was missing. Since there was nobody around who knew the truth, and since he had always wanted to do something big and heroic with this life, Tailgate decided to make up a dramatic, overblown past for himself. {{storylink|Cybertronian Homesick Blues}} He and Swerve went for a walk, during which he claimed that the damaged "Waste Disposal" decal on his arm actually read "Bomb Disposal", and that he had been part of the [[Primal Vanguard]], though Swerve was more interested in seeing his [[alternate mode]]. After Tailgate was introduced to [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] and [[Rewind (G1)|Rewind]], the group were caught up in a battle between the amnesiac [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] and some [[Legislator|strange robots]], in whose repeated chanting of "nineteen-eighty-four" Tailgate took an interest.

A little later, back on the ''Lost Light'', Swerve finally convinced Tailgate to attempt to transform, {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 2: Hangers On|Hangers On}} but he wound up getting stuck halfway. It was at this inopportune moment that the crew were ordered back to their rooms, since a [[Sparkeater (creature)|Sparkeater]] had been reported loose aboard the ship; spotting [[Cyclonus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Cyclonus]], another Transformer from his time, Tailgate asked for some help getting to a room. Cyclonus carried the half-transformed Tailgate there and quite rudely dumped him on the ground. As the Sparkeater situation unfolded outside, the two ancient 'bots discussed the six million year gap in history they missed; Cyclonus described the [[Great War (G1)|Autobot-Decepticon conflict]] to Tailgate as he understood it, romanticizing the Decepticons' position enough that later, as Ratchet was unsticking his half-transformed body, Tailgate declared that he wanted to ''be'' a Decepticon! {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 3: The Chaos of Warm Things|The Chaos of Warm Things}}

[[File:Cyclonus Tailgate LifeAftertheBigBang.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Tailgate goes to see his KRAK dealer.]]
Learning of Tailgate's aims, [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]] insisted that ship's captain [[Hot Rod/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rodimus]] set the "confirmed Decepticon sympathizer" straight, so Rodimus recruited Rewind to beam a compressed visual history of the war directly into Tailgate's head. Sobered by what he saw and realizing that the Decepticons were the "bad guys", Tailgate fumed at Cyclonus for misleading him and impotently struck him, leading his icy roommate to reciprocate with a vicious backhand. Leaving their room, Cyclonus kicked the downed Tailgate on his way out, leaving him cowering on the floor. {{storylink|Life After the Big Bang}}

[[File:IDW MtMtE5 MagnusTailgateAttentionDirt.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.66]]
Determined to be one of the "good guys", Tailgate requested that Ultra Magnus teach him the [[Autobot Code]]. By this point, Tailgate had edited his own [[Autopedia]] entry to reflect the false history he had created for himself—claiming he had studied metaphysics under [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]], was a champion kick-boxer who graduated from the [[Ibex School of Epistemology]], helped invent the idealised heat engine, coordinated a search for the long-lost [[Moonbase One|Luna 1]], and he was part of [[Nova Prime]]'s inner circle, encouraging him to explore space—and the impressed Magnus agreed to educate him. Alas, Tailgate was soon to discover this meant an excruciating slog through an intense analysis of ten thousand pages of text. He was briefly interested in section 19, subsection 80, paragraph four because it reminded him of the robots that attacked Skids, {{storylink|How Ratchet Got His Hands Back}} but by and large the experience was a grueling one, and he moaned long and loud about it in [[Swerve's|Swerve's bar]], especially once he discovered there was an ''abridged'' version of the Code. {{storylink|Interiors}}

After the Lost Light was impacted by a discarded thumb from Metroplex, and was subsequently repaired, Tailgate attended an award ceremony honoring Brainstorm, Chromedome and Highbrow for their part in saving the ship. He chatted with Chromedome during the celebration, and noted how the three honored Autobots had head-related names. Later, Tailgate was having a conversation with Huffer when they, along with nearly everyone on board of the Lost Light were frozen in place due to one of Brainstorm's experimental weapons accidentally going off. After he recovered, he was awarded a Rodimus Star "for exceptional endurance in the face of adversity." {{storylink|The Reluctant Specialist}}

[[File:MTMTEannual rodimus writes on tailgate.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4]]
Ultimately, Tailgate passed his Autobot Code exam, though he professed it was not with "his best grades ever". Asking Cyclonus to attend his [[Act of Affiliation]], a step on the way to the full [[Rite of the Autobrand]], he was seemingly ignored - although his fellow Ancient Cybertronian would secretly attend. At the ceremony itself, however, Rodimus was briefly possessed by a [[Metrotitan (body-type)|Metrotitan]] and, rather than drawing his probationary Autobot symbol, scrawled "Set Me Free" in [[Cybertronian language#IDW Generation 1 continuity|Old Cybertronian]] on his chest. {{storylink|Primus: You, Me, and Other Revelations|You, Me, and Other Revelations}}

Tailgate loved "Movie Night" in Rewind and Chromedome's quarters, where he watched such films as the old public information piece "[[Proteus's Promise]]", with several other members of the crew {{storylink|Scavengers (Part 2): Who's Afraid of the DJD?|Who's Afraid of the DJD?}} and would later recall it as the happiest time of his life. {{storylink|Before & After}} He was invited to listen in on Rewind's third communal storytelling session, part of an attempt to help the damaged [[Rung (G1)|Rung]] regain his memories; Tailgate had to interrupt Drift to ask what a [[Relinquishment Clinic]] was, {{storylink|Shadowplay, Part 1: Post Hoc|Post Hoc}} and was particularly impressed by the skills of one Orion Pax {{storylink|Shadowplay, Part 2: Patternism|Patternism}} even though he hadn't realized that Orion was actually [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime]], despite the notes he'd been making to keep track of all the characters. {{storylink|Shadowplay (Conclusion): An Intimate Beheading|An Intimate Beheading}}

[[File:MTMTE12 panic keeps me focused.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4]]
Tailgate joined a mission to [[Temptoria]] to investigate the possibility that the [[Circle of Light]] were being held there. While the larger Autobots roughed up the occupying Decepticons, Tailgate and Rewind investigated the contents of [[Battery|The Battery]] only to find that the Decepticons didn't have the Circle and were merely converting the native life forms to [[energon]], and had rigged up a bomb. {{storylink|Before & After}} Now forced to actually dispose of a bomb, Tailgate tricked Rewind into telling him how to actually do it. {{storylink|Cybertronian Homesick Blues}} Unfortunately he accidentally triggered a timer, and when he refused to stop work and escape, he had to be physically thrown from the room by Cyclonus. Cyclonus and Rewind were caught in the bomb's explosion, and Tailgate dragged the severely-damaged Cyclonus back to the ''Lost Light''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> medibay on his own. Observing the other Autobots leaving offerings of [[innermost energon]] for Rewind, Tailgate attempted to leave an offering for Cyclonus, only for it to be rebuked. Cyclonus did seem to have a change of heart after seeing Rewind's offerings, and helped Tailgate pick up the pieces of the shattered vial. {{storylink|Before & After}}

‎[[File:MtMtE13-BabyTailgate.jpg‎|thumb|"Congratulations! It's a beautiful baby boy... [[Tailgate (G1)#Notes|We think.]]]]
Some time later, he went to the bars on [[Hedonia]] with his usual crowd (his psycho-reactive [[holomatter|holomatter avatar]] taking the form of a human baby). {{storylink|Cybertronian Homesick Blues}} After abandoning Swerve with a drunken Ultra Magnus, Tailgate and the others explored a gift shop. Tailgate grew bored as Skids tried on hats but decided not to wait outside with Whirl, who was banging his head on a display case. {{storylink|Signal to Noise}} When Rewind was about to show a recording of the ''Ark-1'' opening ceremony that included the naming of its original crew, Cyclonus suddenly flew into a "drunken rage" that disrupted the proceedings. Tailgate ushered the others away so he could calm him down; after they had departed, it became clear Cyclonus had done this so the others wouldn't realize Tailgate wasn't part of the crew. Cyclonus revealed he had known from the start that Tailgate had been lying, and the little 'bot broke down and admitted to having falsified his past, and his grief over being a nobody. Cyclonus took pity on Tailgate and taught him how to sing an Old Cybertronian anthem. {{storylink|Cybertronian Homesick Blues}}

[[File:MTMTE22 tailgate altmode.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4]]
While lounging around in the ship's oil reservoir, Tailgate, Swerve and Rewind took to discussing the cool alternate modes of their crew-mates, and entered into a wager to see who could be the first to solve the longstanding mystery of what Rung turned into. Tailgate tried to trick Rung into transforming by holding an "alt mode party", claiming they were all the rage back in his day, but since Rung hailed from the same time as him, it proved an unconvincing gambit. Interviewed by Rewind for a documentary movie about life on the ship not long thereafter, Tailgate continued making up accolades for himself, but openly admitted to never having been happier than he was on the ship, and looking to the future with glee. {{storylink|Little Victories}}

Tailgate and Cyclonus remained close after their experiences on Hedonia; Tailgate was in the ship's workshop crafting a new horn to replace Cyclonus's missing one when the 'bot in question angrily came storming in after learning that their quarters were to play host to "Movie Night". {{storylink|Under Cold Blue Stars}} That concern melted away in the face of [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]]'s subsequent rampage through the ship; Cyclonus and Tailgate sat together during the funeral for the crewmembers who lost their lives in the chaos. After the ceremony, Tailgate went to help Ratchet to care for the dying Ultra Magnus, but accidentally scanned himself with Ratchet's "death clock", which announced that Tailgate had only three days to live. {{storylink|The Gloaming}}

[[File:Tailgate Cyclonus Hope Is A Lie.jpg‎|thumb|upright=1.4|The Hope is a Lie]]
An examination by Ratchet revealed that he had a terminal case of [[cybercrosis]], and Tailgate elected to trust only Cyclonus with the news, though Cyclonus seemed almost disinterested in the tragic announcement. Tailgate went to Swerve's Bar to drink away his sorrows, oblivious to the massive portal that the ''Lost Light'' was about to travel through. When Luna 1 was discovered to lie on the other side of the portal, an evidently distressed Cyclonus made up for his behavior by inviting Tailgate onto the team who would explore the moon. He insisted it was just for the experience, with the caveat that despite Luna 1's reputation as a "Miracle Moon", Tailgate must not hope for a cure. {{storylink|Remain in Light 1 of 5: The Fecund Moon|The Fecund Moon}}

On arrival on Luna 1, Tailgate was captured and imprisoned with most of the ''Lost Light'' away team, becoming separated from Cyclonus, remained free. As none of the others knew he had less than three days to live, Tailgate's claims of impatience and panic at being in captivity were dismissed. {{storylink|Remain in Light 2 of 5: House of Ambus|House of Ambus}} Things looked brighter once their co-prisoner [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Minimus Ambus]] revealed that he was really a healed Ultra Magnus; when Tailgate asked how he could have cheated his impending death, Minimus declared that the [[Tyrest (G1)|Chief Justice Tyrest]], who has using the moon as a base, had doctors that could apparently work miracles. {{storylink|Remain in Light 3 of 5: The Divided Self|The Divided Self}}

[[File:MTMTE21 tailgate amends law.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.66|Chekhov's [[semicolon]]!]]
Tailgate's clock was down to one day and twelve hours by the time [[Getaway]] sprang the group from the cell, by which time he could no longer walk and had to be carried by Rodimus, though he played off his paralysis as seized-up servos. Reuniting with Ratchet, Tailgate told him of the moons' "miracle medibay", but Ratchet solemnly informed him that only Tyrest's medical minion [[Pharma (G1)|Pharma]] could really use the tools within it. The group proceeded to confront Tyrest and were all apparently immobilized by a "thought weapon" that paralyzed their bodies. {{storylink|Remain in Light 4 of 5: Arm the Lonely|Arm the Lonely}} Tailgate's cybercrosis, however, had rendered him deaf to the frequency of the suggestion weapon. He managed to jump Tyrest and jab him in the head through the "cleansing" hole Tyrest drilled in his own brow. Tailgate deactivated the weapon while Tyrest was distracted, only to be taken hostage by the Chief Justice. Though he urged Rodimus to open fire, admitting his terminal condition, Tailgate was saved moments later by [[Minimus Ambus]]. As the room was swarmed by [[Legislator]]s responding to Tyrest's distress call, Tailgate put his knowledge of the Autobot Code to good use, using Tyrest's computer to amend and repeal the law in its totality. He barely had time to celebrate his achievement before collapsing.

[[File:Cyclonus SparkTransfusion ThisCalamitousLife.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4]]
The next day, back on the ''[[Lost Light]]'', Tailgate asked Cyclonus to spare him a lingering death by terminating him, but Cyclonus refused. Though a cure was subsequently found, thanks to Tyrest's collection of esoteric medical equipment, Tailgate's spark had faded to a point where the process would no longer be viable. However, on Whirl's suggestion, Cyclonus used his [[Great Sword]] to directly transfuse energy into Tailgate's spark, boosting it to a condition that allowed the small 'bot's life to be saved. {{storylink|Remain in Light 5 of 5: This Calamitous Life|This Calamitous Life}} Tailgate underwent a period of recovery. {{storylink|The Sound of Breaking Glass}}

After about six months, Tailgate was fully recovered from his cybercrosis, and could even fully transform again. He playfully charged Cyclonus when he first got out of the medbay, demonstrating his new signature move of "finger to the head". Tailgate was surprised by all that had gone on in his absence, including the new captain Megatron and ''Swerve's'' using [[Ten|one of the Legislators]] as a bouncer. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 2: Words Hang in the Air|Words Hang in the Air}} He'd learned from his experiences ahahahaha just kidding, one of the first things he did was talk up his actions on Luna 1 at the bar. [[Getaway]] began talking him, telling him his heroics were Prime-worthy and when Tailgate admitted to having lied about his old job, the agent bonded with him over his own dull past (Tailgate didn't notice Cyclonus storm out).

This was all interrupted when the ship had to be abandoned on account of ''vanishing'' {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 3: Predestination: A Beginner's Guide|Predestination: A Beginner's Guide}} and Tailgate was stuck on a crowded [[Rodpod]] with twenty others. When they started vanishing too, Tailgate (pumped up from false bravado from his recent praising) immediately aimed his guns at an amused Megatron—causing a standoff that, to Tailgate's horror, included Cyclonus too. As the vanishings went on, erasing all the original crewmembers, Tailgate had time to see all the other escape ships disappear before he too was claimed. {{storylink|Twenty Plus One}} The cause was identified as the ''Lost Light'' running across the duplicate ''Lost Light'' (where [[Nautica (G1)|Nautica]] and [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] came across the other Tailgate's corpse) and everything was fixed. And the quantum duplicate Rewind was back too! {{storylink|slaughterhouse}} {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}} And then Getaway told him he thought he could ''be a [[Wrecker]]''! {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 2: Stet|Stet}} Tailgate would've been really pleased about all this if he and everyone else hadn't been whacked unconscious by poisoned engex at Swerve's! {{storylink|slaughterhouse}} {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}}

Tailgate was fixed up and made part of a time-travel team (due to a compatible spark), pursuing the poisoner Brainstorm before he could alter the timeline. That meant he got to meet ''ORION PAX OMG''. He squeed about how awesome he was for trying to save infant sparks (and tried to get Cyclonus to agree) and then actually got to ''work with him''! {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 1: All Our Parlous Yesterdays|All Our Parlous Yesterdays}} They went further back to pre-war [[Rodion]] and Tailgate had to take control of Cyclonus's comms while the ancient stared into the distance. When Tailgate babbled about the time-travel mechanics freaking him out, he found out Cyclonus was silent because of the chance to once again see an undamaged Cybertron.

Cyclonus then apologised for hitting him. "Noted", replied Tailgate.

A further time-jump took them to Maccadam's New Oil House, waiting to see what happened. He listened to pre-war Megatron's poetry, had a drink, and asked for a [[curly straw]]. Rung getting him a curly straw started a bar fight that got Megatron arrested, so it's important to know that Tailgate is responsible for the Great War. {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 2: Stet|Stet}} Their final trip went to Megatron's birth and Tailgate was amused to see he was born in a Con facility (as in -structed Cold). During the whole time travel chaos, it was Tailgate that "why don't we use time travel to send the ''Lost Light'' a message from the post telling them ''not'' to do all this bad stuff?". {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 3: Predestination: An Expert's Guide|Predestination: An Expert's Guide}} That message made it to the day the ''Lost Light'' launched but nobody heard it. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 1: How to Say Goodbye and Mean It|How to Say Goodbye and Mean It}} A ticked off Cyclonus pointed out that ''all'' of those bad things turned out well, including that Tailgate himself ''didn't die of cybercrosis''.

Once back in the present day, Tailgate and the crew watched ''{{w|Back to the Future Part II}}'' and it was so awesome {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 3: Predestination: An Expert's Guide|Predestination: An Expert's Guide}} that he went and got his ''own'' [[hoverboard]] and annoyed the crap out of the ''Lost Light'' crew by zooming about on it inside.

[[File:Getaway's innocent conversation with Tailgate.jpg‎|left|upright=1.67|thumb|''Gaslight'', starring Tailgate of Rivets Field as Paula]]
He and Getaway got together to go Legislator fishing in the oil reservoir, starting with a friendly booze-up in Mirage's bar [["Visages"]]. After telling him a ''slight'' fabrication of their recent time travel escapades, Getaway just ''happened'' to ''accidentally'' mention that Cyclonus had been saying mean things about Tailgate behind his back. Tailgate was horrified to learn Cyclonus had been insulting him for being scared on his death bed but don't worry Tailgate, Getaway's got your back and another drink would help even if you don't want it and oh don't mention to Cyclonus that he told you this, eh? {{storylink|Our Steps Will Always Rhyme}}

At [[Thunder Clash|Thunderclash]]'s pre-wake, Tailgate used the hoverboard to ''kill it'' on the dance floor! {{storylink|The Sensuous Frame}} Afterwards, at a subsequent EarthDance party at "Swerve's", he had "The Power Of Love" requested and planned to ask Cyclonus to dance with him. When Cyclonus refused and said begging him would be embarrassing, Tailgate muttered "like I don't normally embarrass you" under his breath and went off to dance with Getaway (not noticing Cyclonus had changed his mind). {{storylink|The Frail Gaze}}

Later, he presented First aid with a farewell present from the crew despite the fact the medic's absence was only temporary. Soon after he was drafted into the team sent to 'Swearth' in order to save Swerve from an unknown illness and while on the strange sitcom world, he found a comic book series detailing the crew of the Lost Light's adventures. By the time the others had arrived back he was on issue #21 and pointed out that Swerve had opened Brainstorm's briefcase. For the benefit of the mission he skipped to issue #43 (The Swerve disappears story) and discovered a 'story so far page' by the bartender that explained everything. Rung realised the comic book was Swerve's way of reaching out to them and Tailgate witnessed the combination of the three neighbours into Swerve. When Swerve refused to say where the issue was, Tailgate deduced that he had found his happy place and didn't want to leave. After Cyclonus gave Swerve a moralising speech, Tailgate noticed Swerve's shoulder wound and he declared the story wrapped up. {{storylink|The One Where They Go to Earth}}

{{charstubfiction| {{storylink|The Not Knowing}} {{storylink|The Lopsided Triangle}} {{storylink|Speak, Memory: Part 1}} {{storylink|Speak, Memory! (Part 2)}}}}

====Prevenge====
{{voiceactor|[[Susan Blu]] (English)}}
Tailgate was suffering through one of Ultra Magnus's lectures on the Autobot code when his teacher was suddenly whisked away through a trans-dimensional portal. Tailgate was left to ponder if he had caused the portal to open with his brain... for about six seconds, after which Ultra Magnus reappeared. Ultra Magnus told Tailgate that they could call it a day on the lecture, so long as Tailgate promised never to speak of what had just transpired. {{storylink|Prevenge}}

===''Transformers Legends'' comic===
[[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] had a dream in which he appeared in the middle of a battle of Tailgate and [[Swerve (G1)|Swerve]] versus [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]], a battle that went poorly, with Tailgate being easily kicked aside and Swerve stomped into the ground. As Tailgate picked Swerve back up using his Mini-Con partner, [[Neutro|Groundshaker]], Rattrap asked the two Minibots why they'd even taken on such a huge enemy. The Autobots responded that size has nothing to do with it, telling Rattrap that their Mini-Cons were just as small as him, but nevertheless valuable allies. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 8|Bonus Edition Vol. 8}} After Tailgate mentioned that his partnership with Groundshaker let him work with bomb disposal, Rattrap got curious about what Mini-Cons were, prompting Tailgate to explain the history behind the little 'bots. The enamored Rattrap then wanted to be a Mini-Con ''too'', and had an uncomfortable Tailgate wield him into battle with Trypticon. {{storylink|Transformers Legends (comic)#Transformers 2015 Tailgate/G1 Micron Chapter|Transformers 2015 Tailgate/G1 Micron Chapter}}

==Games==
===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
[[File:BattleTacticsTailgate.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]

Tailgate participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He was a Common character that could be recruited for 16 units of Cybermetal. {{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}
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==Toys==
===Generation 1===
[[File:G1 Tailgate toy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|White Rider.]]
*'''Tailgate''' (Mini Vehicle, [[1986]])
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-61'''

:Tailgate is a white-and-blue [[retool]]ing of the 1984 Autobot, [[Windcharger (G1)#Generation 1|Windcharger]], transforming into a Pontiac Firebird Trans Am sports car. His head sculpt is much more elaborate than the earlier toy's (which shared the ''[[Micro Change|Microchange]]'' sculpt), and his chest sticker bears an odd resemblance to a portable radio.

:The original version of this mold was used by [[Camaro]] and [[Rook (Universe)|Rook]], as well as the Mexican versions (yes, plural) of Tailgate, which were only redecos of Windcharger. Tailgate's toy was also used as the non-toy comic model for [[Wipe-Out]].

::*''[http://www.transformerland.com/wiki/toy-info/transformers-g1-mini-vehicles-tailgate/1179/ Patent info, price guide, and further reading on Tailgate at Transformerland.com]''
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1986/Autobot/Tailgate/tailgate.htm More information on Tailgate at TFU.info]''
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===Encore===
[[File:Encore Tailgate.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Immediately, something like scales fell from Tailgate's eyes, and he could see again.]]
*'''Bumble & Minibots''' (Multi-pack, [[2008]])
**''Encore number'': '''10'''

:In 2008, Tailgate was reissued in the ''[[Transformers Encore|Encore]]'' line, bundled with [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#Encore|Bumblebee]], [[Pipes (G1)#Encore|Pipes]], [[Swerve (G1)#Encore|Swerve]], and [[Outback (G1)#Encore|Outback]]. This version of Tailgate has extra paint details on his face.
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===Generations===
[[File:Generationstoy-Tailgate.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Autobot Tailgate & Groundbuster''' (Legends Class, [[2014]])
**''Series / Number'': '''02 / #008'''

:Part of the sixth wave of [[2012]]-onwards ''[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]]'' [[Legends Class (2005)|Legends Class]] toys, ''[[Thrilling 30]]'' "Autobot Tailgate" is a new mold that's roughly the size of a ''[[Cyberverse]]'' Commander Class toy. He transforms from a white muscle car into a [[robot mode]] largely based on [[Nick Roche]]'s design for [[IDW Publishing|IDW's]] ''[[The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More than Meets the Eye]]'' comic, with some blue flame-decals on his hood likely inspired by his ''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Prime]]'' [[Tailgate (Prime)|counterpart]]. He comes with [[Neutro#Generations|Groundbuster]] (based on the [[Micromaster]] Neutro), who transforms into a robot, a bomb disposal skid loader,<ref>[http://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/96686-generations-legends-targetmaster-moulds/?p=2423893 Designer Joe Kyde on "The Allspark" messageboard]</ref> and an extended claw for Tailgate to wield via its [[5mm post]], or mount onto the peg-hole on Tailgate's hood in vehicle mode.

:This mold was retooled into ''Generations'' [[Windcharger (G1)#Generations|Windcharger]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2014/Autobot/GenTailgate/tailgate.htm More information on ''Generations'' Tailgate at TFU.info]''
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===Legends===
*'''Swerve & Tailgate''' (Multi-pack, [[January 24|1-24]]-[[2015]])
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''LG08'''

:''[[Transformers Legends (franchise)|Legends]]'' Tailgate is a redeco of ''Generations'' Tailgate with a closer resemblance to his original toy, with changes such as a darker shade of teal, an Autobot sigil on his stomach and black car mode windows. He also lacks the flame deco on his hood but instead features a silver-painted grill. Tailgate and Groundbuster were sold exclusively in a two-pack with [[Swerve (G1)#Legends|Swerve]] and [[Phaser#Legends|Phaser]].

==Notes==
[[File:ToyFair1986-TFpage01a-TailgateHubCap.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Little. Yellow. Different.]]
*In the pre-[[Toy Fair 1986]] catalog, Tailgate is featured with a yellow car body, a black chest/torso, and a red face. Fellow 1986 [[Mini Vehicle]] [[Hubcap (G1)|Hubcap]] is featured with a white car body. Hmmmmm.
*While Tailgate did not appear himself in the [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]] [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|US comics]], [[Wipe-Out]]'s [[character model]] was based on Tailgate's toy.
*Fan speculation about Tailgate's gender—always presented as male—broke out across Tumblr (because ''of course'') when a ''[[The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More than Meets the Eye]]'' promo called him [[:File:MTMTEpromo tailgate.jpg|"The Ingenue"]], a term for a ''female'' stock character.<ref>As debated [http://konora.tumblr.com/post/84182229574 here], [http://konora.tumblr.com/post/84182229574 here], [http://raelling.tumblr.com/post/84200154095 here]...</ref> This was ''completely'' unintentional but Roberts was "pleased" to find out what he'd accidentally done.<ref>[http://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2015/02/26/james-roberts-on-idws-transformers-more-that-meets-the-eye/ Women Write About Comics: "James Roberts on IDW’s Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye" 18:00 - 18:08]</ref> He went on to approve of [[Susan Blu]] being cast as Tailgate in "[[Prevenge]]" when it was run by him pre-[[BotCon]] and say at an Autoassembly panel that he was convinced Tailgate's holoform was a girl baby. It can happen even though it's not on [[Hub Network|the Hub]]!

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Tailgate''' (テイルゲイト ''Teirugeito'')
*''French:'' '''Hayon''' (Canada)
*''Mandarin:'' '''Dǎngbǎn''' (挡板, "Tailgate")

==Footnotes==
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