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Wataru Takagi

2025-05-05T20:58:06Z

Trex2themax: Wrong name of show

[[Image:Takagi.jpg‎|right|250x|thumb|Oi Paul! BURN TO THE GROUND!]]
'''Wataru Takagi''' (高木渉 ''Takagi Wataru'', born [[July 25]], [[1966]]) is a Japanese voice actor . He works for the talent agency Arts Vision, and in terms of anime, he has played various roles such as Garrod Ran in ''After War Gundam X'', Rikdo Koshi in ''Excel Saga'', Crimson Rubeus in ''[[Stephanie Sheh|Sailor Moon R]]'', Eikichi Onidzuka in ''GTO'', Valgaav in ''Slayers Try'', Okuyasu Nijimura in ''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure'' and Genta Kojima (and himself) in ''Case Closed''/''Detective Conan''. In video games, he was formerly the voice of Zangief and [[Ryu]] (among others) and is currently the voice of Hugo in Capcom's ''Street Fighter'' franchise, reprised his role as Garrod Ran for the ''Super Robot Wars'' franchise, and voiced various ''Mega Man'' characters including Rush in ''Upon a Star'', Frost Man and Sword Man in ''8'', Douglas, Commander Yammark, and Infinity Mijinion in ''X6'', as well as [[Jack Merluzzi|Tornado Tonion]] and [[Peter von Gomm|Flame Hyenard]] in ''X7''.

He is ''very'' popular when it comes to dubbing American films and TV shows, primarily because of he can pull off an American accent. Takagi is the official dub voice for Chris Rock, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Jack Black (the ''American Pie'' series, ''Goosebumps'', etc.), and he's also played Dobby in the ''Harry Potter'' film series and Paul Allen in ''American Psycho''.

So far as cartoons go, he has played Flim in ''[[My Little Pony|My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'', Eddy in ''Ed, Edd & Eddy'', Zach in ''Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?'', Dr. Blowhole in ''The Penguins of Madagascar'', Iceman in ''[[Spider-Man]] & his Amazing Friends'' and the Toon Disney dub of [[Saban]]'s ''[[X-Men]]'' as well Henry Peter Gyrich in the [[TV Tokyo]] version and is the current voice of Daffy Duck in all ''Looney Tunes'' media.

==Roles==
===''Beast Wars''===
*[[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetus]]

===''Beast Wars Metals''===
*Cheetus
*[[Teletraan I|Cyberguard]] ([[Proving Grounds (BW)|#45]], only)
*[[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron (Generation 1)]]

===''Beast Wars Metals 64''===
*Cheetus

===''Beast Wars Metals: Clash! Intense Battle''===
*Cheetus

===''Beast Wars Returns''===
*Cheetus

===''Transformers'' (2007)===
*[[Glen Whitmann]]

===''Transformers Animated''===
*[[Jetstorm (Animated)|Jetstorm]]
*[[Safeguard (Animated)|Safeguard]]

===''Transformers Adventure''===
*[[Jazz (WFC)|Jazz]]

===''Transformers Cyberverse''===
*[[Cheetor (Cyberverse)|Cheetus]]

===''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Transformers: Beast Awakening]]''===
*[[Cheetor (ROTB)|Cheetor]]

===''Transformers: EarthSpark''===
*[[Laserbeak (ES)|Laserbeak]]

==External links==
* [http://www.artsvision.co.jp/data.php?id=601 Official profile] at Arts Vision (Japanese)
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0847085/ Wataru Takagi] at the Internet Movie Database
* [http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=1307 Wataru Takagi] at Anime News Network

[[Category:Japanese voice actors|Takagi, Wataru]]

Fairouz Ai

2025-04-01T12:42:36Z

Trex2themax: She's back, and not under Racoon Dog anymore.

[[File:Fairouz_Ai.jpg|right|thumb|"I want to watch humans suffer...so my first act as prime minister will be to implement a 100 percent sales tax!"]]
'''Fairouz Ai''' (ファイルーズあい ''Fairūzu Ai'', born [[July 6]], [[1993]]) is a Japanese voice actress signed to the agency Maus, and is also known for being the first president. The anime roles she is most known for are Power in ''Chainsaw Man'', Jolyne Cujoh in ''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure'', Manatsu Natsuumi/Cure Summer in ''Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure'', Hibiki Sakura in ''How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift?'', Eripiyo in ''If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die'', and Ramona Flowers in ''Scott Pilgrim Takes Off''. Her roles in video games include Sei Shōnagon in ''Fate/Grand Order'', USS Intrepid in ''Azur Lane'', Phina in ''Fire Emblem Heroes'', and Iono in ''[[Pokeformers|Pokémon]] Masters EX'' and promotional material for ''Pokémon Scarlet'' and ''Violet''. Notable dubbing roles of hers include Selina Kyle/Catwoman in ''The [[Batman]]'', and Nakia Bahadir in ''Ms. Marvel''.

==Roles==
===''Transformers: Rise of the Beasts''===
*[[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]]

===''Transformers: EarthSpark''===
*[[Arcee (ES)|Arcee]]

==External links==
*[https://twitter.com/fairouzzzzzz Twitter page]
*[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=215531 Anime News Network entry]

[[Category: Japanese voice actors]]

Grimlock (G1)/toys

2024-02-24T18:20:57Z

Trex2themax: I don't really care, but that's not the name of the toy that it links to.

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[[File:G1 Grimlock boxart.jpg|upright=2.2|thumb|Me Grimlock have been shaking fists at uptight paleontologists since 1985.]]
Me [[Grimlock (G1)|'''Grimlock''']] have lots of toys and merchandise!
{{picsneeded|silver G2 toy, Decoy, Myclone}}

==Toys==
===''The Transformers''===
[[File:G1Grimlock toy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|And the debate goes on: "Me Grimlock am greatest warrior!" "No! Me Grimlock am greatest warrior!"]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Grimlock''' (Dinobot, [[1985]]/[[1986]]/[[1990]])}}</ul>
:*''Takara ID number'': '''26'''
:*''Accessories'': [[Energo weapon|energo sword]], "stunner" lasers, [[galaxial rocket launcher]], 3 [[Missile|rocket]]s
{{toydesigner|[[Kōjin Ōno]] (TakaraTomy), , [[Shōji Kawamori]] ([[Studio Nue]])}}

: Grimlock's toy was originally part of [[TakaraTomy|Takara]]'s ''[[Diaclone]]'' Dinosaur Robo series. When [[Hasbro]] imported the toy in 1985 for the ''Transformers'' line, its blue pelvis was changed to red, its sword was changed from chrome to flat red, the Diaclone driver mini-figure was dropped but still retained the cockpit though later releases had it permanently locked shut, and its teeth were altered [[for safety reasons]].

: The original Grimlock changes from robot into a robotic ''{{w|Tyrannosaurus}}'', and comes with a red [[energo weapon|energo-sword]], a black double-barreled rifle, and a rocket launcher with three silver rockets.

: In Japan, he and the other four Dinobots were offered as mail-away items during ''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Operation Combination (toyline)|Operation Combination]]''; Grimlock cost 2300 yen (his original retail price) and 2 [[Robot Point]]s.

::*''[http://www.transformerland.com/wiki/toy-info/transformers-g1-dinobots-grimlock/671/ Patent info, price guide, and further reading on Grimlock at Transformerland.com]''
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1985/Autobot/Grimlock/grimlock.htm More information on Generation 1 Grimlock at TFU.info]''
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[[File:G1toy VSY.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Grimlock vs Soundwave''' ([[1985]])
**''ID number:'' '''VSY'''
**''Accessories:'' Energo sword, "stunner" lasers, galaxial rocket launcher, 3 rockets

:Takara also released Grimlock in a "versus" [[Giftset|set]] along with [[Soundwave (G1)/toys|Soundwave]] and [[Frenzy (G1)/toys|Frenzy]]. The set also included a short storybook about those characters fighting, and an audiocassette narrating the storybook.

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[[File:G1-toy GrimlockPretender.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Me Grimlock have fleshy bits!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Grimlock''' ([[Classic Pretender]], [[1989]])}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': Pretender shell, helmet, "Atom-Smashing Submachine Gun", "rocket launcher" dino-tail

:The [[Classic Pretender]] version of Grimlock is much smaller, simplified and slightly modified, but still transforms into a robotic ''T. rex''. His dino tail becomes a rocket-launcher-gauntlet thing that can be held by either the inner robot or outer shell, but either way has got to be a ''bear'' to aim properly. He came with a large human [[Pretender]] shell with a rather knight-like armor theme, with a helmet and large cannon with a blade on the barrel, giving him a pseudo-sword.

:His shell's head looks a lot like a younger {{w|Ed Asner}}, and also bears a passing resemblence to his voice actor, [[Gregg Berger]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1989/Autobot/Grimlock/grimlock.htm More information on Pretender Grimlock at TFU.info]''

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[[File:GrimlockLegends toy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Me Grimlock say cut it out.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Grimlock''' ([[Legends (G1)|Legends]], 1989)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': "rocket launcher" dino-tail

:A [[Kmart]] [[exclusive]] in its [[Hasbro]] release, this version of Grimlock is simply the inner robot of his Classic Pretender form without the shell or its accessories, leaving him only his tail/gun.

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[[File:G1toy japanese legends giftset.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1d1|'''Hero Set''' (Multi-pack, 1989)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': Tail/gun

: In Japan, Legends Grimlock was available only in a boxed "Hero Set" with the Legends versions of [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#G1Legend|Bumblebee]], [[Jazz (G1)/toys#G1Legend|Jazz]] and [[Starscream (G1)/toys#G1Legend|Starscream]]. Grimlock was mostly unchanged from to the Hasbro release, but sported a silver painted face instead of Hasbro's orange painted one.

: In Italy, [[GiG]] released their own version of the Hero Set, named "Set Commandos", instead of the Classic Pretender versions of the toys. Grimlock, was renamed from "Tiran" to "Drago", originally the Italian name of [[Hot Spot (G1)|Hot Spot]]. The "Set Commandos" toys were identical to the Japanese "Hero Set" versions.

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[[File:G1-toy Grimlock AM.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|Me Grimlock make big deal out of this in comics.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Grimlock with anti-tank cannon''' (Action Master, [[1990]])}}</ul>
:*''Accessories:'' Anti-tank cannon partner, "[[particle beam cannon]]"

: Part of the initial assortment of carded [[Action Master]] figures, Grimlock is a 3¾-inch non-transforming posable action figure, his design combining his cartoon model with extra toy-based detailing. He is designed to be compatible with all other Action Master accessories and vehicles.

: He came with the [[Anti-tank cannon]] "partner" machine, which he can ride, though its fairly small size makes it so he has to squat to do so, which leaves him both very back-heavy and very funny-looking. The cannon can also unfold via spring-loaded [[gimmick]] to form a really ''big'' hand-held "long-range mortar launcher", completed by plugging Grimlock's "particle beam cannon" weapon into its barrel.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1990/Autobot/Grimlock/grimlock.htm More information on Action Master Grimlock at TFU.info]''

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<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Grimlock''' (Dinobot, 1991)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': [[Energo weapon|'Energo' sword]], twin 'stunner' laser rifle, galaxial rocket launcher, 3 rockets

:Grimlock's original toy was reissued in the European/Australian-exclusive "[[Classics (Europe)|Classics]]" series, with the minor change that his missiles were noticeably shortened - probably for safety reasons about 5 mm was cut off from the tip, leaving them blunt. In Greece, these releases were added to re-releases of the [[Defensor (G1)#Toys|Defensor]] and [[Devastator (G1)/toys#Toys|Devastator]] [[giftsets]].
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===''Generation 2''===
[[File:G2GrimlockBlue.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Me am Blue! Me am Blue! You could be too! ''(Blue variant pictured)'']]
[[File:TF-G2-Turquoise-Grimlock.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|''(Turquoise variant pictured)'']]
*'''Grimlock''' (Dinobot, [[1993]])
**''Accessories:'' 'Energo' sword, twin 'stunner' laser rifle,

:Grimlock's original toy was [[redeco]]ed for release in ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|Generation 2]]'', this time lacking the missile launcher accessory. He was available in three different colors; the first—and rarest—in his original silver (the easiest way to spot if this is a ''Generation 2'' or original is by the "Autobot" [[tampograph]] on his leg), then in a medium turquoise-blue, and finally (and most commonly) in a dark blue.

{{note|Grimlock outranked Optimus Prime in the Generation 2 toyline! Prime had a rank of 9.}}

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1993/Autobot/Grimlock/grimlcok.htm More information on ''Generation 2'' Grimlock at TFU.info]''
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===''Beast Wars''===
[[File:BWtoy-Grimlock.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|[[Ben Yee]] think me Grimlock look like dalmatian... :(]]
*'''Grimlock''' (Deluxe Class, [[1997]])
**''Accessories:'' "[[Cyber-slash tail weapon|Spinning slasher sword]]", tail-bone-sword

:The only new toy in the third wave of second-year ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (toyline)|Beast Wars]]'' Deluxes, Grimlock is a [[redeco]] of [[Dinobot (BW)/toys#Toys|Dinobot]] in gray and gold with dark blue spots, transforming into a "raptor" of some variety. His tail detaches and separates to form a gear-powered, spinning blade weapon, while the central "tail bone" separates to be used as a sword. The entire assembly can store in [[robot mode]] by flipping down the tail-mount and pegging the blade's base to the peg on his lower back. He also has a "mutant mask", halves of a dino-skull that flip up to cover his more robotic head. Thankfully these pieces are not pinned in, and can be easily removed for better clearance. He was also slightly [[retool]]ed from the original mold to have ratcheting shoulders and space for an "energon chip" [[rubsign]].

: Grimlock is extra-notable for suffering from [[Gold Plastic Syndrome]], making his hip-joints in particular prone to snapping off. Grim.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1997/Maximal/Grimlock/grimlock.htm More information on ''Beast Wars'' Grimlock at TFU.info]''
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===''Alternators''===
{{anchor|Alternators/Binaltech}}
[[File:AlternatorsGrimlock toy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Me Grimlock no can munch metal, but can burn rubber!]]
* '''Grimlock''' (2005)
**''Alternator ID number:'' '''9'''
**''Binaltech ID number:'' '''BT-10'''
**''Accessories:'' Engine/gun, energo-sword
{{toydesigner|[[Mark McCall]] (Hasbro), [[Takashi Kunihiro]] (TakaraTomy)}}

: For the ''[[Transformers: Alternators|Alternators]]'' line, Grimlock's [[alternate mode]] was changed from a dinosaur into a [[licensed vehicle alternate modes|licensed]], 1:24 scale silver {{w|Ford Mustang}} with opening doors, hood, and trunk, a detailed interior, [[rubber tires]] and a working steering mechanism. His engine transforms into a double-barreled gun, and he also carries an orange "energo-sword" which can attach to the underside of his vehicle mode. The toy is one of the most-complained-about ''Alternators'' toys, due to its notoriously finicky transformation (with many small steps that must be performed in exactly the right order) and to several pieces which have a tendency to pop off with relatively small amounts of force. And it's a Grimlock who doesn't transform into a ''Tyrannosaurus rex.

: The main difference between Hasbro's ''Alternators'' version of the toy and the Japanese ''Binaltech'' version is that the latter has its vehicle shell partially made out of painted [[die-cast]] metal parts, whereas the ''Alternators'' version is made entirely out of plastic (not counting the rubber tires). In addition, the ''Binaltech'' version's engine/gun and the wheel's rims are [[vacuum metallizing|vacuum-metalized]], whereas they're simply painted silver for the ''Alternators'' version.

:This sculpt was retooled into ''Alternators/Binaltech'' [[Wheeljack (G1)/toys#Alternators/Binaltech|Wheeljack]].

::*[[Source:Transformers Binaltech bios#10|Archive of ''Binaltech'' Grimlock's bio and tech specs]]
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2005/Autobot/AltGrimlock/grimlock.htm More information on ''Alternators'' Grimlock at TFU.info]''
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===''Classics''===
[[File:Class06-toy Grimlock.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Me Grimlock want to try new appearance, how me look in thigh high boots and stiletto heels?]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Grimlock''' (Deluxe, 2006)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': Missile launcher, missile, tail/lash
{{toydesigner|[[Eric Siebenaler]] (Hasbro), [[Takio Ejima]] (TakaraTomy)|[[Joe Kyde]] (deco artist), [[Don Figueroa]] (concept artist)}}

: Part of the first wave of ''[[Transformers: Classics|Classics]]'' Deluxes, Grimlock once again transforms into a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', but he has been heavily re-imagined in both modes, with his dino form designed to run rather than tail-drag (theories on the ''T. rex'' having changed from "caveman adversary" to "Carl Lewis in lizard skin" since the Generation 1 incarnation).

: This mold features a few design elements likely influenced by Grimlock's Pretender toy; his bayonet blaster is an homage to his gun/blade combo weapon from said toy, and his heavily-jointed tail detaches to become a handheld weapon as it does for the inner robot of his Pretender toy. Another similarity is the ''T. rex''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s upper-body forming the [[robot mode]] legs (though the ''T. rex'' head forms his feet this time around).

: Grimlock's bayonet blaster (dubbed the "[[Guardian Blaster]]" in his [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 13|TFCC profile]]) can be deployed in either mode and fires a clear red projectile. Both weapons can be stored on his back when not used. As with most ''Classics'' toys, Grimlock features a heat-sensitive [[rubsign]], placed on the left side of the tyrannosaurus torso/his left leg.

: A common issue with the figure is the size of the peg that locks his arms in place being too small in relation to the peg-hole, making it difficult to keep transformed. The black shoulder flaps above this assembly are meant to tab into these and lock the whole thing together, but the flaps don't align properly and the tabs themselves are too short to even reach the slots. In addition, the bayonet blaster has a hair-trigger and his fist holes are a few fractions of a millimeter too small to accommodate standard [[5 mm post]] accessories that most modern ''Transformers'' toys use.

: An unpainted ''Classics'' Grimlock was used at the [[BotCon 2007]] customization classes to create ''[[Transformers Timelines (toyline)|Timelines]]'' [[Overkill (G1)#Timelines|Overkill]]. The mold was also [[redeco]]ed to make [[Grimlock (SG)#Toys|''Shattered Glass'' Grimlock]] and [[Transformers: Universe (2008 franchise)|''Universe'' (2008)]] [[Overkill_(G1)#Universe_.282008.29|Overkill]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2006/Autobot/ClassicsGrimlock/grimlock.htm More information on ''Classics'' Grimlock at TFU.info]''
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<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Jetfire and Grimlock Twin Pack''' (2-pack, 2007)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': Missile launcher, missile, removable tail

:''Classics'' Grimlock was also available in Asian markets in a two-pack with [[Jetfire (G1)/toys#Grimlock2pack|''Classics'' Jetfire]]. Both toys are identical to their normal individual releases.
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===''Titanium Series''===
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[[File:TitaniumWarWithin Grimlock.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Me Grimlock turn into tank? Me mash brains with style!]]
*'''Grimlock''' (6" Cybertron Heroes, 2008)
**''Accessories:'' Gun, Energo-sword

:Based upon his appearance from ''[[Transformers: The War Within|The War Within]]'', this version of Grimlock transforms into a Cybertronic heavy tank. This transforming partly die-cast and plastic Grimlock was initially unreleased due to the cancellation of the ''Transformers'' series of ''Titanium'' toys at retail (the line would continue on for ''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]'' at the three-inch scale). The toy was eventually released in the fall of 2008 as a Toys-R-Us exclusive, alongside the also-almost-unreleased War Within [[Prowl (G1)/toys#Titanium Series|Prowl]].

:He includes a cannon and his trademark sword. In vehicle mode, the sword can peg onto the side of his rear treads, while the cannon can peg into the back of the cabin. The cannon has a joint on its connector so it can swivel around.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Autobot/TitGrimlock/grimlock.htm More information on ''Titanium'' Cybertron Heroes Grimlock at TFU.info]''
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===''Henkei! Henkei!''===
[[File:TakaraTomy-Henkei!Henkei!-C-03-Grimlock.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Witness me Grimlock, shiny and chrome!]]
*'''Grimlock''' (Deluxe, 2008-[[March 13|03-13]])
**''ID number:'' '''C-03'''
**''Accessories:'' Missile launcher, missile, removable tail

: ''[[Henkei! Henkei! Transformers (toyline)|Henkei! Henkei!]]'' Grimlock is an extensive redeco of ''Classics'' Grimlock, with generally more intricate paint detailing to make him more closely resemble the ''Generation 1'' toy. As with all ''Henkei'' toys, he lacks the heat sensitive rubsign seen on the ''Classics'' release, and instead features vacuum-metalized "chromed" plastic (in a similar [[gimmick]] to the ''Beast Wars'' [[Transmetal]]s toys). The vac-metal is used on his [[beast mode]] feet, as well as the ''Tyrannosaurus'' torso, which was, oddly enough, in Hasbro's original deco plan for ''Classics'' Grimlock.
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===''Masterpiece''===
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[[File:Grimlock Masterpiece.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Me Grimlock be smaller than Prime, but me Grimlock more expensive!]]
*'''Grimlock''' ([[March 26]], [[2009]])
**''ID number:'' '''MP-8'''
**''Accessories:'' Energo sword, twin 'stunner' lasers rifle, waiter apron, waiter bow tie, waiter tray, 7 unique waiter glasses, intelligence transfer helmet, crown (reissue exclusive), flame (reissue exclusive)
{{toydesigner|[[Hironori Kobayashi]] (TakaraTomy)|[[Hirofumi Ichikawa]] (concept artist)}}

: Released in March of 2009, ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' Grimlock is based upon his original toy and cartoon model, transforming into an outdated view of the ''Tyrannosaurus'' rather than the more accurate depiction seen on ''Classics'' Grimlock. Of all the Masterpiece figures, Grimlock features both the least complex transformation, as well as the least deviation from his original toy's essential [[transformation|transformation scheme]].

: ''Masterpiece'' Grimlock features the usage of [[die-cast]] metal for his dinosaur mode's toes and an LED mounted within his right fist which illuminates both his gun's barrels and his sword. As a result of said mechanism, the only articulated part of his right hand is the thumb. Similarly his left hand is modeled much like [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|Masterpiece Starscream]]'s hands with the thumb and index finger fully articulated with the remaining fingers joined together. Possibly as a show of good faith regarding the sacrificed articulation, [[TakaraTomy]] designed his alternate mode's arms to be highly poseable, featuring full articulation of the claws with the arms themselves attached to the body with ball joints.

: He features many gimmicks, including the ability to change his eye color in either mode from red to blue with the flip of a switch found at the back of his head in robot mode, and by opening the top of his head in dino mode and switching the eyes around. This allows the owner the choice of representing the use of blue in the cartoon (and his IDW alternate mode) or the use of red in most other media, including his original toy. His tail is connected to his head, and by wiggling and moving it, the head rotates at the base of the neck. Pushing down on his torso in dinosaur mode makes his legs move up higher into his body, and as a result his head will look up. His alt mode's head features jaws that snap shut at the press of a button hidden on his cheek; in addition, it also has a tiny sculpted flame thrower in its mouth, but [[for safety reasons|for your safety]], it does not actually breathe fire (boo). Besides his weapons, he also comes with a cloth apron and bow tie to go with a drinks serving tray he carried in "[[Madman's Paradise]]", as well as the device he used to transfer his super-intelligence into [[Computron (G1)|Computron]] in "[[Grimlock's New Brain]]".

:When he was reissued, he came with a crown redecoed from the King Grimlock release and a new flame attachment to go over his sword.

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[[File:Masterpiecetoy-GrimlockKing.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Best accessory ever! Me Grimlock know you know it.]]
*'''King Grimlock''' (December, 2009)
**''ID number:'' '''MP-8X'''
**''Accessories:'' Energo sword, twin 'stunner' lasers rifle, crown

:King Grimlock is a redeco of the ''Masterpiece'' Grimlock with a color scheme based on his appearance in the [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|Generation 1 Marvel comic]]. All of his previously flat gray surfaces are coated in silver paint, his gold chrome is more vibrant, and his previously black plastic is now a dark blue in reference to the limited color palette of the Marvel Comics issues, and the colorless chrome used for his tail and arms is now a light blue chrome. He also features some different paint applications: on his dinosaur chest, inside the clear panel on his robot mode chest, and on his robot mode knees. In addition, his toes are now metallic yellow instead of metallic gray. He also lacks the faceplate paint of the original Masterpiece Grimlock. His sword is also tinted orange rather than neutral clear, and the clear panel on his chest is clear dark green plastic instead of neutral clear. Curiously what were the red eyes in dinosaur mode on the original ''Masterpiece'' Grimlock are now the blue eyes on King Grimlock, and the blue eyes are now the red. The product also features the crown worn by Grimlock in the comics instead of the accessories from the cartoon, such as the waiter apron or the glasses. The [[package art]] is drawn in an homage to the early style of ''The Transformers'' published by Marvel Comics, as well as a bilingual ''[[The Transformers Universe|Transformers Universe]]'' style [[bio]] on the back of the package.

:King Grimlock was only available via [[TakaraTomy Mall|Toy Hobby Market]], the official shopping site of TakaraTomy. Pre-orders were open through [[July 31]]st through [[September 11]]th 2009, with the toy shipping out in December.

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*'''Grimlock''' (2013)
**''Accessories:'' Energo sword, twin 'stunner' lasers rifle, crown

:Another release of the Masterpiece Grimlock figure, in conjunction with [[Cybertron Con]] alongside a redeco of ''[[Henkei! Henkei! Transformers (franchise)|Henkei! Henkei!]]'' [[Jetfire (G1)/toys#CC2013|Jetfire]]. Like Hasbro's previous 2010 release, includes all the accessories from the MP-08X "King" version with the figure in traditional Grimlock colors. Packaged in minimalist black and white Chinese-themed box.

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[[File:Masterpiece-grimlock-hasbro-2014.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Me Grimlock's legs backwards! Me need [[Ratchet (G1)|doctor]] to fix Grimlock's legs!]]
*'''Masterpiece Grimlock''' (2014)
**''ID number:'' '''MP-03'''
**''Accessories:'' Dinobot Crown of Leadership, sword, twin 'stunner' laser rifle

:(Yet) another Hasbro re-release of the figure, four years after the ''Transformers'' version (see below), ''again'' available as a [[Toys"R"Us]] exclusive.

:This figure was also available as a Toys"R"Us exclusive in many international Hasbro markets such as Canada, Australia, and Europe. Unusually for a Hasbro-branded release, if purchased through Toys"R"Us in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, or mainland China, or Toys Retailing in Thailand, this figure included a Hasbro Asia "Masterpiece King Grimlock" [[collector coin]].

:Oddly, the Hasbro stock photos display his dino-mode legs as being ''backwards''.
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===''Device Label''===
[[File:Device Label Grimlock.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Me Grimlock turn into computer-thingy... something not right.]]
*'''Device Grimlock''' (Device Label, 2009)

: Takara's ''[[Transformers Device Label|Device Label]]'' Grimlock transforms from a working USB laser mouse into a mechanoid raptor. He shares this mold with ''Device Label'' [[Trypticon_(G1)#Device_Label|Trypticon]].

: According to early [[BigBadToyStore]] solicitations, the mice were originally supposed to depict Generation 1 [[Overkill (G1)#Device Label|Overkill]] and ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]'' [[Dinobot (BW)/toys#Device Label|Dinobot]].
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===''Transformers'' (2010)===
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[[File:MPGrimlock Hasbro.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Beryllium baloney not included. Grimlock: 1. Slag: 0.]]
*'''Masterpiece Grimlock''' (2010)
**''Accessories:'' [[Dinobot Crown of Leadership]], sword, twin 'stunner' laser rifle

: [[Transformers (2010 toyline)|''Transformers'']] Grimlock is a [[Toys"R"Us]]-[[exclusive]] redeco and minor retool of ''Masterpiece'' Grimlock with King Grimlock's accessories (also redecoed). His gray is darker, he features additional painted details on his thighs, biceps, and waist to mimic label stickers included on the original 1985 figure, the dark gray painted details on his robot mode toes are now gold, the dinosaur mode's toenails are now coated in a thick gold paint rather than the polished golden look of the TakaraTomy version, and the red paint used on the metal area on his crotch is a lighter shade, matching the adjacent red plastic less.

:Grimlock's teeth and claws have been slightly rounded for this release.

:The stock photography to the right is mistransformed, depicting Grimlock's beast mode claws as pointing straight down (as they are in robot mode) instead of laying flat to the ground.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2010/Autobot/MasterpieceGrimlock/grimlock.htm More information on 2010 Masterpiece Grimlock at TFU.info]''
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===''Generations''===
[[File:Generations fall of cybertron voyager grimlock.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Talk about monkey paw wishes—the most [[geewun]] version of this mold is on the ''Age of Extinction'' Grimlock page.]]
*'''Grimlock''' (Voyager Class, 2012)
**''Series / number'': '''1 / #003'''
**''Accessories'': Sword, shield
{{note|''Fall of Cybertron'' [[Grimlock (WFC)#Generations|Grimlock]] was repurposed as Generation 1 Grimlock by ''Transformers Legends''.}}

:Part of the second wave of ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)|Generations]]'' Voyager Class toys, ''[[Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron]]'' Grimlock transforms into a robotic ''[[Popular beast alternate modes|Tyrannosaurus rex]]''. He comes with a sword with a [[5 mm post|5mm handle]] and a peg on either side of the hilt, as well as a shield which can mount via its single peg. Grimlock features 5mm ports for his hands, as well as on his forearms/lower dino legs and shoulders/dino hips. Interestingly, the hollow sides of his dinosaur arms feature [[Cyberverse (toyline)|Cyberverse]]-compatible [[C joint|3mm ports]].

:His main [[gimmick]]s, however, are that he has a light in his dinosaur mouth, and a chomping dinosaur jaw. When a lever behind his dino head is pulled, his mouth opens, and the light turns on, strongly illuminating his head. This gimmick can also be used in robot mode, as his dino head ends up inside his hollow chest, although it's not as effective. The [[insignia]] on his chest is the Lightning Strike Coalition variant of the Autobrand.

:This toy was [[redeco]]ed for all the other versions of ''Fall of Cybertron'' Grimlock, but was also used for ''Age of Extinction'' [[Grimlock (AOE)#Voyager Class toys|Grimlock]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2013/Autobot/FOCGrimlock/grimlock.htm More information on ''Generations'' Grimlock at TFU.info]''
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===''Age of Extinction''===
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[[File:AOEtoy-1984Grimlock.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Me Grimlock feel like me once had [[Mega-Dinobot|bigger purpose in life]]...]]
*'''Grimlock''' (Evolution 2-Pack, 2014)
**'''24 OF 30'''
**''TakaraTomy release date'': '''[[2014]]-[[August 3|08-03]]'''
**''Accessories:'' Sword

: Available only at [[Toys"R"Us]] stores in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, this ''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (toyline)|Age of Extinction]]''-branded two-pack features "1984 Grimlock" in the form of a Generation 1-inspired redeco of ''[[Transformers: Energon (toyline)|Energon]]'' [[Grimlock (Energon)#Toys|Grimlock]]. The toy is slightly retooled to give it [[5 mm post|5mm ports]] in its hands, allowing it to hold the included redeco of [[Razorclaw (G1)|Generation 1 Razorclaw]]'s sword (not pictured in stock photography). Undocumented in the instructions, he can be combined with ''Energon'' [[Swoop (Energon)#Toys|Swoop]] to form an inter-continuity version of [[Mega-Dinobot]]. As an Evolution 2-Pack, Grimlock was packaged alongside an ''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (toyline)|Age of Extinction]]'' Voyager Class [[Grimlock (AOE)#TRUEvolution|Grimlock]] toy.

: The two-pack was one of the three Evolution 2-packs available as a Toys"R"Us exclusive in Japan, with no changes on the figures with an exception of the packaging, which the front box features Japanese translated versions of the English text, shrunken character renders for both Grimlocks, and a sticker on the back confirming that this was a Japanese release. The sword is also packaged on the center of the bubble, instead of hiding underneath it. This figure was also the first release of the [[Grimlock (Energon)#Toys|''Energon'' Grimlock]] mold in Japan.
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===''Transformers'' (2014)===
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[[File:TF2014toy-SDCCGrimlock.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Me Grimlock make the Bayformer style look ''good''!]]
*'''Dinobots Generation One 4-pack''' (Voyager, 2014)
**''Accessories:'' Mace head, mace shaft

:Available only as part of the [[Hasbro Toy Shop]] [[exclusive]] "Dinobots Generation One 4-pack" that was first made available at [[San Diego Comic-Con]] [[2014]], Grimlock is a redeco of the ''Age of Extinction'' Voyager Grimlock figure, and features heavy use of vacuum metalization, transparent plastic and paint applications to recreate the look of the Generation 1 Grimlock toy. He retains the mace accessory, and its head, or the entire weapon, can be attached to Grimlock's dinosaur mode tail. Grimlock was packaged with [[Swoop (G1)#SDCCDinobots|Strafe]], [[Snarl (G1)#SDCCDinobots|Snarl]], and [[Slag (G1)#SDCCDinobots|Slug]], and their box unfolds into a diorama of the crashed [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] in [[Mount St. Hilary]]. A similarly-themed toy of [[Slog (AOE)#Amazon|Sludge]] was released via Amazon in ''Age of Extinction'' packaging.

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[[File:TF2014toy-LegionGrimlock.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Me Grimlock get ''bad'' [[Beast (G1)|feelings]] about combining...]]
*'''Grimlock''' (Legion, 2014)

:Part of the Generation 1-inspired 2014 Legion Class assortment, Grimlock is a redeco of ''[[Cyberverse (toyline)|Cyberverse]]'' ''[[Beast Hunters (toyline)|Beast Hunters]]'' [[Rippersnapper (Prime)|Rippersnapper]], and transforms into a vaguely shark-like dragon, although his package art, recolored from the [[:File:MTMTE8 cvrRI.jpg|RI cover]] of [[Scavengers (Part 2): Who's Afraid of the DJD?|''More than Meets the Eye'' #8]], and the Hasbro website product description would have you believe that it's a mechanical ''T. rex''. Being the sixth use of the sculpt, it's starting to show instances of [[Mold#Deterioration|mold deterioration]], as several sections (such as the tabs that hold the robot mode torso together, or the parts of the beast mode neck formed by the robot mode feet) don't fit properly anymore.

:In the United States, Grimlock has thus far been found at Big Lots and Family Dollar stores. In Australia and Europe, he is available at general retail again, just like the previous [[wave]] of Legion Class figures. In 2015, he was re-released in redesigned packaging now resembling the currently released ''Combiner Wars''-era ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)|Generations]]''' packaging template, but replacing the name ''Generations'' with "Authentic Transformers".

:The [[stock photography|stock photo]] on the back of the packaging depicts him with ''Beast Hunters'' Cyberverse Commander Class [[Optimus Prime (WFC)/toys#BHCyberverse|Optimus Prime]]'s sword, which is also listed as an accessory in the Hasbro website product listing for this toy. The actual toy doesn't include a weapon. Furthermore, the [[instructions]] printed on the back of the packaging of the 2014 release are completely inaccurate, as they are for an [[Grimlock (AOE)#WalmartENmold|entirely different "Grimlock" toy]]! (This was fixed for the 2015 release.) Even if the instructions ''had'' been accurate, they probably wouldn't have mentioned that Grimlock can also form a leg of [[Abominus (Prime)#Beast Hunters|Abominus]] (or a combiner of his redecoes).
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===''Kre-O''===
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[[File:KreO-toy Grimlock Unleashed.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|The Lego Dino Attack line got '''''weird''''' after a while...]]
*'''Grimlock Unleashed''' (2014)
**''Set number'': '''A8600'''
**''Pieces'': '''333'''
**''Kreons'': [[Bumblebee (Movie)#Grimlock Unleashed|Bumblebee]], [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#Grimlock Unleashed|Galvatron]], Grimlock, [[Lockdown (ROTF)#Grimlock Unleashed|Lockdown]], [[Optimus Prime (Movie)#Grimlock Unleashed|Optimus Prime]]
**''Accessories'': Sword, crown

: Released in the fourth year of the ''[[Kre-O]]'' building-brick line, the ''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (franchise)| Age of Extinction]]''-themed "Grimlock Unleashed" set actually features a "Generation 1"-design large dino-mode Grimlock build. This massive beast uses multiple ball-and-socket joints to give it quite a range of posability, but unfortunately the build is a bit too heavy to keep any poses that aren't upright tail-dragging ones, plus his head is prone to drooping due to the weight of his skull in any position. The uneven and not-super-secure builds of his dino feet do not help.

: You could probably rebuild it into a robot mode, but there is no large pre-made Grimlock head to top it off, so you'll have to get creative or add more bricks to the set.

: The accompanying Gromlock [[Kreon]] is also based on the original [[The Transformers (toyline)|''Transformers'']] [[#The Transformers|Grimlock toy]], and even comes with an extra "crown" piece to place on his little rounded noggin, in tribute to his stint as Autobot leader in the Marvel comics. All of the other Kreons in the set, however, are based on their ''Age of Extinction'' namesakes.

: This set popped up at [[Toys"R"Us]] a few short weeks after the initial product without any advance warning... and retailed for a mere $25, despite the size of the set.

::*''[http://tfu.info/2014/Autobot/Kre-OGUGrimlock/grimlock.htm More information on Grimlock Unleashed Grimlock at TFU.info]''

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[[File:KreO-toy Grimlock C85.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|Don't you, forget about me, Grimlock.]]
*'''Kreon Class of 1985''' (Kreon figure set, [[2015]])
**''Set number'': '''B5152'''
**''Voted'': Me Best Looking
**''Accessories'': Sword, double-barreled blaster

: [[Kreon Class of '85]] Grimlock's deco is very much toy-based, but is ''not'' the same deco as the "Grimlock Unleashed" deco seen above. Which one is more "accurate" is kind of a toss-up, really. Weirdly, he ''doesn't'' use the Kreon sword that was based on the actual original Grimlock sword design, but does gain a toy-like twin-barreled blaster accessory.

: Like the rest of the set, he uses the almost-totally-[[retool]]ed 2015 style of Kreon body, making most of his parts incompatible with older Kreon parts.

: This box set of thirty Kreons was a [[San Diego Comic-Con]] 2015 [[exclusive]], with leftovers being sold on [[Hasbro Toy Shop]] online after the show.

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[[File:Kre-O-Battle-Changers-Grimlock.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Time to play some foosball again.]]
* '''Grimlock''' (Battle Changers, 2015)
**''Set number'': '''B0718'''
**''Pieces'': '''82'''
**''Accessories'': Energon-Sword

: Part of the "Battle Changers" series, released i n the line's fifth year, Battle Changers Grimlock transforms from a really badly-proportioned ''T. rex'' into a robot and back without removing any parts! His appearance is reminiscent of his Generation 1 counterpart, while the deco is based on his ''Age of Extinction'' counterpart's toys. Like all of the Battle Changers, Grimlock uses a new hip piece using larger balljoints than the normal Kreons. He also comes with a weapon that, once stickers are applied, resembles the sword used by ''[[Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron]]'' [[Grimlock (WFC)|Grimlock]], and can be wielded by his C-joint hands.

: All of the 2015 ''Transformers [[Kre-O]]'' product was skipped by retailers in the US (at first), seeing release in Canada, Australia and various Asian markets. In late 2015, much of the line was finally released at discount in the US through TJ Maxx and Marshalls stores, including this set.
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===''Hero Mashers''===
[[File:HM-toy Grimlock.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Me Grimlock no need robot mode! Me Grimlock king!]]
* '''Electronic Grimlock''' (Electronic Action, 2014)
**''Pieces'': '''18'''
**''Accessories'': Twin-cannon, left & right missile launchers, 2 missiles, left & right gun-pods, large rifle, flame-blast

: Part of the first (and only) wave of Electronic Action ''[[Hero Mashers]]'' toys, Grimlock is a non-transforming action figure with ratchet-joints... and considerably larger than any other figure in the line at that. His design is based on his ''Age of Extinction'' counterpart, but also takes some cues and the coloration from the Generation 1 version of the character. He has multiple peg-holes all over that can be used to mount any ''Hero Mashers'' accessory.

: He is designed with a removable head, forelimbs, thighs, lower legs, and tail, all of which use the same clip-peg/hole joint. This means his pieces can be swapped around in any order, as well as swapped with any other ''Hero Mashers'' figure... which includes figures from [[Marvel Comics]], ''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]'', and ''[[Jurassic Park|Jurassic World]]'', meaning you can make some pretty freaky combinations.

: His large size is augmented by a large number of accessories and gimmicks. The signature electronic aspect is a light-up mouth, used to illuminate his "flame blast" accessory, or any other transparent accessory you care to stuff into his gaping maw. He also comes with two spring-loaded missile launchers.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2014/Autobot/HMGrimlock/grimlock.htm More information on ''Hero Mashers'' Grimlock at TFU.info]''
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===''Platinum Edition''===
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[[File:Platinum-Edition-G1-Dinobots-Grimlock.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Me talk pretty one day!]]
*'''Dinobots''' (Platinum Edition 5-pack, 2015)
**''Accessories'': Two-piece spiked maul

:Part of the ''Generations [[Transformers: Platinum Edition|Platinum Edition]]'' Dinobots 5-pack, Grimlock is a redeco and retool of [[Grimlock (AOE)#Voyager Class toys|''Age of Extinction'' Voyager Class Grimlock]], sporting a Generation-1 inspired deco and a head. This release also suffers from a small degree of mold deterioration: the ''T. rex'' heels that connect with his forearms and the shoulders/''T. rex'' upper jaw halves seemed to connect loosely.

:Grimlock was bundled with Slug, Slog, Snarl, and Strafe.

: This set was initially released as a [[Toys"R"Us]] exclusive in Canada in October 2015, followed by Singapore a month later (although it's currently unknown whether it was exclusive to any particular store there or not). Much later, it became available via the Australian Toys"R"Us website (but never found in stores). In the United States, it was initally only available online via [[Amazon (website)|Amazon]] and [[BigBadToyStore]] before being found at discount chain Ross a year after its intial release in Canada.
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===''Cyber Series''===
[[File:Generations-Cyber-Battalion-Grimlock.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Me Grimlock having identity crisis!]]
*'''Grimlock''' (Cyber Battalion, 2015)

:Part of the first wave of ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)#PrimeWarsTrilogyAsian|Generations: Cyber Series]]'' Cyber Battalion class figures, this Voyager-sized mold of Grimlock transforms from robot to dinosaur and back. The figure has a far greater range of articulation than many other Cyber Series figure to date. A small switch on the back of his beast-mode head moves his jaw up and down.

:This version of Grimlock is a unique amalgamation of three versions of the character; the robot mode head, torso, and transformation scheme take cues from [[Grimlock (RID 2015)#Warrior Class|2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' Grimlock]], the coloration is borrowed from [[Grimlock (AOE)#Toys|the toys of the live-action movie Grimlock]], lastly the styling and (scientifically outdated) stance of the dinosaur mode resembles the classic G1 Grimlock look.

:Like all of the ''Cyber Series'' figures, Grimlock initially did not get distribution in the United States, but has been reported showing up in Asian markets and was also solicited to South America. Toy importers did stock this series in a limited capacity and they sold out quickly in 2015 and effectively disappeared at that time. The line was later distributed in larger quantities by [[Walgreens]] stores in parts of the United States.
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===''Q-Transformers''===
[[File:Q-transformers_grimlock.JPG|thumb|upright=1.66|Me Grimlock not cute!]]
*'''Grimlock''' ([[2016]])
**''ID number:'' '''QTF-10'''

:''[[Q-Transformers]]'' Grimlock was to be a retool of [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#Q-Transformers|Bumblebee]] with a new head, transforming from a [[super deformed]] 2014 Camaro Concept to a cute little robot. This toy was intended to be released in March 2016 and was first listed alongside other Q-Transformers like Ratchet and Ironhide who did end up in stores, however Grimlock was ultimately cancelled.

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===''Titans Return''===
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[[File:TitansReturntoy-Clobber.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Now me Grimlock can take any form me want! Tank, dragon, car, me Grimlock do it all!]]
*'''Clobber''' (Titan Master, 2016)
**''Accessories:'' Dragon/bird/gun accessory
{{toydesigner|[[John Warden]] (Hasbro)}}

:Part of the second wave of ''[[Titans Return (toyline)|Titans Return]]'' [[Titan Master]]s, Clobber is a retool of [[Squeezeplay (G1)#Titans Return|Crashbash]] and transforms from a robot into a head compatible with any Deluxe-or-larger figure in the line. Clobber features a new head piece based on Generation 1 Grimlock's animation model. [[Hasbro]] stated at [[BotCon 2016]] that Clobber ''is'' Grimlock himself, leaving the reasons for his name unclear, but some kind of attempt to avoid confusion with the contemporaneous ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Grimlock (RID 2015)|character]] seems a likely explanation. Clobber features peg holes in his feet to allow him to stand on a variety of ''Titans Return'' figures, and is packaged with a beast accessory with three modes: a dragon for Clobber to ride, a ''T. rex'' formed by combining with Clobber, or a 5mm-compatible gun for larger figures. His new face piece was molded in black plastic, rather than gunmetal. Clobber gives his larger partners super strength.

:As with Crashbash, Clobber's instructions feature the same error for steps 6(5)-8(7).

:The beast accessory released with Clobber also has more than a passing resemblance to [[Snarl (G1)#AM|Snarl]]'s [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobot]] [[Action Master partner]] [[Tyrannitron]], though, whether this was an intentional nod or just pure coincidence, is yet to be seen.

:This toy also doubles as the independent ''[[Beast Wars: Uprising]]'' character [[Clobber (BWU)|Clobber]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2016/Autobot/TRClobber/clobber.htm More information on ''Titans Return'' Clobber at TFU.info]''
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===''Legends''===
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[[File:TF-Legends-LG-EX-Headmaster-Set-Grimlock.jpg|thumb|WHERE IS CLOB...no, WHERE ME GRIMLOCK'S BODY GO?]]
*'''Headmaster Set''' ([[2017]]-[[February 19|02-19]])
**''ID Number'': '''LG-EX'''

:Released as a Wonder Festival 2017 exclusive, this Grimlock is a redeco of the ''Titans Return'' [[#Clobber|Clobber]] head, featuring plastic color changes and extensive paint apps to resemble his appearance in the cartoon.

:Grimlock is released along with "[[Stylor#Legends|Chromedome]]", [[Brawn (G1)/toys#Legends|Gong]], "[[Duros#Legends|Hardhead]]", [[Flywheels#Legends|Flywheel]], and "[[Arcana#Legends|Brainstorm]]".
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===''Power of the Primes''===
[[File:PotP Grimlock.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.66|Bandicoots! Me Grimlock can squash Bandicoots.]]
*'''Dinobot Grimlock''' (Voyager Class, 2018)
**''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''PP-15'''
**''TakaraTomy release date'': '''[[2018]]-[[June 30|06-30]]'''
**''Accessories'': 2 Prime Armor/combiner feet, [[Enigma of Combination#Generations|Dinobot Enigma]]
{{toydesigner|[[John Warden]] (Hasbro)|[[Robby Musso]] (concept artist)}}

:''[[Power of the Primes (toyline)|Power of the Primes]]'' "Dinobot Grimlock" transforms into a very Generation 1-inspired, wide-hipped robotic ''Tyrannosaurus rex''. He can combine with his fellow Dinobots to form [[Volcanicus (POTP)#Toys|Volcanicus]] and can attach any ''[[Combiner Wars (toyline)|Combiner Wars]]''-style Deluxe Class figure. Like the other Dinobots in this subline, he features translucent plastic with gold paint on the inside to give him a 'layered' look reminiscent of [[#Generation 1|his original toy]]. He also includes two pieces of Prime Armor that each can hold a [[Prime Master#Toys|Prime Master]] (and by extension, an [[Enigma of Combination#Generations|Enigma]] or [[Matrix of Leadership/toys#Power of the Primes|Matrix core]]) and attach to his forearms as battle claws. These also double as feet for Volcanicus. Like all the other Voyager Class figures, Grimlock includes an Enigma of Combination (dubbed the ''Dinobot Enigma''), based on a Prime Master, which can attach to him via the previously mentioned Prime Armor. In beast mode, he can carry an Enigma, Matrix core, or Prime Master ''in his mouth'', where Volcanicus's chest would be. If you're particularly creative, you could place a Matrix in his mouth.

:Though designated for a first quarter 2018 release, Grimlock's wave reached U.S. store shelves in December 2017.

:In China, Grimlock was also released along with the other four Deluxe Dinobots as a gift-set, exclusive to Hasbro China's TianMao site.<ref>https://detail.tmall.com/item.htm?id=559183834163&skuId=3853426938808</ref>
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===''Authentics''===
[[File:Authentics_7inch_Grimlock.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|{{w|Jurassic World|"She is learning where she fits on the food chain, and I'm not sure you want her to figure that out."}}]]
*'''Dinobot Grimlock''' (Alpha, 2018)
**''Accessories'': Dinosaur head, "wing" assembly

:Part of the first wave of ''[[Transformers Authentics|Authentics]]'' Alpha Class figures, "Dinobot Grimlock" is a simplified Voyager-sized toy based on his [[evergreen]] design. He transforms into a robotic ''T. rex'' in just seven steps. His "wings" and dinosaur head come detached in the packaging. Despite the figure's simple engineering, it features over 9 points of articulation. The fists have 5mm holes, though the toy itself comes with no weapons.

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[[File:TF-Authentics-5-Inch-Grimlock.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Me Grimlock's arms are flatter than a pancake!]]
*'''Dinobot Grimlock''' (Bravo, 2018)
:Released in wave 2 of ''Authentics'' Bravo class figures, this version of Grimlock is basically a downscaled version of the 7-inch figure to the size of a Commander/Legends/Scout Class toy, and his ''T. rex'' arms are permanently molded on his "wings"/dinosaur body. Grimlock's dinosaur head comes detached in the packaging. While the neck is painted gold unlike the 7-inch figure, the paint operations on Grimlock's robot torso, the robot legs, and the ''T. rex'' toes are omitted.

:This Grimlock was first found at Australian shops. He was also available at some Malaysian Family Mart shops.

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[[File:TF-Authentics-Bravo-2024-Grimlock.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''Grimlock''' (Bravo, 2024)
**''Accessories:'' Blade/''T. rex'' tail
:One of the figures released in the 2024 ''Authentics'' line with simplified conversions, Grimlock transforms from robot to ''T. rex'' in six steps. Unlike the previous Bravo figure, Grimlock has greatly reduced articulation as well as lacking 5mm hands. The tip of his ''T. rex'' tail can be attached to his, err, "hands" as a bladed weapon of some sorts.

:This figure was first listed by the [https://hasbrostore.cl/product/transformers/9540-figura-de-accion-transformers-authentics-bravo-grimlock-5010996196149.html Chilean Hasbro store] website without prior announcements.

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[[File:TF-Authentics-Titan-Changer-Grimlock.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Why me Grimlock's back hurt?]]
*'''Grimlock''' (Titan Changer, 2020)

:Released in the second wave of ''Authentics'' Titan Changers, This Grimlock transforms from a thin robot into an oddly proportioned robotic ''T. rex''. The alt mode photo is mistransformed: His legs/T-rex back is supposed to collapse down properly.
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===''Generations Selects''===
[[File:TF-Generations-Selects-Grimlock.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.66|Me Grimlock don't have pesky stickers anymore! Now spend $207 on me Grimlock!]]
*'''Volcanicus''' (Gift set, [[February 27]], 2021)
**''Hasbro ID number:'' '''TT-GS11'''
** ''Accessories'': 2 guns, 2 swords, 2 "[[Magma Blade (GS)|Magma Blade]]s", 2 arm-mounted "Volca-Vulcan" cannons, twin 'stunner' laser rifle, 2 foot-plates, left & right fists

:''[[Generations Selects (toyline)|Generations Selects]]'' Grimlock is a redeco of his earlier ''[[Power of the Primes (toyline)|Power of the Primes]]'' toy, but now with a cartoon-inspired deco, which includes his blue visor. He STILL doesn't have his "Energo Sword", but he can more than compensate by using the newly-molded guns or even one of the two "Magma Blades" (based on the sword Volcanicus wields in ''[[Transformers: Earth Wars]]'', itself based on the one used by ''[[Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron]]'' [[Grimlock (G1)/toys#Generations|Grimlock]]) that the set comes with. [[TakaraTomy Mall]] gives this figure the [[Function|title]] "Dinobot Commander Grimlock".<ref>[https://takaratomymall.jp/shop/g/g4904810172079/ <nowiki>[Domestic: Limited to TAKARATOMY MALL]</nowiki> Transformer GENERATION SELECTS Volcanicas]</ref>

:The Magma Swords and Volca-Vulcan cannons can be plugged onto his dinosaur mode's back to create his "Wing Dragon Mode".
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===''Studio Series''===
[[File:SS-toy Grimlock 86.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Me Grimlock Hollywood star!]]
[[File:Studio-Series-86-Grimlock-early-stock.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|'''Left:''' ''Stock renders of the toy.'' '''Right:''' ''Hasbro stock photography depicting a [[prototype]] of the toy.'']]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|''' Grimlock & Autobot Wheelie''' (Leader Class, [[2021]])}}</ul>
:*''Movie'': '''''The Transformers: The Movie'''''
:*''Hasbro ID number'': '''86-06'''
:*''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''SS-64'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[May 29]], 2021
:*''Accessories'': [[Wheelie (G1)#Studio Series|Autobot Wheelie]], slingshot, Galaxial rocket launcher, "Mockery of Justice" backdrop
{{toydesigner|[[Evan Brooks]] (Hasbro), [[Shogo Hasui]] (TakaraTomy)|[[Marcelo Matere]] (packaging artist)}}

: Released to commemorate the 35th anniversary of ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'', ''[[Studio Series]]'' Grimlock is inspired by the ''Masterpiece'' figure, which hybridized the look of his appearance in [[The Transformers (cartoon)|the Generation 1 cartoon]] and his original toy, while sporting multiple aesthetic details unique to the ''Masterpiece'' toy. His blaster "stores" kind of awkwardly on his dino-mode back thanks to a pair of small tabs on the weapon.

: Grimlock has a number of design elements shared with the concurrently-running ''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' (which have continued to feature in the followup line ''[[Transformers: Legacy]]''). The figure was designed with the Trilogy's concerns for cartoon-based scale in mind, making him the tallest Leader Class figure in the format at the time. On top of that, he has numerous [[5 mm post]]-holes all over his body, making him compatible with [[C.O.M.B.A.T. System]] toys, and he also has [[Fire Blast effect]] posts on the ends of his blaster's barrels and on the inside of his dino-mouth so he can properly spew plastic flame.

: He also comes with a semi-posable, non-transformable figure of [[Wheelie (G1)#Studio Series|Wheelie]], designed to ride the Dinobot in both modes. In dino mode, small posts at the base of Grimlock's neck slot into grooves in Wheelie's ankles, securing the little Autobot in place. In robot mode, holes in Grimlock's shoulders match up with a peg on the back of Wheelie's left thigh, letting him sit securely there as well.

: Grimlock's colors were subject to multiple changes during development (see right). Physical samples were not shown on the [[October 16]]th [[Hasbro Pulse#Fan First Friday|Fan First Friday]] due to in-progress color changes by [[TakaraTomy]]. The original renders shown at the time had yellow parts, a clear chest panel, and an opaque dino neck, evoking the Generation 1 cartoon model. [[Hasbro]] stock photography somewhat reflected this, but the dino neck was made translucent-yellow instead to reveal inner details, much like the [[#The Transformers|Generation 1 toy]]. In the end, the final toy (used in TakaraTomy stock photography) featured gold paint instead of yellow, a translucent-black chest panel instead of clear (both of which closer evoke the original toy), and an opaque dino neck. Despite the translucent Generation 1 toy-styled neck feature being scrapped on the final toy, the neck halves are still molded in translucent plastic (the same translucent-black plastic used on his chest panel) and the detailed piece inside the neck assembly still remains, meaning one could remove the gold paint from the neck halves and salvage this feature for a more toy-accurate look.

: Like the other ''Studio Series'' toys, the interior of the package forms a diorama display for the figure. In this case, it is the Dinobots' famous (ahem) ''self-invited'' entrance at [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] and [[Kup (G1)|Kup]]'s execution.

: Grimlock was redecoed into ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)#Shattered Glass Collection|Shattered Glass Collection]]'' [[Grimlock (SG)#Shattered Glass Collection|Grimlock]] and the Toxitron Collection G2 Universe Grimlock. It was ''almost'' going to be retooled as a ''Legacy'' release of [[Deathsaurus (G1)|Deathsaurus]] until the success of his [[Star Saber (G1)#Legacy|nemesis']] HasLab campaign prompted the Decepticon Emperor of Destruction to be moved to be another [[Deathsaurus (G1)#Legacy|Haslab funded project]].
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===''War for Cybertron: Kingdom''===
[[File:WFC-Kingdom Voyager Maximal Grimlock.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Me Grimlock HATE gold plastic and dalmatian spots!]]
*'''Autobot Mirage & Maximal Grimlock''' (2-pack, [[2021]])
**''Hasbro ID number'': '''WFC-K40'''
**''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''KD EX-13'''
**''TakaraTomy release date'': [[January 29]], [[2022]]
**''Accessories'': [[Cyber-slash tail weapon#Generations|Cyber slash tail weapon]], sword
{{toydesigner|[[AJ Piejko-Brown]] (packaging)}}

:Released to commemorate the 25th anniversary of ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]'', ''[[War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Kingdom]]'' "Maximal Grimlock" is a retool of [[Dinobot (BW)/toys#Generations|Dinobot]] from the same line, transforming from a robot mode based on Dinobot's ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' cartoon appearance into a ''[[Jurassic Park]]''-accurate ''Velociraptor'' in 28 steps. Grimlock features a new head based directly on Grimlock's (and therefore, Dinobot's) original ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (toyline)|Beast Wars]]'' figure. Grimlock's hands have a [[5 mm post|5 mm port]] that can hold both his weapons and can close to hold objects. He also has 5 mm ports under his heels and one under his back-[[kibble]]. His tail can detach and split into two components: his Cyber Slash tail weapon, and his sword. If one chooses to, the 5 mm port on the hand or the hand's swivel joint can allow the Cyber Slash weapon to spin in his hand. The sword's tip is molded with the same texture as Grimlock's skin, presumably to better blend in as the tail tip in beast mode. Due to the Cyber Slash weapon connection, the sword cannot be held by other Transformers toys with traditional 5 mm port hands. The Cyber Slash weapon can store in robot mode by attaching to the same port as beast mode.

:Oddly for a modern ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)|Generations]]'' figure, Grimlock's ''Velociraptor'' mode features a deco that strays from the original ''Beast Wars'' toy and ''[[Transformers: Dinobots|Dinobots]]'' [[Grimlock (Dinobots)#Toys|Grimlock]]'s decoes and includes some particularly odd choices like leaving the fake "eyes" on the chest unpainted, but painting exactly ''half'' the knee section white, despite that portion being mostly concealed in beast mode.

:And in what can be considered a surprise, Grimlock is mentioned in Hasbro's official description for the figure to be inspired by the character's appearance in ''[[Beast Wars: Uprising]]''!<ref>[https://hasbropulse.com/products/transformers-generations-war-for-cybertron-kingdom-battle-across-time-collection-deluxe-wfc-k40-autobot-mirage-maximal-grimlock "Beast Wars: Uprising-inspired Maximal Grimlock toy converts from robot to raptor mode in 28 steps"]</ref> Even though his [[Beast mode#Beast Wars: Uprising|Beast Upgrade]] appearance was never shown.

:The nylon plastic used for Grimlock's shoulder joints, thigh joints, and forearms has been reported to yellow quickly over time.

:Revealed on [https://www.instagram.com/p/COvYKODJgGf/ #TransformersTuesday], Grimlock was released with [[Mirage (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Autobot Mirage]] as a part of the "Battle Across Time Collection". Though similar to the ''Siege'' "Final Strike Figure Series", being exclusive multi-packs with package art that combines into a larger piece, the "Battle Across Time Collection" label is printed on the box. The two-pack is exclusive to [[Amazon (website)|Amazon]] and [[Hasbro Pulse]] in the US, and in the UK on Hasbro Pulse and several online retailers. Initially set for a [[January 29]], [[2022]] release by TakaraTomy, the 2-pack was delayed to March 2022.
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===''War for Cybertron Trilogy''===
[[File:Behold Galvatron Grimlock.JPG|thumb|200px]]
* '''Behold, Galvatron! Unicron Companion Pack''' (Leader Class, 2022)
:''[[War for Cybertron Trilogy (toyline)|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]'' Grimlock is a non-transforming and immobile [[Slug figure|minifigure]], barely 10mm tall, scaled to interact with the immense [[Unicron/toys#War for Cybertron Trilogy|''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' Unicron]] figure and its clear display base. This was one of a set of 14 minifigures in the "Unicron Companion Pack" that was included with the [[Galvatron (G1)/toys#War_for_Cybertron_Trilogy|"reformatting" version of Galvatron]]. The set was [[exclusive]] to [[Hasbro Pulse]].
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===''Classic Heroes Team''===
[[File:Classic Heroes Team Rescan Grimlock toy.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Me Grimlock feeling cute, might delete later!]]
*'''Grimlock''' (All Star Rescan, [[2022]])
{{toydesigner|[[Marcelo Matere]] (packaging artist)}}

: ''[[Transformers: Classic Heroes Team|Classic Heroes Team]]'' Grimlock is a ''Rescue Bots''-style Rescan figure, featuring a simple conversion from robot mode to ''Tyrannosaurus rex''.
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===''Legacy''===
[[File:TF-Legacy-Core-Class-Grimlock.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Me Grimlock no want to be crummy leg, me want to be the head!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Grimlock''' (Core Class, [[2023]])}}</ul>
:*'''3 of 6: [[Volcanicus (POTP)#Legacy|Volcanicus]]'''
:*''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''TL-31'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[August 26]], 2023
:*''Accessories'': Tail gun
{{toydesigner|[[Evan Brooks]] (Hasbro), [[Shuhei Umezu]] and [[Shogo Hasui]] (TakaraTomy)}}<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/CjNwidkuAN4/ Design notes on the ''Legacy Evolution'' Dinobots] from [[Hasbro]] designer [[Evan Brooks]] on Instagram.</ref>

: Part of the second wave of ''[[Transformers: Legacy|Legacy: Evolution]]'' Core Class toys, Grimlock is a miniature version of the famous Dinobot leader, converting into a blocky ''Tyrannosaurus rex''. Part of his beast mode tail detaches to become a twin-barrelled gun in robot mode. Grimlock also forms the left leg for Volcanicus, the first combiner released within the Core Class scale. He's probably disappointed at not forming the torso... Similar to how [[Goryu (G1)|Goryu]] is the leader of the [[Dinoforce]], but only forms the left leg of [[Dinoking]]. Hmmm... Like Snarl, the underside of Grimlock's crotch features an H-shaped-ish port, most likely used for a foot panel like Monstructor/Dinoking does.

: Due to being connected with the frame that holds the dino body/arms and head, the combiner knee joint may cause it to bend up due to how (slightly) tight the construction is. While Grimlock's combiner peg can be attached to either of the thighs, he is ''only'' designed to attach to the left side, given the joint's placement, and the cavity on Grimlock's left robot foot providing clearance on the gestalt's thigh panels (the left half of Sludge's robot legs/rear tail).

: His stock photography is mistransformed, the legs can flip around to form a better-looking tail, reducing the amount of kibble hanging off his back section.

: Grimlock and the other Core Class figures from his wave arrived at US retail ''less than a week'' after their initial reveal.

::*''[https://www.instagram.com/p/CoLLERvuq_I/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D Designer commentary on ''Legacy'' Grimlock from Evan Brooks]''

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[[File:TF-Legacy-G2-Grimlock.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Me Grimlock a hideously deformed creature of superhuman size and strength!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a2|'''G2 Universe Grimlock''' (Leader Class, 2023)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': Double-barreled blaster
{{toydesigner|[[Evan Brooks]] (Hasbro)<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBqMyy6HYxE San Diego Comic-Con 2023 Generations panel recording] at the "Memo's collection" YouTube channel</ref>}}

: ''[[Transformers: Legacy#Walmart|Toxitron Collection]]'' "G2 Universe Grimlock" is a redeco of [[#Studio Series|''Studio Series'' Grimlock]], now featuring an eye-searing "tropical" striped color scheme. In keeping with the theme of the other members of this [[Walmart]]-exclusive collection, its colors are based off a redeco that had been proposed for the [[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|''Generation 2'' toyline]] but was ultimately never realized (see [[Grimlock (G1)/toys#Notes|Notes]]).

: This version of the mold leaves the translucent plastic on his dino mode neck unpainted, revealing some previously-unseen mechanical detailing, keeping the deco even more in-line with the original toy. It also lacks a [[Wheelie (G1)#Studio Series|Wheelie figure]], which is a pity because we ''really'' wanna know how that would have shaken out.

: This figure was revealed inadvertently by Hasbro, when they published a picture of its box in an announcement that was supposed to be about [[Toxitron (Universe)#Legacy|Toxitron]]. He was later spotted at a Walmart in Florida<ref>https://news.tfw2005.com/2023/07/14/transformers-legacy-toxitron-collection-g2-grimlock-sighted-at-us-retail-489573</ref>, prior to any official announcement by Hasbro.
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===Robosen Collector's Edition===
*'''Grimlock Auto-Converting Robot''' (2023)
**''Accessories:'' carrying case, galaxial rocket launcher, energon sword, crown, wall charger, USB-C to USB 2.0 cable, [[collector coin]]

:The third entry in Robosen's series of G1-style ''Transformers'' robots, this Grimlock is a highly-interactive, programmable transforming robot. Made with 85 microchips, 37 servo motors, and a 6-axis IMU, and capable of speaking over 150 voicelines (all newly-recorded by [[Gregg Berger]]), Grimlock straddles the line between "toy" and "high-end showroom electronics" like the other Robosen robots... though it ''definitely'' leans more towards the latter, given that Robosen not only touts Grimlock as "The World's First Dual-form, Bipedal Walking Robot," but his regular asking price is also an absurd '''$1700'''. Using either voice commands or a companion iOS/Android bluetooth app interface, users can control Grimlock's movements by either using pre-programmed commands or creating movement routines of their own. From an aesthetic perspective, on the other hand, this Grimlock is essentially a 15" tall upscale of his Masterpiece figure, down to various sculpted details that were seemingly recreated 1:1.

:Grimlock is primarily powered by an internal lithium ion battery, charged via a USB-C connection. Based on [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#Robosen Collector's Edition|Optimus Prime]], the LEDs for Grimlock's Galaxial Rocket Launcher and "energon sword" are likely powered by a replaceable CR 1220 3V battery.

:Like Optimus Prime before him, the voice command that triggers Grimlock's transformation is officially "[[convert]]", but "transform" works just the same. All told, Grimlock has 42 built-in voice commands he can respond to, from simple movement commands like turning left or right to actions like leaning forward and roaring in dino mode. Carried over from Robosen's [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#Robosen|Bumblebee]] is "mini-theater" mode, a selection of longer pre-programmed action sequences with matching sounds, with sequences featuring Grimlock either by himself or with other Robosen G1 robots available to pick from. Considering that Robosen continually rolled out new commands and firmware updates for Optimus Prime for months after his release with no clear end date, Grimlock will more than likely recieve additional commands for some time after his release.

:37 servo motors is definitely a ''lot'', but that effort was moreso put into ensuring Grimlock can transform and remain balanced while doing so – compared to contemporary 1st-party figures costing ''over a thousand dollars less'', Grimlock's robot mode lacks basic neck and wrist rotation, and his legs are incapable of rotating such that his feet can point any direction other than straight forward. Dino mode likewise has a notable sacrifice: while his ''T. rex'' neck can rotate a bit to the left or right and his head can look up and down, this comes at the cost of no arm articulation whatsoever.

:When asked to turn right or left in robot mode, Grimlock is not able to perform that action in two or three normal steps with ankle and hip rotation like a human would. He lacks any leg joints that rotate around a vertical axis, so for him to rotate his body to the right, he must perform a startling stutter shuffle move. He pushes one foot out slightly forward, the other foot slightly backward, and maintains that orientation while rapidly sliding his legs together and apart more than once per second until the asymmetrical rapid sliding friction of his feet against the floor eventually scoots him into facing a different direction. This movement can wear out the paint on his inner soles pretty fast, even on smoother surfaces.

:Sadly, Grimlock shares the same inability to stand in robot mode without power as Optimus Prime – when turned off, Grimlock will lean forward and rest his robot arms and legs on the ground. Dino mode fares better, as he ''will'' stay standing up when he's powered off... but as his joints have now gone limp, he's liable to tip or slouch at the slightest bit of disturbance, so if you do decide to put him on display in this mode, make sure he's somewhere ''very'' stable.

:Grimlock's pre-programmed animation set assumes his rocket launcher is in his right hand and his sword in his left. There aren't any sensors to detect whether they and/or the crown are in place, so it's best to avoid, say, <strike>transforming</strike> converting Grimlock while they're in place. On a lighter note, Grimlock is capable of wearing the crown in both modes, meaning it no matter whether he robot or dino – Grimlock always king!

:The app-controlled motion programming interface is extremely complex. The position of each joint at each step in an animation can be dictated either with numerical parameters, or by sensing the positions of the joints on the toy during programming. Many poses can be strung together to form long action sequences. The app uses long gamified sequences of tutorials to teach programming techniques and unlock more sound clips for use in more animations. Despite that available complexity though, there are some actions used by official animations that cannot be performed in customized sequences (if Optimus Prime is anything to go by, at least), such as a head nod or a full mode conversion.

:Given this piece's fragility, complexity, and high cost, it is appropriate that it is packaged in a heavy duty foam-padded carrying case, complete with clasps and a handle. But the case can't protect from paint wear issues that arise quickly via actual use. Grimlock's knuckles and feet will almost certainly instantly get severe scrape marks if he transforms on a rough surface like concrete, but even smooth unvarnished wood can wear the gloss off the paint before long. Even soft carpeting might not be safe, as some users of Optimus Prime have reported toppling issues due to a lack of traction. Grimlock ''is'' designed to be more stable thanks to his IMU, but heed caution all the same.

:Grimlock was revealed on [[Hasbro Pulse]] on July 19, 2023, with orders set to ship out from both Pulse and Robosen's own online store in late Fall 2023. When revealed, Grimlock was made available at a special introductory price of $1500; this is set to last until September 30, at which point his regular price will go into place.

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===''Generations Comic Edition''===
[[File:Generations comic edition grimlock.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|"Me Grimlock going to join the Blue Man Group!"]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Grimlock''' (2024)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories:'' Double-barreled blaster, 3 swords, [[Dinobot Crown of Leadership|crown]]

:''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)|Generations Comic Edition]]'' Grimlock is a redeco of [[#Studio Series|the ''Studio Series'' figure]], now colored to depict his appearance in the [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|original ''Transformers'' comic]] published by [[Marvel Comics]]. The figure comes in a display box featuring the cover of "[[Repeat Performance!]]." Grimlock includes [[Dinobot Crown of Leadership|his crown]] from the comic, as well as a set of three swords. One sword is based on Grimlock's original toy sword, and incorporates the chipped blade which only [[José Delbo]] drew. The other two swords are intended for the ''[[Studio Series]]'' releases of [[Sludge (G1)#Studio Series|Dinobot Sludge]] and [[Slag (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Dinobot Slug]], who do not come with swords.
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==Merchandise==
===''Decoy''===
*'''Grimlock''' (Decoy, 1986)
**''Decoy ID number:''

: Coming packaged at random on carded ''Transformers'' toys during 1986, ''[[Decoy]]'' Grimlock is a red soft-rubber figure depicting him in his robot mode.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1986/Autobot/Decoys/Grimlock/grimlock.htm More information on Decoy Grimlock at TFU.info]''

===''Super Collection Figure''===
[[File:SCF Grimlock.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Me Grimlock see dead people.]]
*'''Grimlock''' (March 2001)
**''Act'': '''2'''
**''Accessories'': Brainwave Transfer Device, stand

:A three-inch-tall [[plastic|PVC]] figurine of Grimlock's dinosaur mode was available in the second wave of [[TakaraTomy|Takara]]'s ''[[Heroes of Cybertron (toyline)|Super Collection Figure]]'' line. Like all the figures in the wave, it was available as both a standard full-color figure and a clear plastic version, one of each of which was available in a standard case of twelve [[blindpacking|blindpacked]] figures.

: He comes with the [[Brainwave Transfer Device]]<ref>Unnamed here, but later called as such on Takara's ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' Grimlock figure.</ref> seen in the cartoon episode "[[Grimlock's New Brain]]", which... ''can'' sit on his head, but it's not a great fit and falls off at the slightest provocation, especially if you keep the hose attached. Speaking of, in the color version of the figure, the post on top of the helmet may be painted over, making it too thick to fit into the ''very'' small hole in the hose.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2001/Cybertron/SCFGrimlock/grimlock.htm More information on ''Super Collection Figure'' Grimlock at TFU.info]''
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2001/Cybertron/ClearGrimlock/grimlock.htm More information on clear Grimlock at TFU.info]''

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[[File:SCF Grimlock metallic.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''Grimlock''' (September 2001)
**''Act'': '''4'''
**''Accessories'': Brainwave Transfer Device, stand

: The Grimlock PVC was re-released in the fourth act of the "Super Collection Figure" series, this time painted over entirely in metallics, with more toy-like gold replacing the yellow. He was available only as a rare "[[chase figure|Secret Figure]]", packed at a ''presumed'' ratio of one in every ten cases. (This ratio was given for Secret Figures in later Acts, and it seems unlikely it would change.)

: It is unknown if he replaced a random figure in the lucky case, or was a consistent replacement for a specific one.

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===''Heroes of Cybertron''===
[[File:HOC Grimlock.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Me Grimlock join Mechs Without Hats.]]
*'''Grimlock''' (2003)

: Part of the third wave of ''[[Heroes of Cybertron (toyline)|Heroes of Cybertron]]'', this version of the ''Super Collection Figure'' Grimlock mold was cast in translucent blue plastic and painted over, leaving his eyes and a stripe on the top of his head unpainted to attempt a [[light-piping]] gimmick. This version lacks the Brainwave Transfer Device from the Japanese release, which, let's be honest, was probably for the best.

: This toy was sold on a blister card rather than blindpacked, and a collector card of the character was included instead of the stand.
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===Hard Hero===
[[File:HardHero Grimlock bust.JPG|upright=1.2|thumb|'''ME GRIMLOCK DEMAND TO KNOW WHERE ME GRIMLOCK'S LEGS ARE!''']]
*'''Grimlock''' (2003)

: [[Hard Hero]]'s Grimlock is a 6.5 inches tall cold-cast porcelain bust, sculpted after his cartoon appearance (complete with blue eyes) and holding a white energo-sword in his right hand. The bust was limited to 2500 pieces, with an additional 100 being specially signed by sculptor [[Jason Ray]]. Grimlock was number 9 in Hard Hero's main series of ''Transformers'' busts.
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===''MyClone''===
*'''Grimlock''' (Takara, 2003)
** ''ID number:'' '''MTF015'''
** ''Accessories:'' Grey display stand
{{toydesigner|[[Kazutami Yasuhiko]] (TakaraTomy)}}

:Released in the second wave of the ''[[MyClone]]'' line of Transformers PVC figures, this [[super deformed]] Grimlock comes with a hexagonal grey display stand, which can link up with the identical stands included with other ''MyClone'' figures. His modular design allows his parts to be mixed and matched with those of any other ''MyClone'' figure, though he stands out as rather unique about the Transformers MyClones, as he's the only one in alternate mode.
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===''Generation 1 Figure-Collection''===
[[File:Bottlecap grimlock.JPG|thumb|Me Grimlock in black-and-white movie...me feel like [[Godzilla]]!]]
*'''Grimlock''' (2003)
**''ID number:'' '''C-5'''
**''Accessories:'' Display base

:At only one inch in height, this Grimlock "bottlecap" figurine (so named because its display base is the size of a bottlecap) was one of fourteen blindpacked figures available in Kabaya's Transformers [[Generation 1 Figure-Collection]]. The figure was rendered in a "retro" black and white color scheme, and came with a leaflet, personalized with cartoon screen captures.
::*''[http://snakas.web.fc2.com/misc_item/kabaya_bottle.htm More information on the Generation 1 collection at Autobase Aichi]''
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===''Titanium Series''===
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[[File:Titanium RM Grimlock.jpg|125px|thumb|Me Grimlock say boogie down!!]]
*'''Grimlock''' (3" Robot Masters, 2006)
**''Accessories:'' Gun, sword, Autobot stand

: ''[[Titanium Series]]'' Grimlock is a non-transforming, three inch die-cast metal figurine based on his toy and comic/cartoon model. He has very limited articulation, in his neck, waist and shoulders. Grimlock is posed squatting and/or dancing.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2006/Autobot/TitGrimlock/grimlock.htm More information on ''Titanium'' Robot Masters Grimlock at TFU.info]''
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[[File:Titanium cancelled figure checklist.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''Grimlock''' (unreleased)
:*''Accessories:'' Autobot stand?
:The final ''[[Titanium Series]]'' catalogue listed a number of "Micro Figures" intended for release, though many of them never saw the light of day. Right at the end of the checklist, after a number of current and (supposedly) upcoming 3" Robot Master toys, was Grimlock's name, with no further information or disambiguation. Was he to be a repaint? A new ''[[War Within (comic)|War Within]]'' or ''[[Transformers: Alternators|Alternators]]'' mold? Or was his name just a typographical error? This is just one of life's great mysteries.
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===''Attacktix''===
[[File:Attacktix Grimlock.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|Me Grimlock can't move. [[The Last Stand|Seem]] [[Blast from the Past|to]] [[Spotlight: Shockwave|happen]] [[Still Life!|a lot]].]]
*'''Grimlock''' (Booster, 2007)

:Attacktix Grimlock is depicted in his ''Tyrannosarus'' mode, and has a sculpt based heavily upon his original G1 toy. Pressing down on his back will cause his head to extend and presumably hit whatever he's facing.

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===''Transformers - Mini Bust''===
[[File:Grimlock Mini-bust.jpg|thumb|When me Grimlock get legs back, you in ''BIG TROUBLE!'']]
* '''Grimlock''' (Diamond Select, 2007)

: A mini-bust of Grimlock based on his appearance in the cartoon was released by Diamond Select in 2007. The figure includes the upper body of Grimlock, wielding his energo-sword, acting as if rushing into the battlefield. There is the head of his beast mode sculpted into the base of the statue.

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* '''War Within Grimlock''' (Diamond Select, 2007)

[[File:Grimlock sdcc.jpg|thumb|Me Grimlock say no fun to be exclusive all of time.]]
: War Within Grimlock was an Action Figure Xpress exclusive at the 2007 [[San Diego Comic-Con]]. He was sculpted by Chris Lee of Art Asylum and limited to 600 pieces. The sculpt features Grimlock holding his flaming sword. The front of his vehicle mode is sculpted onto the base of the bust.
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===''Robot Heroes''===
[[File:G1 RobotHeroes ShockwaveVsGrimlock.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Me Gwimwock no cutie, me king!]]
*'''Grimlock & Shockwave''' (Two-pack, 2007)
{{toydesigner|[[Bill Rawley]] (Hasbro)|[[Marcelo Matere]] (concept artist)}}

: Packed with [[Shockwave (G1)/toys#Robot Heroes|Shockwave]], ''[[Robot Heroes (toyline)|Robot Heroes]]'' Grimlock is a detailed two-inch tall soft-plastic figurine with exaggerated, cartoonish proportions and an amusing "raised eyebrow" look on his face. He is sculpted holding his sword in his right hand. He has swivel joints at his shoulders and neck. He brings cuddly wuddly death.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2007/Autobot/RHGrimlock/grimlock.htm More information on ''Robot Heroes'' Grimlock at TFU.info]''

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*'''Grimlock''' (Single-pack, 2008)

: In some countries outside of North America, Grimlock was released individually in a blindpack with no notable changes.
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===''3D Battle-Card Game''===
[[File:3DBattleCard Grimlock.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|A head to match his ego.]]
*'''Grimlock''' (2007)

: A 48-point "rare" character in the [[3D Battle-Card Game]]'s "Energon Wars" expansion, Grimlock "transforms" into a gray vague approximation of a ''T. rex''. He uses the same parts layout as [[Megatron (BW)/toys|Megatron]] and [[Cruellock]].
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===Sota Toys===
*'''Transformers Chess Set''' (<s>2007</s>)
:Two identical Grimlock pieces in dino mode were to be the Autobot-side Knights on a [[Chess#Sota Toys|chess set]] based on Generation 1, but the set apparently never saw release.
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===''Mighty Muggs''===
[[File:MightyMuggs Grimlock.jpg|thumb|Me Grimlock am huuge hit with lady-bots!]]
*'''Grimlock''' (2009)
**''Accessories:'' Energo-sword

: This [[super deformed]], non-transformable PVC figure uses the standard [[Mighty Muggs]] body template, with swivel joints in Grimlock's neck and arms. He comes with a similarly super-deformed version of his trademark energo-sword.

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[[File:MightyMuggs 2018 Grimlock.jpg|thumb|upright=1.55|Me Grimlock not appreciate recurring head trauma.]]
*'''Grimlock''' ([[2019]])
**''ID number:'' '''07'''

: Influenced by his [[evergreen]] design, this new Grimlock is part of the second wave of the line's 2018 relaunch. Gently push his precious little head to access one of three different faces: irritable, impatient, and incensed.
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===''Titan Warriors''===
*'''Titan Warrior 5-Pack''' (2013)
:Available at [[San Diego Comic-Con]] 2013, this Grimlock is a 6" PVC [[Titan Heroes|Titan Warrior]] figure (similar to Bandai's ''Ultra/Sentai/Rider Hero, Movie Monster Series'') with articulated arms. He was packed with [[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise#Titan Warriors|Optimus Prime]], [[Megatron (G1)/merchandise#Titan Warriors|Megatron]], [[Starscream (G1)/merchandise#Titan Warriors|Starscream]] and [[Soundwave (G1)/merchandise#Titan Warriors|Soundwave]]. Unlike the other four, Grimlock never received an individual release.
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===''The Loyal Subjects''===
*'''Grimlock''' (2013)
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*'''Grimlock w/ Dino Head''' (2014)
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*'''5.5" Grimlock''' (2014)
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*'''5.5" Grimlock w/ Dino Accessories''' (2014)
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*'''Cybertron Edition 2-Pack''' (2014)
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===''EX Gōkin''===
*'''Grimlock''' (2014)
**''Accessories:'' Two fists, two open hands, two gripping hands, energo-sword, stunner laser, galaxial rocket launcher, alternate head, display stand

: A 7-inch tall non-transforming Grimlock action figure was produced by [[Art Storm]] as part of their ''EX Gōkin Transformers Series'' line. He comes with a number of extra hands as well as the energo-sword, double-barreled rifle and (non-firing) rocket launcher of the original toy. While his mold and paint details are heavily based on the original Generation 1 Grimlock toy, his proportions are cartoon-based and he includes an alternate blue-eyed headsculpt based on his [[:File:Grimhead.JPG|early cartoon head]].

::*''[http://artstorm.co.jp/exgokin_transformersseries_grimlock.html More information on ''EX Gōkin'' Grimlock at Art Storm's official site]''
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===''Thrilling 30''===
*'''Grimlock''' (Collectible Figurine, 2014)
**''Series / Number:'' '''2 / #19'''
**''Accessories:'' Collector's base

:A super-deformed Grimlock was released among the blindpacked [[Thrilling 30#Collectible Figurines|''Thrilling 30'' Collectible Figurines]] by [[Goldie Marketing]]. He comes with a base to help him stand, a collector's card that doubles as a puzzle piece, and a checklist.

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*'''Collectible Figurines''' (5-pack, 2014)
**''Series:'' '''2'''
**''Accessories:'' 5 collector's bases

:The same Grimlock figurine was also available in a 5-pack alongside [[Bumblebee (G1)/merchandise#Thrilling 30|Bumblebee]], [[Shockwave (G1)/toys#Thrilling 30|Shockwave]], [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/merchandise#Thrilling 30|Ultra Magnus]] and [[Hot Rod (G1)/merchandise#Thrilling 30|Rodimus]].
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===''Tiny Titans''===
[[File:TinyTitans-Series6-Grimlock.jpg|right|thumb|Me Grimlock say don't eat yellow lightsaber!]]
*'''Grimlock''' (Tiny Titans, 2016)
**''Series'': '''6'''
**''Number'': '''10/12'''

: Part of the sixth and final assortment of ''[[Tiny Titans]]'' [[blindpacking|blindpacks]], this version of Grimlock is a very small, soft-plastic figure of him in robot mode.

: He includes a collectible card that renders him in the [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 franchise)|2015 ''Robots in Disguise'']] styling. The card includes a scan-badge for the [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (mobile game)|''Robots in Disguise'' mobile game]], which unlocks a random amount of Energon "currency" and a randomized bonus power-up item.
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===''Magic: The Gathering''===
[[File:MTG-Grimlock.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|"Tap for mana?" Me Grimlock no just tap, me smash!]]
*'''Grimlock, Dinobot Leader / Grimlock, Ferocious King''' (Hasbro and [[Wizards of the Coast|Wizards]], 2017)

: A [[HasCon 2017]] exclusive, this trading card was released as part of the "2017 ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' HasCon Collection" three-card promo set, alongside "[[Nerf]] War" and "Sword of Dungeons & Dragons" cards. The card is reversible, depicting Grimlock in robot mode on one side ("Dinobot Leader") and his alternate mode on the other ("Ferocious King"), with each side having different stats and abilities. Each side of the card's flavor text features a different Grimlock quote: one from ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'', and one from "[[Grimlock's New Brain]]". The card bears a silver border, indicating it is illegal to use in official ''Magic'' tournament play. Notably, unlike many similar cards, Grimlock doesn't "transform" to its other face, and instead is worded to "become" it, probably due for the sake of [[trademark]].
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===Kidrobot===
[[File:Kidrobot GIJoe Enamel Pin Series.jpg|thumb|250px]]
====Enamel Pin Series====
*'''Grimlock''' ([[November 3]], [[2017]])
:*''Rarity:'' 1 in 20
:Released by [[Kidrobot]] in their Enamel Pin Series, this is a flat, enamel pin badge of Grimlock inspired by the art of [[Tom Scioli]]'s ''[[Transformers vs. G.I. Joe]]'', albeit with [[Super deformed|cutesy proportions]]. Unlike the rest of the characters in the series, Grimlock is depicted in dino mode! The pin series was [[Blindpacking|blindboxed]], with some pins being rarer than others.
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*'''Grimlock Blue Metallic''' ([[November 3]], [[2017]])
:*''Rarity:'' 1 in 80
:And speaking of which, a [[chase figure|chase]] pin of Grimlock was available, decoed in metallic blue. This deco doesn't seem to be from the comic.
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====Vinyl Mini Series====
[[File:Kidrobot GI Joe Grimlock mini.jpg|thumb|upright=1]]
*'''Grimlock''' ([[November 14]], [[2017]])
:*''Rarity:'' 2 in 24
:The same character design was reused for the Vinyl Mini Series, with Grimlock receiving a three-inch tall, blindboxed figurine retaining the vibrant colours and exaggerated proportions. Grimlock featured articulation in his tiny little dino shoulders.
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[[File:Kidrobot GI Joe Grimlock Blue Metallic mini.jpg|thumb|upright=1|Someone at Kidrobot must really like Grimlock.]]
*'''Grimlock Blue Metallic''' ([[November 14]], [[2017]])
:*''Rarity:'' 1 in 96
:Grimlock received another chase figure in the Vinyl Mini Series, again in metallic blue.
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[[File:Kidrobot GI Joe Megatron mini.jpg|thumb|upright=1|...or maybe not.]]
*'''Megatron''' ([[November 14]], [[2017]])
:*''Rarity:'' 2 in 24
:The Vinyl Mini Series figure for Megatron includes Grimlock's severed head as a handheld accessory, as seen in the issue "[[Everybody Hates Metroplex]]". The head is much smaller than the head of Grimlock's own mini figure.
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====Medium Figure Series====
[[File:Kidrobot GI Joe Megatron medium.jpg|thumb|upright=1]]
*'''Megatron''' ([[November 14]], [[2017]])
:*''Accessories'': Grimlock's head
:Megatron was scaled up to seven inches for the Medium Figure Series, and his decapitated Grimlock head accessory followed suit.
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[[File:Kidrobot GI Joe Megatron medium exclusive.jpg|thumb|upright=1]]
*'''Megatron''' ([[November 14]], [[2017]])
:*''Accessories'': Grimlock's head
:Released at the same time as the standard version, this variant of Megatron was limited to 200 pieces and exclusive to the Kidrobot online store. Megatron is now decoed in a lighter grey, as was Grimlock's head.
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====Vinyl Keychain Series====
[[File:Kidrobot GI Joe Grimlock Blue Metallic keychain.jpg|thumb|upright=1]]
*'''Grimlock Blue Metallic''' ([[December 1]], [[2017]])
:*''Rarity:'' 1 in 24
:Grimlock was also released as part of the once again blindboxed Vinyl Keychain Series, now standing at about one to two inches. He included a keychain molded into his head and, due to his small scale, did not feature any articulation. Yet again he was a metallic blue chase figure... but this time, there was no regular grey Grimlock keychain!
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===Bouncing Ball Heads===
[[File:BouncingBallHead Grimlock.jpg|upright=1.22|thumb]]
*'''Grimlock''' (2017)
:"Bouncing Ball Head" Grimlock is a small, super deformed figurine with a removable head that doubles as a bouncy ball. Despite having a completely round head and a somewhat humanoid body shared by all figurines in this collection, Grimlock's tampographed face is based on a front view of his dino mode head, resulting in a very unsettling appearance. An Autobot logo is tampographed on the back of his head and his name is written under his feet.

:He is (apparently) available in both gacha-style machines and in an 8-pack with the whole collection, and comes inside a spherical capsule with a unique dark gray color.

:Despite clearly representing Generation 1 characters, the collection is advertised as a 2015 ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]'' product.
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===''Transformers Trading Card Game''===
[[File:W1Grimlock.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Me Grimlock do splash damage.]]
*'''Grimlock, Dinobot Leader''' (2018)
**'''Wave 1'''
**''Rarity: '''''RT'''
**''Card Number: '''''T21/T40'''
**''Stars: ''10

:'''Grimlock, Dinobot Leader''' is one of forty double-sided character cards available in Wave 1 of the [[Transformers Trading Card Game]].

:The artwork on the card is reused from the ''[[Transformers Legends (mobile game)|Transformers Legends]]'' mobile card game.

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[[File:W2Grimlock.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Me Grimlock not competitively viable!]]
*'''Grimlock, Powerful Commander''' (2019)
**'''Wave 2: Rise of the Combiners'''
**''Rarity: '''''RT'''
**''Card Number: '''''T27/T46'''
**''Stars: ''9

:Grimlock, Powerful Commander was released as part of the [[Transformers Trading Card Game]] Wave 2: Rise of the Combiners. Like all other members of [[combiner]] teams released in the set, Grimlock, Powerful Commander is a folding card, with the Bot and Alt modes being depicted when the card is folded in half, and a holofoil portion of the the combined mode depicted when unfolded. The reverse of Grimlock, Powerful Commander depicts [[Volcanicus (POTP)|Volcanicus']] head and torso, which is formed by Grimlock in the artwork.

:The artwork for Bot and Alt Mode is reused from the ''[[Transformers Legends (mobile game)|Transformers Legends]]'' mobile game.

:Grimlock, Powerful Commander can be used to form Volcanicus, Fiery Champion with the use of the Action card [[Enigma of Combination|Dinobot Enigma]] while he and the other Wave 2 Dinobots are in Bot mode on the battlefield or KO area.
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[[File:W5Clobber.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Clobber''' (2020)
**'''Wave 5: Titan Masters Attack'''
**''Rarity: '''''RT'''
**''Card Number: '''''T15/T46'''
**''Stars: ''4

:This card's set was originally set for an April 2020 release, however due to the global COVID-19 pandemic the release was pushed back to May 29, 2020.

He is the only Titan Master in the game with 3 traits, due to being a Dinobot.
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===''Keshi Surprise''===
*'''Autobots''' (2018)

:The ''[[Keshi Surprise]]'' series by [[Super7]] consisted of 1.75" soft rubber figures in a style deliberately resembling the 1980s [[Decoy]]s. These [[blind-packed]] figures were sold individually or in cases depicting only their faction. Grimlock (in his dino mode) was available in red, yellow, blue, and purple, and included a foil trading card / sticker.
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===Imaginarium Art===
[[File:ImaginariumGrimlock.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|"Me Grimlock want to munch <s>metal</s> polystone!"]]
*'''Grimlock''' (2018)

:This 20-inch-tall statue set depicts Grimlock in his dinosaur mode and a slingshot-wielding Wheelie as they face off against five [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticon]]s. Only 150 were produced, with an MSRP of $2,100.
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===McDonald's===
[[File:2018-McD-Authentics-Bumblebee-Grimlock.jpg|upright=1.22|thumb]]
*'''Grimlock''' (Happy Meal Toy, 2018)
:Released as part of the [[McDonald's]] June 2018 Happy Meal Toys along with [[My Little Pony]], Grimlock is a stubby, [[super deformed]] little dino with fire coming out of his mouth. He has a light-up [[gimmick]] where pressing the [[Autobot]] [[insignia]] on his back lights up his eyes and the fire effect.

:This toy was rereleased in the US as [[Grimlock (AOE)#McDonald's|Grimlock]] for the ''[[Bumblebee (franchise)|Bumblebee]]'' promotion.
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===''ReAction''===
[[File:TF-Super-7-ReAction-Figures-Grimlock.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Grimlock''' (2020)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'' Energo Sword, Twin Laser Rifle

:Released in the first wave of [[Super7]]'s line of multi-property 3.75-inch "retro" action figures, ''[[Super7#ReAction|ReAction]]'' Grimlock is a non-converting 3 3/4-inch action figure based on his appearance in the original cartoon, with five points of articulation (swivel neck, shoulders, hips) and holes in his feet for use with some variety of stand. Unlike most figures in the line, he comes with two accessories instead of just one, and both of this hands can hold an accessory.

: As with all releases in the ''ReAction'' toyline, Grimlock comes packaged on a small cardback that emulates the nostalgic packaging style of [[Kenner]]'s ''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]'' action figures from the late 1970s to early '80s.

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: This depiction of Grimlock, released in the fifth wave of the ''ReAction'' line, has him in his dinosaur mode, taking up a significantly larger chunk of cardback real estate and requiring a much deeper bubble.

: It retains the "five points of articulation" theme, as this figure lacks neck articulation, but instead has a jointed jaw for talky-talky or bitey-bitey action, which we can all agree is awesome. ''Jawsome'', if you will. We'll give you props for that, Super7.

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[[File:ReAct-toy Grimlock G2.jpg|upright=1|thumb|]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Grimlock G2''' (2022)}}</ul>

: This [[redeco]] of the above dino-mode Grimlock figure is now redone in rich blue, to match his ''Generation 2'' toy color scheme (well, his most well-known and well-distributed color scheme of the three he had, anyway). However, he still has the original Autobot faction symbol on his chest rather than the ''Generation 2'' version, which isn't ''not'' accurate to the original toy really, but still. Boo.

: He was released as part of the fifth round of [[Target]]-exclusive ''ReAction'' figures, alongside the similarly-toy-based "[[Galvatron (G1)/toys#ReActionGray|Galvatron G1]]" figure.
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===Figural Bag Clip===
[[File:FiguralBagClip GrimlockDino.jpg|upright=1.22|thumb]]
*'''Grimlock''' (2020)
:Released by Monogram, this 2.5" 3D foam bag clip takes the form of a chibi dino mode Grimlock running towards you.

:It was available only as part of a [[Blindpacking|mystery blind bag]] collection.

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[[File:FiguralBagClip GrimlockRobot.jpg|upright=1.22|thumb]]
*'''Grimlock Alt. mode''' (2020)
:A second bag clip was also released, this time based on Grimlock's evergreen robot mode.

:It was one of two "chase" figures in the collection.
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===Mondo===
[[File:Mondo Grimlock Tiki Mug.jpg|upright=1.11|thumb]]
*'''Grimlock Tiki Mug''' (2021)

:Released by Mondo, this tiki mug in the form of Grimlock's dinosaur mode is roughly 6.5 inches high and holds up to 18 oz of your favorite drink.

:The mug is handmade and its design was co-created by [[Ken Christiansen]].
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===''Pop!''===
[[File:Funko Pop Grimlock G1.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Nice.]]
*'''Grimlock''' (2021)
**''ID number:'' '''69'''

:Released as part of the ''Pop! Retro Toys'' segment and exclusive to both GameStop and the Emerald City Comic Con 2021, [[Funko Pop!|Funko]]'s ''Pop!'' Grimlock is a super deformed vinyl figure based on his original Generation 1 toy.

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*'''Grimlock''' ([[Funko Pop!#Digital Pop! NFTs|Digital ''Pop!'']], 2022)
**''Rarity:''
***''Monochrome:'' '''Common'''
***''Static:'' '''Common'''
***''Glowing:'' '''Uncommon'''
***''Chrome:'' '''Rare'''
***''Original:'' '''Epic'''
:{{W|Non-fungible token|NFT}}s depicting Grimlock in the Funko style.
<center><gallery heights=200>
File:TRANSFORMERS_COMMON_GRIMLOCK_MONOCHROME.gif|Me Grimlock want color back!
File:TRANSFORMERS_COMMON_GRIMLOCK_STATIC.gif|Me Grimlock mastered ability of standing so incredibly still that me Grimlock become invisible to eyes.
File:TRANSFORMERS_UNCOMMON_GRIMLOCK_GLOW.gif|Me Grimlock have too much color!
File:TRANSFORMERS_RARE_GRIMLOCK_REDCHROME.gif|Me Grimlock bulletproof!
File:TRANSFORMERS_EPIC_GRIMLOCK_ORIGINAL.gif|Me Grimlock HATE crypto ponzi scheme!
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===''ULTIMATES!''===
*'''Grimlock''' (ULTIMATES!, 2023)
**''Accessories'': [[Wheelie (G1)#ULTIMATES!|Wheelie]] figure, mind transfer helmet, apron, serving tray, 6 drinking glasses, fish, crown, 6 sets of dino forelimb claws

: Part of the second wave of ''[[Transformers ULTIMATES!]]'' from [[Super7]], Grimlock is a 9-inch-tall non-transforming representation of his dinosaur mode. He includes a non-transforming Wheelie figure to ride him, and also representations of many of the accessories that were also included with the ''Masterpiece'' Grimlock toy above, including his serving tray with drinking glasses, a soft cloth waiter apron, the mind transfer helmet, and a crown. Never-before-seen accessories include 6 different interchangeable dinosaur "hands," and the fish that he held in "Grimlock's New Brain."

: Preorders for Grimlock (and the rest of Wave 2) opened on [[July 29]] 2021, and closed on [[August 27]], with the toys slated for shipping in summer 2022... a vague date Super7 missed by a full year.

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===''Zōteki''===
[[File:ZOTEKI-029-Grimlock.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Grimlock''' ([[2021]])
**''ID number'': '''029'''

:A collaboration between [[Hasbro]] and statue/replica brand [[Jazware]], ''[[The Transformers (franchise)|The Transformers]]'' was added as a part of the ''[[Zōteki]]'' line alongside other iconic brands such as [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]], to recreate some of the main "Generation 1" characters. The 29th figure of the ''Zōteki'' line is Grimlock in his dino mode.

:Each statue of the line features a connection point for it to be connected to the others, in order to form a battle scene.
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===Eaglemoss===
* '''Transformers Gen-1 Chess Set''' (<s>2021</s>)
:In the planned [[Chess#Eaglemoss|Transformers Chess Set]] by [[Eaglemoss]], a relatively large and very well detailed statue of Grimlock was slated to be one of the Bishop pieces on the Autobot side.

:A Kickstarter campaign to raise the necessary funds for this project was launched, but failed to meet its goal by September 24, 2021 and the whole thing was canceled.
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===''Transformers Character Card''===
[[File:Transformers Character Card King Grimlock and Coronation Starscream.jpg|upright=1|thumb]]
*'''King Grimlock & Starscream Set''' ([[November 1]], [[2022]])
**''ID number:'' '''31 & 32'''

:Released as part of the fifth wave of the [[e-HOBBY]] exclusive ''[[Transformers Character Card]]'' series, this pair of holographic trading cards depict super-deformed art of Grimlock and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] in their regal finery from the [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|Marvel comic]] and the [[The Transformers: The Movie|1986 film]] respectively, along with [[bio|character profiles]] and [[Tech Spec|tech specs]].
::*''[[Source:Transformers Character Card#31 |Translation of King Grimlock's Transformers Character Card]]''

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===''Minimates''===
*'''Grimlock''' (Series 2, 2022)
**''Accessories'': Energo sword, stand

:Part of the second wave of Transformers [[Minimates]] from [[Diamond Select Toys|Diamond Select]], this Grimlock is a 2-inch-tall figurine featuring metallic paint, 12-14 points of articulation, and accessories and body parts interchangeable with other Minimates. Due to their small size, all 4 figures in each series are sold in the same blister card.
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===Icon Heroes===
*'''Grimlock X Ironhide Retro Pin Set''' (2022)
: A hard enamel pin based on Grimlock's original G1 package art made by Icon Heroes. It comes carded with an [[Ironhide (G1)/toys#Icon Heroes|Ironhide]] pin.

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===Milestone===
*'''Grimlock''' (<s>2022</s>)
A statue-sized PVC figure of Grimlock was solicited by Diamond Select in 2022 but later canceled.
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===XM Studios===
[[File:XMStudiosGrimlockStatue.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Apatosaurus was nowhere near as confusing as this.]]
*'''Grimlock''' (2022)

:[[XM Studios]]' statue of Grimlock is nearly 40" tall, made of hand-painted porcelain. Grimlock has [[LED|light-up eyes]] and comes with alternate sets of arms that allow him to brandish his signature sword, gun, and... giant spiked mace? The mace and some of the color and detail choices on this statue suggest it mixes elements of both the G1 character and his [[Grimlock (AOE)|live-action movie counterpart]]. The set also includes a sculpted representation of Grimlock's dino mode that can be displayed next to the robot.

:399 pieces were produced, with a suggested price of about $1,900 US.

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==Notes==
[[File:G2GrimlockArtwork.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|Heavy Metal Greymon.]]
* Grimlock was originally a ''[[Diaclone]]'' "[[:File:DiacloneGrimlock.jpg|Dinosaur Robo Tyrannosaurus]]". The only differences between this incarnation and the ''Transformers'' release are that the ''Diaclone'' version has a silver-chromed sword and a blue crotch piece rather than red, as well as coming with a green-and-black Diaclone pilot figure.
* The original ''Diaclone'' commercial for the mold that became Grimlock showed him spewing fire from his mouth. So much for truth in advertising!
* There is (or ''was'') [[:File:Grimlock Natural History Museum.JPG|a Grimlock toy]] placed in the showcase in the dinosaur section of the {{w|Natural History Museum}} in [[London]], [[United Kingdom]]; oddly, this doesn't make him the [[Slag (G1)|only one]]. Sadly, however, he has since been removed from the display. Boo!
* Despite being released in three different color schemes during the ''Generation 2'' toyline, a piece of recolored card artwork—seemingly from the collection of a former [[Hasbro]] employee—has surfaced on [[eBay]] (alongside recolored artwork of [[:File:G2SwoopArtwork.jpg|Swoop]] and [[:File:G2SludgeBoxart.jpg|Sludge]]), showing what may have been an intended fourth version of the Grimlock toy for that line. Being bright yellow with teal stripes, it certainly ''looks'' very [[neon|'90s]], and would delight such fans when it reached fruition in a modern mold in [[2023]].
* [[T-Wrecks]] may have been intended to be a new form for Grimlock, based on the references in his tech spec bio to his ''Beast Wars'' "Attack Specialist" function and other hints. However, T-Wrecks' appearances in the [[3H Productions]] ''[[Transformers: Universe (comic)|Universe: The Wreckers]]'' comics suggest he is a new, unrelated character.
* A working name for the ''[[Transformers: Alternators|Alternators]]'' Ford Mustang mold which ultimately ended up as Grimlock was "[[Freeway (G1)|Freeway]]", according to various early store listings.
* The [[Grimlock (Energon)|Grimlock]] toy released in the [[Transformers: Energon (toyline)|''Energon'' toyline]] was originally created by [[Hasbro]] for release as a special new-mold addition for the [[Transformers: Universe (2003 toyline)|2003 ''Universe'' toyline]], and was intended to represent Generation 1 Grimlock. However, it wasn't and it didn't for the combination of budgetary concerns and keeping the combination gimmick (since he combines with the packed-in [[Swoop (Energon)|Swoop]] to form "[[Mega-Dinobot]]") only in the ''Energon'' toyline, which had combination as a central theme.

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Fairouz Ai

2024-02-10T14:09:26Z

Trex2themax:

[[File:Fairouz_Ai.jpg|right|thumb|"I want to watch humans suffer...so my first act as prime minister will be to implement a 100 percent sales tax!"]]
'''Fairouz Ai''' (ファイルーズあい ''Fairūzu Ai'', born [[July 6]], [[1993]]) is a Japanese voice actress signed to the agency Raccoon Dog, and is also known for being the first president. The anime roles she is most known for are Power in ''Chainsaw Man'', Jolyne Cujoh in ''Jojo's Bizarre Adventure'', Manatsu Natsuumi/Cure Summer in ''Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure'', Hibiki Sakura in ''How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift?'', Eripiyo in ''If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die'', and Ramona Flowers in ''Scott Pilgrim Takes Off''. Her roles in video games include Sei Shōnagon in ''Fate/Grand Order'', USS Intrepid in ''Azur Lane'', Phina in ''Fire Emblem Heroes'', and Iono in ''[[Pokeformers|Pokémon]] Masters EX'' and promotional material for ''Pokémon Scarlet'' and ''Violet''. Notable dubbing roles of hers include Selina Kyle/Catwoman in ''The [[Batman]]'', and Nakia Bahadir in ''Ms. Marvel''.

==Roles==
===''Transformers: Rise of the Beasts''===
*[[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]]

===''Transformers: EarthSpark''===
*[[Arcee (ES)|Arcee]]

==External links==
*[https://www.raccoon-dog.co.jp/talent/r12-fai.html Official profile] at Raccoon Dog (Japanese)
*[https://twitter.com/fairouzzzzzz Twitter page]
*[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=215531 Anime News Network entry]

[[Category: Japanese voice actors]]

Chainclaw (ROTB)

2024-01-05T04:00:12Z

Trex2themax: Unless there was supplementary information released that confirmed the use of he/him pronouns, there was no reason to change them from the neutral form.

{{factions|maximal}}
{{disambig3|Chainclaw}}
:''Chainclaw is a [[Maximal]] from the [[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (franchise)|Rise of the Beasts]] portion of the [[Live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:TF-ROTB-Beast-Weaponizer-Chainclaw.jpg|right|thumb|350px|"Woof!" "Alright, Pochita, I know! Let's go kill this thing!"]]

'''Chainclaw''' is a canine who transforms into a chainsaw. Their desire to witness their best friend's dreams is unknown.

==Toys==
===''Rise of the Beasts''===
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1m1|'''Optimus Prime and Chainclaw''' (Beast Weaponizers, [[2023]])}}</ul>
:*''TakaraTomy name'': '''Kakusei Change Set Optimus Prime & Chainclaw'''
:*''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''BCS-02'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[April 15]], 2023
{{toydesigner|[[Shogo Hasui]] (TakaraTomy)}}

:Released as part of the first wave of toys in the ''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (toyline)|Rise of the Beasts]]'' mainline, Chainclaw is a 3-inch Beast Battle Master toy that can convert from wolf to chainsaw. Chainclaw's chainsaw mode can be wielded by any figure with a 5 mm port but is of course intended to be held by [[Optimus_Prime_(Movie)/toys#Beast_Alliance|Optimus Prime]] since they come packaged together.

{{-}}{{anchor|Burning}}
[[File:BurningChainclaw.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"'''Don't open it.'''"]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Burning Chainclaw''' (Kakusei Weapon, 2023)}}</ul>
:*''Release date'' [[October 28]], 2023

: Burning Chainclaw (バーニングチェーンクロー) is a redeco of the above toy, cast in red and clear red plastic.

: This version was available as a [[campaign item]] through [[TakaraTomy Mall]], similarly to the previously released [[Cheetor (ROTB)#Burning|Burning Cheetor]]. Burning Chainclaw could be obtained by pre-ordering ''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (toyline)|EarthSpark]]'' [[Optimus Prime (ES)#Spin_Changers|Spin Changer Optimus Prime]] or [[Bumblebee (ES)#SpinChanger|Spin Changer Bumblebee]], or with purchases of 5000 yen or more. Their instructions feature the ''Beast Awakening'' logo.
{{--}}

==Notes==
[[File:ROTBtoy-Early BattleMaster Chainclaw.jpg|thumb|200px|right|What tha dog doin'?]]
*On the back of the box, Chainclaw's stock render is not only green instead of blue, but also features a different layout for the paint applications than the final toy.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Chainclaw''' (チェーンクロー ''Chēnkurō'')

[[Category:Rise of the Beasts Maximals]]
[[Category:Toy-only characters]]

Chainclaw (ROTB)

2023-09-06T18:33:36Z

Trex2themax:

{{factions|maximal}}
{{disambig3|Chainclaw}}

:''Chainclaw is a Beast Weaponizer from the [[Live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:TF-ROTB-Beast-Weaponizer-Chainclaw.jpg|right|thumb|350px|"Woof!" "Alright, Pochita, I know! Let's go kill this thing!"]]

'''Chainclaw''' is a canine that transforms into a chainsaw. Their desire to witness their best friend's dreams is unknown.

==Toys==
===''Rise of the Beasts''===
*'''Optimus Prime and Chainclaw''' (Beast Weaponizers, 2023)
**''TakaraTomy name'': '''Kakusei Change Set Optimus Prime & Chainclaw'''
**''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''BCS-02'''
**''TakaraTomy release date'': April 15, 2023
{{toydesigner|[[Shogo Hasui]] (TakaraTomy)}}

:Released as part of the first wave of toys in the ''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (toyline)|Rise of the Beasts]]'' mainline, Chainclaw is a 3-inch Beast Battle Master toy that can convert from wolf to chainsaw. Chainclaw's chainsaw mode can be wielded by any figure with the required size port but is of course intended to be held by [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys|Optimus Prime]] since they come packaged together.

{{-}}{{anchor|Burning}}
[[File:BurningChainclaw.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"'''Don't open it.'''"]]
*'''Burning Chainclaw''' (Kakusei Weapon, 2023)
**''Release date'' [[October 28]], 2023

: Burning Chainclaw is a redeco of the above toy, cast in red and clear red plastic.

: They are available as a [[campaign item]] through [[TakaraTomy Mall]], similarly to the previously released [[Cheetor (ROTB)#Burning|Burning Cheetor]]. Unlike the cat, Chainclaw can be obtained by pre-ordering ''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (toyline)| EarthSpark]]'' [[Optimus Prime (ES)#Spin_Changers|Spin Changer Optimus Prime]] or [[Bumblebee (ES)#SpinChanger|Spin Changer Bumblebee]]

==Notes==
[[File:ROTBtoy-Early BattleMaster Chainclaw.jpg|thumb|200px|right|What tha dog doin'?]]
*On the back of the box, Chainclaw's stock render is not only green instead of blue, but also features a different layout for the paint applications than the final toy does.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Chainclaw''' (チェーンクロー ''Chēnkurō'')

[[Category:Rise of the Beasts Maximals]]

Chainclaw (ROTB)

2023-09-06T17:45:48Z

Trex2themax: I was really sloppy with the quotation marks, yes?

{{factions|maximal}}
{{disambig3|Chainclaw}}

:''Chainclaw is a Beast Weaponizer from the [[Live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:TF-ROTB-Beast-Weaponizer-Chainclaw.jpg|right|thumb|350px|"Woof!" "Alright, Pochita, I know! Let's go kill this thing!"]]

'''Chainclaw''' is a canine that transforms into a chainsaw. Their desire to witness their best friend's dreams is unknown.

==Toys==
===''Rise of the Beasts''===
*'''Optimus Prime and Chainclaw''' (Beast Weaponizers, 2023)
**''TakaraTomy name'': '''Kakusei Change Set Optimus Prime & Chainclaw'''
**''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''BCS-02'''
**''TakaraTomy release date'': April 15, 2023
{{toydesigner|[[Shogo Hasui]] (TakaraTomy)}}

:Released as part of the first wave of toys in the ''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (toyline)|Rise of the Beasts]]'' mainline, Chainclaw is a 3-inch Beast Battle Master toy that can convert from wolf to chainsaw. Chainclaw's chainsaw mode can be wielded by any figure with the required size port but is of course intended to be held by [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys|Optimus Prime]] since they come packaged together.

{{-}}{{anchor|Burning}}
[[File:BurningChainclaw.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|'''Don't open it.''']]
*'''Burning Chainclaw''' (Kakusei Weapon, 2023)
**''Release date'' [[October 28]], 2023

: Burning Chainclaw is a redeco of the above toy, cast in red and clear red plastic.

: They are available as a [[campaign item]] through [[TakaraTomy Mall]], similarly to the previously released [[Cheetor (ROTB)#Burning|Burning Cheetor]]. Unlike the cat, Chainclaw can be obtained by pre-ordering ''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (toyline)| EarthSpark]]'' [[Optimus Prime (ES)#Spin_Changers|Spin Changer Optimus Prime]] or [[Bumblebee (ES)#SpinChanger|Spin Changer Bumblebee]]

==Notes==
[[File:ROTBtoy-Early BattleMaster Chainclaw.jpg|thumb|200px|right|What tha dog doin'?]]
*On the back of the box, Chainclaw's stock render is not only green instead of blue, but also features a different layout for the paint applications than the final toy does.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Chainclaw''' (チェーンクロー ''Chēnkurō'')

[[Category:Rise of the Beasts Maximals]]

Chainclaw (ROTB)

2023-09-06T13:58:59Z

Trex2themax:

{{factions|maximal}}
{{disambig3|Chainclaw}}

:''Chainclaw is a Beast Weaponizer from the [[Live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:TF-ROTB-Beast-Weaponizer-Chainclaw.jpg|right|thumb|350px|"Woof!" "Alright, Pochita, I know! Let's go kill this thing!"]]

'''Chainclaw''' is a canine that transforms into a chainsaw. Their desire to witness their best friend's dreams is unknown.

==Toys==
===''Rise of the Beasts''===
*'''Optimus Prime and Chainclaw''' (Beast Weaponizers, 2023)
**''TakaraTomy name'': '''Kakusei Change Set Optimus Prime & Chainclaw'''
**''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''BCS-02'''
**''TakaraTomy release date'': April 15, 2023
{{toydesigner|[[Shogo Hasui]] (TakaraTomy)}}

:Released as part of the first wave of toys in the ''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (toyline)|Rise of the Beasts]]'' mainline, Chainclaw is a 3-inch Beast Battle Master toy that can convert from wolf to chainsaw. Chainclaw's chainsaw mode can be wielded by any figure with the required size port but is of course intended to be held by [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys|Optimus Prime]] since they come packaged together.

{{-}}{{anchor|Burning}}
[[File:BurningChainclaw.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|'''Don't open it.''']]
*'''Burning Chainclaw''' (Kakusei Weapon, 2023)
**''Release date'' [[October 28]], 2023

: "Burning Chainclaw" is a redeco of the above toy, cast in red and clear red plastic.

: They are available as a [[campaign item]] through [[TakaraTomy Mall]], similarly to the previously released [[Cheetor (ROTB)#Burning|Burning Cheetor]]. Unlike the cat, Chainclaw can be obtained by pre-ordering ''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (toyline)| EarthSpark]]'' [[Optimus Prime (ES)#Spin_Changers|Spin Changer Optimus Prime]] or [[Bumblebee (ES)#SpinChanger|Spin Changer Bumblebee]]

==Notes==
[[File:ROTBtoy-Early BattleMaster Chainclaw.jpg|thumb|200px|right|What tha dog doin'?]]
*On the back of the box, Chainclaw's stock render is not only green instead of blue, but also features a different layout for the paint applications than the final toy does.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Chainclaw''' (チェーンクロー ''Chēnkurō'')

[[Category:Rise of the Beasts Maximals]]

Chainclaw (ROTB)

2023-09-06T02:16:13Z

Trex2themax: Fixing link to Optimus' page.

{{factions|maximal}}
{{disambig3|Chainclaw}}

:''Chainclaw is a Beast Weaponizer from the [[Live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:TF-ROTB-Beast-Weaponizer-Chainclaw.jpg|right|thumb|350px|"Woof!" "Alright, Pochita, I know! Let's go kill this thing!"]]

'''Chainclaw''' is a canine that transforms into a chainsaw. Their desire to witness their best friend's dreams is unknown.

==Toys==
===''Rise of the Beasts''===
*'''Optimus Prime and Chainclaw''' (Beast Weaponizers, 2023)
**''TakaraTomy name'': '''Kakusei Change Set Optimus Prime & Chainclaw'''
**''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''BCS-02'''
**''TakaraTomy release date'': April 15, 2023
{{toydesigner|[[Shogo Hasui]] (TakaraTomy)}}

:Released as part of the first wave of toys in the ''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (toyline)|Rise of the Beasts]]'' mainline, Chainclaw is a 3-inch Beast Battle Master toy that can convert from wolf to chainsaw. Chainclaw's chainsaw mode can be wielded by any figure with the required size port but is of course intended to be held by [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys|Optimus Prime]] since they come packaged together.

{{-}}{{anchor|Burning}}
[[File:BurningChainclaw.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|'''Don't open it.''']]
*'''Burning Chainclaw''' (Kakusei Weapon, 2023)
**''Release date'' [[October 28]], 2023

: "Burning Chainclaw" is a redeco of the above toy, cast in red and clear red plastic.

: They are available as a [[campaign item]] through [[TakaraTomy Mall]], similarly to the previously released "[[Cheetor (ROTB)#Burning|Burning Cheetor]]". Unlike the cat, Chainclaw can be obtained by pre-ordering ''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (toyline)| EarthSpark]]'' "[[Optimus Prime (ES)#Spin_Changers|Spin Changer Optimus Prime]]" or "[[Bumblebee (ES)#SpinChanger|Spin Changer Bumblebee]]"

==Notes==
[[File:ROTBtoy-Early BattleMaster Chainclaw.jpg|thumb|200px|right|What tha dog doin'?]]
*On the back of the box, Chainclaw's stock render is not only green instead of blue, but also features a different layout for the paint applications than the final toy does.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Chainclaw''' (チェーンクロー ''Chēnkurō'')

[[Category:Rise of the Beasts Maximals]]

Chainclaw (ROTB)

2023-09-06T02:14:13Z

Trex2themax:

{{factions|maximal}}
{{disambig3|Chainclaw}}

:''Chainclaw is a Beast Weaponizer from the [[Live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:TF-ROTB-Beast-Weaponizer-Chainclaw.jpg|right|thumb|350px|"Woof!" "Alright, Pochita, I know! Let's go kill this thing!"]]

'''Chainclaw''' is a canine that transforms into a chainsaw. Their desire to witness their best friend's dreams is unknown.

==Toys==
===''Rise of the Beasts''===
*'''Optimus Prime and Chainclaw''' (Beast Weaponizers, 2023)
**''TakaraTomy name'': '''Kakusei Change Set Optimus Prime & Chainclaw'''
**''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''BCS-02'''
**''TakaraTomy release date'': April 15, 2023
{{toydesigner|[[Shogo Hasui]] (TakaraTomy)}}

:Released as part of the first wave of toys in the ''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (toyline)|Rise of the Beasts]]'' mainline, Chainclaw is a 3-inch Beast Battle Master toy that can convert from wolf to chainsaw. Chainclaw's chainsaw mode can be wielded by any figure with the required size port but is of course intended to be held by [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys|Optimus Prime]] since they come packaged together.

{{-}}{{anchor|Burning}}
[[File:BurningChainclaw.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|'''Don't open it.''']]
*'''Burning Chainclaw''' (Kakusei Weapon, 2023)
**''Release date'' [[October 28]], 2023

: "Burning Chainclaw" is a redeco of the above toy, cast in red and clear red plastic.

: They are available as a [[campaign item]] through [[TakaraTomy Mall]], similarly to the previously released "[[Cheetor (ROTB)#Burning|Burning Cheetor]]". Unlike the cat, Chainclaw can be obtained by pre-ordering ''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (toyline)| EarthSpark]]'' "[[Optimus Prime (ES)#SpinChanger|Spin Changer Optimus Prime]]" or "[[Bumblebee (ES)#SpinChanger|Spin Changer Bumblebee]]"

==Notes==
[[File:ROTBtoy-Early BattleMaster Chainclaw.jpg|thumb|200px|right|What tha dog doin'?]]
*On the back of the box, Chainclaw's stock render is not only green instead of blue, but also features a different layout for the paint applications than the final toy does.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Chainclaw''' (チェーンクロー ''Chēnkurō'')

[[Category:Rise of the Beasts Maximals]]

JÅji Nakata

2023-07-11T16:49:46Z

Trex2themax: Fixed a typo

[[File:GeorgeNakata.jpg|thumb|120px|Is this Sparta? [[David Kaye|Yesss...]]]]
'''Jōji Nakata''' (中田譲治 ''Nakata Jōji'', born [[April 22]], [[1954]]) is a Japanese voice actor, born as '''Hitoshi Nakata''' (中田均志 ''Nakata Hitoshi'') and is best known for his role as Kirei Kotomine in ''Fate/Stay Night'', ''Fate/Zero'' and numerous other spinoffs in the ''Fate'' franchise, he also has done the voices of [[Giroro]] in ''Sgt. Frog/Keroro Gunsō'', Alucard in ''Hellsing'', Count of Monte Cristo/Edmond Dantes in ''Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo'', Folken Fanel in ''The Vision of Escaflowne'', Nyanta in ''Log Horizon'', Gaav in ''Slayers Next'', Hody Jones in ''One Piece'', Luxord in ''Kingdom Hearts'', Sol Badguy in the ''Guilty Gear'' franchise, [[D.C. Douglas|Albert]] [[Peter Jessop|Wesker]] in ''Resident Evil'', E-102 Gamma and Zavok in the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (video game)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' franchise, Diethard Reid in ''Code Geass'', Amshel Goldsmith in ''Blood+'' and the Adai Village Elder in ''Gurren Lagann''. In terms of foreign dubbing he has voiced [[Clancy Brown|Lex Luthor]] on ''The [[Batman]]'', [[Jim Cummings|Master of Games]] on ''Teen Titans'', Reverend Lovejoy in the theatrical dub of ''The Simpsons Movie'', Xibalba in ''The Book of Life'', Kron in ''Dinosaur'', Boris the Animal in ''Men in Black 3'' and King Leonidas in ''300''. He is sometimes credited as "George Nakata".

==Roles==
===''Transformers: Galaxy Force''===
*[[Megatron (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Master Megatron/Master Galvatron]]

==Notes==
* English speaking voice actors [[Jamieson Price]], [[Crispin Freeman]] and [[Paul Dobson]] have dubbed over some of Nakata's characters several times, but sadly they have never shared the same ''Transformers'' role... ''yet''.

==External links==
*[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=1030 Jōji Nakata at the Anime News Network]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nakata, Joji}}
[[Category:Japanese voice actors]]

Fairouz Ai

2023-06-22T20:42:58Z

Trex2themax:

[[File:Fairouz_Ai.jpg|right|thumb|"I'm bored, so I was thinking up a Nobel Prize-winning invention! If I win a Nobel Prize, humans will grovel before me! And then I'll use my Nobel Prize as a stepping stone to become prime minister! I want to watch humans suffer...so my first act as prime minister will be to implement a 100 percent sales tax!"]]
'''Fairouz Ai''' (ファイルーズあい, ''Fairūzu Ai'', born [[July 6]], [[1993]]) is a Japanese voice actress signed to the agency Raccoon Dog, and is also known for being the first president. The anime roles she is most known for are Power in ''Chainsaw Man'', Jolyne Cujoh in ''Jojo's Bizarre Adventure'', Manatsu Natsuumi/Cure Summer in ''Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure'', Hibiki Sakura in ''How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift?'', and Eripiyo in ''If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die''. Her roles in video games include Sei Shōnagon in ''Fate/Grand Order'', USS Intrepid in ''Azur Lane'', and Phina in ''Fire Emblem Heroes''. Notable dubbing roles of hers include Selina Kyle/Catwoman in ''The [[Batman]]'', and Nakia Bahadir in ''Ms. Marvel''.

==Roles==
===''Transformers: Rise of the Beasts''===
*[[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]]

==External links==
*[https://www.raccoon-dog.co.jp/talent/r12-fai.html Official profile] at Raccoon Dog (Japanese)
*[https://twitter.com/fairouzzzzzz Twitter page]
*[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=215531 Anime News Network entry]

[[Category: Japanese voice actors]]

Fairouz Ai

2023-06-22T20:42:27Z

Trex2themax: Created page with "[[File:Fairouz_Ai.jpg|right|thumb|"I'm bored, so I was thinking up a Nobel Prize-winning invention! If I win a Nobel Prize, humans will grovel before me! And then I'll use my ..."

[[File:Fairouz_Ai.jpg|right|thumb|"I'm bored, so I was thinking up a Nobel Prize-winning invention! If I win a Nobel Prize, humans will grovel before me! And then I'll use my Nobel Prize as a stepping stone to become prime minister! I want to watch humans suffer...so my first act as prime minister will be to implement a 100 percent sales tax!"]]
'''Fairouz Ai''' (ファイルーズあい, ''Fairūzu Ai'', born [[July 6]], [[1993]]) is a Japanese voice actress signed to the agency Raccoon Dog, and is also known for being the first president The anime roles she is most known for are Power in ''Chainsaw Man'', Jolyne Cujoh in ''Jojo's Bizarre Adventure'', Manatsu Natsuumi/Cure Summer in ''Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure'', Hibiki Sakura in ''How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift?'', and Eripiyo in ''If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die''. Her roles in video games include Sei Shōnagon in ''Fate/Grand Order'', USS Intrepid in ''Azur Lane'', and Phina in ''Fire Emblem Heroes''. Notable dubbing roles of hers include Selina Kyle/Catwoman in ''The [[Batman]]'', and Nakia Bahadir in ''Ms. Marvel''.

==Roles==
===''Transformers: Rise of the Beasts''===
*[[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]]

==External links==
*[https://www.raccoon-dog.co.jp/talent/r12-fai.html Official profile] at Raccoon Dog (Japanese)
*[https://twitter.com/fairouzzzzzz Twitter page]
*[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=215531 Anime News Network entry]

[[Category: Japanese voice actors]]

File:Fairouz Ai.jpg

2023-06-22T20:42:22Z

Trex2themax: Fairouz Ai, the Japanese voice for Arcee in ''Rise of the Beasts'', at an event promoting the anime ''How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift?'' {{fairuse}} Category:Actor images

Fairouz Ai, the Japanese voice for [[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]] in [[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|''Rise of the Beasts'']], at an event promoting the anime ''How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift?''

{{fairuse}}
[[Category:Actor images]]

Treadshock (RID)

2023-04-12T03:25:57Z

Trex2themax: Linking the Riotgear toy to the RID version.

{{faction|decepticon}}
{{Disambig2|the Aligned character|the Generation 1 character|Treadshock (G1)}}
:''Treadshock is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]] portion of the [[Aligned continuity family]].
[[File:TRID SF Treadshock RM.jpg|thumb|right|upright=2]]

'''Treadshock''' is a Decepticon under the command of [[Cyclonus (WFC)|Cyclonus]]. He can combine with his leader and fellow enforcers [[Skyjack (RID)|Skyjack]], [[Cyberwarp (RID)|Cyberwarp]], and [[Riotgear (RID)|Riotgear]] to form [[Galvatronus (RID)|Galvatronus]]. He also managed his way into the [[Autobot High Council]] with his teammates to put their schemes into motion.

{{TOCclear}}

==Fiction==
===2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon===
Treadshock met with his fellow [[Autobot High Council|High Council]] members to discuss the imminent fruition of their plans, and silently watched as Cyclonus and Cyberwarp debated the morality of the Council's actions. {{storylink|Enemy of My Enemy (RID)|Enemy of My Enemy}}

When the [[Bee Team (RID)|Bee Team]] breached Council chambers, the Decepticons engaged them in battle only to be defeated, with Treadshock being knocked out with a tail smash from [[Grimlock (RID 2015)|Grimlock]]. They combined into [[Galvatronus (RID)|Galvatronus]] to even the odds but were defeated due to Cyberwarp's reservations. {{storylink|Freedom Fighters}}
{{-}}

==Toys==
===''Robots in Disguise'' (2015)===
[[File:RID15-toy Treadshock.jpg|thumb|right|300px|''Moon Patrol 2099'']]
* '''Galvatronus''' (Team Combiner, [[2017]])

: Available only in the ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 toyline)|Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Galvatronus (RID)#Toys|Galvatronus]] Team Combiner 5-pack, Treadshock transforms into a Cybertronian off-road vehicle in a few simple steps. He can also convert into a leg for a Team Combiner super-robot, though his nominal placement is as the right leg of Galvatronus.

: He is a [[retool]] of his teammate [[Riotgear (RID)#Toys|Riotgear]], with a different headsculpt.

: Treadshock uses the universal connector joint shared by all Team Combiners and [[Crash Combiner]]s, but since he can ''only'' form a leg in combined mode, this can lead to some ''interesting''-looking combinations.
{{--}}

==Notes==
*Treadshock's light-bent model is a recolor of [[Vector Prime]] from "[[Battlegrounds, Part 1]]", with a new head.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:TRID SF Treadshock VM.jpg|Vehicle mode
File:TRID SF Treadshock AD.jpg|Autobot disguise
</gallery>

[[Category:Council members]]
[[Category:Robots in Disguise (2015) combiners]]
[[Category:Robots in Disguise (2015) Decepticons]]

Chainclaw (ROTB)

2023-04-11T12:13:49Z

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{{disambig3|Chainclaw}}

:''Chainclaw is a Beast Weaponizer from the [[Live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Transformers-Rise-of-the-Beasts-Kids-016.jpg|right|thumb|200px|"This episode of Bluey is called '[[Targetmaster (technology)|Targetmasters]]'"]]

'''Chainclaw''' is a canine that transforms into a chainsaw. Their desire to witness their best friend's dreams is unknown.

==Toys==
===''Rise of the Beasts''===
[[File:Transformers-Rise-of-the-Beasts-Kids-017.jpg|right|thumb|200px|"Woof!" "Alright, Pochita, I know! Let's go kill this thing!"]]
*'''Optimus Prime and Chainclaw''' (Beast Weaponizers, 2023)

:Released as part of the first wave of toys in the ''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (toyline)|Rise of the Beasts]]'' mainline, Chainclaw is a 3-inch Beast Battle Master toy that can convert from wolf to chainsaw. Chainclaw's chainsaw mode can be wielded by any figure with the required size port, but is of course intended to be held by [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys|Optimus Prime]] since they come packaged together.
{{--}}
==Notes==
===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Chainclaw''' (チェーンクロー ''Chēnkurō'')

[[Category:Rise of the Beasts Maximals]]

Kaito Ishikawa

2023-04-03T19:23:11Z

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'''Kaito Ishikawa''' (石川界人 Ishikawa Kaito, born [[October 13]], [[1993]]) is a Japanese voice actor. He is best known for the roles of Genos in ''One Punch Man'', [[Falcon (Marvel)|Falcon]] in ''Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers'', Nine in ''Terror in Resonance'', Rinne Rokudou in ''Kyokai no RINNE'', Ledo in ''Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet'', Tobio Kageyama in ''Haikyū!!'', Nero in ''Devil May Cry'', Kōhei Izumi in ''World Trigger'', and Tenya Iida in ''My Hero Academia''.

In forgien dubbing, he has voiced Starfox in ''Eternals'', Sonny Harper in ''Moonfall,'' the DJ in ''Pokemon: Detective Pikachu'' and Chip in the ''Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers'' film.

==Roles==
===Q Transformers: Mystery of Convoy===
*[[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]

==External links==
* [https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=114052 ANN Profile]
* [http://www.pro-fit.co.jp/talent_ishikawa.html Pro-Fit Profile]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ishikawa, Kaito}}
[[Category:Japanese voice actors]]

Chainclaw (ROTB)

2023-03-29T19:29:00Z

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{{disambig3|Chainclaw}}

:''Chainclaw is a beast weaponizer from the [[Live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Transformers-Rise-of-the-Beasts-Kids-016.jpg|right|thumb|200px|"Woof!"]]

'''Chainclaw''' is a canine that transforms into a chainsaw. Their desire to witness their best friend's dreams is unknown.

==Toys==
===''Rise of the Beasts''===
====Beast Alliance====
[[File:Transformers-Rise-of-the-Beasts-Kids-017.jpg|right|thumb|200px|"Alright, Pochita, I know! Let's go kill this thing!"]]
*'''Optimus Prime and Chainclaw''' (Beast Weaponizers, 2023)

:Released as part of the first wave of toys in the ''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (toyline)|Rise of the Beasts]]'' mainline, This simple, 5-inch [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys|Optimus Prime]] transforms into a truck, and includes Chainclaw, a 3-inch Beast Battle Master toy that can convert from wolf to chainsaw, the latter of which Prime can wield.

Clipper (G1)

2023-02-25T19:12:48Z

Trex2themax: Giving the sentence a better flow

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{{disambig2|the ''Victory'' Autobot|the ''Animated'' Autobot|Clipper (Animated)}}

:''Clipper is an [[Autobot]] [[Micromaster]] from the [[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Victory (cartoon)|Victory]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''

[[File:Clipper-r.jpg|267px|thumb|]]
'''Clipper''' (クリッパー ''Kurippā'') hails from Planet [[Micro]], home of the Micromasters. Ostensibly the "girlfriend" of [[Holi]], she's a serious-minded and sometimes bossy young bot often frustrated by the doofiness of her male associates, whom she's smarter than to boot.

==Fiction==
===Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''Victory'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Miyoko Aoba]] (Japanese)}}

Clipper was stationed on planet [[Micro]], where she worked for the government under Governor [[Riker]]. When [[Holi]] and the rest of the [[Rescue Patrol Team]] arrived on the planet as part of a mission, she blew off Holi's offer of a rendezvous in the training room, due to short notice. She later had tea with [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]], the Rescue Team and [[Jan Minakaze|Jan]], complimenting the [[Supreme Commander]] on his dashing personality, and telling Holi he should aim to be as stylish. When the Autobots were alerted to a Decepticon attack, she told Holi to be careful, touching his hand and turning his face beet red.

Following the inevitable [[Decepticon]] defeat, she told Holi she was looking forward to hearing all about Earth from him at a later time, provoking another blush, to the merriment of the other Autobots. {{storylink|Planet Micro - The Mysterious Warrior}}

[[File:UniteLiokaiser Clipper vehiclemode.jpg|thumb|left|200px]]
Some time later, Holi, Clipper, and Jan went out patrolling the countryside for the [[Breastforce]], soon spotting [[Hellbat (G1)|Hellbat]] flying overhead. They tailed him to the mountains, where the Decepticon met with a new potential Breastforce member, [[Deathcobra (G1)|Deathcobra]]. After Hellbat accidentally killed his fellow, he spotted the two Micromasters and convinced the rest of the Breastforce that the Autobots were responsible for Deathcobra's death. As implausible as this seemed, the other Decepticons bought it and attacked Holi and Clipper, who fought back. Clipper's hand took a direct hit, but the pair were saved by the arrival of Star Saber, allowing them to escape by clinging to the side of the [[V-Star]].

Though horrified at the Breastforce's new ability to form [[Liokaiser]], Holi intended to help Star Saber flight, and asked Clipper to contact Riker. She took Jan with her, narrowly dodging a spiked ring flung by the combiner. By the time the pair returned with the news a rescue squad was on the way, Star Saber and [[Ginrai (robot)|God Ginrai]] had defeated Liokaiser. Though Holi moped that he hadn't been much use, Clipper was sure he'd done his best. {{storylink|Unite! Liokaiser}}

When the Autobots departed planet Micro aboard [[Galaxy Shuttle]], Jan imagined a cutesy version of Clipper crying into a hankie because Holi had to leave his home planet (and her) again. {{storylink|Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress}} Subsequently, Jan recalled Clipper's presence during the first combination of Liokaiser. {{storylink|Battle Up of Wrath!!}} Much later, after [[Deathsaurus (G1)|Deathsaurus]] and his forces were defeated, Holi and the [[Rescue Patrol Team]] returned full-time to Micro. Clipper stood by in amusement when [[Fire]], [[Pīpō]], and [[Boater]] tried to get Holi to play soccer with them instead of doing paperwork. {{storylink|Showdown! The Fortress vs the Victory Unification}}

====Train Wars====
{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Train Wars: Shouki & Daniel Chapter|Shouki & Daniel Chapter}}}}

====''Legends'' comic====
[[File:Legends_Clipper.jpg|thumb|80px]]
Clipper was among the heroic female Transformers who appeared in one of [[Tigatron]]'s dreams to protect him from the evil female Transformers. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 11|Bonus Edition Vol. 11}}

She was later seen with Holi on Planet Z in 2038. {{storylink|The Road to Legends' Revival Chapter 2}}

===''TransTech''===
Clipper was one of many Offworlders in [[Axiom Nexus]]'s Under City. {{storylink|Cybertron's Most Wanted}}
{{--}}

==Notes==
[[File:Zone-toy Gingham.jpg|300px|thumb|HI RUTH HI RUTH HI RUTH]]
*Clipper's model is basically a leaner, visor-less rendition of the [[Decepticon]] [[Sports Car Patrol]] Micromaster [[Hyperdrive (Micromaster)#Generation 1|Hyperdrive]]. A year later, that mold was released by [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] in very Clipper-esque maroon-and-white colors as part of the Autobot [[Super Car Patrol Team]]... but named [[Gingham#Zone|Gingham]] (who had his own similar-but-more-toylike animation model). Still, Gingham makes a decent substitute toy for Clipper, while a semi-ambitious customizer can make do with Hyperdrive.

===Foreign names===
*''English:'' '''Ruth''' ([[Omni Productions]] dub)
*''Russian:'' '''Ruf' ''' (Руфь, "Ruth")

[[Category:Female Transformers]]
[[Category:Fiction-only Transformers]]
[[Category:Legends Autobots]]
[[Category:Micromasters]]
[[Category:TransTech Autobots]]
[[Category:Victory Autobots]]

Daisuke Ono

2022-10-16T14:41:35Z

Trex2themax:

[[File:Daisuke_Ono.jpg|right|thumb|"[[Acknowledged.]]"]]
'''Daisuke Ono''' (小野大輔, ''Ono Daisuke'', born [[May 4]], [[1978]]) is a Japanese voice actor and singer. His best-known anime roles include Jotaro Kujo in ''JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure'', Sebastian Michaelis in ''Black Butler'', Commander Erwin Smith in ''Attack on Titan'', Battler Ushiromiya in ''Umineko When They Cry'', Shukuro Tsukishima in ''Bleach'', Itsuki Koizumi in the ''Haruhi Suzumiya'' series, Sinbad in the ''Magi'' series and Shizuo Heiwajima in ''Durarara!!''. In video games, he voices Snow Villiers in ''Final Fantasy XIII'' and Silver the Hedgehog in the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (video game)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' series.

In terms of dubbing, he has voiced Karl Mordo in [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]]’s ''Doctor Strange'' film and its sequel, Steve Trevor in [[DC Comics|DC]]’s ''Wonder Woman'' film and ''its'' sequel, Casey Jones in the [[Michael Bay]] produced ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows'' and Prince Gumball in ''Adventure Time''.

==Roles==
===''Transformers: Cyberverse''===
*[[Backbite (Cyberverse)|Backbite]]

==External links==
*[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=14929 Anime News Network entry]

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[[Category: Japanese voice actors]]

Suiken

2022-10-07T17:07:34Z

Trex2themax: Fixed part of a copy-paste job.

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{{disambig2|the train sometimes named "Storm"|the helicopter sometimes named "Storm"|Rotorstorm (G1)}}
:''Suiken is an [[Autobot]] [[Trainbot]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Suiken story page.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|]]
Despite his rail-riding alternate mode, '''Suiken''' (スイケン) is an extremely capable warrior on even the most rugged and uneven terrain. He's a veteran of a great many battles, which has given him an incredible depth of knowledge. He can plan battle tactics or even stellar navigation routes for the [[Trainbot]]s' combined space-traveling train mode.

==Fiction==
===Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''Generations'' toy bios====
The Trainbots were constructed on Earth, in Japan. Their creation was a collaboration by several Japanese companies utilizing technology developed in the [[Binaltech (technology)|''Binaltech Project'']]. {{storylink|Shouki#Generations (Japan)|''Generations'' Shouki bio}}

====Ask Vector Prime====
The Trainbots were built in the ''Raiden Initiative'' by a team of Japanese scientists. [[Kaminari Ishihara|Doctor Ishihara]] chose to name the Tōkai-type 153 express, which operates in her home city, [[Tokyo]]. The name "Suiken" referenced her favorite style of martial arts. {{storylink|Source:Ask Vector Prime/Facebook#September 27, 2015|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/27}}

====Train Wars (1)====
{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|The Train Wars: The Origin}}}}

====''Masterpiece'' toy bios (1)====
The Trainbots joined the Autobots in 2011. They were appointed the Autobot transport team, inheriting the role from [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] and [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]] after the duo retired for a life of space exploration. {{storylink|Shouki#Masterpiece G Series|''Masterpiece'' Shouki bio}}

====''The Headmasters'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Kazumi Tanaka]] (Japanese)}}
In [[2011]], Suiken and the Trainbots were operating on Earth. After [[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]] invaded Cybertron, the robot trains assembled to transport their fellow Autobots to Cybertron across the [[space bridge]]. Shōki intervened on [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]]'s first fight with [[Sixshot (G1)|Sixshot]], knocking aside the ninja consultant long enough for the Autobots to roll out. The convoy was attacked along the way by the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]], but [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] drove them off. {{storylink|Four Warriors Come out of the Sky}} The Trainbots formed Raiden and fought alongside [[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]] and [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] against their Decepticon combiner counterparts. They were nearly crushed by falling debris when [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] collapsed a building on them using his [[Sonic stun-gun|sonic stun gun]]. {{storylink|The Mystery of Planet Master}} Suiken and the Trainbots returned to Earth just in time to shuttle [[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Hot Rod]] and the [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]]s back to Cybertron, after their successful quest for the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. {{storylink|Birth of the Fantastic Double Prime}} In their train mode, Suiken and the Trainbots transported Rodimus Prime and the [[Monsterbot (G1)|Monsterbots]] to planet [[Beast (planet)|Beast]] as reinforcements for the Headmasters. {{storylink|Rebellion on Planet Beast}} They also carried him into battle again on the planet [[Praum]], where [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] had set a trap for Fortress and his team. {{storylink|The Four-Million-Year-Old Veil of Mystery}}

Back on Earth, Suiken and the Trainbots took Danny and [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]] on a sightseeing trip in [[Tokyo]], [[Japan]]. When <s>Sixshot</s> a mysterious robot declared his intention to steal all of Japan's energy, Suiken and the Trainbots remained quietly alert, confident their combination form could handle any threat to their homeland. Their passive response to the danger angered the more action-oriented Headmaster team, especially [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]]. After fruitlessly chasing behind the bandit in attacks on London and New York, Chromedome was incensed when he arrived back at Autobot headquarters to see Suiken and the Trainbots returning from a shopping spree with Danny. Shōki and Chromedome nearly came to blows with each other before Danny intervened.

[[File:HM8 Trainbots in lounge.jpg|thumb|left|250px|On the right, on the bottom couch.]]
When the robot finally made his attack on Japan, Shōki demanded that his team be allowed the first strike against their opponent. Flying to the rescue, Suiken and the Trainbots assembled as Raiden to fight Sixshot. Raiden's victory was prevented by the arrival of [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]], piloted by [[Scourge (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Scourge]] and [[Cyclonus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Cyclonus]]. It turned into an all-out brawl after that, with the Headmasters arriving as reinforcements for their comrades. Sixshot was revealed, and he used his ninja training seemingly to duplicate himself, attacking Raiden as several winged wolves. As a demonstration of their newfound trust in each other, Raiden urged Chromedome to shoot at the holographic Sixshots swarming around him, knowing he would certainly be hit by some of the blasts. The Decepticons were eventually driven off, and Shōki and Chromedome shook hands back at headquarters, having forged a warrior's bond on the field of battle. {{storylink|Terror! The Six Shadows}}

Galvatron soon struck out against Cybertron again, this time seeking the new super-metal known as [[Cybertonuron]]. Suiken and the Trainbots were first in line on Earth to transport over the Space Bridge into combat with the Decepticons. They rushed straight into the fighting as soon as they arrived. {{storylink|Cybertron Is in Grave Danger, Part 1}} Suiken and the Trainbots confronted the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]] in defense of their home planet. The battle was fierce but brief, as the Trainbots disabled their opponents. Suiken and [[Getsuei]] tricked [[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]] and [[Tantrum (G1)|Tantrum]] into crashing into one another by leaping out of the way at just the right moment. {{storylink|Cybertron Is in Grave Danger, Part 2}}

Suiken and the Trainbots defended the [[Sol 1]] satellite during its launch cycle. When Scourge, Cyclonus and the Predacons arrived to steal the satellite, they flew out with the Headmasters to stop them. Shōki gave the command and the Trainbots assembled to form Raiden, grappling with [[Predaking (G1)|Predaking]] and ultimately chasing off the Decepticons. {{storylink|The Shadow Emperor, Scorponok}} Next, Suiken's team joined the [[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobots]] on an emergency rescue mission to [[Peru]], where an active volcano was threatening a small town. They were intercepted by the Predacons, and so Shōki asked [[Hot Spot (G1)|Hot Spot]] to go on ahead and help the villagers while the Trainbots occupied the Preds. Soon, Raiden and Predaking were formed, and the battle was really joined. The Headmasters soon arrived and tagged out the Trainbots, allowing Suiken and his friends to journey to the village and escort the people to safety in their combined train mode. {{storylink|The Dormant Volcano Mysteriously Erupts}} In their next evil scheme, the Decepticons unleashed [[buridanka|a giant carnivorous plant]] in downtown [[San Francisco]], prompting the Autobots to respond. Suiken and the Trainbots arrived on the scene, but were confronted by [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]], who wished to duel with sabers made of light. The Trainbots formed Raiden and met Bruticus sword for sword. {{storylink|Head On!! Fortress Maximus}}

[[File:HM8 Trainbots watching TV.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Second from the right.]]
On a geological expedition to [[Mars (planet)|Mars]] with Danny and Spike, Suiken and the Trainbots were present when a series of tremors rocked the landscape. Seeking to investigate, the group split up to locate the source of the phenomena. Suiken and his teammates ran into the Predacons, and soon they learned of a plot to blow up Mars. Passing off the investigation to Chromedome and the Headmasters, Suiken and the Trainbots flew back to Athenia in order to take Spike and Danny to safety. {{storylink|Explosion on Mars!! Maximus Is in Danger}} They were almost immediately called back, however — the Decepticon Headmasters had used [[plasma energy]] to neutralize Fortress Maximus, leaving the Autobots on Mars in desperate need of reinforcements. Suiken and the trains reformed Raiden as they arrived, and fought against [[Abominus (G1)|Abominus]] and the MegaZarak Transtector, scorpion mode. {{storylink|Explosion on Mars!! MegaZarak Appears}}

Suiken and the Trainbots served as military transportation for the Autobots when they attacked the Decepticon meeting on the [[Moon (moon)|moon]]. The strike was foiled by the arrival of Galvatron, and the Autobots fled back to Earth aboard the trains. {{storylink|Return of the Immortal Emperor}} Suiken and his teammates were next used for a relief mission. The planet [[Sandra (planet)|Sandra]] was in desperate need of energon, and Ultra Magnus coordinated the Autobots of Earth in gathering some of their energon reserves aboard the Trainbots. Galvatron and the Decepticons wanted the energy for themselves, however, and interfered with the relief aid. Suiken and the Trainbots took off twice for Sandra, and they were twice shot down by the Decepticons before they could leave atmosphere. The Autobots of Earth finally gave up, sending energy reserves from Athenia instead. {{storylink|SOS from Planet Sandra}} Suiken and the Trainbots also ferryed the Witwickys and Headmasters to the mutual benefits talk with Galvatron. When the discussions went sour, they helped the Headmasters defeat the [[Horrorcon (G1)|Horrorcons]] and make it to safety. {{storylink|Daniel Faces His Biggest Crisis Ever!!}}

[[File:HM18 Suiken and Getsuei.jpg|thumb|left|250px]]
After the talks failed, the Decepticons fled into space aboard Scorponok, planning to raid other planets in the universe for their energy. The Trainbots were part of a task force Fortress assembled to chase after their nefarious foes. After reaching the [[Twin Star]] planets, Suiken and the Trainbots ferried [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]] and [[Arcee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Arcee]] down to the barren world of [[Twin Star|Toruin]]. They then transformed into Raiden and flew to the sister planet, [[Twin Star|Sperity]], to battle the Decepticon invaders. {{storylink|Battle for Defense of the False Planet}} On [[Daros]], Suiken and the Trainbots transported the rescued prisoners from the northern hemisphere to safety. {{storylink|Find MegaZarak's Weak Spot!!}} They also appeared on [[Paradise]], escorting [[Highbrow (G1)|Highbrow]] on his scouting mission and later flying the Technobots and Monsterbots into battle. {{storylink|Head Formation of Friendship}} On [[Pirate Planet]], Suiken and the Trainbots defended the pirates' pyramid from Galvatron, so that Highbrow and the [[Clone (subgroup)|Autobot Clones]] could unlock its secrets first. {{storylink|Mystery of the Space Pirate Ship}}

After returning to Earth, Suiken and the Trainbots re-entered Ultra Magnus's command at Autobot City. They were summoned to transport the Technobots to [[Florida|Miami]], where an Autobot energy facility was under attack by the Decepticons. Suiken and his partners returned to Autobot City once it was attacked by Sixshot and Trypticon. They tried to enter the battle, assembling as Raiden, but were waylaid by [[Apeface]] and [[Snapdragon (G1)|Snapdragon]], who kept them busy long enough for Sixshot to murder Ultra Magnus on the battlefield. In the aftermath, Suiken and his comrades attended Magnus's funeral. {{storylink|Ultra Magnus Dies!!}}

When Spike and Chromedome needed to get to Earth for the volcano summit, Suiken and the trains popped over to Athenia to give them a ride. At Autobot City, Suiken and Shōki heard a commotion outside and investigated, finding Spike injured in a battle between Metroplex and Trypticon. As Shōki took Spike to safety, Suiken showed himself to be freakishly strong by ''flipping Trypticon off of Metroplex's back.'' Holy ''shit''. {{storylink|I Risk My Life for Earth}}

After the Decepticons seemingly abandoned Earth, Suiken and the Trainbots assisted Spike in rebuilding the planet after the enemy's departure. On one occasion, they located Sixshot's old command base. By combining into Raiden, the Trainbots helped Defensor and Computron obliterate the base, wiping out all trace of the Decepticons' presence. {{storylink|Miraculous Warriors, Targetmasters (Part 1)}}

After Wheelie was kidnapped by the Decepticons and ransomed for the secrets of the [[Master Sword]], Suiken and the Trainbots flew Chromedome and Danny in close to the [[Scorponok (G1)|MegaZarak]] base for a rescue attempt. {{storylink|The Master Sword Is in Danger!!}} When Danny went missing in a space vortex, Suiken's team joined the [[Targetmaster (technology)|Targetmaster]]s in searching for him. {{storylink|My Friend Sixshot!}} They also transported the Headmasters to the [[Pallas]] asteroid in order to battle the Decepticons. {{storylink|Duel on the Asteroid}}

Upon returning to Earth, Suiken and the Trainbots ferryed Danny and the Headmasters to the Andes Mountains for a rescue mission, after Spike and [[Carly]] crashed their jet in the treacherous terrain. {{storylink|The Final Showdown on Earth (Part 1)}} As part of Raiden, Suiken participated in the Autobots final battle with Scorponok's Decepticons at the North Pole. He lent his energies to the Headmasters' [[Head Formation]] to revitalize Fortress Maximus at the critical moment. {{storylink|The Final Showdown on Earth (Part 2)}}

====''Masterpiece'' toy bios (2)====
The destruction of the space bridge network left the Trainbots pivotal to the Autobots' transportation infrastructure, and they remained a frequent sight on Earth long after the Headmasters and the rest of the Autobot forces departed. {{storylink|Shouki#Masterpiece G Series|''Masterpiece'' Shouki bio}}

====''Super-God Masterforce Master File''====
Following the expulsion of the Decepticons from Earth after the battle at the North Pole, the Transformers' war shifted into a series of space-based exchanges between Athenia and Chaar known as the [[Master Wars]]. During this time, the Trainbots discovered that Scorponok had constructed a new transtector for himself, and reported the news to [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress]]. {{storylink|Master File No, 1}}

====Train Wars (2)====
[[File:Train Wars Suiken.jpg|thumb|left|120px]]
The Trainbots were heavily injured fighting the [[Nine Great Demon Generals]] in the form of Raiden, leaving them requiring extensive repairs. Blaming himself for their condition, Shouki left the team so that his leadership would never endanger them again. {{storylink|Train Wars: Shouki & Daniel Chapter}}

Later, just as all seemed lost for Shouki and the ragtag band of Transformers left to defend Cybertron, Shouki was greeted by Suiken along with the [[Micromaster]] trains [[Desire]] and [[D-Go]]. The other Trainbots had arrived astride [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]], bringing with them the [[Sixliner|Liner Team]] and the [[Sixtrain|Train Team]]! With that, on [[Windy (G1)|Windy]]'s count all three teams of train 'bots combined into [[Trainbot Omni-Car Joint|one massive coupling]] to chain the Fallen, giving Shouki and company time to vanquish the dark god by funneling Metroplex's power through Shouki's new "Raiden" cannon mode. The battle over, the Trainbots shared a tender moment as their old friend [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel Witwicky]] reminded Shouki they were ''all'' his partners. {{storylink|Train Wars 2}}
{{-}}
===''TV Magazine'' comic continuity===
====''The Headmasters'' comic====
[[File:Trainbots Beast Special.jpg|thumb|left|300px|He's the second train from the bottom.]]
Responding to a distress call from their [[Beastformer (species)|Beastformer]] allies on the planet [[Beast (planet)|Beast]], Suiken and the Trainbots hurtled through the atmosphere in their separate train modes to deal with the Decepticons menacing the planet. Combining in mid-air, the united team allowed gravity to do the rest of the work as Raiden delivered a shattering "JR Kick" straight to Predaking's face, taking him out of the fight. The day won, [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] directed the Trainbots to shuttle the any of the Beastformers' wounded back to the Autobot base on [[Athenia]] for treatment. {{storylink|The Decisive Battle of Planet Beast!}}

Back on Earth, Suiken and his team wowed Daniel with their amphibious talents as they transported him and the Autobot Headmasters on a mission to investigate reports of massive squids attacking the Autobots' undersea bases. The Decepticons were laying in ambush and unleashed the culprit, a giant robot squid! The Trainbots allowed themselves to be entangled by the mechanical mollusk, biding their time until Daniel was safe inside his [[exosuit]] and the Headmasters' remotely piloted [[transtector]]s converged on their location. When the time was right, the Trainbots erupted into their robot modes, catapulting their passengers to safety and shredding several of creatures' tentacles in the process. As the Headmasters did their part by tying the creature into one massive knot, the Trainbots made a show of it by erupting from the ocean as Raiden to swing the swing the automaton architeuthis like a mace, flattening the other Decepticons and ending the aquatic menace. {{storylink|The Headmasters issue 3|The Headmasters #3}}

[[File:HMmanga trainbots.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Bottom right.]]
When [[Christmas]] rolled around, Suiken and co got into the spirit of the season when they joined the Autobot Headmasters in handing out gifts at a Japanese children's hospital, even going so far as to procure an enormous Santa hat to don as Raiden and carry a huge sack. The merriment was soon interrupted by the arrival of the Decepticon Headmasters, but rather than join the battle, the Trainbots followed Chromedome's instruction to disengage, decombining and flying the hospital's patients to safety in their respective train modes.{{storylink|The Headmasters issue 6|The Headmasters #6}}

====''The Headmasters'' story pages====
Upon their arrival to [[Athenia]], the [[Targetmaster (technology)|Targetmasters]] set out to make themselves useful by offering their expertise to [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress's]] existing troops. While the Trainbots could assume their train modes in a flash, when it came time to combine into Raiden, the big guy failed to live up to his name. Suiken and his team began taking speed transformation lessons from the Autobots' new resident "Speed Coach", [[Pointblank]], to get their super mode formation up to snuff. {{storylink|Transformers: The Headmasters (story page)|''The Headmasters'' story pages}}
====''Super-God Masterforce'' comic====
[[File:Trainbots Masterforce Delivery.jpg|thumb|left|400px|Second from the right.]]

Several years after the Decepticons' expulsion from Earth following the final battle at the North Pole, the Trainbots were dispatched to pick up the new Autobot [[Masterforce (technology)|Masterforce]] that had risen to prominence on Earth, and bring them to [[Athenia]] so Fortress could transfer his position of [[Supreme Commander]] to their leader, [[Ginrai (human)|Ginrai]]. Naturally, the Decepticons attacked Athenia during Ginrai's stay, and the Trainbots formed Raiden to fight back, only for him to wind up being cut down alongside Chromedome by a powerful blast from the combined Decepticon [[Scramble 7]]. The quick thinking of Ginrai and the other Godmasters managed to repel the Decepticons with a combination attack, and a battered Raiden survived to fight another day. {{storylink|The Battle Begins! The Earth-Space Alliance Army}}
{{--}}

===''Super-God Masterforce'' intro===
[[File:Robottrain.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Behind Ginrai.]]
The Trainbots soared majestically through the sky in their combined train mode alongside- [[Ginrai (human)|Ginrai]]'s base mode??? {{storylink|title sequence#Title sequence #1 2|''Masterforce'' title sequence}}

===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
Suiken was part of a big crowd of unhappy Cybertronians who made [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] look really stupid when he tried to make a speech assuring them that everything would be okay after the collapse of [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]'s supposedly-benevolent rule. {{storylink|Skyfire (issue)|Skyfire}}

==Games==
===''The Transformers'' (PS2)===
{{Note|Suiken is a non-playable character. He appears among the legion of Autobot duplicates in the Decepticon campaign.}}
{{storylink|The Transformers (PS2)|The Transformers}}

==Toys==
===''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers''===
{{anchor|The Headmasters}}
[[File:G1-toy Suiken.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Suiken''' ([[1987]])
**''ID number'': '''C-128'''
**''Accessories'': "Storm laser" pistol, 3 "joint parts" connectors, left Raiden fist
{{toydesigner|[[Kōjin Ōno]] (TakaraTomy)}}

:Suiken transforms into a {{w|153_series|Tokai-type 153 Express locomotive}}. He also forms the left arm of the team's combined mode [[Raiden]]... though he can also form the right arm if you're so inclined.
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1987/Cybertron/Suiken/suiken.htm More information on Suiken at TFU.info]''

{{-}}{{anchor|Raiden}}
[[File:G1toy raiden giftset.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4]]
*'''Raiden''' (Gift set, 1987)
:The entire Trainbot team was sold both as individuals and in a six-bot Raiden gift-set. All six toys in this set were identical to their individual releases.

{{-}}{{anchor|Zone}}
*'''Suiken''' (''Trainbot'', [[1990]])
**''ID number'': '''C-357'''
**''Accessories'': "Storm laser" pistol, 3 "joint parts" connectors, left Raiden fist

:The Trainbots were re-released during ''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (toyline)#1990 (Zone)|Zone]]'' in new packaging, and only as individuals, never in a box set. The toys are identical to their original ''Headmasters'' incarnations, except for the fact that they no longer sport [[rubsign]]s.
{{--}}

====''Transform Jr''====
*'''Raiden''' (1987)

:An exceedingly simplified version of the entire Trainbot team was made available as part of the [[Transform Jr]] series. Each individual has a (stumpy) representation of their larger robot modes, and could combine to form a stumpy Raiden.
{{-}}
===''Masterpiece G Series''===
[[File:TF-Masterpiece-MPG-04-Trainbot-Suiken.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Trainbot Suiken''' (June ??, [[2023]])
**''ID number:'' '''MPG-04'''
**''Accessories:'' "Snow Laser" gun, [[Raiden]]'s "Train Bazooka" rifle, rail A, rail B, joint part
{{toydesigner|[[Kōjin Ōno]] (TakaraTomy)|[[Yuki Ohshima]] (concept artist)}}

:Previously teased on the "A Railway Story In The Sky" exhibition on [[December 3]], [[2019]] and later confirmed in a magazine interview<ref>[https://www.soundwavesoblivion.com/techspecs/interviewkojinono.html Figure King 278: Interview with Kōjin Ōno] at Soundwave's Oblivion</ref> with designer [[Kōjin Ōno]] in the [[March]] [[2021]] issue of ''[[Figure Ō]]'', Suiken is the fourth release in the ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece G Series]]''. Produced in collaboration with [[TOMIX]], the {{w|Rail transport modelling|train department}} of TakaraTomy's {{w|scale model}} oriented subsidiary [[Tomytec]], the figure converts into a fully HO [[scale]] compatible incarnation of his classic {{w|153_series|Tokai-type 153 Express}} train mode.<ref>[https://news.tfw2005.com/2021/10/28/figure-king-285-interview-with-mpg-01-raiden-development-team-english-translation-443964 Figure King 285: Interview With MPG-01 Raiden Development Team – English Translation] on TFW2005</ref> Suiken's third mode forms the left arm of the historic first ''Masterpiece'' combiner in the form of a new incarnation of Raiden. In addition to his traditional position as Raiden's arm, the front of Suiken's train mode splits off to form Raiden's left "Leg Beam" ankle winglet, formerly an inert piece of [[kibble|combiner kibble]].

:The figure's last contribution to the combined mode comes in the form of Raiden's "Train Bazooka" rifle, now usable to the individual Trainbots via a tab and flip-down secondary handle that allow it to live up to its name with an ersatz bazooka mode. As with the prior MPG Trainbots, Suiken includes two modular railway sections slated to combine with segments included with the other Trainbots a la the team's original ''Diaclone'' plastic tracks. This track can be converted into a base for a stand armature (sold separately), and an adapter is included for a "flying train," a staple of the ''Headmasters'' cartoon.

{{comingsoontoy}}
{{--}}

{{--}}

==Notes==
*It is a difficult to tell the true meaning of Suiken's name, since it is "spelled" in phonetic katakana rather than kanji. However, ''suiken'' (酔拳, literally "water fist") is the Japanese transliteration for the Chinese ''zuì quán'' (醉拳) style of kung-fu — known more commonly in the West as the "{{w|Drunken boxing|Drunken Fist}}" style. We've never ''seen'' Suiken down a swig and go all ''{{w|Drunken Master}}'' on anyone, but the possibilities are awesomely tantalizing. This was referenced years later when the Facebook edition of Ask Vector Prime told the origin story of the Trainbots.
*Suiken had the preliminary name of '''Storm''' (ストーム),<ref>''When the Anime/Tokusatsu Hero Was Born'' by [[Keisuke Fujikawa]]</ref> which was likely taken from the occasional identification of the ''Diaclone'' toy as "Stormliner" (ストームライナー ''Sutōmurainā'').
*The Japanese term in his function that's normally translated "plains" or "wasteland" is the one used in the translation of the title "High Plains Drifter", so you could consider him to be a high plains warrior. Suiken does not, however, talk like Clint Eastwood.
*The Trainbots are all originally ''[[Diaclone]]'' toys, which came in two different color schemes. However, there are several mold differences between the ''Diaclone'' and ''Transformers'' versions. Suiken's most notable difference is that the ''Transformers'' versions lost a spring-loaded firing mechanism for the fist / front part of the train, which the ''Diaclone'' version does contain. Due to this change, the connector-peg for his robot-mode backpack was remolded from a long notched peg (as seen on his box-art) to a shorter and far less breakable peg. The ''Transformers'' releases also lost the [[Diaclone (faction)|Diaclone]] pilots (of course) and the little plastic tracks for the trains to ride on.
*Suiken appears as part of the Trainbots' combined train form in the [[title sequence]] of the [[Transformers: Super-God Masterforce (cartoon)|''Super-God Masterforce'' cartoon]], but not in the series itself. The series creators seem to have intended to use the Robot Train to travel back and forth to [[Athenia]], more closely tying ''Super-God Masterforce'' to previous Transformers series, but the idea was quietly dropped. They did, however, appear for that purpose in the [[Transformers: Super-God Masterforce (manga)|manga]].

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.diaclone.net/orid/diatr/d071.html ''Diaclone'' Suiken at Diaclone.net (Japanese-language site)]

[[Category:Dreamwave Generation 1 Autobots]]
[[Category:Trainbots]]

Warrior School!

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{{comicstory|seriesissue=[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|''The Transformers'' (US)]] #7
|prev=The Worse of Two Evils!
|next=Repeat Performance!
|title="Warrior School!"
|seriesissue2=[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)#Marvel UK|''The Transformers'' (UK)]] #26
|prev2=The Worse of Two Evils!
|next2=Repeat Performance!
|image=MarvelUS-07.jpg
|caption=Ratchet's such a drama queen.
|publisher=[[Marvel Comics]]
|date=[[April 23]], [[1985]] ("on sale" [[May 14]], 1985)
|coverdate=August 1985
|script=[[Bob Budiansky]]
|pencils=[[William Johnson]]
|inks=[[Kyle Baker]]
|color=[[Nelson Yomtov|Nel Yomtov]]
|letters=[[Rick Parker]]
|editor=[[Christopher J. Priest]]
|continuity=[[Marvel Comics continuity]]
}}
'''Ratchet discovers the fate of the other Autobots, and must fight Megatron on his own.'''

==Synopsis==
Walking through the [[Mount Hood National Forest|woods]] in search of a road to drive [[Buster Witwicky (G1)|Buster]] home, [[Ratchet (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ratchet]] and Buster meet up with a group of campers. As Ratchet demonstrates [[Laser scalpel|a new way to cook]] [[hot dog (food)|hot dog]]s, Buster experiences a severe head pain as an after-effect of his experience with [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]]. Buster is taken home by the campers, leaving Ratchet free to deal with bigger problems.

[[File:Laserbeakwarriorschool.jpg|thumb|left]]
[[Soundwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Soundwave]] and [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] use their innocuous alternate forms to infiltrate and take over another [[Blackrock Enterprises]] installation, this time [[Blackrock Aerospace Assembly Plant Number One|an aerospace plant]] that builds jet fighters. [[G.B. Blackrock|Blackrock]] breaks the news to a hospitalized [[Circuit Breaker (G1)|Josie Beller]], who apparently designed this aerospace plant as well. Blackrock swears that the giant robots will be stopped, but Josie is already making plans of her own.

Ratchet returns to the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] alone to verify Buster's findings, and soon finds the inert [[Autobot]]s. He despairs upon finding the head of Optimus Prime, but Prime counsels him to fight as a warrior to defeat [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]]. Uncertain of what this might mean, Ratchet agrees.

[[Jesse (G1)|Jessie]] and [["O"]] attempt to cheer up Buster, who is wondering how to handle [[Sparkplug Witwicky|his father's]] [[S. Witwicky Auto Repairs & Tow Service|flagging car repair business]] while he's recovering in the hospital. Buster explodes at the pair when they suggest that he can learn to repair cars just as easily as his hard-working father. After they leave, Buster is gripped by another head-splitting pain—and recovers to realize that several metal objects nearby were apparently floating in the air.

Ratchet soon finds Megatron, who easily overpowers him. But when Shockwave contacts Megatron with orders to prepare Optimus Prime for transport, Ratchet realizes that Megatron has lost command of the Decepticons, a potential weakness. He manages to strike a deal, sealed with the sacred [[Rite of Oneness]]: Ratchet will destroy [[Shockwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Shockwave]], in exchange for the return of the Ark and the [[Autobot]]s inside. If he fails, Megatron will destroy him; if he succeeds, Megatron resumes his leadership of the [[Decepticon]]s and wins regardless.
{{--}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Ratchet (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ratchet]] (2)
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] (4)
*[[Cliffjumper (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Cliffjumper]] (11)
*[[Jazz (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Jazz]] (12)
*[[Prowl (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Prowl]] or [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] (13)
*[[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] (14)
*[[Ironhide (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ironhide]] (15)
*[[Sludge (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Sludge]] (22)
*[[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]] (23)
*[[Slag (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Slag]] (24)
|c2=
*[[Soundwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Soundwave]] (6)
*[[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] (7)
*[[Shockwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Shockwave]] (8)
*[[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] (18)
*[[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] (19)
*[[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]] (20)
*Decepticon jet (21)
|c3=
*[[Melanie]] and friends (1)
*[[Buster Witwicky (G1)|Buster Witwicky]] (3)
*[[Ferdy and Gabe]] (5)
*[[G.B. Blackrock]] (9)
*[[Circuit Breaker (G1)|Josie Beller]] (10)
*[[Jesse (G1)|Jessie]] (16)
*[["O"]] (17)
}}

==Quotes==
"Forgive me, humans! My intrusion upon your ceremonies was purely unintentional. The terrain of your planet is often uneven, quite unlike that of my home planet '''Cybertron'''. I lost my footing and accidentally nudged this brown pipe out of its mooring. Permit me to correct my error."
:—'''Ratchet''' tries to put a tree back in place

"Hmm... intriguing... heat tempered protein cylinders!"
:—'''Ratchet''' discovers hot dogs

"As you trained on our native Cybertron to be a doctor... so shall you train on Earth to be a warrior! Experience shall be your instructor. Your own survival shall be your ultimate test."
:—'''Optimus Prime'''

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
[[File:Warrior School! Cybertron.jpg|upright=0.6|thumb]]
*Footnotes remind the reading audience of the events of [[The Worse of Two Evils!|last issue]], including the shock Optimus Prime gave Buster; Shockwave's attack on Blackrock's oil rig and the injuries Josie Beller suffering during it; Buster's discovery of the Autobots deactivated bodies; and Megatron's battle with Shockwave and Ratchet witnessing its aftermath.
*Sparkplug continues to recover from the mild heart attack he suffered, which a footnote reminds us happened in [[The Last Stand|issue #4]].
*Though Jessie will return in future issues, "O" takes Buster's instruction on page 16 to "leave him alone" rather literally; he will never appear in the comic again after this issue.
*Megatron gives us new info about events from [[The Transformers (issue)|issue #1]], recapping why Shockwave stayed behind during the attack on the Ark (he planned the attack and stayed behind as backup) and his subsequent battle with the Dinobots as shown in issue #4. During his flashback (page 21, panel 1, pictured), we see a Cybertronian building with a "honeycomb"-style window-dome; a similar building appeared in issue #1 (page 1, panel 4).
*You'd never suspect it to read this issue in isolation, but the interaction between Megatron and Ratchet in this story is the first in a series of confrontations that will occur across the whole length of the Marvel series. They will actually have more dramatic face-offs in Marvel US continuity than Megatron and Optimus Prime!

===Real-life references===
*Ratchet and Buster encounter the campers in Oregon's real-life [[Mount Hood National Forest]]. Since he just left the Ark on foot and hasn't found a road, Mount St. Hilary must be ''very'' close to Mount Hood.
* Buster's home is in [[Portland]].
*Ratchet states he is "a doctor, not a warrior," imitating the famous catchphrase of ''[[Star Trek]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s [[Leonard McCoy|Doctor McCoy]].
*Buster mentions President and CEO of the Chrysler Corporation, [[Lee Iacocca]], while despairing over repairing the cars at his dad's garage.

===Continuity and plotting errors===
*At the end of last issue, Buster was wearing his trademark pink t-shirt, but this issue, he has changed into a white t-shirt and jacket. He hasn't been home yet to change (since that's where he and Ratchet are headed when they meet the campers) so his new wardrobe goes unexplained. It's compounded somewhat by the fact artist William Johnson remembers to draw Buster in his pink tee in the flashback to the events of the previous issue.
*Buster is described as having been "blasted with a coruscating beam of energy" by Optimus Prime last issue, when in fact, Prime "electrocuted" him via two wires pressed to either side of Buster's head.
*Megatron was defeated by Shockwave while still recovering from his damage. He seems to be fully repaired now, making it a little unclear why he should need Ratchet's help.

===Artwork and technical errors===
*On the issue's cover art, Megatron is missing the gun barrel on his back.
*Ratchet's fluctuating prototypical red-white-and-blue color scheme which he has had in the series up to this point final settles down this issue into his finalized Marvel color scheme—all white with a red helmet and fists. The multiple thin red stripes that run around his forearms in this story, however, will be steadily phased out over the course of the series.
*On the flipside, Soundwave spends the duration of this issue colored ''blue''; it matches his [[character model|animation model]], toy, and the UK comic, but within the context of the US Marvel comic, it's actually an error, since he's always purple in its pages.
*G.B. Blackrock spends this issue without his mustache, and error that will repeat a few times in these early appearances of the character.
*During Buster's flashback, Optimus Prime's cheek and nose are colored yellow. In this scene, "coruscating" is misspelled as "corruscating" in the US issue.
*As previously seen in issues [[Prisoner of War!|#3]] and #4, Megatron's Decepticon insignia is once again off-center, shifted over to the right of his chest, as result of the artist misinterpreting the geometry of his character model.
*Page 5, panel 7: The coloring makes it look like the beam from Ratchet's laser scalpel stops at his wrist and doesn't actually hit the hot dogs.
*Page 7, panel 3: Ferdy states that he likes "to punch in ''one'' time" to work, rather than ''on'' time.
*Page 14, panel 2: After being shown as little more than a torso in [[The New Order|issue #5]], Ironhide is now mostly intact again.
*Pages 14–15: Johnson draws Optimus Prime's head as missing its "antenna ears," when they were attached to it in the previous two issues.
*Page 18: Megatron's fusion cannon has its own little Decepticon symbol! Cute, but definitely not part of his standard design!
*Page 20, panel 5: Ratchet says he will help Megatron "defend Shockwave" when he clearly means "defeat Shockwave".
*Page 22, panel 4: The speech bubble that begins "This much I knew or Shockwave told me..." is attributed to Ratchet, but the dialogue belongs to Megatron. This error does not appear in the UK issue.

===UK printing===
*'''Published:''' [[September 7|7th September]], 1985
*'''[[Back-up strips]]:''' ''[[Robo-Capers]]'', ''Chromobots'' and ''Matt and the Cat''. ''Chromobots'' concludes this issue.
*This issue was the first and only instance of a full issue of the US comic being reprinted in one UK issue, instead of split into multiple parts. This was because this was the final issue of the UK series to printed in a mixture of colour and black-and-white; the series went full-colour from the next issue onward as part of a design revamp. With both back-up strips (''Machine Man'' and ''Planet Terry'') having reached the end of their current stories last issue, rather than start any ''new'' back-ups one month before the whole look and format of the comic was changed, this issue just reprinted a full US issue to fill out the pages.

===Other trivia===
[[File:Larry hama transmissions.jpeg|upright=0.8|thumb|[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]: Not for wimps, apparently]]
*Strangely, an [https://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=863534 overlay] exists for the cover, indicating that [[Herb Trimpe]] redrew Megatron for the final cover. While the reason for this is unconfirmed, it would appear that Bright accidentally drew the earlier Megatron character model with a trigger on his fusion cannon on the original cover, judging by the positioning of Megatron's right hand.
*This issue's [[Letters page|Transmissions]] page notes that [[Larry Hama]] kept a ''prototype'' of [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] on his desk in the [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]] offices. Wonder if he's still got it?
*At some point, CardsOne, a company that deals in vintage comics, trading cards, and collectibles, acquired a large stock of unsold copies of IDW Publishing's ''[[The Transformers: Generations (comic)|The Transformers: Generations]]'' reprint of this issue (cover variant "A"). These copies were bagged with a second random comic book and a random trading card, then sold via Dollar Tree stores around Easter of 2012.
*IDW's ''[[Classic Transformers]]'' reprint of this issue censored an editor's note on page 22 that identified the [[Savage Land]]. The note was restored for future reprints.

===Bot Roster===
*Autobots: Ratchet active; 16 inactive plus Optimus Prime held captive; 5 Dinobots missing in action.
*Decepticons: 11 active.

===Courtesy of my...===
*Ratchet busts out his [[laser scalpel]] to cook some hot dogs; later he uses it alongside his [[cryogenic sprayer]] to fight Megatron.

===Covers (2)===
*'''US issue #7:''' Ratchet faces down Megatron, by [[Mark Bright]], with Megatron done by [[Herb Trimpe]] (see "Other trivia" above).
*'''UK issue #26:''' reuse of art from US cover.
<gallery>
File:MarvelUS-07.jpg|'''US issue #7''' -
File:MarvelUK-026.jpg|'''UK issue #26''' - Ratchet isn't allowed to speak in the UK!
</gallery>

===Reprints===
<gallery>
File:Transformers Digest 04-cover.jpg|'''[[The Transformers Comics Magazine issue 4|''The Transformers Comics Magazine'' #4]]''' (Marvel US, 1987)
File:Titan-NewOrderSC.jpg|'''''[[Transformers: New Order]]'' paperback''' (Titan Books, 2003)
File:Titan-NewOrderHC.jpg|'''''[[Transformers: New Order]]'' hardback''' (Titan Books, 2003)
File:IDW Generations 1 Cover A.jpg|'''''[[The Transformers: Generations#"Warrior School!"|The Transformers: Generations #1]]'' cover A''' by [[Ashley Wood]] (IDW Publishing, 2006)
File:IDW Generations 1 Cover B.jpg|'''''[[The Transformers: Generations#"Warrior School!"|The Transformers: Generations #1]]'' cover B''' by [[Nick Roche]] (IDW Publishing, 2006)
File:IDW Generations 1 Cover RI.jpg|'''''[[The Transformers: Generations#"Warrior School!"|The Transformers: Generations #1]]'' retailer incentive cover''' (IDW Publishing, 2006)
File:IDW Generations 1 Cover ND.jpg|'''''[[The Transformers: Generations#"Warrior School!"|The Transformers: Generations #1]]'' New Dimension Comics exclusive cover''' by [[Nick Roche]] (IDW Publishing, 2006)
File:Generations TPB.jpg|'''''[[The Transformers: Generations (comic)|The Transformers: Generations]]'' trade paperback''' (IDW Publishing, 2007)
File:Classic Transformers Vol1.jpg|'''[[Classic Transformers Volume 1|''Classic Transformers'' Volume 1]]''' (IDW Publishing, 2008)
File:TFClassicsVol1.JPG|'''[[The Transformers Classics, Vol. 1|''The Transformers Classics,'' Vol. 1]]'''
File:ClassicComicCollection1.jpg|'''''Transformers: Classic Comic Collection, Vol. 1''''' (Chrirpy Bird, 2015)
File:DefinitiveG1Collection v2.jpg|'''''[[Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection]], Vol. 2: New Order''''' (Hachette Partworks Ltd, 2018)
File:HXClassicsVol2.jpg|'''''[[The Transformers Classics#Japanese reprints|The Transformers Classics]], Vol. 2''''' ([[Mediaboy Mook]], 2018)
</gallery>

====IDW ''Transformers Classics'' edits====
For ''[[The Transformers Classics]]'' series of trade paperbacks, IDW Publishing "remastered" the coloring of the series with varying degrees of success. These changes were sometimes to fix errors, but often to alter characters' color schemes to make them resemble their toy and/or cartoon selves, and were rarely applied with consistency. IDW's recolored version was also used for Hachette's ''[[Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection|Definitive G1 Collection]]''.
*Page 7, panel 6: Gabe's forearms are incorrectly recolored to become the same golden-yellow as his lunchbox.
*Page 8, panel 3: As he transforms, Soundwave's torso is also incorrectly recolored that same golden-yellow color.
*Page 23, panel 6: Text recreation incorrectly changes Megatron's use of the word "command" to the misspelled "cummand," misinterpreting a half-faded "o" in the original printing and re-drawing it as a u.

===Advertisements===
*Clear-Ups acne cream (inner front cover)
*Oreo "Oreo Tumbler" <s>scam</s> Promotion - between pages 4 & 5
*DP Orbatron Barbells and Weight Benches - between pages 5 & 6
*Twizzlers - between pages 7 & 8
*[[Nestlé]] Quick - between pages 8 & 9
*Bonkers! - between pages 16 & 17
*Dorman's Cheese "Secret Wars Sticker Album" Promotion - between pages 17 & 18
*Comic Related Ads - between pages 19 & 20
*Bullpen Bulletins and an ad for ''Elfquest'' - between pages 20 & 21
*[[Letters page|Transmissions]]
*''Secret Wars II'' issue #3 (Circuit Breaker appears in this issue - inner rear cover)
*The Nutty Pay-Day Game (back cover)

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2022-08-28T17:30:48Z

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[[File:Daisuke_Ono.jpg|right|thumb|"[[Acknowledged]]"]]
'''Daisuke Ono''' (小野大輔, ''Ono Daisuke'', born [[May 4]], [[1978]]) is a Japanese voice actor and singer. His best-known anime roles include Jotaro Kujo in ''JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure'', Sebastian Michaelis in ''Black Butler'', Commander Erwin Smith in ''Attack on Titan'', Battler Ushiromiya in ''Umineko When They Cry'', Shukuro Tsukishima in ''Bleach'', Itsuki Koizumi in the ''Haruhi Suzumiya'' series, Sinbad in the ''Magi'' series and Shizuo Heiwajima in ''Durarara!!''. In video games, he voices Snow Villiers in ''Final Fantasy XIII'' and Silver the Hedgehog in the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (video game)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' series.

In terms of dubbing, he has voiced Karl Mordo in [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]]’s ''Doctor Strange'' film and its sequel, Steve Trevor in [[DC Comics|DC]]’s ''Wonder Woman'' film and ''its'' sequel, Casey Jones in the [[Michael Bay]] produced ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows'' and Prince Gumball in ''Adventure Time''.

==Roles==
===''Transformers: Cyberverse''===
*[[Backbite (Cyberverse)|Backbite]]

==External links==
*[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=14929 Anime News Network entry]

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Daisuke Ono

2022-08-28T17:30:18Z

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[[File:Daisuke_Ono.jpg|right|thumb|"[[Acknowledged]]"]]
'''Daisuke Ono''' (小野大輔, ''Ono Daisuke'', born [[May 4]], [[1978]]) is a Japanese voice actor and singer. His best-known anime roles include Jotaro Kujo in ''JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure'', Sebastian Michaelis in ''Black Butler'', Commander Erwin Smith in ''Attack on Titan'', Battler Ushiromiya in ''Umineko When They Cry'', Shukuro Tsukishima in ''Bleach'', Itsuki Koizumi in the ''Haruhi Suzumiya'' series, Sinbad in the ''Magi'' series and Shizuo Heiwajima in ''Durarara!!''. In video games, he voices Snow Villiers in ''Final Fantasy XIII'' and Silver the Hedgehog in the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (video game)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' series.

In terms of dubbing, he has voiced Karl Mordo in [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]]’s ''Doctor Strange'' film and its sequel, Steve Trevor in [[DC Comics|DC]]’s ''Wonder Woman'' film and ''its'' sequel, Casey Jones in the [[Michael Bay]] produced ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows'', and Prince Gumball in ''Adventure Time''.

==Roles==
===''Transformers: Cyberverse''===
*[[Backbite (Cyberverse)|Backbite]]

==External links==
*[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=14929 Anime News Network entry]

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File:Daisuke Ono.jpg

2022-08-28T17:30:05Z

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Daisuke Ono, the Japanese voice for [[Backbite (Cyberverse)|Backbite]] in [[Transformers: Cyberverse (cartoon)|''Cyberverse'']].

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Takehito Koyasu

2022-07-11T01:07:44Z

Trex2themax: Added a needed space in the bio.

[[File:Takehito Koyasu.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|GOODBYE [[Kazuyuki Okitsu|JOJO!]]]]

'''Takehito Koyasu''' (子安武人 ''Koyasu Takehito'', born [[May 5]], [[1967]]) is an incredibly prolific Japanese voice actor, and the creator of the hilariously awful anime ''Knight Hunters'' (''Weiss Kreuz'').

He's well known for voicing 7-Changer in ''[[Brave (franchise)|Legendary Brave Da Garn]]'', Kai Hirose in in ''[[Brave (franchise)|Brave Command Dagwon]]'', Dio Brando in ''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure'', the titular hero of ''Bobobo-Bo Bo-bobo'', Excalibur in ''Soul Eater'', Lord Il Palazzo in ''Excel Saga'', [[Kululu]] in ''Keroro Gunsō'', Kuzan in ''One Piece'', numerous roles throughout the long-running ''Gundam'' franchise, [[Sam Riegel|Pandora]] in ''Yu-Gi-Oh!: Duel Monsters'', Kenshiro in ''New Fist Of The North Star'', young Father Balder in ''[[Atsuko Tanaka|Bayonetta]] 2'', Zato-1/Eddie in ''Guilty Gear'', Shinsuke Takasugi in ''Gintama'', Faust VII in ''Shaman King'', Roswaal L. Mathers in ''Re:ZERO'', Rezo the Red Priest in ''The Slayers'', and the ever-popular Deadpool in ''Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers''.

In the world of dubbing, he has played Fred Jones in the live-action ''Scooby-Doo'' films, Prince Blueblood in ''[[My Little Pony|My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'', and The [[Joker]] in both the ''DCEU'' and ''The LEGO Batman Movie''.

He is also part of the voice actor quartet "Weiß" with his fellow Weiß Kreuz voice castmates [[Shinichirō Miki]], [[Tomokazu Seki]] and Hiro Yuki.

==Roles==
===''Beast Wars''===
* [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|(Gorilla) Convoy]]

===''Beast Wars Metals''===
* (Metals) Convoy
* [[Vok]]

===''Beast Wars II''===
* Convoy (in ''[[Lio Convoy in Imminent Danger!]]'')

===''Beast Machines''===
* Convoy

===''Transformers Animated''===
*[[Nanosec|Speed King]]

===''Transformers Adventure -Prime of Micron-''===
*[[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]]

===''Transformers: Cyberverse''===
*[[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus Prime]]

===''Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy''===
* [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]]

==Notes==
*According to the Anime News Network, as of December [[2008]], Koyasu is the most prolific voice actor in Japan with roles in 365 anime series.
*Takehito Koyasu is often dubbed by English speaking voice actors like [[Patrick Seitz]] and [[Troy Baker]], but so far none of them have dubbed the same Transformers role.

==External links==
* [http://www.koyasutakehito.com/ Star Chamber]
* [http://www.marine-e.co.jp/actor/koyasu/index.htm Marine Entertainment]
* [http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=662 ANN Profile]

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Titan (group)

2022-06-26T02:32:10Z

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{{disambig3|Titan}}
[[File:MtMtEAnn2012-Metrotitans.jpg|upright=2.5|thumb|[[Solomus|Gotta catch'em all!]]]]

'''Titans''', also known as '''cityformers''', '''Metrotitans''', or '''Megamasters''', are gigantic 'bots, capable of transforming into colossal starships and even entire cities. More powerful than even the strongest [[combiner]] and capable of bringing an entire army's worth of firepower to bear, Titans are living arsenals of exotic weapons and arcane technologies that outmatch a score of lesser Cybertronians. Indeed, one of the only things capable of stopping a Titan is another Titan—the reason why both [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s across the [[multiverse]] have sought to recruit these mighty warriors into their ranks—and when Titans ''do'' clash, the fallout from their apocalyptic battles can prove devastating.

Though most Cybertronians view these awe-inspiring giants as enigmatic beings who exist on a fundamentally different scale from themselves, the tradition of "[[Cityspeaker|cityspeaking]]" allows certain Transformers to communicate with and even control the giants.

{{quote|Wonderful creatures, hard to shop for—almost impossible to find hats in their size.|[[Wreck-Gar (G1)|Wreck-Gar]]|"[[New Cybertron Part 2: A Lonely Pillar on the Plain|A Lonely Pillar on the Plain]]"}}

==Conceptual history==
[[File:Predacons-ColdWar.jpg|thumb|left|250px|The [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|Marvel comic]] made the decision to depict Scorponok and Fortress Maximus as "normal" Transformers.]]
Transformers who turn into cities and buildings have formed an integral part of the ''Transformers'' mythos for years, beginning in 1986 with the release of [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] and [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] and continuing into the next year with the debut of [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] and [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]. Despite their many similarities, however, this group of Transformers did not receive an official designation and so the [[fandom]] contrived ad hoc terms such as "city-bot" or "cityformer;" these nicknames stuck, and some eventually found their way back into some official media. Early incarnations played fast and loose with [[scale]], with the [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|Marvel ''Transformers'' comic]] and even the [[2005 IDW continuity]] eschewing the "giant" aspect of some of the characters completely and instead depicting Maximus and Scorponok as slightly above-average sized 'bots.

[[File:FOC-Metroplexheedsthecall.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The ''[[Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron]]'' video game established many of the traits that would find their way into the Titans of the IDW continuity.]]

Though a number of Japanese-exclusive stories and toys would introduce other cityformers into the mix, [[redeco]]ing Metroplex and Fortress Maximus into new characters like [[Metrotitan (G1)|Metrotitan]] and [[Fortress Maximus (RID)|Brave Maximus]], the concept gradually fell by the wayside until [[2010]], when the [[Aligned continuity family]] brought a new version of [[Trypticon (WFC)|Trypticon]] back into the fore as one of the final bosses of the ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (games)|War for Cybertron]]'' video game. Two years later, ''[[Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron]]'' would similarly reintroduce [[Metroplex (FOC)|Metroplex]], depicting him as an ancient Transformer from a bygone era of the planet's history.

This depiction of Metroplex would go on to inform the original IDW continuity, and the [[Primus: You, Me, and Other Revelations|2012 ''More than Meets the Eye'' annual]] applied this concept to an entire "species" of gigantic, city-sized Transformers. Originally, author [[James Roberts]] described them as "Metrotitans", repurposing the name of the [[Metrotitan (G1)|''Zone'' Decepticon]], but this was abandoned almost immediately: in the [[Primus: All Good Things|2012 ''Robots in Disguise'' annual]], released the same month, the species were called only "Titans", and the single Titan involved in the story was referred to as "The Metrotitan"; soon after, [[The End of the Beginning of the World|''Robots in Disguise'' #11]] dropped the "The" when referring to him, using the word as an individual's name. Nobody really noticed, though, and the subject didn't come up again until Metrotitan [[All Hail Optimus Part 5: As Above...So Below|returned]] in the build-up to the 2016 ''[[Titans Return (comic)|Titans Return]]'' event, and his name being different to that of the species was clearly reiterated. In 2014, ''[[The Transformers: Windblade|Windblade]]'' writer [[Mairghread Scott]] was the first author to introduce the idea that the Titans were capable of [[Cybertronian colonies|colonizing]] other planets, and used this when developing the culture of Windblade's home planet of [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]], introducing the concept of [[Cityspeaker|cityspeaking]]—the ability to pseudo-telepathically communicate with sleeping Titans—that would inform Windblade's early characterization.

Adopting this term from the IDW continuity, Hasbro seems to have finally settled on the "Titan" moniker for all subsequent works of fiction, beginning with [[2016]]'s ''[[Titans Return (franchise)|Titans Return]]'' franchise and even extending into retro-styled universes such as 2018's ''[[Star Trek vs. Transformers]]'' miniseries: generally, this term is now understood to describe a group of gigantic Transformers, sometimes but not always predating the modern [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s, and capable of [[Transformation|transforming]] into cities or colossal starships.

==Biology==
===Alternate modes===
[[File:G1 Autobot City.JPG|thumb|left|250px|The G1 cartoon depicted [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] as a component of the much larger [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]].]]
Almost all Titans are capable of transforming into a configuration that might charitably be called a "city." In order to maintain a credible size, their dimensions rarely match those of ''real'' cities, which can sprawl for many, many miles, their "city modes" usually resemble tightly packed clusters of buildings, generally scaled to the dimensions of "normal" Transformers and more akin to a large fortress or capitol building.

In this form, however, different continuities have depicted city-mode Titans has having the ability to combine their own infrastructure with those of ordinary, non-sentient Cybertronian cities for support; the Generation 1 cartoon, for instance, depicted Metroplex as existing within [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]], {{storylink|Thief in the Night}} while the 2005 IDW continuity had Metroplex link himself into the ruins of [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] to providing housing and infrastructure for the city's inhabitants. {{storylink|Earthfall Part 1: Hello Cruel World|Hello Cruel World}}

[[File:AllThatRemains-Carcer.jpg|thumb|right|250px|[[Vigilem]] in his starship mode.]]

Additionally, most Titans possess a secondary mode that allows for reasonably-faster travel, transforming from a static fixture into a mobile fortress of sorts. Many Titans transform into gigantic starships, granting them the ability to travel independently from planet to planet, though some, such as [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]], transform into kaiju-sized [[beast mode]]s instead. While most Titans possess humanoid [[robot mode]]s, exceptions exist, such as [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] and [[Chela]].

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===Component Transformers===
{{See|Multi-component Transformer}}

[[File:Slammer sixgun scamper.jpg|thumb|left|250px|[[Slammer]], [[Scamper]], and [[Six-Gun]] can all transform into [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]]'s towers, turrets, and other static artillery emplacements.]]

Titans are sometimes shown to have developed a quasi-symbiotic relationship with a variety of smaller Transformers, who dwell within the Titan's cavernous workings, perform maintenance on their much larger partners, and sometimes transform into the city's own components. Fictional appearances of these Transformers are rarer; when they do appear, some are depicted with individual personalities, while others appear to be mindless drones, mere extensions of the Titan's own body designed to interact with smaller lifeforms.

While the original four Titan toys came with several such smaller characters, which have infrequently found their way into associated fiction, more recently introduced Titans, such as those in the pages of the 2005 IDW continuity, lack these accessories. In the ''[[Prime Wars Trilogy]]'' toylines and associated fiction, however, ''all'' Titans are shown to share a relationship with the much smaller [[Titan Master]]s; despite this vast difference in size, these Titan Masters are capable of piloting the bodies of the much larger Titans.

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====Metroplex====
*[[Six-Gun]]
*[[Slammer]]
*[[Scamper]]

====Trypticon====
*[[Full-Tilt (G1)|Full-Tilt]]
*[[Brunt (G1)|Brunt]]
*[[Wipe-Out]]

====Fortress Maximus====
*[[Cog (G1)|Cog]] – usually the combined form of the robotic drones Gasket and Grommet.
*[[Cerebros (G1)|Cerebros]] – [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] unit
*[[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]]

====Scorponok====
*[[Fasttrack (G1)|Fasttrack]]
*[[Zarak (G1)|Lord Zarak]] – [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] unit

====Grand Maximus====
*[[Cog (Masterforce)|Cog]] – the combined form of the robotic drones Onomisu and Koka
*Grand – [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] unit
*Gran – Grand's Headmaster unit

====Metrotitan====
*[[Metroshot]]
*[[Metrobomb]]
*[[Metrodash]]
*[[Metrotank]]
*The five of them are known as the [[Metrosquad]].

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 continuity family===
====Generation 1 cartoon continuity====
=====''The Transformers'' cartoon=====
[[File:FFOD5 Metroplex Trypticon.JPG|thumb|left|250px|Let them fight!]]

By the year [[2005]], Metroplex was integrated into the structure of Autobot City; {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1}} in order to attack Autobot headquarters, the Decepticons created Trypticon, with the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicon]]s building him out of an ordinary human city. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4}} [[File:Rebirth 3 FortMax Scorponok.JPG|thumb|right|250px|This town ain't big enough for the both of us, or either of us, really.]] With Metroplex out of action due to missing his [[transformation cog]], Trypticon prepared to attack Autobot City, but the timely intervention of [[Blurr (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Blurr]] and [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]] restored Metroplex to full functionality, allowing him to hurl his enemy into the Pacific Ocean. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5}}

The pair next clashed in [[2006]], when Trypticon and [[Octane]] teamed up to steal various famous Earth landmarks, {{storylink|Thief in the Night}} and again after [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] stole Metroplex's transformation cog; with [[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]]'s help, Metroplex was able to properly align Trypticon's stolen cog within his own body and overpower Trypticon for a third time. {{storylink|The Ultimate Weapon}}

Fortress Maximus and Scorponok were first brought online not long afterwards when the war inadvertently spread to the planet [[Nebulos]]; in contrast to Metroplex and Trypticon, they were depicted as non-sentient battlestations, mere extensions of their [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] partners [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] and [[Zarak (G1)|Zarak]]. The two first clashed on Cybertron, in the final battle of the Great War, where a bolt of stray [[plasma energy]] struck Scorponok's alternate mode, sending the Decepticons hurtling into deep space. Fortress Maximus was redeployed to Nebulos to oversee the dismantling of the [[Hive (G1)|Hive]]'s machines and eventually serve as the planet's guardian. {{storylink|The Rebirth, Part 3}}
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=====Japanese cartoon continuity=====
Though they wouldn't become an active part of the Transformers' war until the 20th century, cityformers were extremely ancient beings. The oldest known was [[Fortress Maximus (RID)|Brave Maximus]], who was created by the Transformers' god, [[Primus]] himself, millions of years ago to be the guardian of the [[Angolmois Energy]] sealed away on prehistoric [[Earth]]. {{storylink|Sparkbots Volume 5}} A subcategory of cityformer known as the "'''[[Metrotype]]'''" had also been in existence for millions of years; {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Metroplex)|Bonus Edition Vol. EX}} one known as [[Metrotitan (G1)|Metrotitan]] slumbered beneath the surface of [[Saturn]]'s moon [[Titan (moon)|Titan]] since ancient times, {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)#Part 7|Zone story page #7}} {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Metroplex)|Bonus Edition Vol. EX}} and another, named [[Metrobase (G1)|Metrobase]] was stationed on [[Earth]] in the early 1980s, serving as the headquarters of a group of Autobot [[Micromaster]]s who were protecting the [[Ark (G1)|Autobot spacecraft]] buried on the planet. {{storylink|The Menace of Landcross's Combining Formation!}}

In the mid-1980s, the Autobots on Earth led by [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] began the construction of their own "Metrotype" cityformer, Metroplex. The Decepticons responded by commencing creation of their own cityformer, Trypticon. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 3|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #3}} The pair's first battle would be their last for some time; {{storylink|Scramble City: Mobilization}} Metroplex was able to destroy Trypticon, but not before the Decepticon city tore out his transforming cog, leaving Metroplex trapped in city mode. {{storylink|LG-43 Trypticon Project Chapter}}

Around the turn of the century, Brave Maximus was uncovered and reactivated by a group of Autobots and [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]s who had traveled back in time from the future. {{storylink|Fortress Maximus (episode)|Arise! Cybertron City}} {{storylink|Maximus Emerges|Stolen Plasma}} After aiding [[Optimus Prime (RID)|Fire Convoy]]'s Autobots in defeating the villains, the robots who comprised Maximus's operating system, [[Cerebros (RID)|Plasma]] and [[Emissary (RID)|Brave]], were taken to Cybertron and used as the basis to develop a more powerful cityformer, "[[Neo Brave Maximus]]", who served as the mobile headquarters for [[Dimensional Patrol|Fire Convoy's team]]. {{storylink|LGEX Scourge Prologue}} The original Brave Maximus was returned to Earth, and when construction of the larger "Autobot City" began there in 2003, both he and the city-mode Metroplex were integrated into the complex. In 2007, however, Maximus was whisked away on a time-travel adventure with the human singing group, the [[Kiss Players (singing group)|Kiss Players]]. {{storylink|Sparkbots Volume 1}} In the course of their travels, Brave Maximus became separated from his companions and was lost in time. He crash-landed on the planet [[Master (planet)|Master]] many millions of years ago, where his remains were discovered by a group of Autobot refugees led by the diminutive [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress]]. Studying Brave Maximus's technology, Fortress developed "[[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]]" technology, and built a giant transforming city-battleship in Brave Maximus's image to function as a body for himself, becoming "Fortress Maximus". {{storylink|Sparkbots Volume 5}}

Fortress and his Autobot Headmasters went on to leave Master and join the larger Autobot/Decepticon war in 2011, whereupon his rival, Decepticon leader Scorponok, built a cityformer body for himself as well. {{storylink|Explosion on Mars!! MegaZarak Appears}} Fortress destroyed Scorponok's body, {{storylink|The Final Showdown on Earth (Part 2)}} but over the next several years, the Decepticon rebuilt it in a new, smaller form; no longer city-sized, he renamed the large mode "BlackZarak". {{storylink|Master File No, 1}} A smaller version of Fortress's giant body was also constructed for use by his little brother, [[Grand Maximus|Grand]]. {{storylink|God Ginrai - Showdown on the Surface of the Moon}}

At some point in the decade between 2025 and 2035, the dormant Metrotitan was discovered on Titan by the Decepticons and reprogrammed for evil. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)#Part 7|Zone story page #7}} {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Metroplex)|Bonus Edition Vol. EX}} He subsequently defeated Metroplex and Metrobase in battle, but Metroplex was then rebuilt into a new, larger, more powerful form, {{storylink|Metrowars}} and went on to defeat Metrotitan for good. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Metroplex)|Bonus Edition Vol. EX}}

The Decepticons later stole the new Metroplex's transforming cog for Trypticon, who had also been reconstructed in a larger, stronger form. {{storylink|LG43 Trypticon Mobilization Chapter: Decepticon Civil War|Decepticon Civil War}} Fortress Maximus donated his own transforming cog to Metroplex so that he could transform to robot mode and defeat his old enemy once again. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 43|Bonus Edition Vol. 43}}

====Marvel Comics continuity====
{{noteukonly}}

[[File:Metroplex-UK.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]

Trypticon was considered to be the most powerful Decepticon, and after [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]] took control of the Decepticons, [[Shockwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Shockwave]] petitioned him for one last use of the [[space bridge]] in the hopes that Trypticon could attack the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' and plunder its energy. Despite this, Trypticon and [[Wipe-Out]] were both defeated by the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]]. {{storylink|King of the Hill!}}

''Trypticon later saw action when [[Flame (Marvel)|Flame]] threatened Cybertron with a [[zombie]] army, teaming up with [[Flywheels]] and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ultra Magnus]]'s forces.'' {{storylink|Meltdown!}}

=====Marvel UK future timelines=====
Metroplex served as the "living core" of Autobot City, integrated into the city in [[2003]] and endowing it with the power to transform into a battle station. When the [[Quintesson]]s invaded and took control of Autobot City in [[2008]], [[Hot Rod (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Hot Rod]] activated Metroplex, and the Titan immediately burst free from beneath the city and launched an unstoppable counterattack, seeing off the alien invaders but largely destroying Autobot City in the process. {{storylink|Space Pirates!}}

=====''Transformers '84''=====
Upon seeing the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] for the first time, [[Bumblebee (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Bumblebee]] noted that there hadn't been a ship so large since the era of the Titans. {{storylink|Transformers '84 issue 0|'84 #0}}
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====2005 IDW continuity====
[[File:YouAreHere-KnightsOfCybertron.jpg|thumb|left|300px]]

A mysterious group of ancient Transformers, the Titans were city-sized Cybertronians of unspeakable power, "living starships" who hailed from the earliest days of the Cybertronian species. Notably, they were the only Transformers to possess a built-in [[space bridge|spacebridge]], which allowed them and their occupants to instantaneously travel across vast stretches of space. All Titans possessed "super-sparks" which spanned multiple planes of existence, {{storylink|Primus: All Good Things}} and supposedly shared a degree of "interconnectedness" that linked one Titan to the rest. {{storylink|The Reluctant Specialist}}

Cybertronian legend venerates three particular Titans who are regarded as the original three Titans: [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]], the "First Titan", [[Chela]], the "Golden Warrior", and [[Metrotitan (G1)|Metrotitan]]. Those same stories hold that these three Titans joined [[Primus]] when he battled against [[Unicron/Generation 1#2005 IDW continuity|his opposite]]. {{storylink|Origin Myths}} These first three Titans were supposedly joined by many other, lesser Titans, though the exact origins of the Titans has never been specified. One such Titan was [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]; legends claimed that he had been raised by the deity Mortilus to combat the Titans of Primus during the "[[God War]]" that marked the end of the reign of the [[Guiding Hand]]. {{storylink|The Transformers: Salvation|Salvation}} Ten million years ago, in the wake of this conflict the legendary Transformers known as the [[Knights of Cybertron]]—acolytes of the Guiding Hand—led their followers off Cybertron aboard a fleet of Titans in the hopes of spreading enlightenment across the universe. {{storylink|Primus: You, Me, and Other Revelations|You, Me, and Other Revelations}}

Over time, the Titan fleet dispersed across the galaxy, and though at least one Titan found its way to the planet [[Mederi]] along with the Knights of Cybertron, {{storylink|The Everlasting Voices (3): You Are Here|You Are Here}} the rest fell into disrepair over the millennia, growing increasingly decrepit and weak from underfuelling. {{storylink|The Reluctant Specialist}}

[[File:OP10-Titans.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]

Those Titans that chose not to undergo this voyage remained on Cybertron for a time, lying dormant until the unification of the [[Thirteen Tribes]]. In a conflict between the forces of the [[Crystal City]] and the barbaric hordes of [[The Fallen|Megatronus]]'s [[Darklands|Darklanders]], [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Onyx Prime]] was somehow able to "summon" the first three Titans from the ground, and their arrival gave the battling warriors pause long enough for Onyx to halt the fighting, with the three Titans standing vigil over the village during the subsequent celebrations. {{storylink|Origin Myths}} As the Thirteen rose, Alpha Trion befriended Metroplex, and the pair set off to explore Cybertron before the rise of civilization changed everything. {{storylink|Omega's Conundrum}} {{storylink|Origin Myths}}

In the age that followed, each member of the Thirteen won the allegiance of at least one Titan: [[Prima]] and [[Emissary (IDW)|Emissary]], [[Vector Prime]] and [[Tempo]], [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]] and [[Nemesis (BW)|Nemesis]], [[Solus Prime]] and [[Caminus (Titan)|Caminus]], [[Micronus Prime]] and [[Prion (Titan)|Prion]], [[Alchemist Prime]] and [[Metrobase (G1)|Metrobase]], [[Nexus Prime]] and [[Devisiun (Titan)|Devisiun]], Onyx Prime and Chela, [[Amalgamous Prime]] and [[Navitas]], [[Quintus Prime]] and [[Quintessa (IDW)|Quintessa]], [[Liege Maximo]] and [[Vigilem]], and Megatronus and Metroplex. The thirteenth Titan, Metrotitan himself, supposedly belonged to the mysterious figure known only as the "[[The Arisen]]". {{storylink|Ceremony}} Devout Transformers, such as [[Cyclonus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Cyclonus]], sometimes prayed in the shadow of the Titans. {{storylink|Primus: You, Me, and Other Revelations|You, Me, and Other Revelations}}

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As "Onyx Prime" was, in reality, a convenient alter-ego assumed by a time-travelling [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Shockwave]], the Decepticon scientist saw the Titans and their abilities as one more pawn in his long game to manipulate Cybertronian history; encouraging the expansion of the [[Pax Cybertronia]], several Titans belonging to the Thirteen departed their planet on missions of colonization. {{storylink|First Contact (IDW)|First Contact}} These Titans were sent to prepare new worlds into suitable colonies, so that each Prime could rule one planet. {{storylink|Conquerors Part 1: Aphelion|Aphelion}} The first such planet targeted for colonization was the nearby world of [[Antilla]], with the Titan Nemesis taking part in the war against the native [[Antillan]]s alongside [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]]. {{storylink|Our Finest}}

When the [[First Cybertronian Civil War]] swept their world, however, the remaining Titans were forced to turn on Vigilem, whose treacherous master had helped orchestrate the conflict. After Onyx severed Vigilem's higher functions, it was decided that the pair would be cast into space, striking them from history, with Vigilem renamed "Carcer" to conceal his true identity. {{storylink|Rubicon}} {{storylink|The Falling, Interlude: The First Who Was Named|The First Who Was Named}} Shortly thereafter, Onyx, Alpha Trion and Prima departed aboard Emissary to track down Megatronus, and during the subsequent battle on the planet [[Tsiehshi]] Prima was easily slain by Megatronus, who was in turn slain by Shockwave. In the aftermath, Shockwave sabotaged Emissary, who had voluntarily repurposed himself into a living morgue for his slain master, so that the Titan would crash land on the distant organic world of [[Elonia]]. {{storylink|The Falling, Interlude: The First Who Was Named|The First Who Was Named}} Subsequent colonization missions lead to the settlement of other worlds such as Caminus, [[Prion (planet)|Prion]], and [[Devisiun (planet)|Devisiun]]. {{storylink|Time Will Rust}} In many cases, these colonies developed unique adaptations that set them apart from Cybertronians; the Titans themselves were often repurposed into cities and building materials. {{storylink|A 'Bot and Her City}} {{storylink|Windblade vol. 2 issue 4|Windblade vol. 2 #4}} On Caminus, the colonists developed the practice of [[Cityspeaker|cityspeaking]], a way of communicating with the Titans via interpreting the patterns of light running across their [[brain module]]s. {{storylink|A 'Bot and Her City}}

As part of a much, much longer game to ensure a future for the Cybertronian species, Shockwave had deliberately engineered events so that each of these thirteen Titans—and the [[Cybertronian colonies|colonies]] that they established—would come to be associated with the thirteen worlds his younger self had once seeded with his thirteen [[Regenesis]] ores, including [[Earth]]. {{storylink|Our Darkest}} While Chela went on to found the colony of [[Jungle Planet (colony)|Eukaris]], Shockwave himself eventually retreated to the ruins of Antilla with his inner cadre of [[Maximal]]s, adopting Nemesis as the flagship of his impromptu fleet. {{storylink|Unstopped and Unstoppable}}

[[File:ReluctantSpecialist-LeviathansOfTheSky.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.5|"The bigger they are, the more you can charge."]]

By the time Cyclonus had become part of [[Nova Prime]]'s inner court, only three Titans remained on Cybertron, all in hiding. One, [[Metrotitan (G1)|Metrotitan]], slumbered in secret beneath [[Crystal City]], and was guarded by [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]]. When Nova discovered the upper city and allied himself with Omega, the guardian hid the Metrotitan's existence from the Prime. His recalcitrance paid off when Nova fell into megalomania and departed Cybertron to conquer other worlds, at which point Omega revealed Metrotitan to Nova's more respectful former follower, [[Dai Atlas (G1)|Dai Atlas]]. Omega explained that the Titan would only awaken in the presence of a great Cybertronian, but that it would be Dai Atlas's task to protect it until then. When the Autobot/Decepticon war subsequently broke out in the following millennia, Dai Atlas became a conscientious objector and gathered together many like-minded Transformers to form the [[Circle of Light]], and used Metrotitan's energies to power their departure from Cybertron. {{storylink|Primus: All Good Things|All Good Things}} Settling on the planet [[Theophany]], the Circle built a new Crystal City atop the still-sleeping Metrotitan, continuing to use his energies to power their new home. {{storylink|Primus: You, Me, and Other Revelations|You, Me, and Other Revelations}}

During [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]]'s initial rise to power, then-current Prime [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]], in reality a disguise assumed by the Titan Master [[Infinitus]], mused over the possibility of obtaining a Titan to quash the nascent rebellion. {{storylink|Last Light (issue)|Last Light}}

The second Titan on Cybertron, Metroplex, entered a deep slumber as the "[[Acropolex]]" of Nyon, until the early days of the [[Great War (G1)|Autobot/Decepticon war]] when the new [[Prime (rank)|Prime]], the former [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Orion Pax]], woke him with the [[Matrix of Leadership]] to aid him against [[Zeta Prime (G1)|Zeta Prime]] and [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]]. {{storylink|Rise}} Megatron became obsessed with the idea of harnessing the Titans' space bridges for his own personal use, and ordered a group of Decepticons to find a Titan. {{storylink|The Hunting Party (IDW)|The Hunting Party}}

Metroplex served as Autobot headquarters for some time until he departed the planet with Alpha Trion to investigate and counteract [[Regenesis|Shockwave's star-spanning project]]. {{storylink|Earthfall Part 1: Hello Cruel World|Hello Cruel World}} One group of Decepticons, led by [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]], attempted to follow, and travelled to a planet where he was refuelling, but [[Thundercracker (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Thundercracker]] woke him rather than inform his superior, and prompted Metroplex to teleport onward before Bludgeon discovered his presence. {{storylink|The Hunting Party (IDW)|The Hunting Party}} That same group of Decepticons would later stumble on the Titan Quintessa, and [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] would inadvertently warp him to [[Gorlam Prime]]. {{storylink|Homecoming (IDW)|Homecoming}}

The last Titan on the planet was Trypticon; whom [[Scorponok (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Scorponok]] awoke in the early stages of the Great War. {{storylink|Unleashed}} The bestial Titan cut a swath of destruction across Cybertron before being felled by both Autobots and Decepticons. {{storylink|Belly of the Beast (issue)|Belly of the Beast}} Megatron then revived Trypticon and had him branded a Decepticon. {{storylink|Primacy issue 1|Primacy #1}} Trypticon's true nature as a Titan, however, would remain unknown to his fellows until after the war had ended. {{storylink|The Transformers: Salvation|Salvation}}

At some point during the space based phase of the Great War, [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Shockwave]] obtained Metroplex's space bridge nodes to install them in Megatron's new body, {{storylink|Spotlight: Megatron}} apparently forcing the Titan to travel physically through space thereafter.

[[File:PrimusAllGoodThings-MetrotitanEmbedded.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.7|This is why Metrotitan hates Mondays.]]

Believing that the ancient giants held the key to reaching [[Cyberutopia]], the supposed location of the Knights of Cybertron, Chief Justice [[Solomus|Tyrest]] hired [[Lockdown (G1)|Lockdown]] to hunt down and kill Titans so that he could use their parts to cobble together a space bridge, one that he hoped would lead directly to the mythical Cyberutopia. {{storylink|Remain in Light 3 of 5: The Divided Self|The Divided Self}} Lockdown and his group of [[Titan Hunter]]s tracked down the weakened Titans, killed them, and stripped them for parts before using their remains to find their next target.{{storylink|The Reluctant Specialist}} The leftovers were sent to [[Moonbase One|Luna 1]], Tyrest's headquarters, in a veritable elephants' graveyard of Titan corpses. {{storylink|Remain in Light 2 of 5: House of Ambus|House of Ambus}} At one point Lockdown's hunters followed a Titan signal to the ''[[Lost Light]]'', which had a sloughed-off piece of Metroplex aboard that had recently struck the ship, and aimed to use it to detect Metroplex himself, before being forced off by [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailcutter]] without their prize. {{storylink|The Reluctant Specialist}}

At some point, Crystal City was razed by Tyrest's [[Legislator]]s, leaving no sign of life, save the Titan slumbering underneath. When the crew of the ''Lost Light'' arrived to investigate, a subsidence sent them tumbling into the cavern beneath the city where Metrotitan lay, and they decided to enter his body so that the their resident [[mnemosurgery|mnemosurgeon]] [[Chromedome (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Chromedome]] could tap his brain and hopefully find out what had befallen the Circle of Light. Doing so, Chromedome discovered that Metrotitan was still alive and screaming in frustration—he had heard the call sent out by Cybertron upon the planet's reformatting to "come home", but having been drained by the Circle for so long, he lacked the necessary power to teleport his giant bulk across space. With Metrotitan desperate enough to separate his [[spark]] from his body in order to return to Cybertron, [[Brainstorm (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Brainstorm]] used miniaturization technology to shrink the giant down to a size small enough so that he now had the power reserves necessary for the journey. {{storylink|Primus: You, Me, and Other Revelations|You, Me, and Other Revelations}}

[[File:RID26 MetroplexPunchingNecrotitan.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.7|"NOW HERE I GO!"]]

The shrunken Metrotitan successfully quantum jumped back to Cybertron, to his old home in Crystal City, but wound up physically enmeshing his molecules into those of the city, causing a destabilization of local reality. As Autobot scientist [[Wheeljack (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Wheeljack]] worked to contain the impending disaster, [[Prowl (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Prowl]] and [[Starscream (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Starscream]] got closer to the Titan. Neither were aware that Metrotitan had himself been brainwashed by "Onyx Prime," using supplies of [[Ore-10]], and in his addled state the Titan proclaimed Starscream as the mythical "Chosen One" who would unite Cybertron before he was seemingly killed by an antimatter explosion; {{storylink|Primus: All Good Things|All Good Things}} in reality, however, "Onyx" had used a mixture of [[Ore-1]] and [[Ore-9]] to warp Metrotitan to [[Earth]], beneath the surface of [[Monument Valley]], all to further his own goals. {{storylink|All Hail Optimus Part 5: As Above...So Below|As Above...So Below}} {{storylink|The Falling, Chapter 4: The Hallowing|The Hallowing}}

When the ''Lost Light'' found its way to the Missing Miracle Moon of Luna 1 via a portal in space, [[Hot Rod (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Rodimus]] and the rest of the away team discovered Tyrest's Titan graveyard and unsuccessfully tried to take refuge from Lockdown and crew inside of the huge relics. {{storylink|Remain in Light 2 of 5: House of Ambus|House of Ambus}} Tyrest was finally able to activate his Titan-made space bridge, but rather than the promised land, the portal led to the mind of [[Adaptus]]. {{storylink|Remain in Light 5 of 5: This Calamitous Life|This Calamitous Life}} {{storylink|Crucible (Part 4): The Return of the King|The Return of the King}}

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Meanwhile, on a decaying [[Gorlam Prime]], [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Orion Pax]] summoned the Titan [[Quintessa (IDW)|Quintessa]] from the ground in order to fight off [[Monstructor (G1)|Monstructor]]. However the combiner attack was a ruse, as the Decepticon scientist [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]] desired to bring the [[Ore-2]] and [[space bridge]] technology the Titan contained to Shockwave. Via the marooned Titan Hunter [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] Jhiaxus took control of the Titan and teleported back to Cybertron. {{storylink|Homecoming (IDW)|Homecoming}} The Titan was brought to Shockwave's lair, the [[Crystal City]], {{storylink|Soundwaves (issue)|Soundwaves}} where its Ore-2 reacted with the [[Ore-14]] of the city, turning it into the undead "Necrotitan". {{storylink|Dark Dawn: Dark Cybertron Chapter 1|Dark Dawn}} The Necrotitan was eventually felled by a reinvigorated Metroplex. {{storylink|Finis Temporis: Dark Cybertron Chapter 9|Finis Temporis}} {{storylink|The Becoming: Dark Cybertron Chapter 10|The Becoming}}

With the [[Dark Cybertron (prophecy)|Dark Cybertron]] crisis over, Metroplex integrated himself into the ruins of Iacon while his body recuperated from the effects of an [[alchemical virus]]. {{storylink|Earthfall Part 1: Hello Cruel World|Hello Cruel World}} {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 1: Towards Peace|Towards Peace}} {{storylink|Earthfall Part 4: Full Fathom Five|Full Fathom Five}} As he recovered, he began scanning the galaxy, searching for his lost siblings. He located Chela on Eukaris, Navitas on Velocitron, and the dead Titan on Devisiun; when [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] tapped into his brain, she too received glimpses of these other Transformer colonists. {{storylink|Windblade issue 4|Windblade vol. 1 #4}} After Metroplex's spacebridge was repaired, Cybertron reached out to its forgotten Titan colonies to form the [[Council of Worlds]]. Several Titans played key roles in the formation of the Council: Windblade hacked into Navitas's brain module to manipulate a Velocitronian racetrack, {{storylink|Race Against the Light}} while on Eukaris she and Starscream were forced to put down the berserk Chela. {{storylink|Windblade vol. 2 issue 6|Windblade vol. 2 #6}}

The reunion of Cybertron and the colonies proved beneficial for the isolated Titans. Carcer's crew was able to begin ordering parts from Cybertron to repair him while Camien cityspeakers were able to conduct therapy on Navitas. {{storylink|07:00:00}}

[[File:AsAboveSoBelow-metrotitanawakens.jpg|thumb|right|300px| “A tremendous head made of metallic protodermis rises from beneath the shattered remains of the once-beautiful island. Water, soil, and rock cascade off its face as it rises higher and higher into the sky]]

Meanwhile, on Earth, Optimus Prime and his forces combatted the machinations of [[Galvatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Galvatron]], and at the Autobot bivouac in [[Monument Valley]], Optimus sensed a presence. {{storylink|All Hail Optimus Part 4: It's Beginning To And Back Again|It's Beginning To And Back Again}} Soon thereafter, Optimus realized what he had felt, and reawoke Metrotitan. {{storylink|All Hail Optimus Part 5: As Above...So Below|As Above...So Below}} Subsequently, Metrotitan became the Cybertronian embassy on Earth, an [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]]. As a result of [[Circuit (G1)|Circuit]] and [[Longtooth]] capturing Metrotitan's revival on live camera, opinion among the Cybertronian public and the Council of Worlds became more positive towards Optimus's activities, Optimus seemingly having proved himself a divine true Prime. {{storylink|All Hail Optimus Part 6: No Fair Fights|No Fair Fights}} Pleased by this turn of events, Metrotitan broadcasted a beacon of information across the universe immortalizing the deeds of Optimus Prime, unaware that this same broadcast would awaken [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]]—in reality the diminutive and ancient [[Titan Master]] [[Infinitus]]—slumbering beneath the ruins of [[Kaon (polity)|Kaon]]. Disgusted by what Cybertron had become in his absence, Sentinel cut a swathe through Cybertron and Earth as he hatched a new plan to wipe Cybertron clean and begin anew. {{storylink|The Last Autobot}}{{storylink|White Light}}

[[File:LastLight Titanarmy.jpg|thumb|left|350px|Sentinel Prime will make Cybertron great again by returning it to the [[Transformers: Generation 2 (franchise)|neon era]].]]

Joined by his fellow Titan Master [[Sovereign]], the two travelled to Luna 1 and the Titan graveyard. Using Blackrock as an amplifier, Sentinel awoke the entire population of the graveyard and ordered the [[zombie]] army to return to Cybertron via [[space bridge]] and kill everything that moved. {{storylink|Ten to Midnight}} Though Sentinel Prime was killed by the skeleton crew of Autobots on the moon—[[Fortress Maximus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Fortress Maximus]], [[Cerebros (G1)|Cerebros]], [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]], and [[Prowl (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Prowl]]–the vast majority of the undead Titans made it through the space bridge portal, materializing far away from Cybertron. {{storylink|Last Light (issue)|Last Light}}

Several months later, the Titan army arrived near Cybertron, where Carcer's long-range scanners picked them up. The [[Council of Worlds]] convened to strategize against the upcoming threat and eventually decided to stand and fight against the menace. Metroplex transformed into his robot mode once more to do battle against his undead brethren, but even though he and the population of Iacon fought hard they were unable to stave off the endless waves of building-sized zombies. {{storylink|Ping}} The zombie army was ultimately defeated only after Windblade seized control of Vigilem and used his heavily armed body to rescue Metroplex and mop up the last stragglers of the invasion; though Vigilem perished, it wasn't before he disgorged the evil [[Liege Maximo]] from his innards, who promised to avenge the death of his Titan. {{storylink|Rubicon}}

Shortly thereafter, [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] was able to use a replica of the ancient [[Void Scepter]] to bring Trypticon back online, learning in the process that Trypticon was more than a mere monster; in reality, he was a bestial Titan. Thanks to the intervention of [[Slag (G1)|Slug]] and the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobot]]s, however, Trypticon was foiled before his master could use his space bridge to conquer other worlds, and, desiring to become a force for good in the world, Trypticon absorbed the sparks created in [[Alyon]]'s hot spot, birthing a new generation of [[protoform]]s from his own [[living metal|''sentio metallico'']]. {{storylink|The Transformers: Salvation|Salvation}}

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In [[2018]], "Onyx Prime" returned to Cybertron aboard Nemesis, ready to enact the final stage of his plan. As his machinations plunged the planet into chaos, Nemesis was able to blow Metrotitan apart, fatally wounding him, {{storylink|The Falling, Chapter 3: The Ground|The Ground}} and though his coconspirator Liege Maximo wanted to attack Metroplex and Trypticon next, Shockwave overruled him, claiming to need Metroplex and accurately predicting Trypticon's retreat from Cybertron to protect his [[protoform]]s. After sending Maximo to slay Metrotitan's crew, Shockwave confronted [[Starscream (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Starscream]] at the Titan's head where he revealed that he'd utilized his Regenesis ores to brainwash Metrotitan into believing Starscream's divinity before slaying the wounded Titan. {{storylink|The Falling, Chapter 4: The Hallowing|The Hallowing}}

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When [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]] began consuming the galaxy, Navitas perished when Velocitron was devoured while Nemesis took the Maximals to meet with the monster. {{storylink|Unstopped and Unstoppable}} When the Chaos Bringer attacked [[Elonia]] for its stockpile of [[Ore-12]], the Transformers arrived to evacuate the [[Elonian]]s via space bridge. When the device failed to activate, Optimus Prime, Arcee, and [[Rom]] discovered the paralyzed form of Emissary, partially unearthed by Unicron's attack, who was transmitting a space bridge counter-frequency. Arcee solved that problem by thrusting her swords directly into Emissary's brain module, killing him and cancelling the counter-frequency. Now familiar with the energy of the Titans, Wheeljack recognized what had happened but declined to inform [[Bumblebee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Bumblebee]]. {{storylink|Our Darkest}} During the monster planet's assault on [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]], Nemesis touched down on its surface whereupon Bumblebee rammed a one-man craft through the Titan's alternate mode, seemingly killing it but clearing a path into Unicron. When Optimus, Arcee and Bumblebee ventured within the monster, they discovered the remains of the Titans it had consumed. {{storylink|Last Stand (Unicron)|Last Stand}}

Left on Unicron's surface, Nemesis's corpse was assimilated by the Chaos Bringer, who managed to access the [[transformation cog]] and gain a robot mode which Unicron used to mount an hands-on attack on Cybertron. Carcer acted as flagship of the defense fleet but was ultimately destroyed by the Chaos Bringer. {{storylink|Our Finest}} {{storylink|Road's End}}

As Unicron made his final approach over Earth, Metroplex and Trypticon joined in the fight, the latter depositing his cargo of unborn sparks planetside to do so. {{storylink|Assembly (Unicron)|Assembly}} Trypticon was slain by Unicron early into the fight, however, and when the dust settled, Metroplex was seemingly left as the last of the Titans. {{storylink|Ceremony}}
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====''Beast Wars: Uprising''====
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The ancient Titans coexisted with a different group of artificially-built, city-sized Transformers, who called themselves '''Megamasters'''. {{storylink|Intersectionality}} One such Megamaster, the aggregate intelligence [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]], mused that if he had wished to conquer Cybertron or invade other planets, few could have stood in his way other than [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] or those long since vanished Titans. {{storylink|Head Games}}

====Ask Vector Prime====
Once upon a time, a Metrotitan had [[Scanning|scanned]] a boulder as an [[alternate mode]]. Witnessing this, a passing [[Malignus (G1)|Malignus]] commented that such an alternate mode was unbecoming for a being of such power, something he demonstrated by scanning a jackhammer. Embarrassed, the Metrotitan then scanned a military bunker, the Malignus responding by scanning a missile launcher. Seeing the Rainbow City in the distance, the giant scanned it, gaining its impenetrability prompting the Malignus to try and scan entropy itself. Horrified, the Metrotitan conceded defeat and begged him not to go through with the scan but could not deter the Malignus whose [[spark]] was subsequently scattered to the winds. Deeply regretful, the Metrotitan went off, swearing to never bring harm to another of his kind. One of the [[Thirteen]] became aware of this tale and recounted it to [[Vector Prime]] who passed it on to a [[human]] curious about the upper limits of the scanning process. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Faceboook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/17}}

====''Titans Return'' marketing material====
[[File:TR_Titan_Force_map.jpg|thumb|left|200px|"SEEK THE THIRTEEN" is this generation's "[[:File:SENDTHEBOOKS.jpg|SEND THE BOOKS]]".]]
When the universe was still forming, before Autobots or Decepticons existed, the Titans were created and sent out to discover the powers and mysteries of the universe. Each Titan was crewed by [[Titan Master]]s, tiny robot caretakers charged with up-keeping their systems. The Titan Masters also had a greater purpose: Each had a unique superpower they could grant to other Transformers, a gift intended to forge links with other civilizations they might discover. The Titans and their crews were eventually forgotten by all but a few power-hungry and entirely unsuccessful legend hunters. Until the Titans mysteriously returned, and the Titan Masters partnered up with Autobots and Decepticons alike. {{storylink|Titans Return: The Power of the Titan Masters}}

There were at least thirteen Titans scattered throughout the universe, with possible locations including [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], [[Unicron]], [[Master (planet)|Dominius]], [[Nebulos]], [[Junkion (planet)|Junkion]], [[Antilla]], [[Paradron]], [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]], [[Earth]], [[Velocitron]], [[Jungle Planet (colony)|Biosfera]], [[Aquatron]], [[Botropolis]], [[Micro]]n, and [[Gigantion]].<ref name="TRTF">''Titans Return'' ''[[Titans Return (toyline)#Summer convention exclusives|Titan Force]] 3-pack'' bio material/instructions.</ref>

Searching for info on the mysterious return of the Titans and their crews Alpha Trion followed a trail of clues to the "Beast Planet" Eukaris. Amid jungle-covered buildings, Alpha Trion and Titan Master Clobber located a mysterious ancient artifact that was linked to the Titans and Titan Masters. Mindwipe led Astrotrain, Wolfwire, and Titan Master Apeface in an ambush to steal the artifact.

Later, back on Cybertron, Soundwave led an all-out assault. Scourge, Astrotrain, Skullsmasher, Laserbeak, Rumble, and Ravage, among others, pressed the attack while Powermaster Prime, Chromedome, Highbrow, Wheelie, Blaster, and Hardhead were among the defenders. The battle was interrupted when what first seemed like an earthquake attack by Rumble was actually the landscape itself transforming into the Legendary Titan: Fortress Maximus. {{storylink|Titans Return: The Power of the Titan Masters}}

[[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] was one of only a handful of Titans known to still exist. As a city, his ability to expand and grow was essentially limitless as he links up with other Transformers. Fortress Maximus himself is unique as the only Titan with the ability to link with a [[Titan Master]] partner.<ref>''Titans Return'' Fortress Maximus's on-package bio.</ref> When Fortress Maximus returned to full size and unleashed his power on the universe, the scientists [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]] and [[Arcana|Teslor]] and Cityspeaker [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] fought against the rogue Autobot [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]], who sought to use a loyal Titan Master to bend the Titan to his will as part of his own misguided agenda.<ref name="TRTF"/>

In the depths of space the monster Titan Trypticon and his Titan Master [[Wipe-Out|Necro]] traveled in starship mode between worlds, landing as a dark fortress or a terrible giant beast, bringing doom and ultimate destruction wherever they passed. Trypticon ever hungered for Titan Masters to devour the way another robot would Energon cubes, while the macabre Necro longs to harvest and devour the sparks of all Transformers who cross his dark path.<ref>''Titans'' Return Trypticon on-package bio</ref>

====''Prime Wars Trilogy'' cartoons====
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Long ago, the "original" Titans spread Cybertronian life to other worlds, seeding new worlds with young Transformer civilizations and acting as their cities while laying inert. When this society had proven that they could sustain themselves, the Titan departed for another world, beginning the cycle anew. Other Titans came online during the Great War between the Autobots and Decepticons, such as Fortress Maximus and the Titan Master [[Emissary (IDW)|Emissary]], and the Decepticon battle station Trypticon. {{storylink|Our Heroes Respond}}

Upon the conclusion of the [[Combiner Wars (event)|Combiner Wars]], Windblade recruited Metroplex to help defeat [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], but declared that a new problem lay on the horizon: the Titans were returning. {{storylink|Destruction's Dawn}} Indeed, Starscream's disembodied spark was able to bring Trypticon back to life, and he rampaged through Iacon, slaying Metroplex in the process, {{storylink|At the Last Second}} while [[Victorion]] led a group of combiners in search of Fortress Maximus, the only being on Cybertron capable of defeating Starscream. {{storylink|Overlord and Emissary}} Fortress Maximus returned to action and took on Trypticon, refusing help from Emissary, until Trypticon swallowed Victorion and the [[Enigma of Combination]] to take control of the other combiners. Between attacks from the powered-up Trypticon and the now mind-controlled Combiners, Maximus found himself at a disadvantage until Trypticon swallowed [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] and the [[Matrix of Leadership]], the surge of power knocking him out. {{storylink|Consumed}} Unable to control the surge of energy, Trypticon was himself killed by the Matrix, releasing Starscream and his hostages, {{storylink|All Things Must Pass}} and Fortress Maximus was gravely wounded shortly thereafter by [[The Fallen|Megatronus]]. {{storylink|Collision Course}}

In the aftermath, Fortress Maximus survived and worked with Windblade, who became the Magistrate of Cityspeakers and aided those who communicated with the Titans. {{storylink|Saga's End}}

====''Star Trek vs. Transformers''====
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When the outbreak of [[World War III]] posed an existential threat to the Transformers, the Autobots chose to flee Earth entirely aboard Fortress Maximus, with the Decepticons following behind in Trypticon. The Decepticons caught up with their foes over [[Cygnus Seven]], and when Megatron and his forces boarded the ship to do battle with the Autobots, the Titan was damaged and crashed on the barren planet, with Trypticon going dormant on a nearby moon. Centuries later, [[Federation]] miners stumbled across the inert Titan, and inadvertently brought his passengers back to life. {{storylink|Prime's Directive, Part Two}}

The Decepticons allied with the [[Klingon Empire]], and as part of their opening moves against the Autobots, Trypticon [[Scanning|scanned]] a downed Klingon [[Warbird (Star Trek)|warbird]], launching a successful attack on the ''[[USS Enterprise|Enterprise]]''. In the meantime, [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] and [[James T. Kirk|Captain Kirk]] joined forces to bring Fortress Maximus back online, allowing him to transform into a copy of the ''Enterprise'' and becoming "Fortress Tiberius" in the process. {{storylink|Prime's Directive, Part Three}}

The clash between the two Titans ended in a dead heat when Megatron ordered a retreat so that he could pursue [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] who'd ran off with a bounty of [[dilithium]]. {{storylink|Prime's Directive, Part Four}} The two Titans clashed once again on [[Kronos]] only for Maximus to be taken out of the fight by Soundwave's audio disruptor waves. As the frequency of the weapon had no effect on [[Klingon]] biology however, they were able to call in a fleet of warbirds that overwhelmed Trypticon, defeating the Decepticons. In the aftermath, Trypticon, along with the rest of the Decepticons, was left a prisoner of the Klingons while Maximus resumed his duties as the Autobot starship. {{storylink|Prime's Directive, Part Five}}

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====2019 IDW continuity====
[[File:Titans-Lodestarforging.jpg|thumb|right|300px]]

Titans were a rare variety of Transformer, massive living starships who existed on an order of magnitude beyond ordinary Cybertronian life. Titans possessed unique "Titansparks" that distinguished them from ordinary Cybertronians; when one emerged from the [[Well of All Sparks]], it took a vast amount of time and, more importantly, [[energon]] and raw material to shape that newborn spark into a Titan-sized bodyframe. {{storylink|War World: Titans|Titans}} Traditionally, vast open-air celebrations accompanied the forging of a new Titan as the reigning [[Prime (rank)|Prime]] introduced the new Titan to the people of Cybertron. Like other newborn Cybertronians, the new Titan worked with a [[mentor]] to help then understand the world and find their place in it: unlike traditional Cybertronian mentorships, however, choosing to work with a Titan required a lifelong commitment and a fundamentally different approach. {{storylink|Arcee/Greenlight: Run}}

In life, Titans formed symbiotic relationships with their [[cityspeaker]]s, specialized Cybertronians who managed and maintained their internal systems, weapons, and engines. {{storylink|The Change In Your Nature Part Five}} In death, Titans could choose to go "[[immersant]]" like other Cybertronians, and peacefully merge with Cybertron's living geography. The [[Cybertronian Mountains]] that lay just beyond [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] was the largest known concentration of this phenomenon—a mass graveyard where dozens of Titans had died and merged into a geographic feature. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part One}} The devout [[Reversionist]]s worshipped Titans and viewed their resting places as holy. {{storylink|The Change In Your Nature Part One}}

[[File:EscapePartOne-Titans.jpg|thumb|left|300px]]

The Titans frontlined Cybertron's [[Expansion|Age of Expansion]] in both military and civilian roles—these included dispatching spaceborne threats like rogue comets, {{storylink|The Change In Your Nature Part Five}} escorting [[Ark (G1)|Ark]]-class colony ships to new planets, {{storylink|Escape Part One}} and, when needed, fighting wars of expansion against other sentient species. {{storylink|The Change In Your Nature Part Five}} Spaceborne facilities like the [[Black Hub]] allowed crews of engineers and technicians to refit and repair Titans in a zero-gravity environment. {{storylink|Light/Star}} In time, other races came to both revere and fear them in equal measure, viewing them as living embodiments of Cybertronian might. {{storylink|The Change In Your Nature Part Five}} {{storylink|Escape Part Four}} The most notable of their deeds were immortalized in [[Codexa]]'s book, ''[[The Way We Were, by One Who Saw It]]''. {{storylink|The Change In Your Nature Part Five}}

When [[Exarchon]] attacked Cybertron, the Titans initially took part in the [[War of the Threefold Spark]] against him and his followers—this backfired on them, however, when Exarchon successfully usurped the Titan [[Croaton (G1)|Croaton]]. {{storylink|Wheeljack: Orbital Decay}} It took the efforts of another Titan, [[Citadel (Titan)|Citadel]], to kill Croaton and reduce him to a cloud of debris around Cybertron's star. {{storylink|Wheeljack: Orbital Decay}} After that near miss, Autobot leader [[Nominus Prime]] chose to keep the Titans in reserve for the remainder of the war and did not deploy any during the final battle for Iacon. {{storylink|Darkness, Once Gazed Upon: Part One}}

[[File:TheWorldInYourEyes1-titan.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]

After the end of the war and the ratification of his landmark [[Nominus Edict]], Nominus Prime grew to fear what would happen if another Titanspark emerged from the [[Well of All Sparks]]: forging and fuelling a Titan required resources that Cybertron and its colony worlds could not afford, and gathering those resources would mean a new wave of expansion that would potentially bring them back into conflict with other alien species. Instead, Nominus ordered the staff of the Pyramid to simply divert the Titansparks that emerged into a hidden chamber, where they would be kept in indefinite storage until some future date. {{storylink|War World: Titans|Titans}} When Nominus stepped down as Prime, he told his successor [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel]] about the Titansparks, who agreed to keep the policy going. This knowledge somehow found its way to [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] whose silence Sentinel Prime bought with the job of Head of Intelligence. Over the next two kilocycles, [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] and his team stored sixteen Titansparks in this way; {{storylink|War World: Titans|Titans}} as the policy had never been made public, the people of Cybertron simply assumed that the Well had stopped producing new Titans, {{storylink|Arcee/Greenlight: Run}} which further increased the reverence the Reversionists held for the remaining Titans. {{storylink|The Change In Your Nature Part Two}}

With no wars to fight or colonies to found, the Titans no longer took an active role in Cybertronian affairs and went dormant: they now formed a reserve force that would only be roused to protect Cybertron from spaceborne threats like asteroids. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part One}} Dormant Titans were slaved to the global [[Titan Net]] where cityspeakers and technicians could autonomously carry out routine low-orbit manoeuvres. By Sentinel Prime's era, the Titan Net's ground-based infrastructure had largely dwindled to a single central hub in Iacon, {{storylink|The Change In Your Nature Part Four}} and in the days leading up to the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] most of the Titans had not awoken for at least ten megacycles {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part One}} [[Lodestar (Titan)|Lodestar]], the sole active Titan, served as Sentinel's flagship during offworld trips. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Five}} {{storylink|Nautica: Home}}

[[File:TheChangeInYourNaturePartFive-LodestarVsVigilem.jpg|thumb|left|300px]]

As part of a [[The Rise|Rise]] plot, [[Team Stream]] detonated a [[data-bomb]] that prevented the staff of the Titan Net from reactivating any of the Titans. {{storylink|The Change In Your Nature Part Four}} Using a backdoor in the system, the group coerced the cityspeaker [[Skystalker (G1)|Skystalker]] to awaken his partner [[Vigilem]] and use him to attack the [[Winged Moon]] and the [[Tether]]. Although Lodestar attempted to intercept and deter Vigilem, the old warhorse's arsenal proved too much for her, and Vigilem was able to incapacitate Lodestar, destroy the Tether, and escape into deep space. {{storylink|The Change In Your Nature Part Five}} Titan Net operators continued to try and rouse her fellows as their decaying orbits pushed them closer and closer into the atmosphere. {{storylink|Rise of the Decepticons: Tremors|Tremors}} [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] and [[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]] witnessed one of the Titans skim the atmosphere with Hoist opining that the data-bomb had been terminal. {{storylink|Escape Part One}}

Moments before Sentinel Prime died following [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]'s takeover of the Senate, the Prime deduced that Starscream had cooperated with the Dceepticons and warned his successor Orion to kill Starscream and warn Perceptor. {{storylink|War World: Prime|Prime}} Sentinel's fears were quickly justified as Starscream quickly went to the [[Decepticon leader]] and bartered information on the hidden Titansparks. {{storylink|War World: Awakenings|Awakenings}} As this resulted in physical injuries from the Decepticons, Starscream made sure to have his agents point the Autobots on the same trail. {{storylink|War World: Hunt|Hunt}}

[[File:Titans-KalisDestroyed.jpg|thumb|right|300px]]

The prospect of adding a Titan to his growing Decepticon army soon became a driving goal for Megatron. However, he was disappointed to learn that the Rise's sabotage had been ''too'' effective, and it was impossible to reverse their terminal orbits. Acting on his predecessor's instruction and Starscream's tip, the newly minted Optimus Prime came to the Pyramid where Perceptor told him about the hidden sparks. Concurrently, Megatron ordered an assault on the Pyramid to seize the dormant sparks within. Having already been damaged by the increasingly frequent and powerful quakes, molten plasma flooded the pyramid and destroyed almost all of the sealed Titansparks; {{storylink|War World: Titans|Titans}} although Megatron claimed that ''all'' of the sparks had been destroyed, {{storylink|War World: We Are Not Meant To Be Darkness|We Are Not Meant To Be Darkness}} the Decepticons had in fact managed to abscond with just one Titanspark. {{storylink|Darkness, Once Gazed Upon: Part Two}} Fearing that the Autobots might find some way to reactivate the Titans when he could not, Megatron ordered their orbital decay be hastened. Forcing the giants to deploy their aero-brakes, the Decepticons brought down the Titans and fatally crashed them across Cybertron. {{storylink|War World: Titans|Titans}} {{storylink|Escape Part Four}}

Off in space, Vigilem had made his way to the asteroid colony of [[Hexagon]], being welcomed and given repairs by the ambitious [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]]; however, a refitted Lodestar and her team of [[Technobot (G1)|Technical Specialists]] pursued him and eventually disengaged him from his berth. With no way to talk him down, Lodestar was forced to kill him with an [[imploder]]; on her way back to the Black Hub, she learned that she was seemingly the last of her kind. {{storylink|Light/Star}}

When Exarchon returned, Mindwipe's team came up with a plan to use the caged Titanspark as bait to trap the Threefold Spark in the spark cage, though this would come at the cost of the Titanspark. {{storylink|War's End Part Two}} Agreeing to the plan, Megatron sent his technicians to the [[Sonic Canyons]] where Mindwipe hypnotized Exarchon into usurping the Titanspark before [[Pyra Magna]] destroyed it. {{storylink|War's End Part Four}}

====''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' marketing material====
Located at the [[Praetorus Wharf]], an advanced, mobile, weaponized Decepticon base had been discovered by the Autobots. [[Teletraan I|Teletraan-1]]'s scanners indicated that this base was actually the Titan [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]. Stationed there was also the Decepticon [[C.O.M.B.A.T. System|Weaponizer]], [[Brunt (G1)|Brunt]]. {{storylink|Source:Teletraan-1 Data Files|''Siege'' Teletraan-1 Data Files}}

====''My Little Pony/Transformers''====
[[File:TheBeautyOfCybertron-Titan.jpg|thumb|left|300px]]

The Titans were an ancient breed of large-scale Cybertronians. While most had gone into slumber to serve Cybertron in their city forms or other similar functions, {{storylink|The Beauty of Cybertron}} one Titan, the monstrous [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]], was buried beneath the plains of Cybertron after "the one who controlled him" was gone.

When the [[unicorn]] tyrant [[King Sombra]] was unleashed on Cybertron, he had his enthralled forces free Scorponok, possessing the Titan's body. Before Sombra could fully integrate himself into Scorponok's systems, Optimus Prime and Megatron used the power of friendship to overload them, the Titan exploding in a cloud of magical energy. {{storylink|Finale (The Magic of Cybertron)|Finale}}

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===2001 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon===
[[File:Bravemax giant.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]
[[Fortress Maximus (RID)|Fortress Maximus]] was a colossal, ancient Transformer believed by many to have been only a legend. He was hidden on Earth eons ago to protect the planet's energy from the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] leader [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron]]. Over time, his place of rest would come to be hidden beneath the site where [[Metro City]] would exist by the early 21st Century. His fateful discovery by the modern day Autobots, Predacons, and Decepticons proved his existence to be much more than mere myth. {{storylink|Koji Gets His Wish}} He would only activate once all of the various keys to his reactivation were gathered: the [[O-Part]]s, the [[Orb of Sigma]], and his Headmaster component, [[Cerebros (RID)|Cerebros]], which had all been hidden beneath various ancient structures. {{storylink|A Friendly Contest}} {{storylink|Peril from the Past}} Fortress Maximus was notable in that he could be controlled directly by [[human]]s, with children particularly adept at controlling the giant. {{storylink|The Human Element}} Likewise, the young Autobot [[Wedge (RID)|Wedge]], through his courage and selflessness, could also stimulate Maximus's activation. {{storylink|Surprise Attack!}}

{{note|''Robots in Disguise'' "Fortress Maximus" is the American version of the Japanese "Brave Maximus" character, who technically exists in a separate continuity from his American counterpart. See "[[#Japanese cartoon continuity|Japanese cartoon continuity]]" above for more on the history of this character.}}
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===Aligned continuity family===
====''The Covenant of Primus''====
The Titan Metroplex awakened to buy Optimus Prime time so that the Autobot leader could retrieve the Matrix of Leadership from the core of Cybertron, standing with the Autobots against the Decepticons. Despite this, he was eventually wounded, and his spark returned to the core of Cybertron to cleanse it. {{storylink|Transformers: The Covenant of Primus|The Covenant of Primus}}

====''Transformers: The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe''====
Metroplex could act as a mobile fortress for his allies. {{storylink|Transformers: The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe|The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe}}

====''Rescue Bots Academy'' cartoon====
[[File:TheEmptyCity Citadel Secundus robot mode.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]
An ancient breed of city-sized Cybertronians, the Titans were Cybertron's first explorers, charting the other planets and settling [[Cybertronian colonies|colonies]] in the [[Golden Age]]. Without the later advent of star charts, the Titans who left rarely returned to Cybertron. {{storylink|The Empty City}} Roughly four to five thousand years before 2020, a signal was sent out for the Titans to gather beyond a planetary nebula, an area they eventually left. {{storylink|The Lonely Titan}}

After the recruits of the Rescue Bot Academy had discovered [[Citadel Secundus]], {{storylink|The Empty City}} he followed the old Titan signal but found his kind was long gone. Though offered a spot on Earth, he sought to make another attempt to find the other Titans. {{storylink|The Lonely Titan}}

Secundus later hosted the year two anniversary graduation party for the recruits only to be struck by an asteroid that created an anti-energon field. {{storylink|Space Party}} The recruits managed to take manual control of the Titan however and landed him safely on Earth where he became a new wing for the academy. {{storylink|Crash Of The Titan}}
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===''Cyberverse'' cartoon===
[[File:EndOfTheUniverse3-IaconusVCroaton.jpg|left|thumb|300px]]
In days past, during the Age of [[Expansion]], the Titans spearheaded the development of several [[Cybertronian colonies]], travelling to distant worlds and settling on them with a crew of colonists. One such Titan was [[Croaton (Cyberverse)|Croaton]], who settled on a red planet near the [[Sharkticon homeworld]]. Though the colony initially prospered, alien beings invaded the planet, abducting the colonists and severely damaging Croaton with an orbital bombardment. {{storylink|Ghost Town}}

A special group of Titans were known as the War Titans. These giants ferried detachments of warriors to alien planets to wage war against the inhabitants. When the Age of Expansion eventually came to an end, [[Iaconus]] was the only War Titan who lived to see Cybertron again. Unable to cope with the peacetime, Iaconus went mad and attacked his own kind, eventually being felled by the efforts of his crew. The crew's only survivor, [[Maccadam]], locked Iaconus beneath what would one day become Iacon, hiding the Titan with his own cloaking device. {{storylink|The Citizen}}

One of the Titans, known only as [[Dweller (Cyberverse)|The Dweller]], was banished to the depths of the [[Argon Sea]], locked in deep stasis and guarded by [[Hammerbyte]]. {{storylink|Dweller In The Depths (Cyberverse)|Dweller In The Depths}}

The Titans evidently had some influence in the era prior to the [[Great War (Cyberverse)|Great War]], as there existed [[cityspeaker]]s who were trained to telepathically commune with the giants. {{storylink|Memory (Cyberverse)|Memory}} {{storylink|Maccadam's}}

As the [[Ark (Cyberverse)|''Ark'']] sailed back to the Cybertron, they passed by [[Croaton's planet]]. Detecting the [[AllSpark]], the Titan had [[Windblade (Cyberverse)|Windblade]] bring it to him so he could be repaired. Once he was healed, he parted ways with the Autobots as he went to go find his colonists, unknowingly taking on the escaped [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] as a passenger. {{storylink|Ghost Town}} As the two sailed into the cosmos, they were found by the [[Quintesson]]s, {{storylink|The End Of The Universe I}} Croaton being forcibly turned into an enforcer for the aliens. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe III}}

When the Quintessons had invaded Cybertron, the resistance found Iaconus's slumbering form only for Maccadam to bar them from awakening the giant, fearful of the damage that the Titan's bloodlust would bring to Cybertron. {{storylink|The Citizen}} After Starscream revealed himself as the new Quintesson [[Judge (Cyberverse)|Judge]], Windblade activated Iaconus, {{storylink|The End Of The Universe II}} who quickly came to blows with the brainwashed Croaton. The last War Titan very nearly won the battle until Starscream killed him with some [[unspace]] goo. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe III}} Soon afterwards, Windblade freed Croaton from Quintesson control. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe IV}}

In the aftermath of the Quintessons' invasion, the alternate modes of the two Titans became the capital cities of the Autobots and Decepticons as part of a tentative truce. {{storylink|Enemy Line}}

In freeing her friend, Windblade's mind had been scattered across the planet, one of these psychic shards reactivating the Dweller who tried to assimilate all Cybertronians via Windblade only for her to be rescued and him to remain immobilized at the bottom of the sea. {{storylink|Dweller In The Depths (Cyberverse)|Dweller In The Depths}}

===IDW ''Shattered Glass'' comic===
In the era after the Great War, [[Blurr (SG)|Blurr]] passed by the broken corpse of a Titan in the [[Static Zone]]. {{storylink|Shattered Glass issue 1|Shattered Glass #1}}

==Games==
===''Transformers: Fall of Cybertron''===
{{voiceactor|[[Fred Tatasciore]] (English)}}
Metroplex had been lying dormant in what would become Autobot City for thousands of years, and was inadvertently activated during the last days of the war between the Autobots and Decepticons, during the launch of the ''[[Ark (WFC)|Ark]]''. [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] was able to bring the giant back online, who heeded the call of the "last Prime" by spearheading the counterattack against the Decepticon forces and eventually flattening [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] in the process. Unfortunately, the [[energon]] required to fuel Metroplex depleted the reserves necessary to launch the ''Ark'', and following the loss of an Autobot energon transport Metroplex sacrificed himself to launch the ship, glad that his sacrifice would get Prime and his Autobots offworld. {{storylink|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron}}

===''Transformers: Forged to Fight''===
When the [[Quintesson]]s dosed Windblade with [[Dark Energon]], she began to have hallucinations that the titans {{Sic}} were demanding her to destroy her comrades. {{storylink|Transformers: Forged to Fight|Voices}} Later, [[The Fallen|Megatronus]] attempted to harness the power of the Necrotitan, but their sparks were merged into one and became the powerful and unstable [[Necrotronus]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Forged to Fight|And I Saw}}

==Notes==
===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Metrotitan''' (メトロタイタン ''Metorotaitan''), '''Titan''' (タイタン ''Taitan'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Jīdì Jīngāng''' (China, 基地金刚, "Base {{w|Vajra}}"), '''Titan''' (China, 泰坦 ''Tàitǎn'')
*''Portuguese:'' '''Titã''' ("Titan")
*''Spanish:'' '''Titán''' ("Titan")

==See also==
*[[Metrotype]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Beast Wars: Uprising subgroups]]
[[Category:Cyberverse subgroups]]
[[Category:IDW (2005) legends]]
[[Category:IDW (2005) subgroups]]
[[Category:Mass-produced Transformers]]
[[Category:Titans| ]]
[[Category:War for Cybertron: Siege subgroups]]

Dead End (BW)

2022-06-25T02:17:53Z

Trex2themax: Removed a common misconception.

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:''Dead End is a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] from the [[Beast Era]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Deadend-bwneo-tradingcard.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|DAMN YOU, JACK SPARROW!]]
In many ways, '''Dead End''' (デッドエンド ''Deddo Endo'') is the ideal [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] soldier. Content in his rank amongst the troops on the frontline, he never makes any trouble for his superior officers nor partakes in any schemes for advancement. True to his solitary temperament, he dislikes working with others in operations. See, he prefers to express his cruelty unencumbered by throwing his [[Maximal]] enemies off balance with his Spiral Bomb, launching the shell half off his shoulder, and cackling as he finishes them off with his Dead Gun.

==Fiction==
===''Beast Wars Neo'' cartoon===
[[File:DeadEndNeo1.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Release the kraken!]]
{{voiceactor|[[Seiji Mizutani]] (Japanese)|[[Won-Jun Lee]] (Korean)}}
{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Big Convoy, Move Out}} {{storylink|Chase the Mysterious Capsule}} {{storylink|Burning Heart Below Freezing}} {{storylink|Hang in There, Stampy}} {{storylink|Mirage of the Sand}} {{storylink|Dinosaur Combiner Magmatron}} {{storylink|Duel in the Labyrinth}} {{storylink|The Black Hole Crisis}} {{storylink|Sub-Commander Longrack}} {{storylink|Waa! They Got Eaten}} {{storylink|Planet of Time}} {{storylink|Lonely Hydra}} {{storylink|Break Is a Predacon?}} {{storylink|Ship's Log}} {{storylink|Mach Kick Voluntarily Enlists!?}} {{storylink|Planet of the Ultimate Weapon}} {{storylink|Troubled DNAVI}} {{storylink|Attack! Randy}} {{storylink|Bump the Physicist}} {{storylink|Hardhead Is Hardheaded}} {{storylink|Personal Combat in the Deep Sea!!}} {{storylink|Survive the Hot-Blooded Instructor}} {{storylink|Assemble! New Warriors}} {{storylink|Mysterious Beast Warriors!?}} {{storylink|The Stolen Capsules}} {{storylink|Pursue the Blentrons!}} {{storylink|Angry Magmatron}} {{storylink|Illusion? Lio Convoy}} {{storylink|Unicron Revived!?}} {{storylink|Unicron's Ambition}} {{storylink|Fight! Maximals}} {{storylink|End of the Maximals!?}} {{storylink|The Final Battle (BWN)|The Final Battle}} {{storylink|Graduation Ceremony!!}}}}
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===''Bom Bom'' manga continuity===
====''Beast Wars II'' manga====
{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|The Beast Wars "Neo" Begin!!!}}}}
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====''Beast Wars Neo'' manga====
{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|There Are 7 Capsules}} {{storylink|100000000000000000 Grains of Sandron!!}}{{storylink|Mortal Combat! Twenty Thousand Meters in the Sky}} {{storylink|A Battle Fought Alone}}}}
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===2006 IDW ''Beast Wars'' continuity===
[[File:Gathering1-Dead End.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Frisbeetron. Future Shellformer.]]
Once, Dead End was as sullen and fatalistic as his [[Dead End (G1)|namesake]]. It was only when [[Magmatron]] recruited him into the Predacons' rigorous military training that he found his true calling as a soldier. The drills he endured were etched into his being to the point that he practiced them after every recharge period even long after his training was finished. {{storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook|Beast Wars Sourcebook #1}} As such, Dead End was among the Predacon crowd gathered to hear Magmatron speak of his secret rebellion against the [[Tripredacus Council]]. {{storylink|The Gathering issue 1|The Gathering #1}}
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===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
[[File:Intersectionality MedusaDeadEndSynapse.jpg|thumb|left]]
The female Dead-End was a junior engineer working under Chief [[Magmatron]] on board the ''[[Trypticon (G1)|Dinosaur]]''. Prickly and anti-social, Dead-End intentionally had few friends among the crew, despite attempts by [[Hydra (BW)|Hydra]] and others to include her. Still, she was very attached to her pet Sharkticon, [[Gnaw (G1)|Gnaw]], who she secretly picked up during shore leave on [[Arkus]] and kept in the ship's cooling systems.

During a mission over the planet [[Metascan Omega|LGC-8803]], the ''Dinosaur'' came under attack from outside parties while an away team was on the planet below. Dead-End worked to assist Magmatron in repairing the massive damage the ship took. After returning from repair work in the pipes, however, she learned from Magmatron that the crew faced a different threat. The proto-formers had begun an insurrection against the Builders back home, and their Micromaster political officer [[Synapse (BWU)|Synapse]] had killed Hydra and [[Killer Punch]] to keep the secret. Dead-End and Magmatron agreed that mutiny was their only option. While Magmatron attempted to gather the rest of the crew to their side, Dead-End was assaulted by Synapse and then [[Medusa]], one of their [[Destructon]] attackers who slipped aboard during the attack. Medusa drove off Synapse but then caused more damage to the ship's engines, making a planet-crash all but inevitable.

Meanwhile, Magmatron had learned the ''Dinosaur'' was actually the old Decepticon war criminal Trypticon, and was actively working against them and the captain, [[Full-Tilt (G1)|Full-Tilt]]. While the chief tried to stabilize the ship, Dead-End tried to infiltrate the computer core and shut down Trypticon's higher reasoning to reclaim control of the vessel. Trypticon defended himself with internal defenses and his Brunt drone, but Dead-End had the advantage of surprise when she sicc'ed Gnaw on the tank. Dead-End was able to breach Trypticon's brain and shut him down.

The ship was unable to remain in the air, but Full-Tilt managed to guide it down to LGC-8803 and unfold it into a new colony, Dinosaur City. Dead-End and Gnaw chose to remain behind on Dinosaur City with other members of the crew and related associates while Magmatron took others back to join the uprising. {{storylink|Intersectionality}}

Fifteen years later, Dead-End was noted as still a resident of Dinosaur City. {{storylink|The Inexorable March}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
Dead End was one of [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Onyx Prime]]'s Maximals. When this bestial horde invaded Cybertron, he was one of the many warriors who wound up battling [[Arcee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Arcee]]. {{storylink|The Falling, Chapter 5: Endless Forever|Endless Forever}}

==Toys==
===''Beast Wars''===
[[File:BWN-toy DeadEnd.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Shell-forming never got so literal.]]
*'''Dead End''' (January 1999)
**''ID number'': '''D-32'''
**''Accessories'': Left shell-half, right "Spiral Bomb" shell-half, "Dead Gun"

:Part of the first wave of ''Beast Wars Neo'' products in the [[Japan]]ese ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars (Japanese toyline)#BWN|Beast Wars]]'' toyline, Dead End is a Basic-sized figure that transforms into an {{w|Ammonoidea|ammonite}}. In [[beast mode]], Dead End's "head" can articluate and he can launch his spring-loaded "Spiral Bomb" projectile (the right half of his shell).

:In [[robot mode]], his main grasper tentacles separate to form his hand-held, non-firing "[[Dead Gun]]". His Spiral Bomb ends up located on his right shoulder and can also be launched in this mode. The launcher itself, also houses his [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] [[spark crystal]]. His Spiral Bomb can also double as a hover board—though, there are no tabs or slots to hold the figure onto the shell piece, as this was a feature that was invented entirely by the animators for the cartoon and was merely an afterthought.

:Dead End is considered one of the most notorious [[shellformer]]s, as the entirety of his [[beast mode]] is made up of the two shell-halves on his shoulders and without them, he can no longer function as a Transformer.

::*''[http://tfu.info/1999/Destron/DeadEnd/deadend.htm More information on Dead End at TFU.info]''

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*'''Undersea Showdown: Break VS Dead End''' (VS pack, January 1999)
**''Takara ID number'': '''VS-32'''
**''Sonokong ID number'': '''DX-04'''
**''Accessories'': Left shell half, right "Spiral Bomb" shell half, "Dead Gun"

:Dead End was also available in the "Undersea Showdown" (海中の対決 ''kaichū no taiketsu'') two-pack with the [[Maximal]] [[Break#VS32|Break]]. Both toys are identical to their individual releases.

:[[Sonokong]] also released this vs-pack in [[South Korea|Korea]]n ''Beast-War Neo'' markets. "Ammonat" features no differences with the [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] releases of Dead End, other than the packaging and [[Tech Spec]] cards.
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==Notes==
*The ''[[Beast Wars: Uprising]]'' incarnation of Dead-End is a "virtual redeco" of ''[[Power Core Combiners]]'' [[Undertow (PCC)#Power Core Combiners|Undertow]].

===Foreign names===
*''Korean:'' '''Ammonat''' (암모나트 ''Ammonateu'')

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Nekomimi A and Nekomimi B

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Trex2themax: /* Notes */

: ''Nekomimi A and Nekomimi B are characters from the [[Transformers: Energon (franchise)|Energon]] portion of the [[Unicron Trilogy continuity family]].''

[[Image:Nekomimi-1.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Robot catgirl maid idols. [https://www.shortpacked.com/comic/chex-mix That's like four things at once.]]]

'''Nekomimi A''' (ネコミミA, the "brunette") and '''Nekomimi B''' (ネコミミB, the "blonde") are horrifying robotic {{w|catgirl}} celebrities whose exploits are apparently enjoyed by both humans and Transformers. Between appearing in cafeterias to meet-and-greet with scientific minds, guest-hosting virtual reality battle tournaments, and starring in comic books detailing their (presumably) fictional adventures, they get around quite a bit.

Meow.

==Fiction==
===''Energon'' cartoon===
:''Nekomimi A voice actor:'' [[Jocelyne Loewen]] (English), [[Masumi Asano]] (Japanese), [[Carmen Podio]] (Castilian Spanish)
:''Nekomimi B voice actor:'' [[Chiara Zanni]] (English), [[Yukiko Tagami]] (Japanese), [[Marta Sáinz]] (Castilian Spanish)

[[Image:NekoMimiOpSup01.jpg|left|200px|thumb|You're gonna wanna enlarge this.]]

The Nekomimis attended a real-world cafeteria at the same time as the [[Kicker Jones|Jones]] family, who were present there for a meal. The pair could be seen chatting with several human scientists, though one can only imagine what the two of them would have in common with scientists. {{storylink|Optimus Supreme}}

[[Image:Nekomimi-2.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Nekomimi A (backache queen) and Nekomimi B ("I LOVE YOU, HOT SHOT"), respectively.]]

Nekomimis A and B reappeared within a video game-cum-virtual battle training simulator used by the Autobots. The duo acted as announcers and referees for a series of tournament fights held between the Autobots at a low point during their war for [[energon]], which included digital clones of the deceased and the previous bodies of characters who had been upgraded, as well as several Decepticons, who hacked into the system in order to join the fun.

Nekomimi B seemed to be infatuated with [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]], calling him "dreamy" twice. Unlike Nekomimi B, Nekomimi A thought Hot Shot was "scrawny" and had her sights set on [[Megatron (Armada)|Galvatron]]. However, perhaps changing her mind after witnessing Galvatron's brutal takedown of [[Demolishor (Armada)|Demolishor]] and [[Cyclonus (Armada)|Snow Cat]], she joined Nekomimi B in calling Hot Shot "dreamy" near the end of the tournament.

[[Image:GalvatronTerror-NekomimiComic.jpg|left|thumb|Having no hands won't stop Six Shot from reading about catgirls.]]

Following Hot Shot and [[Rodimus (Energon)|Rodimus]]'s victory by ring-out against [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Supreme]] in the final round, Nekomimi A and Nekomimi B presented the winning team with trophies—shortly before they announced that Hot Shot and Rodimus would now take on the "special guest fighter", a pint-sized virtual incarnation of [[Unicron]]. As this last battle commenced, the two announcers wished the audience goodbye. {{storylink|Distribution}}

Some time after the tournament, [[Six Shot (Energon)|Six Shot]] was seen reading a humorous, Transformer-sized comic book featuring the two of them. {{storylink|Galvatron Terror}}

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===''Legends'' comic===
[[File:LegendsBusinessTrip11-ChromiaTransform.jpg|thumb|100px]]
Nekomimi A was among the heroic female Transformers (and assorted robots) who appeared in one of [[Tigatron]]'s dreams to protect him from the evil female Transformers. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 11|Bonus Edition Vol. 11}} In the waking world, Nekomimi A appeared on a billboard advertisement. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 40}}
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==Notes==
[[Image:Nekomimisab.jpg|250px|thumb]]
*Though they were not named in either the ''[[Transformers: Energon (cartoon)|Energon]]'' cartoon or the original Japanese dialogue, the Japanese ending credits to the episode identified them with the designations used in this article. "''Nekomimi''" (猫耳) is roughly Japanese for "kitty ears", and is a term generally applied in Japan to "{{w|catgirl}}s".
*In the ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Animated]]'' universe, the Nekomimis appear to be "[[Hello Kitty]]"-style mascots called "Hello Nekomimi Pop-Star". Notebook paper used by [[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|Sari Sumdac]] to recount the events of [[The Return of the Headmaster|the Autobots' second clash]] with the [[Headmaster (Animated)|Headmaster]] and [[Sari, No One's Home|her own battle]] with the [[Constructicon (Animated)|Constructicons]] features [[Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac|illustrations of them]].
[[File:SoLongInumimiRockstar-CAA.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.65|"Yubi Yubi!"]]
*In the ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]] Animated'' universe, the role of the Nekomimis are filled by "So Long Inumimi Rock-Star", dog-themed girls.

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