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Turbofire

2026-04-17T22:15:19Z

Vanya: /* Generation 2 */ Small edit for clarification: "Generation 1" to "Generation 1.5" which makes it clear that the intent is to reference the transitional period in the European toyline.

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{{disambig2|the European Autobot|his unreleased Japanese counterpart|Hotrider}}
:''Turbofire is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:G2turbofireart.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Seen here in a photograph taken ''just'' as his bubblegum popped in his face.]]

'''Turbofire''' (aka '''Hotrider''') hasn't exactly got the fastest processor on the block, but he's not about to let that get in the way. Sure, it might take him longer to work out a solution than... well, than a ''lot'' of other Autobots, but he's dogged and logical in his own fashion. When he finally makes his decision, it's usually the right one.

Still, in a fast-moving team like the [[Axelerator]]s, he's better suited to the role of backup, bringing fresh supplies and providing cover fire for the bots on the front line. He does it without complaint; after all, he (eventually) reasons it's a vitally important job that's got to be done, and he's the one to do it!

==Fiction==
===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
Turbofire was among a group of Autobots on Cybertron who were rioting at the idea of having to listen to [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]]. {{storylink|Skyfire (issue)|Skyfire}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
[[File:SpotlightArcee Autobotsfighting.jpg|left|thumb|"Shoot the sky! Maybe it'll fall on them!"]]
Turbofire was one of several Autobots under the command of [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] on the [[Garrus-9]] penal colony. He and the other soldiers failed to stop a Decepticon attack force from liberating the facility's [[Pretender Monster|newest inmates]]. {{storylink|Spotlight: Arcee}}

Later, Garrus-9 came under attack again and Turbofire again defended it. And then [[Overlord (G1)|Overlord]] came to town... {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 1|Last Stand of the Wreckers #1}}
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===''Wings Universe''===
[[File:G2Redux-EagleEyevsTurbofire.jpg|thumb|right]]
As a "second generation" of Transformers arose on Earth in the [[Cyberfactory]], Turbofire was one of many Transformers "born" as an official citizen of Earth. While they were created with no faction in mind, he and many other Earth-born Cybertronians became Autobots to oppose their brethren, who had formed the [[Decepticon Syndicate]]. At some point during their battles, Turbofire fought [[Eagle Eye (G2)|Eagle Eye]].

[[File:Turbofireisready-ACommonFoe.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|left]]
Stationed in [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]], Turbofire was among the reinforcements called in during the Decepticon attack on the [[Large Hadron Collider]], and he heroically towed [[Manta Ray (G2)|Manta Ray]] to the front lines. He then helped rout the evildoers by blasting some [[Sharkticon (species)|Sharkticons]], and he may even have developed [[forestonite]] superpowers if he was lucky. {{storylink|Generation 2: Redux}}

He chatted to [[Bosch]] when the latter visited Autobot City as an ambassador. {{storylink|A Flash Forward, Part 2}}

During [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]]'s invasion of Cybertron, Turbofire stood by at the ready as part of a joint team of Autobots and Decepticons, awaiting Obsidian's signal for their time to fight back. Once the signal came, they teleported to Cybertron and started beating on some drones. {{storylink|A Common Foe}}

===''Regeneration One''===
Turbofire, [[Windbreaker]], and [[Meanstreak (G2)|Meanstreak]] were among the Autobots on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] that responded to the invasion of [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]]'s [[Blitz Engine]]s. {{storylink|Destiny, Part Four}}
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==Toys==
===''The Transformers''===
[[File:G2-toy Turbofire.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Don't worry; you'll see him coming.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a2|'''Hotrider''' (Axelerator, [[1993]])}}</ul>
:*''Accessories:'' Engine block/gun
{{toydesigner|[[Takio Ejima]] (TakaraTomy), [[Masakatsu Saito]] (concept artist)}}

: Sold as part of the [[Axelerator]] assortment, ''[[The Transformers (European toyline)|The Transformers]]'' "Hotrider" transforms into a large pickup resembling a fourth generation Chevrolet C/K series truck. His exposed chrome-silver engine block becomes a hand-held weapon in [[robot mode]]. The toy is [[gang-molding|gang-molded]] with [[Rapido#Toys|Rapido]].

:He was initially released in the European market in 1993, during the "transitional" time when the Transformers toys took on the new ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|Generation 2]]'' sigils, but the packaging lacked the "Generation 2" line-name.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1993/Autobot/Turbofire/turbofire.htm More information on Turbofire at TFU.info]''

===''Generation 2''===
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a2|'''Turbofire''' (Autobot Car, [[1993]]) / '''Hotrider''' (Axelerator, [[1994]])}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': Engine-block rifle

:Released in the U.S. concurrently with the "Generation 1.5" Hotrider, ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|Generation 2]]'' Turbofire is almost identical to the European toy, save the pink clear-plastic being replaced with smoky-black. Hotrider was re-released in the European ''Generation 2'' line the following year, featuring the same smoky-black plastic as the US release.

:This mold was planned for use by Takara as [[Hotrider]], but the ''[[Block Town]]'' line was scrapped.
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==Notes==
[[File:G2-art TurbofireUK.jpg|thumb|upright=0.85|TurboFRIGHTer.]]
*Like all of the toys carried over from the European line for ''Generation 2'', Turbofire got entirely new artwork for his U.S. release, seen at the top of this page. His original artwork, seen at right, has a scary freakin' vent-thing in place of his mouth. ''Whyyyyy?''
*''Unlike'' most of the toys carried over from the European line for ''Generation 2'', the United States releases of the "Small Cars" kept the mottos and bios of the 1993 European Axelerators mostly unchanged, though the European 1994 ''Generation 2'' releases omitted the bios and only featured the mottos in [[multilingual packaging|multiple languages]].

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Hotrider''' (ホットライダー ''Hottoraidā'')
*''Italian:'' '''Astro'''

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Autobot rebel

2026-03-20T09:31:49Z

Vanya: /* The Transformers cartoon */ Grammar

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:''The "Autobot rebels" are [[Cybertronian Civil Wars#G1 cartoon continuity|First War]] freedom fighters from the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''
[[File:BetasAutobotRebels.jpg|right|upright=1.95|thumb|A-3 and Beta's Merry Men, plus at least one Merry Woman and a Merry Boy.]]
The "'''Autobot rebels'''" are members of the consumer product line that, done with their uncertain lives as slaves, [[Autobot Rebellion|rose up to fight their masters]], the [[Quintesson]]s.

Known members:
*[[Alpha Trion|A-3]] (leader)
*[[Beta (G1)|Beta]] (second-in-command)

==Fiction==
===''The Transformers'' cartoon===
The rebels had a grand scale attack on [[Hive City]] planned. A key part of their strategy would be A-3's [[Coder Remote]] with which they would take out the [[Dark Guardian]]s effortlessly, thereby badly crippling the Quintessons' defenses. Problematically, A-3 and his Coder Remote [[Time Window|disappeared]] from the [[Empty Lands]] shortly before the attack would commence. [[Beta (G1)|Beta]] took charge in his absence, having preparations continue regardless of the Coder Remote, but spending her available time up until the battle on a search for A-3. Doing so, she stumbled on a small [[Rewind (G1)|band]] [[Ramhorn (G1)|of]] [[Wreck-Gar (G1)|slave-mark]] [[Blaster (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|carrying]] [[Blurr (G1)|robots]] under threat of a Dark Guardian and helped them escape. Despite the risk it meant, she gave the strangers her trust and brought them with her to the [[Warrens|rebels' hideout]]. Beta explained the situation to them in company of the other rebels and asked for their assistance in the upcoming attack, to which they answered positively.

With the extra help, the assault on Hive City proceeded quite well at first, but the rebels failed to breach the city's walls and take out the Dark Guardians permanently. Suddenly, A-3 appeared on the battlefield and activated the Coder Remote. Having taken out the main defenses, he urged the future Autobots to return to their own time, the battle no longer their concern. {{storylink|Forever Is a Long Time Coming (episode)|Forever Is a Long Time Coming}}

[[Category:Autobot subgroups]]
[[Category:Generation 1 subgroups]]
[[Category:Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]

Ironhide (Armada)

2026-03-20T08:35:50Z

Vanya: /* Armada */ Just corrected a pronoun.

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{{disambig3|Ironhide}}
:''Ironhide is a [[Decepticon]]-allied [[Mini-Con]] from the [[Transformers: Armada (franchise)|Armada]] portion of the [[Unicron Trilogy continuity family]].''

[[Image:MTMTEArmada_Ironhide.jpg|right|thumb|200px]]
'''Ironhide''' is one sad, needy Mini-Con. She's lost just about everyone she cared about, from Mini-Con friends to her one-time [[Autobot]] partner. When she was captured by the [[Decepticon]] [[Terrorsaur (Armada)|Terrorsaur]], she gloomily accepted her fate.

But when the chance to free herself from the Decepticon's grip came about, she found herself even ''more'' depressed. Maybe it's Stockholm Syndrome, maybe it's just a clinging need for ''any'' kind of stability in her life, even the negative kind. But Ironhide actually has begun to want to ''return'' to Terrorsaur.

{{bigquote|Alone is no way to live.|Ironhide's [[bio]] quote.}}

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==Toys==
===''Armada''===
[[Image:Armada-toy_Ironhide.JPG|right|thumb|250px]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Terrorsaur with Ironhide''' (Super-Con, 2003)}}</ul>
:*''Takara release date'': June ??, 2003

: Ironhide is a [[redeco]] of the ''[[Transformers: Armada (franchise)|Armada]]'' [[Adventure Mini-Con Team]] member [[Dune Runner (Armada)#Toys|Dune Runner]], transforming into a "sand rail" dune buggy with top-mounted artillery cannon. As a Mini-Con, she has a "[[Powerlinx]]" socket on her vehicle-mode underside (which ends up on the back of her head in robot mode) which allows her to attach to any toy with a "Powerlinx" style [[5 mm post]]; some toys have special Powerlinx posts that activate/unlock gimmicks when a Mini-Con is attached. The gear-wheel mechanism in her torso makes the barrel of the cannon move back and forth when its vehicle mode is rolled along, or when hooked up to the gear mechanism of the ''Armada'' [[Cyclonus (Armada)#Toys|Cyclonus]] mold.

: Ironhide was available only as a partner to [[Terrorsaur (Armada)#Toys|Terrorsaur]].

: As a hasty addition to the ''Armada'' toyline to meet demand, Terrorsaur was not available in [[TakaraTomy|Takara's]] normal retail ''Legend of the Microns'' line. She was, however, offered in Japan as a "[[USA Edition]]" release, exclusive to [[AEON|JUSCO]] stores.

: This mold was also used to make [[Crunch (Energon)|Crunch]] and [[Kobushi]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2003/Mini-Con/Ironhide/ironhide.htm More information on Ironhide at TFU.info]''{{ArmadaDuneRunnerMold}}

==Notes==
*The other two Adventure Mini-Con Team molds were used to make [[Armorhide (Armada)|Armorhide]] (released with [[Rhinox (Armada)|Rhinox]]) and [[Cliffjumper (Armada)|Cliffjumper]] (released with [[Cheetor (Armada)|Cheetor]]).

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Ironhide''' (アイアンハイド ''Aianhaido'')

[[Category:Armada Mini-Cons]]
[[Category:Female Transformers]]
[[Category:Toy-only characters]]

Chromia (G1)

2026-03-19T13:08:04Z

Vanya: /* War for Cybertron: Siege */ Integrated the retool information into the first paragraph to match the format of most entries.

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

[[File:Chromiamodelsheet.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|"At least our animated character models didn't have [[Heel struts|high heels]]."]]
'''Chromia''' is a seasoned, tough-as-nails infiltrator who's adept at unflinching sabotage. Bluntly honest and a little married to her job, she doesn't make an ideal friend, but she can nevertheless be fiercely protective, a quality which also makes her an exceptional bodyguard. Her rough edges often find her a kinship with other like-minded security officers such as [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]]. More diplomatic peers such as [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] have attempted to socialize her, but beware—she might "arrange" an exit out of an overwhelming interpersonal situation with a quietly-placed detonator.

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|? (English); [[Masako Katsuki]] (Japanese)|[[Yu Hong]] (Chinese), [[Esperanza Gracia]] (Spain-Spanish), [[Adalmária Mesquita]] (Brazilian Portuguese), [[Joëlle Fossier]] (European French)}}

[[File:Femaleautobots.jpg|thumb]]
Four million years ago, Chromia tried to board the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]], while it was being attacked, with the rest of [[Elita One (G1)|Elita One]]'s team. The plan failed though, and she and the others appeared to be destroyed.

[[File:TSFAT Chromia vehicle.jpg|left|thumb|Cybertronic soccer mom.]]
Chromia led a mission to steal [[energon cube]]s from [[Shockwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Shockwave]]. When [[Moonracer (G1)|Moonracer]] got trapped after disobeying orders, Chromia sent [[Firestar (G1)|Firestar]] ahead with the energon cubes and confronted the alerted Shockwave. Although she had failed to free Moonracer with [[Female Autobot laser pistol|her pistol]], she did manage to trick Shockwave into freeing Moonracer.

Shortly thereafter, a team of [[Decepticon]]s from [[Earth]] came to capture Elita One. In doing so, [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] destroyed the Female Autobots' underground base, trapping them inside. When they managed to free themselves, Chromia took charge of the search for their missing leader. On their way, they met up with a group of Earth-stationed Autobots who had come looking for [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] and Chromia was reunited with [[Ironhide (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ironhide]]. The two teams together fought the Decepticons, eventually winning when Optimus and Elita returned. Given a new base by [[Alpha Trion]], Chromia stayed with Elita's squad on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] when Optimus' team returned to Earth. {{storylink|The Search for Alpha Trion}}
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====Japanese cartoon continuity====
=====MC Axis comics=====
Chromia and the rest of the team defeated a gigantic Decepticon. Chromia and her compatriots seemed confident that they could retake Cybertron on their own, though Elita One insisted that Optimus Prime was still their last hope to win the war. {{storylink|The Transformers (MC Axis manga)#Elita One|The Transformers: Elita One}}

=====''Legends'' comic=====
[[File:TFLegendsAutobotsHalloweenCostumes.jpg|thumb|Little known fact: Chromia is [[Stampy (BW)|Stampy]]'s great-aunt.]]
[[Tigatron (Legends)|Tigatron]] of the [[Legends World]] had a dream in which Chromia appeared before him and warned him he was in danger, soon followed by all kinds of heroic female Transformers. Sure enough, a group of evil female Transformers then showed up to kidnap Tigatron, but Chromia picked him up and kept him safe during the ensuing battle. {{storylink|LG11 Chromia}}

During [[Halloween]], Alpha Trion summoned the real Chromia into the Legends Universe to help stop [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]]'s latest grab for energy. Dressed up as a bunny girl, she confronted Megatron and his underlings alongside Arcee and [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]], though she was confused and embarrassed as to why it being Halloween meant she had to dress like that. The three were then defeated and tied up by [[Blackarachnia (Legends)|Blackarachnia]], but it turned out the Decepticons hadn't gotten any energy anyway. {{storylink|LG17 Blackarachnia}} Tigatron later had another dream of Chromia in which she explained that her new body was the result of changing armor parts, displayed her new altmode and ability to fly, and traded armors with Arcee. {{Storylink|Transformers Legends: Chromia Chapter|Chromia Chapter}} Chromia later swooned over the [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] from her home universe when he crossed over to the Legends Universe. {{storylink|LG19 Springer}} Chromia and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]] were tied up by [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] during his mission to send all interdimensional visitors to the Legends Universe back to where they came from, though he eventually gave up and allowed them to stay. {{storylink|LG20 Skids}}

While acting as cheerleaders at a soccer game for whatever reason, Chromia and the other girls found themselves being harassed by [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]]. {{storylink|LG29 Wheelie}} After [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] was sold off to the [[Tera-Kura Co.|Decepticon Tera-Kura Co.]], Chromia joined the Decepticon organization so that she could remain with the city-bot. {{storylink|LG31 Fortress Maximus}} As Alpha Trion had done the same, she was near him when he was looking for his [[10.2 ultra-drill|ultra-drill]]. {{storylink|LG33 Highbrow}} As an office worker she wore a snazzy suit, though [[Apeface]] ripped it to pieces while displaying his telekinetic powers. {{storylink|LG38 Laserbeak}} She later started taking [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]'s new commuter service to work, {{storylink|LG40 Astrotrain}} and was exasperated with Alpha Trion when he lost his drill again. {{storylink|LG-43 Trypticon Project Chapter}}

When the Decepticon Headmasters turned on Tera-Kura Co. and came to steal Metroplex's transformation cog, Chromia was defeated by [[Trickdiamond]]'s earthquake powers. {{storylink|LG43 Trypticon Mobilization Chapter: Decepticon Civil War|Decepticon Civil War}} She hung back at the office while the cog was used to rebuild [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]], then cheered Metroplex on when he defeated the beast. {{storylink|LG43 Trypticon}} She was later among those pestered by [[Kickback (G1)|Kickback]] and his clone army. {{storylink|LG47 Kickback}}

As [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]'s obsession with plasma energy threatened the entire Legends World, Chromia and Alpha Trion worked with the [[Jumpstarter]]s to begin opening dimensional portals, evacuating the population. {{storylink|Targetmaster Chapter Finale: Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part Two|Targetmaster Chapter Finale Part Two}} Chromia and her Autobot allies returned to Cybertron of 2039. They faced the [[Powered Master]]s, corrupted and possessed by the spirits of [[Violengiguar]]. {{storylink|The Road to Legends' Revival Chapter 2}} By 2039, peace reigned on Earth and on Cybertron between the Autobots and Decepticons. Metroplex and Trypticon became sister cities on the planet Earth, and Chromia was on hand as a law enforcer, keeping an eye out for the few remaining criminal elements. {{storylink|Transformers Legends Final Chapter "Epiloge"|Epiloge}}

=====''Generations Selects Special Comic''=====
In [[2050]], Chromia and the Autobots supported the [[Selector]]s' revolution on Earth. {{storylink|Volcanicus comic 2}}

=====''Legacy VS500 Collection Special Comic''=====
[[Arcee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Arcee]] and Chromia were present at the [[Speedia 500]] race on [[Velocitron]] in race queen outfits. {{storylink|Velocitron Speedia 500 Part 2}}

====''Wings Universe''====
{{Wingsnote}}

[[File:Battlelines6-femaleautobotsandsideburn.jpg|thumb|left|Welp, got left behind, time for a nap.]]

To gather energy for the energy-sapped Autobots, a crew was formed to pilot the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]''. Chromia was to be part of the crew, but a Decepticon attack blocked her and others from reaching the ship before it departed. Soon after, as their current reserve of energies was dangerously low, Chromia joined her comrades still on the planet in stasis hibernation as an energy-saving measure. {{storylink|Battle Lines, Part 6}}

===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
{{Unreleased DW G1 comic}}

Chromia was a member of an elite squad of five warriors under the command of the [[Quintesson]]s. [[The Route of All Evil|Following a report]] from their Autobot sleeper agent, [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]], that the awaited situation to commence their mission had come, [[Elita One (G1)|Elita One]] used a [[space bridge]] to get to the [[Autobase]] on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Chromia and the others waited patiently for her to signal that they could follow. Chromia joined her commander soon after it came. With only [[Firestar (G1)|Firestar]] still to get through the portal, the group was attacked by [[Gnaw (G1)|Gnaw]], but [[Moonracer (G1)|Moonracer]] and Elita One took care of that. While the rest of the team went further into the Autobot facility, Chromia was sent back to [[Quintessa (planet)|Quintessa]] with an unconscious [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]]. {{storylink|Unreleased Dreamwave issues#Issue 11|Generation 1 #11}}
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===Descent into Evil===
[[File:Chromia-DIE.jpg|upright=0.5|thumb|150px]]
Chromia and her ward [[Flareup (G1)|Flareup]] were part of an Autobot strike force tasked with destroying the [[Decepticon]] general [[Deathsaurus (G1)|Deathsaurus]]' cloning lab on [[Ceti Alpha Seven]]. Although the pair had handily beaten Deathsaurus's [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]] underling [[Buzzclaw (G1)|Buzzclaw]] on [[Regulon Four]] some time previous, they were taken by surprise by the first production run of clones. Although Chromia fought effectively against the clones, she was no match for Deathsaurus himself when he entered the battle personally. Falling before the general's might, she was taken captive.

Chromia, along with her teammates ''and'' the backup team of Ironhide and [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]], was ultimately rescued when [[Ricochet (Timelines)|Ricochet]], who had evaded capture, came to the rescue of the entire Autobot party. {{storylink|Descent into Evil}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
{{first|[[The Dead Are Not Enough: Dark Cybertron Chapter 7|''Robots in Disguise'' #25]]}}

[[File:DarkCybertron7 Chromia.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.6]]
One erroneous account presented Chromia as a Cybertronian, who was among those attended [[Bumper (G1)|Bumper]] and [[Fastback (G1)|Fastback]]'s funeral. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 3|Megatron Origin #3}} However, every other account shows that Chromia was born from the hot spot contained in the [[Titan (group)|Titan]] [[Caminus (Titan)|Caminus]], who founded [[Caminus (planet)|a distant colony in his name]] that was cut off from [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] long before the war and whose citizens retained differentiated genders. Her people's isolation ended with the arrival of [[Thunder Clash|Thunderclash]], who had come seeking help from a [[Cityspeaker]] in order to aid [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]]. The chosen Cityspeaker, [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]], needed a bodyguard, however, and so Chromia (and [[Nautica (G1)|Nautica]]) were enlisted. {{storylink|A 'Bot and Her City|A Bot and Her City}} {{storylink|If I Know You}} The three joined the crew of the ''[[Vis Vitalis]]'' shortly before it crossed paths with [[Alpha Trion]]. The legendary Autobot was preoccupied with an important quest, so the three volunteered to watch after Metroplex for him and keep him alive. {{storylink|Burning Bright: Dark Cybertron Chapter 8|Burning Bright}} Under their watch, Metroplex's insides were besieged with invaders, so Chromia and Nautica hunted them down to confront them and fight them off, if necessary. They found a small group of robots and Chromia threatened to put the hurt down on them. {{storylink|The Dead Are Not Enough: Dark Cybertron Chapter 7|The Dead Are Not Enough}}

Their adversaries turned out to be fellow Autobots from the ''[[Lost Light]]'' who were battling an army of angered [[Ammonite]]s. Chromia and Nautica led them back to their boss, Windblade, who explained their mission, and subsequently the ''Lost Light'' was able to give Metroplex a jump, allowing him to [[space bridge|spacebridge]] back to Cybertron. {{storylink|Burning Bright: Dark Cybertron Chapter 8|Burning Bright}} On arrival, they couldn't do much but hang on tight within Metroplex as the city-bot did battle with the [[Quintessa (IDW)|Necrotitan]]. {{storylink|Finis Temporis: Dark Cybertron Chapter 9|Finis Temporis}} Following Metroplex's victory, Chromia and her pals got to mingle with the locals, including another female Autobot named [[Arcee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Arcee]]. {{storylink|The Becoming: Dark Cybertron Chapter 10|The Becoming}} When [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Shockwave]]'s army of Ammonites invaded Cybertron, the three Camiens returned to Metroplex to convince him to fight the invaders. {{storylink|Black Planet: Dark Cybertron Chapter 11|Black Planet}} Toward the end of the battle, [[Mainframe (G1)|Mainframe]] contacted Chromia to let them to know the ''Lost Light'' was about to ram [[Monstructor (G1)|Monstructor]], though she got frustrated by the vague, dramatic way he phrased it. {{storylink|...And the Damage Done: Dark Cybertron Finale|...And the Damage Done}}

Chromia accompanied Nautica to her audition to join the crew of the ''Lost Light'', helping out by keeping her friend's rambling to a minimum. Chromia and Windblade later attended [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]]'s trial. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 1: Towards Peace|Towards Peace}} The pair went to find cover when a group of Decepticons disrupted proceedings with the intent to rescue the defendant. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 3: Predestination: A Beginner's Guide|Predestination: A Beginner's Guide}}

[[File:BotAndHerCity-nottechnicallydawn.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Face it tiger, you just hit the jackpot.]]
Six months later, Chromia had stayed behind on Cybertron in order to protect and train Windblade as she performed her role as Metroplex's Cityspeaker. She was highly untrusting of Cybertron's elected ruler, [[Starscream (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Starscream]], though Windblade preferred to give him the benefit of the doubt. When Windblade sought advice on how to best interact with Starscream, Chromia scoffed at Windblade's choice of talking to the "mopey" [[Ironhide (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ironhide]], but was visibly upset when Windblade teased her about telling Ironhide she described him as such. Later, Chromia accompanied Windblade as the pair investigated an area of the city that might reveal why Metroplex was suffering blackouts, and at the end of the day Chromia insisted they not over-exert themselves and reconvene in the morning. {{storylink|A 'Bot and Her City}} Chromia planted a bomb near where they'd be, in an attempt to make Windblade return to Caminus. {{storylink|Windblade issue 4|Windblade vol. 1 #4}} In the morning, when she and Windblade returned to the area, the bomb exploded, damaging Windblade. Chromia dragged her to medical care. {{storylink|A 'Bot and Her City}}

[[File:Windblade3-altmodes.jpg|left|thumb|No, it's true, they actually elected Starscream.]]
Chromia was guarding Windblade when Starscream paid her a visit, and afterwards encouraged Windblade to pursue the idea that Starscream was behind the bomb. Enlisting Ironhide's help, they followed up a lead in the form of [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] whom Chromia had to physically tackle when he tried to run. Chromia stayed in [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]]'s bar while Windblade went with Waspinator. After Windblade discovered Starscream was trying to mine ore from Metroplex, Chromia joined a team that went down to investigate. {{storylink|A Long Way Down}} They were attacked by the [[Terrorcon (G1)|Terrorcons]] and Chromia went instinctively to Windblade's aid, eventually managing to avoid being arrested when Starscream and Rattrap arrived. {{storylink|Windblade issue 3|Windblade vol. 1 #3}} She arranged for Metroplex's spacebridge to activate, {{storylink|Windblade issue 4|Windblade vol. 1 #4}} and organized a jail break, successfully springing Windblade and the others. As they headed for Metroplex, Windblade revealed that she believed Starscream wasn't behind the bomb. {{storylink|Windblade issue 3|Windblade vol. 1 #3}}

The pair rushed to Metroplex, where Chromia insisted Windblade merge with the Titan's mind. She fought with Starscream when he arrived, but he managed to injure Windblade and sliced off Chromia's right arm. Windblade, merged with Metroplex, was able to subdue him with the Titan's internal defenses and revealed she'd discovered Chromia was behind the bomb. Though Chromia encouraged Windblade to make Metroplex jump back to Caminus, Windblade instead opted to shut the spacebridge down in favor of making a deal with Starscream. {{storylink|Windblade issue 4|Windblade vol. 1 #4}}

She was among the group present when [[Wheeljack (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Wheeljack]] was brought back online, though she wasn't as enthusiastic about the event when she observed how happy Starscream was. {{storylink|The World of Tomorrow}} Chromia then participated in the violent arrest of the [[Firecon]]s, primary suspects in a series of murders, {{storylink|Quest for Fire}} and was present when they were locked up. {{storylink|The Killing Jar (issue)|The Killing Jar}}

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Chromia and Ironhide found Windblade and Optimus Prime being attacked by Decepticons and Chromia managed to stop the fight through sheer force of intimidation. They retired to Metroplex to contemplate the spacebridge, now linked to Caminus. Optimus ordered Chromia and Ironhide to guard the portal; however they were unable to prevent [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] from taking [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] through. {{storylink|First Contact (IDW)|First Contact}} They headed through the portal with Starscream's forces and attacked Menasor. The giant briefly held Chromia in his fist until she broke free. In the end, the battle was decided when [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] joined in. {{storylink|The Sum and Its Parts}} Chromia was taking part in the subsequent cleanup on Caminus when [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] arrived and started smashing more things. As the giant started trying to smash the spacebridge, Chromia rallied those present to fight him until Superion and [[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]] defeated him. {{storylink|Mistakes and Mayhem}} As Starscream returned to Cybertron, Chromia went with him to make sure no one started shooting. She was later back on Caminus when Menasor again went through the spacebridge and started fighting with the combiners already there. {{storylink|You, Me, and the Universe}} As a combiner incorporating Optimus joined the fight, Chromia led a group back through to Cybertron to help prevent the Decepticons there from attacking Caminus. {{storylink|All That Remains}}

[[File:AnUneventfulNight-ChromiaVsArcee.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.66|''Prime'' Arcee vs. G1 Arcee.]]
Windblade and Chromia were returning to Cybertron through the spacebridge while Optimus communicated with [[Arcee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Arcee]] on [[Earth]]. {{storylink|Now and On Earth}} To celebrate the union between Cybertron and Caminus, the Mistress of Flame declared an official holiday that saw Chromia temporarily don some Cityspeaker-style face paint for the occasion. While she was guarding the [[Enigma of Combination]] with a [[Badgeless]], Arcee stole the artifact. Chromia and Windblade pursued her into the [[Rust Sea|Sea of Rust]] where their confrontation was interrupted by the [[Torchbearer]]s. After the Torchbearers were merged into [[Victorion]], the trio fought to survive the giant's onslaught until Windblade managed to talk the giant into separating. Chromia later returned the Enigma and resumed guarding it. {{storylink|An Uneventful Night}}

She and Windblade interceded in a quarrel between visiting Camiens and Decepticons, though Chromia was a little too aggressive with the Decepticons. Windblade left her to finish sorting things out. She later joined Windblade, Ironhide, and Blurr for a trip to [[Velocitron]], where they found themselves in the path of [[Delta]], a city fleeing a wall of fire. {{storylink|Windblade vol. 2 issue 4|Windblade vol. 2 #4}} Chromia managed to encourage Ironhide into safely making it onto the city by staying by his side. She accompanied Windblade and [[Clocker (G1)|Clocker]] to inspect [[Navitas]], the Titan on which the city was built, and stood by as Windblade talked to the Titan directly. {{storylink|Race Against the Light}}

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When Windblade returned disappointed from [[Jungle Planet (colony)|Eukaris]] following the death of [[Chela]], Chromia believed she'd done her best to save the Titan. {{storylink|The Will of the Few}} Following the formation of the [[Council of Worlds]], Starscream declared [[Chosen One Day]], a new holiday. Windblade hugged Chromia and forgave her for past discretions... if only for a night. {{storylink|Choose Me}}

Chromia, Ironhide, and Windblade helped re-secure the spacebridge nexus after a gaggle of Decepticons stormed it. Chromia was present when Optimus Prime used the bridge to go to Earth and annex it in advance of [[Galvatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Galvatron]]'s invasion. {{storylink|Conquerors Part 4: Perihelion|Perihelion}} Shortly after taking this drastic step, Optimus had a nightmare where he saw Windblade and Chromia bowing down before him. {{storylink|All Hail Optimus Part 1: Once Upon a Time on Earth|Once Upon a Time on Earth}} The real Chromia, meanwhile, had gone off to attend an emergency Council meeting to discuss this problem. {{storylink|New Worlds Order}}

[[File:TheLineBetweenUs-ChromiaGoesToJail.jpg|thumb|left|Kinky, but at least buy her dinner first!]]

The uneasy peace on Cybertron was growing increasingly threatened by the distrust of the Badgeless, and compounded by a spree of [[Mnemosurgery|mnemosurgical]] attacks on several Decepticons within Iacon, including a supplier of parts to [[Vigilem|Carcer]]. The Committee moved to have [[Ironhide (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ironhide]] investigate the issue. When the meeting was adjourned, Chromia went off to spar with [[Strika (BM)|Strika]]. {{storylink|07:00:00}} Tensions boiled over after the suspicious death of [[Drunkatron|a disgruntled Decepticon]], and Chromia participated in a Council meeting that saw Ironhide step up as the new head of Cybertronian security. {{storylink|Applicable Skills}}

Shortly after [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]] reawoke, Chromia was walking around in the Decepticon ghetto outside of Metroplex. {{storylink|The Last Autobot}} On learning that Windblade was being forced to help Starscream because he knew of Chromia's actions in bombing Acrolight, Chromia took over decoding security footage related to Swindle's death and discovered the Decepticon's body had been taken by Wheeljack and Rattrap. She visited Wheeljack, only for the pair of them to be taken prisoner by the rest of the Combaticons, who forced Wheeljack to lead them to Swindle's brain-dead body. {{storylink|Things We Said We'd Never Do}} After the Combaticons used the Enigma to merge into [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]], Chromia worked with Windblade to talk the Combaticons down, however Ironhide took matters into his own hands and blasted Bruticus. In the aftermath, Chromia coopted [[Circuit (G1)|Circuit]]'s broadcast to make a public confession of her actions in Acrolight, and was arrested by Ironhide. {{storylink|The Line Between Us}}

[[File:Rubicon ChromiaHoldsWindblade.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|right|Please just this once... stay...]]
Chromia being in prison was later one of the factors Windblade mentioned that had demoralized her. {{storylink|Ping}} When a fleet of undead Titans arrived to destroy Cybertron (as they do), Chromia was marched onto a prison ship when Starscream gave the evacuation order. She broke the prison line to speak to Ironhide about Metroplex being felled and urged him to help Windblade who was doubtlessly with the Titan. Ironhide said Windblade was at the [[Spire]] (and he was right) and there was no need to worry but Chromia was convinced that without Ironhide, Windblade would do something stupid (she was also right). {{storylink|Desperate Times}}

Said stupid thing turned out to be releasing [[Vigilem|Carcer]]. When the evil Titan made planetfall, Chromia rushed back to Ironhide to try and find Windblade, only for the irritable warden to grab her and stuff her in a prison cell to be killed by the undead. However, Metroplex managed to release her and direct her to Windblade's location with Carcer so she could free her friend. Chromia rushed to the Titan and scaled up his body, breaching his body and arriving at his [[brain module]] just as [[Elita One (G1)|Elita One]] had blown it into chunks, seemingly killing Windblade. {{storylink|Rubicon}}

Chromia was subsequently put back into prison and set to be tried for crimes against Cybertron. The [[Mistress of Flame]] attempted to get Starscream to turn Chromia over to her but when Starscream refused, she demanded Swindle and Menasor in exchange. The ghost of Bumblebee urged Starscream to hand over Chromia. Starscream instead opted to free Chromia and turn her into a hit-bot to hunt down and kill [[Liege Maximo]], offering her a pardon in exchange, as well as saying he'd lost his own chance to be better, telling Chromia not to waste hers. {{storylink|Heavy}} Starscream and [[Obsidian (BM)|Obsidian]] provided Chromia with the ''[[Sabre]]'', with [[Greenlight]] and [[Lancer]] as her crew, while the Camien herself recorded a goodbye message for Windblade, encouraging her friend to stay strong while she was away. {{storylink|The Chosen One}}

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Shortly after setting out, however, the crew ran afoul of the [[Maximal]]s. Though they managed to triumph over their foes, the Maximals had damaged the ''Sabre''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s long-range communication, leaving them unable to contact [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. {{storylink|Stranger Eons}} When Liege Maximo returned to Cybertron as a prisoner of [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Onyx Prime]], Windblade asked whether the bestial Prime had encountered Chromia or her team. Onyx chose to ignore the question and grill [[Soundwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Soundwave]] instead. {{storylink|The Falling, Chapter 2: Another Mine|Another Mine}}

When the ''Sabre'' finally repaired its communications, the crew had caught up with the [[Decepticon Vengeance Division]] facing off against [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]] in [[G Nebula 89]]. Calling Cybertron, Chromia was quickly caught up on the recent political changes before she reported that, despite their incredible firepower, the Decepticons were failing to damage the Chaos Bringer. Unicron unleashing the Maximals on the Decepticons was enough incentive for Chromia to order a quantum jump back to Cybertron. {{storylink|Stranger Eons}}

The ''Sabre'' arrived back home to find Unicron had beaten them there and assumed a robot mode to attack the planet while having warped the DVD into his service. Acting as a battlefield coordinator, Chromia tried to deter Elita One from charging head-on to no success, the Carcerian confident in her plan. {{storylink|Our Finest}} As the [[Autobot fleet]] fell and Unicron began physically tearing into Cybertron, Windblade called upon the [[Spectral Knight]]s to use their [[magic]] to teleport Cybertron's populace to safety. Noticing this, Unicron returned his attention to the fleet, preventing them from reaching the magic before Elita One defiantly slammed Carcer into Unicron's face, distracting him just long enough for the magical ribbon to reach the fleet and teleport them to Earth. {{storylink|Road's End}}

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Safe on the organic world, Chromia reunited with Windblade before Prowl arrived with information on Unicron's origins and inner workings. As part of the do-or-die attack on Unicron, Chromia joined in the diversionary attack on the DVD. {{storylink|Assembly (Unicron)|Assembly}} When Optimus Prime had successfully used the [[Talisman (G1)|Talisman]] to collapse Unicron, Chromia pulled [[Centurion (IDW)|Centurion]] out of [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]'s burning corpse before Metroplex space bridged everyone back to Earth. {{storylink|Ceremony}} Chromia was one of the mourners present at Optimus's funeral, {{storylink|Post}} before she invited [[Nautica (G1)|Nautica]] and [[Velocity (G1)|Velocity]] to Earth so they could catch up. {{storylink|How To Say Goodbye And Mean It: Part 2}}

===''Kre-O'' cartoon===
[[Chromia's Pizza]] featured a picture of Chromia on the box. A box of this pizza sat on the floor near [[Megatron (Kre-O)|Megatron]] as he watched [[television]]. {{Storylink|Megatron's Revenge}}

===Legends World===
[[Tigatron (Legends)|Tigatron]] owned the [[#Legends|''Legends'' Chromia toy]], and it inspired [[#Legends comic|a dream]] he had. {{storylink|LG11 Chromia}}

===''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' continuity===
====''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' marketing material====
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Chromia was a [[Cybertronian military insignia|Ground Command Special Ops Sergeant]], whose function was Counter Intelligence. {{storylink|War for Cybertron: Siege|''Siege'' webpage}}<ref name=Siege>[https://transformers.hasbro.com/en-us/brands/siege ''Siege'' website]</ref> During the war for Cybertron Chromia was dispatched to locate a possible Autobot escape site located in the largest spaceport on Cybertron, the [[Hydrax Plateau]]. Anything else that may have been given to her as part of her mission's specifications, were classified. {{storylink|Source:Teletraan-1 Data Files|''Siege'' Teletraan-1 Data Files}}

====''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Georgia Reed]] (English), [[Masami Katsuyama]] (Japanese)|[[Amanda Manso]] (Portuguese), [[Christèle Billault]] (French), [[Cornelia Waibel]] (German), [[Margot Lago]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Rommy Mendoza]] (Latin-American Spanish)}}

Before the war, Chromia lived on [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]]. Chromia was present when [[Elita One (G1)|Elita-1]], [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] returned from their mission. {{storylink|Siege episode 1}} Chromia was sent to the fake coordinates of the [[AllSpark]], which turned out to be a Decepticon ambush. Chromia dragged [[Cog (G1)|Cog]] to safety after he was shot in the chest, then rode on the back of Optimus with the injured Cog when they retreated from the battle. {{storylink|Siege episode 2}} After [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]]'s attempted holographic infiltration of a Decepticon squad failed, Chromia provided cover fire for him and helped defeat their foes. {{storylink|Siege episode 3}}

[[File:WFC-Siege-Ep5-Chromia-snipes-Seeker.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|First she [[Chromia (G1)#Timelines|took Moonracer's body]], now she's taking her skillset.]]
Chromia was part of the group sent to fix the [[space bridge]]. She served as lookout duty and managed to snipe three [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]] that attacked the group. {{storylink|Siege episode 4}} Chromia continued to guard the bridge as Mirage cast a large hologram to hide it from further Decepticon discovery. {{storylink|Siege episode 5}} Once Mirage's hologram finally failed, Chromia had to exchange fire with more Seekers. She tried to hold the Autobots' position beside the activated space bridge. Chromia was blasted trying to provide coverage for Optimus Prime as he boarded the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' and ultimately left behind on Cybertron after the ship launched through the space bridge. She placed herself under Elita-1's command to continue the resistance on Cybertron. {{storylink|Siege episode 6}}

Chromia was part of an Autobot force to help free Decepticon prisoners and successfully liberated them. Elita-1 asked her to prep for another mission to raid a Decepticon prison-camp in the [[Kaon (polity)|Kaon]] arena. The group performed reconnaissance on the next camp and suspected it might be a trap. Chromia sniped the few guards who were on duty and shot a Decepticon who was attacking Elita-1. [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] soon sprung the trap and the Decepticons managed to capture Chromia's group. They were brought before [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], who showed the Autobots a demonstration of Project ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]''. {{storylink|Earthrise episode 1}}

Placed in the detention cells, the Autobots tried to work out what Project Nemesis entailed. The group was soon brought before Megatron again and placed in tubes to have their sparks drained. As the machinery was activating, it was shut off just as quickly and the group was rescued by [[Scrapface]], who helped them escape. Chromia knocked out a willing [[Flywheels|Skytread]], who had his own doubts about Megatron's methods and let them leave. {{storylink|Earthrise episode 2}} Chromia and the others trekked back to Autobot camp with Scrapface's Decepticons, trying to avoid further detection by Seeker patrols. The group observed [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]'s message that recalled all Decepticons to Kaon with false promises of protection. Chromia pledged her support to return and stop the Decepticons' plans once and for all. {{storylink|Earthrise episode 3}}

[[File:EarthriseEp6 ChromiaSnipes.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.5|[[:File:Oneshottwokills.jpg|Thanks for the help]].]]
Within the [[Dead Universe]], Optimus Prime suffered a nightmarish vision that showed Chromia and other Autobots lying dead at Megatron's hands. {{storylink|Earthrise episode 5}}

Back on Cybertron, Elita-1's group returned to the Kaon arena, only to find it largely deserted. They began laying timed explosive charges to demolish the place, but Chromia was suddenly shot in the chest from out of nowhere and dropped to the ground. Decepticons utilizing stealth camouflage appeared and took the others prisoner, leaving Chromia for dead. She managed to get back up and snipe all the attackers, including Skytread, who tried to beg for mercy. Chromia and the others then tried to flee the area before the charges detonated, but couldn't get far enough and died in the massive explosion. {{storylink|Earthrise episode 6}}

When the AllSpark was returned to the [[Temple of the Allspark]] on Cybertron by Bumblebee, Chromia was among the Transformer spirits who witnessed Elita-1 banish [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] and [[Nemesis Prime (G1)|Nemesis Prime]]. Chromia and the other deceased Transformers' sparks then rejoined the AllSpark, which restored Cybertron's vitality. {{storylink|Kingdom episode 6}}
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===2019 IDW continuity===
{{first|[[The World In Your Eyes Part Two|''Transformers'' #2]]}}

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Chromia was the head of [[Security Operations]], a position she attained at least partly due to Prowl's unsociability. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part Two}} After [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] returned from [[Probat (planet)|Probat]] with no energon and a comatose [[Deathsaurus (G1)|Deathsaurus]], Chromia briefly questioned the minibot but eventually let him go. {{storylink|Wannabee, Part 2}}

Along with Prowl, Chromia was called to [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]]'s [[energon transmission station]] when the scientist was found to have been murdered. After getting statements from Windblade and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], Chromia asked [[Rubble]], a newborn, to not consider the murder indicative of Cybertronian society. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part Two}}

After [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] created the [[Ascenticon Guard]], with the notable inclusion of [[Quake (G1)|Quake]], Chromia briefed [[Senate|Senator]] [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Orion Pax]] on the actions of [[The Rise]] before [[Froid]] stole the Senator away for a private word. Chromia later made her way to Rubble's apartment, along with [[Geomotus]], so she could borrow Windblade. Before leaving, Chromia linked her and Prowl's communicators' to Rubble's but, much to Windblade's disapproval, added a tracer, albeit an inactive one in the code. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part Three}}

[[File:TheWorldInYourEyesPart4-Chromiaaltmode.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Attempted vehicular manslaughter ''is the'' true Autobot way.]]

As the trio made their way back into the wilderness, Windblade and Chromia compared stories about Brainstorm, trying to find something nice to say, before they ran across [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]]. Though the veteran initially tried to avoid their questions, he revealed that he'd seen a blue Cybertronian near the transmission station on the night of the murder. Unsatisfied, Chromia gave him one cycle to present himself to [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] for further questioning. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part Four}} As she drove back into Iacon, Chromia was hailed by [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] who revealed that, while several high ranking Rise members had gone into hiding, a total of ''two hundred'' Cybertronians had mysteriously dropped off the grid since the night of the murder. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part Five}}

Tragedy soon struck again when Rubble was found dead in the [[Xeno-Quarter]] along with the missing [[Voin]] scavenger. Chromia largely kept to herself in the autopsy only speaking up to have [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] recite his analysis of Rubble's corpse. After seeing off [[Greenlight]], Chromia assured Prowl that Rubble's death was not his fault. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part One}}

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Alongside Prowl, Chromia was questioning Froid about Quake's psychology before Cyclonus crashed into the interrogation room, telling Chromia that he'd found the missing people beneath the [[Memorial Crater]], hoarding an armory's worth of weapons. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Two}}

Breaking open their own armory, Chromia led [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] and Windblade to the base, entering with the latter only to find that the place had been picked clean. As Chromia tried to salvage data from an [[energon station]], she was attacked by [[Sixshot (G1)|Sixshot]]. Though proving nimble enough to evade the hexa-changer, Chromia failed to detain him. She returned to the surface in time to see the base detonate, Windblade's broken body being spat out of the explosion. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Three}}

After [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]] had returned to Cybertron, Chromia briefed the [[Prime (rank)|Prime]] on what he'd missed before she passed her confirmed list of Risers onto Orion. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Five}} While visiting Windblade in the hospital, Chromia was called away to a stand-off in the [[Cybertronian Mountains]]. Before she left, [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] suggested that [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] had been Brainstorm's killer. {{storylink|The Change In Your Nature Part One}}

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Meeting up with [[Springer (G1)|Springer]], Chromia attempted negotiation before [[Javelin]] was shot in the head. Ordering her troops into action, Chromia failed to smoke out the terrorists before the [[Ascenticon Guard]] arrived, Senator [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] entering the immersant [[Titan (group)|Titan]] to conduct negotiations personally. Shortly after Soundwave returned, the Titan's corpse violently exploded. {{storylink|The Change In Your Nature Part Two}} Managing to capture two of [[Ruckus (G1)|Ruckus]]'s cell, albeit in stasis, Chromia checked in with Orion and Bumblebee, revealing their suspicions to the yellow bot that Quake had killed Rubble, before she and Orion came before Sentinel. In light of their findings, Sentinel agreed to bend the Nominus Edict but also made several other changes to their operating procedures, diverting some of Chromia's authority in Security Operations to Colonial Security. {{storylink|The Change In Your Nature Part Three}}

[[File:AllFallDown-Chromia.jpg|thumb|200px|She is the LAW!]]

Soon afterwards, disaster struck when the Rise caused the [[Tether]] to collapse, the space elevator devastating Iacon. In the midst of all this, Chromia received a distress call from Bumblebee, who'd begun to fear for his life among the Guard, and arrived in time to save him from [[Treadshot (G1)|Treadshot]] and [[Catgut]]. After confirming Bumblebee's suspicions, Chromia relieved him of his mission and thanked him for his services. {{storylink|Rise of the Decepticons: All Fall Down|All Fall Down}} Despite Bumblebee's report, hundreds of Ascenticons began to blockade the faction's headquarters, leaving Chromia and Sec-Ops unable to reach or interview Soundwave. {{storylink|Rise of the Decepticons: Swindle's|Swindle's}} Chromia reported her failed attempts to Orion Pax, but remained confident her people had gathered enough evidence to pursue the Ascenticons for crimes in a court of law. {{storylink|Rise of the Decepticons: Tremors|Tremors}}

She was wrong. Or, rather, her efforts were moot as Megatron and Soundwave led a full uprising against the elected government, capturing the Senate building and the senators inside, including Sentinel Prime and Orion Pax. Chromia joined with Ironhide, Hound, and Novastar to plan taking back their people and their government. Chromia accompanied Ironhide and the Senate Guard as they drilled into the Senate building's under-passages. Ironhide freed the rest of his Guard to retake the building, while Chromia found Orion and Sentinel to take them to safety. Once they exited the tunnels, however, the infuriated Sentinel Prime took off ahead of his escorts towards their south tower base. The First Senator intended to address his people as soon as possible about the uprising, but Chromia had no air support to provide protection for Sentinel's vehicle mode. He was intercepted by the [[Rainmaker]]s and mortally wounded before Chromia and Orion Pax caught up with him. Before the optics of Chromia and the Guard, Sentinel Prime died and the Matrix emerged from his chest, bonding with Orion Pax. After receiving a vision from the Allspark, Pax stepped up to become what times required of him, declaring himself Optimus Prime. {{storylink|War World: Prime|Prime}}

[[File:DarknessOnceGazedUponPart2 ChromiaKick.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.8|Chromia Van Damme]]
At Optimus Prime's direction, Chromia arranged for the release of [[Pyra Magna (G1)|Pyra Magna]], one of the [[Great General]]s of the [[War of the Threefold Spark]] who had been imprisoned ever since she continued fighting after the amnesty. It was a risky maneuver to gain credibility for the Autobots' opposition to the Decepticons, assuming Pyra Magna and her [[Companion]]s agreed with their cause. {{storylink|War World: Awakenings|Awakenings}} The street-fighting in Iacon continued until it became necessary to abandon the capital. Chromia lent security to a procession leading the Autobots away from Iacon to seek refuge in [[Crystal City]]. {{storylink|War World: We Are Not Meant To Be Darkness|We Are Not Meant To Be Darkness}} Those opposing Megatron united under the Autobot faction. Even Chromia and previous unaligned Security Operations personnel underwent the Autobranding ceremony as a symbol of their cause's unity. {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Sea of Rust I|Sea of Rust I}}

When Ultra Magnus was captured and brought back to Iacon, Chromia assembled a small unit to bring him back. Her knowledge of the city as head of Security Operations was combined with Smokescreen's criminal contact Swindle to secure them an escape route. At the former Senate, they found Magnus imprisoned along with other political prisoners, Senators who refused to recognize Megatron's rule. {{storylink|Darkness, Once Gazed Upon: Part Two}} Back at Swindle's, their escape brought heat down on the bar owner as Sixshot's Decepticons pursued Ultra Magnus. Chromia's team managed to escape through the underground tunnels, but they knew it was only a matter of time before the Decepticons followed them to Crystal City. {{storylink|Darkness, Once Gazed Upon: Part Three}}

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As the siege of Crystal City began, Chromia coordinated their defenses with [[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]] and [[Firestar (G1)|Novastar]]. The Autobots had all retreated back to a fortified bunker when the tide turned. The last Titan, [[Lodestar (Titan)|Lodestar]], had come home. {{storylink|A Dust of Crystals}} With a new combiner and a Titan as leverage, Optimus Prime negotiated a truce with Megatron. The Autobots gathered in a procession to make their way to [[Darkmount (Cybertron)|Darkmount]] and use the last ''Ark'' to leave Cybertron behind, in Decepticon hands. Megatron still wanted his enemies dead, and orchestrated an artillery bombardment to trap the Autobots between his firepower and the approaching [[rust worm]]s. Chromia tried to find a path beyond the bombardment, only to be blocked by the Seekers. {{storylink|Radical Time}} Unable to break their lines without more death, Chromia retreated back to Optimus and the main contingent. Fortunately, a plan was enacted that pitted the [[Insecticon clone]] horde against the rust worms, dealing with both threats. {{storylink|End of Time}} The truce collapsed, and a final battle was held at Darkmount until Chromia and the Autobots finally escaped the occupied planet, but not before pledging to return. {{storylink|Transformers: Fate of Cybertron|Fate of Cybertron}}

===''Transformers Go! Go!''===
{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Go! Go! issue 44}} {{storylink|The Transformers Gather on the Snowy Mountain!|Search Quiz 2}}}}

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==Games==
===''Transformers Legends''===
[[File:TFLegends-Chromia.jpg|thumb|Huh! Vehicle kibble!]]
Chromia was part of [[Elita One (G1)|Elita 1]]'s team which carried out a series of raids on Decepticon installations, until they were taken down in a trap planned by [[Flamewar (G1)|Flamewar]]. {{storylink|Fatal Furies}}

Chromia was dispatched by Elita One in response to Flamewar's squad's retaliatory attacks on a number of Autobot bases. {{storylink|Fatal Furies: Flamewar's Revenge}}

===''Angry Birds Transformers''===
{{main|Stella (AB)#As Chromia}}
Chromia appears as a character unlockable in Challenge Events. She is portrayed by Stella and is a blue and red redeco of Arcee. {{storylink|Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers}}
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===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
[[File:Battle-Tactics-Chromia.jpg|thumb]]
Chromia participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of her! She was a Super Rare character who could be recruited by collecting 250 units of Cybermetal, 75 units of Transmetal, and 10 cores of this character. {{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}
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===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
[[File:EW-Chromia.jpg|thumb|300px]]
Chromia arrived on Earth at the same time as [[Hellbat (G1)|Fellbat]]. {{storylink|Slumbering Giants}}
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===''Transformers: Heavy Metal''===
[[File:TFHeavyMetal Chromia.jpg|thumb]]
Chromia was [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]]'s bodyguard and a security and intel expert. As part of the [[Guardian Program]], she insisted on being paired with humans as a security check before they met Windblade. Though confused by earthling communications, especially emojis, she worked on learning to master it. {{storylink|Transformers: Heavy Metal}}

===''Transformers Roleplaying Game''===
Chromia was an Autobot security officer who specialized in sabotage and infiltration. Although she kept herself at arm's length from many of her fellow Autobots, she was fiercely protective of her comrades. {{storylink|Transformers Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook|Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook}}
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===''Transformers: Forged to Fight''===
[[File:FtF-Chromia-files.jpg|thumb|right]]
{{charstubfiction}}
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==Toys==
===''Timelines''===
[[File:TL-toy Chromia.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|That's no Moon(racer)!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{bp-a1d1|'''Descent into Evil''' (Box set, 2005)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': Launcher, missile, scope, 2 tailpipes, energon chip

: ''[[Transformers Timelines (toyline)|Timelines]]'' Chromia is a [[redeco]] and new-head [[retool]] of ''[[Transformers: Energon (toyline)|Energon]]'' Energon Class [[Arcee (Energon)#Toys|Arcee]], transforming into a Cybertronic racing motorcycle. She has multiple clear-plastic "[[energon]]" parts that form side-thrusters in bike mode, and combine to form a massive compound bow with a spring-loaded missile. She also comes with an [[energon star]] that can attach to the [[spark crystal]] of any ''Energon''-series mold.

: The toy was originally intended to be [[Moonracer (G1)|Moonracer]], but [[Fun Publications]] could not secure the [[trademark]] on the name. As such, Chromia's toy is in Moonracer's teal and white colors and has a head that resembles Moonracer's. (Fun Publications' intent was for the head to be a compromise between the Moonracer and Firestar head designs.)<ref>[http://groups.google.com/group/alt.toys.transformers/msg/e39fbfb4b4bd2b3a alt.toys.transformers post] by [[Lanny Lathem]] explaining the Moonracer/Chromia SNAFU.</ref><ref>[http://www.bwtf.com/toyreviews/timelines/descent/chromia Chromia toy notes at BWTF.com]</ref> Later Fun Publications stories would [[repurposing|repurpose]] the Chromia toy as Moonracer.

: She was only available as part of [[BotCon 2005]]'s "Descent into Evil" set, packed in with [[Buzzclaw (G1)#Toys|Buzzclaw]], [[Deathsaurus (G1)#Timelines 2|Deathsaurus]], [[Dirge (Timelines)#Toys|Dirge]], [[Outback (G1)#Timelines|Fallback]], [[Ironhide (G1)/toys#Timelines|Ironhide]], and [[Ricochet (Timelines)#Toys|Ricochet]].

: Her base mold was also used to make [[Flamewar (G1)#Toys|Flamewar]] and the [[Transformers (2007 toyline)|live-action movieverse]] [[Arcee (Movie)#Toys|Arcee]] and [[Elita-One (Movie)#Toys|Elita-One]], while the Chromia-retooled version was used to make [[Flareup (G1)#Toys|Flareup]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2005/Autobot/BCChromia/chromia.htm More information on Chromia at TFU.info]''
::*''[http://www.transformersclub.com/chromiapreview.cfm Chromia at TransformersClub.com]''
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===''Generations''===
[[File:Gen-toy Chromia.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.66|STILL the fastest thing on the Grid.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{bp-a1|'''Chromia''' (Deluxe Class, 2014)}}</ul>
:*''Series / Number'': '''02 / #022'''
:*''Accessories'': Rifle

: Released in the eleventh and final wave of ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)#Thrilling 30 (2013-2014)|Generations: Thrilling 30]]'' Deluxes, Chromia is a heavy [[retool]]ing of ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)#Robots in Disguise|Prime: Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Arcee (WFC)#Robots in Disguise|Arcee]], transforming into a Cybertronian motorbike. Her blaster weapon can be mounted on the bottom of her bike mode.

: Due to the nature of her transformation, Chromia's paint is extremely prone to chipping, especially the white paint on her head. Caution and care is recommended when transforming her to avoid damaging her paint.

: Originally scheduled for March 2014 along with [[Arcee (G1)/toys#Generations|Arcee]], Chromia was delayed to fall of that year and ultimately not released until December.

: Hasbro's original stock photo for the figure depicting a hand-painted prototype (which is also featured on the back of the toy's packaging) showed her holding one of her [[wave]]-mate Arcee's guns along with her own. This was most certainly due to a mix-up error; the weapon's design, especially the size and shape of its handle and additional pegs (which are identical to those of Arcee's other weapon), make it very obvious that it was always intended to go with Arcee rather than Chromia. A different version of the stock photo was released in November 2014 on the official ''Transformers'' Facebook page, with the extra gun edited out; compare and contrast the two stock photos [[:File:Generations Chromia stock photo edited.jpg|here]]. Some specimens of Chromia also feature a sticker on the back of the packaging that says "Additional weapon not included."

: The original version of this sculpt was also used to make [[BotCon 2014]] [[Flareup (G1)#BotCon2014|Flareup]], and was ''differently'' retooled to make ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)|Prime: Beast Hunters]]'' [[Arcee (WFC)#Beast Hunters|Arcee]]. This version of the mold served as the model for the non-toy ''[[Beast Wars: Uprising]]'' version of [[Blackarachnia (BW)#Beast Wars: Uprising|Blackarachnia]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2014/Autobot/GenChromia/chromia.htm More information on ''Generations'' Chromia at TFU.info]''
{{PrimeRIDArceeMold}}
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===''Legends''===
[[File:Legends-toy Chromia.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{bp-a1|'''Chromia''' (Deluxe, 2015)}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''LG11'''
:*''Release date'': [[February 14]], 2015
:*''Accessories'': Gun

: Released in the fifth wave of [[TakaraTomy]]'s ''[[Transformers Legends (franchise)|Legends]]'' toyline, Chromia is a redeco of ''Thrilling 30'' Deluxe Class Chromia, making use of lavender and white in place of sky blue in a bid to appear more cartoon-accurate. Her wheels feature more black and much of her bike kibble is coated in metallic blue paint, including the back half of her canopy, which is now cast in translucent blue. Her eyes are also painted blue.

: Chromia comes with a leaflet featuring a character profile, tech specs, and the mini-manga ''[[Transformers Legends (comic)|Legends]]'' [[LG11 Chromia]].
{{PrimeRIDArceeMold}}
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===''Combiner Wars''===
{{anchor|CHunters}}
[[File:Transformers-SDCC-Combiner-Hunters-Chromia.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|right|This is how Chromia auditions for a new ''Final Fantasy'' game.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{bp-a1|'''Combiner Hunters''' (Multi-pack, 2015)}}</ul>
:*''Release date'': [[July 9]], 2015
:*''Accessories'': Gun, "Primeon Blade" sword

: The ''Combiner Hunters'' [[redeco]] of ''Thrilling 30'' Chromia not only has many of her coloring details changed to represent her attendance to the Camien religious ceremony, but in fact mostly stands out for its new accessory: a huge [[Primeon Blade]] sword. The tooling for this weapon was originally used for the 16"-tall electronic version of ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 toyline)|Robots in Disguise]]'' ''[[Titan Heroes]]'' [[Optimus Prime (WFC)/toys#ETitan|Optimus Prime]].

: This version of Chromia was only available in a ''[[Combiner Wars (toyline)|Combiner Wars]]'' [[giftset|gift set]] together with ''Combiner Hunters'' redecoes of ''Generations'' [[Arcee (G1)/toys#Combiner Wars|Arcee]] and [[Windblade (G1)#Combiner Wars|Windblade]], each with their own giant new melee weapons. In the U.S., this set was [[exclusive]] to the [[Hasbro Toy Shop]] website and the Hasbro Toy Shop booth at [[San Diego Comic-Con]] 2015. In Asia, it was also available at Animation-Comic-Game Hong Kong 2015 and subsequently stocked by Toys"R"Us Hong Kong. Later, it was also available at The Falcon's Hangar booth at Singapore Toy, Game & Comic Convention 2015.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2015/Autobot/SDCCChromia/chromia.htm More information on Combiner Hunter Chromia at TFU.info]''
{{PrimeRIDArceeMold}}
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===''War for Cybertron: Siege''===
[[File:War-for-Cybertron-Siege-Deluxe-Chromia.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"I'm in the same wave as Ironhide?!"]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{bp-a1|'''Chromia''' (Deluxe Class, [[2019]])}}</ul>
:*''Hasbro ID number'': '''WFC-S20'''
:*''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''SG-22'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[May 31]], 2019
:*''Hidden message code'': '''SIIEXXXIITSFAT'''
:*''Accessories'': "RT-5 Anti-thermo Blaster," "SR Hushfuze," and 2 "EMP-Grenades"
{{toydesigner|[[Aaron Gray]] (Hasbro)|[[AJ Piejko-Brown]] (packaging)}}

: Part of the second wave of the ''[[War for Cybertron: Siege|Siege]]'' Deluxe Class figures, Chromia is a heavy retool of ''[[Power of the Primes (toyline)|Power of the Primes]]'' [[Moonracer (G1)|Moonracer]] transforming into a Cybertronian car, based on her original Sunbow animation model. The mold is ''mostly'' unique, save for the wheels, thighs and hip [[ball joint]] sockets. She includes the "RT-5 Anti-thermo Blaster," a gun compatible with the [[C.O.M.B.A.T. System]]. Two "EMP-Grenades" can connect to the barrel, and the "SR Hushfuze" scope can be detached and can extend the barrel as well, allowing you to change the length of the barrel and/or scope. The grenades can also attach to the back of the vehicle, as if they are big exhaust pipes. As with all non-gimmick ''Siege'' figures, Chromia features "battle damage" paint applications on her vehicle mode front. She also features multiple hardpoints all over herself and her weapon to accommodate "Fire Blasts" from the [[Battle Master]]s assortment, which can be used to simulate blaster fire or explosions.

: In a rather amusing design flaw, moving both her hips together at an angle may pop off her crotch piece.

: The final figure differs quite a bit from the initial promotional renders. Her shoulders are pale blue, her ankles, scope, and backpack hinges are the deeper shade of blue, her entire collar and toes are painted pale blue, and there are minor molding differences on her helmet. Namely, the red part is ''much'' thinner and the dark blue part is taller and less rounded. Additionally, her blaster and scope feature pale blue and red paint applications not present on the final figure. Half of the official promotion pictures have the backpack wheels folded back in robot mode, and the head not visible on the back of the vehicle, the other half of the official promotional images have the backpack wheels splayed out to the sides and the robot head visible on the back of the vehicle. Strangely, some of these photos also (poorly) paint out the red on her collar for no apparent reason.

: She is infamous for shelfwarming in multiple markets, and could still be found in plentiful numbers after the [[War for Cybertron: Earthrise|next toyline]] began.

: This mold was redecoed into ''[[War for Cybertron Trilogy (toyline)#Netflix|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]'' Chromia (below), retooled into ''[[Generations Selects (toyline)|Generations Selects]]'' [[Nightbird (G1)#Generations Selects|Nightbird]], and retooled again to make [[Kaskade#Toys|Ascenticon Kaskade]]. This toy also served as the model for [[Moonracer (G1)#War for Cybertron Trilogy cartoon|Moonracer]] in the ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]'' cartoon.

::*''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAeN5YVhGqU Official conversion video at the TRANSFORMERS OFFICIAL YouTube channel]''
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===''War for Cybertron Trilogy''===
[[File:WFCNetflixtoy-Autobot Chromia.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Now covered in crap.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{bp-a1|'''Chromia''' (Deluxe Class, 2020)}}</ul>
:*''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''WFC-03'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[October 23]], 2020
:*''Accessories:'' "RT-5 Anti-thermo Blaster," "SR Hushfuze," and 2 "EMP-Grenades"

: Promoting the ''Siege'' season of the [[Netflix]]-exclusive [[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon]], this redeco of ''Siege'' Chromia slathers the Autobot in an ''extensive'' paint wash coating to represent accumulated grime and battle scars. Unlike the other ''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' toys, the battle-worn deco is not accurate to the cartoon.

: This toy also included a portion of a cardstock background of [[Teletraan I#War for Cybertron Trilogy|Teletraan I]]. Chromia's part has tabs D and L, and slot E.

: This release was [[exclusive]] to [[Walmart]] in the U.S. and Canada, and in Japan as a [[TakaraTomy Mall]] exclusive.
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===''Legacy''===
[[File:LegacyChromia.jpeg|thumb|upright=1.66|]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Cyberverse Universe Chromia''' (Deluxe Class, [[2024]])}}</ul>
:*''TakaraTomy name'': '''Chromia''' (クロミア)
:*''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''TL-72'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[2024]] [[September 28]]
:*''Accessories'': 2 Bladed Mecha Stars
{{toydesigner|[[Sam Smith]] and [[Mark Maher]] (Hasbro), [[Takashi Kunihiro]] (TakaraTomy)|[[Matthew Cohen]] (photography)}}<ref>[[March 21]], 2024's [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPkQZZ4zasE Hasbro Pulse | Transformers 40th Anniversary Fanstream | March 21, 2024] on YouTube, with [[Ben MacCrae]], [[Mark Maher]] and [[Evan Brooks]].</ref>
{{note|''Legacy'' [[Chromia (Cyberverse)#Legacy|Cyberverse Universe Chromia]] was [[Repurposing|repurposed]] as Generation 1 Chromia in ''[[Transformers Go! Go!]]'' [[Go! Go! issue 44|Issue #44]].}}

: Released in the second wave of ''[[Transformers: Legacy|Legacy: United]]'' Deluxe Class toys, "Cyberverse Universe Chromia" is a new-head retool of ''[[Transformers: Legacy|Legacy: Evolution]]'' [[Prowl (Animated)#Legacy|Animated Universe Prowl]] (making her look much closer to her canceled [[:File:TFHeavyMetal Chromia.jpg|Heavy Metal design]]), and transforms into a motorcycle in 20 steps. She comes with two Mecha Stars which can be stored in her motorcycle wheels, and deployed by twisting the blade housing. Both hands are sculpted to hold the stars by their blades, while her right hand can additionally hold [[5 mm post|5 mm accessories]]. Like Prowl, Chromia has a twin speedometer molded into the back of her head, present in vehicle mode.

:Chromia shares the same design problem with Prowl; her right hand ''cannot'' securely hold one of the Bladed Mecha Stars. Because of this, one of [[TakaraTomy]]'s [[Media:TakaraTomy stock Unite CBV Chromia glue tack.jpg|stock photos]] had a slightly visible adhesive tack when the figure was holding the weapon.

: Official Hasbro promotional photography by [[Matthew Cohen]] shows Chromia performing the iconic "motorcycle slide" from the [[Japan]]ese animated film ''{{w|Akira (1988 film)|Akira}}''.
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==Merchandise==
===''Tiny Titans''===
[[File:TinyTitans Chromia.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|]]
*'''Chromia''' (Tiny Titans, 2015)
**''Series'': '''5'''
**''Number'': '''1/12'''

: Part of the fifth assortment of ''[[Tiny Titans]]'' [[blindpacking|blindpacks]], this version of Chromia is a very small, soft-plastic figure of her in robot mode, based mainly on the original animation model.

: She includes a collectible card that renders her 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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===''Transformers Trading Card Game''===
[[File:W1Chromia.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|The difference between Chromia and Liz Truss is that Chromia can become a leader again...]]
*'''Chromia, Special Ops''' (2018)
**'''Wave 1'''
**''Rarity: '''''RT'''
**''Card Number: '''''T11/T40'''
**''Stars: ''8

:'''Chromia, Special Ops''' 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

:For some unknown reason, she loses her leader trait while in alt mode. She is the only leader character in the game with this oddity.

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[[File:W3SergeantChromia.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Sergeant Chromia, Special Ops-Counterintelligence''' (2019)
**'''Wave 3: War for Cybertron: Siege I'''
**''Rarity: '''''CT'''
**''Card Number: '''''T41/T48'''
**''Stars: ''7

:Sergeant Chromia, Special Ops-Counterintelligence is one of forty-eight double-sided character cards available in Wave 3 of the [[Transformers Trading Card Game]], War for Cybertron: Siege I.

:The card's artwork is based on the ''[[War for Cybertron: Siege|Siege]]'' Chromia toy, with the Bot Mode artwork being reused from the toy's packaging art, and with original Alt Mode artwork (line-art by [[Dan Khanna]]).
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==Notes==
*Chromia, together with Moonracer and Firestar, hold the distinction of being the first female Transformers to appear in the entire franchise. Chromia is the first of the group to speak!
*"Chromia" is [[Latin language|pseudo-Neo-Latin]] for "chromium". To create "Chromia", the neuter -''um'' suffix of ''chromium'' is exchanged for the feminine -''a''.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Chromia''' (クロミア ''Kuromia'')
*''Hungarian:'' '''Krómia'''
*''Korean:'' '''Chromia''' (크로미아 ''Keuromia'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Chroria''' (克劳莉娅 ''Kèláolìyà'')

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:IDW-Windblade-V1-Chromia-Stone.jpg|2014 IDW robot mode model
File:Combiner Hunters-Chromia-Sara Pitre-Durocher.jpg|2015 IDW robot mode temporary paint job
File:RID27 cvrHAS.jpg|2014 ''Thrilling 30'' packaging art
File:Transformers Legends LG 11.jpg|2015 ''Legends'' packaging art
File:EW-skin-Chromia-CW.jpg|2026 ''Combiner Wars''-themed skin in ''Earth Wars''
</gallery>

==References==
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Chromia (G1)

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

[[File:Chromiamodelsheet.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|"At least our animated character models didn't have [[Heel struts|high heels]]."]]
'''Chromia''' is a seasoned, tough-as-nails infiltrator who's adept at unflinching sabotage. Bluntly honest and a little married to her job, she doesn't make an ideal friend, but she can nevertheless be fiercely protective, a quality which also makes her an exceptional bodyguard. Her rough edges often find her a kinship with other like-minded security officers such as [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]]. More diplomatic peers such as [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] have attempted to socialize her, but beware—she might "arrange" an exit out of an overwhelming interpersonal situation with a quietly-placed detonator.

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|? (English); [[Masako Katsuki]] (Japanese)|[[Yu Hong]] (Chinese), [[Esperanza Gracia]] (Spain-Spanish), [[Adalmária Mesquita]] (Brazilian Portuguese), [[Joëlle Fossier]] (European French)}}

[[File:Femaleautobots.jpg|thumb]]
Four million years ago, Chromia tried to board the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]], while it was being attacked, with the rest of [[Elita One (G1)|Elita One]]'s team. The plan failed though, and she and the others appeared to be destroyed.

[[File:TSFAT Chromia vehicle.jpg|left|thumb|Cybertronic soccer mom.]]
Chromia led a mission to steal [[energon cube]]s from [[Shockwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Shockwave]]. When [[Moonracer (G1)|Moonracer]] got trapped after disobeying orders, Chromia sent [[Firestar (G1)|Firestar]] ahead with the energon cubes and confronted the alerted Shockwave. Although she had failed to free Moonracer with [[Female Autobot laser pistol|her pistol]], she did manage to trick Shockwave into freeing Moonracer.

Shortly thereafter, a team of [[Decepticon]]s from [[Earth]] came to capture Elita One. In doing so, [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] destroyed the Female Autobots' underground base, trapping them inside. When they managed to free themselves, Chromia took charge of the search for their missing leader. On their way, they met up with a group of Earth-stationed Autobots who had come looking for [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] and Chromia was reunited with [[Ironhide (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ironhide]]. The two teams together fought the Decepticons, eventually winning when Optimus and Elita returned. Given a new base by [[Alpha Trion]], Chromia stayed with Elita's squad on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] when Optimus' team returned to Earth. {{storylink|The Search for Alpha Trion}}
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====Japanese cartoon continuity====
=====MC Axis comics=====
Chromia and the rest of the team defeated a gigantic Decepticon. Chromia and her compatriots seemed confident that they could retake Cybertron on their own, though Elita One insisted that Optimus Prime was still their last hope to win the war. {{storylink|The Transformers (MC Axis manga)#Elita One|The Transformers: Elita One}}

=====''Legends'' comic=====
[[File:TFLegendsAutobotsHalloweenCostumes.jpg|thumb|Little known fact: Chromia is [[Stampy (BW)|Stampy]]'s great-aunt.]]
[[Tigatron (Legends)|Tigatron]] of the [[Legends World]] had a dream in which Chromia appeared before him and warned him he was in danger, soon followed by all kinds of heroic female Transformers. Sure enough, a group of evil female Transformers then showed up to kidnap Tigatron, but Chromia picked him up and kept him safe during the ensuing battle. {{storylink|LG11 Chromia}}

During [[Halloween]], Alpha Trion summoned the real Chromia into the Legends Universe to help stop [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]]'s latest grab for energy. Dressed up as a bunny girl, she confronted Megatron and his underlings alongside Arcee and [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]], though she was confused and embarrassed as to why it being Halloween meant she had to dress like that. The three were then defeated and tied up by [[Blackarachnia (Legends)|Blackarachnia]], but it turned out the Decepticons hadn't gotten any energy anyway. {{storylink|LG17 Blackarachnia}} Tigatron later had another dream of Chromia in which she explained that her new body was the result of changing armor parts, displayed her new altmode and ability to fly, and traded armors with Arcee. {{Storylink|Transformers Legends: Chromia Chapter|Chromia Chapter}} Chromia later swooned over the [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] from her home universe when he crossed over to the Legends Universe. {{storylink|LG19 Springer}} Chromia and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]] were tied up by [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] during his mission to send all interdimensional visitors to the Legends Universe back to where they came from, though he eventually gave up and allowed them to stay. {{storylink|LG20 Skids}}

While acting as cheerleaders at a soccer game for whatever reason, Chromia and the other girls found themselves being harassed by [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]]. {{storylink|LG29 Wheelie}} After [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] was sold off to the [[Tera-Kura Co.|Decepticon Tera-Kura Co.]], Chromia joined the Decepticon organization so that she could remain with the city-bot. {{storylink|LG31 Fortress Maximus}} As Alpha Trion had done the same, she was near him when he was looking for his [[10.2 ultra-drill|ultra-drill]]. {{storylink|LG33 Highbrow}} As an office worker she wore a snazzy suit, though [[Apeface]] ripped it to pieces while displaying his telekinetic powers. {{storylink|LG38 Laserbeak}} She later started taking [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]'s new commuter service to work, {{storylink|LG40 Astrotrain}} and was exasperated with Alpha Trion when he lost his drill again. {{storylink|LG-43 Trypticon Project Chapter}}

When the Decepticon Headmasters turned on Tera-Kura Co. and came to steal Metroplex's transformation cog, Chromia was defeated by [[Trickdiamond]]'s earthquake powers. {{storylink|LG43 Trypticon Mobilization Chapter: Decepticon Civil War|Decepticon Civil War}} She hung back at the office while the cog was used to rebuild [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]], then cheered Metroplex on when he defeated the beast. {{storylink|LG43 Trypticon}} She was later among those pestered by [[Kickback (G1)|Kickback]] and his clone army. {{storylink|LG47 Kickback}}

As [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]'s obsession with plasma energy threatened the entire Legends World, Chromia and Alpha Trion worked with the [[Jumpstarter]]s to begin opening dimensional portals, evacuating the population. {{storylink|Targetmaster Chapter Finale: Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part Two|Targetmaster Chapter Finale Part Two}} Chromia and her Autobot allies returned to Cybertron of 2039. They faced the [[Powered Master]]s, corrupted and possessed by the spirits of [[Violengiguar]]. {{storylink|The Road to Legends' Revival Chapter 2}} By 2039, peace reigned on Earth and on Cybertron between the Autobots and Decepticons. Metroplex and Trypticon became sister cities on the planet Earth, and Chromia was on hand as a law enforcer, keeping an eye out for the few remaining criminal elements. {{storylink|Transformers Legends Final Chapter "Epiloge"|Epiloge}}

=====''Generations Selects Special Comic''=====
In [[2050]], Chromia and the Autobots supported the [[Selector]]s' revolution on Earth. {{storylink|Volcanicus comic 2}}

=====''Legacy VS500 Collection Special Comic''=====
[[Arcee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Arcee]] and Chromia were present at the [[Speedia 500]] race on [[Velocitron]] in race queen outfits. {{storylink|Velocitron Speedia 500 Part 2}}

====''Wings Universe''====
{{Wingsnote}}

[[File:Battlelines6-femaleautobotsandsideburn.jpg|thumb|left|Welp, got left behind, time for a nap.]]

To gather energy for the energy-sapped Autobots, a crew was formed to pilot the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]''. Chromia was to be part of the crew, but a Decepticon attack blocked her and others from reaching the ship before it departed. Soon after, as their current reserve of energies was dangerously low, Chromia joined her comrades still on the planet in stasis hibernation as an energy-saving measure. {{storylink|Battle Lines, Part 6}}

===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
{{Unreleased DW G1 comic}}

Chromia was a member of an elite squad of five warriors under the command of the [[Quintesson]]s. [[The Route of All Evil|Following a report]] from their Autobot sleeper agent, [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]], that the awaited situation to commence their mission had come, [[Elita One (G1)|Elita One]] used a [[space bridge]] to get to the [[Autobase]] on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Chromia and the others waited patiently for her to signal that they could follow. Chromia joined her commander soon after it came. With only [[Firestar (G1)|Firestar]] still to get through the portal, the group was attacked by [[Gnaw (G1)|Gnaw]], but [[Moonracer (G1)|Moonracer]] and Elita One took care of that. While the rest of the team went further into the Autobot facility, Chromia was sent back to [[Quintessa (planet)|Quintessa]] with an unconscious [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]]. {{storylink|Unreleased Dreamwave issues#Issue 11|Generation 1 #11}}
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===Descent into Evil===
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Chromia and her ward [[Flareup (G1)|Flareup]] were part of an Autobot strike force tasked with destroying the [[Decepticon]] general [[Deathsaurus (G1)|Deathsaurus]]' cloning lab on [[Ceti Alpha Seven]]. Although the pair had handily beaten Deathsaurus's [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]] underling [[Buzzclaw (G1)|Buzzclaw]] on [[Regulon Four]] some time previous, they were taken by surprise by the first production run of clones. Although Chromia fought effectively against the clones, she was no match for Deathsaurus himself when he entered the battle personally. Falling before the general's might, she was taken captive.

Chromia, along with her teammates ''and'' the backup team of Ironhide and [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]], was ultimately rescued when [[Ricochet (Timelines)|Ricochet]], who had evaded capture, came to the rescue of the entire Autobot party. {{storylink|Descent into Evil}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
{{first|[[The Dead Are Not Enough: Dark Cybertron Chapter 7|''Robots in Disguise'' #25]]}}

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One erroneous account presented Chromia as a Cybertronian, who was among those attended [[Bumper (G1)|Bumper]] and [[Fastback (G1)|Fastback]]'s funeral. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 3|Megatron Origin #3}} However, every other account shows that Chromia was born from the hot spot contained in the [[Titan (group)|Titan]] [[Caminus (Titan)|Caminus]], who founded [[Caminus (planet)|a distant colony in his name]] that was cut off from [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] long before the war and whose citizens retained differentiated genders. Her people's isolation ended with the arrival of [[Thunder Clash|Thunderclash]], who had come seeking help from a [[Cityspeaker]] in order to aid [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]]. The chosen Cityspeaker, [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]], needed a bodyguard, however, and so Chromia (and [[Nautica (G1)|Nautica]]) were enlisted. {{storylink|A 'Bot and Her City|A Bot and Her City}} {{storylink|If I Know You}} The three joined the crew of the ''[[Vis Vitalis]]'' shortly before it crossed paths with [[Alpha Trion]]. The legendary Autobot was preoccupied with an important quest, so the three volunteered to watch after Metroplex for him and keep him alive. {{storylink|Burning Bright: Dark Cybertron Chapter 8|Burning Bright}} Under their watch, Metroplex's insides were besieged with invaders, so Chromia and Nautica hunted them down to confront them and fight them off, if necessary. They found a small group of robots and Chromia threatened to put the hurt down on them. {{storylink|The Dead Are Not Enough: Dark Cybertron Chapter 7|The Dead Are Not Enough}}

Their adversaries turned out to be fellow Autobots from the ''[[Lost Light]]'' who were battling an army of angered [[Ammonite]]s. Chromia and Nautica led them back to their boss, Windblade, who explained their mission, and subsequently the ''Lost Light'' was able to give Metroplex a jump, allowing him to [[space bridge|spacebridge]] back to Cybertron. {{storylink|Burning Bright: Dark Cybertron Chapter 8|Burning Bright}} On arrival, they couldn't do much but hang on tight within Metroplex as the city-bot did battle with the [[Quintessa (IDW)|Necrotitan]]. {{storylink|Finis Temporis: Dark Cybertron Chapter 9|Finis Temporis}} Following Metroplex's victory, Chromia and her pals got to mingle with the locals, including another female Autobot named [[Arcee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Arcee]]. {{storylink|The Becoming: Dark Cybertron Chapter 10|The Becoming}} When [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Shockwave]]'s army of Ammonites invaded Cybertron, the three Camiens returned to Metroplex to convince him to fight the invaders. {{storylink|Black Planet: Dark Cybertron Chapter 11|Black Planet}} Toward the end of the battle, [[Mainframe (G1)|Mainframe]] contacted Chromia to let them to know the ''Lost Light'' was about to ram [[Monstructor (G1)|Monstructor]], though she got frustrated by the vague, dramatic way he phrased it. {{storylink|...And the Damage Done: Dark Cybertron Finale|...And the Damage Done}}

Chromia accompanied Nautica to her audition to join the crew of the ''Lost Light'', helping out by keeping her friend's rambling to a minimum. Chromia and Windblade later attended [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]]'s trial. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 1: Towards Peace|Towards Peace}} The pair went to find cover when a group of Decepticons disrupted proceedings with the intent to rescue the defendant. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 3: Predestination: A Beginner's Guide|Predestination: A Beginner's Guide}}

[[File:BotAndHerCity-nottechnicallydawn.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Face it tiger, you just hit the jackpot.]]
Six months later, Chromia had stayed behind on Cybertron in order to protect and train Windblade as she performed her role as Metroplex's Cityspeaker. She was highly untrusting of Cybertron's elected ruler, [[Starscream (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Starscream]], though Windblade preferred to give him the benefit of the doubt. When Windblade sought advice on how to best interact with Starscream, Chromia scoffed at Windblade's choice of talking to the "mopey" [[Ironhide (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ironhide]], but was visibly upset when Windblade teased her about telling Ironhide she described him as such. Later, Chromia accompanied Windblade as the pair investigated an area of the city that might reveal why Metroplex was suffering blackouts, and at the end of the day Chromia insisted they not over-exert themselves and reconvene in the morning. {{storylink|A 'Bot and Her City}} Chromia planted a bomb near where they'd be, in an attempt to make Windblade return to Caminus. {{storylink|Windblade issue 4|Windblade vol. 1 #4}} In the morning, when she and Windblade returned to the area, the bomb exploded, damaging Windblade. Chromia dragged her to medical care. {{storylink|A 'Bot and Her City}}

[[File:Windblade3-altmodes.jpg|left|thumb|No, it's true, they actually elected Starscream.]]
Chromia was guarding Windblade when Starscream paid her a visit, and afterwards encouraged Windblade to pursue the idea that Starscream was behind the bomb. Enlisting Ironhide's help, they followed up a lead in the form of [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] whom Chromia had to physically tackle when he tried to run. Chromia stayed in [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]]'s bar while Windblade went with Waspinator. After Windblade discovered Starscream was trying to mine ore from Metroplex, Chromia joined a team that went down to investigate. {{storylink|A Long Way Down}} They were attacked by the [[Terrorcon (G1)|Terrorcons]] and Chromia went instinctively to Windblade's aid, eventually managing to avoid being arrested when Starscream and Rattrap arrived. {{storylink|Windblade issue 3|Windblade vol. 1 #3}} She arranged for Metroplex's spacebridge to activate, {{storylink|Windblade issue 4|Windblade vol. 1 #4}} and organized a jail break, successfully springing Windblade and the others. As they headed for Metroplex, Windblade revealed that she believed Starscream wasn't behind the bomb. {{storylink|Windblade issue 3|Windblade vol. 1 #3}}

The pair rushed to Metroplex, where Chromia insisted Windblade merge with the Titan's mind. She fought with Starscream when he arrived, but he managed to injure Windblade and sliced off Chromia's right arm. Windblade, merged with Metroplex, was able to subdue him with the Titan's internal defenses and revealed she'd discovered Chromia was behind the bomb. Though Chromia encouraged Windblade to make Metroplex jump back to Caminus, Windblade instead opted to shut the spacebridge down in favor of making a deal with Starscream. {{storylink|Windblade issue 4|Windblade vol. 1 #4}}

She was among the group present when [[Wheeljack (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Wheeljack]] was brought back online, though she wasn't as enthusiastic about the event when she observed how happy Starscream was. {{storylink|The World of Tomorrow}} Chromia then participated in the violent arrest of the [[Firecon]]s, primary suspects in a series of murders, {{storylink|Quest for Fire}} and was present when they were locked up. {{storylink|The Killing Jar (issue)|The Killing Jar}}

[[File:AllThatRemains-ChromiaHasHadEnough.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4]]
Chromia and Ironhide found Windblade and Optimus Prime being attacked by Decepticons and Chromia managed to stop the fight through sheer force of intimidation. They retired to Metroplex to contemplate the spacebridge, now linked to Caminus. Optimus ordered Chromia and Ironhide to guard the portal; however they were unable to prevent [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] from taking [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] through. {{storylink|First Contact (IDW)|First Contact}} They headed through the portal with Starscream's forces and attacked Menasor. The giant briefly held Chromia in his fist until she broke free. In the end, the battle was decided when [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] joined in. {{storylink|The Sum and Its Parts}} Chromia was taking part in the subsequent cleanup on Caminus when [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] arrived and started smashing more things. As the giant started trying to smash the spacebridge, Chromia rallied those present to fight him until Superion and [[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]] defeated him. {{storylink|Mistakes and Mayhem}} As Starscream returned to Cybertron, Chromia went with him to make sure no one started shooting. She was later back on Caminus when Menasor again went through the spacebridge and started fighting with the combiners already there. {{storylink|You, Me, and the Universe}} As a combiner incorporating Optimus joined the fight, Chromia led a group back through to Cybertron to help prevent the Decepticons there from attacking Caminus. {{storylink|All That Remains}}

[[File:AnUneventfulNight-ChromiaVsArcee.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.66|''Prime'' Arcee vs. G1 Arcee.]]
Windblade and Chromia were returning to Cybertron through the spacebridge while Optimus communicated with [[Arcee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Arcee]] on [[Earth]]. {{storylink|Now and On Earth}} To celebrate the union between Cybertron and Caminus, the Mistress of Flame declared an official holiday that saw Chromia temporarily don some Cityspeaker-style face paint for the occasion. While she was guarding the [[Enigma of Combination]] with a [[Badgeless]], Arcee stole the artifact. Chromia and Windblade pursued her into the [[Rust Sea|Sea of Rust]] where their confrontation was interrupted by the [[Torchbearer]]s. After the Torchbearers were merged into [[Victorion]], the trio fought to survive the giant's onslaught until Windblade managed to talk the giant into separating. Chromia later returned the Enigma and resumed guarding it. {{storylink|An Uneventful Night}}

She and Windblade interceded in a quarrel between visiting Camiens and Decepticons, though Chromia was a little too aggressive with the Decepticons. Windblade left her to finish sorting things out. She later joined Windblade, Ironhide, and Blurr for a trip to [[Velocitron]], where they found themselves in the path of [[Delta]], a city fleeing a wall of fire. {{storylink|Windblade vol. 2 issue 4|Windblade vol. 2 #4}} Chromia managed to encourage Ironhide into safely making it onto the city by staying by his side. She accompanied Windblade and [[Clocker (G1)|Clocker]] to inspect [[Navitas]], the Titan on which the city was built, and stood by as Windblade talked to the Titan directly. {{storylink|Race Against the Light}}

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When Windblade returned disappointed from [[Jungle Planet (colony)|Eukaris]] following the death of [[Chela]], Chromia believed she'd done her best to save the Titan. {{storylink|The Will of the Few}} Following the formation of the [[Council of Worlds]], Starscream declared [[Chosen One Day]], a new holiday. Windblade hugged Chromia and forgave her for past discretions... if only for a night. {{storylink|Choose Me}}

Chromia, Ironhide, and Windblade helped re-secure the spacebridge nexus after a gaggle of Decepticons stormed it. Chromia was present when Optimus Prime used the bridge to go to Earth and annex it in advance of [[Galvatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Galvatron]]'s invasion. {{storylink|Conquerors Part 4: Perihelion|Perihelion}} Shortly after taking this drastic step, Optimus had a nightmare where he saw Windblade and Chromia bowing down before him. {{storylink|All Hail Optimus Part 1: Once Upon a Time on Earth|Once Upon a Time on Earth}} The real Chromia, meanwhile, had gone off to attend an emergency Council meeting to discuss this problem. {{storylink|New Worlds Order}}

[[File:TheLineBetweenUs-ChromiaGoesToJail.jpg|thumb|left|Kinky, but at least buy her dinner first!]]

The uneasy peace on Cybertron was growing increasingly threatened by the distrust of the Badgeless, and compounded by a spree of [[Mnemosurgery|mnemosurgical]] attacks on several Decepticons within Iacon, including a supplier of parts to [[Vigilem|Carcer]]. The Committee moved to have [[Ironhide (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ironhide]] investigate the issue. When the meeting was adjourned, Chromia went off to spar with [[Strika (BM)|Strika]]. {{storylink|07:00:00}} Tensions boiled over after the suspicious death of [[Drunkatron|a disgruntled Decepticon]], and Chromia participated in a Council meeting that saw Ironhide step up as the new head of Cybertronian security. {{storylink|Applicable Skills}}

Shortly after [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]] reawoke, Chromia was walking around in the Decepticon ghetto outside of Metroplex. {{storylink|The Last Autobot}} On learning that Windblade was being forced to help Starscream because he knew of Chromia's actions in bombing Acrolight, Chromia took over decoding security footage related to Swindle's death and discovered the Decepticon's body had been taken by Wheeljack and Rattrap. She visited Wheeljack, only for the pair of them to be taken prisoner by the rest of the Combaticons, who forced Wheeljack to lead them to Swindle's brain-dead body. {{storylink|Things We Said We'd Never Do}} After the Combaticons used the Enigma to merge into [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]], Chromia worked with Windblade to talk the Combaticons down, however Ironhide took matters into his own hands and blasted Bruticus. In the aftermath, Chromia coopted [[Circuit (G1)|Circuit]]'s broadcast to make a public confession of her actions in Acrolight, and was arrested by Ironhide. {{storylink|The Line Between Us}}

[[File:Rubicon ChromiaHoldsWindblade.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|right|Please just this once... stay...]]
Chromia being in prison was later one of the factors Windblade mentioned that had demoralized her. {{storylink|Ping}} When a fleet of undead Titans arrived to destroy Cybertron (as they do), Chromia was marched onto a prison ship when Starscream gave the evacuation order. She broke the prison line to speak to Ironhide about Metroplex being felled and urged him to help Windblade who was doubtlessly with the Titan. Ironhide said Windblade was at the [[Spire]] (and he was right) and there was no need to worry but Chromia was convinced that without Ironhide, Windblade would do something stupid (she was also right). {{storylink|Desperate Times}}

Said stupid thing turned out to be releasing [[Vigilem|Carcer]]. When the evil Titan made planetfall, Chromia rushed back to Ironhide to try and find Windblade, only for the irritable warden to grab her and stuff her in a prison cell to be killed by the undead. However, Metroplex managed to release her and direct her to Windblade's location with Carcer so she could free her friend. Chromia rushed to the Titan and scaled up his body, breaching his body and arriving at his [[brain module]] just as [[Elita One (G1)|Elita One]] had blown it into chunks, seemingly killing Windblade. {{storylink|Rubicon}}

Chromia was subsequently put back into prison and set to be tried for crimes against Cybertron. The [[Mistress of Flame]] attempted to get Starscream to turn Chromia over to her but when Starscream refused, she demanded Swindle and Menasor in exchange. The ghost of Bumblebee urged Starscream to hand over Chromia. Starscream instead opted to free Chromia and turn her into a hit-bot to hunt down and kill [[Liege Maximo]], offering her a pardon in exchange, as well as saying he'd lost his own chance to be better, telling Chromia not to waste hers. {{storylink|Heavy}} Starscream and [[Obsidian (BM)|Obsidian]] provided Chromia with the ''[[Sabre]]'', with [[Greenlight]] and [[Lancer]] as her crew, while the Camien herself recorded a goodbye message for Windblade, encouraging her friend to stay strong while she was away. {{storylink|The Chosen One}}

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Shortly after setting out, however, the crew ran afoul of the [[Maximal]]s. Though they managed to triumph over their foes, the Maximals had damaged the ''Sabre''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s long-range communication, leaving them unable to contact [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. {{storylink|Stranger Eons}} When Liege Maximo returned to Cybertron as a prisoner of [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Onyx Prime]], Windblade asked whether the bestial Prime had encountered Chromia or her team. Onyx chose to ignore the question and grill [[Soundwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Soundwave]] instead. {{storylink|The Falling, Chapter 2: Another Mine|Another Mine}}

When the ''Sabre'' finally repaired its communications, the crew had caught up with the [[Decepticon Vengeance Division]] facing off against [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]] in [[G Nebula 89]]. Calling Cybertron, Chromia was quickly caught up on the recent political changes before she reported that, despite their incredible firepower, the Decepticons were failing to damage the Chaos Bringer. Unicron unleashing the Maximals on the Decepticons was enough incentive for Chromia to order a quantum jump back to Cybertron. {{storylink|Stranger Eons}}

The ''Sabre'' arrived back home to find Unicron had beaten them there and assumed a robot mode to attack the planet while having warped the DVD into his service. Acting as a battlefield coordinator, Chromia tried to deter Elita One from charging head-on to no success, the Carcerian confident in her plan. {{storylink|Our Finest}} As the [[Autobot fleet]] fell and Unicron began physically tearing into Cybertron, Windblade called upon the [[Spectral Knight]]s to use their [[magic]] to teleport Cybertron's populace to safety. Noticing this, Unicron returned his attention to the fleet, preventing them from reaching the magic before Elita One defiantly slammed Carcer into Unicron's face, distracting him just long enough for the magical ribbon to reach the fleet and teleport them to Earth. {{storylink|Road's End}}

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Safe on the organic world, Chromia reunited with Windblade before Prowl arrived with information on Unicron's origins and inner workings. As part of the do-or-die attack on Unicron, Chromia joined in the diversionary attack on the DVD. {{storylink|Assembly (Unicron)|Assembly}} When Optimus Prime had successfully used the [[Talisman (G1)|Talisman]] to collapse Unicron, Chromia pulled [[Centurion (IDW)|Centurion]] out of [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]'s burning corpse before Metroplex space bridged everyone back to Earth. {{storylink|Ceremony}} Chromia was one of the mourners present at Optimus's funeral, {{storylink|Post}} before she invited [[Nautica (G1)|Nautica]] and [[Velocity (G1)|Velocity]] to Earth so they could catch up. {{storylink|How To Say Goodbye And Mean It: Part 2}}

===''Kre-O'' cartoon===
[[Chromia's Pizza]] featured a picture of Chromia on the box. A box of this pizza sat on the floor near [[Megatron (Kre-O)|Megatron]] as he watched [[television]]. {{Storylink|Megatron's Revenge}}

===Legends World===
[[Tigatron (Legends)|Tigatron]] owned the [[#Legends|''Legends'' Chromia toy]], and it inspired [[#Legends comic|a dream]] he had. {{storylink|LG11 Chromia}}

===''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' continuity===
====''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' marketing material====
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Chromia was a [[Cybertronian military insignia|Ground Command Special Ops Sergeant]], whose function was Counter Intelligence. {{storylink|War for Cybertron: Siege|''Siege'' webpage}}<ref name=Siege>[https://transformers.hasbro.com/en-us/brands/siege ''Siege'' website]</ref> During the war for Cybertron Chromia was dispatched to locate a possible Autobot escape site located in the largest spaceport on Cybertron, the [[Hydrax Plateau]]. Anything else that may have been given to her as part of her mission's specifications, were classified. {{storylink|Source:Teletraan-1 Data Files|''Siege'' Teletraan-1 Data Files}}

====''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Georgia Reed]] (English), [[Masami Katsuyama]] (Japanese)|[[Amanda Manso]] (Portuguese), [[Christèle Billault]] (French), [[Cornelia Waibel]] (German), [[Margot Lago]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Rommy Mendoza]] (Latin-American Spanish)}}

Before the war, Chromia lived on [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]]. Chromia was present when [[Elita One (G1)|Elita-1]], [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] returned from their mission. {{storylink|Siege episode 1}} Chromia was sent to the fake coordinates of the [[AllSpark]], which turned out to be a Decepticon ambush. Chromia dragged [[Cog (G1)|Cog]] to safety after he was shot in the chest, then rode on the back of Optimus with the injured Cog when they retreated from the battle. {{storylink|Siege episode 2}} After [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]]'s attempted holographic infiltration of a Decepticon squad failed, Chromia provided cover fire for him and helped defeat their foes. {{storylink|Siege episode 3}}

[[File:WFC-Siege-Ep5-Chromia-snipes-Seeker.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|First she [[Chromia (G1)#Timelines|took Moonracer's body]], now she's taking her skillset.]]
Chromia was part of the group sent to fix the [[space bridge]]. She served as lookout duty and managed to snipe three [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]] that attacked the group. {{storylink|Siege episode 4}} Chromia continued to guard the bridge as Mirage cast a large hologram to hide it from further Decepticon discovery. {{storylink|Siege episode 5}} Once Mirage's hologram finally failed, Chromia had to exchange fire with more Seekers. She tried to hold the Autobots' position beside the activated space bridge. Chromia was blasted trying to provide coverage for Optimus Prime as he boarded the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' and ultimately left behind on Cybertron after the ship launched through the space bridge. She placed herself under Elita-1's command to continue the resistance on Cybertron. {{storylink|Siege episode 6}}

Chromia was part of an Autobot force to help free Decepticon prisoners and successfully liberated them. Elita-1 asked her to prep for another mission to raid a Decepticon prison-camp in the [[Kaon (polity)|Kaon]] arena. The group performed reconnaissance on the next camp and suspected it might be a trap. Chromia sniped the few guards who were on duty and shot a Decepticon who was attacking Elita-1. [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] soon sprung the trap and the Decepticons managed to capture Chromia's group. They were brought before [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], who showed the Autobots a demonstration of Project ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]''. {{storylink|Earthrise episode 1}}

Placed in the detention cells, the Autobots tried to work out what Project Nemesis entailed. The group was soon brought before Megatron again and placed in tubes to have their sparks drained. As the machinery was activating, it was shut off just as quickly and the group was rescued by [[Scrapface]], who helped them escape. Chromia knocked out a willing [[Flywheels|Skytread]], who had his own doubts about Megatron's methods and let them leave. {{storylink|Earthrise episode 2}} Chromia and the others trekked back to Autobot camp with Scrapface's Decepticons, trying to avoid further detection by Seeker patrols. The group observed [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]'s message that recalled all Decepticons to Kaon with false promises of protection. Chromia pledged her support to return and stop the Decepticons' plans once and for all. {{storylink|Earthrise episode 3}}

[[File:EarthriseEp6 ChromiaSnipes.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.5|[[:File:Oneshottwokills.jpg|Thanks for the help]].]]
Within the [[Dead Universe]], Optimus Prime suffered a nightmarish vision that showed Chromia and other Autobots lying dead at Megatron's hands. {{storylink|Earthrise episode 5}}

Back on Cybertron, Elita-1's group returned to the Kaon arena, only to find it largely deserted. They began laying timed explosive charges to demolish the place, but Chromia was suddenly shot in the chest from out of nowhere and dropped to the ground. Decepticons utilizing stealth camouflage appeared and took the others prisoner, leaving Chromia for dead. She managed to get back up and snipe all the attackers, including Skytread, who tried to beg for mercy. Chromia and the others then tried to flee the area before the charges detonated, but couldn't get far enough and died in the massive explosion. {{storylink|Earthrise episode 6}}

When the AllSpark was returned to the [[Temple of the Allspark]] on Cybertron by Bumblebee, Chromia was among the Transformer spirits who witnessed Elita-1 banish [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] and [[Nemesis Prime (G1)|Nemesis Prime]]. Chromia and the other deceased Transformers' sparks then rejoined the AllSpark, which restored Cybertron's vitality. {{storylink|Kingdom episode 6}}
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===2019 IDW continuity===
{{first|[[The World In Your Eyes Part Two|''Transformers'' #2]]}}

[[File:TheWorldInYourEyesPart4-Chromia.jpg|thumb]]

Chromia was the head of [[Security Operations]], a position she attained at least partly due to Prowl's unsociability. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part Two}} After [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] returned from [[Probat (planet)|Probat]] with no energon and a comatose [[Deathsaurus (G1)|Deathsaurus]], Chromia briefly questioned the minibot but eventually let him go. {{storylink|Wannabee, Part 2}}

Along with Prowl, Chromia was called to [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]]'s [[energon transmission station]] when the scientist was found to have been murdered. After getting statements from Windblade and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], Chromia asked [[Rubble]], a newborn, to not consider the murder indicative of Cybertronian society. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part Two}}

After [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] created the [[Ascenticon Guard]], with the notable inclusion of [[Quake (G1)|Quake]], Chromia briefed [[Senate|Senator]] [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Orion Pax]] on the actions of [[The Rise]] before [[Froid]] stole the Senator away for a private word. Chromia later made her way to Rubble's apartment, along with [[Geomotus]], so she could borrow Windblade. Before leaving, Chromia linked her and Prowl's communicators' to Rubble's but, much to Windblade's disapproval, added a tracer, albeit an inactive one in the code. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part Three}}

[[File:TheWorldInYourEyesPart4-Chromiaaltmode.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Attempted vehicular manslaughter ''is the'' true Autobot way.]]

As the trio made their way back into the wilderness, Windblade and Chromia compared stories about Brainstorm, trying to find something nice to say, before they ran across [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]]. Though the veteran initially tried to avoid their questions, he revealed that he'd seen a blue Cybertronian near the transmission station on the night of the murder. Unsatisfied, Chromia gave him one cycle to present himself to [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] for further questioning. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part Four}} As she drove back into Iacon, Chromia was hailed by [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] who revealed that, while several high ranking Rise members had gone into hiding, a total of ''two hundred'' Cybertronians had mysteriously dropped off the grid since the night of the murder. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part Five}}

Tragedy soon struck again when Rubble was found dead in the [[Xeno-Quarter]] along with the missing [[Voin]] scavenger. Chromia largely kept to herself in the autopsy only speaking up to have [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] recite his analysis of Rubble's corpse. After seeing off [[Greenlight]], Chromia assured Prowl that Rubble's death was not his fault. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part One}}

[[File:TheCracksBeneathYourFeetPart3-Chromiavssixshot.jpg|thumb|250px]]

Alongside Prowl, Chromia was questioning Froid about Quake's psychology before Cyclonus crashed into the interrogation room, telling Chromia that he'd found the missing people beneath the [[Memorial Crater]], hoarding an armory's worth of weapons. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Two}}

Breaking open their own armory, Chromia led [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] and Windblade to the base, entering with the latter only to find that the place had been picked clean. As Chromia tried to salvage data from an [[energon station]], she was attacked by [[Sixshot (G1)|Sixshot]]. Though proving nimble enough to evade the hexa-changer, Chromia failed to detain him. She returned to the surface in time to see the base detonate, Windblade's broken body being spat out of the explosion. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Three}}

After [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]] had returned to Cybertron, Chromia briefed the [[Prime (rank)|Prime]] on what he'd missed before she passed her confirmed list of Risers onto Orion. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Five}} While visiting Windblade in the hospital, Chromia was called away to a stand-off in the [[Cybertronian Mountains]]. Before she left, [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] suggested that [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] had been Brainstorm's killer. {{storylink|The Change In Your Nature Part One}}

[[File:TheChangeInYourNaturePart2-Flak.jpg|thumb|left|300px]]

Meeting up with [[Springer (G1)|Springer]], Chromia attempted negotiation before [[Javelin]] was shot in the head. Ordering her troops into action, Chromia failed to smoke out the terrorists before the [[Ascenticon Guard]] arrived, Senator [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] entering the immersant [[Titan (group)|Titan]] to conduct negotiations personally. Shortly after Soundwave returned, the Titan's corpse violently exploded. {{storylink|The Change In Your Nature Part Two}} Managing to capture two of [[Ruckus (G1)|Ruckus]]'s cell, albeit in stasis, Chromia checked in with Orion and Bumblebee, revealing their suspicions to the yellow bot that Quake had killed Rubble, before she and Orion came before Sentinel. In light of their findings, Sentinel agreed to bend the Nominus Edict but also made several other changes to their operating procedures, diverting some of Chromia's authority in Security Operations to Colonial Security. {{storylink|The Change In Your Nature Part Three}}

[[File:AllFallDown-Chromia.jpg|thumb|200px|She is the LAW!]]

Soon afterwards, disaster struck when the Rise caused the [[Tether]] to collapse, the space elevator devastating Iacon. In the midst of all this, Chromia received a distress call from Bumblebee, who'd begun to fear for his life among the Guard, and arrived in time to save him from [[Treadshot (G1)|Treadshot]] and [[Catgut]]. After confirming Bumblebee's suspicions, Chromia relieved him of his mission and thanked him for his services. {{storylink|Rise of the Decepticons: All Fall Down|All Fall Down}} Despite Bumblebee's report, hundreds of Ascenticons began to blockade the faction's headquarters, leaving Chromia and Sec-Ops unable to reach or interview Soundwave. {{storylink|Rise of the Decepticons: Swindle's|Swindle's}} Chromia reported her failed attempts to Orion Pax, but remained confident her people had gathered enough evidence to pursue the Ascenticons for crimes in a court of law. {{storylink|Rise of the Decepticons: Tremors|Tremors}}

She was wrong. Or, rather, her efforts were moot as Megatron and Soundwave led a full uprising against the elected government, capturing the Senate building and the senators inside, including Sentinel Prime and Orion Pax. Chromia joined with Ironhide, Hound, and Novastar to plan taking back their people and their government. Chromia accompanied Ironhide and the Senate Guard as they drilled into the Senate building's under-passages. Ironhide freed the rest of his Guard to retake the building, while Chromia found Orion and Sentinel to take them to safety. Once they exited the tunnels, however, the infuriated Sentinel Prime took off ahead of his escorts towards their south tower base. The First Senator intended to address his people as soon as possible about the uprising, but Chromia had no air support to provide protection for Sentinel's vehicle mode. He was intercepted by the [[Rainmaker]]s and mortally wounded before Chromia and Orion Pax caught up with him. Before the optics of Chromia and the Guard, Sentinel Prime died and the Matrix emerged from his chest, bonding with Orion Pax. After receiving a vision from the Allspark, Pax stepped up to become what times required of him, declaring himself Optimus Prime. {{storylink|War World: Prime|Prime}}

[[File:DarknessOnceGazedUponPart2 ChromiaKick.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.8|Chromia Van Damme]]
At Optimus Prime's direction, Chromia arranged for the release of [[Pyra Magna (G1)|Pyra Magna]], one of the [[Great General]]s of the [[War of the Threefold Spark]] who had been imprisoned ever since she continued fighting after the amnesty. It was a risky maneuver to gain credibility for the Autobots' opposition to the Decepticons, assuming Pyra Magna and her [[Companion]]s agreed with their cause. {{storylink|War World: Awakenings|Awakenings}} The street-fighting in Iacon continued until it became necessary to abandon the capital. Chromia lent security to a procession leading the Autobots away from Iacon to seek refuge in [[Crystal City]]. {{storylink|War World: We Are Not Meant To Be Darkness|We Are Not Meant To Be Darkness}} Those opposing Megatron united under the Autobot faction. Even Chromia and previous unaligned Security Operations personnel underwent the Autobranding ceremony as a symbol of their cause's unity. {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Sea of Rust I|Sea of Rust I}}

When Ultra Magnus was captured and brought back to Iacon, Chromia assembled a small unit to bring him back. Her knowledge of the city as head of Security Operations was combined with Smokescreen's criminal contact Swindle to secure them an escape route. At the former Senate, they found Magnus imprisoned along with other political prisoners, Senators who refused to recognize Megatron's rule. {{storylink|Darkness, Once Gazed Upon: Part Two}} Back at Swindle's, their escape brought heat down on the bar owner as Sixshot's Decepticons pursued Ultra Magnus. Chromia's team managed to escape through the underground tunnels, but they knew it was only a matter of time before the Decepticons followed them to Crystal City. {{storylink|Darkness, Once Gazed Upon: Part Three}}

[[File:RadicalTime-windschanging.jpg|upright=1.7|thumb]]

As the siege of Crystal City began, Chromia coordinated their defenses with [[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]] and [[Firestar (G1)|Novastar]]. The Autobots had all retreated back to a fortified bunker when the tide turned. The last Titan, [[Lodestar (Titan)|Lodestar]], had come home. {{storylink|A Dust of Crystals}} With a new combiner and a Titan as leverage, Optimus Prime negotiated a truce with Megatron. The Autobots gathered in a procession to make their way to [[Darkmount (Cybertron)|Darkmount]] and use the last ''Ark'' to leave Cybertron behind, in Decepticon hands. Megatron still wanted his enemies dead, and orchestrated an artillery bombardment to trap the Autobots between his firepower and the approaching [[rust worm]]s. Chromia tried to find a path beyond the bombardment, only to be blocked by the Seekers. {{storylink|Radical Time}} Unable to break their lines without more death, Chromia retreated back to Optimus and the main contingent. Fortunately, a plan was enacted that pitted the [[Insecticon clone]] horde against the rust worms, dealing with both threats. {{storylink|End of Time}} The truce collapsed, and a final battle was held at Darkmount until Chromia and the Autobots finally escaped the occupied planet, but not before pledging to return. {{storylink|Transformers: Fate of Cybertron|Fate of Cybertron}}

===''Transformers Go! Go!''===
{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Go! Go! issue 44}} {{storylink|The Transformers Gather on the Snowy Mountain!|Search Quiz 2}}}}

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==Games==
===''Transformers Legends''===
[[File:TFLegends-Chromia.jpg|thumb|Huh! Vehicle kibble!]]
Chromia was part of [[Elita One (G1)|Elita 1]]'s team which carried out a series of raids on Decepticon installations, until they were taken down in a trap planned by [[Flamewar (G1)|Flamewar]]. {{storylink|Fatal Furies}}

Chromia was dispatched by Elita One in response to Flamewar's squad's retaliatory attacks on a number of Autobot bases. {{storylink|Fatal Furies: Flamewar's Revenge}}

===''Angry Birds Transformers''===
{{main|Stella (AB)#As Chromia}}
Chromia appears as a character unlockable in Challenge Events. She is portrayed by Stella and is a blue and red redeco of Arcee. {{storylink|Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers}}
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===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
[[File:Battle-Tactics-Chromia.jpg|thumb]]
Chromia participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of her! She was a Super Rare character who could be recruited by collecting 250 units of Cybermetal, 75 units of Transmetal, and 10 cores of this character. {{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}
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===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
[[File:EW-Chromia.jpg|thumb|300px]]
Chromia arrived on Earth at the same time as [[Hellbat (G1)|Fellbat]]. {{storylink|Slumbering Giants}}
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===''Transformers: Heavy Metal''===
[[File:TFHeavyMetal Chromia.jpg|thumb]]
Chromia was [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]]'s bodyguard and a security and intel expert. As part of the [[Guardian Program]], she insisted on being paired with humans as a security check before they met Windblade. Though confused by earthling communications, especially emojis, she worked on learning to master it. {{storylink|Transformers: Heavy Metal}}

===''Transformers Roleplaying Game''===
Chromia was an Autobot security officer who specialized in sabotage and infiltration. Although she kept herself at arm's length from many of her fellow Autobots, she was fiercely protective of her comrades. {{storylink|Transformers Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook|Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook}}
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===''Transformers: Forged to Fight''===
[[File:FtF-Chromia-files.jpg|thumb|right]]
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==Toys==
===''Timelines''===
[[File:TL-toy Chromia.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|That's no Moon(racer)!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{bp-a1d1|'''Descent into Evil''' (Box set, 2005)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': Launcher, missile, scope, 2 tailpipes, energon chip

: ''[[Transformers Timelines (toyline)|Timelines]]'' Chromia is a [[redeco]] and new-head [[retool]] of ''[[Transformers: Energon (toyline)|Energon]]'' Energon Class [[Arcee (Energon)#Toys|Arcee]], transforming into a Cybertronic racing motorcycle. She has multiple clear-plastic "[[energon]]" parts that form side-thrusters in bike mode, and combine to form a massive compound bow with a spring-loaded missile. She also comes with an [[energon star]] that can attach to the [[spark crystal]] of any ''Energon''-series mold.

: The toy was originally intended to be [[Moonracer (G1)|Moonracer]], but [[Fun Publications]] could not secure the [[trademark]] on the name. As such, Chromia's toy is in Moonracer's teal and white colors and has a head that resembles Moonracer's. (Fun Publications' intent was for the head to be a compromise between the Moonracer and Firestar head designs.)<ref>[http://groups.google.com/group/alt.toys.transformers/msg/e39fbfb4b4bd2b3a alt.toys.transformers post] by [[Lanny Lathem]] explaining the Moonracer/Chromia SNAFU.</ref><ref>[http://www.bwtf.com/toyreviews/timelines/descent/chromia Chromia toy notes at BWTF.com]</ref> Later Fun Publications stories would [[repurposing|repurpose]] the Chromia toy as Moonracer.

: She was only available as part of [[BotCon 2005]]'s "Descent into Evil" set, packed in with [[Buzzclaw (G1)#Toys|Buzzclaw]], [[Deathsaurus (G1)#Timelines 2|Deathsaurus]], [[Dirge (Timelines)#Toys|Dirge]], [[Outback (G1)#Timelines|Fallback]], [[Ironhide (G1)/toys#Timelines|Ironhide]], and [[Ricochet (Timelines)#Toys|Ricochet]].

: Her base mold was also used to make [[Flamewar (G1)#Toys|Flamewar]] and the [[Transformers (2007 toyline)|live-action movieverse]] [[Arcee (Movie)#Toys|Arcee]] and [[Elita-One (Movie)#Toys|Elita-One]], while the Chromia-retooled version was used to make [[Flareup (G1)#Toys|Flareup]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2005/Autobot/BCChromia/chromia.htm More information on Chromia at TFU.info]''
::*''[http://www.transformersclub.com/chromiapreview.cfm Chromia at TransformersClub.com]''
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===''Generations''===
[[File:Gen-toy Chromia.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.66|STILL the fastest thing on the Grid.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{bp-a1|'''Chromia''' (Deluxe Class, 2014)}}</ul>
:*''Series / Number'': '''02 / #022'''
:*''Accessories'': Rifle

: Released in the eleventh and final wave of ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)#Thrilling 30 (2013-2014)|Generations: Thrilling 30]]'' Deluxes, Chromia is a heavy [[retool]]ing of ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)#Robots in Disguise|Prime: Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Arcee (WFC)#Robots in Disguise|Arcee]], transforming into a Cybertronian motorbike. Her blaster weapon can be mounted on the bottom of her bike mode.

: Due to the nature of her transformation, Chromia's paint is extremely prone to chipping, especially the white paint on her head. Caution and care is recommended when transforming her to avoid damaging her paint.

: Originally scheduled for March 2014 along with [[Arcee (G1)/toys#Generations|Arcee]], Chromia was delayed to fall of that year and ultimately not released until December.

: Hasbro's original stock photo for the figure depicting a hand-painted prototype (which is also featured on the back of the toy's packaging) showed her holding one of her [[wave]]-mate Arcee's guns along with her own. This was most certainly due to a mix-up error; the weapon's design, especially the size and shape of its handle and additional pegs (which are identical to those of Arcee's other weapon), make it very obvious that it was always intended to go with Arcee rather than Chromia. A different version of the stock photo was released in November 2014 on the official ''Transformers'' Facebook page, with the extra gun edited out; compare and contrast the two stock photos [[:File:Generations Chromia stock photo edited.jpg|here]]. Some specimens of Chromia also feature a sticker on the back of the packaging that says "Additional weapon not included."

: The original version of this sculpt was also used to make [[BotCon 2014]] [[Flareup (G1)#BotCon2014|Flareup]], and was ''differently'' retooled to make ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)|Prime: Beast Hunters]]'' [[Arcee (WFC)#Beast Hunters|Arcee]]. This version of the mold served as the model for the non-toy ''[[Beast Wars: Uprising]]'' version of [[Blackarachnia (BW)#Beast Wars: Uprising|Blackarachnia]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2014/Autobot/GenChromia/chromia.htm More information on ''Generations'' Chromia at TFU.info]''
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===''Legends''===
[[File:Legends-toy Chromia.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{bp-a1|'''Chromia''' (Deluxe, 2015)}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''LG11'''
:*''Release date'': [[February 14]], 2015
:*''Accessories'': Gun

: Released in the fifth wave of [[TakaraTomy]]'s ''[[Transformers Legends (franchise)|Legends]]'' toyline, Chromia is a redeco of ''Thrilling 30'' Deluxe Class Chromia, making use of lavender and white in place of sky blue in a bid to appear more cartoon-accurate. Her wheels feature more black and much of her bike kibble is coated in metallic blue paint, including the back half of her canopy, which is now cast in translucent blue. Her eyes are also painted blue.

: Chromia comes with a leaflet featuring a character profile, tech specs, and the mini-manga ''[[Transformers Legends (comic)|Legends]]'' [[LG11 Chromia]].
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===''Combiner Wars''===
{{anchor|CHunters}}
[[File:Transformers-SDCC-Combiner-Hunters-Chromia.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|right|This is how Chromia auditions for a new ''Final Fantasy'' game.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{bp-a1|'''Combiner Hunters''' (Multi-pack, 2015)}}</ul>
:*''Release date'': [[July 9]], 2015
:*''Accessories'': Gun, "Primeon Blade" sword

: The ''Combiner Hunters'' [[redeco]] of ''Thrilling 30'' Chromia not only has many of her coloring details changed to represent her attendance to the Camien religious ceremony, but in fact mostly stands out for its new accessory: a huge [[Primeon Blade]] sword. The tooling for this weapon was originally used for the 16"-tall electronic version of ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 toyline)|Robots in Disguise]]'' ''[[Titan Heroes]]'' [[Optimus Prime (WFC)/toys#ETitan|Optimus Prime]].

: This version of Chromia was only available in a ''[[Combiner Wars (toyline)|Combiner Wars]]'' [[giftset|gift set]] together with ''Combiner Hunters'' redecoes of ''Generations'' [[Arcee (G1)/toys#Combiner Wars|Arcee]] and [[Windblade (G1)#Combiner Wars|Windblade]], each with their own giant new melee weapons. In the U.S., this set was [[exclusive]] to the [[Hasbro Toy Shop]] website and the Hasbro Toy Shop booth at [[San Diego Comic-Con]] 2015. In Asia, it was also available at Animation-Comic-Game Hong Kong 2015 and subsequently stocked by Toys"R"Us Hong Kong. Later, it was also available at The Falcon's Hangar booth at Singapore Toy, Game & Comic Convention 2015.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2015/Autobot/SDCCChromia/chromia.htm More information on Combiner Hunter Chromia at TFU.info]''
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===''War for Cybertron: Siege''===
[[File:War-for-Cybertron-Siege-Deluxe-Chromia.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"I'm in the same wave as Ironhide?!"]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{bp-a1|'''Chromia''' (Deluxe Class, [[2019]])}}</ul>
:*''Hasbro ID number'': '''WFC-S20'''
:*''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''SG-22'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[May 31]], 2019
:*''Hidden message code'': '''SIIEXXXIITSFAT'''
:*''Accessories'': "RT-5 Anti-thermo Blaster," "SR Hushfuze," and 2 "EMP-Grenades"
{{toydesigner|[[Aaron Gray]] (Hasbro)|[[AJ Piejko-Brown]] (packaging)}}

: Part of the second wave of the ''[[War for Cybertron: Siege|Siege]]'' Deluxe Class figures, Chromia transforms into a Cybertronian car, based on her original Sunbow animation model. She includes the "RT-5 Anti-thermo Blaster," a gun compatible with the [[C.O.M.B.A.T. System]]. Two "EMP-Grenades" can connect to the barrel, and the "SR Hushfuze" scope can be detached and can extend the barrel as well, allowing you to change the length of the barrel and/or scope. The grenades can also attach to the back of the vehicle, as if they are big exhaust pipes. As with all non-gimmick ''Siege'' figures, Chromia features "battle damage" paint applications on her vehicle mode front. She also features multiple hardpoints all over herself and her weapon to accommodate "Fire Blasts" from the [[Battle Master]]s assortment, which can be used to simulate blaster fire or explosions.

: Chromia is a heavy retool of ''[[Power of the Primes (toyline)|Power of the Primes]]'' [[Moonracer (G1)|Moonracer]], the mold is ''mostly'' unique, save for the wheels, thighs and hip [[ball joint]] sockets.

: In a rather amusing design flaw, moving both her hips together at an angle may pop off her crotch piece.

: The final figure differs quite a bit from the initial promotional renders. Her shoulders are pale blue, her ankles, scope, and backpack hinges are the deeper shade of blue, her entire collar and toes are painted pale blue, and there are minor molding differences on her helmet. Namely, the red part is ''much'' thinner and the dark blue part is taller and less rounded. Additionally, her blaster and scope feature pale blue and red paint applications not present on the final figure. Half of the official promotion pictures have the backpack wheels folded back in robot mode, and the head not visible on the back of the vehicle, the other half of the official promotional images have the backpack wheels splayed out to the sides and the robot head visible on the back of the vehicle. Strangely, some of these photos also (poorly) paint out the red on her collar for no apparent reason.

: She is infamous for shelfwarming in multiple markets, and could still be found in plentiful numbers after the [[War for Cybertron: Earthrise|next toyline]] began.

: This mold was redecoed into ''[[War for Cybertron Trilogy (toyline)#Netflix|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]'' Chromia (below), retooled into ''[[Generations Selects (toyline)|Generations Selects]]'' [[Nightbird (G1)#Generations Selects|Nightbird]], and retooled again to make [[Kaskade#Toys|Ascenticon Kaskade]]. This toy also served as the model for [[Moonracer (G1)#War for Cybertron Trilogy cartoon|Moonracer]] in the ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]'' cartoon.

::*''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAeN5YVhGqU Official conversion video at the TRANSFORMERS OFFICIAL YouTube channel]''
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===''War for Cybertron Trilogy''===
[[File:WFCNetflixtoy-Autobot Chromia.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Now covered in crap.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{bp-a1|'''Chromia''' (Deluxe Class, 2020)}}</ul>
:*''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''WFC-03'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[October 23]], 2020
:*''Accessories:'' "RT-5 Anti-thermo Blaster," "SR Hushfuze," and 2 "EMP-Grenades"

: Promoting the ''Siege'' season of the [[Netflix]]-exclusive [[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon]], this redeco of ''Siege'' Chromia slathers the Autobot in an ''extensive'' paint wash coating to represent accumulated grime and battle scars. Unlike the other ''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' toys, the battle-worn deco is not accurate to the cartoon.

: This toy also included a portion of a cardstock background of [[Teletraan I#War for Cybertron Trilogy|Teletraan I]]. Chromia's part has tabs D and L, and slot E.

: This release was [[exclusive]] to [[Walmart]] in the U.S. and Canada, and in Japan as a [[TakaraTomy Mall]] exclusive.
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===''Legacy''===
[[File:LegacyChromia.jpeg|thumb|upright=1.66|]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Cyberverse Universe Chromia''' (Deluxe Class, [[2024]])}}</ul>
:*''TakaraTomy name'': '''Chromia''' (クロミア)
:*''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''TL-72'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[2024]] [[September 28]]
:*''Accessories'': 2 Bladed Mecha Stars
{{toydesigner|[[Sam Smith]] and [[Mark Maher]] (Hasbro), [[Takashi Kunihiro]] (TakaraTomy)|[[Matthew Cohen]] (photography)}}<ref>[[March 21]], 2024's [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPkQZZ4zasE Hasbro Pulse | Transformers 40th Anniversary Fanstream | March 21, 2024] on YouTube, with [[Ben MacCrae]], [[Mark Maher]] and [[Evan Brooks]].</ref>
{{note|''Legacy'' [[Chromia (Cyberverse)#Legacy|Cyberverse Universe Chromia]] was [[Repurposing|repurposed]] as Generation 1 Chromia in ''[[Transformers Go! Go!]]'' [[Go! Go! issue 44|Issue #44]].}}

: Released in the second wave of ''[[Transformers: Legacy|Legacy: United]]'' Deluxe Class toys, "Cyberverse Universe Chromia" is a new-head retool of ''[[Transformers: Legacy|Legacy: Evolution]]'' [[Prowl (Animated)#Legacy|Animated Universe Prowl]] (making her look much closer to her canceled [[:File:TFHeavyMetal Chromia.jpg|Heavy Metal design]]), and transforms into a motorcycle in 20 steps. She comes with two Mecha Stars which can be stored in her motorcycle wheels, and deployed by twisting the blade housing. Both hands are sculpted to hold the stars by their blades, while her right hand can additionally hold [[5 mm post|5 mm accessories]]. Like Prowl, Chromia has a twin speedometer molded into the back of her head, present in vehicle mode.

:Chromia shares the same design problem with Prowl; her right hand ''cannot'' securely hold one of the Bladed Mecha Stars. Because of this, one of [[TakaraTomy]]'s [[Media:TakaraTomy stock Unite CBV Chromia glue tack.jpg|stock photos]] had a slightly visible adhesive tack when the figure was holding the weapon.

: Official Hasbro promotional photography by [[Matthew Cohen]] shows Chromia performing the iconic "motorcycle slide" from the [[Japan]]ese animated film ''{{w|Akira (1988 film)|Akira}}''.
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==Merchandise==
===''Tiny Titans''===
[[File:TinyTitans Chromia.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|]]
*'''Chromia''' (Tiny Titans, 2015)
**''Series'': '''5'''
**''Number'': '''1/12'''

: Part of the fifth assortment of ''[[Tiny Titans]]'' [[blindpacking|blindpacks]], this version of Chromia is a very small, soft-plastic figure of her in robot mode, based mainly on the original animation model.

: She includes a collectible card that renders her 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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===''Transformers Trading Card Game''===
[[File:W1Chromia.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|The difference between Chromia and Liz Truss is that Chromia can become a leader again...]]
*'''Chromia, Special Ops''' (2018)
**'''Wave 1'''
**''Rarity: '''''RT'''
**''Card Number: '''''T11/T40'''
**''Stars: ''8

:'''Chromia, Special Ops''' 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

:For some unknown reason, she loses her leader trait while in alt mode. She is the only leader character in the game with this oddity.

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[[File:W3SergeantChromia.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Sergeant Chromia, Special Ops-Counterintelligence''' (2019)
**'''Wave 3: War for Cybertron: Siege I'''
**''Rarity: '''''CT'''
**''Card Number: '''''T41/T48'''
**''Stars: ''7

:Sergeant Chromia, Special Ops-Counterintelligence is one of forty-eight double-sided character cards available in Wave 3 of the [[Transformers Trading Card Game]], War for Cybertron: Siege I.

:The card's artwork is based on the ''[[War for Cybertron: Siege|Siege]]'' Chromia toy, with the Bot Mode artwork being reused from the toy's packaging art, and with original Alt Mode artwork (line-art by [[Dan Khanna]]).
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==Notes==
*Chromia, together with Moonracer and Firestar, hold the distinction of being the first female Transformers to appear in the entire franchise. Chromia is the first of the group to speak!
*"Chromia" is [[Latin language|pseudo-Neo-Latin]] for "chromium". To create "Chromia", the neuter -''um'' suffix of ''chromium'' is exchanged for the feminine -''a''.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Chromia''' (クロミア ''Kuromia'')
*''Hungarian:'' '''Krómia'''
*''Korean:'' '''Chromia''' (크로미아 ''Keuromia'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Chroria''' (克劳莉娅 ''Kèláolìyà'')

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:IDW-Windblade-V1-Chromia-Stone.jpg|2014 IDW robot mode model
File:Combiner Hunters-Chromia-Sara Pitre-Durocher.jpg|2015 IDW robot mode temporary paint job
File:RID27 cvrHAS.jpg|2014 ''Thrilling 30'' packaging art
File:Transformers Legends LG 11.jpg|2015 ''Legends'' packaging art
File:EW-skin-Chromia-CW.jpg|2026 ''Combiner Wars''-themed skin in ''Earth Wars''
</gallery>

==References==
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Chromia (G1)

2026-03-19T13:02:34Z

Vanya: /* War for Cybertron: Siege */

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

[[File:Chromiamodelsheet.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|"At least our animated character models didn't have [[Heel struts|high heels]]."]]
'''Chromia''' is a seasoned, tough-as-nails infiltrator who's adept at unflinching sabotage. Bluntly honest and a little married to her job, she doesn't make an ideal friend, but she can nevertheless be fiercely protective, a quality which also makes her an exceptional bodyguard. Her rough edges often find her a kinship with other like-minded security officers such as [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]]. More diplomatic peers such as [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] have attempted to socialize her, but beware—she might "arrange" an exit out of an overwhelming interpersonal situation with a quietly-placed detonator.

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|? (English); [[Masako Katsuki]] (Japanese)|[[Yu Hong]] (Chinese), [[Esperanza Gracia]] (Spain-Spanish), [[Adalmária Mesquita]] (Brazilian Portuguese), [[Joëlle Fossier]] (European French)}}

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Four million years ago, Chromia tried to board the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]], while it was being attacked, with the rest of [[Elita One (G1)|Elita One]]'s team. The plan failed though, and she and the others appeared to be destroyed.

[[File:TSFAT Chromia vehicle.jpg|left|thumb|Cybertronic soccer mom.]]
Chromia led a mission to steal [[energon cube]]s from [[Shockwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Shockwave]]. When [[Moonracer (G1)|Moonracer]] got trapped after disobeying orders, Chromia sent [[Firestar (G1)|Firestar]] ahead with the energon cubes and confronted the alerted Shockwave. Although she had failed to free Moonracer with [[Female Autobot laser pistol|her pistol]], she did manage to trick Shockwave into freeing Moonracer.

Shortly thereafter, a team of [[Decepticon]]s from [[Earth]] came to capture Elita One. In doing so, [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] destroyed the Female Autobots' underground base, trapping them inside. When they managed to free themselves, Chromia took charge of the search for their missing leader. On their way, they met up with a group of Earth-stationed Autobots who had come looking for [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] and Chromia was reunited with [[Ironhide (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ironhide]]. The two teams together fought the Decepticons, eventually winning when Optimus and Elita returned. Given a new base by [[Alpha Trion]], Chromia stayed with Elita's squad on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] when Optimus' team returned to Earth. {{storylink|The Search for Alpha Trion}}
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====Japanese cartoon continuity====
=====MC Axis comics=====
Chromia and the rest of the team defeated a gigantic Decepticon. Chromia and her compatriots seemed confident that they could retake Cybertron on their own, though Elita One insisted that Optimus Prime was still their last hope to win the war. {{storylink|The Transformers (MC Axis manga)#Elita One|The Transformers: Elita One}}

=====''Legends'' comic=====
[[File:TFLegendsAutobotsHalloweenCostumes.jpg|thumb|Little known fact: Chromia is [[Stampy (BW)|Stampy]]'s great-aunt.]]
[[Tigatron (Legends)|Tigatron]] of the [[Legends World]] had a dream in which Chromia appeared before him and warned him he was in danger, soon followed by all kinds of heroic female Transformers. Sure enough, a group of evil female Transformers then showed up to kidnap Tigatron, but Chromia picked him up and kept him safe during the ensuing battle. {{storylink|LG11 Chromia}}

During [[Halloween]], Alpha Trion summoned the real Chromia into the Legends Universe to help stop [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]]'s latest grab for energy. Dressed up as a bunny girl, she confronted Megatron and his underlings alongside Arcee and [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]], though she was confused and embarrassed as to why it being Halloween meant she had to dress like that. The three were then defeated and tied up by [[Blackarachnia (Legends)|Blackarachnia]], but it turned out the Decepticons hadn't gotten any energy anyway. {{storylink|LG17 Blackarachnia}} Tigatron later had another dream of Chromia in which she explained that her new body was the result of changing armor parts, displayed her new altmode and ability to fly, and traded armors with Arcee. {{Storylink|Transformers Legends: Chromia Chapter|Chromia Chapter}} Chromia later swooned over the [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] from her home universe when he crossed over to the Legends Universe. {{storylink|LG19 Springer}} Chromia and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]] were tied up by [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] during his mission to send all interdimensional visitors to the Legends Universe back to where they came from, though he eventually gave up and allowed them to stay. {{storylink|LG20 Skids}}

While acting as cheerleaders at a soccer game for whatever reason, Chromia and the other girls found themselves being harassed by [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]]. {{storylink|LG29 Wheelie}} After [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] was sold off to the [[Tera-Kura Co.|Decepticon Tera-Kura Co.]], Chromia joined the Decepticon organization so that she could remain with the city-bot. {{storylink|LG31 Fortress Maximus}} As Alpha Trion had done the same, she was near him when he was looking for his [[10.2 ultra-drill|ultra-drill]]. {{storylink|LG33 Highbrow}} As an office worker she wore a snazzy suit, though [[Apeface]] ripped it to pieces while displaying his telekinetic powers. {{storylink|LG38 Laserbeak}} She later started taking [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]'s new commuter service to work, {{storylink|LG40 Astrotrain}} and was exasperated with Alpha Trion when he lost his drill again. {{storylink|LG-43 Trypticon Project Chapter}}

When the Decepticon Headmasters turned on Tera-Kura Co. and came to steal Metroplex's transformation cog, Chromia was defeated by [[Trickdiamond]]'s earthquake powers. {{storylink|LG43 Trypticon Mobilization Chapter: Decepticon Civil War|Decepticon Civil War}} She hung back at the office while the cog was used to rebuild [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]], then cheered Metroplex on when he defeated the beast. {{storylink|LG43 Trypticon}} She was later among those pestered by [[Kickback (G1)|Kickback]] and his clone army. {{storylink|LG47 Kickback}}

As [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]'s obsession with plasma energy threatened the entire Legends World, Chromia and Alpha Trion worked with the [[Jumpstarter]]s to begin opening dimensional portals, evacuating the population. {{storylink|Targetmaster Chapter Finale: Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part Two|Targetmaster Chapter Finale Part Two}} Chromia and her Autobot allies returned to Cybertron of 2039. They faced the [[Powered Master]]s, corrupted and possessed by the spirits of [[Violengiguar]]. {{storylink|The Road to Legends' Revival Chapter 2}} By 2039, peace reigned on Earth and on Cybertron between the Autobots and Decepticons. Metroplex and Trypticon became sister cities on the planet Earth, and Chromia was on hand as a law enforcer, keeping an eye out for the few remaining criminal elements. {{storylink|Transformers Legends Final Chapter "Epiloge"|Epiloge}}

=====''Generations Selects Special Comic''=====
In [[2050]], Chromia and the Autobots supported the [[Selector]]s' revolution on Earth. {{storylink|Volcanicus comic 2}}

=====''Legacy VS500 Collection Special Comic''=====
[[Arcee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Arcee]] and Chromia were present at the [[Speedia 500]] race on [[Velocitron]] in race queen outfits. {{storylink|Velocitron Speedia 500 Part 2}}

====''Wings Universe''====
{{Wingsnote}}

[[File:Battlelines6-femaleautobotsandsideburn.jpg|thumb|left|Welp, got left behind, time for a nap.]]

To gather energy for the energy-sapped Autobots, a crew was formed to pilot the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]''. Chromia was to be part of the crew, but a Decepticon attack blocked her and others from reaching the ship before it departed. Soon after, as their current reserve of energies was dangerously low, Chromia joined her comrades still on the planet in stasis hibernation as an energy-saving measure. {{storylink|Battle Lines, Part 6}}

===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
{{Unreleased DW G1 comic}}

Chromia was a member of an elite squad of five warriors under the command of the [[Quintesson]]s. [[The Route of All Evil|Following a report]] from their Autobot sleeper agent, [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]], that the awaited situation to commence their mission had come, [[Elita One (G1)|Elita One]] used a [[space bridge]] to get to the [[Autobase]] on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Chromia and the others waited patiently for her to signal that they could follow. Chromia joined her commander soon after it came. With only [[Firestar (G1)|Firestar]] still to get through the portal, the group was attacked by [[Gnaw (G1)|Gnaw]], but [[Moonracer (G1)|Moonracer]] and Elita One took care of that. While the rest of the team went further into the Autobot facility, Chromia was sent back to [[Quintessa (planet)|Quintessa]] with an unconscious [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]]. {{storylink|Unreleased Dreamwave issues#Issue 11|Generation 1 #11}}
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===Descent into Evil===
[[File:Chromia-DIE.jpg|upright=0.5|thumb|150px]]
Chromia and her ward [[Flareup (G1)|Flareup]] were part of an Autobot strike force tasked with destroying the [[Decepticon]] general [[Deathsaurus (G1)|Deathsaurus]]' cloning lab on [[Ceti Alpha Seven]]. Although the pair had handily beaten Deathsaurus's [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]] underling [[Buzzclaw (G1)|Buzzclaw]] on [[Regulon Four]] some time previous, they were taken by surprise by the first production run of clones. Although Chromia fought effectively against the clones, she was no match for Deathsaurus himself when he entered the battle personally. Falling before the general's might, she was taken captive.

Chromia, along with her teammates ''and'' the backup team of Ironhide and [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]], was ultimately rescued when [[Ricochet (Timelines)|Ricochet]], who had evaded capture, came to the rescue of the entire Autobot party. {{storylink|Descent into Evil}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
{{first|[[The Dead Are Not Enough: Dark Cybertron Chapter 7|''Robots in Disguise'' #25]]}}

[[File:DarkCybertron7 Chromia.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.6]]
One erroneous account presented Chromia as a Cybertronian, who was among those attended [[Bumper (G1)|Bumper]] and [[Fastback (G1)|Fastback]]'s funeral. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 3|Megatron Origin #3}} However, every other account shows that Chromia was born from the hot spot contained in the [[Titan (group)|Titan]] [[Caminus (Titan)|Caminus]], who founded [[Caminus (planet)|a distant colony in his name]] that was cut off from [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] long before the war and whose citizens retained differentiated genders. Her people's isolation ended with the arrival of [[Thunder Clash|Thunderclash]], who had come seeking help from a [[Cityspeaker]] in order to aid [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]]. The chosen Cityspeaker, [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]], needed a bodyguard, however, and so Chromia (and [[Nautica (G1)|Nautica]]) were enlisted. {{storylink|A 'Bot and Her City|A Bot and Her City}} {{storylink|If I Know You}} The three joined the crew of the ''[[Vis Vitalis]]'' shortly before it crossed paths with [[Alpha Trion]]. The legendary Autobot was preoccupied with an important quest, so the three volunteered to watch after Metroplex for him and keep him alive. {{storylink|Burning Bright: Dark Cybertron Chapter 8|Burning Bright}} Under their watch, Metroplex's insides were besieged with invaders, so Chromia and Nautica hunted them down to confront them and fight them off, if necessary. They found a small group of robots and Chromia threatened to put the hurt down on them. {{storylink|The Dead Are Not Enough: Dark Cybertron Chapter 7|The Dead Are Not Enough}}

Their adversaries turned out to be fellow Autobots from the ''[[Lost Light]]'' who were battling an army of angered [[Ammonite]]s. Chromia and Nautica led them back to their boss, Windblade, who explained their mission, and subsequently the ''Lost Light'' was able to give Metroplex a jump, allowing him to [[space bridge|spacebridge]] back to Cybertron. {{storylink|Burning Bright: Dark Cybertron Chapter 8|Burning Bright}} On arrival, they couldn't do much but hang on tight within Metroplex as the city-bot did battle with the [[Quintessa (IDW)|Necrotitan]]. {{storylink|Finis Temporis: Dark Cybertron Chapter 9|Finis Temporis}} Following Metroplex's victory, Chromia and her pals got to mingle with the locals, including another female Autobot named [[Arcee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Arcee]]. {{storylink|The Becoming: Dark Cybertron Chapter 10|The Becoming}} When [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Shockwave]]'s army of Ammonites invaded Cybertron, the three Camiens returned to Metroplex to convince him to fight the invaders. {{storylink|Black Planet: Dark Cybertron Chapter 11|Black Planet}} Toward the end of the battle, [[Mainframe (G1)|Mainframe]] contacted Chromia to let them to know the ''Lost Light'' was about to ram [[Monstructor (G1)|Monstructor]], though she got frustrated by the vague, dramatic way he phrased it. {{storylink|...And the Damage Done: Dark Cybertron Finale|...And the Damage Done}}

Chromia accompanied Nautica to her audition to join the crew of the ''Lost Light'', helping out by keeping her friend's rambling to a minimum. Chromia and Windblade later attended [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]]'s trial. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 1: Towards Peace|Towards Peace}} The pair went to find cover when a group of Decepticons disrupted proceedings with the intent to rescue the defendant. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 3: Predestination: A Beginner's Guide|Predestination: A Beginner's Guide}}

[[File:BotAndHerCity-nottechnicallydawn.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Face it tiger, you just hit the jackpot.]]
Six months later, Chromia had stayed behind on Cybertron in order to protect and train Windblade as she performed her role as Metroplex's Cityspeaker. She was highly untrusting of Cybertron's elected ruler, [[Starscream (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Starscream]], though Windblade preferred to give him the benefit of the doubt. When Windblade sought advice on how to best interact with Starscream, Chromia scoffed at Windblade's choice of talking to the "mopey" [[Ironhide (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ironhide]], but was visibly upset when Windblade teased her about telling Ironhide she described him as such. Later, Chromia accompanied Windblade as the pair investigated an area of the city that might reveal why Metroplex was suffering blackouts, and at the end of the day Chromia insisted they not over-exert themselves and reconvene in the morning. {{storylink|A 'Bot and Her City}} Chromia planted a bomb near where they'd be, in an attempt to make Windblade return to Caminus. {{storylink|Windblade issue 4|Windblade vol. 1 #4}} In the morning, when she and Windblade returned to the area, the bomb exploded, damaging Windblade. Chromia dragged her to medical care. {{storylink|A 'Bot and Her City}}

[[File:Windblade3-altmodes.jpg|left|thumb|No, it's true, they actually elected Starscream.]]
Chromia was guarding Windblade when Starscream paid her a visit, and afterwards encouraged Windblade to pursue the idea that Starscream was behind the bomb. Enlisting Ironhide's help, they followed up a lead in the form of [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] whom Chromia had to physically tackle when he tried to run. Chromia stayed in [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]]'s bar while Windblade went with Waspinator. After Windblade discovered Starscream was trying to mine ore from Metroplex, Chromia joined a team that went down to investigate. {{storylink|A Long Way Down}} They were attacked by the [[Terrorcon (G1)|Terrorcons]] and Chromia went instinctively to Windblade's aid, eventually managing to avoid being arrested when Starscream and Rattrap arrived. {{storylink|Windblade issue 3|Windblade vol. 1 #3}} She arranged for Metroplex's spacebridge to activate, {{storylink|Windblade issue 4|Windblade vol. 1 #4}} and organized a jail break, successfully springing Windblade and the others. As they headed for Metroplex, Windblade revealed that she believed Starscream wasn't behind the bomb. {{storylink|Windblade issue 3|Windblade vol. 1 #3}}

The pair rushed to Metroplex, where Chromia insisted Windblade merge with the Titan's mind. She fought with Starscream when he arrived, but he managed to injure Windblade and sliced off Chromia's right arm. Windblade, merged with Metroplex, was able to subdue him with the Titan's internal defenses and revealed she'd discovered Chromia was behind the bomb. Though Chromia encouraged Windblade to make Metroplex jump back to Caminus, Windblade instead opted to shut the spacebridge down in favor of making a deal with Starscream. {{storylink|Windblade issue 4|Windblade vol. 1 #4}}

She was among the group present when [[Wheeljack (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Wheeljack]] was brought back online, though she wasn't as enthusiastic about the event when she observed how happy Starscream was. {{storylink|The World of Tomorrow}} Chromia then participated in the violent arrest of the [[Firecon]]s, primary suspects in a series of murders, {{storylink|Quest for Fire}} and was present when they were locked up. {{storylink|The Killing Jar (issue)|The Killing Jar}}

[[File:AllThatRemains-ChromiaHasHadEnough.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4]]
Chromia and Ironhide found Windblade and Optimus Prime being attacked by Decepticons and Chromia managed to stop the fight through sheer force of intimidation. They retired to Metroplex to contemplate the spacebridge, now linked to Caminus. Optimus ordered Chromia and Ironhide to guard the portal; however they were unable to prevent [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] from taking [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] through. {{storylink|First Contact (IDW)|First Contact}} They headed through the portal with Starscream's forces and attacked Menasor. The giant briefly held Chromia in his fist until she broke free. In the end, the battle was decided when [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] joined in. {{storylink|The Sum and Its Parts}} Chromia was taking part in the subsequent cleanup on Caminus when [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] arrived and started smashing more things. As the giant started trying to smash the spacebridge, Chromia rallied those present to fight him until Superion and [[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]] defeated him. {{storylink|Mistakes and Mayhem}} As Starscream returned to Cybertron, Chromia went with him to make sure no one started shooting. She was later back on Caminus when Menasor again went through the spacebridge and started fighting with the combiners already there. {{storylink|You, Me, and the Universe}} As a combiner incorporating Optimus joined the fight, Chromia led a group back through to Cybertron to help prevent the Decepticons there from attacking Caminus. {{storylink|All That Remains}}

[[File:AnUneventfulNight-ChromiaVsArcee.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.66|''Prime'' Arcee vs. G1 Arcee.]]
Windblade and Chromia were returning to Cybertron through the spacebridge while Optimus communicated with [[Arcee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Arcee]] on [[Earth]]. {{storylink|Now and On Earth}} To celebrate the union between Cybertron and Caminus, the Mistress of Flame declared an official holiday that saw Chromia temporarily don some Cityspeaker-style face paint for the occasion. While she was guarding the [[Enigma of Combination]] with a [[Badgeless]], Arcee stole the artifact. Chromia and Windblade pursued her into the [[Rust Sea|Sea of Rust]] where their confrontation was interrupted by the [[Torchbearer]]s. After the Torchbearers were merged into [[Victorion]], the trio fought to survive the giant's onslaught until Windblade managed to talk the giant into separating. Chromia later returned the Enigma and resumed guarding it. {{storylink|An Uneventful Night}}

She and Windblade interceded in a quarrel between visiting Camiens and Decepticons, though Chromia was a little too aggressive with the Decepticons. Windblade left her to finish sorting things out. She later joined Windblade, Ironhide, and Blurr for a trip to [[Velocitron]], where they found themselves in the path of [[Delta]], a city fleeing a wall of fire. {{storylink|Windblade vol. 2 issue 4|Windblade vol. 2 #4}} Chromia managed to encourage Ironhide into safely making it onto the city by staying by his side. She accompanied Windblade and [[Clocker (G1)|Clocker]] to inspect [[Navitas]], the Titan on which the city was built, and stood by as Windblade talked to the Titan directly. {{storylink|Race Against the Light}}

[[File:TheWillOfTheFew-secondchances.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4]]
When Windblade returned disappointed from [[Jungle Planet (colony)|Eukaris]] following the death of [[Chela]], Chromia believed she'd done her best to save the Titan. {{storylink|The Will of the Few}} Following the formation of the [[Council of Worlds]], Starscream declared [[Chosen One Day]], a new holiday. Windblade hugged Chromia and forgave her for past discretions... if only for a night. {{storylink|Choose Me}}

Chromia, Ironhide, and Windblade helped re-secure the spacebridge nexus after a gaggle of Decepticons stormed it. Chromia was present when Optimus Prime used the bridge to go to Earth and annex it in advance of [[Galvatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Galvatron]]'s invasion. {{storylink|Conquerors Part 4: Perihelion|Perihelion}} Shortly after taking this drastic step, Optimus had a nightmare where he saw Windblade and Chromia bowing down before him. {{storylink|All Hail Optimus Part 1: Once Upon a Time on Earth|Once Upon a Time on Earth}} The real Chromia, meanwhile, had gone off to attend an emergency Council meeting to discuss this problem. {{storylink|New Worlds Order}}

[[File:TheLineBetweenUs-ChromiaGoesToJail.jpg|thumb|left|Kinky, but at least buy her dinner first!]]

The uneasy peace on Cybertron was growing increasingly threatened by the distrust of the Badgeless, and compounded by a spree of [[Mnemosurgery|mnemosurgical]] attacks on several Decepticons within Iacon, including a supplier of parts to [[Vigilem|Carcer]]. The Committee moved to have [[Ironhide (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ironhide]] investigate the issue. When the meeting was adjourned, Chromia went off to spar with [[Strika (BM)|Strika]]. {{storylink|07:00:00}} Tensions boiled over after the suspicious death of [[Drunkatron|a disgruntled Decepticon]], and Chromia participated in a Council meeting that saw Ironhide step up as the new head of Cybertronian security. {{storylink|Applicable Skills}}

Shortly after [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]] reawoke, Chromia was walking around in the Decepticon ghetto outside of Metroplex. {{storylink|The Last Autobot}} On learning that Windblade was being forced to help Starscream because he knew of Chromia's actions in bombing Acrolight, Chromia took over decoding security footage related to Swindle's death and discovered the Decepticon's body had been taken by Wheeljack and Rattrap. She visited Wheeljack, only for the pair of them to be taken prisoner by the rest of the Combaticons, who forced Wheeljack to lead them to Swindle's brain-dead body. {{storylink|Things We Said We'd Never Do}} After the Combaticons used the Enigma to merge into [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]], Chromia worked with Windblade to talk the Combaticons down, however Ironhide took matters into his own hands and blasted Bruticus. In the aftermath, Chromia coopted [[Circuit (G1)|Circuit]]'s broadcast to make a public confession of her actions in Acrolight, and was arrested by Ironhide. {{storylink|The Line Between Us}}

[[File:Rubicon ChromiaHoldsWindblade.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|right|Please just this once... stay...]]
Chromia being in prison was later one of the factors Windblade mentioned that had demoralized her. {{storylink|Ping}} When a fleet of undead Titans arrived to destroy Cybertron (as they do), Chromia was marched onto a prison ship when Starscream gave the evacuation order. She broke the prison line to speak to Ironhide about Metroplex being felled and urged him to help Windblade who was doubtlessly with the Titan. Ironhide said Windblade was at the [[Spire]] (and he was right) and there was no need to worry but Chromia was convinced that without Ironhide, Windblade would do something stupid (she was also right). {{storylink|Desperate Times}}

Said stupid thing turned out to be releasing [[Vigilem|Carcer]]. When the evil Titan made planetfall, Chromia rushed back to Ironhide to try and find Windblade, only for the irritable warden to grab her and stuff her in a prison cell to be killed by the undead. However, Metroplex managed to release her and direct her to Windblade's location with Carcer so she could free her friend. Chromia rushed to the Titan and scaled up his body, breaching his body and arriving at his [[brain module]] just as [[Elita One (G1)|Elita One]] had blown it into chunks, seemingly killing Windblade. {{storylink|Rubicon}}

Chromia was subsequently put back into prison and set to be tried for crimes against Cybertron. The [[Mistress of Flame]] attempted to get Starscream to turn Chromia over to her but when Starscream refused, she demanded Swindle and Menasor in exchange. The ghost of Bumblebee urged Starscream to hand over Chromia. Starscream instead opted to free Chromia and turn her into a hit-bot to hunt down and kill [[Liege Maximo]], offering her a pardon in exchange, as well as saying he'd lost his own chance to be better, telling Chromia not to waste hers. {{storylink|Heavy}} Starscream and [[Obsidian (BM)|Obsidian]] provided Chromia with the ''[[Sabre]]'', with [[Greenlight]] and [[Lancer]] as her crew, while the Camien herself recorded a goodbye message for Windblade, encouraging her friend to stay strong while she was away. {{storylink|The Chosen One}}

[[File:StrangerEons CaptainChromia.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1]]
Shortly after setting out, however, the crew ran afoul of the [[Maximal]]s. Though they managed to triumph over their foes, the Maximals had damaged the ''Sabre''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s long-range communication, leaving them unable to contact [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. {{storylink|Stranger Eons}} When Liege Maximo returned to Cybertron as a prisoner of [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Onyx Prime]], Windblade asked whether the bestial Prime had encountered Chromia or her team. Onyx chose to ignore the question and grill [[Soundwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Soundwave]] instead. {{storylink|The Falling, Chapter 2: Another Mine|Another Mine}}

When the ''Sabre'' finally repaired its communications, the crew had caught up with the [[Decepticon Vengeance Division]] facing off against [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]] in [[G Nebula 89]]. Calling Cybertron, Chromia was quickly caught up on the recent political changes before she reported that, despite their incredible firepower, the Decepticons were failing to damage the Chaos Bringer. Unicron unleashing the Maximals on the Decepticons was enough incentive for Chromia to order a quantum jump back to Cybertron. {{storylink|Stranger Eons}}

The ''Sabre'' arrived back home to find Unicron had beaten them there and assumed a robot mode to attack the planet while having warped the DVD into his service. Acting as a battlefield coordinator, Chromia tried to deter Elita One from charging head-on to no success, the Carcerian confident in her plan. {{storylink|Our Finest}} As the [[Autobot fleet]] fell and Unicron began physically tearing into Cybertron, Windblade called upon the [[Spectral Knight]]s to use their [[magic]] to teleport Cybertron's populace to safety. Noticing this, Unicron returned his attention to the fleet, preventing them from reaching the magic before Elita One defiantly slammed Carcer into Unicron's face, distracting him just long enough for the magical ribbon to reach the fleet and teleport them to Earth. {{storylink|Road's End}}

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Safe on the organic world, Chromia reunited with Windblade before Prowl arrived with information on Unicron's origins and inner workings. As part of the do-or-die attack on Unicron, Chromia joined in the diversionary attack on the DVD. {{storylink|Assembly (Unicron)|Assembly}} When Optimus Prime had successfully used the [[Talisman (G1)|Talisman]] to collapse Unicron, Chromia pulled [[Centurion (IDW)|Centurion]] out of [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]'s burning corpse before Metroplex space bridged everyone back to Earth. {{storylink|Ceremony}} Chromia was one of the mourners present at Optimus's funeral, {{storylink|Post}} before she invited [[Nautica (G1)|Nautica]] and [[Velocity (G1)|Velocity]] to Earth so they could catch up. {{storylink|How To Say Goodbye And Mean It: Part 2}}

===''Kre-O'' cartoon===
[[Chromia's Pizza]] featured a picture of Chromia on the box. A box of this pizza sat on the floor near [[Megatron (Kre-O)|Megatron]] as he watched [[television]]. {{Storylink|Megatron's Revenge}}

===Legends World===
[[Tigatron (Legends)|Tigatron]] owned the [[#Legends|''Legends'' Chromia toy]], and it inspired [[#Legends comic|a dream]] he had. {{storylink|LG11 Chromia}}

===''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' continuity===
====''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' marketing material====
[[File:Siege-Chromia-art.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.6]]
Chromia was a [[Cybertronian military insignia|Ground Command Special Ops Sergeant]], whose function was Counter Intelligence. {{storylink|War for Cybertron: Siege|''Siege'' webpage}}<ref name=Siege>[https://transformers.hasbro.com/en-us/brands/siege ''Siege'' website]</ref> During the war for Cybertron Chromia was dispatched to locate a possible Autobot escape site located in the largest spaceport on Cybertron, the [[Hydrax Plateau]]. Anything else that may have been given to her as part of her mission's specifications, were classified. {{storylink|Source:Teletraan-1 Data Files|''Siege'' Teletraan-1 Data Files}}

====''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Georgia Reed]] (English), [[Masami Katsuyama]] (Japanese)|[[Amanda Manso]] (Portuguese), [[Christèle Billault]] (French), [[Cornelia Waibel]] (German), [[Margot Lago]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Rommy Mendoza]] (Latin-American Spanish)}}

Before the war, Chromia lived on [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]]. Chromia was present when [[Elita One (G1)|Elita-1]], [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] returned from their mission. {{storylink|Siege episode 1}} Chromia was sent to the fake coordinates of the [[AllSpark]], which turned out to be a Decepticon ambush. Chromia dragged [[Cog (G1)|Cog]] to safety after he was shot in the chest, then rode on the back of Optimus with the injured Cog when they retreated from the battle. {{storylink|Siege episode 2}} After [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]]'s attempted holographic infiltration of a Decepticon squad failed, Chromia provided cover fire for him and helped defeat their foes. {{storylink|Siege episode 3}}

[[File:WFC-Siege-Ep5-Chromia-snipes-Seeker.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|First she [[Chromia (G1)#Timelines|took Moonracer's body]], now she's taking her skillset.]]
Chromia was part of the group sent to fix the [[space bridge]]. She served as lookout duty and managed to snipe three [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]] that attacked the group. {{storylink|Siege episode 4}} Chromia continued to guard the bridge as Mirage cast a large hologram to hide it from further Decepticon discovery. {{storylink|Siege episode 5}} Once Mirage's hologram finally failed, Chromia had to exchange fire with more Seekers. She tried to hold the Autobots' position beside the activated space bridge. Chromia was blasted trying to provide coverage for Optimus Prime as he boarded the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' and ultimately left behind on Cybertron after the ship launched through the space bridge. She placed herself under Elita-1's command to continue the resistance on Cybertron. {{storylink|Siege episode 6}}

Chromia was part of an Autobot force to help free Decepticon prisoners and successfully liberated them. Elita-1 asked her to prep for another mission to raid a Decepticon prison-camp in the [[Kaon (polity)|Kaon]] arena. The group performed reconnaissance on the next camp and suspected it might be a trap. Chromia sniped the few guards who were on duty and shot a Decepticon who was attacking Elita-1. [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] soon sprung the trap and the Decepticons managed to capture Chromia's group. They were brought before [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], who showed the Autobots a demonstration of Project ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]''. {{storylink|Earthrise episode 1}}

Placed in the detention cells, the Autobots tried to work out what Project Nemesis entailed. The group was soon brought before Megatron again and placed in tubes to have their sparks drained. As the machinery was activating, it was shut off just as quickly and the group was rescued by [[Scrapface]], who helped them escape. Chromia knocked out a willing [[Flywheels|Skytread]], who had his own doubts about Megatron's methods and let them leave. {{storylink|Earthrise episode 2}} Chromia and the others trekked back to Autobot camp with Scrapface's Decepticons, trying to avoid further detection by Seeker patrols. The group observed [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]'s message that recalled all Decepticons to Kaon with false promises of protection. Chromia pledged her support to return and stop the Decepticons' plans once and for all. {{storylink|Earthrise episode 3}}

[[File:EarthriseEp6 ChromiaSnipes.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.5|[[:File:Oneshottwokills.jpg|Thanks for the help]].]]
Within the [[Dead Universe]], Optimus Prime suffered a nightmarish vision that showed Chromia and other Autobots lying dead at Megatron's hands. {{storylink|Earthrise episode 5}}

Back on Cybertron, Elita-1's group returned to the Kaon arena, only to find it largely deserted. They began laying timed explosive charges to demolish the place, but Chromia was suddenly shot in the chest from out of nowhere and dropped to the ground. Decepticons utilizing stealth camouflage appeared and took the others prisoner, leaving Chromia for dead. She managed to get back up and snipe all the attackers, including Skytread, who tried to beg for mercy. Chromia and the others then tried to flee the area before the charges detonated, but couldn't get far enough and died in the massive explosion. {{storylink|Earthrise episode 6}}

When the AllSpark was returned to the [[Temple of the Allspark]] on Cybertron by Bumblebee, Chromia was among the Transformer spirits who witnessed Elita-1 banish [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] and [[Nemesis Prime (G1)|Nemesis Prime]]. Chromia and the other deceased Transformers' sparks then rejoined the AllSpark, which restored Cybertron's vitality. {{storylink|Kingdom episode 6}}
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===2019 IDW continuity===
{{first|[[The World In Your Eyes Part Two|''Transformers'' #2]]}}

[[File:TheWorldInYourEyesPart4-Chromia.jpg|thumb]]

Chromia was the head of [[Security Operations]], a position she attained at least partly due to Prowl's unsociability. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part Two}} After [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] returned from [[Probat (planet)|Probat]] with no energon and a comatose [[Deathsaurus (G1)|Deathsaurus]], Chromia briefly questioned the minibot but eventually let him go. {{storylink|Wannabee, Part 2}}

Along with Prowl, Chromia was called to [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]]'s [[energon transmission station]] when the scientist was found to have been murdered. After getting statements from Windblade and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], Chromia asked [[Rubble]], a newborn, to not consider the murder indicative of Cybertronian society. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part Two}}

After [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] created the [[Ascenticon Guard]], with the notable inclusion of [[Quake (G1)|Quake]], Chromia briefed [[Senate|Senator]] [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Orion Pax]] on the actions of [[The Rise]] before [[Froid]] stole the Senator away for a private word. Chromia later made her way to Rubble's apartment, along with [[Geomotus]], so she could borrow Windblade. Before leaving, Chromia linked her and Prowl's communicators' to Rubble's but, much to Windblade's disapproval, added a tracer, albeit an inactive one in the code. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part Three}}

[[File:TheWorldInYourEyesPart4-Chromiaaltmode.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Attempted vehicular manslaughter ''is the'' true Autobot way.]]

As the trio made their way back into the wilderness, Windblade and Chromia compared stories about Brainstorm, trying to find something nice to say, before they ran across [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]]. Though the veteran initially tried to avoid their questions, he revealed that he'd seen a blue Cybertronian near the transmission station on the night of the murder. Unsatisfied, Chromia gave him one cycle to present himself to [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] for further questioning. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part Four}} As she drove back into Iacon, Chromia was hailed by [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] who revealed that, while several high ranking Rise members had gone into hiding, a total of ''two hundred'' Cybertronians had mysteriously dropped off the grid since the night of the murder. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part Five}}

Tragedy soon struck again when Rubble was found dead in the [[Xeno-Quarter]] along with the missing [[Voin]] scavenger. Chromia largely kept to herself in the autopsy only speaking up to have [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] recite his analysis of Rubble's corpse. After seeing off [[Greenlight]], Chromia assured Prowl that Rubble's death was not his fault. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part One}}

[[File:TheCracksBeneathYourFeetPart3-Chromiavssixshot.jpg|thumb|250px]]

Alongside Prowl, Chromia was questioning Froid about Quake's psychology before Cyclonus crashed into the interrogation room, telling Chromia that he'd found the missing people beneath the [[Memorial Crater]], hoarding an armory's worth of weapons. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Two}}

Breaking open their own armory, Chromia led [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] and Windblade to the base, entering with the latter only to find that the place had been picked clean. As Chromia tried to salvage data from an [[energon station]], she was attacked by [[Sixshot (G1)|Sixshot]]. Though proving nimble enough to evade the hexa-changer, Chromia failed to detain him. She returned to the surface in time to see the base detonate, Windblade's broken body being spat out of the explosion. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Three}}

After [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]] had returned to Cybertron, Chromia briefed the [[Prime (rank)|Prime]] on what he'd missed before she passed her confirmed list of Risers onto Orion. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Five}} While visiting Windblade in the hospital, Chromia was called away to a stand-off in the [[Cybertronian Mountains]]. Before she left, [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] suggested that [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] had been Brainstorm's killer. {{storylink|The Change In Your Nature Part One}}

[[File:TheChangeInYourNaturePart2-Flak.jpg|thumb|left|300px]]

Meeting up with [[Springer (G1)|Springer]], Chromia attempted negotiation before [[Javelin]] was shot in the head. Ordering her troops into action, Chromia failed to smoke out the terrorists before the [[Ascenticon Guard]] arrived, Senator [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] entering the immersant [[Titan (group)|Titan]] to conduct negotiations personally. Shortly after Soundwave returned, the Titan's corpse violently exploded. {{storylink|The Change In Your Nature Part Two}} Managing to capture two of [[Ruckus (G1)|Ruckus]]'s cell, albeit in stasis, Chromia checked in with Orion and Bumblebee, revealing their suspicions to the yellow bot that Quake had killed Rubble, before she and Orion came before Sentinel. In light of their findings, Sentinel agreed to bend the Nominus Edict but also made several other changes to their operating procedures, diverting some of Chromia's authority in Security Operations to Colonial Security. {{storylink|The Change In Your Nature Part Three}}

[[File:AllFallDown-Chromia.jpg|thumb|200px|She is the LAW!]]

Soon afterwards, disaster struck when the Rise caused the [[Tether]] to collapse, the space elevator devastating Iacon. In the midst of all this, Chromia received a distress call from Bumblebee, who'd begun to fear for his life among the Guard, and arrived in time to save him from [[Treadshot (G1)|Treadshot]] and [[Catgut]]. After confirming Bumblebee's suspicions, Chromia relieved him of his mission and thanked him for his services. {{storylink|Rise of the Decepticons: All Fall Down|All Fall Down}} Despite Bumblebee's report, hundreds of Ascenticons began to blockade the faction's headquarters, leaving Chromia and Sec-Ops unable to reach or interview Soundwave. {{storylink|Rise of the Decepticons: Swindle's|Swindle's}} Chromia reported her failed attempts to Orion Pax, but remained confident her people had gathered enough evidence to pursue the Ascenticons for crimes in a court of law. {{storylink|Rise of the Decepticons: Tremors|Tremors}}

She was wrong. Or, rather, her efforts were moot as Megatron and Soundwave led a full uprising against the elected government, capturing the Senate building and the senators inside, including Sentinel Prime and Orion Pax. Chromia joined with Ironhide, Hound, and Novastar to plan taking back their people and their government. Chromia accompanied Ironhide and the Senate Guard as they drilled into the Senate building's under-passages. Ironhide freed the rest of his Guard to retake the building, while Chromia found Orion and Sentinel to take them to safety. Once they exited the tunnels, however, the infuriated Sentinel Prime took off ahead of his escorts towards their south tower base. The First Senator intended to address his people as soon as possible about the uprising, but Chromia had no air support to provide protection for Sentinel's vehicle mode. He was intercepted by the [[Rainmaker]]s and mortally wounded before Chromia and Orion Pax caught up with him. Before the optics of Chromia and the Guard, Sentinel Prime died and the Matrix emerged from his chest, bonding with Orion Pax. After receiving a vision from the Allspark, Pax stepped up to become what times required of him, declaring himself Optimus Prime. {{storylink|War World: Prime|Prime}}

[[File:DarknessOnceGazedUponPart2 ChromiaKick.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.8|Chromia Van Damme]]
At Optimus Prime's direction, Chromia arranged for the release of [[Pyra Magna (G1)|Pyra Magna]], one of the [[Great General]]s of the [[War of the Threefold Spark]] who had been imprisoned ever since she continued fighting after the amnesty. It was a risky maneuver to gain credibility for the Autobots' opposition to the Decepticons, assuming Pyra Magna and her [[Companion]]s agreed with their cause. {{storylink|War World: Awakenings|Awakenings}} The street-fighting in Iacon continued until it became necessary to abandon the capital. Chromia lent security to a procession leading the Autobots away from Iacon to seek refuge in [[Crystal City]]. {{storylink|War World: We Are Not Meant To Be Darkness|We Are Not Meant To Be Darkness}} Those opposing Megatron united under the Autobot faction. Even Chromia and previous unaligned Security Operations personnel underwent the Autobranding ceremony as a symbol of their cause's unity. {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Sea of Rust I|Sea of Rust I}}

When Ultra Magnus was captured and brought back to Iacon, Chromia assembled a small unit to bring him back. Her knowledge of the city as head of Security Operations was combined with Smokescreen's criminal contact Swindle to secure them an escape route. At the former Senate, they found Magnus imprisoned along with other political prisoners, Senators who refused to recognize Megatron's rule. {{storylink|Darkness, Once Gazed Upon: Part Two}} Back at Swindle's, their escape brought heat down on the bar owner as Sixshot's Decepticons pursued Ultra Magnus. Chromia's team managed to escape through the underground tunnels, but they knew it was only a matter of time before the Decepticons followed them to Crystal City. {{storylink|Darkness, Once Gazed Upon: Part Three}}

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As the siege of Crystal City began, Chromia coordinated their defenses with [[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]] and [[Firestar (G1)|Novastar]]. The Autobots had all retreated back to a fortified bunker when the tide turned. The last Titan, [[Lodestar (Titan)|Lodestar]], had come home. {{storylink|A Dust of Crystals}} With a new combiner and a Titan as leverage, Optimus Prime negotiated a truce with Megatron. The Autobots gathered in a procession to make their way to [[Darkmount (Cybertron)|Darkmount]] and use the last ''Ark'' to leave Cybertron behind, in Decepticon hands. Megatron still wanted his enemies dead, and orchestrated an artillery bombardment to trap the Autobots between his firepower and the approaching [[rust worm]]s. Chromia tried to find a path beyond the bombardment, only to be blocked by the Seekers. {{storylink|Radical Time}} Unable to break their lines without more death, Chromia retreated back to Optimus and the main contingent. Fortunately, a plan was enacted that pitted the [[Insecticon clone]] horde against the rust worms, dealing with both threats. {{storylink|End of Time}} The truce collapsed, and a final battle was held at Darkmount until Chromia and the Autobots finally escaped the occupied planet, but not before pledging to return. {{storylink|Transformers: Fate of Cybertron|Fate of Cybertron}}

===''Transformers Go! Go!''===
{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Go! Go! issue 44}} {{storylink|The Transformers Gather on the Snowy Mountain!|Search Quiz 2}}}}

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==Games==
===''Transformers Legends''===
[[File:TFLegends-Chromia.jpg|thumb|Huh! Vehicle kibble!]]
Chromia was part of [[Elita One (G1)|Elita 1]]'s team which carried out a series of raids on Decepticon installations, until they were taken down in a trap planned by [[Flamewar (G1)|Flamewar]]. {{storylink|Fatal Furies}}

Chromia was dispatched by Elita One in response to Flamewar's squad's retaliatory attacks on a number of Autobot bases. {{storylink|Fatal Furies: Flamewar's Revenge}}

===''Angry Birds Transformers''===
{{main|Stella (AB)#As Chromia}}
Chromia appears as a character unlockable in Challenge Events. She is portrayed by Stella and is a blue and red redeco of Arcee. {{storylink|Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers}}
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===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
[[File:Battle-Tactics-Chromia.jpg|thumb]]
Chromia participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of her! She was a Super Rare character who could be recruited by collecting 250 units of Cybermetal, 75 units of Transmetal, and 10 cores of this character. {{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}
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===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
[[File:EW-Chromia.jpg|thumb|300px]]
Chromia arrived on Earth at the same time as [[Hellbat (G1)|Fellbat]]. {{storylink|Slumbering Giants}}
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===''Transformers: Heavy Metal''===
[[File:TFHeavyMetal Chromia.jpg|thumb]]
Chromia was [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]]'s bodyguard and a security and intel expert. As part of the [[Guardian Program]], she insisted on being paired with humans as a security check before they met Windblade. Though confused by earthling communications, especially emojis, she worked on learning to master it. {{storylink|Transformers: Heavy Metal}}

===''Transformers Roleplaying Game''===
Chromia was an Autobot security officer who specialized in sabotage and infiltration. Although she kept herself at arm's length from many of her fellow Autobots, she was fiercely protective of her comrades. {{storylink|Transformers Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook|Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook}}
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===''Transformers: Forged to Fight''===
[[File:FtF-Chromia-files.jpg|thumb|right]]
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==Toys==
===''Timelines''===
[[File:TL-toy Chromia.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|That's no Moon(racer)!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{bp-a1d1|'''Descent into Evil''' (Box set, 2005)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': Launcher, missile, scope, 2 tailpipes, energon chip

: ''[[Transformers Timelines (toyline)|Timelines]]'' Chromia is a [[redeco]] and new-head [[retool]] of ''[[Transformers: Energon (toyline)|Energon]]'' Energon Class [[Arcee (Energon)#Toys|Arcee]], transforming into a Cybertronic racing motorcycle. She has multiple clear-plastic "[[energon]]" parts that form side-thrusters in bike mode, and combine to form a massive compound bow with a spring-loaded missile. She also comes with an [[energon star]] that can attach to the [[spark crystal]] of any ''Energon''-series mold.

: The toy was originally intended to be [[Moonracer (G1)|Moonracer]], but [[Fun Publications]] could not secure the [[trademark]] on the name. As such, Chromia's toy is in Moonracer's teal and white colors and has a head that resembles Moonracer's. (Fun Publications' intent was for the head to be a compromise between the Moonracer and Firestar head designs.)<ref>[http://groups.google.com/group/alt.toys.transformers/msg/e39fbfb4b4bd2b3a alt.toys.transformers post] by [[Lanny Lathem]] explaining the Moonracer/Chromia SNAFU.</ref><ref>[http://www.bwtf.com/toyreviews/timelines/descent/chromia Chromia toy notes at BWTF.com]</ref> Later Fun Publications stories would [[repurposing|repurpose]] the Chromia toy as Moonracer.

: She was only available as part of [[BotCon 2005]]'s "Descent into Evil" set, packed in with [[Buzzclaw (G1)#Toys|Buzzclaw]], [[Deathsaurus (G1)#Timelines 2|Deathsaurus]], [[Dirge (Timelines)#Toys|Dirge]], [[Outback (G1)#Timelines|Fallback]], [[Ironhide (G1)/toys#Timelines|Ironhide]], and [[Ricochet (Timelines)#Toys|Ricochet]].

: Her base mold was also used to make [[Flamewar (G1)#Toys|Flamewar]] and the [[Transformers (2007 toyline)|live-action movieverse]] [[Arcee (Movie)#Toys|Arcee]] and [[Elita-One (Movie)#Toys|Elita-One]], while the Chromia-retooled version was used to make [[Flareup (G1)#Toys|Flareup]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2005/Autobot/BCChromia/chromia.htm More information on Chromia at TFU.info]''
::*''[http://www.transformersclub.com/chromiapreview.cfm Chromia at TransformersClub.com]''
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===''Generations''===
[[File:Gen-toy Chromia.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.66|STILL the fastest thing on the Grid.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{bp-a1|'''Chromia''' (Deluxe Class, 2014)}}</ul>
:*''Series / Number'': '''02 / #022'''
:*''Accessories'': Rifle

: Released in the eleventh and final wave of ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)#Thrilling 30 (2013-2014)|Generations: Thrilling 30]]'' Deluxes, Chromia is a heavy [[retool]]ing of ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)#Robots in Disguise|Prime: Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Arcee (WFC)#Robots in Disguise|Arcee]], transforming into a Cybertronian motorbike. Her blaster weapon can be mounted on the bottom of her bike mode.

: Due to the nature of her transformation, Chromia's paint is extremely prone to chipping, especially the white paint on her head. Caution and care is recommended when transforming her to avoid damaging her paint.

: Originally scheduled for March 2014 along with [[Arcee (G1)/toys#Generations|Arcee]], Chromia was delayed to fall of that year and ultimately not released until December.

: Hasbro's original stock photo for the figure depicting a hand-painted prototype (which is also featured on the back of the toy's packaging) showed her holding one of her [[wave]]-mate Arcee's guns along with her own. This was most certainly due to a mix-up error; the weapon's design, especially the size and shape of its handle and additional pegs (which are identical to those of Arcee's other weapon), make it very obvious that it was always intended to go with Arcee rather than Chromia. A different version of the stock photo was released in November 2014 on the official ''Transformers'' Facebook page, with the extra gun edited out; compare and contrast the two stock photos [[:File:Generations Chromia stock photo edited.jpg|here]]. Some specimens of Chromia also feature a sticker on the back of the packaging that says "Additional weapon not included."

: The original version of this sculpt was also used to make [[BotCon 2014]] [[Flareup (G1)#BotCon2014|Flareup]], and was ''differently'' retooled to make ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)|Prime: Beast Hunters]]'' [[Arcee (WFC)#Beast Hunters|Arcee]]. This version of the mold served as the model for the non-toy ''[[Beast Wars: Uprising]]'' version of [[Blackarachnia (BW)#Beast Wars: Uprising|Blackarachnia]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2014/Autobot/GenChromia/chromia.htm More information on ''Generations'' Chromia at TFU.info]''
{{PrimeRIDArceeMold}}
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===''Legends''===
[[File:Legends-toy Chromia.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{bp-a1|'''Chromia''' (Deluxe, 2015)}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''LG11'''
:*''Release date'': [[February 14]], 2015
:*''Accessories'': Gun

: Released in the fifth wave of [[TakaraTomy]]'s ''[[Transformers Legends (franchise)|Legends]]'' toyline, Chromia is a redeco of ''Thrilling 30'' Deluxe Class Chromia, making use of lavender and white in place of sky blue in a bid to appear more cartoon-accurate. Her wheels feature more black and much of her bike kibble is coated in metallic blue paint, including the back half of her canopy, which is now cast in translucent blue. Her eyes are also painted blue.

: Chromia comes with a leaflet featuring a character profile, tech specs, and the mini-manga ''[[Transformers Legends (comic)|Legends]]'' [[LG11 Chromia]].
{{PrimeRIDArceeMold}}
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===''Combiner Wars''===
{{anchor|CHunters}}
[[File:Transformers-SDCC-Combiner-Hunters-Chromia.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|right|This is how Chromia auditions for a new ''Final Fantasy'' game.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{bp-a1|'''Combiner Hunters''' (Multi-pack, 2015)}}</ul>
:*''Release date'': [[July 9]], 2015
:*''Accessories'': Gun, "Primeon Blade" sword

: The ''Combiner Hunters'' [[redeco]] of ''Thrilling 30'' Chromia not only has many of her coloring details changed to represent her attendance to the Camien religious ceremony, but in fact mostly stands out for its new accessory: a huge [[Primeon Blade]] sword. The tooling for this weapon was originally used for the 16"-tall electronic version of ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 toyline)|Robots in Disguise]]'' ''[[Titan Heroes]]'' [[Optimus Prime (WFC)/toys#ETitan|Optimus Prime]].

: This version of Chromia was only available in a ''[[Combiner Wars (toyline)|Combiner Wars]]'' [[giftset|gift set]] together with ''Combiner Hunters'' redecoes of ''Generations'' [[Arcee (G1)/toys#Combiner Wars|Arcee]] and [[Windblade (G1)#Combiner Wars|Windblade]], each with their own giant new melee weapons. In the U.S., this set was [[exclusive]] to the [[Hasbro Toy Shop]] website and the Hasbro Toy Shop booth at [[San Diego Comic-Con]] 2015. In Asia, it was also available at Animation-Comic-Game Hong Kong 2015 and subsequently stocked by Toys"R"Us Hong Kong. Later, it was also available at The Falcon's Hangar booth at Singapore Toy, Game & Comic Convention 2015.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2015/Autobot/SDCCChromia/chromia.htm More information on Combiner Hunter Chromia at TFU.info]''
{{PrimeRIDArceeMold}}
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===''War for Cybertron: Siege''===
[[File:War-for-Cybertron-Siege-Deluxe-Chromia.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"I'm in the same wave as Ironhide?!"]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{bp-a1|'''Chromia''' (Deluxe Class, [[2019]])}}</ul>
:*''Hasbro ID number'': '''WFC-S20'''
:*''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''SG-22'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[May 31]], 2019
:*''Hidden message code'': '''SIIEXXXIITSFAT'''
:*''Accessories'': "RT-5 Anti-thermo Blaster," "SR Hushfuze," and 2 "EMP-Grenades"
{{toydesigner|[[Aaron Gray]] (Hasbro)|[[AJ Piejko-Brown]] (packaging)}}

: Part of the second wave of the ''[[War for Cybertron: Siege|Siege]]'' Deluxe Class figures, Chromia transforms into a Cybertronian car, based on her original Sunbow animation model. She includes the "RT-5 Anti-thermo Blaster," a gun compatible with the [[C.O.M.B.A.T. System]]. Two "EMP-Grenades" can connect to the barrel, and the "SR Hushfuze" scope can be detached and can extend the barrel as well, allowing you to change the length of the barrel and/or scope. The grenades can also attach to the back of the vehicle, as if they are big exhaust pipes. As with all non-gimmick ''Siege'' figures, Chromia features "battle damage" paint applications on her vehicle mode front. She also features multiple hardpoints all over herself and her weapon to accommodate "Fire Blasts" from the [[Battle Master]]s assortment, which can be used to simulate blaster fire or explosions.

: Chromia is a heavy retool of ''[[Power of the Primes (toyline)|Power of the Primes]]'' [[Moonracer (G1)|Moonracer]] mold, the mold is ''mostly'' unique, save for the wheels, thighs and hip [[ball joint]] sockets.

: In a rather amusing design flaw, moving both her hips together at an angle may pop off her crotch piece.

: The final figure differs quite a bit from the initial promotional renders. Her shoulders are pale blue, her ankles, scope, and backpack hinges are the deeper shade of blue, her entire collar and toes are painted pale blue, and there are minor molding differences on her helmet. Namely, the red part is ''much'' thinner and the dark blue part is taller and less rounded. Additionally, her blaster and scope feature pale blue and red paint applications not present on the final figure. Half of the official promotion pictures have the backpack wheels folded back in robot mode, and the head not visible on the back of the vehicle, the other half of the official promotional images have the backpack wheels splayed out to the sides and the robot head visible on the back of the vehicle. Strangely, some of these photos also (poorly) paint out the red on her collar for no apparent reason.

: She is infamous for shelfwarming in multiple markets, and could still be found in plentiful numbers after the [[War for Cybertron: Earthrise|next toyline]] began.

: This mold was redecoed into ''[[War for Cybertron Trilogy (toyline)#Netflix|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]'' Chromia (below), retooled into ''[[Generations Selects (toyline)|Generations Selects]]'' [[Nightbird (G1)#Generations Selects|Nightbird]], and retooled again to make [[Kaskade#Toys|Ascenticon Kaskade]]. This toy also served as the model for [[Moonracer (G1)#War for Cybertron Trilogy cartoon|Moonracer]] in the ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]'' cartoon.

::*''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAeN5YVhGqU Official conversion video at the TRANSFORMERS OFFICIAL YouTube channel]''
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===''War for Cybertron Trilogy''===
[[File:WFCNetflixtoy-Autobot Chromia.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Now covered in crap.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{bp-a1|'''Chromia''' (Deluxe Class, 2020)}}</ul>
:*''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''WFC-03'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[October 23]], 2020
:*''Accessories:'' "RT-5 Anti-thermo Blaster," "SR Hushfuze," and 2 "EMP-Grenades"

: Promoting the ''Siege'' season of the [[Netflix]]-exclusive [[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon]], this redeco of ''Siege'' Chromia slathers the Autobot in an ''extensive'' paint wash coating to represent accumulated grime and battle scars. Unlike the other ''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' toys, the battle-worn deco is not accurate to the cartoon.

: This toy also included a portion of a cardstock background of [[Teletraan I#War for Cybertron Trilogy|Teletraan I]]. Chromia's part has tabs D and L, and slot E.

: This release was [[exclusive]] to [[Walmart]] in the U.S. and Canada, and in Japan as a [[TakaraTomy Mall]] exclusive.
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===''Legacy''===
[[File:LegacyChromia.jpeg|thumb|upright=1.66|]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Cyberverse Universe Chromia''' (Deluxe Class, [[2024]])}}</ul>
:*''TakaraTomy name'': '''Chromia''' (クロミア)
:*''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''TL-72'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[2024]] [[September 28]]
:*''Accessories'': 2 Bladed Mecha Stars
{{toydesigner|[[Sam Smith]] and [[Mark Maher]] (Hasbro), [[Takashi Kunihiro]] (TakaraTomy)|[[Matthew Cohen]] (photography)}}<ref>[[March 21]], 2024's [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPkQZZ4zasE Hasbro Pulse | Transformers 40th Anniversary Fanstream | March 21, 2024] on YouTube, with [[Ben MacCrae]], [[Mark Maher]] and [[Evan Brooks]].</ref>
{{note|''Legacy'' [[Chromia (Cyberverse)#Legacy|Cyberverse Universe Chromia]] was [[Repurposing|repurposed]] as Generation 1 Chromia in ''[[Transformers Go! Go!]]'' [[Go! Go! issue 44|Issue #44]].}}

: Released in the second wave of ''[[Transformers: Legacy|Legacy: United]]'' Deluxe Class toys, "Cyberverse Universe Chromia" is a new-head retool of ''[[Transformers: Legacy|Legacy: Evolution]]'' [[Prowl (Animated)#Legacy|Animated Universe Prowl]] (making her look much closer to her canceled [[:File:TFHeavyMetal Chromia.jpg|Heavy Metal design]]), and transforms into a motorcycle in 20 steps. She comes with two Mecha Stars which can be stored in her motorcycle wheels, and deployed by twisting the blade housing. Both hands are sculpted to hold the stars by their blades, while her right hand can additionally hold [[5 mm post|5 mm accessories]]. Like Prowl, Chromia has a twin speedometer molded into the back of her head, present in vehicle mode.

:Chromia shares the same design problem with Prowl; her right hand ''cannot'' securely hold one of the Bladed Mecha Stars. Because of this, one of [[TakaraTomy]]'s [[Media:TakaraTomy stock Unite CBV Chromia glue tack.jpg|stock photos]] had a slightly visible adhesive tack when the figure was holding the weapon.

: Official Hasbro promotional photography by [[Matthew Cohen]] shows Chromia performing the iconic "motorcycle slide" from the [[Japan]]ese animated film ''{{w|Akira (1988 film)|Akira}}''.
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==Merchandise==
===''Tiny Titans''===
[[File:TinyTitans Chromia.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|]]
*'''Chromia''' (Tiny Titans, 2015)
**''Series'': '''5'''
**''Number'': '''1/12'''

: Part of the fifth assortment of ''[[Tiny Titans]]'' [[blindpacking|blindpacks]], this version of Chromia is a very small, soft-plastic figure of her in robot mode, based mainly on the original animation model.

: She includes a collectible card that renders her 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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===''Transformers Trading Card Game''===
[[File:W1Chromia.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|The difference between Chromia and Liz Truss is that Chromia can become a leader again...]]
*'''Chromia, Special Ops''' (2018)
**'''Wave 1'''
**''Rarity: '''''RT'''
**''Card Number: '''''T11/T40'''
**''Stars: ''8

:'''Chromia, Special Ops''' 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

:For some unknown reason, she loses her leader trait while in alt mode. She is the only leader character in the game with this oddity.

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[[File:W3SergeantChromia.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Sergeant Chromia, Special Ops-Counterintelligence''' (2019)
**'''Wave 3: War for Cybertron: Siege I'''
**''Rarity: '''''CT'''
**''Card Number: '''''T41/T48'''
**''Stars: ''7

:Sergeant Chromia, Special Ops-Counterintelligence is one of forty-eight double-sided character cards available in Wave 3 of the [[Transformers Trading Card Game]], War for Cybertron: Siege I.

:The card's artwork is based on the ''[[War for Cybertron: Siege|Siege]]'' Chromia toy, with the Bot Mode artwork being reused from the toy's packaging art, and with original Alt Mode artwork (line-art by [[Dan Khanna]]).
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==Notes==
*Chromia, together with Moonracer and Firestar, hold the distinction of being the first female Transformers to appear in the entire franchise. Chromia is the first of the group to speak!
*"Chromia" is [[Latin language|pseudo-Neo-Latin]] for "chromium". To create "Chromia", the neuter -''um'' suffix of ''chromium'' is exchanged for the feminine -''a''.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Chromia''' (クロミア ''Kuromia'')
*''Hungarian:'' '''Krómia'''
*''Korean:'' '''Chromia''' (크로미아 ''Keuromia'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Chroria''' (克劳莉娅 ''Kèláolìyà'')

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:IDW-Windblade-V1-Chromia-Stone.jpg|2014 IDW robot mode model
File:Combiner Hunters-Chromia-Sara Pitre-Durocher.jpg|2015 IDW robot mode temporary paint job
File:RID27 cvrHAS.jpg|2014 ''Thrilling 30'' packaging art
File:Transformers Legends LG 11.jpg|2015 ''Legends'' packaging art
File:EW-skin-Chromia-CW.jpg|2026 ''Combiner Wars''-themed skin in ''Earth Wars''
</gallery>

==References==
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[[Category:Combiner Wars Autobots]]
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[[Category:Earth Wars Autobots]]
[[Category:Female Transformers]]
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[[Category:Law enforcement]]

Chromia (G1)

2026-03-19T13:02:07Z

Vanya: /* War for Cybertron: Siege */ Reworded the part about the retool status to be more clear.

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

[[File:Chromiamodelsheet.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|"At least our animated character models didn't have [[Heel struts|high heels]]."]]
'''Chromia''' is a seasoned, tough-as-nails infiltrator who's adept at unflinching sabotage. Bluntly honest and a little married to her job, she doesn't make an ideal friend, but she can nevertheless be fiercely protective, a quality which also makes her an exceptional bodyguard. Her rough edges often find her a kinship with other like-minded security officers such as [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]]. More diplomatic peers such as [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] have attempted to socialize her, but beware—she might "arrange" an exit out of an overwhelming interpersonal situation with a quietly-placed detonator.

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|? (English); [[Masako Katsuki]] (Japanese)|[[Yu Hong]] (Chinese), [[Esperanza Gracia]] (Spain-Spanish), [[Adalmária Mesquita]] (Brazilian Portuguese), [[Joëlle Fossier]] (European French)}}

[[File:Femaleautobots.jpg|thumb]]
Four million years ago, Chromia tried to board the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]], while it was being attacked, with the rest of [[Elita One (G1)|Elita One]]'s team. The plan failed though, and she and the others appeared to be destroyed.

[[File:TSFAT Chromia vehicle.jpg|left|thumb|Cybertronic soccer mom.]]
Chromia led a mission to steal [[energon cube]]s from [[Shockwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Shockwave]]. When [[Moonracer (G1)|Moonracer]] got trapped after disobeying orders, Chromia sent [[Firestar (G1)|Firestar]] ahead with the energon cubes and confronted the alerted Shockwave. Although she had failed to free Moonracer with [[Female Autobot laser pistol|her pistol]], she did manage to trick Shockwave into freeing Moonracer.

Shortly thereafter, a team of [[Decepticon]]s from [[Earth]] came to capture Elita One. In doing so, [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] destroyed the Female Autobots' underground base, trapping them inside. When they managed to free themselves, Chromia took charge of the search for their missing leader. On their way, they met up with a group of Earth-stationed Autobots who had come looking for [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] and Chromia was reunited with [[Ironhide (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ironhide]]. The two teams together fought the Decepticons, eventually winning when Optimus and Elita returned. Given a new base by [[Alpha Trion]], Chromia stayed with Elita's squad on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] when Optimus' team returned to Earth. {{storylink|The Search for Alpha Trion}}
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====Japanese cartoon continuity====
=====MC Axis comics=====
Chromia and the rest of the team defeated a gigantic Decepticon. Chromia and her compatriots seemed confident that they could retake Cybertron on their own, though Elita One insisted that Optimus Prime was still their last hope to win the war. {{storylink|The Transformers (MC Axis manga)#Elita One|The Transformers: Elita One}}

=====''Legends'' comic=====
[[File:TFLegendsAutobotsHalloweenCostumes.jpg|thumb|Little known fact: Chromia is [[Stampy (BW)|Stampy]]'s great-aunt.]]
[[Tigatron (Legends)|Tigatron]] of the [[Legends World]] had a dream in which Chromia appeared before him and warned him he was in danger, soon followed by all kinds of heroic female Transformers. Sure enough, a group of evil female Transformers then showed up to kidnap Tigatron, but Chromia picked him up and kept him safe during the ensuing battle. {{storylink|LG11 Chromia}}

During [[Halloween]], Alpha Trion summoned the real Chromia into the Legends Universe to help stop [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]]'s latest grab for energy. Dressed up as a bunny girl, she confronted Megatron and his underlings alongside Arcee and [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]], though she was confused and embarrassed as to why it being Halloween meant she had to dress like that. The three were then defeated and tied up by [[Blackarachnia (Legends)|Blackarachnia]], but it turned out the Decepticons hadn't gotten any energy anyway. {{storylink|LG17 Blackarachnia}} Tigatron later had another dream of Chromia in which she explained that her new body was the result of changing armor parts, displayed her new altmode and ability to fly, and traded armors with Arcee. {{Storylink|Transformers Legends: Chromia Chapter|Chromia Chapter}} Chromia later swooned over the [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] from her home universe when he crossed over to the Legends Universe. {{storylink|LG19 Springer}} Chromia and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]] were tied up by [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] during his mission to send all interdimensional visitors to the Legends Universe back to where they came from, though he eventually gave up and allowed them to stay. {{storylink|LG20 Skids}}

While acting as cheerleaders at a soccer game for whatever reason, Chromia and the other girls found themselves being harassed by [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]]. {{storylink|LG29 Wheelie}} After [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] was sold off to the [[Tera-Kura Co.|Decepticon Tera-Kura Co.]], Chromia joined the Decepticon organization so that she could remain with the city-bot. {{storylink|LG31 Fortress Maximus}} As Alpha Trion had done the same, she was near him when he was looking for his [[10.2 ultra-drill|ultra-drill]]. {{storylink|LG33 Highbrow}} As an office worker she wore a snazzy suit, though [[Apeface]] ripped it to pieces while displaying his telekinetic powers. {{storylink|LG38 Laserbeak}} She later started taking [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]'s new commuter service to work, {{storylink|LG40 Astrotrain}} and was exasperated with Alpha Trion when he lost his drill again. {{storylink|LG-43 Trypticon Project Chapter}}

When the Decepticon Headmasters turned on Tera-Kura Co. and came to steal Metroplex's transformation cog, Chromia was defeated by [[Trickdiamond]]'s earthquake powers. {{storylink|LG43 Trypticon Mobilization Chapter: Decepticon Civil War|Decepticon Civil War}} She hung back at the office while the cog was used to rebuild [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]], then cheered Metroplex on when he defeated the beast. {{storylink|LG43 Trypticon}} She was later among those pestered by [[Kickback (G1)|Kickback]] and his clone army. {{storylink|LG47 Kickback}}

As [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]'s obsession with plasma energy threatened the entire Legends World, Chromia and Alpha Trion worked with the [[Jumpstarter]]s to begin opening dimensional portals, evacuating the population. {{storylink|Targetmaster Chapter Finale: Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part Two|Targetmaster Chapter Finale Part Two}} Chromia and her Autobot allies returned to Cybertron of 2039. They faced the [[Powered Master]]s, corrupted and possessed by the spirits of [[Violengiguar]]. {{storylink|The Road to Legends' Revival Chapter 2}} By 2039, peace reigned on Earth and on Cybertron between the Autobots and Decepticons. Metroplex and Trypticon became sister cities on the planet Earth, and Chromia was on hand as a law enforcer, keeping an eye out for the few remaining criminal elements. {{storylink|Transformers Legends Final Chapter "Epiloge"|Epiloge}}

=====''Generations Selects Special Comic''=====
In [[2050]], Chromia and the Autobots supported the [[Selector]]s' revolution on Earth. {{storylink|Volcanicus comic 2}}

=====''Legacy VS500 Collection Special Comic''=====
[[Arcee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Arcee]] and Chromia were present at the [[Speedia 500]] race on [[Velocitron]] in race queen outfits. {{storylink|Velocitron Speedia 500 Part 2}}

====''Wings Universe''====
{{Wingsnote}}

[[File:Battlelines6-femaleautobotsandsideburn.jpg|thumb|left|Welp, got left behind, time for a nap.]]

To gather energy for the energy-sapped Autobots, a crew was formed to pilot the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]''. Chromia was to be part of the crew, but a Decepticon attack blocked her and others from reaching the ship before it departed. Soon after, as their current reserve of energies was dangerously low, Chromia joined her comrades still on the planet in stasis hibernation as an energy-saving measure. {{storylink|Battle Lines, Part 6}}

===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
{{Unreleased DW G1 comic}}

Chromia was a member of an elite squad of five warriors under the command of the [[Quintesson]]s. [[The Route of All Evil|Following a report]] from their Autobot sleeper agent, [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]], that the awaited situation to commence their mission had come, [[Elita One (G1)|Elita One]] used a [[space bridge]] to get to the [[Autobase]] on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Chromia and the others waited patiently for her to signal that they could follow. Chromia joined her commander soon after it came. With only [[Firestar (G1)|Firestar]] still to get through the portal, the group was attacked by [[Gnaw (G1)|Gnaw]], but [[Moonracer (G1)|Moonracer]] and Elita One took care of that. While the rest of the team went further into the Autobot facility, Chromia was sent back to [[Quintessa (planet)|Quintessa]] with an unconscious [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]]. {{storylink|Unreleased Dreamwave issues#Issue 11|Generation 1 #11}}
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===Descent into Evil===
[[File:Chromia-DIE.jpg|upright=0.5|thumb|150px]]
Chromia and her ward [[Flareup (G1)|Flareup]] were part of an Autobot strike force tasked with destroying the [[Decepticon]] general [[Deathsaurus (G1)|Deathsaurus]]' cloning lab on [[Ceti Alpha Seven]]. Although the pair had handily beaten Deathsaurus's [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]] underling [[Buzzclaw (G1)|Buzzclaw]] on [[Regulon Four]] some time previous, they were taken by surprise by the first production run of clones. Although Chromia fought effectively against the clones, she was no match for Deathsaurus himself when he entered the battle personally. Falling before the general's might, she was taken captive.

Chromia, along with her teammates ''and'' the backup team of Ironhide and [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]], was ultimately rescued when [[Ricochet (Timelines)|Ricochet]], who had evaded capture, came to the rescue of the entire Autobot party. {{storylink|Descent into Evil}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
{{first|[[The Dead Are Not Enough: Dark Cybertron Chapter 7|''Robots in Disguise'' #25]]}}

[[File:DarkCybertron7 Chromia.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.6]]
One erroneous account presented Chromia as a Cybertronian, who was among those attended [[Bumper (G1)|Bumper]] and [[Fastback (G1)|Fastback]]'s funeral. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 3|Megatron Origin #3}} However, every other account shows that Chromia was born from the hot spot contained in the [[Titan (group)|Titan]] [[Caminus (Titan)|Caminus]], who founded [[Caminus (planet)|a distant colony in his name]] that was cut off from [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] long before the war and whose citizens retained differentiated genders. Her people's isolation ended with the arrival of [[Thunder Clash|Thunderclash]], who had come seeking help from a [[Cityspeaker]] in order to aid [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]]. The chosen Cityspeaker, [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]], needed a bodyguard, however, and so Chromia (and [[Nautica (G1)|Nautica]]) were enlisted. {{storylink|A 'Bot and Her City|A Bot and Her City}} {{storylink|If I Know You}} The three joined the crew of the ''[[Vis Vitalis]]'' shortly before it crossed paths with [[Alpha Trion]]. The legendary Autobot was preoccupied with an important quest, so the three volunteered to watch after Metroplex for him and keep him alive. {{storylink|Burning Bright: Dark Cybertron Chapter 8|Burning Bright}} Under their watch, Metroplex's insides were besieged with invaders, so Chromia and Nautica hunted them down to confront them and fight them off, if necessary. They found a small group of robots and Chromia threatened to put the hurt down on them. {{storylink|The Dead Are Not Enough: Dark Cybertron Chapter 7|The Dead Are Not Enough}}

Their adversaries turned out to be fellow Autobots from the ''[[Lost Light]]'' who were battling an army of angered [[Ammonite]]s. Chromia and Nautica led them back to their boss, Windblade, who explained their mission, and subsequently the ''Lost Light'' was able to give Metroplex a jump, allowing him to [[space bridge|spacebridge]] back to Cybertron. {{storylink|Burning Bright: Dark Cybertron Chapter 8|Burning Bright}} On arrival, they couldn't do much but hang on tight within Metroplex as the city-bot did battle with the [[Quintessa (IDW)|Necrotitan]]. {{storylink|Finis Temporis: Dark Cybertron Chapter 9|Finis Temporis}} Following Metroplex's victory, Chromia and her pals got to mingle with the locals, including another female Autobot named [[Arcee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Arcee]]. {{storylink|The Becoming: Dark Cybertron Chapter 10|The Becoming}} When [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Shockwave]]'s army of Ammonites invaded Cybertron, the three Camiens returned to Metroplex to convince him to fight the invaders. {{storylink|Black Planet: Dark Cybertron Chapter 11|Black Planet}} Toward the end of the battle, [[Mainframe (G1)|Mainframe]] contacted Chromia to let them to know the ''Lost Light'' was about to ram [[Monstructor (G1)|Monstructor]], though she got frustrated by the vague, dramatic way he phrased it. {{storylink|...And the Damage Done: Dark Cybertron Finale|...And the Damage Done}}

Chromia accompanied Nautica to her audition to join the crew of the ''Lost Light'', helping out by keeping her friend's rambling to a minimum. Chromia and Windblade later attended [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]]'s trial. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 1: Towards Peace|Towards Peace}} The pair went to find cover when a group of Decepticons disrupted proceedings with the intent to rescue the defendant. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 3: Predestination: A Beginner's Guide|Predestination: A Beginner's Guide}}

[[File:BotAndHerCity-nottechnicallydawn.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Face it tiger, you just hit the jackpot.]]
Six months later, Chromia had stayed behind on Cybertron in order to protect and train Windblade as she performed her role as Metroplex's Cityspeaker. She was highly untrusting of Cybertron's elected ruler, [[Starscream (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Starscream]], though Windblade preferred to give him the benefit of the doubt. When Windblade sought advice on how to best interact with Starscream, Chromia scoffed at Windblade's choice of talking to the "mopey" [[Ironhide (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ironhide]], but was visibly upset when Windblade teased her about telling Ironhide she described him as such. Later, Chromia accompanied Windblade as the pair investigated an area of the city that might reveal why Metroplex was suffering blackouts, and at the end of the day Chromia insisted they not over-exert themselves and reconvene in the morning. {{storylink|A 'Bot and Her City}} Chromia planted a bomb near where they'd be, in an attempt to make Windblade return to Caminus. {{storylink|Windblade issue 4|Windblade vol. 1 #4}} In the morning, when she and Windblade returned to the area, the bomb exploded, damaging Windblade. Chromia dragged her to medical care. {{storylink|A 'Bot and Her City}}

[[File:Windblade3-altmodes.jpg|left|thumb|No, it's true, they actually elected Starscream.]]
Chromia was guarding Windblade when Starscream paid her a visit, and afterwards encouraged Windblade to pursue the idea that Starscream was behind the bomb. Enlisting Ironhide's help, they followed up a lead in the form of [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] whom Chromia had to physically tackle when he tried to run. Chromia stayed in [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]]'s bar while Windblade went with Waspinator. After Windblade discovered Starscream was trying to mine ore from Metroplex, Chromia joined a team that went down to investigate. {{storylink|A Long Way Down}} They were attacked by the [[Terrorcon (G1)|Terrorcons]] and Chromia went instinctively to Windblade's aid, eventually managing to avoid being arrested when Starscream and Rattrap arrived. {{storylink|Windblade issue 3|Windblade vol. 1 #3}} She arranged for Metroplex's spacebridge to activate, {{storylink|Windblade issue 4|Windblade vol. 1 #4}} and organized a jail break, successfully springing Windblade and the others. As they headed for Metroplex, Windblade revealed that she believed Starscream wasn't behind the bomb. {{storylink|Windblade issue 3|Windblade vol. 1 #3}}

The pair rushed to Metroplex, where Chromia insisted Windblade merge with the Titan's mind. She fought with Starscream when he arrived, but he managed to injure Windblade and sliced off Chromia's right arm. Windblade, merged with Metroplex, was able to subdue him with the Titan's internal defenses and revealed she'd discovered Chromia was behind the bomb. Though Chromia encouraged Windblade to make Metroplex jump back to Caminus, Windblade instead opted to shut the spacebridge down in favor of making a deal with Starscream. {{storylink|Windblade issue 4|Windblade vol. 1 #4}}

She was among the group present when [[Wheeljack (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Wheeljack]] was brought back online, though she wasn't as enthusiastic about the event when she observed how happy Starscream was. {{storylink|The World of Tomorrow}} Chromia then participated in the violent arrest of the [[Firecon]]s, primary suspects in a series of murders, {{storylink|Quest for Fire}} and was present when they were locked up. {{storylink|The Killing Jar (issue)|The Killing Jar}}

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Chromia and Ironhide found Windblade and Optimus Prime being attacked by Decepticons and Chromia managed to stop the fight through sheer force of intimidation. They retired to Metroplex to contemplate the spacebridge, now linked to Caminus. Optimus ordered Chromia and Ironhide to guard the portal; however they were unable to prevent [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] from taking [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] through. {{storylink|First Contact (IDW)|First Contact}} They headed through the portal with Starscream's forces and attacked Menasor. The giant briefly held Chromia in his fist until she broke free. In the end, the battle was decided when [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] joined in. {{storylink|The Sum and Its Parts}} Chromia was taking part in the subsequent cleanup on Caminus when [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] arrived and started smashing more things. As the giant started trying to smash the spacebridge, Chromia rallied those present to fight him until Superion and [[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]] defeated him. {{storylink|Mistakes and Mayhem}} As Starscream returned to Cybertron, Chromia went with him to make sure no one started shooting. She was later back on Caminus when Menasor again went through the spacebridge and started fighting with the combiners already there. {{storylink|You, Me, and the Universe}} As a combiner incorporating Optimus joined the fight, Chromia led a group back through to Cybertron to help prevent the Decepticons there from attacking Caminus. {{storylink|All That Remains}}

[[File:AnUneventfulNight-ChromiaVsArcee.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.66|''Prime'' Arcee vs. G1 Arcee.]]
Windblade and Chromia were returning to Cybertron through the spacebridge while Optimus communicated with [[Arcee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Arcee]] on [[Earth]]. {{storylink|Now and On Earth}} To celebrate the union between Cybertron and Caminus, the Mistress of Flame declared an official holiday that saw Chromia temporarily don some Cityspeaker-style face paint for the occasion. While she was guarding the [[Enigma of Combination]] with a [[Badgeless]], Arcee stole the artifact. Chromia and Windblade pursued her into the [[Rust Sea|Sea of Rust]] where their confrontation was interrupted by the [[Torchbearer]]s. After the Torchbearers were merged into [[Victorion]], the trio fought to survive the giant's onslaught until Windblade managed to talk the giant into separating. Chromia later returned the Enigma and resumed guarding it. {{storylink|An Uneventful Night}}

She and Windblade interceded in a quarrel between visiting Camiens and Decepticons, though Chromia was a little too aggressive with the Decepticons. Windblade left her to finish sorting things out. She later joined Windblade, Ironhide, and Blurr for a trip to [[Velocitron]], where they found themselves in the path of [[Delta]], a city fleeing a wall of fire. {{storylink|Windblade vol. 2 issue 4|Windblade vol. 2 #4}} Chromia managed to encourage Ironhide into safely making it onto the city by staying by his side. She accompanied Windblade and [[Clocker (G1)|Clocker]] to inspect [[Navitas]], the Titan on which the city was built, and stood by as Windblade talked to the Titan directly. {{storylink|Race Against the Light}}

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When Windblade returned disappointed from [[Jungle Planet (colony)|Eukaris]] following the death of [[Chela]], Chromia believed she'd done her best to save the Titan. {{storylink|The Will of the Few}} Following the formation of the [[Council of Worlds]], Starscream declared [[Chosen One Day]], a new holiday. Windblade hugged Chromia and forgave her for past discretions... if only for a night. {{storylink|Choose Me}}

Chromia, Ironhide, and Windblade helped re-secure the spacebridge nexus after a gaggle of Decepticons stormed it. Chromia was present when Optimus Prime used the bridge to go to Earth and annex it in advance of [[Galvatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Galvatron]]'s invasion. {{storylink|Conquerors Part 4: Perihelion|Perihelion}} Shortly after taking this drastic step, Optimus had a nightmare where he saw Windblade and Chromia bowing down before him. {{storylink|All Hail Optimus Part 1: Once Upon a Time on Earth|Once Upon a Time on Earth}} The real Chromia, meanwhile, had gone off to attend an emergency Council meeting to discuss this problem. {{storylink|New Worlds Order}}

[[File:TheLineBetweenUs-ChromiaGoesToJail.jpg|thumb|left|Kinky, but at least buy her dinner first!]]

The uneasy peace on Cybertron was growing increasingly threatened by the distrust of the Badgeless, and compounded by a spree of [[Mnemosurgery|mnemosurgical]] attacks on several Decepticons within Iacon, including a supplier of parts to [[Vigilem|Carcer]]. The Committee moved to have [[Ironhide (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ironhide]] investigate the issue. When the meeting was adjourned, Chromia went off to spar with [[Strika (BM)|Strika]]. {{storylink|07:00:00}} Tensions boiled over after the suspicious death of [[Drunkatron|a disgruntled Decepticon]], and Chromia participated in a Council meeting that saw Ironhide step up as the new head of Cybertronian security. {{storylink|Applicable Skills}}

Shortly after [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]] reawoke, Chromia was walking around in the Decepticon ghetto outside of Metroplex. {{storylink|The Last Autobot}} On learning that Windblade was being forced to help Starscream because he knew of Chromia's actions in bombing Acrolight, Chromia took over decoding security footage related to Swindle's death and discovered the Decepticon's body had been taken by Wheeljack and Rattrap. She visited Wheeljack, only for the pair of them to be taken prisoner by the rest of the Combaticons, who forced Wheeljack to lead them to Swindle's brain-dead body. {{storylink|Things We Said We'd Never Do}} After the Combaticons used the Enigma to merge into [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]], Chromia worked with Windblade to talk the Combaticons down, however Ironhide took matters into his own hands and blasted Bruticus. In the aftermath, Chromia coopted [[Circuit (G1)|Circuit]]'s broadcast to make a public confession of her actions in Acrolight, and was arrested by Ironhide. {{storylink|The Line Between Us}}

[[File:Rubicon ChromiaHoldsWindblade.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|right|Please just this once... stay...]]
Chromia being in prison was later one of the factors Windblade mentioned that had demoralized her. {{storylink|Ping}} When a fleet of undead Titans arrived to destroy Cybertron (as they do), Chromia was marched onto a prison ship when Starscream gave the evacuation order. She broke the prison line to speak to Ironhide about Metroplex being felled and urged him to help Windblade who was doubtlessly with the Titan. Ironhide said Windblade was at the [[Spire]] (and he was right) and there was no need to worry but Chromia was convinced that without Ironhide, Windblade would do something stupid (she was also right). {{storylink|Desperate Times}}

Said stupid thing turned out to be releasing [[Vigilem|Carcer]]. When the evil Titan made planetfall, Chromia rushed back to Ironhide to try and find Windblade, only for the irritable warden to grab her and stuff her in a prison cell to be killed by the undead. However, Metroplex managed to release her and direct her to Windblade's location with Carcer so she could free her friend. Chromia rushed to the Titan and scaled up his body, breaching his body and arriving at his [[brain module]] just as [[Elita One (G1)|Elita One]] had blown it into chunks, seemingly killing Windblade. {{storylink|Rubicon}}

Chromia was subsequently put back into prison and set to be tried for crimes against Cybertron. The [[Mistress of Flame]] attempted to get Starscream to turn Chromia over to her but when Starscream refused, she demanded Swindle and Menasor in exchange. The ghost of Bumblebee urged Starscream to hand over Chromia. Starscream instead opted to free Chromia and turn her into a hit-bot to hunt down and kill [[Liege Maximo]], offering her a pardon in exchange, as well as saying he'd lost his own chance to be better, telling Chromia not to waste hers. {{storylink|Heavy}} Starscream and [[Obsidian (BM)|Obsidian]] provided Chromia with the ''[[Sabre]]'', with [[Greenlight]] and [[Lancer]] as her crew, while the Camien herself recorded a goodbye message for Windblade, encouraging her friend to stay strong while she was away. {{storylink|The Chosen One}}

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Shortly after setting out, however, the crew ran afoul of the [[Maximal]]s. Though they managed to triumph over their foes, the Maximals had damaged the ''Sabre''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s long-range communication, leaving them unable to contact [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. {{storylink|Stranger Eons}} When Liege Maximo returned to Cybertron as a prisoner of [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Onyx Prime]], Windblade asked whether the bestial Prime had encountered Chromia or her team. Onyx chose to ignore the question and grill [[Soundwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Soundwave]] instead. {{storylink|The Falling, Chapter 2: Another Mine|Another Mine}}

When the ''Sabre'' finally repaired its communications, the crew had caught up with the [[Decepticon Vengeance Division]] facing off against [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]] in [[G Nebula 89]]. Calling Cybertron, Chromia was quickly caught up on the recent political changes before she reported that, despite their incredible firepower, the Decepticons were failing to damage the Chaos Bringer. Unicron unleashing the Maximals on the Decepticons was enough incentive for Chromia to order a quantum jump back to Cybertron. {{storylink|Stranger Eons}}

The ''Sabre'' arrived back home to find Unicron had beaten them there and assumed a robot mode to attack the planet while having warped the DVD into his service. Acting as a battlefield coordinator, Chromia tried to deter Elita One from charging head-on to no success, the Carcerian confident in her plan. {{storylink|Our Finest}} As the [[Autobot fleet]] fell and Unicron began physically tearing into Cybertron, Windblade called upon the [[Spectral Knight]]s to use their [[magic]] to teleport Cybertron's populace to safety. Noticing this, Unicron returned his attention to the fleet, preventing them from reaching the magic before Elita One defiantly slammed Carcer into Unicron's face, distracting him just long enough for the magical ribbon to reach the fleet and teleport them to Earth. {{storylink|Road's End}}

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Safe on the organic world, Chromia reunited with Windblade before Prowl arrived with information on Unicron's origins and inner workings. As part of the do-or-die attack on Unicron, Chromia joined in the diversionary attack on the DVD. {{storylink|Assembly (Unicron)|Assembly}} When Optimus Prime had successfully used the [[Talisman (G1)|Talisman]] to collapse Unicron, Chromia pulled [[Centurion (IDW)|Centurion]] out of [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]'s burning corpse before Metroplex space bridged everyone back to Earth. {{storylink|Ceremony}} Chromia was one of the mourners present at Optimus's funeral, {{storylink|Post}} before she invited [[Nautica (G1)|Nautica]] and [[Velocity (G1)|Velocity]] to Earth so they could catch up. {{storylink|How To Say Goodbye And Mean It: Part 2}}

===''Kre-O'' cartoon===
[[Chromia's Pizza]] featured a picture of Chromia on the box. A box of this pizza sat on the floor near [[Megatron (Kre-O)|Megatron]] as he watched [[television]]. {{Storylink|Megatron's Revenge}}

===Legends World===
[[Tigatron (Legends)|Tigatron]] owned the [[#Legends|''Legends'' Chromia toy]], and it inspired [[#Legends comic|a dream]] he had. {{storylink|LG11 Chromia}}

===''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' continuity===
====''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' marketing material====
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Chromia was a [[Cybertronian military insignia|Ground Command Special Ops Sergeant]], whose function was Counter Intelligence. {{storylink|War for Cybertron: Siege|''Siege'' webpage}}<ref name=Siege>[https://transformers.hasbro.com/en-us/brands/siege ''Siege'' website]</ref> During the war for Cybertron Chromia was dispatched to locate a possible Autobot escape site located in the largest spaceport on Cybertron, the [[Hydrax Plateau]]. Anything else that may have been given to her as part of her mission's specifications, were classified. {{storylink|Source:Teletraan-1 Data Files|''Siege'' Teletraan-1 Data Files}}

====''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Georgia Reed]] (English), [[Masami Katsuyama]] (Japanese)|[[Amanda Manso]] (Portuguese), [[Christèle Billault]] (French), [[Cornelia Waibel]] (German), [[Margot Lago]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Rommy Mendoza]] (Latin-American Spanish)}}

Before the war, Chromia lived on [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]]. Chromia was present when [[Elita One (G1)|Elita-1]], [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] returned from their mission. {{storylink|Siege episode 1}} Chromia was sent to the fake coordinates of the [[AllSpark]], which turned out to be a Decepticon ambush. Chromia dragged [[Cog (G1)|Cog]] to safety after he was shot in the chest, then rode on the back of Optimus with the injured Cog when they retreated from the battle. {{storylink|Siege episode 2}} After [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]]'s attempted holographic infiltration of a Decepticon squad failed, Chromia provided cover fire for him and helped defeat their foes. {{storylink|Siege episode 3}}

[[File:WFC-Siege-Ep5-Chromia-snipes-Seeker.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|First she [[Chromia (G1)#Timelines|took Moonracer's body]], now she's taking her skillset.]]
Chromia was part of the group sent to fix the [[space bridge]]. She served as lookout duty and managed to snipe three [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]] that attacked the group. {{storylink|Siege episode 4}} Chromia continued to guard the bridge as Mirage cast a large hologram to hide it from further Decepticon discovery. {{storylink|Siege episode 5}} Once Mirage's hologram finally failed, Chromia had to exchange fire with more Seekers. She tried to hold the Autobots' position beside the activated space bridge. Chromia was blasted trying to provide coverage for Optimus Prime as he boarded the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' and ultimately left behind on Cybertron after the ship launched through the space bridge. She placed herself under Elita-1's command to continue the resistance on Cybertron. {{storylink|Siege episode 6}}

Chromia was part of an Autobot force to help free Decepticon prisoners and successfully liberated them. Elita-1 asked her to prep for another mission to raid a Decepticon prison-camp in the [[Kaon (polity)|Kaon]] arena. The group performed reconnaissance on the next camp and suspected it might be a trap. Chromia sniped the few guards who were on duty and shot a Decepticon who was attacking Elita-1. [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] soon sprung the trap and the Decepticons managed to capture Chromia's group. They were brought before [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], who showed the Autobots a demonstration of Project ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]''. {{storylink|Earthrise episode 1}}

Placed in the detention cells, the Autobots tried to work out what Project Nemesis entailed. The group was soon brought before Megatron again and placed in tubes to have their sparks drained. As the machinery was activating, it was shut off just as quickly and the group was rescued by [[Scrapface]], who helped them escape. Chromia knocked out a willing [[Flywheels|Skytread]], who had his own doubts about Megatron's methods and let them leave. {{storylink|Earthrise episode 2}} Chromia and the others trekked back to Autobot camp with Scrapface's Decepticons, trying to avoid further detection by Seeker patrols. The group observed [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]'s message that recalled all Decepticons to Kaon with false promises of protection. Chromia pledged her support to return and stop the Decepticons' plans once and for all. {{storylink|Earthrise episode 3}}

[[File:EarthriseEp6 ChromiaSnipes.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.5|[[:File:Oneshottwokills.jpg|Thanks for the help]].]]
Within the [[Dead Universe]], Optimus Prime suffered a nightmarish vision that showed Chromia and other Autobots lying dead at Megatron's hands. {{storylink|Earthrise episode 5}}

Back on Cybertron, Elita-1's group returned to the Kaon arena, only to find it largely deserted. They began laying timed explosive charges to demolish the place, but Chromia was suddenly shot in the chest from out of nowhere and dropped to the ground. Decepticons utilizing stealth camouflage appeared and took the others prisoner, leaving Chromia for dead. She managed to get back up and snipe all the attackers, including Skytread, who tried to beg for mercy. Chromia and the others then tried to flee the area before the charges detonated, but couldn't get far enough and died in the massive explosion. {{storylink|Earthrise episode 6}}

When the AllSpark was returned to the [[Temple of the Allspark]] on Cybertron by Bumblebee, Chromia was among the Transformer spirits who witnessed Elita-1 banish [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] and [[Nemesis Prime (G1)|Nemesis Prime]]. Chromia and the other deceased Transformers' sparks then rejoined the AllSpark, which restored Cybertron's vitality. {{storylink|Kingdom episode 6}}
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===2019 IDW continuity===
{{first|[[The World In Your Eyes Part Two|''Transformers'' #2]]}}

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Chromia was the head of [[Security Operations]], a position she attained at least partly due to Prowl's unsociability. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part Two}} After [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] returned from [[Probat (planet)|Probat]] with no energon and a comatose [[Deathsaurus (G1)|Deathsaurus]], Chromia briefly questioned the minibot but eventually let him go. {{storylink|Wannabee, Part 2}}

Along with Prowl, Chromia was called to [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]]'s [[energon transmission station]] when the scientist was found to have been murdered. After getting statements from Windblade and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], Chromia asked [[Rubble]], a newborn, to not consider the murder indicative of Cybertronian society. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part Two}}

After [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] created the [[Ascenticon Guard]], with the notable inclusion of [[Quake (G1)|Quake]], Chromia briefed [[Senate|Senator]] [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Orion Pax]] on the actions of [[The Rise]] before [[Froid]] stole the Senator away for a private word. Chromia later made her way to Rubble's apartment, along with [[Geomotus]], so she could borrow Windblade. Before leaving, Chromia linked her and Prowl's communicators' to Rubble's but, much to Windblade's disapproval, added a tracer, albeit an inactive one in the code. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part Three}}

[[File:TheWorldInYourEyesPart4-Chromiaaltmode.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Attempted vehicular manslaughter ''is the'' true Autobot way.]]

As the trio made their way back into the wilderness, Windblade and Chromia compared stories about Brainstorm, trying to find something nice to say, before they ran across [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]]. Though the veteran initially tried to avoid their questions, he revealed that he'd seen a blue Cybertronian near the transmission station on the night of the murder. Unsatisfied, Chromia gave him one cycle to present himself to [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] for further questioning. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part Four}} As she drove back into Iacon, Chromia was hailed by [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] who revealed that, while several high ranking Rise members had gone into hiding, a total of ''two hundred'' Cybertronians had mysteriously dropped off the grid since the night of the murder. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part Five}}

Tragedy soon struck again when Rubble was found dead in the [[Xeno-Quarter]] along with the missing [[Voin]] scavenger. Chromia largely kept to herself in the autopsy only speaking up to have [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] recite his analysis of Rubble's corpse. After seeing off [[Greenlight]], Chromia assured Prowl that Rubble's death was not his fault. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part One}}

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Alongside Prowl, Chromia was questioning Froid about Quake's psychology before Cyclonus crashed into the interrogation room, telling Chromia that he'd found the missing people beneath the [[Memorial Crater]], hoarding an armory's worth of weapons. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Two}}

Breaking open their own armory, Chromia led [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] and Windblade to the base, entering with the latter only to find that the place had been picked clean. As Chromia tried to salvage data from an [[energon station]], she was attacked by [[Sixshot (G1)|Sixshot]]. Though proving nimble enough to evade the hexa-changer, Chromia failed to detain him. She returned to the surface in time to see the base detonate, Windblade's broken body being spat out of the explosion. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Three}}

After [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]] had returned to Cybertron, Chromia briefed the [[Prime (rank)|Prime]] on what he'd missed before she passed her confirmed list of Risers onto Orion. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Five}} While visiting Windblade in the hospital, Chromia was called away to a stand-off in the [[Cybertronian Mountains]]. Before she left, [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] suggested that [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] had been Brainstorm's killer. {{storylink|The Change In Your Nature Part One}}

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Meeting up with [[Springer (G1)|Springer]], Chromia attempted negotiation before [[Javelin]] was shot in the head. Ordering her troops into action, Chromia failed to smoke out the terrorists before the [[Ascenticon Guard]] arrived, Senator [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] entering the immersant [[Titan (group)|Titan]] to conduct negotiations personally. Shortly after Soundwave returned, the Titan's corpse violently exploded. {{storylink|The Change In Your Nature Part Two}} Managing to capture two of [[Ruckus (G1)|Ruckus]]'s cell, albeit in stasis, Chromia checked in with Orion and Bumblebee, revealing their suspicions to the yellow bot that Quake had killed Rubble, before she and Orion came before Sentinel. In light of their findings, Sentinel agreed to bend the Nominus Edict but also made several other changes to their operating procedures, diverting some of Chromia's authority in Security Operations to Colonial Security. {{storylink|The Change In Your Nature Part Three}}

[[File:AllFallDown-Chromia.jpg|thumb|200px|She is the LAW!]]

Soon afterwards, disaster struck when the Rise caused the [[Tether]] to collapse, the space elevator devastating Iacon. In the midst of all this, Chromia received a distress call from Bumblebee, who'd begun to fear for his life among the Guard, and arrived in time to save him from [[Treadshot (G1)|Treadshot]] and [[Catgut]]. After confirming Bumblebee's suspicions, Chromia relieved him of his mission and thanked him for his services. {{storylink|Rise of the Decepticons: All Fall Down|All Fall Down}} Despite Bumblebee's report, hundreds of Ascenticons began to blockade the faction's headquarters, leaving Chromia and Sec-Ops unable to reach or interview Soundwave. {{storylink|Rise of the Decepticons: Swindle's|Swindle's}} Chromia reported her failed attempts to Orion Pax, but remained confident her people had gathered enough evidence to pursue the Ascenticons for crimes in a court of law. {{storylink|Rise of the Decepticons: Tremors|Tremors}}

She was wrong. Or, rather, her efforts were moot as Megatron and Soundwave led a full uprising against the elected government, capturing the Senate building and the senators inside, including Sentinel Prime and Orion Pax. Chromia joined with Ironhide, Hound, and Novastar to plan taking back their people and their government. Chromia accompanied Ironhide and the Senate Guard as they drilled into the Senate building's under-passages. Ironhide freed the rest of his Guard to retake the building, while Chromia found Orion and Sentinel to take them to safety. Once they exited the tunnels, however, the infuriated Sentinel Prime took off ahead of his escorts towards their south tower base. The First Senator intended to address his people as soon as possible about the uprising, but Chromia had no air support to provide protection for Sentinel's vehicle mode. He was intercepted by the [[Rainmaker]]s and mortally wounded before Chromia and Orion Pax caught up with him. Before the optics of Chromia and the Guard, Sentinel Prime died and the Matrix emerged from his chest, bonding with Orion Pax. After receiving a vision from the Allspark, Pax stepped up to become what times required of him, declaring himself Optimus Prime. {{storylink|War World: Prime|Prime}}

[[File:DarknessOnceGazedUponPart2 ChromiaKick.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.8|Chromia Van Damme]]
At Optimus Prime's direction, Chromia arranged for the release of [[Pyra Magna (G1)|Pyra Magna]], one of the [[Great General]]s of the [[War of the Threefold Spark]] who had been imprisoned ever since she continued fighting after the amnesty. It was a risky maneuver to gain credibility for the Autobots' opposition to the Decepticons, assuming Pyra Magna and her [[Companion]]s agreed with their cause. {{storylink|War World: Awakenings|Awakenings}} The street-fighting in Iacon continued until it became necessary to abandon the capital. Chromia lent security to a procession leading the Autobots away from Iacon to seek refuge in [[Crystal City]]. {{storylink|War World: We Are Not Meant To Be Darkness|We Are Not Meant To Be Darkness}} Those opposing Megatron united under the Autobot faction. Even Chromia and previous unaligned Security Operations personnel underwent the Autobranding ceremony as a symbol of their cause's unity. {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Sea of Rust I|Sea of Rust I}}

When Ultra Magnus was captured and brought back to Iacon, Chromia assembled a small unit to bring him back. Her knowledge of the city as head of Security Operations was combined with Smokescreen's criminal contact Swindle to secure them an escape route. At the former Senate, they found Magnus imprisoned along with other political prisoners, Senators who refused to recognize Megatron's rule. {{storylink|Darkness, Once Gazed Upon: Part Two}} Back at Swindle's, their escape brought heat down on the bar owner as Sixshot's Decepticons pursued Ultra Magnus. Chromia's team managed to escape through the underground tunnels, but they knew it was only a matter of time before the Decepticons followed them to Crystal City. {{storylink|Darkness, Once Gazed Upon: Part Three}}

[[File:RadicalTime-windschanging.jpg|upright=1.7|thumb]]

As the siege of Crystal City began, Chromia coordinated their defenses with [[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]] and [[Firestar (G1)|Novastar]]. The Autobots had all retreated back to a fortified bunker when the tide turned. The last Titan, [[Lodestar (Titan)|Lodestar]], had come home. {{storylink|A Dust of Crystals}} With a new combiner and a Titan as leverage, Optimus Prime negotiated a truce with Megatron. The Autobots gathered in a procession to make their way to [[Darkmount (Cybertron)|Darkmount]] and use the last ''Ark'' to leave Cybertron behind, in Decepticon hands. Megatron still wanted his enemies dead, and orchestrated an artillery bombardment to trap the Autobots between his firepower and the approaching [[rust worm]]s. Chromia tried to find a path beyond the bombardment, only to be blocked by the Seekers. {{storylink|Radical Time}} Unable to break their lines without more death, Chromia retreated back to Optimus and the main contingent. Fortunately, a plan was enacted that pitted the [[Insecticon clone]] horde against the rust worms, dealing with both threats. {{storylink|End of Time}} The truce collapsed, and a final battle was held at Darkmount until Chromia and the Autobots finally escaped the occupied planet, but not before pledging to return. {{storylink|Transformers: Fate of Cybertron|Fate of Cybertron}}

===''Transformers Go! Go!''===
{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Go! Go! issue 44}} {{storylink|The Transformers Gather on the Snowy Mountain!|Search Quiz 2}}}}

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==Games==
===''Transformers Legends''===
[[File:TFLegends-Chromia.jpg|thumb|Huh! Vehicle kibble!]]
Chromia was part of [[Elita One (G1)|Elita 1]]'s team which carried out a series of raids on Decepticon installations, until they were taken down in a trap planned by [[Flamewar (G1)|Flamewar]]. {{storylink|Fatal Furies}}

Chromia was dispatched by Elita One in response to Flamewar's squad's retaliatory attacks on a number of Autobot bases. {{storylink|Fatal Furies: Flamewar's Revenge}}

===''Angry Birds Transformers''===
{{main|Stella (AB)#As Chromia}}
Chromia appears as a character unlockable in Challenge Events. She is portrayed by Stella and is a blue and red redeco of Arcee. {{storylink|Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers}}
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===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
[[File:Battle-Tactics-Chromia.jpg|thumb]]
Chromia participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of her! She was a Super Rare character who could be recruited by collecting 250 units of Cybermetal, 75 units of Transmetal, and 10 cores of this character. {{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}
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===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
[[File:EW-Chromia.jpg|thumb|300px]]
Chromia arrived on Earth at the same time as [[Hellbat (G1)|Fellbat]]. {{storylink|Slumbering Giants}}
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===''Transformers: Heavy Metal''===
[[File:TFHeavyMetal Chromia.jpg|thumb]]
Chromia was [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]]'s bodyguard and a security and intel expert. As part of the [[Guardian Program]], she insisted on being paired with humans as a security check before they met Windblade. Though confused by earthling communications, especially emojis, she worked on learning to master it. {{storylink|Transformers: Heavy Metal}}

===''Transformers Roleplaying Game''===
Chromia was an Autobot security officer who specialized in sabotage and infiltration. Although she kept herself at arm's length from many of her fellow Autobots, she was fiercely protective of her comrades. {{storylink|Transformers Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook|Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook}}
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===''Transformers: Forged to Fight''===
[[File:FtF-Chromia-files.jpg|thumb|right]]
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==Toys==
===''Timelines''===
[[File:TL-toy Chromia.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|That's no Moon(racer)!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{bp-a1d1|'''Descent into Evil''' (Box set, 2005)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': Launcher, missile, scope, 2 tailpipes, energon chip

: ''[[Transformers Timelines (toyline)|Timelines]]'' Chromia is a [[redeco]] and new-head [[retool]] of ''[[Transformers: Energon (toyline)|Energon]]'' Energon Class [[Arcee (Energon)#Toys|Arcee]], transforming into a Cybertronic racing motorcycle. She has multiple clear-plastic "[[energon]]" parts that form side-thrusters in bike mode, and combine to form a massive compound bow with a spring-loaded missile. She also comes with an [[energon star]] that can attach to the [[spark crystal]] of any ''Energon''-series mold.

: The toy was originally intended to be [[Moonracer (G1)|Moonracer]], but [[Fun Publications]] could not secure the [[trademark]] on the name. As such, Chromia's toy is in Moonracer's teal and white colors and has a head that resembles Moonracer's. (Fun Publications' intent was for the head to be a compromise between the Moonracer and Firestar head designs.)<ref>[http://groups.google.com/group/alt.toys.transformers/msg/e39fbfb4b4bd2b3a alt.toys.transformers post] by [[Lanny Lathem]] explaining the Moonracer/Chromia SNAFU.</ref><ref>[http://www.bwtf.com/toyreviews/timelines/descent/chromia Chromia toy notes at BWTF.com]</ref> Later Fun Publications stories would [[repurposing|repurpose]] the Chromia toy as Moonracer.

: She was only available as part of [[BotCon 2005]]'s "Descent into Evil" set, packed in with [[Buzzclaw (G1)#Toys|Buzzclaw]], [[Deathsaurus (G1)#Timelines 2|Deathsaurus]], [[Dirge (Timelines)#Toys|Dirge]], [[Outback (G1)#Timelines|Fallback]], [[Ironhide (G1)/toys#Timelines|Ironhide]], and [[Ricochet (Timelines)#Toys|Ricochet]].

: Her base mold was also used to make [[Flamewar (G1)#Toys|Flamewar]] and the [[Transformers (2007 toyline)|live-action movieverse]] [[Arcee (Movie)#Toys|Arcee]] and [[Elita-One (Movie)#Toys|Elita-One]], while the Chromia-retooled version was used to make [[Flareup (G1)#Toys|Flareup]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2005/Autobot/BCChromia/chromia.htm More information on Chromia at TFU.info]''
::*''[http://www.transformersclub.com/chromiapreview.cfm Chromia at TransformersClub.com]''
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===''Generations''===
[[File:Gen-toy Chromia.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.66|STILL the fastest thing on the Grid.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{bp-a1|'''Chromia''' (Deluxe Class, 2014)}}</ul>
:*''Series / Number'': '''02 / #022'''
:*''Accessories'': Rifle

: Released in the eleventh and final wave of ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)#Thrilling 30 (2013-2014)|Generations: Thrilling 30]]'' Deluxes, Chromia is a heavy [[retool]]ing of ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)#Robots in Disguise|Prime: Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Arcee (WFC)#Robots in Disguise|Arcee]], transforming into a Cybertronian motorbike. Her blaster weapon can be mounted on the bottom of her bike mode.

: Due to the nature of her transformation, Chromia's paint is extremely prone to chipping, especially the white paint on her head. Caution and care is recommended when transforming her to avoid damaging her paint.

: Originally scheduled for March 2014 along with [[Arcee (G1)/toys#Generations|Arcee]], Chromia was delayed to fall of that year and ultimately not released until December.

: Hasbro's original stock photo for the figure depicting a hand-painted prototype (which is also featured on the back of the toy's packaging) showed her holding one of her [[wave]]-mate Arcee's guns along with her own. This was most certainly due to a mix-up error; the weapon's design, especially the size and shape of its handle and additional pegs (which are identical to those of Arcee's other weapon), make it very obvious that it was always intended to go with Arcee rather than Chromia. A different version of the stock photo was released in November 2014 on the official ''Transformers'' Facebook page, with the extra gun edited out; compare and contrast the two stock photos [[:File:Generations Chromia stock photo edited.jpg|here]]. Some specimens of Chromia also feature a sticker on the back of the packaging that says "Additional weapon not included."

: The original version of this sculpt was also used to make [[BotCon 2014]] [[Flareup (G1)#BotCon2014|Flareup]], and was ''differently'' retooled to make ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)|Prime: Beast Hunters]]'' [[Arcee (WFC)#Beast Hunters|Arcee]]. This version of the mold served as the model for the non-toy ''[[Beast Wars: Uprising]]'' version of [[Blackarachnia (BW)#Beast Wars: Uprising|Blackarachnia]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2014/Autobot/GenChromia/chromia.htm More information on ''Generations'' Chromia at TFU.info]''
{{PrimeRIDArceeMold}}
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===''Legends''===
[[File:Legends-toy Chromia.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{bp-a1|'''Chromia''' (Deluxe, 2015)}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''LG11'''
:*''Release date'': [[February 14]], 2015
:*''Accessories'': Gun

: Released in the fifth wave of [[TakaraTomy]]'s ''[[Transformers Legends (franchise)|Legends]]'' toyline, Chromia is a redeco of ''Thrilling 30'' Deluxe Class Chromia, making use of lavender and white in place of sky blue in a bid to appear more cartoon-accurate. Her wheels feature more black and much of her bike kibble is coated in metallic blue paint, including the back half of her canopy, which is now cast in translucent blue. Her eyes are also painted blue.

: Chromia comes with a leaflet featuring a character profile, tech specs, and the mini-manga ''[[Transformers Legends (comic)|Legends]]'' [[LG11 Chromia]].
{{PrimeRIDArceeMold}}
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===''Combiner Wars''===
{{anchor|CHunters}}
[[File:Transformers-SDCC-Combiner-Hunters-Chromia.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|right|This is how Chromia auditions for a new ''Final Fantasy'' game.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{bp-a1|'''Combiner Hunters''' (Multi-pack, 2015)}}</ul>
:*''Release date'': [[July 9]], 2015
:*''Accessories'': Gun, "Primeon Blade" sword

: The ''Combiner Hunters'' [[redeco]] of ''Thrilling 30'' Chromia not only has many of her coloring details changed to represent her attendance to the Camien religious ceremony, but in fact mostly stands out for its new accessory: a huge [[Primeon Blade]] sword. The tooling for this weapon was originally used for the 16"-tall electronic version of ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 toyline)|Robots in Disguise]]'' ''[[Titan Heroes]]'' [[Optimus Prime (WFC)/toys#ETitan|Optimus Prime]].

: This version of Chromia was only available in a ''[[Combiner Wars (toyline)|Combiner Wars]]'' [[giftset|gift set]] together with ''Combiner Hunters'' redecoes of ''Generations'' [[Arcee (G1)/toys#Combiner Wars|Arcee]] and [[Windblade (G1)#Combiner Wars|Windblade]], each with their own giant new melee weapons. In the U.S., this set was [[exclusive]] to the [[Hasbro Toy Shop]] website and the Hasbro Toy Shop booth at [[San Diego Comic-Con]] 2015. In Asia, it was also available at Animation-Comic-Game Hong Kong 2015 and subsequently stocked by Toys"R"Us Hong Kong. Later, it was also available at The Falcon's Hangar booth at Singapore Toy, Game & Comic Convention 2015.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2015/Autobot/SDCCChromia/chromia.htm More information on Combiner Hunter Chromia at TFU.info]''
{{PrimeRIDArceeMold}}
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===''War for Cybertron: Siege''===
[[File:War-for-Cybertron-Siege-Deluxe-Chromia.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"I'm in the same wave as Ironhide?!"]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{bp-a1|'''Chromia''' (Deluxe Class, [[2019]])}}</ul>
:*''Hasbro ID number'': '''WFC-S20'''
:*''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''SG-22'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[May 31]], 2019
:*''Hidden message code'': '''SIIEXXXIITSFAT'''
:*''Accessories'': "RT-5 Anti-thermo Blaster," "SR Hushfuze," and 2 "EMP-Grenades"
{{toydesigner|[[Aaron Gray]] (Hasbro)|[[AJ Piejko-Brown]] (packaging)}}

: Part of the second wave of ''[[War for Cybertron: Siege|Siege]]'' Deluxe Class figures, Chromia transforms into a Cybertronian car, based on her original Sunbow animation model. She includes the "RT-5 Anti-thermo Blaster," a gun compatible with the [[C.O.M.B.A.T. System]]. Two "EMP-Grenades" can connect to the barrel, and the "SR Hushfuze" scope can be detached and can extend the barrel as well, allowing you to change the length of the barrel and/or scope. The grenades can also attach to the back of the vehicle, as if they are big exhaust pipes. As with all non-gimmick ''Siege'' figures, Chromia features "battle damage" paint applications on her vehicle mode front. She also features multiple hardpoints all over herself and her weapon to accommodate "Fire Blasts" from the [[Battle Master]]s assortment, which can be used to simulate blaster fire or explosions.

: Chromia is a heavy retool of ''[[Power of the Primes (toyline)|Power of the Primes]]'' [[Moonracer (G1)|Moonracer]] mold, the mold is ''mostly'' unique, save for the wheels, thighs and hip [[ball joint]] sockets.

: In a rather amusing design flaw, moving both her hips together at an angle may pop off her crotch piece.

: The final figure differs quite a bit from the initial promotional renders. Her shoulders are pale blue, her ankles, scope, and backpack hinges are the deeper shade of blue, her entire collar and toes are painted pale blue, and there are minor molding differences on her helmet. Namely, the red part is ''much'' thinner and the dark blue part is taller and less rounded. Additionally, her blaster and scope feature pale blue and red paint applications not present on the final figure. Half of the official promotion pictures have the backpack wheels folded back in robot mode, and the head not visible on the back of the vehicle, the other half of the official promotional images have the backpack wheels splayed out to the sides and the robot head visible on the back of the vehicle. Strangely, some of these photos also (poorly) paint out the red on her collar for no apparent reason.

: She is infamous for shelfwarming in multiple markets, and could still be found in plentiful numbers after the [[War for Cybertron: Earthrise|next toyline]] began.

: This mold was redecoed into ''[[War for Cybertron Trilogy (toyline)#Netflix|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]'' Chromia (below), retooled into ''[[Generations Selects (toyline)|Generations Selects]]'' [[Nightbird (G1)#Generations Selects|Nightbird]], and retooled again to make [[Kaskade#Toys|Ascenticon Kaskade]]. This toy also served as the model for [[Moonracer (G1)#War for Cybertron Trilogy cartoon|Moonracer]] in the ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]'' cartoon.

::*''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAeN5YVhGqU Official conversion video at the TRANSFORMERS OFFICIAL YouTube channel]''
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===''War for Cybertron Trilogy''===
[[File:WFCNetflixtoy-Autobot Chromia.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Now covered in crap.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{bp-a1|'''Chromia''' (Deluxe Class, 2020)}}</ul>
:*''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''WFC-03'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[October 23]], 2020
:*''Accessories:'' "RT-5 Anti-thermo Blaster," "SR Hushfuze," and 2 "EMP-Grenades"

: Promoting the ''Siege'' season of the [[Netflix]]-exclusive [[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon]], this redeco of ''Siege'' Chromia slathers the Autobot in an ''extensive'' paint wash coating to represent accumulated grime and battle scars. Unlike the other ''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' toys, the battle-worn deco is not accurate to the cartoon.

: This toy also included a portion of a cardstock background of [[Teletraan I#War for Cybertron Trilogy|Teletraan I]]. Chromia's part has tabs D and L, and slot E.

: This release was [[exclusive]] to [[Walmart]] in the U.S. and Canada, and in Japan as a [[TakaraTomy Mall]] exclusive.
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===''Legacy''===
[[File:LegacyChromia.jpeg|thumb|upright=1.66|]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Cyberverse Universe Chromia''' (Deluxe Class, [[2024]])}}</ul>
:*''TakaraTomy name'': '''Chromia''' (クロミア)
:*''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''TL-72'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[2024]] [[September 28]]
:*''Accessories'': 2 Bladed Mecha Stars
{{toydesigner|[[Sam Smith]] and [[Mark Maher]] (Hasbro), [[Takashi Kunihiro]] (TakaraTomy)|[[Matthew Cohen]] (photography)}}<ref>[[March 21]], 2024's [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPkQZZ4zasE Hasbro Pulse | Transformers 40th Anniversary Fanstream | March 21, 2024] on YouTube, with [[Ben MacCrae]], [[Mark Maher]] and [[Evan Brooks]].</ref>
{{note|''Legacy'' [[Chromia (Cyberverse)#Legacy|Cyberverse Universe Chromia]] was [[Repurposing|repurposed]] as Generation 1 Chromia in ''[[Transformers Go! Go!]]'' [[Go! Go! issue 44|Issue #44]].}}

: Released in the second wave of ''[[Transformers: Legacy|Legacy: United]]'' Deluxe Class toys, "Cyberverse Universe Chromia" is a new-head retool of ''[[Transformers: Legacy|Legacy: Evolution]]'' [[Prowl (Animated)#Legacy|Animated Universe Prowl]] (making her look much closer to her canceled [[:File:TFHeavyMetal Chromia.jpg|Heavy Metal design]]), and transforms into a motorcycle in 20 steps. She comes with two Mecha Stars which can be stored in her motorcycle wheels, and deployed by twisting the blade housing. Both hands are sculpted to hold the stars by their blades, while her right hand can additionally hold [[5 mm post|5 mm accessories]]. Like Prowl, Chromia has a twin speedometer molded into the back of her head, present in vehicle mode.

:Chromia shares the same design problem with Prowl; her right hand ''cannot'' securely hold one of the Bladed Mecha Stars. Because of this, one of [[TakaraTomy]]'s [[Media:TakaraTomy stock Unite CBV Chromia glue tack.jpg|stock photos]] had a slightly visible adhesive tack when the figure was holding the weapon.

: Official Hasbro promotional photography by [[Matthew Cohen]] shows Chromia performing the iconic "motorcycle slide" from the [[Japan]]ese animated film ''{{w|Akira (1988 film)|Akira}}''.
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==Merchandise==
===''Tiny Titans''===
[[File:TinyTitans Chromia.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|]]
*'''Chromia''' (Tiny Titans, 2015)
**''Series'': '''5'''
**''Number'': '''1/12'''

: Part of the fifth assortment of ''[[Tiny Titans]]'' [[blindpacking|blindpacks]], this version of Chromia is a very small, soft-plastic figure of her in robot mode, based mainly on the original animation model.

: She includes a collectible card that renders her 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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===''Transformers Trading Card Game''===
[[File:W1Chromia.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|The difference between Chromia and Liz Truss is that Chromia can become a leader again...]]
*'''Chromia, Special Ops''' (2018)
**'''Wave 1'''
**''Rarity: '''''RT'''
**''Card Number: '''''T11/T40'''
**''Stars: ''8

:'''Chromia, Special Ops''' 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

:For some unknown reason, she loses her leader trait while in alt mode. She is the only leader character in the game with this oddity.

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[[File:W3SergeantChromia.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Sergeant Chromia, Special Ops-Counterintelligence''' (2019)
**'''Wave 3: War for Cybertron: Siege I'''
**''Rarity: '''''CT'''
**''Card Number: '''''T41/T48'''
**''Stars: ''7

:Sergeant Chromia, Special Ops-Counterintelligence is one of forty-eight double-sided character cards available in Wave 3 of the [[Transformers Trading Card Game]], War for Cybertron: Siege I.

:The card's artwork is based on the ''[[War for Cybertron: Siege|Siege]]'' Chromia toy, with the Bot Mode artwork being reused from the toy's packaging art, and with original Alt Mode artwork (line-art by [[Dan Khanna]]).
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==Notes==
*Chromia, together with Moonracer and Firestar, hold the distinction of being the first female Transformers to appear in the entire franchise. Chromia is the first of the group to speak!
*"Chromia" is [[Latin language|pseudo-Neo-Latin]] for "chromium". To create "Chromia", the neuter -''um'' suffix of ''chromium'' is exchanged for the feminine -''a''.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Chromia''' (クロミア ''Kuromia'')
*''Hungarian:'' '''Krómia'''
*''Korean:'' '''Chromia''' (크로미아 ''Keuromia'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Chroria''' (克劳莉娅 ''Kèláolìyà'')

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:IDW-Windblade-V1-Chromia-Stone.jpg|2014 IDW robot mode model
File:Combiner Hunters-Chromia-Sara Pitre-Durocher.jpg|2015 IDW robot mode temporary paint job
File:RID27 cvrHAS.jpg|2014 ''Thrilling 30'' packaging art
File:Transformers Legends LG 11.jpg|2015 ''Legends'' packaging art
File:EW-skin-Chromia-CW.jpg|2026 ''Combiner Wars''-themed skin in ''Earth Wars''
</gallery>

==References==
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[[Category:Combiner Wars Autobots]]
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[[Category:Female Transformers]]
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Talk:Not Chromia

2026-03-19T11:55:14Z

Vanya: Obvious lie is obvious~

Can we acknowledge that the statement from from Jason Scheier is clearly a lie?

Or would calling out the obvious spin doctoring be against any policies?

[[User:Vanya|Vanya]] ([[User talk:Vanya|talk]]) 07:55, 19 March 2026 (EDT)

Riggorus

2026-03-10T06:48:35Z

Vanya: /* Notes */ Added a sub-note about his official English name technically being a misspelling.

{{factions|decepticon|decepticong2}}
:''Riggorus is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family]] (via [[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]).''
[[File:TF-Masterpiece-MP-56-Riggorus.jpg|thumb|upright=2.2|Pizza Planet Delivery Shuttle. Serving your local star cluster.]]

'''Riggorus''' (リゴラス ''Rigorasu'') is a Decepticon combat surgeon.<ref>Presented on the ''Masterpiece'' packaging in Japanese as ''yasen gun'i'' (野戦軍医).</ref> He used to be part of the strategy division, but became so fed up with the high casualty rates and incompetent planning that he switched to the under-staffed rescue division. It's an odd choice for a Decepticon, especially with the idea of valuing the lives of ''others'' (ick), but he rationalizes it as being for the greater glory of the Decepticons.

Riggorus's medical capabilities have been boosted by [[Binaltech (technology)|an upgrade stolen from the Autobots]]. His arms are capable of turning into a variety of tools to help his patients, and he's equipped with a forcefield so he can protect patients as he works on them in the field. He's also capable of downloading more knowledge instantly via an ability plug-in, but this comes with a severe risk to Riggorus's psychology—it might turn him... ''good''.

He's well aware of his uncanny resemblance to the Autobot known as [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]]; while they've never actually met, Riggorus still holds a grudge against him, having vowed to hunt down and destroy him.

==Fiction==
===''Masterpiece'' bios===
While on a mission to the planet [[Foreston]], to steal more of the mysterious G2 bodies the Autobots had been developing or destroy them if they could not, Riggorus witnessed a shuttle crash nearby, containing [[Garboil (G1)|Garboil]]. As he worked on the stricken Cobalt Sentry, Garboil inadvertently let slip about a mysterious group of "Liegemen", rogue Decepticons building [[Cybertronian (faction)|an empire]] on the fringes of known space, with whom the Cobalt Sentries had been providing with "recruits", a fact [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] was being kept in the dark on. Patching Garboil up, Riggorus decided they would talk about patient-doctor confidentiality later, once the battle was won. {{storylink|#Masterpiece|''Masterpiece'' Riggorus profile}}

==Toys==
===''Masterpiece''===
<ul class="iconlist">{{bp-d1|'''Riggorus''' (Masterpiece, [[2024]])}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''MP-56+'''
:*''Release date'': [[March 30]], 2024
:*''Accessories'': 2 shoulder "Xanthinator Cannons", 2 wrist "Repair Beam Emitter" guns, force barrier
{{toydesigner|[[Kōjin Ōno]] (TakaraTomy)}}<ref>[https://www.soundwavesoblivion.com/techspecs/interviewkojinono6.html Interview on the 40th Anniversary of the ''Transformers'' brand] with [[Kōjin Ōno]] in ''[[Transformers Generations 2024]]'', translated at Soundwaves Oblivion</ref>

: ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' Riggorus is a [[redeco]] and [[retool]]ing of [[Hoist (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|MP-58 Hoist]], itself an extensive retooling of [[Trailbreaker (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|MP-56 Trailbreaker]], with the latter's camper attachment on its back, and a new head based on the [[Trailbreaker (G1)/toys#The Transformers|original Trailbreaker toy]]. Riggorus transforms into a fully-licensed Toyota 4WD Hi-Lux camper truck with an opening hood and doors, with coloration based on the yellow ''[[Diaclone]]'' [[:File:DiacloneTrailbreaker.jpg|"4WD Hi-Lux"]] figure.

: Fitting in with the toy-based head, Riggorus comes with two double-barreled pistols which can mount over the hands and two shoulder guns, both based on the original ''Diaclone'' mold's accessories. Also included is a plastic "force barrier" effect part which pegs onto Riggorus's chest. In the proud ''Masterpiece'' tradition of packing additional cartoon accessories with redecoes, that last one is a screen-accurate reproduction of [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]]'s [[force field]] ability as seen in the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1 cartoon]] episode "[[The Immobilizer]]", intended for use with [[Trailbreaker (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|his own ''Masterpiece'' figure]].

::*''[[Source:The Transformers: Masterpiece#MP56+|Complete translation of all story information included with ''Masterpiece'' Riggorus]]''

==Notes==
[[File:DiacloneTrailbreaker.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Surprise! I'm a Decepticon!]]
*Back in [[1982]], Takara released the ''[[Diaclone]]'' mecha toy 4WD Hi-luxe (4{{ruby|WD|ダブルディー}}ハイラックス) in three decoes. In [[1984]], Hasbro used the black version to make Generation 1 [[Trailbreaker (G1)/toys#Toys|Trailbreaker]]. Long afterward, the blue version would become ''Generations Selects'' [[DK-3 Breaker]] in [[2022]]. Finally, in [[2024]], the yellow version came to fruition as ''Masterpiece'' Riggorus.
*Riggorus's name derives from "rig" and "rigorous".
** Given this origin, his official transliteration into English is technically a misspelling and would more correctly be "Riggorous".

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://tfsquareone.blogspot.com/2014/03/diaclone-yellow-trailbreaker-quickie.html ''Diaclone'' "Yellow Trailbreaker" review] by Maz at TFSquareOne

[[Category:Generation 1 Decepticons]]
[[Category:Masterpiece]]
[[Category:Medics]]

Enemy (G1)

2026-03-10T02:24:32Z

Vanya: Just removing an unnecessary religious term.

{{disambig2|the evil Decepticon|his heroic mirrorverse counterpart|Enemy (SG)}}
{{factions|decepticon}}
:''Enemy is a [[Decepticon]] [[Decepticon Mini-Cassette|Mini-Cassette]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Enemy.jpg|upright=2|thumb|''You've got to love to be hated, find the good in being bad'' ''Oh, the crowd is full of gentlemen, but they've paid to see the cad'' ''Yes it's a hoot, a kick, a gas, when you're the villain of the show'' ''Once you wear black, you'll never go back'' ''It's a high to be loathed'']]
'''Enemy''' takes his name seriously. He defines himself by his opposition to others; he likes to say that the long list of people who hate him shows just how important he is. It doesn't make him a great teammate. In fact, Enemy goes out of his way to ''not'' cooperate with his fellow Decepticons, solely to ensure that they don't like him.

On the other hand, his unnatural ability to be despised comes in handy on the battlefield. Enemy is cunning enough to goad the most important of his opponents into focusing on him, drawing them away from their friends and objectives and seriously compromising their usefulness.

He'll make [[you]] sound like a robot if you don't watch it.

{{bigquote|What? Who calls themselves '''Enemy'''?|[[Lancer]]|"[[Wheeljack: Orbital Decay]]"}}

==Fiction==
===''Legends'' comic===
[[File:Legends extra Cassettes.jpg|thumb|''It's down to you It's down to me'']]
With [[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]] and the other Decepticon cassettes, Enemy was part of an attack on the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' to steal the new [[Transform Super Cog]] in the late 1980s. Enemy attempted to finish off the [[Jumpstarter]]s, but his attack was blocked in time by [[Nightstalker (G1)|Nightstalker]]. {{Storylink|Slugslinger's Ambition}}

===2019 IDW continuity===
{{first|[[Wheeljack: Orbital Decay|''Transformers'' #24]]}}
[[File:WheeljackOrbitalDecay EnemyName.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.5|''Oh, the misery'']]
An [[Mini-Cassette|Infiltration Trooper]], Enemy, who chose his name, fell in with [[the Rise]] in the era that followed the [[War of the Threefold Spark]]. He was eventually ordered to sneak into the [[Winged Moon]] where he installed an energon siphon. Unable to fly a shuttle on his own, Enemy hid himself aboard one, waiting to be shuttled off the moon when [[Vigilem]] brought the [[Tether]] down.

After the [[Titan (group)|Titan]] did so, Enemy's shuttle was the only one left behind. When the Winged Moon drifted towards the [[Croaton (G1)|Croaton Cloud]], [[Lancer]] flew the shuttle above the debris field, noticing Enemy's anomalous alternate mode when she touched down and took the infiltration trooper prisoner. Chained up, Enemy was briefly interrogated before being put under [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]]'s watch who told him that he would be left behind in the event of an evacuation. {{storylink|Wheeljack: Orbital Decay}}

After the engineers had saved the moon, it was attacked by [[Team Stream]]. Unable to properly hold him, the scientists dumped Enemy somewhere where he was found, by random chance, by [[Shadow Striker (G1)|Shadow Striker]]'s team, joining in on their mission to steal the moon. Enemy was last seen alongside [[Blackjack (G1)|Blackjack]] and [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]], trying to breach the moon's command centre before the engineers detonated a jury-rigged [[Black hole (phenomenon)|black hole]] that propelled the three back to the surface. When the Risers later retreated, they noted that Enemy had vanished. {{storylink|War World: Moon|Moon}}

==Toys==
===''Encore''===
[[File:Encoretoy enemy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Annoyingly enough, by the criteria of FIBRIR/FIRRIB, I'm actually blue.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Soundblaster''' (Destron, 2012)}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''21'''
:*''Release date'': February ??, 2012
:*''Accessories'': Left & right "Versus Crowd Photon Blaster" & "Microwave Plasma Gun" guns, cassette case

: ''[[Transformers Encore|Encore]]'' Enemy is a red and dark blue redeco of the [[Rumble (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Rumble]]/[[Frenzy (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Frenzy]] mold, based on the red version of the ''[[Micro Change]]'' MC-01 Micross toy, transforming into a microcassette sized to fit inside the chest compartments of the [[Soundwave (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Soundwave]] and [[Blaster (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Blaster]] molds. As was the case with the other various reissue cassettes, Enemy sports a different sticker in place of his cassette spool image; an image of [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] which reveals the city-bot's weak spots when viewed through Soundblaster's clear-red chest door (in the same way [[Tech Spec]] decoders work).

: As he uses the ''Encore'' tooling, he cannot hold his guns "normally", thanks to an added raised bump on the inner wing-side stabilizer (in addition to the bump on the minigun-side stabilizer present in the prior iterations of the mold). However, the raised bits ''do'' fit around the elbow joint, and make for an incredibly snug fit. But this also makes it effectively impossible for him to point his guns straight forward.

: He was only available with the ''Encore'' release of [[Soundwave (G1)/toys#Encore|Soundblaster]] (the second reissue of this toy) and [[Wingthing (G1)#Encore|Wingthing]].

::*''[http://www.seibertron.com/transformers-toys/gallery/encore/enemy/2654/1/ Image gallery of Enemy at Seibertron.com]''
{{G1FrenzyRumbleMold}}
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===''Masterpiece''===
[[File:TF-MP-Enemy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|"The enemy of my enemy is my friend."]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1d1|'''Cassettbot VS Cassettron''' (Multi-pack, [[2017]])}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''MP-15/16E'''
:*''Release date'': [[December 23]], 2017
:*''Accessories'': Pink tape case, two "Hammer Arm" [[piledriver]]s, piledriver mount, left & right "Versus Crowd Photon Blaster" & "Microwave Plasma Gun" guns.

: Issued in a limited edition ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' "Encore" set available from [[TakaraTomy Mall]], along with [[Stripes#Masterpiece|Stripes]], [[Nightstalker (G1)#Masterpiece|Nightstalker]], and [[Wingthing (G1)#Masterpiece|Wingthing]], Enemy is a redeco of the ''Masterpiece'' [[Frenzy (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|Fru]][[Rumble (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|mble]] mold. Enemy is unique in the set in that his weapons are not integrated into his alt mode and transformation; he comes with a redeco of the Frumble piledrivers, as well as the silver guns, which can be held in his hands, mounted on his back, or stored inside the piledrivers or the foot compartment of the contemporary [[Soundwave (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|Soundwave or Soundblaster.]]

: If purchased from a seller supplied by Hasbro Asia, the set includes a [[collector coin]], featuring Enemy's face on one side and the Autobot logo and names of all the included characters on the opposite side. The coin is mounted in a card resembling a cassette, similar to the cards housing the coins for MP-15 and MP-16, but styled like Enemy's cassette mode on the "A" side, while the "B" side resembles Stripes's cassette mode.<ref>[https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/collector-coin-for-transformers-masterpiece-mp15-16e-cassettbot-vs-cassetron/40401/ Collector Coin for Transformers Masterpiece MP-15 / 16-E Cassettbot vs Cassetron]</ref>
{{MPFrenzy/RumbleMold}}
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==Merchandise==
===''The Transformers''===
{{anchor|Generation 1}}
[[File:Am Radio decepticon.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|Does he use anarchy?]]
*'''AM Radio & Headset''' ("Enemy")

: Enemy first appeared in [[1984]] as part of a working AM radio & headset, a piece of merchandise made by [[Nasta]] under the "Power Tronic" brand. Featuring a large wearable Decepticon symbol belt-clip, removing this item revealed Enemy, a solid red (with blue thighs and upper arms) simplification of the [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]]/[[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] mold. Permanently attached to the radio, Enemy could not be removed without breakage, but could nevertheless transform ''in situ''. The radio came in both red and purple.

: In addition to the United States release in English-only packaging, the "AM Radio & Headset" was also released in Canada in [[multilingual packaging|bilingual]] English/French packaging.

{{-}}{{anchor|ElectronicVoiceChanger}}
[[File:Enemy ecv inpackage.jpg|thumb|140px|Not to be confused with [[Cobra]], the Enemy.]]
*'''Electronic Voice Changer''' ("Enemy")

: Enemy was given life again the following year when Nasta released a voice-changer in 1985. A large disembodied head, Enemy again looked like a red [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]]/[[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]], but this time with proper silver face detailing. If a kid talked into a headset that plugged into Enemy's noggin, their voice would be modified to sound robotic. Enemy came with a belt clip, power pack, and headset with a built-in microphone, and ran on a single 9-volt battery (not included).

: In addition to the United States release in English packaging, the "Electronic Voice Changer" was also released by Italian Hasbro licensee [[GiG]] in Italian packaging.
{{-}}

===''Transformers Character Card''===
[[File:Transformers Character Card Soundblaster and Twincast.jpg|upright=1|thumb|''So rally up the demons of your soul]]
*'''Twincast & Soundblaster Set''' ([[October 17]], [[2023]])
**''ID number:'' '''67 & 68'''

:Released as part of the ninth wave of the [[e-HOBBY]] exclusive ''[[Transformers Character Card]]'' series, this pair of holographic trading cards depict super-deformed art of [[Blaster (G1)|Twincast]] (with [[Rosanna (KP)|Rosanna]], [[Nightstalker (G1)|Nightstalker]] and [[Stripes]]) and [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundblaster]] (with [[Wingthing (G1)|Wingthing]], [[Buzzsaw (G1)|Buzzsaw]] and Enemy) in their respective ''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (franchise)#Transformers: The Headmasters|Headmasters]]'' forms along with [[bio|character profiles]] and [[Tech Spec|tech specs]].
::*''[[Source:Transformers Character Card#68|Translation of Soundblaster's Transformers Character Card]]''

{{-}}

==Notes==
* Enemy is awesome.

===Origins===
By virtue of the standard sorting order of fiction, toys, and merchandise established by {{SITENAME_SHORT}}, Enemy's history with the ''Transformers'' brand comes across a little muddled on this page. Here's a quick chronological order:

The [[1983]] "MC-01 Micross" toy from Takara's ''[[Micro Change]]'' line was available in three color schemes: two shades of blue (the original release), black and red (packaged with "[[Soundwave (G1)/toys#Soundwave And Condor Cassette: Buzzsaw|Cassette Man]]"), and red and blue (sold late in the series). When Hasbro licensed the figure and released it as part of their ''Transformers'' line in [[1984]], the two-blues figure became [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]], and the black-and-red one became [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] (and then the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|cartoon]] swapped the two characters' color schemes; see "[[FIRRIB]]" for ''that'' mess), but the red-and-blue figure was not used.

Once the ''Transformers'' toyline was underway, toy company [[Nasta]] released two licensed electronic toys based on the "Micross" robot: a non-transforming "AM Radio & Headset" Decepticon, and an "Electronic Voice Changer." It's unlikely (though not ''impossible'') that it was a direct reference, but both toys shared the same basic colour scheme as the unused red-and-blue version of the Micross robot. Not intended to represent a specific existing ''Transformers'' character, the toys where given only the generic label of "Decepticon/Enemy" where a character name would normally appear (similar to the "[[Freedom Fighter|Autobot/Freedom Fighter]]" designation Nasta used on certain generic Autobot-themed products). Subsequently, online fandom would sometimes call this obscure little robot "Enemy," as if he were a real character and that were his proper name; examples can be found as far back as [[2001]] in the pages of [[unofficial guidebooks#Cybertronian: The Unofficial Transformers Recognition Guide|''The Unofficial Transformers Recognition Guide'']], and culminated in TFWiki itself creating this very article in [[2007]], listing both Nasta toys, observing their similarity to the unused ''Micro Change'' colour scheme, and humourously (as we're wont to do around here!) acting as if "Enemy" was a real character. Article creator and TFWiki admin [[David Willis]] took the joke further in 2011, when he made Enemy an official part of ''Transformers'' canon by introducing a [[Enemy (SG)|''Shattered Glass'' version of him]] in his ''[[Recordicons]]'' strip.

In [[2012]], Takara reissued of the original toy in its unused ''Micro Change'' colors as part of the ''Encore'' line under the name "Enemy." We can't sit here and say it with 100% ''absolute'' certainty, but we're pretty sure they got the idea to do so from this article... especially since he was released alongside other ''extremely'' obscure characters we ''also'' happened to have articles for, [[Nightstalker (G1)|Nightstalker]], [[Stripes]], and [[Wingthing (G1)|Wingthing]]!

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Enemy''' (エネミー ''Enemī'')
*''French:'' '''Ennemi''' (Canada)
*''Italian:'' '''Nemico'''

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Encore]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Decepticons]]
[[Category:IDW (2019) Decepticons]]
[[Category:Legends Decepticons]]
[[Category:Masterpiece]]
[[Category:Merchandise]]
[[Category:Mini-Cassettes]]
[[Category:TakaraTomy Mall exclusives]]
[[Category:Transformers Character Card Decepticons]]

Mini-Vehicle

2026-03-05T00:06:13Z

Vanya: Matching up his alt mode description with the main article.

{{factions|autobot|optimus|malignus|autobotg2|decepticon|guardian|renegade}}
{{disambig2|the Generation 1 small Autobots|the Hot Wheels-style cars from ''Revenge of the Fallen''|Robot Powered Machines}}
[[File:Mini vehicles.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Messengers with meaning! Whatever that means.]]

The '''Mini-Vehicles''' (also known as '''Minicars''', '''Minibots''',<ref>Takara name, and "[[Crisis of Command!]]"</ref> '''Mini-Autobots''', and '''Robocars''') are a group of small, simple, and inexpensive toys, premiering in [[The Transformers (toyline)|the original 1984 toyline]]. Many were [[redeco]]ed or [[retool]]ed from the earlier ''[[Micro Change]]'' line. They generally have [[super deformed]] proportions in vehicle mode, since in the ''Micro Change'' backstory they represented robots that became small toy cars (specifically, they were meant to look like ''[[Choro-Q]]'' / ''Penny Racers'' cars).

While many toys that started off as Mini-Vehicles would become established as major ''Transformers'' characters throughout the following decades, little to nothing in fiction has been made of this group ''as'' a group. They will occasionally show up in group scenes [[to sell toys|in a vague form of advertisement]], but they're almost never treated as more than just a group of individual bots who happen to be here at this time right now. Even their "defining" trait, being smaller than "normal" Cybertronians, is rarely flagged up outside of [[Bumblebee (G1)|one particular individual]], especially since the introduction of even smaller Cybertronians like [[Micromaster]]s and [[Mini-Con]]s.

==Toys==
===Hasbro===
====''The Transformers'' (1984-1986)====
[[File:G1-toy Windcharger.jpg|upright=1|thumb|Windcharger]]
<big>'''1984'''</big> 
Part of the first year of [[Hasbro]]'s ''[[The Transformers (toyline)|The Transformers]]'' product in the US, the Mini Vehicles were originally known as "'''Autobot Minicars'''", versus the larger "[[Autobot Cars]]". The initial run of the Minicars were packaged with the toys in their alternate modes, as the rest of the line's toys were. This changed to robot mode packaging with a picture of the vehicle mode added under the character art, which the assortment would retain throughout the line. This change was probably made because the smaller but deeper bubbles used for vehicle-mode packaging were more prone to separating from the cards by accident than the later-revised larger robot-mode bubbles.

Although the official catalogs and the box artwork depict Bumblebee in yellow and Cliffjumper in red, both toys were actually available in both colors. A seventh toy was also available briefly in the early releases of the line. The toy that would eventually become known as "[[Bumper (G1)|Bumper]]" did not have its own name or card, but came on Cliffjumper cards. (Rumors persist of his being available on Bumblebee cards as well, but no carded samples have been found.) Exactly how the hell this ''happened'' is still a mystery, though it is possible that there were early plans to have the toy be a full-fledged part of the line. All seven of this first batch originated as "Mini Car Robo" in [[TakaraTomy]]'s ''[[Micro Change]]'' line, with engineering by [[Masaki Maruyama]]... though it is also possible that four of these toys (the non-penny-racer-style ones) were ''originally'' designed (but never manufactured) by American company Knickerbocker Toys for their ultimately-canceled ''[[Mysterians]]'' toyline. How these designs came into Takara's ownership is also still a mystery, with a common running theory being that they were co-developed with Knickerbocker.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="99.3%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Autobot Minicars'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Brawn (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Brawn]] (indeterminate off-road SUV)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Bumblebee]] (VW Beetle, available in yellow or red)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Cliffjumper (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Cliffjumper]] (Porsche 924, available in red or yellow)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Gears (G1)#Toys|Gears]] (pickup truck)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Huffer (G1)#Toys|Huffer]] (semi truck cab)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Windcharger (G1)#Toys|Windcharger]] (Pontiac Firebird Trans Am)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|"[[Bumper (G1)#Toys|Bumper]]" (Mazda Familia 1500XG, only available on Cliffjumper cards)}}
|
[[File:G1-toy Bumblebee1984.jpg|thumb|upright=1|Bumblebee]]
</ul>
|}
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[[File:G1-toy Beachcomber.jpg|upright=1|thumb|Beachcomber]]
<big>'''1985'''</big> 
The following year, Hasbro renamed the assortment to "'''Mini Vehicles'''", as only one of the new toys introduced in this year could even charitably be called a "car". The vehicle mode photos on all of this year's cardfronts could have either white or gray borders.

The original 1984 assortment (minus "Bumper") was also available this year, this time with new [[rubsign]]s replacing the normal foil faction symbol stickers on their vehicle modes (robot-mode stickers were left alone). Yes, even the red Bumblebee and yellow Cliffjumper saw re-release. In addition, the 1984 crew had the added bonus of a free [[Mini-spy#Toys|"Motorized Transformer" (aka "Mini-spy")]]; while the included Mini-spy could be one of any four molds, it appears that the three available colors each came in were specific to certain Mini Vehicles. (The new 1985 toys did not have Mini-spies at all. Sorry.)

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="99.3%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Autobot Mini Vehicles (new)'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Beachcomber (G1)#Toys|Beachcomber]] (Chenowth Fast Attack Vehicle)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Cosmos (G1)#Toys|Cosmos]] (flying saucer)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Powerglide (G1)#The Transformers|Powerglide]] (A-10 Thunderbolt II plane)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Seaspray (G1)#Toys|Seaspray]] (hovercraft)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Warpath (G1)#The Transformers|Warpath]] (Sheridan ARAAV tank)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Mini Vehicles (w/ Motorized Transformers)'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Bumblebee]] (yellow or red, w/ white Mini-spy)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Brawn (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Brawn]] (w/ yellow Mini-spy)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Cliffjumper (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Cliffjumper]] (red or yellow, w/ white Mini-spy)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
{{Bp-a1|[[Gears (G1)#Toys|Gears]] (w/ yellow Mini-spy)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Huffer (G1)#Toys|Huffer]] (w/ blue Mini-spy)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Windcharger (G1)#Toys|Windcharger]] (w/ blue Mini-spy)}}
|
[[File:G1-toy WarpathOrig.jpg|upright=1|thumb|Warpath]]
</ul>
|}
{{note|Both versions of Cliffjumper —with the foil faction symbol sticker— were also available packed in with the [[Listen 'n Fun]] "[[Sun Raid (Listen 'n Fun)|Sun Raid]]" audio tape, though the yellow version is far more common.}}

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[[File:G1-toy Tailgate.jpg|upright=1|thumb|Tailgate]]
<big>'''1986'''</big> 
The final year of the assortment, five of the new toys this year were extensively [[retool]]ed versions of 1984 Mini Vehicles as new characters, with one all-new toy in the mix. While the 1985 newcomers carried over this year, Bumblebee was the only 1984 toy to continue on into '86, and —near as can be told— only the yellow version.

The initial releases of all Mini Vehicles and [[Special Teams]] in 1986 were part of a promotional campaign that featured reflective [[iron-on patch]]es as part of a contest. Later in the year, packages without bonus patches were released.

After 1986, their place as the line's low-end price point was filled by a series of gimmick-based groups, including the [[Throttlebot]]s, [[Triggerbot]]s/[[Triggercon]]s, and [[Micromaster]] patrols.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="99.3%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Autobot Mini Vehicles (new)'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Hubcap (G1)#Toys|Hubcap]] (Porsche 924)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Outback (G1)#Toys|Outback]] (Suzuki Jimny offroad vehicle)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Pipes (G1)#Toys|Pipes]] (semi truck cab)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Swerve (G1)#Toys|Swerve]] (pickup truck)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Tailgate (G1)#Toys|Tailgate]] (Pontiac Firebird Trans Am)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Wheelie (G1)#Toys|Wheelie]] (Cybertronian car)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Autobot Mini Vehicles (re-released)'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Beachcomber (G1)#Toys|Beachcomber]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Bumblebee]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Cosmos (G1)#Toys|Cosmos]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
{{Bp-a1|[[Powerglide (G1)#The Transformers|Powerglide]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Seaspray (G1)#Toys|Seaspray]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Warpath (G1)#The Transformers|Warpath]]}}
|
[[File:G1-toy Wheelie.jpg|thumb|upright=1|Wheelie]]
</ul>
|}

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====''Generation 2'' (1993)====
Released in the first year of ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|Generation 2]]'' in the US (but not in the European line), the "Mini Autobots" are four molds from the original series, this time done up with large swathes of [[Vacuum metallizing|Vacuum metallized chrome]]. Two of them retain their normal colors (just with chrome), while the other two got new decos.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Mini Autobots'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a2|[[Beachcomber (G1)#Generation 2|Beachcomber]]}}
{{Bp-a2|[[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#Generation 2|Bumblebee]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
{{Bp-a2|[[Hubcap (G1)#Generation 2|Hubcap]]}}
{{Bp-a2|[[Seaspray (G1)#Generation 2|Seaspray]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
|
[[File:G2-toy Beachcomber.jpg|upright=1|thumb|''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|Generation 2]]'' Beachcomber]]
</ul>
|}

====Fun4All / Basic Fun keychains (2001 / 2007)====
In 2001, [[Fun4All]] licensed four of the old Mini Vehicle molds and [[retool]]ed them into keychains, by simply adding a small plastic ring on them for a metal clip-on chain to hang off of. These toys are ''mostly'' otherwise identical to the originals, with a few small details different here and there (like Windcharger's missing face paint, whoopsiedoodle).

The following year, [[3H Productions]] ordered [[redeco]]s of three of the molds to be [[exclusive]]s for [[BotCon 2002]] and [[BotCon Europe 2002]].

Takara released the keychains as convenience-store items in 2003, we'll talk more about those in the Takara section below.

In 2007, the original four keychain toys were re-released by [[Basic Fun]] in new "[[Heroes of Cybertron (toyline)|Heroes of Cybertron]]"-branded packaging, presumably to cash in on that [[Transformers (film)|big expensive major Hollywood movie]] coming out that year. As far as can be told, the actual ''toy'' part of these keychains are identical to the original 2001 versions, but these releases have new chains attached.

Yes, we realize this means they're ''technically'' not Hasbro toys but come on.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Fun4All / Basic Fun'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Brawn (G1)/toys#Keychain|Brawn]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#Keychain|Bumblebee]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Cliffjumper (G1)/toys#Keychain|Cliffjumper]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Windcharger (G1)#Keychain|Windcharger]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''BotCon 2002'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Glyph (Universe)#Toys|Glyph]] (VW Beetle)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Tap-Out (Universe)#Toys|Tap-Out]] (Porsche 924)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''BotCon Europe 2002'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Rook (Universe)#Toys|Rook]] (Pontiac Firebird Trans Am)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
|
[[File:TFU03 TapOut-toy.jpg|upright=1|thumb|BotCon 2002 Tap-Out]]
</ul>
|}
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====''Vintage G1'' (2018-2019)====
The Mini Vehicles were part of the [[Walmart]] exclusive ''[[Vintage|Vintage G1]]'' reissue line, though they were given the name "Legion Class", tying in with modern size-class naming.

These releases are ''mostly'' identical to reissues released previously in Japan (see below), but have a few small but significant differences. The most immediately-noticeable is the ''Vintage G1'' toys have production information tampographed on them somewhere, typically on the inside of their leg. The other is the new style of [[rubsign]] used by the ''Vintage G1'' releases, which have a highly reflective mirror-like border, and the heat-revealed symbol goes right to red, rather than the multi-colored symbols of old.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Legion Class wave 1 (2018)'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#Vintage G1|Bumblebee]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Outback (G1)#Vintage G1|Outback]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Swerve (G1)#Vintage G1|Swerve]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Tailgate (G1)#Vintage G1|Tailgate]]}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Legion Class wave 2 (2019)'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Gears (G1)#Vintage G1|Gears]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Warpath (G1)#Vintage G1|Warpath]]}}
</ul>
|
|[[File:VG1-toy Bumblebee.jpg|upright=1|thumb|''Vintage G1'' Bumblebee]]
|}

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===Takara===
====''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' / ''2010'' (1985-1986)====
1985 saw the release of [[TakaraTomy|Takara]]'s version of the line for Japan, ''[[The Transformers (toyline)|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers]]'', which included most of the Hasbro 1984 and 1985 product released all at once, with no notable differences outside of the packaging. ''Most'' of it.

Only five "'''Minibots'''" from the 1984 Hasbro assortment were made available this year at normal retail (all with vehicle-mode rubsigns rather than foil faction stickers), packed in small boxes with collectible character cards inside, while two of the 1985 Mini Vehicles were offered only as [[Robot Point]] mail-away offers. The other 1985 toys would not be released until the following year as part of the ''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010'' line alongside the new 1986 crew.

The one remaining 1984 Minibot, Gears, would not be released ''at all'' in Japan until nearly twenty years later. Womp womp. ("Bumper" was also not part of the Takara line at all.)

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Retail releases (1985)'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|11 [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Bumble]] (Bumblebee, yellow or red)}}
{{Bp-a1|12 [[Windcharger (G1)#Toys|Charger]] (Windcharger)}}
{{Bp-a1|13 [[Cliffjumper (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Cliff]] (Cliffjumper, red or yellow)}}
{{Bp-a1|14 [[Huffer (G1)#Toys|Drag]] (Huffer)}}
{{Bp-a1|15 [[Brawn (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Gong]] (Brawn)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Mail-aways (1985)'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Cosmos (G1)#Toys|Adams]] (Cosmos)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Warpath (G1)#Toys|Warpath]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Retail releases (1986)'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|C-56 [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Bumble]]}}
{{Bp-a1|C-57 [[Hubcap (G1)#Toys|Hubcap]]}}
{{Bp-a1|C-58 [[Swerve (G1)#Toys|Werve]] (Swerve)}}
{{Bp-a1|C-59 [[Outback (G1)#Toys|Outback]]}}
{{Bp-a1|C-60 [[Pipes (G1)#Toys|Pipes]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|C-61 [[Tailgate (G1)#Toys|Tailgate]]}}
{{Bp-a1|C-62 [[Powerglide (G1)#Toys|Powerglide]]}}
{{Bp-a1|C-63 [[Beachcomber (G1)#Toys|Beachcomber]]}}
{{Bp-a1|C-64 [[Seaspray (G1)#Toys|Seaspray]]}}
{{Bp-a1|C-80 [[Wheelie (G1)#Toys|Wheelie]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|}

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====Reissue lines====
In the early to mid-2000s, Takara reissued many original ''Transformers'' toys, under a number of different line names: ''[[The Transformers Collection]]'', ''[[The Transformers: Collector's Edition]]'', and ''[[Transformers Encore]]''. In most cases, these were "improved" releases with altered or additional paint and decals, tooling changes for durability, functionality or aesthetics (including a new cartoon-based head for Bumblebee), even additional accessories not available with the original toy... basically, virtually every one has ''some'' noticeable difference between the reissue and the original. This is also the first time Gears has been released in Japan. Womp womp. These re-releases would be the basis for the later Hasbro ''[[Vintage|Vintage G1]]'' re-releases.

The ''Collector's Edition'' line added to the "Minibot" toy ranks with [[e-HOBBY]] exclusive all-new redecoes of the ''Transformers Collection'' sets, which also included some Decepticon-allied "[[G1 GoBots]]" Minibots.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''The Transformers Collection'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|12 - Minibot Team ([[Cosmos (G1)#The Transformers Collection|Adams]], [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#The Transformers Collection|Bumble]], [[Gears (G1)#The Transformers Collection|Gears]], [[Huffer (G1)#The Transformers Collection|Drag]], [[Powerglide (G1)#The Transformers Collection|Powerglide]], [[Warpath (G1)#The Transformers Collection|Warpath]])}}
{{Bp-a1|20 - Future Cybertrons (Targetmaster [[Kup (G1)/toys#The Transformers Collection|Cher]] (Kup), [[Recoil (G1)#The Transformers Collection|Recoil]], [[Wheelie (G1)#The Transformers Collection|Wheelie]])}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Collector's Edition'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1d1|[[G1 GoBots]] ([[Bad Boy#Toys|Bad Boy]], [[Bug Bite (GoBots)#Toys|Bug Bite]], [[Path Finder#Toys|Path Finder]], [[Road Ranger#Toys|Road Ranger]], [[Small Foot#Toys|Small Foot]], [[Treds#Toys|Treds]])}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#Collector's Edition|Orion Pax]] and [[Dion (G1)#Toys|Dion]] (w/ [[Roller (G1)#Collector's Edition|Barrelroller]])}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Transformers Encore'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|10 - Bumble & Minibots ([[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#Encore|Bumble]], [[Outback (G1)#Encore|Outback]], [[Pipes (G1)#Encore|Pipes]], [[Swerve (G1)#Encore|Swerve]], [[Tailgate (G1)#Encore|Tailgate]])}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
[[File:Encore_Swerve_toy.jpg|upright=1|thumb|''Encore'' Swerve]]
|}

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====Minibot Keychains====
In 2003, Takara released the four [[Fun4All]] keychains in [[blindpacking|blindpacked]] boxes (styled after the ''Transformers Collection'' packaging), sold exclusively at [[7-Eleven]] convenience stores. While the toys themselves are identical to the Fun4All versions (missing Windcharger facepaint and all), Takara added "[[Chase figure|chase]]" black versions of each keychain to the mix, with one black version in every case of twelve keychains. Good luck!

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Minibot Keychains'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#Keychain|Bumble]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Windcharger (G1)#Keychain|Charger]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Cliffjumper (G1)/toys#Keychain|Cliff]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Brawn (G1)/toys#Keychain|Gong]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
[[File:G1-toy WindchargerKeychain.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Charger, normal & black versions]]
|}
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===Europe===
Some European toy companies would make their own licensed copies of ''Transformers'' toys throughout the 1980s, and as a result, a few minor Mini-Vehicle variants would pop up across the continent.

====Joustra (France)====
[[France|French]] company [[Joustra]] would manufacture a handful of ''Transformers'' molds in 1986, resulting in a batch of figures that looked mostly identical to their international versions save for the occasional small odd choices in terms of color and paint applications. Most notable amongst these is their quirky version of Pipes that used Huffer's version of the mold instead, which would be baptized by fans (and later canonized) as "[[Puffer]]".

<ul class="iconlist">
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Mini Vehicles'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|"[[Pipes (G1)#Toys|Pipes]]" (actually [[Huffer (G1)#Toys|Huffer]] in Pipes colors, aka "[[Puffer]]")}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=3|[[File:G1toy European Pipes.jpg|upright=1|thumb|Joustra Pipes / "Puffer"]]
|}

====El Greco (Greece)====
[[Greece|Greek]] company [[El Greco]] would manufacture and release a handful of Mini-Vehicles also in 1986, most of which, again; look identical to their international versions save for a few differences in terms of the plastic colors and paint applications. Interestingly, these would be sold in cardbacks using the localized Greek names for the characters.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Mini-Vehicles'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Brawn (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Egkéfalos]] (Brawn)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Huffer (G1)#El Greco|Gígantas]] (Huffer)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Warpath (G1)#The Transformers|Akhtýpitos ]] (Warpath)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Cosmos (G1)#El Greco|Kyríarkhos]] (Cosmos)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Powerglide (G1)#The Transformers|Keravnόs]] (Powerglide)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Beachcomber (G1)#The Transformers|Angeliofόros]] (Beachcomber)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Seaspray (G1)#The Transformers|Thalassόlykos]] (Seaspray)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=2|[[File:ElGreco-Cosmos.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1|El Greco "Kyríarkhos" (Cosmos)]]
|}
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===IGA (Mexico)===
Mexican company [[IGA]] released its version of ''The Transformers'' in 1985, largely sticking to Hasbro's names and decos, but there were some notable variants, with some Mini Vehicles getting multiple new decos in its short timespan, the line ending in 1986.

In particular, several of the 1984 molds were redecoed into colors matching their Hasbro 1986 retools (with a few additional funky variants, see individual entries for more on that mess), seemingly as a way to get those characters out without importing any new molds. Redecoed versions of Windcharger and Gears have been found on Tailgate and Swerve cards, so presumably the other redecos were similarly sold that way, it just hasn't been confirmed yet.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Mini Vehicles (1986)'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Brawn (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Brawn]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#IGA|Bumblebee]] (yellow, red, blue)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Cliffjumper (G1)/toys#IGA|Cliffjumper]] (red, yellow, blue)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Gears (G1)#Toys|Gears]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Huffer (G1)#Toys|Huffer]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Windcharger (G1)#Toys|Windcharger]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Mini Vehicles (1985)'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#IGA|Bumblebee]] (white or silver)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Hubcap (G1)#IGA|Hubcap]] (white or silver, Cliffjumper mold)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Outback (G1)#IGA|Outback]] (Brawn mold)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Pipes (G1)#IGA|Pipes]] (blue/white or blue/blue, Huffer mold, also sometimes nicknamed "Puffer" like its French counterpart)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Swerve (G1)#IGA|Swerve]] (Gears mold)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:G1-toy_Outback_IGA.jpg|upright=1|thumb|IGA Outback, using Brawn's mold.]]
|}

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===South America===
[[File:Sedan-Blue.jpg|upright=1|thumb|right|Estrela's "Robocar Sedan", 1985 release]]
The 1984 Minicar molds were a staple of [[Generation 1 toylines in Latin America|the many short-lived ''Transformers'' lines released by numerous companies in South America]]. In some cases, they were the ''only'' toys released in said lines... and there's some question marks over the validity of some companies' licensing rights to the line to boot. (We're looking at you, [[Antex]].) As such, these toys ended up in a ''lot'' of different decos not seen in the Hasbro or Takara lines.

Due to their scarcity, all of these can command high price tags regardless of the condition they're in.

====Estrela (Brazil)====
Easily the most well-known of the South American toylines is Brazilian company [[Estrela]]'s, which featured multiple takes on the Minicars (under the name "'''Robocars'''"). Importantly, Estrela made use of the "[[Bumper (G1)#Toys|Bumper]]" mold as a distinct character, with his own new card-art and new character bio.

None of the toys from the 1985 assortment had faction symbols in any form, but the character [[bio]]s (for toys that had them) were either straight translations of the Hasbro Autobot characters' or new ones that didn't make them out to be villainous, and all of the packaging for every release was in Autobot-style red, so fans (and this wiki) have defaulted to treating them as Autobots (and in five of the Robocars' cases, simply new versions of the previously existing Minicar characters).

The 1986 assortment changed this, re-releasing the six prior Robocar molds in two new decoes each, under the same names as before, but this time split into the heroic "[[Optimus (faction)|Optimus]]" and "[[Malignus (G1)|Malignus]]" factions. Due to these new factions, this wiki considers these toys to be separate characters from the previous Brazilian Robocars, though the lack of bio information on any of the packaging honestly leaves ''who'' they are as very open to interpretation. The 1986 toys are particularly sought after and expensive today, the Malignus especially so, 'cuz they are ''gorgeous''.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="99.35%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''1985 Robocars'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Windcharger (G1)#Estrela|Camaro]] (Windcharger) (Red/gray or white/gray)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Cliffjumper (G1)/toys#EstrelaCarrera|Carrera]] (Cliffjumper) (Red/black or gold/black)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Brawn (G1)#|Jipe]] (Brawn) (Green/yellow or khaki/sand)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Gears (G1)|Pick-Up]] (Gears) (Blue/red or red/orange)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Sedan (Robocar)|Sedan]] ("Bumper" mold) (White/black or blue/black)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#Estrela|Volks]] (Bumblebee) (Yellow/black or silver/black)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''1986 (Optimus vs Malignus)'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-mal|[[Camaro]] (Purple/lavender or aqua/yellow)}}
{{Bp-op|[[Carrera (G1)|Carrera]] (White/black or blue/black)}}
{{Bp-mal|[[Jipe (Malignus)|Jipe]] (dark blue/gray or black/purple}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-mal|[[Pick-Up (Malignus)|Pick-Up]] (Light green/purple or wine/magenta)}}
{{Bp-op|[[Sedan (Optimus)|Sedan]] (Yellow/black or green/black)}}
{{Bp-op|[[Volks (G1)|Volks]] (Orange/black or red/black)}}
|
[[File:Estrela-MalignusCamaro.jpg|upright=1.2|thumb|Camaro, 1986 Malignus release. ''Delicious.'']]
|}

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====Antex (Argentina)====
The Argentine ''Transformers'' line, released and ended in 1985, is much smaller than but very similar to Estrela's, which makes sense as apparently [[Antex]] got the licensing rights to ''Transformers'' from Estrela rather than Hasbro directly, which is... of dubious legal standing, but oh well. It has provided a few unique Mini Vehicle decos though.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="99.35%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Robocars'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Windcharger (G1)#Antex|Camaro]] (Windcharger) (blue/black or yellow/black)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Cliffjumper (G1)/toys#Antex|Carrera]] (Cliffjumper) (white/black or green/black)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#Antex|Volks]] (Bumblebee) (red/black or orange/black)}}
|
[[File:G1-toy Cliffjumper-Antex.jpg|upright=1.2|thumb|Antex Carrera]]
|}

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====Rubiplas (Venezuela)====
Venezuelan company [[Rubiplas]] released an ''incredibly'' small and short-lived ''Transformers'' line in 1985... and this is it. Yes, just five Minicars. Most of these are close to the Hasbro/Takara versions, but with cheaper plastic, and often (but not always) missing paint or chrome. But their Huffer ended up inexplicably weird.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="99.35%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Minicars'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Brawn (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Brawn]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#Rubiplas|Bumblebee]] (yellow/black or red/black)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Cliffjumper (G1)/toys#Rubiplas|Cliffjumper]] (red/black or yellow/black)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Huffer (G1)#Rubiplas|Huffer]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Windcharger (G1)#Toys|Windcharger]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:Rubiplas-Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|upright=1|Rubiplas Bumblebee]]
|}

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====Lynsa (Peru & Chile)====
Peruvian company [[Lynsa]] gained the license to manufacture and distribute their own, lower-cost versions of the 1984 Minicars in Peru and Chile in 1985. These toys have numerous cost cutbacks like no chrome, minimal paint, and plastic wheels instead of rubber for the Bumblebee and Cliffjumper molds.

Information on these releases is still fairly sparse; we have only listed the confirmed-with-pictures releases here. Reportedly each mold can have up to six different decos: a cheap version of the original Hasbro/Takara deco (or kinda close at least), and then the rest being unique to this market.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="99.35%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Minicars'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Brawn (G1)/toys#Lynsa|Brawn]] (cream/teal or teal/cream)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#Lynsa|Bumblebee]] (yellow/black, red/black, peach/black)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Cliffjumper (G1)/toys#Lynsa|Cliffjumper]] (red/black or peach/black)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Gears (G1)#Lynsa|Gears]] (blue/red, dark blue/yellow, orange/yellow)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Huffer (G1)#Lynsa|Huffer]] (peachy/blue, peach/yellow, blue/yellow, red/yellow)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Windcharger (G1)#Lynsa|Windcharger]] (red/gray, light gray/blue, green/yellow)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:Lynsa-Huffer.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Lynsa Huffer]]
|}

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==Fiction==
===''The Transformers'' cartoon===
[[File:TeenyCliff.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Alright, either one of them's been doing steroids, or one of them shrunk in the washer.]]
The concept of "Mini Vehicles" was not directly addressed fictionally, but the Mini Vehicle characters were typically drawn to a smaller [[scale]] than other Autobots, particularly in robot mode. Vehicle modes varied a bit more, from Cliffjumper's undersized car, to Warpath's more-or-less normal sized tank. Cosmos regularly [[size changing|size-changed]] to become a transport for other Autobots.

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===Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics===
{{noteukonly}}

{{groupstub}}

===Audiobooks===
[[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] identified himself as a Minicar to Dr. [[Heath Blaisedale]]. {{storylink|Sun Raid (Listen 'n Fun)}}

===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
In 1984, the six Minibots arrived at the [[British Museum]] to confront the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]] in the middle of a theft. [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] grumbled that they should have known better than to tangle with their "betters", to which Cliffjumper responded by attacking with his [[glass gas]]. {{storylink|Cultural Appropriation}}

==Notes==
*During the [[The Transformers (toyline)|original ''Transformers'' toyline]]'s first year, Hasbro referred to the assortment as "Autobot Mini Cars", to distinguish them from the larger [[Autobot Cars]] assortment. By 1985, the assortment (which included the figures that had debuted in 1984) had been renamed into "Mini Vehicles". Additionally, newspaper toy ads from 1986 and (to a lesser extent) 1987 also identified the smaller members (limbs) of the [[Special Teams]] [[combiner]]s as "Special Team Mini-Vehicles".<ref name="toaster">[http://pleasesavemerobots.com/vstp/vstptf86.html 1986 Transformers toy ads] and [http://pleasesavemerobots.com/vstp/vstptf87.html 1987 Transformers toy ads] at the Vintage Space Toaster Palace.</ref>
* One of the very early store advertisements which referred to the Decepticons jets (Starscream, etc.) as "[[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]]" also referred to the Mini Vehicles as "drones". Why "Seeker" stuck and "drone" did not is left as just one of those mysteries.<ref name="savead">1984 "drone" ad [http://pleasesavemerobots.com/vstp/vstptf84.html#aumi84 (scan at The Vintage Space Toaster Palace)]</ref>
* Huffer, Brawn, and Gears, as well as their later derivatives, all have a stylized "M" in the molded detailing of their vehicular modes. Long thought to stand for "Micro Change", information uncovered in the late 2010s indicates that it may be a vestige of the unproduced "[[Mysterians]]" toyline.
* The first wave of Mini Vehicles were the only Generation 1 toys released in Venezuela by the company [[Rubiplas]].
* Since the Mini Vehicle concept is primarily toy-based with limited acknowledgement in fiction, it isn't possible to say with confidence whether certain fiction-only characters are Mini Vehicles or not. Those characters are:
** [[Wipe-Out]], [[Fastback (G1)|Fastback]], and [[Rest-Q (G1)|Rest-Q]], whose bodies are based on the Mini Vehicle toys of other characters.
** [[Early war history records Transformers|Some Tailgate lookalike]], who looks like, uh, the Mini Vehicle Tailgate. Unlike the three above, his resemblance is a coincidence.
** [[Scrounge (G1)|Scrounge]], [[Subsea]], [[Flattop (Marvel)|Flattop]], who are as small as Mini Vehicles and originated in stories that placed them in Mini Vehicle context.
* ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]]'' features Autobots with the [[65356-9292-346]] [[body-type]], which is based on the Minicar concept.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Minibot''' (ミニボット ''Minibotto'')

==References==
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[[Category:Autobot subgroups]]
[[Category:Beast Wars: Uprising subgroups]]
[[Category:Generation 1 subgroups]]
[[Category:Generation 2 subgroups]]
[[Category:Mini Vehicles| ]]

Megatron (G1)/toys

2026-02-06T13:18:17Z

Vanya: Corrected erroneous attribution of the MC-12 & MC-13 Gun Robot Walther P-38 toys as being from the Microman line.

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[[File:G1 megatron boxart.jpeg|thumb|upright=1.95|CROTCH ACTIVATE!]]
Many toys have been made of '''[[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]'''. So many, in fact they have to get their own page!

Due to the popularity of the character and the evergrowing Generation 1 continuity family, this article had become far too large, causing internet browsers to struggle loading all of its contents—and in the most extreme cases—crashing entirely. For the sake of a nice clean split, we have opted to move all of Megatron's ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)|Generations]]'' toys into a separate article which can be found '''[[Megatron (G1)/Generations toys|here]]'''.

==''The Transformers''==
[[File:G1Megatron toy.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|This photo needs an orange cap or someone might shoot the wiki. (''Hasbro release'')]]
[[File:G1toy japanese megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|I blue myself. (''Takara release'')]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Megatron''' (Decepticon Leader, 1984 / 1985)}}</ul>
:*''Takara ID number'': '''16'''
:*''Accessories (Hasbro release)'': Silencer, stock, telescopic sight/"fusion cannon", "high-density infrared [[laser cannon]]"
:*''Accessories (Takara release)'': Sword, "high-density infrared laser cannon", 20 bullets
{{toydesigner|[[Hideaki Yoke]] and [[Takashi Matsuda]] (TakaraTomy)}}

: Released in the first year of the ''[[The Transformers (toyline)|Transformers]]'' toyline, Megatron transforms into an accurate replica of a Walther P-38 pistol... specifically, the unique Walther pistol seen in the popular 1960s spy television series ''{{w|The Man from U.N.C.L.E.}}'',<ref>"U.N.C.L.E. Special" Carbine at CIA Museum, [http://web.archive.org/web/20100324191047/https://www.cia.gov/about-cia/cia-museum/spy-fi-archives/item08.html archived version]</ref> with its specialized scope, silencer and stock. In robot mode, the sight doubles as his signature arm-mounted [[fusion cannon]], but can also be combined with the other attachments to form either a "[[Particle beam cannon|Particle Beam Cannon]]" weapons emplacement that Megatron can man, or a "Telescopic Laser Cannon" that connects to the figure as an over-shoulder weapons array. Megatron also came with a chromed silver "high-density infrared laser cannon" that plugs into either of his hands.

: The toy was originally the Takara ''[[Micro Change]]'' "Gun Robo - P38 U.N.C.L.E." (it also came in other colors with other accessories, which will come up later), which had several features that were altered or omitted from the Hasbro version. The Gun Robo featured a spring-loaded firing mechanism that allowed the toy to shoot ([[for safety reasons|dangerously small]]) plastic bullets one at a time from its barrel. A similar launching mechanism was also built into the stock piece, which could launch the bullets when the accessories were configured into their weapons emplacement mode, or attach to its hip when in robot mode and launch the bullets through his barrel. This feature was removed completely from the Hasbro release of the toy (rather than merely weakened like most launching gimmicks), though the ports into which the bullets were inserted are still present. The stock/scope/silencer pieces can also form a turret that a ''Microman'' figure can sit on and operate (that's what the tiny handles on Megatron's fusion cannon are for), but this feature was naturally left out of the ''Transformers'' version's instructions.

: Megatron has had several variations, reissues and [[redeco]]s released down through the years; this article strives to list each distinct edition of the toy under its own respective series. The earliest variation of the toy came in 1985, when (like all toys originally available in 1984) a factory-applied [[rubsign]] was added to Megatron's right arm, while another version had the rub sign on his left hip guard.

: The following year, when he was no longer a part of the toy assortment sold at retail, Megatron was made available as a mail-away item in the "[[Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction (G1)|Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction]]" flier packed in with boxed ''Transformers'' toys. He cost $21.50 and five [[Robot Point]]s. To coincide with the [[The Transformers: The Movie|1986 animated movie]] release, he was also offered in "[[The Autobots Have a Special Mission for:]]" mail-away pamphlet and came with a special "Movie Edition Certificate" and a round sticker that read "Movie . Edition . Transformer" with the Autobot symbol in the middle; this item is now considered particularly rare.

: Perhaps the most significant variant of Megatron released in these early years was the version of the figure released by [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] in Japan. Instead of using the ''Micro Change'' "U.N.C.L.E." figure as Hasbro had, Takara released the ''standard'' version of the Gun Robo Walther P-38 figure, in its variant color scheme, which featured flat grey plastic on the chest and arms (where Hasbro's toy was chromed), and blue plastic on the inner arms and legs (where Hasbro's was red). Most notably, like that standard ''Micro Change'' figure, Takara's Megatron did not come with the stock, silencer and scope accessories (lacking even the attachment point for his cannon on his right arm), but instead came with a silver-chromed sword, and retained his original bullet-firing mechanism. Takara's [[package art]] for the figure was an entirely different illustration from the Hasbro version, showing this toy's accessories, but it still erroneously showed the figure with red plastic on its limbs. This coloration was later [[Repurposing|repurposed]] by [[e-HOBBY]] for a new character named [[Megaplex#Toys|Megaplex]].

: Megatron is probably the most troubled ''Transformers'' toy in all of ''Transformers''<nowiki>'</nowiki> history, due to being originally developed in a country which had different toy [[For safety reasons#Firearm replicas|safety laws regarding firearm replicas]]. The measures required to alter the toy to not look a realistic firearm enough to be legally sold at retail vary from region to region, with even ''completely un-gun-like colors'' not being enough in some areas. This has of course prevented any reissues of the toy to be released in the US, where it is distressingly easy to own a ''real'' Walther P-38 handgun. Japan, on the other hand, has no such safety laws, and thus Megs gets reissued there quite often.

::*''[http://tfu.info/1984/Decepticon/Megatron/megatron.htm More information on Megatron at TFU.info]''
::*[http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=ngAuAAAAEBAJ Patent info]
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<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1d1|'''Convoy VS Megatron''' (Multi-pack, 1985)}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''VSX'''
:*''Accessories'': Sword, "high-density infrared laser cannon", 20 bullets

: In Japan, Megatron was also made available in a special two-pack with [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Optimus Prime]]. Both toys were identical to their individual releases. In Megatron's case, that means unchromed gray plastic, blue instead of red, and a functional firing mechanism and sword, instead of the scope, silencer and stock.

: This box also used an altered version of the individual release's box-art, turning his head sideways to face Prime, as opposed to the original's camera-facing head position.

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[[File:G1toy gb megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|''The world can be one together, Cosmos without hatred. Stars like diamonds in your eyes...'']]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Good Bye Megatron''' (Multi-pack, 1986)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': Sword, "high-density infrared laser cannon", 20 bullets, targeting sight/fusion cannon

: Megatron was released again as part of a special "Good Bye" set to commemorate his passing ([[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|of sorts]]) in ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'', packaged with [[Starscream (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Starscream]] (who also was now no more). Although it still lacked the chrome seen on the Hasbro version of the toy, this edition of the figure replaced the blue plastic seen on previous Takara releases with Hasbro's show-accurate red, and included the fusion cannon accessory for the first time with a Takara release, complete with the mounting point now added to Megatron's right arm. Though still lacking the silencer and stock, the toy retained its Japanese-exclusive sword accessory and its bullet-firing mechanism, with one modification: the bullets, formerly blue, were now red.

: Despite the change to the toy's colors, the box art on this set, the same art used for the [[Hasbro]] releases, was recolored to match the blue of the ''previous'' releases. Whoops.

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<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Galvatron''' (Decepticon [[City Commander]], 1986)}}</ul>
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[[File:Neutro-fusiontanktoy1.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Uh-oh! Visual interest!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Neutro-Fusion Tank with Megatron''' (Action Master Decepticon Attack Vehicle, 1990)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': Neutro-Fusion Tank, 4 missiles, "twin laser cannon"
{{toydesigner|[[Masakatsu Saito]] (concept artist)}}

: Released in the seventh and final year of the US ''Transformers'' line (sixth and non-final in Europe), [[Action Master]] Megatron is a 3¾-inch non-transforming action figure based heavily upon the character's animation model design. His construction is broadly similar to that used by the ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]'' figures of the time, having a swivel neck, shoulders and knees, plus ball-jointed hips attached via a steel rod internally secured by a rubber "o-ring". His hands have standard 3 mm holes which allow him to hold any other accessory in the Action Master line, plus his feet have holes in the bottom to secure him to larger vehicles. On top of that, the hole in his back is compatible with [[5 mm post]]s.

: He came packaged with the [[Neutro-Fusion Tank]], a large tank vehicle whose hull could transform into a base/gun emplacement, with the turret forming a flight pod.

: In a fairly notable omission, ''Action Master'' Megatron did not come with the character's iconic fusion cannon accessory. In 1992, however, a Japanese fan sculpted his own cannon accessory, which could plug into the figure's arm using the shoulder peg-hole (seen in the image at right). In a surprising move, Takara gave this cannon their approval and allowed it to be officially sold with their copyright stamp at a Japanese convention {{fact|which one?}} for only one day, at the price of 2000 yen.

::*''[http://tfu.info/1990/Decepticon/Megatron/megatron.htm More information on Action Master Megatron at TFU.info]''

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[[File:G1toy 2000 megatron reissue.jpg|thumb|upright=1]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Megatron''' (Destron, 2001)}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''16-S'''
:*''Accessories'': Silencer, stock, telescopic sight/fusion cannon, "high-density infrared laser cannon", sword, 20 bullets

: This reissue of the original Megatron figure combines the best aspects of the Hasbro and Takara versions into the most "complete" version of Megatron available at that point. The set features the chromed chest/arms and red plastic of the Hasbro release, and includes the silencer, stock and sight/cannon, while also coming with Takara's sword and functional bullet-firing mechanisms (and bullets, of course).

:This reissue was redecoed to make the simultaneously-available exclusive "Megatron Black Version" (see below).
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==''Collector's Edition''==
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[[File:G1toy black megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|[[Black redeco|Blacktron]], nemesis of the Space Police.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Megatron Black Version''' (Destron, [[2001]] / [[2009]])}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''16-S'''
:*''Accessories'': Silencer, stock, telescopic sight/"fusion cannon", "high-density infrared laser cannon", sword, 20 bullets

: Where the original Takara Megatron toy made use of variant color scheme of the original ''Micro Change'' MC-12 Gun Robo Walther P-38 toy, this redeco of the 2000 reissue Megatron is an homage to the ''standard'', black color scheme of the original, though serving more as a "What If" for the black MC-12 if it had received the U.N.C.L.E. upgrade with chrome and red plastic like its grey and blue brother. Available exclusively through [[e-HOBBY]] and pre-orders at [[BotCon Japan 2000]], "Megatron Black Version" features dark gunmetal chrome, black plastic instead of grey, and distinctive metallic brown gun handle-grips, fists and "inner helmet". The chrome replaces the flat black plastic chest and arms of the original ''Micro Change'' toy, while the original MC-12's blue has been swapped to traditional Megatron/U.N.C.L.E. package red. The toy was limited to 1000 pieces.

: Sadly, the metallic brown plastic is the sparkly, swirled type and suffers from [[Gold Plastic Syndrome]]. Pegging the sword or rifle into the robot hands or attaching the stock to the handle in gun mode is highly inadvisable unless you only want to do it once.

: This set shipped out to buyers in February of 2001. e-HOBBY later reissued Megatron Black Version in February 2009, now in [[The Transformers: Collector's Edition|Collector's Edition]] packaging. This release includes a [[Destron Leader Megatron Black Ver.|mini-comic]] explaining the story behind the redeco.

::*''[http://tfu.info/2000/Destron/BlackMegatron/megatron.htm More information on Megatron Black Version at TFU.info]''
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==''Generation 2''==
[[File:G2Megatron toy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|G2 Megatron is always ready for tank combat in one of Earth's many green and purple jungles.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d2|'''Megatron''' (Decepticon, 1992)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': Rifle, 6 missiles, sight
{{toydesigner|[[Masakatsu Saito]] (concept artist)}}

: Owing to Hasbro's [[for safety reasons|inability]] to re-release the original Megatron because that toy was a pistol, ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|Generation 2]]'' instead saw the release of an entirely new Megatron toy in 1992, now as a large green M1A1 Abrams main battle tank. His main gimmick is his gravity-fed cannon, which holds four of his missiles at once (the remaining two can store in clips inside his legs) and can rapidly launch them one after the other. Pulling back on the cannon's tab drops a missile into the firing tube and triggers a "lock and load" sound effect, and pressing the launch button is accompanied by a firing sound effect. In tank mode, pressing a panel on his forward section trigger's the toy's infamous battle cry of '''"Megatron Attack!"''', while pressing down on the tank body while it is on a flat surface activates engine noises.

: In robot mode, Megatron is, by the standards of the time, a very large robot, towering over all ''Generation 2'' incarnations of Optimus Prime. His legs are immobile, but he has upper shoulder rotation and elbow joints; when raised, his left arm triggers an electronic laser sound effect. His cannon and all its sound effects still work in this mode, as does his "Megatron Attack!" sound effect, now triggered by pressing down on the figure's head. Megatron also features an autotransforming gimmick on the head, as it pops out once the cannon is slid to the right.

: This sculpt was slightly [[redeco]]ed (with new stickers) as ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars (Japanese toyline)#BWII|Beast Wars II]]'' [[Megastorm#Toys|Megastorm]].

: Furthermore, a [[retool]]ed version of the toy's lock-and-load shoulder cannon (or a new sculpt heavily based on it) was used as the main cannon on the [http://www.yojoe.com/sgtsavage/panther.shtml I.R.O.N Panther Tank] in the very short-lived 1995 ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]'' line ''Sgt. Savage and his Screaming Eagles''.

::*''[http://tfu.info/1993/Decepticon/Megatron/megatron.htm More information on Generation 2 Megatron at TFU.info]''

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[[File:G2-toy Megatron Hero.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|By this point, the purple had almost completely taken over his body.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d2|'''Megatron''' (Hero, 1993)}}</ul>
:*''Takara name'': '''Megatron Missile Tank''' (メガトロンミサイル夕ンク)
:*''Takara ID number'': '''TRF-2'''
:*''Accessories'': Rifle, 2 air-launch missiles
{{toydesigner|[[Masakatsu Saito]] (concept artist)}}

: Megatron was released again the following year as [[Hero (G2)|Hero]] Megatron: a smaller, but similarly styled tank based off the M1 Abrams. In both modes his main cannon is attached to a bellows that launches the included air-propelled missiles when quickly compressed. Both missiles can be kept on Megatron thanks to clips on his turret, which become his robot mode arms, which can also kinda simulate the "classic" Megatron arm cannon to boot by turning them so their warheads point backwards.

: Hero Megatron was designed with articulation in mind, so he is loaded with multiple swivel and universal joints, giving him far greater movement compared to his original ''Generation 2'' toy. However, it's really just friction that keeps his joints tight and his parts together in [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] (no pegs or clips) so after a bit of time and play, he turns pretty floppy. The joints connecting his biceps to his shoulders are also reportedly easy to break due to overly-tight tolerances, so caution is advised.

: In Europe, this toy was released as the nigh-identical [[Archforce#Toys|Archforce]], minus the ''amazing'' "MEGATRON RULES!" detail on its chest sticker.

::*''[http://tfu.info/1994/Decepticon/Megatron/megatron.htm More information on Hero Megatron at TFU.info]''
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[[File:Megatron-G2GoBot.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|He'd be a better shot if he could only see over his hood-chest. (''Hasbro release'')]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d2|'''Megatron''' (Go-Bot, 1995)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': Rifle
{{toydesigner|[[Masakatsu Saito]] (concept artist)}}

: Part of the second assortment of [[Go-Bot (G2)|Go-Bots]], this version of Megatron is a mild [[redeco]] of the Autobot [[Blowout (G2)#Toys|Blowout]], transforming into a 1:64-scale sports car similar to a {{w|Porsche 959}} and through-axle construction. This not only makes him roll exceptionally fast in car mode, but also makes him largely compatible with playsets from the "[[Hot Wheels (franchise)|Hot Wheels]]" and "Matchbox" toy-car lines.

: Megatron and Blowout share the same blue and black inner robot colors, but Megatron uses opaque silver plastic with a shiny metallic silver paint overcoat, as opposed to Blowout's smoky-clear plastic. (All of the toys from the first wave that had transparent plastics were released in this wave with opaques instead; Blowout and [[Firecracker#Toys|Firecracker]] became new versions of Megatron and [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#GobotOptimusPrime|Optimus Prime]] respectively, while [[Gearhead#Toys|Gearhead]] and [[Motormouth (G2)#Toys|Motormouth]] stayed themselves.)

: In Europe, this deco was sold as Blowout himself rather than Megatron (at least in the French/Dutch/German packaging variant).

:[[File:G2-toy Megatron GoBotTakara.jpg|upright=1|left|thumb|(''Takara release'')]]

: Megatron was one of only three Go-Bots sold in the ''G-2'' line, but it was a... weird release. His hood was tampographed with a stylized "T" with the ''Transformers'' logo set within the top bar, the same deco that appears on Go-Bots [[Soundwave (G1)/toys#Generation 2|Soundwave]], as well as the Japanese release of Go-Bots [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#GobotOptimusPrime|Optimus Prime]]. These three toys were sold on cards that were nigh-identical to the Hasbro cards on the front, rather than the usual ''G-2'' style packaging, with only a small bit of Japanese text on the front in the logo. The back side is stylistically close to the ''Generation 2'' packaging, but a "generic" cardback used for all three toys and entirely in Japanese. It's unclear why these toys were released this way; it's possible these were sold in convenience stores or some other similar outlet rather than in conventional toy stores/departments, and the toys are not even present in the normal ''G-2'' pack-in catalogs. Even more oddly, the Megatron shown on the cross-sell is actually a Frenzy with the car panels hand-painted back to silver, and lacks the "T" on the hood.

: This sculpt was also redecod for the third wave of Go-Bots to become [[Frenzy (G1)/toys#Generation 2|Frenzy]], and later still into the [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 toyline)|2001 ''Robots in Disguise'']] [[Spychanger]] [[Hot Shot (RID)#Toys|Hot Shot]].

::*''[http://tfu.info/1995/Decepticon/Megatron/megatron.htm More information on Go-Bot Megatron at TFU.info]''
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[[File:CombatHeroMegatron.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|I AM POWERED BY UNOBTAINIUM!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d2|'''Megatron''' (Hero, <s>[[1995]]</s>)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': rifle, 2 air-launch missiles

: This Megatron was to be a kinda-sorta "arctic"-camo version of the [[#Hero|Hero Megatron]] toy. Packaged samples of this toy were produced, but it was ultimately never released.

: Since much of the advertising for the ultimately unreleased redeco used an older, outdated name for the "Heroes" assortment, "Combat Heroes", Megatron and an [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#HeroRecolorOptimusPrime|equally unreleased redeco of "Hero" Optimus Prime]] are commonly referred to by fans as "Combat Heroes" compared to the original "Heroes" releases, although all evidence suggests that Hasbro had never actually intended such a distinction, instead treating them as mere color variants. Though the packaging is mostly unchanged (including a reuse of the existing packaging art depicting the original release's color scheme), one of the few minor alterations sees the addition of the name "Hero" (rather than "Combat Hero") to Megatron's name above the (otherwise unchanged) UPC barcode.

: At [[BotCon 1996]], a donated Hero Megatron redeco was one of the items in the charity auction, along with several other canceled ''Generation 2'' toys.

::*''[http://www.toyarchive.com/Transformers/Prototypes/Generation2/HeroMegatronProtoMOSC.html "Combat Hero" Megatron in packaging at Super Toy Archive]''
::*''[http://www.transformertoys.co.uk/resources/review/generation+2/camoflague+megatron/3725 Image gallery of a loose "Combat Hero" Megatron at Transformers @ The Moon]''
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[[File:G2toy ATB megs and screamer.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Cancelled?! This is all YOUR fault, Starscream!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d2|'''Advanced Tactical Bomber Megatron''' (Decepticon, [[1995]])}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': 12 missiles, 2 missile launchers

: A redeco of ''Generation 2'' [[Dreadwing (G2)#Toys|Dreadwing]], this two-pack of Megatron and [[Starscream (G1)/toys#ATB|Starscream]] was about as close to "cancelled" as a toy can get while still seeing the light of day at all: released only in test markets in [[Ohio]], USA in very limited quantities, and never getting a wider release. Some of the few known specimens have [[KB Toys|Kay-Bee Toys]] price stickers on their boxes. Megatron and Starscream combine to form a "flying wing" Advanced Tactical Bomber, with an under-slung six-missile gatling cannon that can rapid-fire six missiles by twisting the back end. Each wing can store three more missiles, which can "carpet-bomb" targets below by pressing the pressure-launch buttons above each. Removing Starscream from the jet mode triggers an autotransformation mechanism in Megatron's wings, folding them up and starting him on his way to his third mode as a treaded "tank." According to the Toy Fair 1995 Transformers presentation, the toy's missiles were intended to [[Glow-in-the-dark|glow in the dark]].

: This toy's deco was modified to make ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars (Japanese toyline)#1998 (Beast Wars II)|Beast Wars]]'' [[BB (BW)#Toys|BB]] and [[Starscream (BW)#Toys|Starscream]] out of the same mold-set. Importantly, ATB Megatron uses light gray plastic rather than BB's silver plastic, lacks chrome on his wings, and has pale, supposed-to-glow-in-the-dark missiles rather than bright yellow. The missiles are also [[retool]]ed with a different, pointier back-end, indicating the launchers' interiors were also retooled; this tooling is completely different from the retooling done to each individual later use of the mold, meaning ''none'' of the missiles are interchangeable between them. Of course the stickers are also different, but those can be replicated and put onto a BB, so heads up!

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/issue02/atbmegs.htm ATB Megatron in packaging at TFU.info]''
::*''[http://www.transformertoys.co.uk/resources/review/generation+2/+megatron+atb/3590 Image gallery of a loose ATB Megatron at Transformers @ The Moon]''
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==''Beast Wars''==
{{Note|Very early in the life of the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (toyline)|Beast Wars]]'' toyline (before the debut of the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' cartoon), Hasbro treated the series as an extension of the Autobot/Decepticon war, and so Megatron was presented as being the same character as Generation 1 Megatron.}}

[[File:BWtoy-MegatronBasic.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Go Gators!]]
*'''Optimus Primal VS Megatron''' (Basic Class Two-pack, [[1996]]/[[1997]])
**''Takara ID number:'' '''D-6'''
**''Accessories:'' Gun/tail
{{toydesigner|[[Takio Ejima]] (TakaraTomy), [[Masakatsu Saito]] (concept artist)}}

:The initial version of ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (toyline)|Beast Wars]]'' Megatron transforms into a green alligator. The toy shares a mold with [[Iguanus (BW)|Iguanus]], sporting different beast and robot mode heads and lacking the lizard's frill (though the screw hole for the frill bracket remains); as the two toys were released at the same time, it is unknown if one is a [[retool]] of the other, or if the mold was designed for both simultaneously. Megatron transforms via a spring-loaded one-step process, and his removable [[beast mode]] tail hides a non-firing blaster cannon that becomes a hand-held weapon for his robot mode.

:This mold was redecoed into the purple Megalligator ([[#CDgator|see below]]), released individually to be his own character [[Megalligator]] and a different redeco was proposed for the unproduced [[Albitron]]. The Iguanus version of the mold was redecoed into [[Crazybolt (BW)|Crazybolt]].

::*''[http://tfu.info/1996/Predacon/MegatronGator/megatron.htm More information on ''Beast Wars'' Megatron at TFU.info]''
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[[File:Bwmegatron toy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Don't call him Barney.]]
*'''Megatron''' (Ultra Class, 1996)
**''Takara ID number:'' '''D-1'''
**''Accessories:'' 2 missiles, "poisonous paralyzer fluid" water-squirting gun
{{toydesigner|[[Takio Ejima]] (TakaraTomy), [[Masakatsu Saito]] (concept artist)}}

: This version of Megatron transforms into a purple organic ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', and is loaded with multiple play features. His dinosaur head, which becomes his right hand in robot mode, features a [[water-squirting gimmick]] activated by opening the dinosaur's mouth, while his tail folds into a working plunger-operate pincer that forms his left arm. The outer shells of his dinosaur thighs conceal spring-loaded missile launchers that fire anchor-shaped projectiles, and like all larger ''Beast Wars'' figures of the era, he features a [[mutant head]], formed from two bat-like wing adornments that fold around his robot head.

: This mold was also used to make the ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (toyline)|Beast Machines]]'' [[Dinobot (BM)|Dinobot]] [[T-Wrecks#Toys|T-Wrecks]].

::*''[http://tfu.info/1996/Predacon/Megatron/megatron.htm More information on ''T. rex'' Megatron at TFU.info]''
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[[File:CDMegaligator.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Because a solid grey alligator would just be silly.]]
*'''Amazon Showdown Special Version''' (Two-pack, 1997)
**''ID number:'' '''VS-S1'''
**''Accessories:'' Gun/tail

:This figure is a purple [[redeco]] of Megatron's alligator form ([[#Hero|likely taking his colors from the ''G-2'' Megatron toy]] released in Japan), and was sold with a [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#VSS1|red and white redeco]] of the bat version of Optimus Primal. This toy was released with a bio that indicates him to be Generation 1 Megatron, having been a "Walther P38-type pistol robo" who evolved into a new form by scanning an alligator. The set also came with a CD-ROM featuring tech specs and video clips of the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon cast and images to color.

::*''[http://tfu.info/1997/Destron/MegagatorJapan/megatron.htm More information on Amazon Showdown Megalligator at TFU.info]''
::*''[https://ameblo.jp/aburachoujin/entry-12545863577.html Review including CD-ROM images at aburachoujin's blog]''
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==''Machine Wars''==
[[File:MW-toy Megatron.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|And that's why Thundercracker turned green.]]
*'''Megatron''' (Basic Class, 1997)
**''Accessories'': 2-part rifle

: Sharing a mold with his concurrently-released ally [[Megaplex#Toys|Megaplex]] (using the [[#G2Flipchanger|above-described mold]] developed for ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|Generation 2]]''), ''[[Machine Wars: Transformers|Machine Wars]]'' Megatron transforms from a [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes|Lockheed-Martin F-22 Raptor fighter jet]] to robot mode with a spring-loaded one-step transformation. The two halves of his rifle store in the back of his robot mode legs.

: Oddly, the ''Machine Wars'' stock photos (and even the boxart) portray Megatron as the gray F-22 jet and Megaplex as the blue one, the ''opposite'' of the actual toys. This means that either the package designers made the mistake, or the toys were packaged on the wrong cards. The latter is more likely, since gray is more associated with Megatron than blue... but we list them how they were packaged, oh well. Like most other toys in the line, the boxart was recycled from an earlier figure, in this case from the [[Predator (subgroup)|Predator]] [[Falcon (G1)|Falcon]].

::*''[http://tfu.info/1997/Decepticon/Megatron/megatron.htm More information on Machine Wars Megatron at TFU.info]''
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==''Choro-Q Robo''==
[[File:Choroq megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Does he really count as ''Mega''tron at this size?]]
*'''Megatron TV Version''' (2001)
**''ID Number:'' '''Q/03'''
{{toydesigner|[[Kazutami Abiko]] (TakaraTomy)}}

:''[[Choro-Q|Choro-Q Robo]]'' Megatron is a small, cutesified transforming figure of the Decepticon leader. He is the only ''Choro-Q Robo'' Transformers figure that does not come with a weapon accessory, but after all, he does turn ''into'' a gun. In a bizarre and hilarious touch, Megatron has wheels on his base and barrel, so that he can share the common feature of the ''Choro-Q Robo'' figures: a pull-back motor!

:Sadly, Megatron's gray plastic is ''extremely'' prone to [[Photodegradation|yellowing]] even when not exposed to sunlight and becomes brittle just as quickly, shattering to bits easily. Some copies of the black version also have embrittlement issues.

::*''[http://tfu.info/2001/Destron/ChoroQMegatron/megatron.htm More information on ''Choro-Q'' Megatron at TFU.info]''

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*'''Megatron Black Version''' (2001)
**''ID Number:'' '''Q/04'''

:This version of ''Choro-Q Robo'' Megatron is a redeco of the first, decked out in a metallic color scheme based on the "Black Version" of the reissue of the Generation 1 figure released earlier that year.

::*''[http://tfu.info/2001/Destron/ChoroQBlackMegs/megatron.htm More information on ''Choro-Q'' Black Megatron at TFU.info]''
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==''The Transformers Collection''==
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[[File:G1toy tfc megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|I LOVE YOU KITCHEN GUN]]
*'''Megatron''' (2002)
**''ID number:'' '''6'''
**''Accessories'': Silencer, stock, telescopic sight/fusion cannon, "high-density infrared laser cannon", sword, 20 bullets, [[energon mace]], mouse pad
{{toydesigner|[[Pat Lee]] (packaging artist)}}

:The original Generation 1 Megatron figure was again reissued in 2002 as part of Takara's ''[[The Transformers Collection]]'' series. This release was identical to the previous "D-16 Special" reissue above, in that it featured the colors of the Hasbro release of the toy and all the accessories of both the Hasbro and Takara versions, but this time it also included a new [[energon mace]] weapon which plugs over Megatron's hand, as used by the Decepticon leader in the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|original ''The Transformers'' cartoon]] episode "[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 2]]". Much like the [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|"New Year Special"]] version of Optimus Prime released the previous year, Megatron also came with a sheet of Decepticon [[insignia]] stickers of different sizes, and a Decepticon mouse pad.

: If ordered in several non-Japan sites like BigBadToyStore, Megatron comes with an orange tip installed on his barrel.

: This version of the toy was used to make [[Megaplex#Collector's Edition|Megaplex]].

::*''[http://tfu.info/1984/Decepticon/Megatron/megatron.htm More information on Transformers Collection Megatron at TFU.info]''
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[[File:TFC09ScreamerHoldingMegs.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Sometimes I just... want to be held.]]
*'''Starscream''' (Transformers Collection, 2003)
**''ID number:'' '''9'''

: A diminutive version of Megatron in his Walther P-38 mode was included as a new accessory with the ''Transformers Collection'' release of Starscream. Needless to say, he doesn't transform, but can be held by Starscream in both modes. Megatron's handle disconnects to reveal a peg, which can then be inserted into either of Starscream's fists, which were specifically resculpted for this purpose. Each fist also features a tab on its underside, into which Megatron's handle can be inserted, completing the effect. Megatron can also attach to Starscream's jet mode; the right-hand side of Megatron's handle features a square peg which is designed to fit snugly in gaps in Starscream's pectorals, as in the Generation 1 episode, "[[S.O.S. Dinobots]]". Unfortunately, this peg has, for no fathomable reason, been cast in the same sky blue color as Starscream's hands, unnecessarily making it ''as obtrusive as humanly possible''. An additional tabbed right fist for [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#Generation 1|Optimus Prime]] (complementing his then-upcoming ''Transformers Collection'' [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#Transformers Collection|Convoy]] release) was included as well.

: Megatron's post is compatible with [[5 mm post|5 mm post]] fist holes, provided there is sufficient clearance for both the trigger and the back of the gun, and if you don't mind not using the handle.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2003/Destron/AnimeStarscream/starscream.htm More information on Transformers Collection Starscream at TFU.info]''
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==''Commemorative Series''==
[[File:TF-Commemorative-Series-Megatron.jpg|upright=1.66|Did NOT kill Squadron X.|thumb]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{bp-d1|'''Megatron''' (<s>200?</s>, unreleased)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories:'' Silencer, stock, telescopic sight/fusion cannon, "high-density infrared laser cannon", sword
{{toydesigner|[[Aaron Archer]]}}

: Hasbro attempted to include the original Generation 1 Megatron toy in their ''[[The Transformers: Generation One Commemorative Series|Commemorative Series]]'' of reissues, but his realistic-gun-ness posed [[for safety reasons|a challenge]]. In an attempt to convince Toys"R"Us (the retailer through whom the line was exclusively available) to carry the toy, ''Transformers'' Lead Designer, [[Aaron Archer]] worked on a proposed extensive redeco of the figure, replacing its silver chrome with blue and its grey plastic with bright orange, including the tip of his silencer, in accordance with standard safety measures taken with toy guns. Even this was not enough to convince the chain to release the figure and it was shelved, but the design was shown to fans at [[BotCon 2002]], where it was noted that a potential way to the market the unusually-colored toy would have been to brand it as "'''Lava Megatron'''", depicting the Decepticon leader after his dunk in lava at the end of the cartoon episode, "[[Heavy Metal War]]". Fans, however, had another nickname for it that became better known: "'''Safety Megatron'''". Notably, this version of the toy would apparently have come with Megatron's Japanese-exclusive sword accessory.

:The same images were later shown at [[BotCon 2005]]. Sadly, photography was not allowed at either panel the toy was shown at.

:*''[https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=177341559109628&set=a.129078730602578.24553.129076873936097&type=1&theater Images of "Safety Megatron" on The Spacebridge's facebook page]''
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==''Smallest Transforming Transformers''==
[[File:STFMegatron toy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Not 20th Anniversary Optimus Prime's gun.]]
*'''Megatron''' (2004)
**''ID number:'' '''GTF 07'''
**''Accessories:'' Fusion cannon/scope

: ''[[Smallest Transforming Transformers]]'' Megatron was released in the second wave of the diminutive Takara toyline, including only his fusion cannon. Easily the most complex of the ''Smallest Transforming'' figures, Megatron is a just-barely-simplified version of his original Generation 1 toy, possessing the same [[transformation scheme]] and retaining most of his articulation. The transformation step involving sliding his chest upwards away from his hips is extremely difficult and will usually result in the chest popping off; this is fixable.

:Just as ''Smallest Transforming'' Optimus Prime's trailer was released as a separate figure in the line, so too were a set of silencer and stock attachments originally intended to be released for Megatron in the line's third wave. Unfortunately, this wave, and most of the other original figures it was set to contain, was cancelled, and so Megatron was left under-armed.

::*''[http://tfu.info/2004/Destron/SmallestMegatron/megatron.htm More information on Smallest Transforming Megatron at TFU.info]''

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[[File:Wst vsx megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''Convoy vs Megatron''' (multipack, 2004)
**''ID Number:'' '''VSX'''
**''Accessories:'' Fusion cannon/scope

:Available exclusively as a freebie through the September 2004 issue of [[Dengeki Hobby]] magazine, this ''Smallest Transforming Transformers'' two-pack contains both Optimus Prime and Megatron, in homage to the original 1984 "VSX" giftset containing the original versions of the two leaders. While Optimus is unaltered from his original release, Megatron takes the homage a little further, removing the swirled pattern from the original figure's chest and replacing the red plastic with blue to emulate the original Takara version of the full-size Generation 1 figure.
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==''Robotmasters''==
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[[File:RMtoy reverse convoy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|My Convoy counterpart is nearby. Real nearby.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Reverse Convoy''' (2005)}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''RM-24'''
:*''Release date'': [[May 26]], 2005
:*''Accessories'': "Reverse Blaster", missile

: The only release in the seventh wave of Takara's ''[[Robotmasters (franchise)|Robotmasters]]'' toys, Reverse Convoy is a [[redeco]] and [[retool]] of the ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|Generation 2]]'' [[#Hero|"Hero Megatron" toy]], transforming into a heavily modified blue and tan [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes|M1 Abrams tank]]. In addition to a new "[[Reverse Convoy]]" head that flips out of the same compartment as the head on the original version of the mold, the toy features a brand new "Mega Blaster" cannon assembly that houses most of the toy's new features. The Mega Blaster fires a spring-loaded blue missile, and the rear of the cannon can be removed and transformed into the hand-held "Reverse Blaster" weapon, featuring twin barrels and a rack of six (non-removable) missiles. Once the Reverse Blaster is removed, the toy's "Rebirth Megatron" head can be rotated out from the back of the cannon to take the place of Reverse Convoy's head between the figure's shoulders.

: The toy still retains the opening panels on its forearms, despite no longer featuring the large missiles they are designed to store.

: The original version of this mold was use to make [[Archforce#Toys|Archforce]] and [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 toyline)|2001 ''Robots in Disguise'']] [[Bludgeon (RID 2001)#Toys|Bludgeon]] (which has been [[Repurposing|repurposed]] to also be ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (toyline)|Shattered Glass]]'' [[Bludgeon (SG)|Bludgeon]]) and [[Yellow Megatron]].

: This toy was later [[repurposing|repurposed]] as [[Brightes]] and as [[Blue Megatron]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2005/Destron/ReverseConvoy/reverseconvoy.htm More information on Reverse Convoy at TFU.info]''
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==''Masterpiece''==
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[[File:GunmodeMegsMasterpieceConvoy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Bang bang! He shot me down! Bang bang! I hit the ground...]]
*'''Optimus Prime''' (2003/2004)
**''ID number:'' '''MP-1'''
**''Accessories'': Scope, silencer, stock

:''20th Anniversary'' Optimus Prime included an accessory of Megatron in his classic Walther P-38 altmode. Although non-transforming, it is quite detailed and includes the individually removable silencer / barrel extension, scope, and (hinged) stock. Although notionally [[scale]]d to be wielded by Prime, Megatron is really rather small, so a diagonal sliding joint is added to his handle, allowing it to be lengthened and narrowed enough so that Prime can actually hold it. Both the stock and the sliding butt-end of the handle are made of a soft, rubbery vinyl, compared to the hard plastic of the other pieces. The stock extension connecting clamp is prone to breakage, much to the chagrin of owners who keep theirs sealed and untouched.

:Needless to say, the later-released ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|Starscream]] (and [[Skywarp (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|his]] [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|redecoes]]) can also hold this version of Megatron, and each include a small round clip that plugs in under their nosecones, allowing them to wield Megatron while in jet mode, as Starscream did in "[[S.O.S. Dinobots]]".

:As the ''Masterpiece'' Optimus Prime mold has been has re-released multiple times, so too has Megatron. He was made available again without changes as an accessory for Takara's MP-4, "[[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#MP4|Convoy Perfect Edition]]" and MP-1L, "[[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#MP1L|Convoy Last Production]]", and Hasbro's "[[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#20thDVD|DVD Edition]]", but has also been redecoed several times: these distinct new versions of Megatron are listed below.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2004/Autobot/20thPrime/optimusprime.htm More information on 20th Anniversary Optimus Prime at TFU.info]''

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[[File:MPtoy gold megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|This thing was badass in ''GoldenEye''.]]
*'''Convoy''' (Lucky Draw Figure, 2004)
**''ID number:'' '''MP-1'''
**''Accessories'': Scope, silencer, stock

:Offered as part of a Lucky Draw campaign in August 2004, this extremely rare version of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#MPGold|''Masterpiece'' Prime]] is almost entirely vacuum-metalized gold, lacking any other painted detail or stickers. The same is true of the Megatron accessory, who is all chromed golden save for the butt of his handle and his stock, which are metallic golden plastic.

::*''[http://www.goldoptimusprime.com/ More information on gold ''Masterpiece'' Convoy at GoldOptimusPrime.com]''

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[[File:MPtoy magnus megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''Ultra Magnus''' (2004)
**''ID number:'' '''MP-2'''
**''Accessories'': Scope, silencer, stock

:When ''Masterpiece'' Optimus Prime was recolored to become [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|Ultra Magnus]], Megatron received a new coat of paint as well: the black and brown color scheme of his ''Micro Change'' progenitor, which had previously been used on the e-HOBBY exclusive "Megatron Black Version".

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2005/Cybertron/UltraMagnus/ultramagnus.htm More information on Masterpiece Ultra Magnus at TFU.info]''

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[[File:MP05 megatron.jpg|upright=2.2|thumb|You will pay dearly for this. Literally and metaphorically...]]
*'''Megatron''' ([[March 29]], 2007)
**''ID number:'' '''MP-5'''
**''Accessories:'' Fusion cannon, energon mace, energy dagger, laser pistol, [[Kremzeek]] figure
{{toydesigner|[[Hisashi Yuki]] (TakaraTomy)}}

: Scaled to the same height as ''20th Anniversary'' Optimus Prime and designed in only twelve days by [[Hisashi Yuki]],<ref name="mpmegsdev">[http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/transformers-masterpiece-47/takaratomy-staff-interview-hisashi-yuki-on-masterpiece-180888/ TakaraTomy Staff Interview - Hisashi Yuki on Masterpiece]: - I hear the first Masterpiece figure you created was MP-5 Megatron and you hold the fastest development record with it.
[Yuki]: That is right. (*laughs) I was not assigned to be in charge of it initially, but due to the circumstance within the company I was unexpectedly handed down the project. The schedule came with it and I was stunned when I realised that I was only given 12 days, about 2 weeks...To make it worse, at the time of my receiving the task, even the product size wasn't decided. (*tears)</ref> ''Masterpiece'' Megatron is a very complex figure, one of the most complicated ''Transformers'' toys at the time of its release—designed to depict a fairly [[Show-accuracy|show-accurate]] Megatron capable of transforming into a realistic (if oversized) Walther P-38. In achieving this seemingly impossible goal, Megatron winds up with the least articulation of the ''Masterpiece'' line, as well as a notably low percentage of die-cast metal.

: Like Prime before him, Megatron comes with several of his iconic accessories from the Generation 1 cartoon: his energon mace from "More than Meets the Eye, Part 2", the energy dagger and laser pistol used in his duel against Prime in ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'', and a tiny translucent [[Kremzeek#Masterpiece|Kremzeek]] figure. His fusion cannon also contains a powerful red LED activated when the round detailing on the side of his cannon is pressed. Unfortunately, Megatron lacks the extended-stock and silencer parts to complete his gun mode, leaving him as a standard pistol aside from the mounted-scope made from his Fusion Cannon.

: Due to concern surrounding updated realistic toy gun laws, some online importers modified ''Masterpiece'' Megatron in order to safely get the toy through United States customs. This customarily involved inserting plugs into the tip of the toy's barrel, from rounded red ones affixed by adhesive to [[:File:HLJplug.jpg|flat-tipped yellow ones]] that could be easily removed. Ultimately, there were no reports of problems with the toy making its way into America, but Australia was another matter. Considered a replica gun and therefore a "restricted import" by Australian Customs, both mass shipments and individual packages of the toy were seized, requiring buyers in some areas to obtain a special permit to own him.

: Given the relatively thin clips throughout the toy to hold it tightly together in gun mode, Megatron's plastic components are particularly prone to breakage, especially on the clips on the upper black grip plates and some of the silver sections near the trigger. Many owners of this figure have also reported rust and tarnish problems on what few metal pieces he has; if your Megatron is a sufferer, check out [http://seibertron.com/energonpub/viewtopic.php?t=16106 this guide] for solutions.

:The mace's chain was was reused 16 years later for [[Hasbro Pulse#HasLab|HasLab]] [[Deathsaurus (G1)#Legacy|Decepticon Deathsaurus]].<ref>[https://youtu.be/bGfJQ62ImYc?t=1765] EP1 test shot walkthrough with [[Evan Brooks]]</ref>

::*''[http://tfu.info/2007/Destron/MPMegatron/megatron.htm More information on Masterpiece Megatron at TFU.info]''

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[[File:MPtoy eldedroid megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|... Don't suppose these are [[Megaplex#Collector's Edition|Megaplex]]es now, are they?]]
*'''Convoy Black Ver.''' ([[November 21]], 2009)
**''ID number:'' '''MP-1B'''
**''Accessories'': Scope, silencer, stock

:The version of Megatron included with this black redeco of Prime—representing a mass-produced [[Eldedroid]]—was much the same as the original accessory, but with dark metallic silver paint.

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[[File:MPtoy sleep mode megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Now even ''more'' breakable!]]
*'''Convoy Sleep Mode''' (June 2010)
**''ID number:'' '''MP-4S'''
**''Accessories'': Scope, silencer, stock

:Just as [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#sleepmode|this release]] of Optimus Prime was recolored in the faded black and grey hues of he took on with his death in ''The Transformers: The Movie'', so too did his Megatron accessory get a movie-themed makeover: this Megatron is cast entirely in translucent purple plastics, evoking the scene of his transformation into Galvatron from the film, in which he is first reduced to a transparent purple wireframe model.

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[[File:TRU Masterpiece Soundwave-MegatronGun.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''Soundwave''' ([[January 26]], [[2013]])
**''ID number:'' '''MP-13'''
**''Accessories'': Scope, silencer, stock

:A [[repaint]] and [[retool]] of the Megatron gun originally included with MP-01 and his redecos, the '''Megatron gun''' included with [[Soundwave (G1)/toys#Masterpiece 2|MP-13 Soundwave]] has been retooled in response to the breakage issues the original version suffered from. Both the sliding butt-end of the handle and the stock have been molded in hard plastic instead of the soft rubbery vinyl of the MP-01 version. A joint has been added to the stock connection point on the handle; for the joint in the stock itself, a straight pin has replaced the original rivet-style pin the softer plastic required. The stock itself no longer emulates the transforming accessory from the G1 toy, and instead features a smaller cylindrical shaft that more closely resembles the original U.N.C.L.E Special. In terms of deco, the minute red paint application on the scope is omitted.

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*'''Soundwave''' (2013)
**''ID number:'' '''MP-02'''
**'''09 OF 30'''
**''Accessories'': Scope, silencer, stock

:The [[Hasbro]] version of ''Masterpiece'' [[Soundwave (G1)/toys#HasbroMasterpiece|Soundwave]] also comes with the Megatron gun. It is seemingly unchanged.

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[[File:Megatron mp-13b.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Now in cherry flavor.]]
*'''Soundblaster''' ([[February 22]], [[2014]])
**''ID number:'' '''MP-13B'''
**''Accessories'': Scope, silencer, stock

:A [[repaint]] and [[retool]] of the Megatron gun originally included with MP-01 and his redecos, the '''Megatron gun''' included with [[Soundwave (G1)/toys#MP13B|MP-13B Soundblaster]] features the same retooling as the version released with MP-13 Soundwave, although this time the pieces are cast in translucent red plastic. The only paint application is a silver Decepticon symbol.

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[[File:MasterpieceGoldMegs.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Does not come studded with Swarovski Elements]]
*'''Megatron Gold Ver.''' (December 2014)
**''ID number:'' '''MP-5G'''
**''Accessories:'' Fusion cannon, energon mace, energy dagger, laser pistol, [[Kremzeek]] figure, [[Reflector (G1)#MP5G|Reflector]] figure

: A gold redeco of the original MP-5 mold, Megatron Gold Version is a Hasbro Asia release under the TakaraTomy label (making it the first TakaraTomy Masterpiece to not be released, thus far, in Japan). It comes with all the same accessories as the original release as well as a new, non-transforming Reflector in camera mode.

: This toy was used as "[[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity#Generations Selects Special Comic (1)|Gold Megatron]]," Megatron's super-iest duper-iest [[Super Mode|super mode]] in the ''[[Generations Selects Special Comic]]''.

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*'''Skywarp''' (January [[2015]])
**''ID number:'' '''MP-11SW'''
**''Accessories'': Scope, silencer, stock

:The Asia only MP-11 version of [[Skywarp (G1)/toys#MP11SW|Skywarp]] comes with the original MP-1 version of the Megatron gun.

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*'''Destron Laserwave''' ([[March 26]], [[2016]])
**''ID number:'' '''MP-29'''
**''Accessories'': Left and right fists, translucent right fist, gun barrel (opaque and translucent), saluting right hand (opaque and translucent), "Laser Vulcan", stand, die-cast Megatron Gun accessory (Asia reissue)

:When reissued by Hasbro Asia in 2016, ''Masterpiece'' [[Shockwave (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|Laserwave]] included a non-transforming diecast Megatron gun accessory which could be held by Laserwave. The accessory is similar, but not identical, to the Megatron gun included with MP-01/MP-13. Of particular note, the very detailed single-piece accessory is sculpted with the barrel extension and scope, but not the stock, and features the loop/swirl pattern found on the original toy's robot mode chest.

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[[File:TF-Masterpiece-MP-36-Megatron.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|US/Australia import ban awaiting to happen.]]
*'''Megatron''' ([[April 1]], [[2017]]/[[January 27]], [[2018]])
**''ID number:'' '''MP-36'''
**''Accessories'': Fusion cannon/scope, stock, silencer, energon mace, jointed chain for mace, angry face, smiling face, neutral face, damaged face, chestplate, damaged chestplate, clone control helmet, energy dagger, laser pistol, [[Key to Vector Sigma#MP36|Key to Vector Sigma]]
{{toydesigner|[[Yuki Ohshima]] (concept artist)}}

:The second ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' version of Megatron transforms from a more accurate-looking and well-articulated robot mode into a more realistically-sized gun; those extra design goals make this figure's transformation even more challenging than the 2007 figure (and, really, anything else). He comes with the stock and silencer parts for the gun that the MP-5 mold was missing, which can be combined to create both the "telescopic laser cannon" and "particle beam cannon" arrays the pieces were capable of forming on the Generation 1 toy; the stock also transforms into a "flight stand" that can support the figure in mid-air. In addition to his "regular" face, Megatron has alternate angry and smiling faces, plus a fourth, damaged face that, together with an alternate damaged chestplate, replicates his injuries from ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''. When his face is removed, it exposes a detailed recreation of the interior of his head as it was shown during the "x-ray" sequence in the film, when he was reformatted into Galvatron.

:Like the previous ''Masterpiece'' figure, Megatron comes with the pistol and energy dagger used during his battle with Prime in the movie, and his energon mace from "More than Meets the Eye, Part 2," which this time comes with a jointed plastic chain that allows the weapon to be posed dynamically, in addition to a regular, "real" chain. Finally, he also comes with a diecast Key to Vector Sigma from the [[The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1|two]]-[[The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 2|part]] Generation 1 cartoon episode of the same name, and the clone control helmet he wore in "[[A Prime Problem]]."

:Unfortunately, this figure is prone to paint damage on areas that scrape together during transformation. Significant care must be taken when covering the robot face with the chestplate (or you can just take the face off beforehand as a precaution). It is apparently impossible to attach the silencer without scraping some paint off the gun barrel, not helped by the fact of some copies having the silencer stuck due to the inner plastic piece meant to slide inside the gun barrel being too thick.

:Megatron holds the distinction of being the first ''Masterpiece'' figure with a soundbox, activated by pressing a button on the fusion cannon, with a red switch to give a selection. The three positions of the cannon's sliding switch now denote a singular laser noise, the transformation sound effect (played forwards and backwards), and five speech clips by his Japanese voice actor, [[Seizō Katō]]: "Wa-ha-ha-ha, kono orokamono-me!" (Bwah ha ha ha! You fools!), "Eei, Cybertron o hineri-tsubuse!" (Hrr--crush the Autobots!), "Kono yaku-tatazu mono ga!" (You're all useless!), "Eei, hakai shite kureru wa!" (Grrah, I'll destroy you!), and "Destron gundan, transform!" (Decepticon army, transform!). Due to Katō's death three years prior, Megatron's clips were reused from the [[2005]] [[reissue]] [[Galvatron (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Galvatron]].

:When purchased in some non-Japanese online stores like [[BigBadToyStore]], Megatron comes with an orange plug.
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:On the other hand, Megatron also comes with a [[collector coin]], if bought in Asian countries outside of Japan.

:This figure was reissued by TakaraTomy on [[January 27]], [[2018]].

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[[File:Masterpiece-MP-36+Megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66| I have fewer accessories than the other one while being more nostalgic, I'm just as difficult to transform, but your money is in your hands right now, oh whatever shall you do?]]
*'''Megatron''' ([[December 29]], [[2018]])
**''ID number'': '''MP-36+'''
**''Accessories'': Fusion cannon/scope, stock, silencer, toy-accurate face, neutral face, angry face, smiling face, chestplate, cartoon-accurate chestplate

:A redeco of MP-36, this Megatron replicates his [[#Generation 1|Generation 1 toy's appearance]], complete with vacuum-metalized parts and several stickers. Subsequently, most of the original MP-36 accessories are omitted, such as the Key to Vector Sigma, Clone Control Helmet, and the 1986 movie accessories. However, it maintains all face plates based from the MP-36 mold, but with yellow eyes, and suitable for either figure, as well as adding a shiny chromed version of the cartoon-accurate chest plate, for those who prefer to interpret the Megatron's coloring in the cartoon as silver rather than gray.

:In aid of the "toy-accurate" theme, Megatron's gun barrel is now nominally positioned next to his right hip rather than on his back; this required no retooling as it can also be achieved with the regular MP-36. Among the toy-accurate deco enhancements is the addition of Decepticon logos onto the handle of the gun mode. Due to the transformation pattern, these logos end up [[Wikipedia:tramp stamp|amusingly placed]] on his butt.

:When purchased from a seller supplied by Hasbro Asia, MP-36+ comes with a collector coin. The coin and the card it's mounted on appear almost identical to the one included with the original version, except for a "+" added on the reverse side of the coin, and the "2018" date stamp on the back of the card.

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[[File:TF-Masterpiece-MP-52-Starscream.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Starscream Ver. 2.0''' ([[June 26]], [[2021]])
**''ID number:'' '''MP-52'''

:The all-new-for-2021 ''Masterpiece'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#MP52|Starscream]] includes his own Megatron gun mode accessory, produced without a removable scope or stock. Megatron can peg underneath Starscream's fuselage in his vehicle mode, or his handle can extend for Starscream to wield him in robot mode.

:Despite a history of many ''Masterpiece'' Starscreams and many gun mode Megatron accessories, this is the first time that a ''Masterpiece'' Starscream has actually ''included'' a Megatron!

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[[File:TF-Masterpiece-MP-52-Skywarp.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Skywarp Ver. 2.0''' ([[December 25]], [[2021]])
**''ID number:'' '''MP-52+'''

:MP-52 Starscream's redeco [[Skywarp (G1)/toys#MP52|Skywarp]] also includes the same Megatron accessory, now painted in a slightly darker grey.
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==''Titanium Series''==
[[File:TitaniumGIJoeHeroesMegatron toy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|THE BOX OF DOOM.]]
*'''Megatron''' (6" Cybertron Heroes, 2006)
**''Accessories'': Stand with nameplate
{{toydesigner|[[Don Figueroa]] (concept artist)}}

:Part of the very first wave of six-inch ''[[Titanium Series]]'' toys, Megatron was inspired by [[Dreamwave Productions]]' first ''[[Transformers/G.I. Joe]]'' comic book series, set in an alternate-reality World War II. Since the gun mode Megatron sported in that story was nonviable as a toy, this toy features a newly-designed tank alternate mode of made-up model. The backstory of the Megatron from the crossover, including references to Cobra, was retained on the package, make it the first U.S. figure ever produced as part of a ''G.I. Joe / [[Transformers brand|Transformers]]'' crossover.

:The toy suffers from a number of unusual shortcomings, and proved a rather hefty [[shelfwarmer]]. Notably, due to a large number of [[design flaw]]s, it is known to fall apart very easily, with the crotch coming undone with minimal force and the arms and legs often popping off over the course of basic transformation or even movement. In particular, the lower body is attached to the torso by very thin open clips, unsuited for holding up the weight of entirely [[die-cast]] legs, and the lower arms, which need to be pulled out, are extremely liable to disconnect from their balljoints rather than extending properly. Many of the joints are also extremely loose, owing to both poor construction and the excessive weight of the limbs.

::*''[http://tfu.info/2006/Decepticon/TitMegatron/megatron.htm More information on Titanium Megatron at TFU.info]''
::*''[http://www.yojoe.com/archive/actfig/tmegs/ Packaging images and text at YoJoe.com]''

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[[File:Megatrontitaniumtww.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|THE... NAP OF DOOM?]]
*'''War Within Megatron''' (6" Cybertron Heroes, 2007)
**''Accessories'': Arm cannon, shield, stand with nameplate
{{toydesigner|[[Don Figueroa]] (concept artist)}}

:The second ''Titanium Series'' Megatron is based on his [[Transformers: The War Within|''War Within'']] design and was initially shown at [[BotCon 2006]], and was released in spring of 2007. Like the original comic book design, his robot mode has a removable arm cannon and shield. In contrast to his previous ''Titanium'' toy, this Megatron has a more posable robot mode, but a fairly unimpressive alternate mode with a transformation that consists of little more than lying the toy on its back and attaching the gun/shield. There is a small clip on the back of the toy which designer [[Don Figueroa]] said was to hold his sword, seen in the comic book, but that accessory was ultimately not produced.

::*''[http://tfu.info/2007/Decepticon/TitTWWMegatron/megatron.htm More information on War Within Megatron at TFU.info]''
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[[File:Titanium war within 2pack.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|NAP OF DOOM ''IN'' A BOX.]]
*'''War Within Optimus Prime vs. War Within Megatron''' (Two-pack, 2007)
**''Accessories'': Arm cannon, shield
{{toydesigner|[[Don Figueroa]] (concept artist)}}

:This [[Toys"R"Us]] [[exclusive]] ''Titanium'' two-pack includes the previously-released ''War Within'' Megatron and [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#Titanium|Optimus Prime]] figures along with a copy of [[The War Within issue 5|''The War Within'' #5]] with an exclusive variant cover. Despite being mentioned in the joint [[instructions]] leaflet for the set, the display bases which came with the individual releases of the figures are not included.

:As the mass retail release of the last waves of the ''Titanium'' "Cybertron Heroes" figures was delayed for several months, this two-pack release Megatron was initially more widely available than the individually-sold one. The pack itself was available in two variations: One version has the Optimus Prime figure more or less identical to its individual release, whereas the other one drops the additional black paint weathering, making him much cleaner-looking.
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==''Classics''==
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[[File:Class06-toy Megatron Voyager.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Foam Darts Sold Separately]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Megatron''' (Voyager Class, 2006)}}</ul>
{{toydesigner|[[Eric Siebenaler]] (Hasbro), [[Takio Ejima]] (TakaraTomy)}}

:After years of tanks and jets, ''[[Transformers: Classics|Classics]]'' Megatron finally found a way to take Megatron back to his root as a transforming gun, complete with a working crosshairs in his scope and a spring-loaded clicking trigger. Described on-package as a "fusion blaster", Megatron's gun mode is apparently based on a [[:File:N-strike maverick.jpg|Nerf N-Strike Maverick blaster]], and decked out in a [[for safety reasons|safety-regulation-friendly]] color scheme consisting of lots of green and purple (in an apparent homage to his old ''Generation 2'' colors), plus bright orange on both the tip of the barrel and the scope. Years later, it would be discovered that, for currently unknown reasons, the bright color of this orange plastic would fade over time, even if not directly exposed to sunlight.

:Early [[stock photography|official Hasbro photographs]], including those appearing on the toy's [[packaging]], show the gun mode's trigger and other small parts as being orange, those parts were gray in later stock photography and the final release. They also depict Megatron with noticeably different "eyebrow" [[paint operation]]s that matched those of the original Megatron toy, consisting of two small black triangles on his gray plastic forehead. The finished toy inverts this, painting most of his forehead black and leaving the triangles unpainted grey.

:In a glaring example of poor [[quality control]], the back of the packaging reads "working scope becomes anti-proton pulse ''[[canon]]''!"<ref name="canon">[http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/toys/classics/megatron/928/2/20/ ''Classics'' Megatron's packaging misspells "cannon" as "canon".]</ref>

:''Classics'' Megatron was redecoed in Japan [[#Henkei! Henkei!|as part of]] the ''[[Henkei! Henkei! Transformers (toyline)|Henkei! Henkei!]] Transformers'' line by [[TakaraTomy]]. It was also used for the [[Transformers: Platinum Edition|Platinum Edition]] [[Megatron (G1)/Generations toys#Platinum Edition|Megatron]].

::*''[http://tfu.info/2006/Decepticon/ClassicsMegatron/megatron.htm More information on Classics Voyager Megatron at TFU.info]''

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[[File:Classicstoy ultimate battle megatron.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Former moonwalker extraordinaire.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1d1|'''Optimus Prime vs Megatron: The Ultimate Battle''' (Multi-pack, 2006)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': Rifle
{{toydesigner|[[Eric Siebenaler]] (Hasbro), [[Takio Ejima]] (TakaraTomy)|[[Joe Kyde]] (deco artist)}}

: "Ultimate Battle" Megatron evokes his ''Generation 2'' form as a green tank. Like his pack-in partner, who has a spinning "power punch" action, Megatron features a similar "spinning dervish action" gimmick, his right arm ending not in a fist but a bladed polearm which whirls around with the press of a button at his shoulder. At best, it looks silly, but at worst, it comes off easily. He comes with a small rifle with a rather pointless flip-out stock extension. The tip of his cannon is a detachable piece and can ''very'' easily become lost if care is not taken.

: Megatron is [[misassembly|misassembled]] in-package, with his feet swapped and attached backward. Although not immediately noticeable because the [[:File:MegatronUltimateBattle.jpg|promotional]] and box-art photography also show this misassembly, any attempt to transform Megatron into tank mode immediately demonstrates the mistake, which is easily corrected by unscrewing his lower legs, reversing the foot pieces, and attaching each to the opposite leg (as has been done in the picture at right).

:In the United States, Megatron was only available in a special two-pack with a similarly unique ''Classics'' [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#UltimateBattle|Optimus Prime toy]], and the specially-produced "[[Optimus Prime vs Megatron: The Ultimate Battle|The Ultimate Battle]]" DVD (which is, inappropriately enough, entirely about the [[Unicron Trilogy continuity family|Unicron Trilogy]]). The two-pack (including the DVD) was also available as a [[Walmart]] [[exclusive]] "Bonus Value" version with two randomly selected members of the ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (toyline)|Cybertron]]'' [[Giant Planet Mini-Con Team]], in the combinations [[Overcast (Cybertron)|Overcast]]/[[Longarm (Cybertron)|Longarm]], Overcast/[[Deepdive (Cybertron)|Deepdive]] and Deepdive/Longarm. International markets, including European countries, saw the two-pack in a considerably smaller, differently-shaped box that was lacking the DVD case (in the [[United Kingdom]] and the Netherlands, the DVD just came in a paper sleeve; in other European countries, it was instead made available separately). In addition, the two figures were also sold on [[#cardedultbattle|individual cardbacks]] in some countries (see below). For the United States market, the two-pack was [[rebranding|rebranded]] and [[#universeultbattle|re-released]] in the [[Transformers: Universe (2003 toyline)|''Universe'']] line in 2007, and [[#2010ultimatebattle|again in 2011]] for the [[Transformers (2010 toyline)|2010 ''Transformers'']] line.

:Not initially released in Japan, this sculpt only got a TakaraTomy release six years later when it was redecoed into "[[#UnitedTank|Tank Megatron]]" for TakaraTomy's ''[[Transformers United|United]]'' toyline.

::*''[http://tfu.info/2006/Decepticon/ClassicsDVDMegatron/megatron.htm More information on Classics Deluxe Megatron at TFU.info]''

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[[File:Classicstoy ultimate battle megatron carded.jpg|upright=0.66|thumb]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Megatron''' (Deluxe Class, 2007)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': Rifle

:The "Ultimate Battle" version of Megatron was also sold on his own in several countries: Mexico, Singapore, and some European countries including the [[United Kingdom]], the Netherlands, Hungary and also Russia.

: This release is identical to the two-pack version, down to his misassembled feet.
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==''Universe'' (2003)==
{{anchor|universeultbattle}}[[File:Universetoy ultimate battle.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''Optimus Prime vs Megatron: The Ultimate Battle''' (Multi-pack, 2007/2008)
**''Accessories:'' Rifle

:The "Ultimate Battle" two-pack, sans DVD, was [[rebranding|rebranded]] for inclusion in the ''[[Transformers: Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' toy line, and one was one of the last releases to come out of the line, several years after it had ceased regularly releasing figures. The set appeared in liquidation outlets like Big Lots! and Dollar General stores in Fall 2007, then later in [[KB Toys]] in Summer 2008. The figures remain identical to their previous releases, with Megatron's feet still coming assembled backwards.
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==''Sports Label''==
[[File:Nikeatron.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Some idiots thought I was going to be life-sized! Fools! Foooools!!!]]
*'''Megatron featuring Nike Free 7.0''' (2007)
**''ID number:'' '''02'''
**''Accessories:'' two-part gun
{{toydesigner|[[Hironori Kobayashi]] (TakaraTomy)}}

:''[[Transformers Sports Label|Sports Label]]'' Megatron is a retool of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#Sports Label|''Sports Label'' Convoy]], one of the strangest examples of licensed ''Transformers'' products in that he transforms into a ''shoe''. Something of a [[shellformer]], this baffling incarnation of Megatron is primarily black and silver in his alternate mode as a realistic-looking (if notably undersized) Nike Free 7.0 sneaker, complete with gratuitously long real fabric shoelaces (characterized as "electrical discharge cables" in his bio). In robot mode, he sports some additional red paint applications and a somewhat uniquely-shaped yet instantly recognizable Generation 1-inspired head. Also in this mode, Megatron's feet are sculpted in the likeness of his own sneaker mode, making it seem like he's wearing himself!

:His gun splits into two halves and stores inside his [[kibble]] in shoe mode. It can be held in his hands or mounted on his forearm in traditional Megatron fashion. In an undocumented feature, it has two handle pegs on opposite sides, so that it can be held either at its far end or halfway along its length. The gun halves can also be plugged together in two different ways.

:This mold might have been planned for a redeco into [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Sports Label|''Sports Label'' Starscream]], but that's a bit vague.

::*''[http://tfu.info/2007/Destron/SLMegatron/megatron.htm More information on ''Sports Label'' Megatron at TFU.info]''
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==''Encore''==
[[File:Encoretoy megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''Megatron''' (2007)
**''ID number:'' '''02'''
**''Accessories'': Silencer, stock, telescopic sight/fusion cannon, "high-density infrared laser cannon", sword, 20 bullets

:The original Generation 1 Megatron figure was reissued yet again in 2007 as part of TakaraTomy's new line of ''[[Transformers Encore|Encore]]'' reissues. Like previous reissues, this Megatron features the Hasbro colors and the accessories from both Hasbro and Takara editions of the figure, with the distinguishing new feature of a tan shade to both his gray plastic and his chrome.
{{G1MegatronMold}}
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==''Henkei! Henkei!''==
[[File:Henkeitoy megatron.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|"Megatron's palette must be swapped... no matter the cost."]]
*'''Megatron''' ([[March 13]], [[2008]])
**''ID number:'' '''D-01'''
{{toydesigner|[[Hisashi Yuki]] (deco artist)}}

:''[[Henkei! Henkei! Transformers (toyline)|Henkei! Henkei!]] Transformers'' Megatron is a redeco of the ''Classics'' Voyager Class mold. Not bound by the safety regulations that necessitated ''Classics'' Megatron's more colorful appearance, ''Henkei'' Megatron features a significantly different color scheme of black, silver and red designed to make him resemble his original Generation 1 appearance, including translucent red plastic to replicate his classic cartoon "Decepticon red" eyes. All ''Henkei'' toys feature (somewhat randomly-applied) vacuum-metalized chrome parts; in Megatron's case, his chest plate and kneecaps are chromed silver.

::*''[http://tfu.info/2006/Decepticon/ClassicsMegatron/megatron.htm More information on Henkei Megatron at TFU.info]''
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==''Universe'' (2008)==
{{anchor|2008legend}}[[File:Megatronlegend2008.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|His shoulders hurt too, buddy!]]
*'''Megatron''' (Legends of Cybertron, 2008)
**''Series'': '''Classic Series'''
{{toydesigner|[[Bill Rawley]] (Hasbro)}}

:A [[Legends Class (2005)|Legends Class]] version of Megatron inspired by [[#Generation 2|his ''Generation 2'' tank design]], although featuring a more realistic shade of green.

:Sadly, because of his transformation, when transformed into tank mode his turret doesn't turn around. Some of Legends Class Megatron's transformation shares several similarities to his Generation 2 toy.

:Although his first stock photography features a slightly long turret, the final product had it shortened.

::*''[http://tfu.info/2008/Decepticon/LegendsMegatron/megatron.htm More information on Universe Megatron at TFU.info]''

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[[File:Universe2008-toy SEMegatron.JPG|upright=1.66|thumb|"Psst, my cannon shoots Nerf darts."]]
*'''Megatron''' (Deluxe Class: Special Edition, 2008)
**''ID number:'' '''SE-02'''
**''Accessories:'' Rifle
{{toydesigner|[[Joe Kyde]] (deco artist)|[[Marcelo Matere]] (packaging artist)}}

:This "Special Edition" of Megatron is a redeco of the "Ultimate Battle" Megatron from ''Classics'', this time featuring a Generation 1-inspired deco of grays, red and black. This new deco takes advantage of the toy's mould break-up to add a fifth plastic colour (where the original only had four), dividing the parts which were dark grey on the original version between light grey, red and black plastic. Also marking this figure as a particularly "special" edition is the fact that it's the first release of the figure to assemble his feet the correct way around. Amusingly, his [[packaging]] [[stock photography]] depicts him as ''missing a part'': his cannon's detachable tip is missing, and the tip of the cannon's stub is painted red to somehow compensate for that.

:Like all the figures in the small Special Edition line, Megatron was designed for Australasian markets and features a bookbox style packaging with black-and-white boxart, retailing at about 150% of the price for a normal deluxe outside of the United States. He was not available at retail in North America, but was for sale on Hasbrotoyshop.com, like the other Special Edition toys. Years later, Hasbro liquidated excess stock of the special edition figures through Marshall's stores and were sold for a fraction of the original prices.

:Oddly enough, this Megatron and the three other Universe Special Edition toys were included in Taiwanese special value packs each containing a [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)/home video|''Revenge of the Fallen'' DVD]].

::*''[http://tfu.info/2008/Decepticon/HTSMegatron/megatron.htm More information on Special Edition Megatron at TFU.info]''
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==''Alternity''==
[[File:Alternity Megatron Toy Blade Silver.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Behold, my Inertia Manipulating Device under my Skirt Armor!!!]]
*'''Megatron [Blade Silver]''' (2009)
**''ID number:'' '''A-02'''
**''Accessories:'' 2 "tesseractal swords"
{{toydesigner|[[Hironori Kobayashi]] (TakaraTomy)|[[Hirofumi Ichikawa]] (concept artist)}}
:The ''[[Transformers: Alternity|Alternity]]'' Megatron toy transforms into a 1:32 scale model of a Nissan 370Z and features die-cast metal parts and rubber tires. The figure wields two "tesseractal swords" which can be pegged at its hips, or stored under the car in vehicle mode. Each forearm features a flip-out "gravital blade."

: In the hyper-dimensional world of the oft-confusing ''Alternity'' fiction, each figure from this line represents a distinct version of a character from a separate [[universal stream]], but which precise Megatron the "Blade Silver" toy embodies has not been disclosed. Upon its initial release, this toy was also available in blue (see below), and later redecoed in a black variant as well. It was later redecoed into ''Alternity'' [[Galvatron (G1)/toys#Alternity|Galvatron]].

:[[:File:Alternity Megatron Cannon.jpg|Early concepts]] for ''Alternity'' showed him with the trademark fusion cannon rather than his twin swords, as well as a pronounced Decepticon [[insignia]] on his chest.

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[[File:Alternitytoy blue megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''Megatron [Premium LeMans Blue]''' (2009)
**''ID number:'' '''A-02'''
**''Accessories:'' 2 "tesseractal swords"
{{toydesigner|[[Hironori Kobayashi]] (TakaraTomy)|[[Hirofumi Ichikawa]] (concept artist)}}

: "Premium LeMans Blue" Megatron is a blue redeco of the "Blade Silver" version, representing the Megatron of [[universal stream]] [[BT World|Primax 903.0 Beta]]. The figure was available simultaneously with the "Blade Silver" version, sharing the same packaging and pack-in materials, save for the color of the illustration on the front of the box, and a sticker that identified the figure within.

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[[File:Alternitytoy black megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''Megatron [Diamond Black]''' (2009)
**''ID number:'' '''A-02'''
**''Accessories:'' 2 "tesseractal swords"
{{toydesigner|[[Hironori Kobayashi]] (TakaraTomy)|[[Hirofumi Ichikawa]] (concept artist)}}

: Another redeco of ''Alternity'' Megatron, this time transforming into a black car with robot parts in red and gold, and specifically representing the Megatron of universal stream [[Primax 1286.3 Kappa]]. It was released several months after the first two Megatrons and featured a new package illustration.
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==''United''==
[[File:Unitedtoy cybertron megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''Megatron Cybertron Mode''' ([[December 25]], 2010)
**''ID number'': '''UN-04'''
**''Accessories'': Cannon/missile launcher, energy-blast missile

: Part of the first wave of ''[[Transformers United|United]]'' product, "Cybertron Mode" Megatron is a [[redeco]] of the Deluxe Class [[Megatron (WFC)/toys#Generations|''War for Cybertron'' Megatron toy]], transforming into a Cybertronian self-propelled gun. The treads of his vehicle can be positioned in either a vertical configuration like a traditional tank or in a horizontal, [[Popular Cybertronian vehicle alternate modes#Hovertank|hovertank]] configuration. Megatron's spring-loaded cannon can attach to either arm.

:Megatron is cast in a deep dark metallic gray plastic rather than the light gray plastic of the Hasbro version. He also features a blood red metallic paint instead of the more traditional red used on the Hasbro version. Other notable differences include the Decepticon symbol upon his chest as well as lacking paint on the sliding mechanism within his fusion cannon.

:This mold was also used to make [[Darkside Megatron]].

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[[File:United Megatron voyager toy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|No, I didn't direct any of the ''Taken'' films!]]
*'''Megatron''' (December 25, 2010)
**''ID number:'' '''UN-09'''

:The second ''United'' Megatron (but still part of the first assortment) is a redeco of the Voyager Class mold from ''[[#Classics|Classics]]''/''[[#Henkei! Henkei!|Henkei!]]''.

:This release of Megatron features an extensive silver paint job, as well as metallic crimson for details. This figure's deco is based on the G1 cartoon model, removing any extraneous painted details from the previous releases. The face and eyebrow crest are painted white, giving it an appearance very similar to the initial solicitations of ''Classics'' Megatron.

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[[File:Unitedtoy thunder megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"Megatron rules!" isn't written anywhere on my body, so doesn't that technically make me [[Archforce]]?]]
*'''Tank Megatron''' ([[January 28]], 2012)
**''ID number:'' '''UN-25'''
**''Accessories:'' Rifle

:Tank Megatron is the first Japanese release of the "Ultimate Battle" Deluxe Class Megatron mold from ''Classics'', in a new color scheme paying homage to his [[#Hero|''Generation 2'' "Hero" deco]]. The connection is strengthened by the [[:File:United Megatron Rules.jpg|photo on the back of the packaging]], which depicts Megatron standing in a ruined, burning landscape, surrounded by over a dozen "Megatron Rules" signs.

:Like the 5th and 6th wave figures, Tank Megatron's package feature a sticker that said "limited quantity (数量限定)", indicating that this figure is released in limited numbers after its first and only shipment.

:Like the [[#UniSpecEd|''Universe'' Special Edition figure above]], Tank Megatron features correctly assembled feet. He was originally solicited as "'''Thunder Megatron'''".
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==''Transformers'' (2010)==
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[[File:TF2010-toy Legends Megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Safety first!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Megatron''' (Legends Class, 2011)}}</ul>
{{toydesigner|[[Joe Kyde]] (Hasbro)}}

: Part of the first wave of the [[Transformers (2010 toyline)|2010 ''Transformers'' line]]'s "[[Transformers (2010 toyline)#Hasbro Reveal the Shield subline|Reveal the Shield]]" Legends Class toys, this toy is based on Megatron's Generation 1 cartoon appearance (with a little inspiration from [[IDW Publishing|IDW]]'s ''[[The Transformers: All Hail Megatron|All Hail Megatron]]'' design around the abdomen), transforming into a variation on Megatron's original gun mode (referred to as a "blaster" on Hasbro's website). As he was part of Reveal the Shield, he has a [[rubsign]] on his chest.

[[File:MP Acid Storm-Chronicle gun Megatron-Pull My Trigger.jpg|thumb|upright=0.85|To hell with safety!]]
: In a fit of complete awesomeness, the figure is sculpted with notches in its handle that specifically allow the ''Masterpiece'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|Starscream]] mold to grip it. Additionally, the slightly thicker portion of the barrel closer to the main body can be held by the clip included with ''Masterpiece'' Starscream and attach to his jet mode. Unfortunately, Megatron can only be held vertically.

: Despite his tiny size, Hasbro had to cast much of the gun (his arms, the barrel/fusion cannon, and the upper half of his torso) in orange plastic [[for safety reasons]] (not helped by the fact that [https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-tiniest-cutest-guns-that-shoot-real-bullets-1683682859 functional small guns do exist]). Official Hasbro [[stock photography|stock photos]] and early [[prototype|samples]] from China had the orange plastic on the barrel fully painted over in gray, yet the final toy leaves the end of the barrel unpainted.

::*''[http://tfu.info/2011/Decepticon/RTSMegatron/megatron.htm More information on "Reveal the Shield" Megatron at TFU.info]''

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[[File:TF2010toy ultimate battle.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1d1|'''The Ultimate Battle''' (Multi-pack, 2011)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': Rifle

: ''Another'' [[rebranding|rebranded]] re-release of the ''Classics'' "[[#UltimateBattle|Ultimate Battle]]" set, again lacking the DVD and featuring [[misassembly|misassembled]] feet on Megatron.

: This particular release of the set was available as a "shared exclusive" between Dollar General stores and online retailer [[BigBadToyStore]]. This set was also available at Canadian Tire stores in [[Canada]].

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<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Megatron''' (Legends Class, 2012)}}</ul>

: A [[rebranding|rebranded]] version of ''[[Transformers: Universe (2008 toyline)|Universe]]'' [[Megatron (G1)/toys#Universe (2008)|Legends Class Megatron]] without changes (besides the packaging) was released as a "Dollar Store" exclusive (available at stores such as Dollar General and Big Lots) in generic 2010 ''Transformers'' packaging packaging alongside [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#DollarLegends|Optimus Prime]], [[Starscream (G1)/toys#DollarLegends|Starscream]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#DollarLegends|Bumblebee]].

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==''Kre-O''==
[[File:KreO Megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Megatron''' (2011)}}</ul>
:*''Set number'': '''30688'''
:*''Pieces'': '''310'''
:*''Kreons'': Megatron, [[Shockwave (G1)/toys#Kre-O|Shockwave]], [[Specialist]], [[Police Officer]]
:*''Accessories'': Clip-on Megatron cannon

: While the large brick-built Megatron in this ''[[Kre-O]]'' set is based on the [[Megatron (Movie)|live-action film Megatron]] in his ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]'' body, the accompanying Megatron [[Kreon]] is very much a Generation 1 Megatron, at least from the neck down. The helmet is definitely a "cleaner" take on the movie-style helmet, but those [[tampograph]]s are a simplified version of the [[#Generation 1|original Megatron toy]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2011/Decepticon/Kre-OMegatron/megatron.htm More information on Megatron at TFU.info]''

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[[File:KreO-Toy MegatronCustomKreon.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Gwilled, gwilled, gwilled, gwilled cheese, if you pwease.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Megatron''' (Custom Kreon, 2013)}}</ul>
:*''Set number'': '''A6088'''
:*''Pieces'': '''36'''
:*''Accessories'': Rack, clip-on Megatron cannon, bazooka, Cobra Commander pistol, wing-pack, claw attachment, double-bladed staff

: Part of the first assortment of "Custom Kreons", this version of Megatron comes with a buildable parts rack on which to hang/store his many many extra pieces. His [[tampograph]]s are much more heavily-detailed than the original Kreon, and his plastics have a slight metal-flake sheen. His "normal" helmet and arm cannon are [[Vacuum metallizing|chromed]], plus he comes with an extra clear-plastic helmet, torso and legs. He also has a pair of extra arms and a wing-pack (originally from the ''Kre-O Battleship'' aliens), plus a buildable bazooka, a small pistol (originally [[Cobra Commander]]'s from the ''Kre-O [[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]'' series), a claw-attachment for his wrists, and a double-headed staff weapon.

: The cross-sell advertisement from the back of the packaging features a bizarre error: [[Soundwave (G1)/toys#Custom|Soundwave]] and [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Custom|Starscream]] are mislabeled. Soundwave is labeled as Starscream, while Starscream is labeled as Megatron.

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[[File:Kre-O-Gashapon-Megatron.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Megatron''' (Transformers Kreon Gashapon, 2013)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': Cobra Commander pistol

: In late 2014, twelve Kreons were sold through TakaraTomy's "[[TakaraTomy A.R.T.S]]" [[Gacha]] capsule-toy machines in Japan. Thankfully for the rest of the world, these Kreons are all basically identical to previously-released ones in the Hasbro lines. The Gacha release of Megatron is basically the base Custom Kreon Megatron using his clear-plastic helmet and carrying the Cobra Commander pistol, lacking his fusion cannon (and of course all those other parts and accessories).
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[[File:KreO-Toy MegatronC84.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Of course we take class pics on a bad helm day.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1d1|'''Kreon Class of 1984''' (Kreon figure set, 2014)}}</ul>
:*''Set number'': '''B0090'''
:*''Voted'': Best Frenemies (With Starscream)
:*''Accessories'': Clip-on Megatron cannon

: The [[Kreon Class of 1984]] version of Megatron is ''even more'' toy-based [[tampograph]]s than his prior versions, including his face detailing. Yes, it's a whole new tampograph layout. He's also mostly in metallic silver plastic, yet his helmet remains light flat gray.

:He was only available in a pack of 30 Kreons dubbed the "Kreon Class of 1984". This set was made for sale at [[San Diego Comic-Con]] 2014. Remaining stock was to be sold at [[Hasbro Toy Shop]] online, only there ''was'' no remaining stock after the show.

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<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-multi|'''Brick Box''' (2015)}}</ul>
:*''Set number'': '''B2961'''
:*''Pieces'': '''88'''
:*''Accessories'': Megatron clip-on cannon

: Sold only at discount chains like Family Dollar, this version of Megatron uses the new 2015 style of Kreon hips and torso, with a hollow hip-peg and a central post inside the torso for increased grip... which also makes them incompatible with about four years' worth of Kreons. He also features entirely new face and chest tampographs. So version number four of the same base design.

: The set comes with two bags of ''Kre-O'' parts, one coming from the [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Kre-O|first-year Starscream kit]] (mostly all the small bits and landing gear), the other "new" with some basic bricks and plates. The set has no instructions, as it's just a box of bricks to make whatever with.

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[[File:KreO-toy Megatron BattleChanger Tank.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1d1|'''Optimus Prime VS Megatron''' (Battle Changers 2-pack, 2015)}}</ul>
:*''Set Number'': '''B1508/B0564'''
:*''Pieces'': ''198''
{{toydesigner|[[Evan Brooks]] (Hasbro)}}<ref>[https://youtu.be/PdsHMGVDZFg?si=7IIIhq2AU8jwMnSx Interview] with [[Hasbro]] designer [[Evan Brooks]] on the Triple Takeover podcast, from their YouTube channel</ref>

: Available in a two pack set with [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#BattleChangers2pack|Battle Changers Optimus Prime]], this Megatron uses a base Kreon torso, but the limbs and backpack are extensively built up, allowing him to transform into a Cybertronian tank without removing any parts. His chest tampographs include various bits of battle damage.

: 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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==''G.I. Joe and the Transformers''==
[[File:JoevsTF megatron accessory.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|That's nice, but where's the [[Joey Slick]] figure?]]
*'''Starscream Sky Striker (XP-21F) with Cobra Commander''' (2011)

: Produced exclusively for [[San Diego Comic-Con]] 2011, this redeco of the ''G.I. Joe'' [[Skystriker (vehicle)|Sky Striker]] jet plane [[Starscream (G1)/merchandise#G.I. Joe and the Transformers|into Starscream colors]] comes with a 3.75" [[Cobra Commander#G.I. Joe and the Transformers 2|Cobra Commander]] pilot figure, among whose accessories is a non-transforming gun mode Megatron.

::*''[https://www.yojoe.com/action/11/cobracommander47.shtml More information on Cobra Commander (v47) (with Megatron) at YoJoe.com]''

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[[File:Ninja Force Megatron toy.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"What'sss thisss? A Megatron for antsssssssss????"]]
*''' G.I. Joe featuring Ninja Force and Transformers''' (2017)
:A redeco of the ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)|Generations]]'' [[Megatron (G1)/Generations toys#GenerationsLegends|Legends Class Megatron]] in G2 colors was included in a crossover set sold by [[Fun Publications]]. The toy is translucent to represent a 3D hologram of Megatron's design schematics, thus giving a reason for why it is so small in relation to the other figures in the set. Also included is a redeco of the above gun mode Megatron accessory.

:Also in the box set were [[Ratbat (G1)/toys#G.I. Joe and the Transformers|Ratbat]], the ''Joe'' figures [[Scarlett#NinjaForce|Ninja Force: Scarlett]], [[Sidney Biggles-Jones#G.I. Joe and the Transformers|Dr. Sidney Biggles-Jones]], and [[Cobra Commander#FubPub|Cobra Commander]], a figurine of [[Blackcat (G1)#G.I. Joe and the Transformers|Autobot Black Cat]], and accessories of [[Toaster#G.I. Joe and the Transformers|Autobot Toaster]] and three [[Crusticon#G.I. Joe and the Transformers|Crusticon]]s.

::*''[https://www.yojoe.com/action/17/megatron.shtml More information on Megatron (v1) at YoJoe.com]''
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==''Chronicle''==
[[File:Chronicletoy ez megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Megatron''' (EZ Collection, 2011)

:A redeco of the 2010 ''Transformers'' Legends Class Megatron was released in Japan as part of the ''[[Transformers Chronicle|Chronicle]]'' EZ Collection line. Due to Japan's different gun laws, he is instead cast in gray plastic, with the barrel being fully painted. The gray paint on the aforementioned barrel is also darker and metallic, (instead of Hasbro's glossy light-gray paint) his red [[paint operation]]s are darker, and he replaces the rubsign with a full-color Decepticon symbol [[tampograph]]. This toy was only available [[Blindpacking|blindpacked]].

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[[File:Chronicletoy-CH02G1Megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''G1 Megatron & Movie Megatron''' (Multi-pack, 2011)
**''ID number:'' '''CH02'''
**''Accessories:'' Fusion cannon, "high-density infrared laser cannon", sword, 20 bullets

:This reissue of the original Generation 1 Megatron toy comes in a two-pack with a redeco of ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (toyline)|Dark of the Moon]]'' Voyager Class [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#Chronicle|Megatron]]. This version of Megatron is made to the specifications of the 1986 "[[#GoodBye|Goodbye Megatron]]" release, featuring red plastic (as opposed to the original Takara blue) but lacking any silver chrome, including his fusion cannon but not his stock and silencer, armed with his laser cannon and sword, and retaining his bullet-firing mechanism. Like most Megatron reissues, the toy features a slight variation in plastic colors from previous releases, this time giving him a darker warmer gray than normal. In a new twist, this version of Megatron features tampographed symbols on his chest and back.
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[[File:Chronicletoy ez series2 megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|[[Trukk not munky|Gunn not Tank]]!...no wait, tank is cooler.]]
*'''Megatron''' (EZ Collection, 2011)

:A [[redeco]] of the [[Transformers: Universe (2008 toyline)|Universe]] [[Legends Class (2005)|Legends Class]] Megatron, this time inspired by his smaller ''Generation 2'' "Hero" tank design.
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==''Generations''==
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==''Bot Shots''==
[[File:Bot Shots S1 BP004 Megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Nemesis Prime / Megatron / Acid Storm''' (Multi-pack, 2012)
**''Series'': '''1'''
**''Number'': '''BP004'''
***''Fist strength'': '''170'''
***''Blaster strength'': '''820'''
***''Sword strength'': '''625'''

:Part of the first wave of ''[[Bot Shots (toyline)|Bot Shots]]'' Series 1 three-packs, Megatron is a teeny tank that borrows some elements from both the ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)|War for Cybertron]]'' and ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' Megatron designs. He has [[Autotransformation|a spring-loaded automatic transformation]] to robot mode triggered when his front is pressed, and has a "spinner" in his chest that shows his three attack types and power levels.

:He comes with [[Nemesis Prime (G1)|Nemesis Prime]] and [[Acid Storm (G1)|Super Bot Acid Storm]]. He shares parts with [[Brawl (Movie)#Bot Shots|Decepticon Brawl]] and [[Shockwave (Movie)#Bot Shots|Shockwave]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2012/Decepticon/BS3pkMegatron/megatron.htm More information on 3-pack Megatron at TFU.info]''

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[[File:BStoy-MegatronLauncher.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Megatron Launcher''' (Launcher, 2012)
**''Series'': '''1'''
**''Number'': '''BL002'''
***''Fist strength'': '''530'''
***''Blaster strength'': '''900'''
***''Sword strength'': '''210'''

:Part of the first wave of ''Bot Shots'' Series 1 Launchers, this is a [[redeco]] of the ''Bot Shots'' tank Megatron mold in bronze. He comes with a large "trailer" tank body extension that transforms into a battle station with flip-out cannons and a launching mechanism. The large, main cannon on the launcher has detailing reminiscent of the original [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]'s [[fusion cannon]], such as the "dials" on the sides.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2012/Decepticon/BSLMegatron/megatron.htm More information on Launcher Megatron at TFU.info]''

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[[File:Bot_Shots_Super_Bot_Megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Megatron''' (2012)
**''Series'': '''1'''
**''Number'': '''Super Bot 003'''
***''Fist strength'': '''285'''
***''Blaster strength'': '''465'''
***''Sword strength'': '''870'''

:Part of the third wave of ''Bot Shots'' Series 1 single-packs, "Super Bot" Megatron transforms into a semi-truck with trailer, taking inspiration from the ''[[Kre-O]]'' and ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]'' Megatrons. As a Super Bot, he has more lopsided stats (sorta), and was [[Shortpacking|shortpacked]] one per case.

:This mold was redecoed into [[Motormaster (G1)|Motorbreath]]. He shares parts with [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#Bot Shots|Optimus Prime]] and Nemesis Prime.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2012/Decepticon/BSSBMegatron/megatron.htm More information on Super Bot Megatron at TFU.info]''

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[[File:BStoy-BattlefortheMatrix-LauncherMegatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Battle for the Matrix''' (Multi-pack, 2012)
**''Series'': '''1'''
**''Number'': '''UB003'''
***''Fist strength'': '''875'''
***''Blaster strength'': '''330'''
***''Sword strength'': '''415'''

: This redeco of the tank version of Megatron is cast in a warmer, non-metallic shade of black, with bronze details, a brighter silver face, and brighter red eyes. He comes with a redeco of his launcher, also in black, bronze, and silver.

: The set also comes with [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#BotShotBattleForMatrix|Optimus Prime with his launcher]], [[Brawl (Movie)#BotShotBattleForMatrix|Decepticon Brawl]], [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#BotShotBattleForMatrix|Bumblebee]], and a [[Matrix of Leadership/toys#Bot Shots|Matrix]] prize.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2012/Decepticon/BSBFTMMegatron/megatron.htm More information on Battle for the Matrix Megatron at TFU.info]''

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[[File:BStoy-CybertruckMegatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Megatron doesn't ''need'' your puny windshields.]]
*'''Megatron''' (2012)
**''Series'': '''1'''
**''Number'': '''B018'''
***''Fist strength'': '''800'''
***''Blaster strength'': '''520'''
***''Sword strength'': '''300'''

:Part of the fifth wave of ''Bot Shots'' Series 1 single-packs, this Megatron is a redeco of Super Bot Megatron in opaque plastics and with a painted "tanker" trailer section. The online Bot Shots checklist refers to this toy as "Megatron Cybertruck", a name not found on the packaging.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2012/Decepticon/BSB018Megatron/megatron.htm More information on "Cybertruck" Megatron at TFU.info]''

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[[File:BotShots Dragon Megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Dragon Track''' (Playset, 2013)
**''Series'': '''2'''
**''Number'': '''UB002'''
***''Fist strength'': '''480'''
***''Blaster strength'': '''735'''
***''Sword strength'': '''405'''
**''Accessories'': Launcher

:Available only with the [[Dragon Track]] set, this version of Megatron is a Flip Shot, changing into a purple jet with animalistic styling on its nose, and featuring a robot mode that's inspired more by ''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Prime]]'' Megatron. An impact to the front of the jet will cause Megatron to flip back into robot mode. He comes with a launcher that can be connected to the track, as well as [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#DragonTrack|Flip Shot Optimus Prime and his launcher]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2013/Decepticon/BSDTMegatron/megatron.htm More information on Dragon Track Megatron at TFU.info]''

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[[File:BotShots FireAssault Megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"I—I stayed out in the sun too long, okay!?"]]
*'''Decepticon Fire Assault Team''' (Multi-pack, 2013)
**''Series'': '''2'''
**''Number'': '''T016'''
***''Fist strength'': '''290'''
***''Blaster strength'': '''868'''
***''Sword strength'': '''462'''

:A redeco of the original Megatron mold in red and orange, this version of Megatron was available in a five-pack with similar redecos of [[Shockwave (Movie)#FireAssaultTeam|Shockwave]], [[Starscream (G1)/toys#FireAssaultTeam|Starscream]], [[Barricade (Movie)/toys#FireAssaultTeam|Barricade]], and [[Lockdown (ROTF)#FireAssaultTeam|Lockdown]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2013/Decepticon/BSDFAMegatron/megatron.htm More information on Fire Assault Megatron at TFU.info]''

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[[File:BStoy-SpinShotMegatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|At least, we think it's a car.]]
*'''Megatron''' (2013)
**''Series'': '''2'''
**''Number'': '''B008'''
***''Fist strength'': '''725'''
***''Blaster strength'': '''220'''
***''Sword strength'': '''675'''

:Part of the third wave of ''Bot Shots'' Series 2 single-packs, this Megatron transforms into a vaguely-animalistic black-and-silver car with wings, and with a robot mode that's also inspired by ''Prime'' Megatron. As a Spin Shot, one manually winds up his upper body beforehand when transforming him into vehicle mode, where striking the front of the vehicle will cause him to burst open and spin while auto-transforming.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2013/Decepticon/BSSSMegatron/megatron.htm More information on Spin Shot Megatron at TFU.info]''
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==''BeCool''==
[[File:BeCool TankLorry.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Tank Lorry (Megatron)''' (2013)
**''ID number'': '''B18'''

:''[[Bot Shots (toyline)#BeCool|BeCool]]'' "Tank Lorry" is a redeco of the ''Bot Shots'' truck [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#BotShotSuperBot|Megatron]] mold in orange with metallic silver paint on his head, chest, windshield and tanker section. Instead of game stats, the stickers in his chest spinner feature drawings of his vehicle mode, a gas pump and the {{w|kanji}} for "danger" (危).

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[[File:BotShots_BeCool_HyperTankBaseMegatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|In Japan, it's Megatron who gets ''[[Brawl (Movie)#BotShotBattleForMatrix|ANGRY]]''.]]
*'''Hyper Tank and Hyper Tank Base (Megatron)''' (2013)
**''ID number'': '''BS04'''

:"Hyper Tank" is a redeco of the tank [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#Bot Shots|Megatron]] mold in bright green that comes with the Hyper Tank Base, a dark green and bronze redeco of the Megatron Launcher. His chest stickers now display pictures of the launcher in base mode, Megatron pulling it in trailer mode, and a compass, and he also comes with an additional sticker sheet for decorating the trailer.
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==''EZ Collection Gum''==
[[File:EZC-toy Megatron Gum.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
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*'''Megatron''' (Candy toy, 2012)
**''ID number'': '''4'''
**''Release date'': [[July 30]] 2012

: Part of the ''[[EZ Collection]] Gum'' [[candy toy]] collection made by TakaraTomy A.R.T.S., this Megatron is another redeco of the Universe Legends Class Megatron toy. While the paint application layouts and general color scheme are identical to the ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|Generation 2]]''-inspired [[#Chronicle|''Chronicle'' version]] of the toy, all of his purple plastics are absolutely ''covered'' in metallic purple paint, and his dark gray parts are a glossy-metallic plastic.

: As per the toyline's name, he comes with a yellow candy-shelled piece of lemony-flavored gum.

: His on-package tank mode stock photo is mistransformed: the arms are not folded up to form his tank turret. Whoops.
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==''GT''==
[[File:GT Megatron.jpg|upright=1.2|thumb]]
*'''GT-R Megatron''' ([[July 27]], [[2013]])
**''ID number:'' '''GT-03'''
**''Accessories:'' "EX. Cannon", [[Noa]] race queen figure

: ''[[Transformers GT: Mission GT-R (franchise)|Transformers GT]]'' "GT-R Megatron" is a heavy retool of the ''[[Transformers: Alternity|Alternity]]'' [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#Alternity|Convoy]] toy, transforming into a 1:32 scale replica of the S Road REITO MOLA GT-R race car used by [http://www.mola-international.co.jp/mola.cgi?field=%E3%83%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9D%E3%83%BC%E3%83%84%3C%3E%E3%83%81%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0%E4%BD%93%E5%88%B6 MOLA] in the {{w|Super GT}} racing championship series. He features die-cast metal parts, an opening hood, trunk and doors, as well as an interior, complete with his feet and thighs being sculpted to form the back seats. His armaments include flip-out non-firing blasters on his arms as well as a handheld gun called the EX. Cannon, a weapon designed to resemble the fire extinguishers used at races. Like all ''GT'' toys, Megatron also comes with a [[GT Sister]], a poseable human figure themed after a {{w|race queen}}, his partner being a lady named Noa.

: This mold was also used, with different heads and accessories, to make the other ''Transformers GT'' toys: [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#GT|GT-R Prime]], [[Star Saber (G1)#GT|GT-R Saber]], and [[Fortress Maximus (G1)#GT|GT-R Maximus]].
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==''Go!''==
[[File:Transformers-Go-G09-Hunter-Ratchet.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|The ultimate apotheosis of Megatron, apparently. Don't tell the [[#Alternity|Alternity]] guys.]]
*'''Hunter Ratchet''' ([[August 31]], 2013)
**''ID number:'' '''G19'''
**''Accessories:'' Drill
{{note|[[Ratchet (WFC)/toys#Go.21|''Go!'' Hunter Ratchet]] was [[Repurposing|repurposed]] as the final form of Megatron in "[[Cybertron Magna Convoy]]" and the ''[[Generations Selects Special Comic|Generations Selects]]'' comic.}}

:Part of the fourth wave of TakaraTomy ''[[Triple Combination: Transformers Go! (toyline)|Go!]]'' toys, Hunter Ratchet is a green, black, and translucent-red redeco of the ''Beast Hunters'' Deluxe Class Ratchet toy. Unusually, he's identified as a Decepticon, complete with [[insignia]]! According to a translated version of the bio, Ratchet was captured by the Decepticons, and forcibly exposed to Dark Energon thus mutating him into a Decepticon.

:This toy was previously repurposed as [[Green Megatron]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2013/Decepticon/HunterRatchet/ratchet.htm More information on Hunter Ratchet at TFU.info]''
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==Nike==
[[File:NikeMegatronRises.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|''"Peace through touchdowns."'']]
*'''Calvin Johnson Megatron''' (2013)
**''Accessories'': 2 wings (combine to form fusion cannon), football
{{toydesigner|[[Mark Maher]] (deco artist)}}

:Calvin Johnson Megatron was available with the purchase of {{w|Nike, Inc.|Nike}}'s CJ81 Megatron Trainer Max, inspired by American football player {{w|Calvin Johnson}}, who is [[Megatron (human)|nicknamed]] after the Decepticon leader. A redeco of his [[Megatron (G1)/Generations toys#T30Deluxe|''Generations Thrilling 30'' Deluxe Class toy]], Megatron transforms from robot to stealth bomber, with his wings detaching to form a fusion cannon in robot mode. He features Johnson's signature printed on his chest, and also includes an American football accessory redecoed from the one included with Red Dog in the 2011 ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]'' "Slaughter's Marauders Battle Set" which Megatron is totally incapable of actually holding, though since the ball has a divot carved in one side it can be neatly pegged onto the two prongs on the ends of his forearms.
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*'''Megatron Rises 3-Pack''' (2013)
**''Accessories'': 2 wings (combine to form fusion cannon), football
:The Calvin Johnson Megatron figure was also available in the "Megatron Rising 3-Pack", which includes three pairs of Megatron-themed shoes: the Nike CJ81 Megatron Trainer Max, the Megatron Nike Air Trainer SC II, and the Nike CJ81 Megatron Elite TD Cleat, the last of which is exclusive to the pack. The pack was limited to 81 pieces, in reference to Johnson's shirt number, and available only from Nike's 21 Mercer Street store in [[New York City]], select Nike Yardline stores, and Nike.com.
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==''Construct-Bots''==
[[File:Megatron Construct-Bots.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''Megatron''' (Elite Class, 2013)
{{toydesigner|[[Andrew Scribner]] (deco artist)}}

: [[Construct-Bots]] Megatron transforms into a wheeled tank-like vehicle. He includes the same parts as the Ultimate Class figure however his armor is translucent purple plastic and he features numerous paint differences. He includes giant red swords, blasters, and a projectile-launching gun.
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[[File:ConstructBots 2pack Megatron.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
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*'''Optimus Prime vs Megatron''' (Ultimate Class, 2013)
{{toydesigner|[[Andrew Scribner]] (deco artist), [[Emiliano Santalucia]] (concept artist)}}

: Megatron's Elite Class toy was packed alongside his eternal nemesis [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#Construct-Bots|Optimus Prime]]. This version is identical to his Elite-Class single release in construction, but this version features a more Generation 1-based paint scheme. He retains the gimmickry of the Elite-Class version but also includes a myriad of extra parts; enough to switch his alternate form from a tank to a jet if one were so inclined.

:Megatron's blaster was later redeco/reused for [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Construct-Bots|Thundercracker]] and one of ''Timelines'' [[Oilmaster#Timelines|Oilmaster]]'s weapons.
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==''Hero Mashers''==
[[File:HM-toy Megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|I will destroy Optimus Prime! Then use his arm as a back scratcher!]]
*'''Megatron''' (Battle Upgrade, 2014)
**''Pieces'': '''18'''
**''Accessories'': Backpack, spring-loaded cannon, missile, blaster, energy flail, 2 blaster-pods, "Skywarp" right forearm

: Part of the first wave of "Battle Upgrade" ''[[Hero Mashers]]'' toys, Megatron is a non-transforming action figure with ratchet-joints, about six inches tall. His design is mostly based on Generation 1 Megatron, but with angles and styling very evocative of ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)|War for Cybertron]]'' [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]]. He has multiple peg-holes all over that can be used to mount any ''Hero Mashers'' accessory. As a first-wave figure, he has extra ankle articulation that is not present in later waves (a cut that was made to all ''Hero Mashers'' lines, not just the ''Transformers''-branded ones).

: He is designed with a removable head, forearms, thighs, and lower legs, 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.

: While he is (roughly) the same size as a standard Hero Masher, his larger [[size class|price point]] is made up for with a lot more parts and gimmicks. Both of his hands are removable, which allows for accessories to be placed in his wrist sockets, notably his "energy flail" piece. His ''massive'' "fusion cannon" piece is a spring-loaded missile launcher. He also comes with [[Skywarp (G1)/toys#Hero Mashers|Skywarp]]'s right forearm, which is a [[redeco]] of ''Hero Mashers'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Hero Mashers|Starscream]]'s.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2014/Decepticon/HMMegatron/megatron.htm More information on Megatron at TFU.info]''
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==''EZ Collection''==
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[[File:EZ-Collection-EG-06-Megatron.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''Megatron''' (EZ Collection, [[April 27]], 2013)
**''ID number'': '''EG-06'''

:Another [[redeco]] of the ''[[Transformers: Universe (2008 toyline)|Universe]]'' Legends Class Megatron, this individual carded release of ''EZ Collection'' Megatron features gray plastic with purple-painted hands. His stock photography retains the G2 Decepticon symbol, though the toy proper has original Decepticon symbols.
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==''Bearbrick''==
[[File:Bearbrick Megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|I'm an ''intensive'' care bear.]]
*'''Megatron''' ([[July 17]], 2014)

: A special edition [[Bearbrick]] released in celebration of the ''Transformers'' 30th anniversary, Megatron transforms from a Bearbrick painted up like Megatron to a bear-eared robot. He has no accessories, but holes in his robot mode hands can accommodate other toys' weapons.

: This mold, with a different head sculpt, was also used for the simultaneously released Bearbrick [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#Bearbrick|G1 Optimus Prime]] and the later released [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#Bearbrick|''Age of Extinction'' Optimus Prime]] and the exclusive [[Nemesis Prime (G1)#Bearbrick|G1 Nemesis Prime]], and was further retooled into [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#Bearbrick|Bumblebee]] and [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Bearbrick|Starscream]].
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==''Transformers'' (2014)==
[[File:Transformers-2014-Legion-Class-Megatron.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''Megatron''' (Legion Class, 2014)

:Another re-release of the ''Universe'' Legends Class Megatron sculpt, this time with a slightly lighter shade of green and darker shade of purple camouflage patterns from its previous iterations. Bizarrely, the [[package art]] is taken from the ''Generations'' Legends Class Megatron/Chop Shop two-pack's packaging and half-heartedly recolored–ignoring the black and yellow safety striping from the design the art was originally made for–to match the broad strokes of this figure's deco.

:In the United States, Megatron was found at at discount stores such as Big Lots and Family Dollar. In Australia, he was available at general retail, however was packaged alongside the previous wave of Legion Class figures instead of the wave he was intended for. For unknown reasons, the wave that Megatron was intended to be in was released at general markets in Europe, but did not include Megatron himself.
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==Mega Drive Megatron==
[[File:MegaDriveMegatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|MEEEEEGAAAAA]]
*'''16-Bit Mega Drive Megatron''' (2014)
**''Accessories:'' Cannon, gamepad, game cartridge, cap

: Released under the "TakaraTomy Arts" banner alongside a [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#Optimus Prime featuring Original PlayStation|Sony PlayStation version of Optimus Prime]] and outside of any other toyline, Mega Drive Megatron transforms from robot to a scaled-down Japanese [[Sega]] {{w|Sega Genesis|Mega Drive}} video game console... which coincidentally is about the size of a real-life Mega Drive cartridge. He comes with a gamepad with pushable buttons which splits in two and attaches to his back like a pair of wings. The left side of the console detaches and transforms into an arm-mounted cannon attached to his back via the gamepad's cord. He also includes a cartridge depicting the Japanese release of ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (video game)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' that slots into the console/his chest.

: This figure includes what is most likely the smallest accessory to ever be included with a Transformers toy; a small cap that covers the hole left if one does not insert the gamepad into the console mode. The piece is sculpted to resemble an open slot for a gamepad and is a teensy bit ''smaller'' than even the fist parts for a ''Smallest Transforming Transformers'' [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]].

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[[File:SegaGenesisMegatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Blast processing.]]
*'''Sega Genesis Megatron''' (2015)
**''Accessories:'' Cannon, gamepad, game cartridge

: Sega Genesis Megatron is a redeco and slight retool of Mega Drive Megatron in the form of its North American release, the Sega Genesis. In addition to the changes to the console, the red on Megatron's robot mode has been replaced with purple, and the art on the ''Sonic'' cartridge has been changed to match its American release. Even the packaging is changed to evoke Genesis packaging, right down to featuring (awkwardly translated) English text on the back. This version of Megatron is a TakaraTomy Arts online store exclusive.

: Curiously, the promotional pictures of Sega Genesis Megatron appear to show the retooled "16-Bit" panel molded to read "1'''5'''-Bit", but the final release has it correctly molded.

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[[File:MegaDriveMegatronGold.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Megadroid's strangest body yet.]]
*'''Mega Drive Megatron Gold Ver.''' (2015)
**''Accessories:'' Cannon, gamepad, game cartridge

: A [[Lucky Draw figure|Lucky Draw]] gold chrome redeco of Mega Drive Megatron was one of the prizes in a lottery open to those who purchased the ''{{w|Sega 3D Fukkoku Archives}}'' [[Nintendo 3DS]] game. For this release the cartridge art was changed to that of ''Bare Knuckle'', the Japanese release of ''{{w|Streets of Rage}}'' and one of the games included in ''Sega 3D Fukkoku Archives''. The lottery was open from December 18, 2014 to January 31, 2015, with only 5 golden Megatrons up for grabs.
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==''Q-Transformers''==
[[File:QTransformers Megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Megatron''' ([[April 25]], 2015)
**''ID number:'' '''QT-20'''

:''[[Q-Transformers]]'' Megatron is a small [[super deformed]] toy that transforms from Lamborghini Veneno to robot. He comes with a code for unlocking Megatron as a playable character in the ''[[Q-Transformers: Mystery of Convoy Returns]]'' game.

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[[File:QTransformers BlackMegatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Black Megatron''' ([[November 14]], 2015)
**''ID number:'' '''QT-32'''

:Released appropriately alongside [[Nemesis Prime (G1)#Q-Transformers|Black Convoy]], Black Megatron is a redeco of the previous toy in darker colors with red highlights in new places, blue windows and a Lamborghini logo in place of his Decepticon insignia.

:Although usually sold in Japanese markets, some department stores in Asia had sold the figure as well.

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*'''Decepticons 3-Figure Set''' (2016)
**''ID number:'' '''QTFS-02'''

:During the second ''Q-Transformers'' series, the Megatron toy was available in a three-pack alongside [[Soundwave (G1)/toys#Q-Transformers|Soundwave]] and [[Shockwave (G1)/toys#Q-Transformers|Shockwave]]. He is identical to the original ''Q-Transformers'' toy.
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==''Legends''==
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[[File:Tf-legends-lg-13-megatron.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''Megatron''' ([[May 30]], [[2015]])
**''ID number'': '''LG13'''
**''Accessories'': 2 guns (combine to form rifle)

:''[[Transformers Legends (franchise)|Legends]]'' Megatron is a redeco of the [[Megatron (G1)/Generations toys#Combiner Wars|''Combiner Wars'' Leader Class Megatron]] toy. Aside from the show-accurate paint applications, he also features some changes slightly different from the Hasbro release: Several numbers of his red plastic are replaced with grey, and his Decepticon insignia (slightly larger than Hasbro's) is now tampographed on his chest. He comes with a leaflet featuring a character profile, tech specs, and the [[Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 13|''Legends'' Bonus Edition Vol. 13]] mini-comic. Unlike the original mold, Megatron's Mini-con styled post on his crotch panel/rear tank area has been omitted, which also results in a less secure connection.

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[[File:Legendstoy-MegatronHM.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Who shrunk me?! This is all YOUR fault, Starscream!]]
*'''Galvatron''' ([[July 23]], [[2016]])
**''ID number:'' '''LG23'''
**''Accessories:'' Megatron Headmaster, cannon

:Available with ''Legends'' [[Galvatron (G1)/toys#Legends|Galvatron]], Megatron is a redeco of ''Titans Return'' [[Nucleon (TR)|Nucleon]] and transforms into Galvatron's head. He features paint applications to resemble his appearances in the cartoon, while his Headmaster mode features silver paint on his face, and some purple details.

:This mold was also used to make ''Legends'' [[Megalligator#Legends|Megaligator]].

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[[File:Legendstoy-LG63-G2Megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Beast Wars ''and'' G2? What is this, [[Alignment]]?]]
*'''G2 Megatron''' ([[February 24]], [[2018]])
**''ID number:'' '''LG63'''
**''Accessories:'' Fusion cannon, rifle, Headmaster, [[Noble (BM)#Legends|Noble]] Partner Drone

:''Legends'' G2 Megatron is a redeco of the [[Megatron (G1)/Generations toys#Titans Return|''Titans Return'' Voyager Class figure]] in his "[[#Hero|Hero]]" colors. He also comes with [[Noble (BM)#Legends|Noble]], who is redecoed from [[Fangry (G1)#Generations|Fangry]]'s drone accessory.

:The [[Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 63|accompanying manga]] depicts this toy as a transtector body initially owned by [[Megatron (BW)/toys#LG63|''Beast Wars'' Megatron]] before coming into Generation 1 Megatron's possession. In reference to this dual-purposing, the toy comes with a sheet of stickers, so buyers can cover the Decepticon insignia on its chest with either a G2 Decepticon badge or a sticker replicating the original toy's "MEGATRON RULES!" decal. Two Predacon insignia stickers are also included, with their place of application left to the owner.
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==''au x Transformers''==
[[File:INFOBAR-Megatron.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|"Ring ring, It's TYRANNY calling!"]]
*'''INFOBAR Megatron (BUILDING)''' (2017)
**''Accessories:'' Mini flip-phone, display stand, swappable display cards
{{toydesigner|[[Yūya Ōnishi]] (TakaraTomy)}}

:Released in conjunction with Japanese cellphone maker au,<ref>[http://www.takaratomy.co.jp/product_release/pdf/p170201.pdf TakaraTomy au x Transformers Project press release]</ref> ''[[au × Transformers]]'' INFOBAR Megatron is a retool of the same line's [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#au x Transformers|INFOBAR Optimus Prime]], with a new head and decoed in traditional Megatron colors.

:The INFOBAR figures celebrate 15 years since the 2002 au Design Project that resulted in the INFOBAR cellphone, as well as the 10th anniversary of the [[Live-action film series|live-action films]]. He transforms into a (non-functional) scaled-down replica of the 2002 au INFOBAR, and in lieu of cellphone functions, the figure can be paired via Bluetooth with a smartphone, such as an iPhone, to act as a notification alarm in either robot or INFOBAR mode. The screen is also non-functional, but pre-printed cards are included which can be slid into the screen to show an Autobot logo, Decepticon logo, a mockup of a cellphone home screen, or a technical "Transformers INFOBAR" design. He features articulated hands for grasping the included tiny flip-phone accessory (which can flip open) that is stored in the bottom of the cell phone mode. The figure also includes a display stand.

:The project was crowdfunded through Japanese crowdfunding site Makuake.<ref>[http://news.tfw2005.com/2017/01/31/transformers-x-au-transforming-phones-launch-crowdfunding-campaign-332289 Transformers x au Transforming Phones Launch Crowdfunding Campaign at TFW2005.com]</ref> Both Megatron and Bumblebee could only be obtained by contributing 16,200 yen to the project to receive a package of all three INFOBAR figures; at the 5,400 yen level, contributors received only INFOBAR Optimus Prime. The project received one million yen in the first 24 hours, ultimately topping out at over 32 million yen.

:This figure was differently retooled, with another head, and redecoed into [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#au x Transformers|INFOBAR Bumblebee]].

::*''[https://time-space.kddi.com/au-transformers/ More information on au x Transformers website (Japanese)]''
::*''[https://www.makuake.com/project/au-transformers/ More information on INFOBAR Megatron at Makuake crowd-funding site (Japanese)]''
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==''Authentics''==
[[File:Authentics 5inch Megatron.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Good luck turning me into a blaster.]]
*'''Decepticon Megatron''' (Bravo, 2017)
**''Accessories:'' Tank barrel/fusion cannon
{{toydesigner|[[Emiliano Santalucia]] (concept artist)}}

:''[[Transformers Authentics|Authentics]]'' "Decepticon Megatron" is a figure roughly the size of a 2015 [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 toyline)#Mini-Con Battle Packs|''Robots in Disguise'' Battle Pack]] toy. He changes from an [[evergreen]]-inspired robot into a tank in just six steps, with his fusion cannon doubling as the tank mode's cannon.

:He features two 5 mm-compatible hands, and his head is made out of a slightly soft, rubbery plastic. Like [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Authentics|Starscream]], he actually has elbows, and like all ''Authentics'' toys, Megatron features sculpted insignias on his chest and the sole of his right foot; the latter is visible in tank mode while the former is visible in robot mode.

:Unfortunately, Megatron does not have any functional small wheels on his painted treads (although the rear treads do have slots cut into them for some reason), making them prone to chipping if he is "rolled" along. Sadly, the forearms and the cannon's posts are ''not'' 5 mm/3 mm compatible.

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[[File:TF-Authentics-Bravo-2024-Megatron.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Despite everything, you're still more articulated than your [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#Authentics|arch enemy]].]]
*'''Megatron''' (Bravo, 2024)
**''Accessories:'' Tank barrel/fusion cannon
:Released in the seventh wave of ''Authentics'' Bravo figures, Megatron transforms into a Cybertronian tank in five steps. He features ball-jointed shoulders and hips, though his forward hip movement is obscured by his skirt armor. His fusion cannon can be mounted on his arm, or held in his fists.

:Due to the ball joints, Megatron's limbs, primally his lower legs, are prone to falling out of their joints.

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[[File:TF-Authentics-Alpha-Megatron.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''Decepticon Megatron''' (Alpha, 2018)
**''Accessories:'' Tank barrel/fusion cannon

:Part of the second wave of ''Authentics'' 7-inch toys, this Megatron is functionally an upsized copy of the 5-inch toy above, though with several modifications like the reversed chest, rotating waist, and flip-out chest panel with a head-tucking gimmick, which allows him to transform into vehicle mode from the front view. He also features functional small wheels for the treads.

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[[File:TF-Authentics-Alpha-2024-Megatron.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Wait, they made a ''good'' Authentics toy?!]]
*'''Megatron''' (Alpha, 2024)
**''Accessories:'' Tank barrel/fusion cannon, missile packs

:Similar to the previous Alpha figure, this Megatron is an upscaled version of the concurrently released 2024 Bravo class figure, with a more elaborate transformation scheme from robot to tank in 13 steps along with greatly increased articulation. However, unlike the 2017 figure, the tank mode lacks small wheels inside the treads. The smaller missile packs on his sides are removable. The design of the tank is loosely inspired by ''Revenge of The Fallen'' Megatron's tank form.

:Like the Alpha class [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Authentics|Starscream]] figure, Megatron has trouble standing up due to his small heels, although this can be remedied by rotating the panels of his shins so that the slanted part is facing down. His legs are decently articulated, though his waist impedes forward movement of his legs.

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[[File:TF-Authentics-Titan-Changer-Megatron.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''Megatron''' (Titan Changer, 2019)
**''Accessories:'' Tank barrel/fusion cannon

:Part of the first wave of ''Authentics'' Titan Changers, Megatron changes from a thin robot to a tank. The Fusion cannon can be mounted on either arm or held in either fist via a 5 mm post. Like most Titan Changers, he only features articulation in his ball-jointed shoulders.
:This figure was primarily only available in dollar stores like Family Dollar and similar chains.
:Megatron was re-released in 2022 in Wave 3, and repackaged unchanged in 2023 as his [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#ROTBTitanChanger|live-action film incarnation]] for the ''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (toyline)|Rise of the Beasts]]'' toyline. In 2024 he was [[Megatron (One)#One|repackaged again]] for the ''[[Transformers One (toyline)|Transformers One]]'' toyline.

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[[File:TF Authentics 2026 Prime Changer Megatron.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|I'm still ahead in the game, Prime! ''I'VE GOT A NEW MOLD!'']]
*'''Megatron''' (Prime Changer, 2026)
**''Accessories:'' Mace, [[Fire Blast effect|blast effect]]

:Part of 2026's "Prime Changers" line of ''Authentics'', Megatron is a Deluxe-sized figure that transforms into a tank in 16 steps. He comes with a mace accessory along with a blast effect that can be plugged into his cannon in robot mode and vehicle mode.
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==''Street Fighter II × Transformers''==
[[File:Collab-toy SF2 VegaBison.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|YES! '''YES!''']]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1d1|'''Convoy [Ryu] vs Megatron [Vega]''' (Two-pack, [[2018]])}}</ul>
:*''Release date'': [[May 26]], 2018
:*''Accessories'': Cannon, rifle, Headmaster

:Part of the Japan-exclusive ''[[Street Fighter II × Transformers]]'' toyline, Megatron is a redeco of ''Titans Return'' Voyager Class [[Megatron (G1)/Generations toys#Titans Return|Megatron]] in [[M. Bison]]'s traditional colors, fleshy bits and all. He transforms from robot to tank to fighter jet (both made-up models), complete with [[Shadaloo]] [[insignia]]. The smaller [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] unit's robot mode is also painted to resemble Bison.

:Like all Voyager Class ''Titans Return'' figures, he has a pair of pop-up parts to fill in the area around his head; in this case, a pair of missile racks. However, those parts heavily restrict his neck articulation when deployed; unlike many others in his size class, his chest does not contain a pivoting assembly for a better range of movement. Due to the nature of his transformation, it is possible to transform the figure into tank mode without removing his head.

:His cannon can plug into the short barrel of the tank turret or the rifle/Headmaster vehicle weapon. In an undocumented additional feature, the rifle can be inserted into the front end of the cannon. The cannon can be mounted on his forearm or held by any figure with 5 mm hands. It also has a peg hole that an accessory such as his rifle can plug into, with extra square peg holes specifically to hold the rifle in place.

:Megatron was only available in a two-pack with [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#Street Fighter II × Transformers|Convoy]] <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[Ryu#Toys|Ryu]]<nowiki>]</nowiki>. This set was available for pre-order on [[TakaraTomy Mall]] from [[November 22]] to [[November 27|27]], with orders fulfilled in late May 2018. A pre-order goal was set as well: if 3000 units were pre-ordered in total, the set would also come with clear display stands for both toys.

:This two-pack was later brought to the West in 2022 as part of the ''[[Transformers Collaborative]]'' line, released as a [[Target]] and [[Hasbro Pulse]] exclusive in the United States. These releases are functionally identical to the Takara versions; the Hasbro versions have new manufacturing tampographs, but are otherwise the same. They even have all of the Takara packaging ''inside'' the new Hasbro outer packaging!
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==''Vintage G1''==
[[File:TF-Walmart-exclusive-G1-Starscream-reissue.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Starscream''' (exclusive reissue, 2018)

:A slight redeco of the Megatron accessory that came with the [[#TFCStarscream|Takara ''The Transformers Collection'' Starscream reissue]], this version of Megatron was included with the [[Walmart]] [[exclusive]] [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Vintage G1|G1 Starscream]] reissue under the ''[[Vintage|Vintage G1]]'' label.
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==''Classic Heroes Team''==
[[File:ClassicHeroesTeam-Megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|[[Drill Nuts|Drill? Nuts!]]]]
*'''Megatron''' (All Star Rescan, [[2022]])
{{toydesigner|[[Marcelo Matere]] (packaging artist)}}

:''[[Transformers: Classic Heroes Team|Classic Heroes Team]]'' Megatron converts from robot mode to a drill tank in two steps -- one for the usual automatic transformation, and a second step which points the drill arm forward at the elbow hinge. The drill does not spin.
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[[File:ClassicHeroesTeam-Megatronalligator.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Cowards! Put a Predacon logo on me!]]
*'''Megatron''' (Classic Heroes Team, [[2023]])
{{toydesigner|[[Marcelo Matere]] (packaging artist)}}

:This Megatron converts from robot mode to alligator in two steps -- though the second step is just reorienting the tip of his tail. In alligator mode, he has an articulated jaw and a cannon on his backside. He's an entirely mechanical alligator with a Decepticon logo and sold as "Megatron," so he's probably not [[Megalligator]] no matter how much we want him to be.
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==''Transformers Retro''==
[[File:TFRetro-Starscream.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Starscream''' (Walmart exclusive reissue/redeco, [[2023]])

:Walmart once again [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Transformers Retro|reissued the original Starscream toy]] in 2023–now in more cartoon accurate colours–under the ''[[Transformers Retro]]'' label. He retains the gun mode Megatron accessory first included with ''The Transformers Collection'' Starscream.

:Unlike the original versions of Starscream's fists from ''The Transformers Collection'' reissue, the fists from this version are cast in black plastic and ''painted'' blue. The added paint makes the post on the bottom of his fists thicker than they should be, so attaching the lower portion of the Megatron gun can be difficult.

*'''Thundercracker''' (Walmart exclusive reissue/redeco, 2023)

:The same Megatron accessory was included with [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Transformers Retro|''Retro'' Thundercracker]] a few months later with no notable changes.

*'''Skywarp''' (Walmart exclusive reissue/redeco, 2023)

:The same Megatron accessory was included with [[Skywarp (G1)/toys#Transformers Retro|''Retro'' Skywarp]] later with no notable changes.

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==''Dramatic Capture Series''==
[[File:TF-DCS-Megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|''Watch me dazzle like a diamond in the rough'']]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Nemesis Bridge''' ([[2024]])}}</ul>
:*''Release date'': [[March]] 2024
:*''Accessories'': Fusion Cannon, tank turret/bladed weapon, tank-filler part/shield
{{toydesigner|[[Hisashi Yuki]] (TakaraTomy)}}

:Released as the first entry of the ''[[Dramatic Capture Series]]'' line by TakaraTomy, this Megatron is a redeco of the ''[[War for Cybertron: Earthrise]]'' [[Megatron (G1)/Generations toys#War for Cybertron: Earthrise|mold]] in Generation 1 cartoon-accurate colors, notably slathering him in silver paint.

:Megatron's turret doubles as a melee weapon, though it must be forearm-mounted in order to use the blade. The blade can be a shield if paired with the sword from the ''Siege'' toy. To try and reduce his alternate mode's resemblance to an H-tank, he has a [[Partformer|partsforming]] piece that is attached between his shins. The melee weapon can plug into his back as a back-mounted cannon, much like his G1 cartoon design, and the filler part can be a forearm-mounted shield or mounted onto the bladed weapon.

:It can be difficult to pull his head out while transforming him to robot mode; the strain of doing so can cause the ball joint socket to crack, and form stress marks on his cheeks. This can be remedied by pushing the flap up from beneath using the filler/shield piece tabs. This version of Megatron appears to suffer from [[Mold#Deterioration|mold degradation]], with reports of very loose knees, hips, and shoulder tabs.

:Megatron is packaged with [[Soundwave (G1)/toys#Dramatic Capture Series|Soundwave]], [[Laserbeak (G1)/toys#Dramatic Capture Series|Laserbeak]], and [[Shockwave (G1)/toys#Dramatic Capture Series|Shockwave]]. Also included is a throne/command chair, a reuse of ''[[Studio Series]]'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Coronation Starscream]]'s throne, which was based on the command chair of the ''Nemesis'''s bridge to begin with.
{{WFCSiegeMegatronMold}}

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<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Decepticons Part 2''' ([[2026]])}}</ul>
:*''Release date'': February 2026

:The later ''Dramatic Capture Series'' set "Decepticons Part 2" consisted of [[Skywarp (G1)/toys#Dramatic Capture Series|Skywarp]], [[Kickback (G1)#Dramatic Capture Series|Kickback]], [[Bombshell (G1)#Dramatic Capture Series|Bombshell]], and [[Shrapnel (G1)#Dramatic Capture Series|Shrapnel]]. Included among its accessories was a gun-mode Megatron with removable silencer, a slight redeco of [[Megatron (G1)/Generations toys#E33|the version]] that had first been included with the [[Centurion droid#War for Cybertron trilogy|Centurion Droid]] [[Weaponizer]] pack.
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==''Robosen Flagship Edition''==
[[File:RobosenFlagshipMegatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|''Nobody summons Megatron!'' jk lol go for it]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Megatron Auto-Converting Robot''' ([[2024]])}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': Carrying Case, Sword, Mace, 4 tank shells, Optimus Prime paper target, [[Collector coin]]

: ''[[Robosen]]'' Megatron is a high-end programmable interactive transforming robot. Responding to user voice commands or the Robosen app, Megatron transforms from a 21" tall robot into a tank with functioning treads and firing cannon. His robot mode is highly evocative of the [[Megatron (G1)/Generations toys#Combiner Wars|Leader-Class ''Combiner Wars'' Megatron]] figure, including the vertically-mounted tank treads on his back. Features include 112 different [[LED]] functions, 36 servo [[battery-powered motor|motors]], 118 microchips and over 200 lines of dialogue from [[Frank Welker]]. Unlike previous ''Robosen'' robots, Megatron has a battery level indicator on his chest, and the ability to react to the user's touch. However, like the previous robots, he is unable to stand when powered off in robot mode due to the joints having gone limp. It is, therefore, best to power him off in tank mode. MSRP was $1200 but a special "early bird" price of $899 was available until May 25th.
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==''Synergenex''==
[[File:TF T-SPARK Synergenex Megatron Type Godzilla.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|''History shows again and again / How nature points out the folly of men'']]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-multi|'''Megatron Type Godzilla''' (メガトロン Typeゴジラ, 2025)}}</ul>
:*''Release date:'' [[2025]] [[May 31]]
:*''Accessories:'' blaster, 3 [[Fire Blast effect|blast effect part]]s

:Part of [[T-SPARK]]'s ''[[Synergenex]]'' line of collector-targeted crossover toys celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the ''[[Godzilla]]'' franchise, "Megatron Type Godzilla" is a retool of ''[[Studio Series]] 86'' [[Grimlock (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Grimlock]], decked in colors representing the King of Monsters during the [https://wikizilla.org/wiki/Millennium_era Millennium era]. His dino neck is cast in translucent blue plastic partially painted black to evoke the charging of Godzilla's Atomic Breath, and he also includes stackable blast effect parts, of the same set first introduced for ''[[War for Cybertron: Siege|Siege]]'' [[Omega Supreme (G1)#War for Cybertron: Siege|Omega Supreme]], to represent this fiery attack. He has a new robot head, designed to resemble [[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]]. His blaster, carried over from Grimlock, is now cast in silver plastic.

::*[https://www.takaratomy.co.jp/products/tsparkofficial/synergenex/godzilla Official TakaraTomy website of ''Synergenex'' Megatron Type Godzilla]
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==''MixMashers''==
[[File:TF-MixMashers-Megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Are you sure those tank treads doesn't [[Transformers (2023) issue 14|belong to Starscream?]]]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Megatron''' (2025)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': Fusion Cannon, Left arm/Energon Mace, sword, 2 tank treads, flight pack, 2 blasters

:''[[MixMashers]]'' Megatron is a 5-inch non-transforming action figure modeled after his evergreen design. Like the previously released figure from the ''[[Hero Mashers]]'' line, he features 10 detachable base body parts (which includes the shoulders, something that is not featured in the ''Hero Mashers'' line), all of which use the same clip-peg/hole joint with soft ratchets. Megatron also comes with his signature Fusion Cannon, an Energon Mace arm (with ''very soft'' plastic chain and ball) that can only be mounted onto his left arm due to the forearm panel, a sword, and a pair of tank treads. He is additionally packaged with a pair of black-colored blasters and an orange flight pack that is intended to go with his wave mate [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#MixMashers|Optimus Prime]], who in turn includes a pair of purple blasters and something like a large gray "mega cannon".

:As there are no instructions on how to attach it, good luck finding options for attaching the "mega cannon" to Megatron himself, as the weapon only has a peg hole instead of a clip-peg. If you're creative enough, it can potentially replace one of his arms or be mounted onto the elbow pegs to form an underslung cannon weapon. The black pistols can also attach to the backpack as shoulder cannons.

:Though likely due to inferior glue, the front end of Megatron's Fusion Cannon barrel can be (unintentionally) detached from it.
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==''Swapticons''==
[[File:TF Swapticons Megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|C'mere, cupcake!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Megatron / Shockwave''' (Two-pack, [[2025]])}}</ul>
:*''Accessories:'' Cannon

: Part of the first wave of ''[[Swapticons]]'', Megatron is a small, rectangular figure that transforms into the front half of a treaded assault vehicle. While his nominal placement is as the front half of a tank-like vehicle with his pack-in partner [[Shockwave (G1)/toys#Swapticons|Shockwave]], he can attach to any other Swapticon, front or back, to make whatever silly abomination you feel like unleashing. His side panels/arms are on a hinge, allowing them to swing outward to look like he wants a hug while his head can swivel. His face is a sticker that wraps all the way around his head.

: His treads are connected by a pivot joint just below the arm, but due to the shape and placement of the parts they cannot move in any useful way. He also includes a tank turret to be placed on the top of his vehicle mode. While he and all other Swapticons lack hand holes to wield it, the peg is 3mm so several Core class figures can.
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==Transformers Fan Book==
[[File:TF-Fan-Book-2025-Core-Class-Silver-Tank-Megatron.jpg|thumb|300px]]
*'''''[[Transformers Fan Book 2025]]''''' (TV-Magazine Mook, 2025)
**''Release Date'': September 29, 2025
:*''Accessories'': Blaster/Tank Barrel

:Sold as a bundle with the 2025 issue of the ''[[Transformers Fan Book (series)|Transformers Fan Book]]'', "Silver Tank Megatron" is a redeco of the ''[[War for Cybertron: Kingdom]]'' [[Megatron_(G1)/Generations_toys#War_for_Cybertron:_Kingdom|Core Class]] mold. Differences between the original release include the replacement of the unpaintable gunmetal plastic with a lighter, silvery gray, and the omission of paint on the stomach detail. However, as the left forearm still uses black plastic, it results in greater asymmetry between the two forearms.

:Megatron features his trademark Fusion Cannon, attached with a mushroom joint. He includes a blaster resembling his original pistol alternate mode, which forms the barrel of his (rather unconvincing) tank mode and features a stacked peg with 3-millimeter and 5-millimeter portions for compatibility with other Core figures, as well as larger size classes. As shown in the instructions, but not specifically pointed out as such, the gun can plug into his back to replicate the gun barrel from the G1 figure. As with the base mold, Megatron also suffers from a mildly annoying issue regarding his shoulder joints; the hook tabs can barely lock into place, and they can be dislodged if his arms are bent back in robot mode. Fortunately, the shoulder ball-and-socket joints are loose enough (though not to a greater extent) to counter this.

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==Notes==
[[File:MicroChangeGunRoboWalther.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|[[Megaplex]] Black Version?]]
[[File:Skywarpatron.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|Skywarp really DID need close supervision.]]
[[File:UnmadeVideoCameraMegatron.jpg|thumb|upright=0.85]]
*To date, an exact copy of the black ''[[Micro Change]]'' Walther P-38 toy has not been reissued as a Transformer. The e-Hobby version replaced the blue plastic with red and most of the black plastic parts with dark silver chrome.
*It seems that no one could get Megatron's [[package art]] right in Japan. His standard release used edited box art from the standard Micro Change P-38 toy's black deco, recolored to Megatron's US toy color scheme with shiny "chrome" and red on his legs and arms instead of the Japanese toy's flat gray and blue. The VS-X art replaced the red with blue, but kept the "chrome". The art on the "Goodbye Megatron" set used edited US box art (which in turn was the Micro Change P-38 UNCLE art with an added sigil) that replaced the red with blue, yet this toy used red plastic.
*In a fit of madness, a triple changer was proposed that would switch between [[Skywarp (G1)/toys|Skywarp]] (possibly mistaken for Starscream), Megatron, and Skywarp's jet mode.
*In a slightly more sane attempt, [[:File:Megalvatron.jpg|another triple changer]] was proposed which would switch between Megatron, a very awkward [[Galvatron (G1)/toys|Galvatron]], and a Walther P-38 handgun with a futuristic silencer and laser sight.
*Two kitbashed mock-ups of Megatron as a '90s video camcorder exist, one using the ''Generation 2'' tank Megatron mold to showcase a robot mode, and a nontransforming camera model. According to [[Vincent D'Alleva]], during the short turbulent period after G2 and before Beast Wars, one of the ideas floated was going back to highly realistic electronics for the line, and camcorder Megatron was a proof of concept model before it was decided that Beast Wars was the more viable option [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVRZdx1fFz8&ab_channel=TheToyFilesPodcast]. The mock-up was originally offered for sale in [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.toys.transformers/browse_thread/thread/4f98fe3d58bfe696/b1d0163d38587281?q=ramjet+whiz+bang+toys&pli=1 October of 2000] from Whiz Bang Collectibles, along with other items from a former Hasbro employee's collection.<ref>[http://www.toyarchive.com/Transformers/Prototypes/Generation2/MegatronVideoCameraMock1.html Megatron Video Camera at Toyarchive.com]</ref>
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==References==
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==External links==
*[http://tfu.info/1984/Decepticon/Megatron/megatron.htm Megatron at TFU.info]
*[http://www.transformertoys.co.uk/content.php?/transformers-toys/toy-gallery/1783/Generation+2/Megatron+ATB.html Gallery of ATB Megatron with comparison to BB at Transformers At the Moon]
*[http://www.theunclegun.com/ Unclegun.com - The Walther P-38 as seen in The Man from U.N.C.L.E.]
*[http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=ngAuAAAAEBAJ Megatrons patent]

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Megaplex

2026-02-06T13:06:16Z

Vanya: Corrected erroneous attribution of the MC-12 Gun Robo Wlather P-38 mould as having originated in Takara's Microman line.

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:''Megaplex is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Machine Wars: Transformers|Machine Wars]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''
[[File:MegaplexArt1.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|I hear the new Cybertron Megaplex has over 30 screens!]]
'''Megaplex''' is one of a series of specially constructed clones of [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]. He exists to foment confusion in the [[Autobot]] ranks and protect against traitors among the Decepticons. He has led many battles in Megatron's stead.<ref>''Machine Wars'' Megaplex profile card</ref>

While Megaplex is ideally endowed with the same power as the original Megatron, the Decepticons' true leader is no fool. Realizing that a being based so closely on his own nature and with equal power would be quite likely to make a play to permanently replace him, Megatron thus had his clones constructed with a failsafe device that significantly restricts their abilities. Thus, though Megaplex is easily able to pass as Megatron for short periods of time, his intelligence, strength, firepower, and skill are capped at levels significantly below those of the ''real'' Megatron. The deception is likely to work best on the battlefield, from a distance, or when Megaplex is following a strict script set by the original.<ref>''Collector's Edition'' Megaplex profile card</ref>

Megaplex prefers close-quarters combat, tearing into his opponents with his electron sword and energy flail. For artillery he prefers liquid helium "Freeze Shells".

{{quote|His code is in my processor. His brain impulses are in my head. He is at my core. Megatron haunts me, and yet my very existence honors him.|Megaplex|"[[Termination]]"}}

==Fiction==
===''Legends'' comic===
During the battle for the [[Transform Super Cog]] in the late 1980s, Megatron used Megaplex as a decoy on the battlefield. When the [[Jumpstarter]]s were fooled and blasted Megaplex, Megatron seized the opportunity and sicced [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]] on the [[Autobot]]s. {{Storylink|Slugslinger's Ambition}}

===''Wings Universe''===
[[File:MegaplexandhisMegatronpersona-ACommonFoe.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.2]]

Determined to ensure a peaceful [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] by any means necessary, [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]] concluded that the old Cybertronian race needed to be wiped out in order to make way for a new, peaceful second generation. To achieve this goal, he created an army of clones governed by clone generals of some of the most effective warriors in Cybertronian history. Reluctantly, Jhiaxus realized his army would be most efficient if it were commanded by the greatest conqueror of all time: [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]]. Working in his laboratory, Jhiaxus attempted to create a balanced clone general, possessing all of Megatron's valued aggression, cunning, and battlefield skill, but limiting the ego and bloodthirstiness that led him down the Decepticon path. Jhiaxus's final efforts created a divergent copy of Megatron, called Megaplex. {{storylink|Termination|Megaplex's Tech Specs profile}} When Megaplex first emerged from the cloning process, Jhiaxus found that the duplicate's persona did not fit his agenda, and so attempted to bury the “Megatron” within Megaplex with a more manageable personality. {{storylink|A Common Foe}}

Megaplex proved a force to be reckoned with on the battlefield. As the [[Machine Wars (event)|Machine Wars]] began, his army cut a path through space, conquering Cybertronian outposts and colonies along the way. He even brought down [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] and [[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]] as the campaign carried him towards the homeworld. {{storylink|A Flash Forward, Part 6}}

By the time the clone army lay siege to Cybertron itself and claimed the capital of Iacon, however, Megaplex had become conflicted in his attitudes. Although he knew his programming and his master Jhiaxus's will, Megaplex began to see the glories in war that once appealed to his template, Megatron. During a confrontation with the Autobot resistance general [[Obsidian (BM)|Obsidian]], Megaplex was repeatedly goaded by his resemblance to Megatron, bringing to the surface his true megalomaniacal personality. This outburst activated a sleeper agent in the Autobot forces: [[Sandstorm (MW)|Sandstorm]]. Secretly one of Jhiaxus's clones, Sandstorm declared that Megaplex had failed to overcome the burden of his template's personality, and Jhiaxus had now decreed Megaplex would be terminated with the other original Cybertronians. {{storylink|Termination}}

As the battle continued, Megaplex's "Megatron" personality resurfaced, immobilizing Megaplex. Haunted by his other self, and taunted by accusations of being weak, Megaplex lashed out and expunged Megatron's essence from his mind. Now freed from his split of consciousness, Megaplex proceeded to exact vengeance on Jhiaxus. He enacted said vengeance by impaling the Cybertronian leader through the chest, after Jhiaxus had already surrendered to the united Autobot-Decepticon army. Megaplex was then taken down by a squad representing both factions, the Decepticons within it ignoring his ramblings about a Decepticon-controlled Cybertron. {{storylink|A Common Foe}}

===2019 IDW continuity===
[[File:Swindles-Megaplex.jpg|thumb|upright=.66]]
A grey-hued Transformer attended a [[skitter]] race at [[Swindle's]], enjoying a beverage and sitting next to [[Starscream (MW)|a black-hued acquaintance]]. {{storylink|Rise of the Decepticons: Swindle's|Swindle's}}
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==Toys==
===''Machine Wars''===
[[File:MW-toy Megaplex.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|[[Doctor Doom]] will sue Megatron for stealing his idea.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d2|'''Megaplex''' (Basic Class, [[1997]])}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': 2-piece rifle

:Megaplex was one of two original characters introduced in the [[KB Toys]] exclusive ''[[Machine Wars: Transformers|Machine Wars]]'' line. His mold was originally designed, but unused, for the end of ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|Generation 2]]''. He transforms from a [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes|Lockheed-Martin F-22 Raptor]] fighter jet to [[robot mode]] with a spring-loaded one-step transformation. The two halves of his rifle store in the back of his robot mode legs.

:The ''Machine Wars'' stock photos (and even the packaging art) have Megaplex as the blue jet and Megatron as the gray one, meaning either the package designers got ''everything'' wrong, or the toys were put on the wrong cards. The latter is more likely since gray is more associated with Megatron than blue is. But, well, that's how they were packaged, so that's how we list them.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1997/Decepticon/Megaplex/megaplex.htm More information on ''Machine Wars'' Megaplex at TFU.info]''
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===''Collector's Edition''===
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[[File:G1-toy Megaplex.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|Primus help us all when the Megaplex army clashes with Starscream's clones.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Megaplex''' ([[2003]])}}</ul>
:*''ID number:'' '''93'''
:*''Release date'': December ??, 2003
:*''Accessories'': "Megasight" scope/"fusion cannon", two-part silencer ("focusing barrel" and "accelerator"), three-part stock ("death charge unit", "saddle", "cannon base"), "energy flail", "high-density infra-red ray laser gun", "electron sword", 20 "Freeze Shell/particle beam" bullets

:Released in the ''[[The Transformers: Collector's Edition|Collector's Edition]]'' line as an [[e-HOBBY]] [[exclusive]], Megaplex is a [[redeco]] of the original [[Megatron (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Megatron]] Walther P-38 pistol toy in the same colors as its original [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] ''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (toyline)|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers]]'' release (itself a coloration used in the ''[[Micro Change]]'' line the mold originated in), featuring blue plastic instead of the Hasbro red, and unchromed grey plastic. The spring-loaded firing mechanisms inside both the toy's main body and the stock have also been restored, letting the toy launch [[For safety reasons|choking-hazard-sized projectiles]] in both pistol and robot mode.

:Based on ''[[The Transformers Collection]]'' [[Generation 1 reissues|reissue]] of Megatron, this version comes with ''all'' of Megatron's accessories. (The original Takara version lacked all of the gun's add-on parts, having only the chromed rifle and sword, and of course the flail is new to the "bookbox" Megatron.) His scope, stock, and silencer can combine to form a large "[[particle beam cannon]]" artillery mode (there is a variant configuration of this that seats a ''Microman'' figure, but that has been excluded from the instructions for obvious reasons), or attach to his robot mode to make a huge shoulder-mounted "telescopic laser cannon formation". Both of these modes can fire the small plastic bullets the toy comes with thanks to the spring-loaded "death charge unit" portion of his stock. This piece can also connect to the back of his pistol barrel in robot mode, letting him "shoot from the hip", as it were.

:Preorders for Megaplex closed on [[September 30]] of 2002. Orders were shipped out in December.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2003/Destron/Megaplex/megaplex.htm More information on e-HOBBY Megaplex at TFU.info]''
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===''Timelines''===
[[File:TL-toy Megaplex-BC13.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|He's got a new job!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-multi|'''Machine Wars: Termination''' (Box set, 2013)}}
:*''Accessories'': Sword

:''[[Transformers Timelines (toyline)|Timelines]]'' Megaplex is a [[redeco]] of ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)|Prime: Robots in Disguise]]'' Voyager Class [[Dreadwing (Prime)#Voyager|Dreadwing]], featuring an all-new color scheme strongly evoking his ''Machine Wars'' incarnation, which accurately includes a predominantly grey and green color scheme, all transparent bits being a cloudy-white like the original Megaplex's cockpit windows, even down to the pinstripes on his wings and tailfins. However, instead of stickers with random shapes used for faction symbols on either of his wings in jet mode, there are two modified Decepticon symbols prominently displayed in their place, presumably evoking the faction symbol of [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus's]] [[Cybertronian (faction)|Cybertronian Empire]]. There are two more of these symbols on either side of his chest in robot mode. Other major differences from the original's color scheme include all the soft-plastic bits on the original Dreadwing mold being colored light blue on this version, and the face being painted white. The eyes are still a lovely shade of dead-cataract white, however.

:This version of the mold lacks the light-up blaster cannon accessory of the original, possibly due to cost-cutting reasons, but does include the sword, which can still be mounted (via [[5 mm post]]s) onto ports on his forearms, hands, wings, and back, as well as behind the cockpit canopy via the additional peg featured on its hilt. He comes in a [[BotCon 2013]] exclusive box set, with [[Hoist (G1)/toys#Timelines|Hoist]], [[Strika (BM)#Timelines|Strika]], [[Obsidian (BM)#Timelines|Obsidian]], and [[Skywarp (MW)#Timelines|Skywarp]].

:Megaplex, Skyquake, and Dreadwing's very similar looking left & right robot mode feet are notorious for being incorrectly added to the figure during factory assembly, resulting in a left foot on a right leg, a right foot on a left leg, two left feet, or two right feet. Not having the right foot on the right leg and left foot on the left leg causes him to not stand properly because each foot is designed on the bottom to sit at a specific slanted angle. Both feet look very similar to one another, however they can be identified by finding the corresponding "L" and "R" on each one. If placed on a flat surface to be viewed, one will notice that both feet have subtle slants to their stance.

:All versions of this mold have a spot that's very prone to breakage: the thruster/ stabilizer fin assembly which folds up onto his back has a joint that can crack and break the whole assembly off- even on brand new figures. This can be avoided by gluing it in vehicle mode configuration- while it loses functionality it is not detrimental to his robot mode.

:This mold was also redecoed into ''Prime: Robots in Disguise'' [[Skyquake (Prime)#Voyager|Skyquake]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2013/Decepticon/BCMegaplex/megaplex.htm More information on ''Timelines'' Megaplex at TFU.info]''
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===''Kre-O''===
[[File:KreO-Toy MegaplexKreon.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-multi|'''Machine Wars''' (Kreon Souvenir Figure Set, 2013)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': Clip-on cannon, jagged blade

:The ''Machine Wars'' five-pack was [[exclusive]] to [[BotCon 2013]], and includes [[Kreon]]s of [[Hoist (G1)/toys#BotCon2013|Hoist]], Megaplex, [[Obsidian (BM)#Kre-O|Obsidian]], [[Skywarp (MW)#Kre-O|Skywarp]], and [[Strika (BM)#Kre-O|Strika]]. They have generally more parts than the Kreons packed in with larger ''[[Kre-O]]'' sets, but do not have alternate vehicle builds like [[Micro-Changer]]s.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2013/Decepticon/BCKre-OMegaplex/megaplex.htm More information on Megaplex at TFU.info]''

==Notes==
*Megaplex's ''Machine Wars'' packaging art is in fact a color-altered version of the card-art for the [[Predator (subgroup)|Predator]] jet [[Falcon (G1)|Falcon]].
*The e-HOBBY Megaplex's "Particle Beam Cannon" accessory configuration can actually also be slightly adapted to yet another mode used in the original ''[[Micro Change]]'' line; the "saddle" extension that raises the cannon up to robot-height actually plugged into the ''back'' of the cannon vertically. This made a backed seat that Micromen figures could sit on, making it a (Micro-)manned piece of field artillery; the back of the scope even has little flip-out handles for them to hold. The seemingly-nonsensical peg on the side of the "saddle" piece plugs into the back of the ''New Microman''-era figures to secure them. (Modern Micromen are too big.)
*Megaplex's appearance in the 2019 comic issue [[Rise of the Decepticons: Swindle's|''Transformers'' #20]] is inspired by a "virtual redeco" of ''[[Transformers: Energon (toyline)|Energon]]'' [[Starscream (Armada)/toys#Energon|Starscream]] by fan artist Air-Hammer, [https://www.deviantart.com/air-hammer/art/Machine-Wars-Megatron-and-Megaplex-Digibash-341964614 posted to DeviantArt in 2012.]

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Megaplex''' (メガプレックス ''Megapurekkusu'')

==References==
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Power Master

2025-11-03T06:46:27Z

Vanya: Added link to the G2 Ironhide article for convinience.

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[[File:G2-toy IronhidePM.jpg|right|upright=1.4|thumb|More articulation than a Throttlebot, at least.]]

The four ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (franchise)|Generation 2]]'' '''Power Master''' toys were released at the end of the ''Generation 2'' line in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.

Their [[pull-back motor]] gimmick was not unlike that of the [[Throttlebot]]s: Each Power Master could be dragged backward in either robot or [[Alternate mode|car mode]], then by placing one of his guns in the right spot, a catch would release, allowing him to zip along a smooth surface. They share no relationship to the [[Powermaster|Generation 1 Powermasters]] except for their name.

* [[Bulletbike (G2)|Bulletbike]]
* [[Ironhide (G1)/toys#PowerMaster|Ironhide]] / [[Ironhide (G2)]]
* [[Meanstreak]]
* [[Staxx]]

==Notes==
{{twoimages|Image:BelzoneCard.jpg|File:UnmadePowermasterIronhideRedeco.jpg|thumb|w1=150|w2=200|caption=The Autobots will be there... with Belzone! And someone who may or may not be Pothole or Light Speed.}}
* It is possible these toys were designed by Hasbro without help from [[TakaraTomy|Takara]], explaining their oddly simplistic robot mode looks, very basic vehicle detail, and lack of [[light-piping]], all of which is inconsistent with the majority of the figures originating from the ''Generation 2'' line. While it isn't necessarily a confirmation, they only carry Hasbro [[copyright]] marks instead of both Hasbro and Takara.
* The ''Generation 2'' Power Master line is notable for giving us the first new non-[[redeco]] Ironhide toy since 1984.
* For whatever reason, each Power Master has the designation "PM(#)" on its lone sticker, regardless of allegiance. "PM1" is Staxx, "PM2" is Ironhide, "PM3" is Meanstreak, and "PM4" is Bulletbike.
*The Australia and New Zealand releases were available in English-only packaging (complete with [[Hasbro]]'s Rhode Island address and lacking the actual ''Generation 2'' moniker as all 1995 US releases did, with the assortment named "Power Masters", as two words) that ''would'' presumably have also been used for the United States, had the ''Generation 2'' line not been canceled. In Europe, they were available in the usual [[multilingual packaging|trilingual]] packaging variants (retaining the ''Generation 2'' title, with the assortment named "Powermasters", as one word, in most instances) that were standard in Europe at the time: English/Spanish/Portuguese for the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, Portugal and Scandinavia, French/Dutch/German for France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Italian-only for Italy, distributed by [[GiG]] under license from Hasbro. However, they were apparently ''also'' available in the United Kingdom as [[parallel import]]s (imported by MBC Ltd.) in the same packaging also available in Australia and New Zealand. Maybe ''that'' was the stock intended for the canceled US release?
* A redeco of Power Master Ironhide may have been in the works at some point. The Power Master Ironhide card art, [[:File:UnmadePowermasterIronhideRedeco.jpg|recolored in yellow and blue]], was used on packaging mock-ups under the names [[:File:BelzoneCard.jpg|Belzone]], [[:File:Generation2LightSpeed.jpg|Light Speed]], and [[Pothole]]. However, no physical samples of such an item have ever surfaced. An [[Ask Vector Prime]] question interviewed a contact at [[Hasbro]] about the matter, who stated that packages are often "Greeked" with gibberish text for display purposes, with no intention of releasing such characters.

==Notes==
===Foreign names===
*''English:'' '''Powermasters''' (for the British, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and German markets)
*''French:'' '''Les Maitres du Bitume''' ("The Masters of the Street")
*''Italian:'' '''Turbomaster'''

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Talk:Pothole

2025-11-03T06:36:20Z

Vanya: Questioning the existence of this page.

== Merger Proposal ==

Should this be merged with some other article?

It is clear that like Belzone & Light Speed, Porthole isn't an actual character in any sense.
So this page is kind of a waste and could be merged with the Power Master article instead.

[[User:Vanya|Vanya]] ([[User talk:Vanya|talk]]) 01:36, 3 November 2025 (EST)

Skids (G1)

2025-06-21T02:54:28Z

Vanya: /* Foreign names */ added English translation for Hungarian name.

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:''Skids is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:Skidsg1.jpg|upright=1.8|thumb|Everyone forgets me, [[Nudge gun|even me]].]]
'''Skids''' is a theoretician. This is appropriate, as some would say his existence is merely theoretical; everyone forgets who he is or that he was there. But if they got to know him, they'd learn that he likes to daydream, get built into furniture, and pick up cowboy chicks. Skids unfortunately favors daydreaming while traveling in vehicle mode, but thankfully his excellent brakes spare him and others from incurring TOO much damage after inevitable fender-benders.

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

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

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Michael Chain]] (English, "[[Quest for Survival]]"), [[Dan Gilvezan]] (English, "[[Triple Takeover]]"), [[Keiichi Nanba]] (Japanese, "Quest for Survival"), [[Ken Shiroyama]] (Japanese, "Triple Takeover")|[[Lu Jun]] (Chinese), [[Roberto Alexander]] (Latin American), [[Albert Augier]] (European French), [[Ionei Silva]] (Brazilian Portuguese)}}

[[File:QuestForSurvival-SkidsRoboticInsecticide.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Those arms go allll the way up, to his ribcage.]]
Skids was part of a strike force that was sent to stop the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]] from ravaging a human farm, only to meet with failure. Apparently injured in the battle, Skids underwent some repairs by [[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]] upon return to Autobot Headquarters, where he responded incredulously to [[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]]'s report that he had retrieved [[robotic insecticide]] from the planet [[Floron III]] to deal with the Insecticon threat. {{storylink|Quest for Survival}}

[[File:TripleTakeover Skids.jpg|thumb|Racing into obscurity.]]
Later, Skids was part of a team sent to investigate bombs that were raining down on a city from a football stadium (the work of the [[Triple Changer]] [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]]). Blitzwing, however, had the stadium surrounded by a massive "Zone Defense" maze built by the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]], and while attempting to traverse it, Skids crashed into [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] and was driven over by tank mode Blitzwing. Skids and the other Autobots' remains were then gathered by [[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]], who built a throne for himself out of them. These Autobots were soon rescued and quickly rebuilt, and participated in the crises that ensued as Blitzwing, [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]], [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] and [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] vied for Decepticon leadership. Following that skirmish, Prowl opined that [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] was the greatest leader in the universe, which prompted himself, Skids, [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] and [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] to form themselves into a throne for Prime; Prime refused to sit, saying that thrones were for Decepticons—he'd rather roll. {{storylink|Triple Takeover}}
{{--}}

====Japanese cartoon continuity====
=====''Henkei! Henkei! Generations'' comic=====
[[File:Skids and screech.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|left]]
When Skids successfully proved the existence of particles able to cross over between dimensions, he put his discovery to work for the forces of good, coating his armor in these "[[Dimension Slide]]" particles and endowing himself with the power to move between realities, as well as a snazzy new green paintjob. In this quest to examine anomalies within the multiverse, Skids found he could summon other versions of himself from different dimensions to aid him, but for unknown reasons, one of these alternate versions wound up trapped in Skids's home dimension, unable to return to his own world. Renamed "[[Screech (Generations)|Screech]]" (presumably to save all the Autobots a headache), this alternate Skids teamed up with his counterpart, and together, the pair worked as "Quantum Operatives" policing the multiverse while searching for a way to get Screech home. {{storylink|#Toys|Skids's toy bio}} {{storylink|Screech (Generations)|Screech's toy bio}}

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

=====Ask Vector Prime=====
[[Vector Prime]] claimed Skids was from [[Primax 308.0 Zeta]] while Screech was from [[Primax 1008.15 Gamma]]. The two worked with him in [[Primax 308.13 Beta]]. {{Storylink|Source:Ask Vector Prime/Facebook#July 23, 2015|Ask Vector Prime, 23/07/2015}}

=====''Legends'' comic=====
[[File:LegendsComic DimensionalInvestigatorSkids.jpg|upright=1.2|thumb]]
Skids would later take on a new body, blue as usual but more heavily armed, styling himself as a "dimensional investigator" (次元捜査官 ''jigen sōsakan''). When [[Deadlock (Cloud)|Deadlock]] caused trouble in the [[Legends World]] by bringing [[SARA]] there, Skids showed up to teach him how to use SARA's powers to return to [[Cloud World]], and also warned the Decepticon against causing any more interdimensional chaos. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Deadlock)|Bonus Edition Vol. EX}}

Finding there to be many more Transformers from other dimensions in the Legends World, Skids regarded this as problematic and decided to send them all back by force and seal off the dimension. Met with resistance from [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] and his cohorts, he summoned the [[Skids Squadron]] to fight the Decepticon leader while he personally dealt with the others. When Megatron came to their rescue, Skids entered "Full Burst Mode" and seemingly killed the Decepticon with a mighty barrage, only to realize the villain just sacrificed himself for his comrades. Following protests by the natives of the Legends World, Skids caught on to the fact that their world was a peaceful one without factions or war and that ''he'' was the one causing chaos and violence, prompting the investigator to abandon his plans and undo the seal. He continued to keep the dimension under surveillance, and even stuck around to look up its fictional representations of himself. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 20|Bonus Edition Vol. 20}}

Skids would come to join the [[Dimensional Patrol]], a G1 World organization dedicated to battling multiversal threats. He was guarding [[Megatron (RID)|Devil Gigatron]] at [[Neo Brave Maximus|their base]] when [[Scourge (RID)|Black Convoy]]'s group came to break him out. Devil Gigatron had reformed, however, and refused to leave with Black Convoy. In fact, he removed the corruption in Black Convoy's spark he had placed there years earlier, reverting Black Convoy to his original Autobot state. {{storylink|LGEX Scourge Prologue}} With the Commandos still corrupted, Skids and Black Convoy pursued the fugitives to the Legends World on behalf of the Patrol. The people of the Legends World were less than enthused by the presence of this occupying military force. Even after the Commandos were captured and reverted to protoforms, Skids and the Patrol insisted on staying until the [[Dark Ai]] computer entity was found. Instead, the Headmasters of the [[Axalon Trading Company]] helped Dark Ai re-install Black Convoy's original personality, and he then helped drive Skids and his Dimensional Patrol drones off of their world. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Scourge 2)|Black Convoy Bonus Edition}}

At some point in their career, Skids and Screech prevented the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]] from consuming the universe by defeating them with a new type of [[robotic insecticide]]. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 47|Bonus Edition Vol. 47}}

Eventually, Sky-Byte convinced Skids and the Dimensional Patrol that the Legends World was not a threat, but was worth preserving. Skids brought the Dimensional Patrol to the Legends World as protectors, defending the populace against an invading army of [[Zamojin (species)|Zamojin]], and the rampage of [[Majin Zarak]]. {{storylink|Targetmaster Chapter Finale: Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part One|Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part One}}

Skids continued working with the Dimensional Patrol, under the leadership of the combined Devil God Fire Convoy. {{storylink|Transformers Legends Final Chapter "Epiloge"|Epiloge}}

=====''Legacy VS500 Collection Special Comic''=====
Skids was one of many spectators for the [[Speedia 500]] race on [[Velocitron]]. {{Storylink|Velocitron Speedia 500 Part 2}} When the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]] showed up in the second week, Skids tried to spray them with [[robotic insecticide]]. {{Storylink|Velocitron Speedia 500 Part 3}}

=====''Story of Binaltech''=====
[[File:Binaltech skids cardart.jpg|left|upright=1.2|thumb|After using up all of his vacation and sick days, Skids returned to work to find that the Transformers cartoon had been cancelled.]]
In [[BT World|an offshoot timeline]], Skids was the first of the Binaltech Autobots created simply with the intent of upgrading an existing, healthy Transformer, rather than in the name of repairing one that had been injured. Outfitted with self-repairing nanomechanical antibodies, Skids's body could, barring heavy damage in battle, theoretically function for thousands of years without maintenance. In both his original and new body, Skids dedicated time to studying the chronal warp on [[Dinobot Island (G1)|Dinobot Island]], which gave rise to the Autobot strategy known as "[[Operation: Distant Thunder]]", a last-ditch scheme should the Decepticons tamper with the fabric of space-time. That horror occurred in [[2004]] when Ravage used the [[Kronosphere]] to alter the timeline, and Skids prepared to initiate the plan and send [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]'s memory data back in time to avert the catastrophe. {{storylink|Darkest Hour (prose)|Darkest Hour}}

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

Skids returned to base with the other Autobots after the defeat of Nemesis Prime. {{storylink|Outlier (comic)|Outlier}}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

{{note|While Skids was lost to Limbo in the UK comics, no such fate befell him in the American stories. Luckily enough for continuity's sake, he never did anything important in the US comics again, only showing up in crowd scenes. To maintain consistency, the UK printings of these stories either redrew Skids into a different, [[generic]] robot, or erased him from the art entirely.}}

Skids attended Optimus Prime's funeral, {{storylink|Funeral for a Friend!}} witnessed the arrival of a group of [[Spacehikers|children]] within the space-borne Ark, {{storylink|Spacehikers!}} and watched [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] and [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]] fight for Autobot leadership on Earth's [[Moon (moon)|moon]]. He was presumably either off-lined during the subsequent Decepticon ambush, {{storylink|Totaled!}} or during [[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]]'s [[Underbase]] powered rampage. {{storylink|Dark Star}}

[[File:Skidslimbo.jpg|upright=0.6|thumb|left|Oh, hey, remember Skids?]]
[[File:Skidssurvivors.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|And then he stole [[Crosscut (G1)|Crosscut]]'s head.]]
''Skids remained in Limbo for two years while Galvatron ran amok on Earth, his mind steadily succumbing to the dream-illusions created by the [[Limbo parasite|parasites]] native to the realm.'' {{storylink|Time Wars}} ''In his dreams, a brutish Skids led monsters in orgies of destruction. With Galvatron's eventual death during the [[Time Wars]], Skids was finally returned to Earth, but he had spent too long in Limbo—the Limbo parasites had succeeded in shaping a reality from his dreams, and the nightmarish monsters that he had imagined materialised on Earth with him. Fleeing from the beasts, horrified at the "weakness" that had led to him making them, Skids was convinced by the creatures that they would exist so long as he was alive. Their goal was to break him into joining them in their bloody rampages (and also to just mess with him). Skids lured them into a [[Hudden Nuclear Power Plant|nuclear power plant]] which he had planned to detonate, wiping out the monsters and himself. However, he struggled to find the courage to end his own life in order to spare the Earth from the horrors he had birthed.''

''Thankfully, it didn't come to that, as the remnants of the Autobot [[Wreckers]]—joined by [[Catilla (G1)|Catilla]] and [[Carnivac (G1)|Carnivac]] of the Decepticon [[Mayhem Attack Squad]]—arrived to aid him, defeating the monsters even as the creature's leader admitted they'd made up that whole 'die to stop us' thing. Skids joined with this group of Transformers, forming the [[Survivors]].'' {{storylink|Survivors!}}

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

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

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

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

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

====''Regeneration One''====
{{NoteRG1}}
[[File:Lancer two crew war to end all wars.jpg|thumb|Remember when I was a main character back in our [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|Marvel]] days? Let's do that again.]]
In [[2012]], when Optimus Prime discovered Megatron was still active on Earth, he took an armed assault squad of Autobots, including Skids, to put an end to the tyrant's menace once and for all. Battling Megatron's reanimated Decepticon [[zombie]]s as the two leaders clashed, Skids called dibs on taking out [[Overbite (G1)|Overbite]]. {{storylink|Loose Ends, Part 5}}

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

Skids would later respond when Jhiaxus's ''[[Primum Fugae]]'' began attacking the [[Demon]]s and Dinobots indiscriminately and upon [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]'s orders, he and [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] began prepping the Dinobots for medevac. {{storylink|The War to End All Wars, Part 2}} During the invasion of the [[Hub (G2)|Hub Network]], Skids and a team of Autobots comprising [[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]], [[Sky High (Pretender)|Sky High]], [[Jazz (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Jazz]], and [[Getaway]] aboard the ''[[Lancer Two]]'' were shot down by [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]]'s forces when they revealed their full defensive power. {{storylink|The War to End All Wars, Part 3}}
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====''Transformers '84''====
[[File:Auntie activates autobot drones secrets and lies.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.7]]
Shortly after the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] crashed on prehistoric [[Earth]] its damaged computer [[Aunty|AUNTIE]] registered the approaching [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]] as a threat and as a defensive measure, downloaded and copied the memory engrams of the Autobots' reserve assets Skids, [[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]], [[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]], [[Grapple (G1)|Grapple]], and [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]], creating new drone bodies for them but leaving their [[spark]]s in magnetic limbo. However, before the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobot]] commander could reach the Ark, [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]], [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]], and [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]] arrived looking for [[Shockwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Shockwave]] and engaged the drones in battle. Stripped of their Autobot morality and controlled by AUNTIE, the drone Skids and its companions fought well against the [[Conehead]]s {{storylink|Secrets & Lies issue 3|Secrets & Lies #3}} but were shut down when Grimlock fought his way past [[Guardian (Marvel)|Guardian]] units and a reanimated [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] to take AUNTIE offline. {{storylink|Secrets & Lies issue 4|Secrets & Lies #4}}
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===Dinobots Strike Back===
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{{note|In the first book in this series, Skids transforms into a red compact, matching the description of his toy's Honda City Turbo [[Alternate mode|alt-mode]] in one of its [[Diaclone]] color schemes. He is apparently even smaller than Bumblebee}}
[[File:DinobotsStrikeBackBumbleandSkidsinSub.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Seen here pouting because he gets no screen time.]]
Although Skids had reported the strange electromagnetic readings he'd been getting from [[Dolphin's Bay]] even before [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] sent [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]] to [[Bandit's Bluff]] to remove the [[cerebro-shell]]s from the rampaging [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]], it took [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]]'s report that evening to prompt Optimus to have Skids investigate it for possible Decepticon activity. Prime chose [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] to accompany him in [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]'s [[Star mini-submarine|new mini-submarine]], but wasn't sure whether to assign [[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]] to the mission as well, since Skids clearly didn't want him along.

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

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

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

===3H comics===
[[File:Skidswreckers2.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|In the context of science, "theory" does not mean "guess" or "hunch", Rodimus. You should probably pay attention.]]
Several months after the defeat of [[Unicron]] in 2005, Skids was among the senior scientists (including [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]], [[Quickmix (G1)|Quickmix]], and [[Rad (G1)|Rad]]) who questioned [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]]'s plan to send out the best of the remaining Autobot science and research members to establish deep-space reconnaissance posts. {{storylink|Betrayal}}
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===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
[[File:WarWithin2 Skids.jpg|upright=1.0|thumb]]
8.2 million years ago, Skids took part in the defense of [[Altihex]], serving under [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]]'s command. They were forced to retreat after the Decepticons overran the city. Later, Skids was in the [[Chamber of the Ancients]], observing the ceremony in which [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optronix]] was given the [[Matrix of Leadership]] and transformed into Optimus Prime. Immediately, three Decepticon assassins attacked, and though Skids acted to protect the new Prime, his arm was cut off by [[Umbra]]. {{storylink|The War Within issue 1|The War Within #1}}

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

[[File:Revelation SkidsVehicleMode.jpg|left|upright=1.6|thumb|Trypticon plays "Hit the Skids".]]
During the Dark Ages, when Optimus Prime and Megatron both disappeared into a prototype spacebridge, both factions splintered into several sub-groups. Skids served under [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]]'s faction of Autobots. {{storylink|Fragmentation (G1)|Fragmentation}} Together, they investigated reports that the Decepticons were in the process of building a mobile fortress, only to find [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] already completed and battle-ready in the [[Praetorus Wharf]]. {{storylink|Devastation (issue)|Devastation}} Finding that nothing they threw at the giant Decepticon had any effect, the Autobots tried to outrun it instead. Skids hid in a nearby building, onto which Trypticon jumped to crush him. {{storylink|Revelation (The Dark Ages)|Revelation}} Though battered by the incident, Skids managed to survive it, and was brought back to [[Autobase]] for repairs. As [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] was tending to his wounds, The Fallen broke into the Autobots' headquarters, re-appropriated [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] from one of their holding cells, and took off. {{storylink|Confrontation (issue)|Confrontation}} Once The Fallen's base of operations was uncovered, Skids joined a cross-faction army in rushing it to put an end to the ancient Transformer's scheme. Ultimately, The Fallen was defeated by the power of [[Primus]] himself, and all factions agreed to keep the chamber The Fallen had tried to breach sealed to prevent anyone from further abusing the power held within it. {{storylink|Conflagration}}

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

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

[[File:RevelationWaP SkidsReflects.jpg|upright=1.6|thumb|''Did [[Pat Lee]] actually draw what is beyond this window? The question haunts my very being.'']]
Skids was not among the Autobots who traveled to Earth aboard the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]], remaining behind on Cybertron as the planet slipped into the deactivated state known as the [[Great Shutdown]]. When Shockwave began reactivating the planet and successfully unified the Autobot and Decepticon factions, Skids was a member of the council of Autobots who served to represent their faction in the alliance. Few of the council members were actually suited for leadership, however, and slowly found themselves giving more and more control to Shockwave. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}} Even when Perceptor presented the council with evidence that Shockwave was performing immoral experiments on fellow Cybertronians, the High Council was unwilling to take any constitutional action against Shockwave. {{storylink|Cold War (issue)|Cold War}} Eventually, the example shown by the Ark's returning crew and several homegrown Autobot insurgency cells tore the blinders from the council's optics, and Skids gathered his fellow councilmen in taking to the streets and ousting the Decepticons from power. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}}

===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===
[[File:Skids BlackHorizon1.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|left|Not even Prowl remembers him.]]
During an Autobot peace ceremony on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], Skids reported to [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] that [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]], [[Springer (G1)|Springer]], and [[Sandstorm (G1)|Sandstorm]] had yet to find the Autobots and [[G.I. Joe (team)|Joes]] that had gone missing while chasing [[Serpentor|Serpent O.R.]] Their conversation was then interrupted due to a Decepticon attack. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 3|The Art of War #3}}

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

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

Later, Skids was amongst the few Autobot survivors still intact despite the brutality of the battle. He and a small number of surviving Autobots rode in Optimus Prime's trailer in a desperate effort to outrun The Beast. He was then killed when the Beast took a swipe at Optimus's trailer, crushed utterly in The Beast's monstrous paw. {{storylink|The Beast Within Part 2, Consequences}}
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===2005 IDW continuity===
{{first|[[Liars, A to D Part 1: How to Say Goodbye and Mean It|''More than Meets the Eye'' #1]] (mentioned); [[Liars, A to D Part 2: Hangers On|#2]] (depicted)}}
[[File:Shadowplay2 Skidsbacksoff.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2.0|-gulp-]]
Before the [[Great War (G1)|war]], '''Skids of [[Nova Cronum]]''' trained as a theoretician at [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Senator Shockwave]]'s [[Jhiaxian Academy of Advanced Technology|Academy of Advanced Technology]], {{storylink| Shadowplay, Part 2: Patternism|Patternism}} secretly recruited to the school because of his status as an "[[Outlier (group)|outlier]]" with special powers—in Skids's case, a "super-learning" ability that allowed him to master many skills. {{storylink|Shadowplay (Conclusion): An Intimate Beheading|An Intimate Beheading}} He was present at the academy on the day that [[Roller (IDW)|Roller]] and [[Ratchet (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ratchet]] arrived to take Shockwave into protective custody, and his attempt to stop them was quickly quashed when the towering Roller intimidated him into silence. {{storylink| Shadowplay, Part 2: Patternism|Patternism}} It was not long, however, before Skids's teacher returned and recruited him and classmates "[[Tarn (G1)|Glitch]]" and [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]] for a plan formulated by [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Orion Pax]] to steal a bomb disguised as the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] from [[Nominus Prime]]'s body as it lay in the [[Primal Basilica]]. Skids was somewhat disappointed that his sole contribution to the plan was not one of his many skills, but merely the fact he had a grappling hook in his arm that they could use to lower Pax into the Basilica. Despite a minor snag when the technology-disrupting Glitch accidentally jammed his hook's winch, the mission was a success. {{storylink|Shadowplay (Conclusion): An Intimate Beheading|An Intimate Beheading}}

Unfortunately, the aftermath of the mission meant the outliers and Pax had to go on the run. Out in the [[Alyon]] region, they discovered a new "hot spot" for infant sparks which looked like the Hand of Primus (or, for Skids, ''was definitely'' the Hand of Primus). [[Zeta Prime (G1)|Zeta]], their man in Iacon, warned them the Senate wanted to destroy the spot to stop the [[Functionist Council]] exploiting it and so the fugitives had to fight off the [[Elite Guard]] repeatedly. Time-travellers under [[Hot Rod (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Rodimus]] popped up and, when Skids mistook them for reinforcements from Zeta, rapidly claimed that. They saved the day but the time travellers wiped everyone's memories after... unfortunately including memories that Roller was missing in action. {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 1: All Our Parlous Yesterdays|All Our Parlous Yesterdays}}

[[File:mtmte 48 grindcore.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|What did I do last night?]]
After graduating to full-fledged theoretician status, Skids went on to join the Autobot army. Shortly after the [[Simanzi Massacre]], when the planet still was cooling, he became a bomb negotiator: disabling the [[anti-personal mine]]s made out of Autobot prisoners so they could die without going off. This ended when he made the mistake of mentioning Primus to the unfortunate [[Heavy Tread]], who detonated himself in a rage that anyone could believe in a god that did this to him. When Skids came to, he was a Decepticon prisoner and off to the notorious [[Grindcore (prison)|Grindcore gulag]] with a "[[Inhibitor spike|mouth flower]]" inside his mouth that would destroy his [[Brain module|brain]] if he dared transform. Skids used his outlier learning skills to disable the "flower", having seen how the guards put it in, and began pumping his cellmate [[Quark]] for info. This brought him to the attention of the camp commandant, {{storylink|Speak, Memory: Part 1}} who turned out to be his old friend Glitch, having since joined the Decepticons and granted an upgraded body. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 6: Do Not Go Gentle|Do Not Go Gentle}}

[[File:SpeakMemory2 SkidsQuarkFurnace.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.9]]
Glitch, in an act of basic sadism, decided to make a project out of the religious 'bot. He asked Skids to repair Grindcore's teleporter, promising it would mean fifty prisoners would be sent to Decepticon colony world [[Ambervalia]] to work as slaves. Skids told Quark that this was collaboration that would help and the fifty would be better as slave workers than at the prison; and while he didn't say outright, Skids was relaxed around the Commandant and felt he could try and make demands for more prisoners sent to the colonies, assuming he could half-trust his old friend even if he had switched sides. What he did not realise until it was too late was that Glitch had been making him rebuild the camp ''smelting chamber''... something he learned only after demanding Quark get to be 'teleported'. Skids' faith died as he was forced to watch fifty Autobots die horrific deaths because of him. The memory was so traumatic that he overwrote it {{storylink|Speak, Memory! (Part 2)}} and the only thing he remembered of it in his missing months was "[[The Empyrean Suite]]", unable to remember the name or that this was the future [[Decepticon Justice Division]] leader's favourite music to play during a massacre. {{storylink|Scavengers (Part 2): Who's Afraid of the DJD?|Who's Afraid of the DJD?}}

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

[[File:Getaway Skids ArmTheLonely.jpg|thumb|He's been trained to kick your ass. Theoretically, of course.]]
Long into the war he joined the [[Diplomatic Corps]], working to persuade other races to support the Autobot cause. {{storylink|Scavengers (Part 2): Who's Afraid of the DJD?|Who's Afraid of the DJD?}} At some point, he disappeared and was believed dead, {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 2: Hangers On|Hangers On}} but had, in fact, become part of [[Prowl (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Prowl]]'s covert [[Special Operations]]. Partnered with [[Getaway]], he was sent on a mission to influence [[Solomus|Tyrest]], using a [[nudge gun]] to implant the impulse to resign in the Chief Justice's mind. The plan failed and Tyrest sicced [[Legislator]]s on the duo, capturing Getaway and hitting Skids with an [[inhibitor claw]] in the back. Skids was barely able to escape using a shuttle made from [[mode lock]]ed Legislators. Using the nudge gun's other charge, Skids erased his own memory after setting the shuttle to home in on the nearest of his handlers, the [[Duobot]]s. {{storylink|Remain in Light 4 of 5: Arm the Lonely|Arm the Lonely}}

[[File:LiarsAtoD2-Skids.jpg|thumb|upright=1.7|left|How do you like me now?]]
It was in this amnesiac state that he arrived on the planet where the ''[[Lost Light]]'' had crashed. Abruptly, the mode lock deactivated and the ship began transforming, so Skids made an impulsive decision: he reactivated the lock, sent the ship crashing into the surface, and bailed out. Making it to the ground safely, Skids found himself under attack from the Legislators that had made up his ship—though one of them had been killed in the crash, the other two were coming after him with giant swords and fire breath. Skids came upon the deceased bodies of two Autobots who had failed to survive the ''Lost Light'' crash—[[Hyperion (G1)|Hyperion]] and [[Polaris]]—and used their weapons and abilities to eliminate another of the pursuing robots. Running from the lone survivor, Skids came upon a small party of Autobots from the ''Lost Light'', who deactivated the inhibitor claw for him, allowing him to access his weapons and destroy the last Legislator. Skids was invited to join the crew of the ''Lost Light'', though he was less than enthusiastic about [[Swerve (G1)|Swerve]]'s proposition that the pair of them should team up. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 2: Hangers On|Hangers On}}

[[File:LiarsAtoD3-RungSkids.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|MEANWHILE IN A 20 MILE RADIUS OF THIS EVENT]]
When a [[Sparkeater (creature)|Sparkeater]] got loose aboard the ''Lost Light'', requiring the crew to be sealed in their quarters, Skids, decided to exploit his missing memories to entirely reinvent himself. Deciding he disliked confinement, he left through the ventilation system. Drawn by [[Rung (G1)|Rung]]'s cries, he saved the psychiatrist from a close call with the Sparkeater, and at [[Hot Rod (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Rodimus]]'s request, led the creature through the vents to the engine room where Rodimus disposed of it. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 3: The Chaos of Warm Things|The Chaos of Warm Things}} As a celebration of the death of the Sparkeater, Swerve opened a [[Swerve's|bar]] where Skids got drunk together with [[Chromedome (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Chromedome]]. He failed to notice that Chromedome stole his gun while he was messing around with his grappling hook and a server-robot. {{storylink|Life After the Big Bang}} {{storylink|Rules of Disengagement (issue)|Rules of Disengagement}} After attending a ceremony to commend Chromedome, [[Brainstorm (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Brainstorm]] and [[Highbrow (G1)|Highbrow]] on recent heroics, {{storylink|The Reluctant Specialist}} Skids was next spotted still hanging out at the bar with some other Autobots as [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] put Chromedome's ability to identify an Autobot based on their transformation sound to the test. {{storylink|Interiors}} He later tried to comfort Swerve following his accidental shooting of Rung. {{storylink|Rules of Disengagement (issue)|Rules of Disengagement}}

When a swarm of [[Nanocon]]s that had lain dormant inside [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ultra Magnus]]'s body were mysteriously reactivated, Skids and a few others were shrunk by Brainstorm's mass-displacement gun and sent inside Magnus to eliminate them. Once that was dealt with, Skids attended [[Tailgate (G1)|Tailgate]]'s Autobot Initiation Ceremony, during which he relayed Swerve's report from the engine room that dead crewmember [[Ore]] had come back to life. The chaos only continued when Skids and a team of Autobots were abruptly teleported by [[Galactic Council]] to the planet [[Theophany]], there to investigate the razing of [[Crystal City]]. Beneath the city, they found a slumbering [[Titan (group)|Titan]], leading to discussions on the Transformers' creation myths and the meaning of life; Skids and Chromedome shared a belief that life was shaped not by destiny or gods, but by interactions with others. Skids theorized that both the Nanocons and Ore had come back to life thanks to the psychic emanations of the Metrotitan, then helped [[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]] fend off the Galactic Council's forces until the Autobots could free the Metrotitan, which teleported them all back to the ''Lost Light'' and quantum-jumped the ship to safety. {{storylink|Primus: You, Me, and Other Revelations|You, Me, and Other Revelations}}

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

[[File:CybertronianHomesickBlues-SkidsRung.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.9|"Legs: Yes. Bow-tie: Cool...I can buy a fez."]]
Skids was among the group of Autobots gathered by [[Rewind (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Rewind]] in Swerve's bar to help tell a story to aid in Rung's mental recovery. {{storylink|Shadowplay, Part 1: Post Hoc|Post Hoc}} When his old altercation with Roller came up, Whirl called him a wuss, and he countered that his skills as a theoretician wouldn't have been useful in a fight. {{storylink|Shadowplay, Part 2: Patternism|Patternism}} At the culmination of the story Rung still showed no signs of recovery...until Skids deliberately mispronounced his name a couple of times, prompting the psychiatrist to speak and correct him. {{storylink|Shadowplay (Conclusion): An Intimate Beheading|An Intimate Beheading}} The storytelling session was brought to an end by the sounding of alarm to ready the crew for a battle with Decepticons on the planet [[Temptoria]]; during the fight, Skids, Chromedome and [[Steeljaw (G1)|Steeljaw]] battled [[Overkill (G1)|Overkill]]. {{storylink|Before & After}} Later, to unwind, Skids joined the crew of the ''Lost Light'' on some "shore leave" on the planet [[Hedonia]], where he tried out his new personality-generated [[holomatter]] avatar, only to find his amnesia kept it from creating a fake identity for him. As the group played the "Nemesis Game" in a bar, Skids identified [[Misfire (G1)|Misfire]] as his worst enemy, and then wound up getting into a drunken brawl with [[Cyclonus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Cyclonus]]. {{storylink|Cybertronian Homesick Blues}} Skids and Whirl also engaged in some oneupsmanship with a group of [[Ammonite]]s they met in the bar, comparing the length and breadth of their races' respective galaxy-spanning conflicts. When the [[Imperius Drax|leader]] of the Ammonites' rival faction the [[Terradore]]s happened to walk in, Whirl casually murdered him to show up their new drinking buddies, much to Skids' chagrin. {{storylink|Little Victories}} Skids bought Rodimus a [[Galactic Council]] captain's hat as a souvenir of the trip. {{storylink|Signal to Noise}}

When the mass-murdering Decepticon [[Overlord (G1)|Overlord]] ran wild on the ship, Skids joined in the futile effort to hold back his rampage. {{storylink|Under Cold Blue Stars}} Overlord was ejected from the ship thanks to the sacrifice of Rewind, and Skids tried to console Chromedome over the loss of his lover, only to find that the mnemosurgeon was eerily calm about the whole thing. {{storylink|The Gloaming}}

[[File:TheFecundMoon-Skids.jpg|thumb|upright=2.0|Skids kind of lost it a bit after Charlene left.]]
When the ''Lost Light'' encountered the long lost satellite [[Moonbase One|Luna 1]], Skids got Chromedome to accompany the band of Autobots heading to the surface to see if the satellite had a way to return Skids's memories. He went to the ship's oil reservoir for some alone time, where he was attacked by a number of [[Legislator]]s. {{storylink|Remain in Light 1 of 5: The Fecund Moon|The Fecund Moon}} While he managed to hold them off long enough for Swerve to arrive to help, a [[Star Saber (G1)|mysterious and enigmatic robot]] appeared behind him, and impaled him with a large sword. {{storylink|Remain in Light 2 of 5: House of Ambus|House of Ambus}}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[[File:BlackPlanet SkidsVBludgeon.jpg|thumb|upright=1.8|SHOW ME YA MOVES!]]
In the apparent aftermath of Shockwave's scheme, Skids and Getaway relaxed in Swerve's, and were witness to Swerve suffering a bad bout of hero worship when Blurr walked in. The celebrations were rudely interrupted when Shockwave made his move, summoning all the Ammonites to attack Cybertron. {{storylink|The Becoming: Dark Cybertron Chapter 10|The Becoming}} Fortunately, Bumblebee had a plan of taking the fight to Shockwave. Skids was included in the team to be sent, thanks to his secret-agent-know-how. Getting to Shockwave's base of operations in the Crystal City seemed impossible, until Starscream showed up with [[Skywarp (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Skywarp]], who managed to get them there. On arrival, the group was attacked by Bludgeon. Ultra Magnus offered to hold him off, and Skids decided to volunteer his skills as well, along with a suddenly-ill Brainstorm. However, Skids's outlier abilities weren't able to match Bludgeon's mastery of [[Metallikato]], and he quickly wound up defeated. Fortunately, Brainstorm's unease turned out to be Optimus Prime, Rodimus, Cyclonus, [[Kup (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Kup]], and [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] using the Dead Universe portal in his chest to escape that dying realm.{{storylink|Black Planet: Dark Cybertron Chapter 11|Black Planet}} They quickly mopped up Bludgeon, but Cyclonus' injuries meant someone had to help Brainstorm haul him back to his lab. While this meant Skids had to miss the climactic showdown, he did get to see time itself falling to pieces in the sky above Cybertron. That, and Rodimus managing to play on Brainstorm's insecurities. {{storylink|...And the Damage Done: Dark Cybertron Finale|...And the Damage Done}}

Once the crisis was truly over, Skids decamped to [[Moonbase Two|Luna 2]] to watch [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]]'s trial. Evidently, he was not dissuaded from rejoining the ''Lost Light'' on its quest once the former Decepticon Leader was added to the ranks, and he set off again, this time coming along of his own volition. Six months into the quest, he was sufficiently worried to pay a visit to the widowed Chromedome with Nightbeat, though their friend remained secluded in his hab suite and Nightbeat's interest was quickly derailed, to Skids' dismay. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 1: Towards Peace|Towards Peace}} Shortly thereafter, he, [[Nautica (G1)|Nautica]], and [[Riptide (G1)|Riptide]] all shot the bull about the ship's new gossip mag, the ''Lost Light Insider''. Though Nautica decided to exit before any rules were broken, she and Skids exchanged a bit of friendly banter before he and Riptide convinced the massively intoxicated Trailcutter to steal Megatron's "superfuel" out of the medibay. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 2: Words Hang in the Air|Words Hang in the Air}}.

[[File:PredestinationABeginnersGuide SkidsRodimusTheory.jpg|left|upright=1.5|thumb|Actually performing his [[function]].]]
When a pod containing the corpse of another Rodimus showed up, 'our' Rodimus called in Skids as part of his investigation team. Using all the facts, Skids and Chromedome worked out (wrongly as they'd soon learn!) that this was a near-future Roddy who'd die and be sent back in time, and Skids was left aghast by his leader's desperate attempts to 'change history' like lopping an arm off. Everything was then interrupted when the ship started to ''vanish'' around them {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 3: Predestination: A Beginner's Guide|Predestination: A Beginner's Guide}} and he was left stuck on a spaceship with Megatron (and Skids, who kept making snide asides when he was trying to listen). Soon, the Autobots on board began to disappear one by one and everyone had to reveal personal secrets in an attempt to figure out what was the common denominator. (In the process, Skids helped fill in Nautica on [[M.T.O.]]s and expressed his distaste for High Command's lack of interest in educating the "warborn".)

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After realising only the launch crew were disappearing, the newbies like Skids found the ''Lost Light'' returned but in ruins! {{storylink|Twenty Plus One}} He agreed with Riptide that this must be the future ''Light'' that dead-Rodimus had come from and worried that the evidence they found meant they bring back the crew, only for the ship to be ripped apart. In an investigation, they came across a dead Ultra Magnus, one killed by a [[fusion cannon]], and Skids turned on Megatron, believing this showed he was going to inevitably turn on them! To his disquiet, when Megatron immediately requested to be locked up until all the facts were gone, he felt ''bad''' about doing it. As he admitted to Getaway during their search, he worried he was going to stop hating the killer. The search found yet more corpses and to Skids horror, they had all been executed and their transformation cogs removed: acts that revealed the ship had been butchered by the [[Decepticon Justice Division]]. Luckily for all concerned, the discovery of a still-alive Rewind proved this ''wasn't'' the future ''Lost Light'' but a duplicate of the 'real' one. {{storylink|slaughterhouse}}

[[File:MTMTE33 megatron skids right there.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.75|Look at you! You gotta look inside yourself and say, 'what am I willing to put up with today?' NOT SLAGGIN' THIS!!"]]
Skids rushed to Rewind as he came through, making sure the guy was okay and filled in on things like Megatron-the-Autobot, and was pissed when Nightbeat pushed Rewind too soon to explain what had happened to the ship. That was how they learned the copy was created when the ship launched, thanks to an issue with the quantum engines, and ''exactly'' what hell Rewind had gone through. Said quantum engines were also leaking, endangering a nearby organic planet, and Skids knew they ahd to act. When Megatron refused to, bothered at the idea of risking his life for a handful of fleshy strangers, Skids tore into him for violating what the Autobrand stood for and that if being an Autobot ''didn't'' force him to modify his behaviour instead of getting what he wanted, then none of his 'rehab' meant a damn.

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

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

[[File:MTMTE42 dance dance skidsvolution.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|''What a feeling'' ''Being's believing'']]
Skids' friendly nature struck a chord with [[Ten]], the former [[Legislator]] turned into a bartender. In a mural of Ten's favourite crewmembers, Skids was in the front. A further friendship was struck up when Ratchet asked Skids to chat with Rung some time, as the guy would truly appreciate being visited by someone who didn't want help from him; when Skids bought Rung a drink, the therapist was surprised and delighted. {{storylink|Our Steps Will Always Rhyme}}

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

[[File:MTMTE43 skids swerve humans.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.0| Anything could be a Transformer!]]
Until Swerve suddenly vanished {{storylink|The Frail Gaze}} and a horrified Skids checked his room to find the bartender facedown, rusted, and half-dead from an infected wound. He rushed him to the medical bay for aid (inadvertently making him worse) and learned from [[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]] that Swerve had been holed up in his room for months, neglecting himself, and using a holomatter avatar to seem 'fine'. To Skids' great shame, he'd never visited Swerve—hadn't even known his ''room number'' until he remembered it was Red Alert's old one—and completely missed any chance to see one of his best friends needed help. He joined a rescue team sent to "[[Swearth]]", a vast hologram Earth operating on sitcom rules that Swerve was projecting, to find the guy's consciousness and fix him. In his new, brooding holomatter avatar, Skids and his friends did track down Swerve and tried to convince him to focus on the physical pain he was feeling, so they could realise where he was hurting. Skids, an expert in suppression, knew Swerve was pushing it down. Once they identified that Swerve was cripplingly lonely and depressed, they were able to convince him that he truly was loved and valued by them. {{storylink|The One Where They Go to Earth}}

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

[[File:MTMTE48 skids and rung.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7| Tell me where Skywalker is.]]
Under incremental recollection sessions with Rung, where he also helped fix model ships as a focusing tool, Skids had finally managed to remember ''entering'' Grindcore if nothing else; while frustrated with the slow process, Rung admonished him that learning all of it in one go would re-traumatise him. While chatting, Skids was surprised to see the long-lost [[Froid]] appear. An old friend of yours, Rung? Well, I'll leave you to get caught up! (Off he went to brood at the oil pools, trying to remember more.) Within minutes Rung sent him a coded radio message to meet him at Froid's ship as something ''dodgy'' was going on but by the time Skids arrived, Rung had learned Froid had the infamous [[Sunder (G1)|Tetrahax Ripper, Sunder]], on board and that guy ''fed'' on bad memories. The very first sight of Skids woke Sunder up and caused him to attack, starting to rip up Skids' traumatic memories to the surface {{storylink|Speak, Memory: Part 1}} before Rung could get him to safety. During the running battle against the serial killer, Rung kept trying to get Skids to Chromedome for memory suppression and Sunder duly followed them, constantly bringing up memories. Luckily Sunder was defeated by the point Skids remembered repairing Grindcore's teleport chambers for Tarn and ''not'' by the point he'd remember how he'd killed five hundred souls.{{storylink|Speak, Memory! (Part 2)}}

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

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

...where the [[Decepticon Justice Division]] and [[Deathsaurus (G1)|Deathsaurus]] were waiting. The Rodpod was shot down and Skids carried the wounded Nautica from its wreckage, everyone making their way inside the Necrobot's fortress. They found the Necrobot had been murdered and Skids spared a moment of empathy for Nightbeat, who had forged a bond with the ancient Transformer. A message came in from ''Getaway'', telling them that the crew had mutinied against Megatron and all those considered loyal to him, exiling them all off the ship under false pretenses. Skids was enraged to discover his former friend had actually mindwiped him, an act he ''knew'' was a violation, to keep this a secret. When the message ended and the sheer horror sunk in, Skids embraced Nautica to console her. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light: (1) How Bright Their Frail Deeds|How Bright Their Frail Deeds}}

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

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

Shortly afterwards, Velocity hit on a potential way out: Tailgate's spark 'explosion', triggered by extreme trauma, had supercharged two security guards ala [[Ore-13]] and that could be done now! All it required was someone willing to be traumatised. Skids offered himself up and pleaded with Chromedome to finally let him know about his deep, hidden trauma. As Tarn began playing "[[the Empyrean Suite]]" from outside, creating the ideal conditions, Skids' memories began bubbling to the fore. A sorrowful Chromedome spoke some trigger words to his friend, finally unlocking that repressed trauma and Skids' spark erupted. As his supercharged friends ran outside to confront the Decepticons, Ratchet worked to keep the shattered Skids stable as his spark began to shrank.

[[File:sleep tight, soldier.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|left|He's dead, Jim.]]

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

In honor of Skids, the crew of the ''Lost Light'' painted their [[insignia|Autobot Insignias]] grey. {{storylink|Dissolution Part 1: Some Other Cybertron|Some Other Cybertron}}

During a visit to [[Troja Major]], Nautica revealed that she was seeking the [[Epistemus|Resus Cradle]], a device that was said to be capable of reviving dead Cybertronians provided there were some form of remains for it to work with—the reason she had removed Skids' brain module from his corpse. {{storylink|An Axe to Break the Ice}} Upon making contact with [[Mengel]], who possessed the Resus Cradle, Nautica discovered the cost of Skids' resurrection would be steep indeed. An emotion-trafficker, Mengel suggested Nautica sell her grief towards Skids, as well as her feelings of friendship toward Velocity. Nautica initially agreed to the process, but ultimately could not foresake Velocity's friendship, abandoning her plan to resurrect Skids. However, being as Mengel had already removed her grief- and thus ALL warm feelings she had towards him beforehand, it didn't bother her at all and she left Skids' brain module behind. {{storylink|Chasing the Infinite}} A simulation of Skids appeared to Nautica on [[Mederi]] that tried to coax her to join him in the [[Transformer afterlife|Afterspark]]. Bereft of her old emotions towards him, the prospect held no appeal to Nautica and Skids' apparition disappeared. {{storylink|The Everlasting Voices (2): The God War|The God War}} Skids appeared among the spirits of the dead that welcomed [[Soundwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Soundwave]] into the Afterspark. {{storylink|Ceremony}}

===''Q-Transformers'' cartoon===
[[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] named Skids, [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]], and [[Drift (G1)|Drift]] as three characters who had been produced as toys for the popular ''[[Q-Transformers]]'' line. {{storylink|The Road to Winning a New Fanbase}}

===Precursor World===
A [[Primus Vanguard|Warrior of the Seven Lights]] resembling Skids was a member of the [[Blue Order]] of the [[Primus Vanguard]]. He and his comrades followed their commander [[Blue Big Convoy]] into battle when a duel between [[G1 World|dimension-tossed]] future warriors [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity#Generations Selects Special Comic (1)|Ultra Megatron]] and [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Star Convoy]] threatened the [[Blue Planet (GS)|Blue Planet]] and [[Beast People|its people]]. When Vanguard supreme leader [[Primus#The old universe|Primus]] deigned to personally intervene, the Warrior knelt in deference. {{storylink|Super Megatron comic 2}}

Evidently felled in the subsequent brawl when the traitorous [[Straxus (G1)#Precursor World|Straxus twins]] unleashed a rage virus to destroy the corps from within, he was later memorialized with a hologram in the inner sanctum of the [[Ivory Towers]] by [[Magna Convoy]]. {{storylink|Cybertron Magna Convoy prequel comic}}

===''My Little Pony/Transformers''===
Following [[King Sombra]]'s awakening on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], Skids was one of the many unsuspecting Cybertronians who fell under the tyrannical [[unicorn]]'s thrall. Making his way to the desert, Skids tried to ambush [[Applejack]] but was knocked down by [[Wildwheel (G1)|Wildwheel]], mourning that he'd failed his king. {{storylink|One-Trick Pony}}

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

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

===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
[[File:BattleTacticsSkids.jpg|thumb|400px]]
Skids participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He was an Rare character that could be recruited by collecting 130 units of Cybermetal, 75 units of Transmetal, and 45 hunter cores. {{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}

===''Transformers Operation Omega''===
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===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
[[File:Skids-EW.jpg|300px|thumb|]]
Skids arrived in response to the rampage of [[Sky Reign]]. Though that problem was over, the other Autobots had to request the use of his liquid nitrogen rifle to calm down [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]]. {{storylink|Shaken, Not Stirred}}
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==Toys==
===''The Transformers''===
{{anchor|Generation 1}}
[[File:G1 Skids toy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Introducing the new Nikahimi Deathtrap. With its poly-cotton body shell, it's the fastest car in the world... to open with the jaws of life. The Nikahimi Deathtrap—the last car you'll ever drive.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Skids''' (Autobot Car, [[1984]])}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': "[[Liquid nitrogen rifle]]", "[[Electron blaster|twin electron blaster]]", "rocket pod launcher", 3 rockets
{{toydesigner|[[Kōjin Ōno]] (TakaraTomy), [[Shōji Kawamori]] ([[Studio Nue]])}}

: Released in the first year of the US ''[[The Transformers (toyline)|The Transformers]]'' toyline (no, really), Skids is a slight [[redeco]] the [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] ''[[Diaclone]]'' "{{w|Honda City (AA)|Honda City Turbo}}" toy, transforming into... well, it's kinda obvious. Skids uses the blue ''Diaclone'' version as his base, with new side-panel decals. In vehicle mode he has an opening trunk, which on the original toy was meant to store a {{w|Honda Motocompo|a small scooter accessory}} omitted from the Hasbro version; this does give him the ability to store like, one of his rockets if you like. Speaking of, his arm-mounted "rocket pod" accessory had its rocket-launching spring [[for safety reasons|severely weakened]] in the Hasbro line, but was at full strength for his Takara ''Transformers'' release. All stickers referring to "Honda City" are all omitted; the front grille sticker no longer features the Honda symbol.

: Due to the rounded head on the screws used for Skids's shoulders, the stickers made to cover them up almost ''always'' refuse to stay on. In fact, you'll notice a slight pattern in the photographs of the [[:File:G1-toy ScreechGenerations.jpg|other uses of]] [[:File:CrosscutAuto-toy.jpg|the mold]] shown on this wiki, where the respective shoulder stickers for those figures have been left off entirely! If one so chooses, there is at least ''one'' way to make the stickers stay somewhat: placing a small dab of superglue on the top and bottom of the black ring-piece making up the shoulder holds the sticker on ''just'' enough for it to stay in place, though, sitting flush will ''still'' be an impossibility. It is advised that anyone attempting to try this at home, be ''very'' careful not to use too much glue and not to let the glue seep into the entire shoulder joint, otherwise... well, you get the picture.

: Skids had a somewhat odd release history. Because he was not one of the original eleven Autobot Cars released at the line's inception, he is commonly grouped in with the later 1985 Autobot Cars both fictionally and in the minds of [[fandom|fans]]. However, Skids was actually added to the 1984 Autobot Cars assortment (taking the place of a second [[Mirage (G1)/toys#Generation 1|Mirage]] in a [[case]] of twelve) very late in the year (December 1984 is the earliest confirmed availability of the figure as of this writing), during which time he came in 1984 packaging including a ™ mark by the "''Transformers''" logo, rather than an ® mark. Like the other 1984 cars, at least some of these early Skids releases lacked the [[rubsign]] on the roof that would later be added to all ''Transformers'' toys in 1985.<ref name="earlyg1">[http://tfscraps.blogspot.com/2016/11/early-g1-timeline.html "Early G1 Timeline"] at TF Scraps.</ref> Presumably due to this early release, he got the short end of the stick in 1985: That year, the "Autobot Cars" price point was divided into two separate assortments, each of which contained six of the figures that had debuted in 1984 (packaged one per case in a case of 12) and three of the new figures that debuted in 1985 (packaged two per case). Since Hasbro apparently considered Skids a 1984 release, he ended up being packaged only one per case, thus making him somewhat more rare than his peers.

: This mold itself is a [[retool]] of an earlier ''Diaclone'' toy, the Honda City R; this earlier tooling was used to make [[Crosscut (G1)#Toys|Crosscut]] and [[Screech (Generations)#Toys|Screech]].

::*''[http://www.transformerland.com/wiki/toy-info/transformers-g1-autobot-cars-skids/519/ Patent info, price guide, and further reading on Skids at Transformerland.com]''
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1985/Autobot/Skids/skids.htm More information on Skids at TFU.info]''
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[[File:G1toy vsz set.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|"Maybe the kids will notice me now that I'm bundled together with two popular figures?"]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1d1|'''Skids & Sunstreaker vs Buzzsaw''' (Multi-pack, [[1985]])}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''VSZ'''
:*''Accessories'': "Liquid nitrogen rifle", "twin electron blaster", "rocket pod launcher", 3 rockets

: Skids was not released on his own in the [[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (toyline)|Japanese Generation 1 toyline]], and was instead available only in a multi-pack with [[Sunstreaker (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Sunstreaker]] and [[Buzzsaw (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Buzzsaw]], who were ''also'' only available in this set in the original Japanese line (Buzzsaw got re-released in Japan over the next couple of years, while Skids and Sunstreaker were not).

: This box set remains a considerable rarity on the secondary market.

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[[File:G1toy quantum operative skids.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|You sure you can call this an homage?]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Skids & Screech Quantum Operative Ver.''' (Multi-pack, [[2009]])}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': "Material acceleration pistol", dual-barreled gun, "quantum shield" launcher, 3 rockets, scooter

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

: Amusingly, the color scheme for this exclusive was accidentally revealed early by TakaraTomy when they [[:File:Encore Skids Tokyo Toy Show 2009.jpg|mistakenly included its missile launcher]], denoted by its bright green launching tab, with the normal ''Encore'' version that was on display at [[Tokyo Toy Show]] 2009.<ref name="internat">[http://www.allspark.com/content/view/5790/20/ TakaraTomy Accidentally Gives Clue to TF Generations Vol. 3 Mail Away Figure?!]</ref>
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2009/Cybertron/Skids/skids.htm More information on Quantum Operative Skids at TFU.info]''
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===''The Transformers Collection''===
[[File:TF Collection 3 Skids.jpg|thumb|"Oh boy, a reissue! Now people are ''actually'' going to notice me!"]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Skids''' (Cybertron, [[2002]])}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''3'''
:''Release date'': [[September 27]], 2002
:*''Accessories'': "liquid nitrogen rifle", "twin electron blaster", "rocket pod launcher", 3 rockets

: Skids received his first [[Generation 1 reissues|reissue]] in 2002, when [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] made him available as part of their "book-box" ''[[The Transformers Collection|Transformers Collection]]'' series, surprising many with the inclusion of such an overlooked character so early in the line. He features no significant differences from the original (save for a working missile launcher, as with the original Japanese release), though the figure suffered from a common, if not universal, problem: an excess of plastic on the underside of Skids's right foot means that his rear wheel can not fold down flat beneath it, resulting in a slightly unstable robot mode. Since the original Japanese figure was released only in a giftset, Skids did not get an individual [[List of Japanese ID numbers|ID number]] at the time, a situation this reissue rectifies by retroactively giving him the ID number '''96''' on the included [[Tech Spec]] and [[bio]] card.

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

::*''[http://www.tf-1.com/articles/reissue/Skids_template.html More information on Transformers Collection Skids at TF-1.com]
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===''Commemorative Series''===
[[File:G1toy commemorative skids.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|"Whoa, two reissues! Good old Skids is moving up - Wait, why am I on a bin with 'Clearance' written on it?"]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Autobot Skids''' (2004)}}</ul>
:*''Series'': Series VIII
:*''Accessories'': "liquid nitrogen rifle", "twin electron blaster", "rocket pod launcher", 3 rockets

: Skids got his first Hasbro reissue as part of the eighth wave of their ''[[The Transformers: Generation One Commemorative Series|Commemorative Series]]'' line, [[exclusive]] to [[Toys"R"Us]] stores. He features no notable differences from the earlier Takara ''Transformers Collection'' release, except for the fact that his launcher's spring has been removed.
{{G1SkidsMold}}
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===''Alternators''===
{{anchor|Alternators/Binaltech}}
[[File:Alt Skids toy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Heavily discounted so fanboys could customize him into Ironhide.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Scion xB Autobot Skids''' (Alternator, 2005)}}</ul>
:*''Alternators ID number'': '''17'''
:*''Binaltech ID number'': '''BT-16'''
:*''Binaltech release date'': [[November 17]], 2005
:*''Accessories'': Engine-rifle
{{toydesigner|[[Steve Bono]] (Hasbro), [[Hisashi Yuki]] (TakaraTomy)|[[Masakatsu Saito]] (concept artist), [[Marcelo Matere]] (packaging artist)}}

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

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

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

::*[[Source:Transformers Binaltech bios#16|Archive of ''Binaltech'' Skids's bio and tech specs]]
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2006/Autobot/AltSkids/skids.htm More information on ''Alternators'' Skids at TFU.info]''
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===''Encore''===
[[File:G1toy encore skids.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|"''Three'' reissues?! Wow, by this point I must be as popular as the other Car Robots, right guys? r-right?"]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Skids''' (2009)}}</ul>
:*''ID number:'' '''18'''
:*''Release date'': October ??, 2009
:*''Accessories'': liquid nitrogen rifle, twin electron blaster, rocket pod launcher, 3 rockets

: TakaraTomy reissued Skids again in October 2009 as part of their ''[[Transformers Encore]]'' series. This version of the figure shifted its colors a little, changing him from tomato-red and blue to cherry-red and blueish-purple, as well as noticeably lightening the translucent blue plastic used for his windows. His Autobot symbol and tail light stickers were replaced with [[tampograph]]s, while some of his other stickers were updated slightly, including his factory-applied front grill sticker. Like past reissues, this figure too suffered with an unstable robot mode, and ''both'' feet had wheels that would not fold away flat.
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===''Generations''===
[[File:Generations Skids.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|The theoretician the world deserves, not the one it needs right now.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Autobot Skids''' (Deluxe Class, 2013)}}</ul>
:*''Series / Number'': '''02 / #009'''
:*''Accessories'': "nudge gun" & "nitrogen gun" (combine to form rifle)
{{toydesigner|[[Joe Kyde]] (Hasbro)}}

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

: There are numerous reports of the figure's hips being assembled the [[Misassembly|wrong way round]], thus affecting the car mode as well as hampering the leg articulation (and it could even result in the ball joints at the waist snapping off), this can simply be fixed by popping them out and swapping them to the right place (just as long as you are careful with the aforementioned ball joints). At least some later releases fixed this issue. Unfortunately, Skids has a great deal of difficulty standing up due to his overall poor balance, unless posed in a way that offsets the weight.

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

: Skids was [[redeco]]ed into ''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (toyline)|Age of Extinction]]'' [[Rollbar (AOE)#Toys|Rollbar]] and ''[[Transformers Timelines (toyline)|Timelines]]''/''[[Diaclone]]'' [[Burn Out (Diaclone)#Toys|Burn Out]], which was later [[Repurposing|repurposed]] as [[Skids (SG)|''Shattered Glass'' Skids]]. This mold was also [[retool]]ed into ''Generations'' [[Crosscut (G1)#Generations|Crosscut]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2014/Autobot/GenSkids/skids.htm More information on ''Generations'' Skids at TFU.info]''
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===''Q-Transformers''===
[[File:QTransformers Skids.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|As a last ditch effort to be relevant, Skids tried appealing to the "kawaii" crowd without much success.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Skids''' ([[2015]])}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''QT-21'''
:*''Release date'': [[June 27]], 2015

:''[[Q-Transformers]]'' Skids is a redeco and retool of [[Hound (G1)/toys#Q-Transformers|QT-15 Hound]], transforming into a [[super deformed]] Suzuki Hustler. Look at him. He's adorable.
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===''Kre-O''===
{{anchor|SDCC2015}}
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1d1|'''Kreon Class of '85''' (Kreon figure set, 2015)}}</ul>
:*''Set number'': '''B5152'''
:*''Voted'': Most Thoughtful
:*''Accessories'': 2 clip-on rifles

:''[[Kre-O]]'' "Autobot Skids" is a small brick-built [[Kreon]] figure, using the 2015-style construction with raised hands and the sturdier "peg-in-peg" torso/waist connection. His body [[tampograph]]s are heavily toy-based, with a ton of intricate design.

:He was only available as part of the [[San Diego Comic-Con]]-[[exclusive]] "[[Kreon Class of '85]]" 30-Kreon set. This set was also sold online through [[Hasbro Toy Shop]] after the show.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2015/Autobot/SDCCKre-OSkids/skids.htm More information on Class of '85 Skids at TFU.info]''
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===''Legends''===
[[File:Legendstoy-Skids.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|At least now he can be ignored while sporting a cooler deco.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Skids''' ([[2016]])}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''LG-20'''
:*''Release date'': [[May 28]], 2016
:*''Accessories'': "nudge gun" & "nitrogen gun" (combine to form rifle)

: Released in the eleventh wave of TakaraTomy's ''[[Transformers Legends (franchise)|Legends]]'' toyline (and the only new product in said wave), Skids is an extensive redeco of the ''Generations'' Skids toy. It features a color scheme faithful to the character's appearance in the ''[[The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More than Meets the Eye]]'' comic, with a darker shade of blue, black front grill with red details under the grill, silver and black detailing on the feet, painted front lights and pink striping on the front hood and on the back's sculpted detail.
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===''Masterpiece''===
[[File:TF-Masterpiece-MP-53-Skids.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|What was once a theoretical Masterpiece has become a reality.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Skids''' ([[2021]])}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''MP-53'''
:*''Release date'': [[November 20]], 2021
:*''Hasbro release name'': '''Autobot Skids'''
:*''Accessories'': "liquid nitrogen rifle", "twin electron blaster"
{{toydesigner|[[Kōjin Ōno]] and [[Yūya Ōnishi]] (TakaraTomy)}}

: ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' Skids was announced by TakaraTomy at the beginning of 2021 with black-and-white model drawings, and later was shown in prototype form by Honda Japan's Twitter.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=＼新年あけましておめでとうございます／本年もトランスフォーマー商品及びトランスフォーマー情報局をよろしくお願い致します！新年１発目の投稿は本年発売予定のマスターピース新商品「スキッズ」の設定画からです！ #トランスフォーマー #Transformers #あけおめスキッズ https://t.co/E8PpE4WaJY|link=https://twitter.com/TF_pr/status/1344810572752318473|name=TF_pr|site=Twitter|year=2021|month=01|day=01|(defunct=)}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial|quote=＼マスターピーススキッズ／本年もMP新商品はいくつか発売予定ですが、その中の１つが「スキッズ」です。本能的変形と広い可動範囲を持ち、昨今のMPのハイブリッド版となる新作です！随時情報更新予定ですのでお楽しみに！ #トランスフォーマー #Transformers #あけおめスキッズ https://t.co/6TvAqW3a8X|link=https://twitter.com/TF_pr/status/1344810823181611010|name=TF_pr|site=Twitter|year=2021|month=01|day=01|(defunct=)}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial|quote=雑誌『フィギュア王 No.277』にて本日公開！！！！！！！ @takaratomytoys @TF_pr https://t.co/KEOI6ZaYJV|link=https://twitter.com/HondaJP/status/1364802317023924229|name=HondaJP|site=Twitter|year=2021|month=02|day=25|(defunct=)}}</ref> Like the other Masterpiece Autobot cars, Skids can fit inside Convoy's ([[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#MP10|MP-10]] or [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#MP44|MP-44]]) trailer in vehicle mode.

: Designed in collaboration with {{w|Honda}} to celebrate the 40th anniversary of {{w|Honda City}}, ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' Skids transforms into an officially-licensed 1st generation Honda City Turbo vehicle mode, featuring opening front doors, an opening hood with engine detailing underneath, an openable rear trunk that can store some of his accessories, and a basic interior capable of fitting the Spike Witwicky figurine that came included with [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#MP44|MP-44 Convoy]] inside.

: For accessories, Skids comes with his liquid nitrogen rifle and twin electron blaster, both of which can be stored in his alt mode's openable rear trunk. In robot mode, both weapons can either peg into the top of the forearm like the original G1 Skids toy or on the side of the forearm via dedicated slots.

: This toy was retooled into MP-54 [[Reboost#Masterpiece|Reboost]] that was released simultaneously, and the Reboost tooling of the mold would subsequently be redecoed into both MP-53+ [[Crosscut (G1)#Masterpiece|Crosscut]] and MP53+B [[Burn Out (Diaclone)#Masterpiece|Dia Burnout]].

::*[https://tf.takaratomy.co.jp/skids-reboost Official TakaraTomy website of ''Masterpiece'' Skids]
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===''Legacy''===
[[File:TF-Legacy-Deluxe-Class-Skids.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"Hey, I've got a new Earth-based toy! Wait, you guys are still on ''[[War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Earthrise]]'', right? ...Right?"]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Autobot Skids''' (Deluxe Class, [[2022]])}}</ul>
:*''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''TL-01'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[July 30]], 2022
:*''Accessories'': [[Energon]] axe/rifle, liquid nitrogen rifle, twin electron blaster
{{toydesigner|[[Mark Maher]] (Hasbro), [[Tomoki Tatsumi]] (TakaraTomy)|[[Robby Musso]] and [[Emiliano Santalucia]] (concept art)}}

: Part of the first wave of ''[[Transformers: Legacy|Legacy]]'' Deluxe Class toys, "Autobot Skids" is a cartoon-accurate version of the character in terms of sculpt, but the mold layout as well as colors are based on his G1 toy. He transforms into an approximation of a Honda City Turbo. He comes with his liquid nitrogen rifle and twin electron blaster, as well as a translucent-blue Energon rifle that doubles as an axe (though the instructions make no note of using it this way). The three weapons can combine to form a super weapon.

: [[Show-accuracy|If one feels the need]], Skids's shoulders are on multiple hinges, so they can be dropped down to the mistransformed position his Generation 1 [[Character model|cartoon model]] was based on. Skids's back kibble can also slide up and down, giving one the option to have Skids displayed with the iconic-look or a cleaner silhouette; though sliding it all the way up for the iconic-look will hinder his head articulation, so leaving it at the midway notch may be preferable. Additionally, his entire back kibble/car roof assembly is made of painted translucent plastic, so caution is recommended when adjusting or transforming him. Some buyers have reported it impossible to fully tab Skids's roof into place in vehicle mode, likely due to differing plastic tolerances. In a similar vein, it's recommended to not fully insert his twin electron blaster into either of his arms' peg holes, as the tight fit and lack of clearance to wiggle it out can cause the gun to snap off its peg.

: This figure was revealed by IGN as a teaser for the ''Legacy'' line on [[October 20]], [[2021]].<ref>[https://www.ign.com/articles/new-transformers-generations-legacy-figure-line-announced-by-hasbro ''Transformers Generations: Legacy'' toyline announcement] - on IGN</ref>
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==Merchandise==
===Decoy===
[[File:Decoy skids.jpg|thumb]]
*'''Cybertron Hero Collection 22''' (multi-pack, 1986)
:Skids was among the many characters rendered by [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] as part of their series of 1.5" soft rubber ''keshigomu'' figurines. Like all the figures in the series, Skids featured a number sculpted into his back that was the sum total of his [[Tech Spec]]s, for use in the various games that could be played with the figurines. He was available in red as part of a 22-piece box set of Autobot figures, in peach as part of various other randomly-packed box sets released by Takara subsidiary [[Seven]], and in a wide variety of different colors in "gachapon" capsule machines.

*'''Skids''' (1987)
**''Decoy number:'' '''12'''
:The Skids figurine was later brought over to [[Hasbro]] markets as part of the [[Decoy]] promotion, largely identical to the Japanese release except for the fact that the number on his back was replaced with a simple "checklist" number. Like all Autobot Decoys, he was a randomly-chosen pack-in available with the carded [[Throttlebot]]s, [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]], [[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobots]], and [[Technobot (G1)|Technobots]].

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

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

:He is equipped with a LN2 Cryo Rifle, an Electron Blaster, and a Rocket Launcher, which are similar to his G1 weapons — but due to the interdimensional nature of the Energon Wars subset, the Battle-Card may or may not also represent the [[Skids (Movie)|live-action movie Skids]].
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==Notes==
[[File:DiacloneSkids.jpg|thumb|A rainbow of theoretical flavors.]]
[[File:Skidsdiacloneconceptart.jpg|thumb|Suck it, Ironhide! This head was mine first!]]
* The ''[[Diaclone]]'' Honda City Turbo (ホンダ・シティ・ターボ) was additionally available in black or red. The [[BotCon 2015]] toy and character [[Burn Out (Diaclone)|Burn Out]], a non-Cybertronian ''Diaclone'' mecha, is based on the black version.
* Skids's animation model head appears to be based on early ''Diaclone'' promotional concept art. The toy's head would be different... and ultimately different from the [[Crosscut (G1)|Crosscut]] head shown in his instructions, which also popped up a few times in the UK comics. Much like [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]]'s [[character model]], Skids is hilariously drawn with his shoulders sitting about midway on his torso, due to the toy pictures the animators were working from. However, unlike Huffer, Skids's toy can actually have his arms repositioned to where they should be.
* Speaking of both Skids's instructions and incorrect arm positioning, his instructions are even worse than the animation model! They completely neglect to show rotating the arms out to be by his sides (never mind pushing his shoulders up to their correct elevation), instead leaving them awkwardly placed under his chest. Hasbro starting [[Instructions#Problems with modern-day instructions|as they meant to go on]], apparently.
* Though Skids's toy turned into a Honda City Turbo, his car mode was often misinterpreted in ''Transformers'' fiction in the 1980s as one of the then-new minivans, despite the fact that a Honda City Turbo is a subcompact car, which could theoretically be stowed in the back seat of an actual minivan. This is likely because most Americans in 1985 would have not known what a subcompact car was.
** Fast forward to the early 2000s—roughly eighteen years after his introduction to the ''Transformers'' brand—and Skids's [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]] ''[[Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More than Meets the Eye]]'' profile ''still'' labeled his vehicle mode as a minivan, despite it being clearly drawn by the artist as a subcompact car.
* As was pretty common for character models being designed solely on Hasbro-supplied toy images by [[Marvel Productions]] and/or [[Toei Animation]], Skids's ''true'' "liquid nitrogen rifle" was never used on-screen or in his animation model, and instead his "rocket pod launcher", which was affixed to his arm in the supplied toy images, took its place and designation within most of his fictional appearances.
* As Skids was released in the interim between the original 1984 launch and the big push of new 1985 figures, the character consequently fell by the wayside in the Generation 1 fiction of the 1980s. He was not included in the commercial promoting the new 1985 range of [[Autobot Cars]], as he wasn't technically part of it. Similarly, he was also left out of the list of new 1985 product in the Generation 1 cartoon's [[production bible]] intended for inclusion in the show's second season, and as such, only managed to appear in little more than cameo roles in just two episodes, speaking one line in each and voiced by a different actor each time. He fared a little better in the Marvel comics, debuting alongside (an incomplete roster of) the other 1985 cars, but after getting an issue dedicated to himself, he all but completely vanished from the book and was banished to [[limbo]] by the UK comic for upwards of 100 issues, abandoned and forgotten.
* In "[[Survivors!]]", Skids is drawn with the original ''Diaclone'' toy's head (which years later would be used for the new character [[Crosscut (G1)|Crosscut]]). "Survivors!"' artist, [[Dan Reed]], previously drew him with his real head, so it'd be interesting to learn why and how this change happened.
* His [[holomatter]] avatar in [[Cybertronian Homesick Blues|''More than Meets the Eye'' #13]] is based on {{w|Matt Smith (actor)|Matt Smith}} as the {{w|Eleventh Doctor|Eleventh}} [[Doctor (Doctor Who)|Doctor]] from ''[[Doctor Who]]'' while in [[The One Where They Go to Earth|''More than Meets the Eye'' #43]] it is based on {{w|Christopher Eccleston}} as the {{w|Ninth Doctor|Ninth}} Doctor.

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

[[Category:IDW (2005) Autobots]]
[[Category:Scientists]]

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Skids-Alex Milne-MtMtE.jpg|IDW concept art of robot mode
File:Skids idw concept art.jpg|IDW concept art of robot and vehicle modes
File:Transformers Legends LG 20.jpg|''Legends'' LG20 packaging art
File:EW-skin-Skids-Quantum Operative.jpg|''Earth Wars'' "Quantum Operative" skin
</gallery>

==References==
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[[Category:3D Battle-Cards]]
[[Category:Alternators Autobots]]
[[Category:Blue Order]]
[[Category:Council members]]
[[Category:Decoys]]
[[Category:Dimension hoppers]]
[[Category:Dreamwave Generation 1 Autobots]]
[[Category:Encore]]
[[Category:Exclusives]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Autobots]]
[[Category:Generation 1 cartoon Autobots]]
[[Category:Generation 1 toy Autobots]]
[[Category:Henkei! Henkei! Autobots]]
[[Category:Kre-O Autobots]]
[[Category:Kreons]]
[[Category:Legacy Autobots]]
[[Category:Legends Autobots]]
[[Category:Lost Light crew]]
[[Category:Marvel Generation 1 Autobots]]
[[Category:Q-Transformers characters]]
[[Category:Regeneration One Autobots]]
[[Category:Scientists]]
[[Category:SDCC exclusives]]
[[Category:Universe Autobots]]

Lavamuleta

2025-05-30T20:20:38Z

Vanya: vu + a = va in katakana.

:''Lavamuleta is an [[Energy Beast]] from [[Transformers: Wild King|Wild King]].''

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'''Lavamuleta''' (ラヴァムレータ ''Ravamurēta'') is an Animal Tribe Energy Beast living on [[Elementros]].

Possessing [[Element Energy|Flame Energy]] that grants power over fire, Lavamuleta is an [[Energy Beast]] that can undergo [[wildocking]] with an [[Energy Master]].

==Fiction==
===''Wild King'' cartoon===
{{comingsoon}}

==Toys==
===''Wild King''===
{{anchor|Multipack}}
[[File:Wild King WKS-03 Lavamuleta.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|]]
*'''Nemesis Prime & Lavamuleta''' (Wildocking Set, 2025)
:*''ID number'': '''WKS-03'''
:*''Release date'': [[2025]] [[July 19]]
:*''Accessories'': Bull head, Axe, "Flame Energy"
: Part of the third wave of ''[[Transformers: Wild King|Wild King]]'' product, Lavamuleta transforms into a robotic bull. He can also transform into an arm or a leg extension for any [[Energy Master#Toys|Energy Master]] toy. He has a fire-themed "Flame Energy" breastplate, which can be detached and re-attached to one of the four ports on the chest of the Energy Master torso, forming part of a large elemental "X". A portion of his beast mode back detaches to form an axe.

: He shares several "core" parts with other Energy Beasts: he has the same torso and thighs as the rest of them, and shares an axe/beast mode back with [[Hydrophant]].

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[[Category:Animal Tribe Energy Beasts]]

Popular beast alternate modes

2025-05-29T18:35:18Z

Vanya: /* Reptiles */ added Tyrannocon Rex

[[File:Class06-toy Grimlock.jpg|thumb|upright=2|There's more of these than you'd think.]]
Earth is a planet literally teeming with organic life forms. Millions of genera, of all shapes and sizes, inhabit the planet, and a [[Transformer|Cybertronian]] might scan any of them for a potential [[alternate mode]]. Some genera, however, are extremely popular with Cybertronians.

{{SITENAME}} has certain requirements for an animal to be listed here. There must be at least '''three unique toy molds''' (or in-fiction appearances, in the case of non-toy bodies/characters) that share the [[beast mode]]. There must also be at least '''one unique character per mold'''—a single character getting numerous revamps in similar bodies over the years would not count as a "popular mode."

Each mold is listed on its own line, with all different-character decoes/[[retool]]s on the same line. The list is (more or less) organized in chronological order of toy release or fictional appearance.

:''See also'': [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes]], [[Popular Cybertronian vehicle alternate modes]], [[Non-vehicle non-beast alternate modes]], [[General Motors]]

==Arthropods==

===Arachnids===
====Spiders====
[[File:Botconarceetoy.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|Not an [[Avengers]] member.]]
''Black Widow Spiders'' (''Latrodectus mactans'')

*[[Blackarachnia (BW)]]
*[[Arcee (G1)]]
*[[Crystal Widow]]
*[[Blackarachnia (Animated)]]
*[[Airachnid (Prime)]] <ref name="motif">This character qualifies because of their robot mode motif.</ref>
*[[Airachnid (G1)]]

====Scorpions====
[[File:BWtoy-ScorponokMega.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.4|Willing to trade his bee for a city mode.]]
*[[Scorponok (G1)]] / [[Scorponok (G1)|BlackZarak]]
*[[Pincher (G1)]]
*[[Scorpulator]]
*[[Double Punch]]
*[[Scorpia (G2)|Scorpia]]
*[[Scorponok (BW)]] / [[Sandstorm (BW)]] / [[Scorponok (BWSG)]]
*[[Quickstrike (BW)]] <ref name="fuzor">This character partially qualities because of their nature as a Fuzor.</ref>
*[[Ax]]
*[[Poison Bite]]
*[[Scorponok (Energon)]] / [[Scorponok (Energon)|Dark Scorponok]]
*[[Scorponok (Movie)]]
*[[Zori]] / [[Sting (RID)]]
*[[Scorponok (WFC)]] / [[Paralon (RID)]]
*[[Sandsting]]
*[[Scorponok (ROTB)]]

===Crustaceans===
====Crabs====
[[File:BW-BWN-toy Razorclaw-Rockbuster.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.4|When all the world is metrosexual, the Crab People will finally reign supreme!]]
*[[Cancix]]
*[[Octopunch (G1)|Octopunch]]
*[[Rampage (BW)]] / [[Shokaract]]
*[[Razorclaw (BW)]] / [[Rockbuster]]
*[[Razor-Sharp]]
*[[Crab spy]]
*[[Gura]]
*[[Clampdown (RID)]] / [[Clawtrap]] <ref name="motif" />
*[[Crabby Grabby]]

===Insects===
====Stag beetles (family Lucanidae)====
[[File:G1 Chopshop toy.jpg|right|upright=1.4|thumb|Not [[Pokeformers|Pinsir]].]]
*[[Shrapnel (G1)]] / [[Zaptrap]]
*[[Chop Shop (G1)]]
*[[Insecticon (BW)]]
*[[Beetle]]
*[[Marco]]
*[[Scarem]]
*[[Sharpshot]]
*[[Shrapnel (RID)]]
*[[Shrapnel (Cyberverse)]] / [[Kickback (Cyberverse)]] / [[Bombshell (Cyberverse)]]

====Scarabs and male rhinoceros beetles (family Scarabaeidae)====
[[File:G1-toy Bombshell.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Not Heracross.]]
*[[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] / [[Bombshell (SG)|Bombshell (Shattered Glass)]] / [[Salvo (G1)|Salvo]]
*[[Barrage (Insecticon)]]
*[[Ram Horn]] / [[Motorarm (BW)]]
*[[Needler (G1)|Needler]]
*[[Insecticon (Energon)]]
*[[Hardshell]] / [[Bombshock (Prime)]] / [[Razorhorn]]
*[[Bido]]
*[[Barrage (Prime)]]
*[[Bombshell (RID)]]

====Grasshoppers and locusts (order Orthoptera)====
*[[Kickback (G1)]] / [[Kickback (SG)|Kickback (Shattered Glass)]] / [[Shothole]] / [[Non-Biological Extraterrestrial|NBE 125]]
*[[Ransack (G1)]] / [[Ransack (SG)|Ransack (Shattered Glass)]]
*[[Scourge (BW)]]
*[[Kickback (FOC)]]
*[[Kickback (RID)]] <ref name="motif" />
*[[Spinhead]] <ref name="motif" />

====Wasps and ants (order Hymenoptera)====
[[File:Waspinatortelemocha.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.4|A rare shot of Waspinator not getting blown up.]]
*[[Buzz Saw (BW)]] / [[Waspinator (BW)]] / [[Starscream (G1)]] {{storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (N64)}}
*[[Dirge (BW)|Dirgegun]]
*[[Injector (BW)|Injector]] / [[Latolata]] <ref name="fuzor" />
*[[Inferno (BW)]] / [[Antagony (BW)]]
*[[Scavenger (BW)]]
*[[Buzzer-Bot]] / [[Billy (Go-Bots)]]
*[[Wasp|Waspinator (Animated)]] / [[Inferno (Animated)]] / [[Antagony (Animated)]]
*[[Storm Rider]] / [[King Waruder]] / [[Paralyzer]] / [[Bug Bite II]] / [[Parasite]] / [[Skywasp]] / [[Mudfighter]] / [[Waspinator (BWSG)|Waspinator (Shattered Glass)]]
*[[Venom (G1)|Venin]] / [[Crusher (Diaclone)]] / [[Buzzer (Diaclone)]] / [[B-Navi]] / [[Ripper (Diaclone)]] / [[NAVI-Q]] / [[Thrasher (Diaclone)]] / [[King Waruder|Daros]] / [[Buggy]]

====Mantises (order Mantodea)====
*[[Manterror]] / [[Mantis]]
*[[Buzzclaw (BW)]] / [[Buzzclaw (G1)]] / [[Dirge (Timelines)]] / [[Virulent Clone]] / [[Repugnus (G1)]] <ref name="fuzor" />
*[[Magi]] / [[Shou]] / [[Scalpel (ROTF)]]

====Dragonflies (order Odonata)====
*[[Jetstorm (BW)]] / [[Tonbot]]
*[[Sky Shadow (BW)]] / [[Drancron]] <ref name="fuzor" />
*[[Dobo]]

==Fishes==

===Chondrichthyes===
====Rays====
''Manta Ray'' (''Manta birostris'')
[[File:BM-toy Hammerstrike.jpg|right|upright=1.4|thumb|Starring in the next ''Shark Attack'' movie.]]
*[[Seawing (G1)|Seawing]] / [[Kraken]] / [[Terrormander]]
*[[Manta Ray (BW)]]
*[[Depth Charge (BW)]]

====Sharks====
'''Hammerhead shark''' (genus ''Sphyrna'' and others)

*[[Cybershark]] / [[Starscream (BW)|Hellscream]] / [[Overbite (G1)]]
*[[Air Hammer (BW)|Air Hammer]] <ref name="fuzor" />
*[[Hammerstrike (BM)]] / [[Sharkticon (species)|Sharkticon]]s {{storylink|Betrayal}}
*[[Hammerstrike (RID)]] / [[Ragebyte]] <ref name="motif" />
*[[Hammerbyte]]

'''Great White shark''' (''Carcharodon carcharias'')
*[[Cybershark#TM2|Cybershark (Transmetal 2)]]
*[[Sky-Byte (RID)]] / [[Skywarp (G1)/toys#Cloud|Hellwarp]]
*[[Sky-Byte (Cyberverse)]]

==Reptiles==
===Crocodylians===
[[File:BWtoy-MegatronBasic.jpg|right|upright=1.4|thumb|Don't flush him down the toilet.]]
*[[Skullcruncher (G1)]] / [[Krok (G1)|Krok]]
*[[Megatron (BW)]] / [[Albitron]] / [[Megalligator]]
*[[Terragator]] <ref name="fuzor" />
*[[Soundwave (BW)]]
*[[Gatoraider]]
*[[Dai]]
*[[Razorgrille (RID)]] / [[Skullcruncher (RID)]] <ref name="motif" />
*[[Skullcruncher (Cyberverse)]]
*[[Skullcruncher (ROTB)]]

===Lizards===
[[File:Prime-toy Zad.jpg|upright=1.2|thumb]]
*[[Geckobot]]
*[[Sky Shadow (BW)]] / [[Drancron]] <ref name="fuzor" />
*[[Buzzclaw (BW)]] / [[Buzzclaw (G1)]] / [[Dirge (Timelines)]] / [[Virulent Clone]] / [[Repugnus (G1)]] <ref name="fuzor" />
*[[Wreckloose (Cybertron)]] / [[Wreckloose (TF 2010)]]
*[[Iguanus (BW)]] / [[Crazybolt (BW)|Crazybolt]]
*[[Reptilion]]
*[[Zado]] / [[Zad]]
*[[Crazybolt (RID)]] <ref name="motif" />
*[[Slicedice]] <ref name="motif" />

===Snakes===
[[File:WFCNetflixtoy-Fangtron.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb]]
''Cobras'' (genus ''Naja'' and others)

*[[Colada]]
*[[Quickstrike (BW)]] <ref name="fuzor" />
*[[Night Viper]] <ref>This character qualifies even though vipers are not cobras.</ref>
*[[Cobrabreast]]
*[[Gobu]] / [[Gob]]
*[[Vertebreak (RID)]] <ref name="motif" />
*[[Slitherfang]] / [[Fangtron]]
*[[Overcoiled]] (cobra)

===Turtles===
''Snapping turtles'' (genera ''Chelydra'' and ''Macroclemmys'')

*[[Snaptrap (G1)|Snaptrap]] / [[Turtler]] / [[Halfshell]]
*[[Snapper]]
*[[Terragator]] <ref name="fuzor" />
*[[Dado (Prime)]]
*[[Skold]]

===Dinosaurs===
====Ankylosaurs====
*[[Gairyu]] <ref name="pretender">This character qualifies due to their pretender shell only.</ref>
*[[Bazooka (BW)|Bazooka]] / [[Slapper (Dinobots)|Slapper]]
*[[Dinobot (PCC)|Ankylosaurus drone]] / [[Kakuryu (G1)#United EX 2|Cross-Ryu drone]]
*[[Roughneck]]
*[[Scowl (RID)|Scowl]]
*[[Scale (RB)|Scale the Shield-Bot]]
*[[Scarr]]

====''Brontosaurus''<ref>Due to the changing classification status of various fossils, these molds may have been described as either ''Brontosaurus'' or ''Apatosaurus'' at the time of release.</ref>====
[[File:SS-toy Zauru.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb]]
*[[Sludge (G1)]]
*[[Zaur (G1)]] / [[Uruaz]] / [[Zauru]]
*[[Rairyu]] <ref name="pretender" />
*[[Sludge (SG)]]
*[[Zaur (Animated)]]
*[[Sludge (FOC)]]
*[[Slog (AOE)]]
*[[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave The Rescue Dino-Bot (RB)]]

====''Pachycephalosaurus''====
*[[Hardhead (BW)]] / [[Dinotron (BM)]]
*[[Dinobot (PCC)|Pachycephalosaurus drone]] / [[Kakuryu (G1)#United EX 2|Caesar-Ryu Drone]]
*[[Vertebreak (Kingdom)]]<ref>Vertebreak's beast mode is based on the dinosaur previously known as ''Dracorex''. However, as of 2020, ''Dracorex'' is recognized as being the juvenile form of ''Pachycephalosaurus''.</ref> / [[Dracodon]]
* [[Jawbreaker (ES)]]

====''Spinosaurus''====
[[File:AOEGenerationsDeluxeScorn.jpg|upright=1.2|thumb]]
*[[Undermine (Cybertron)]] / [[Repugnus (Cybertron)]] / [[Undermine (TF 2010)]]
*[[Scorn]]
*[[Spindle]]
*[[Spirituan]]

====''Stegosaurus''====
[[File:G1Snarl toy.jpg|upright=1.2|thumb|"[[Slag (G1)|Slag]] stole my name." :'(]]
*[[Snarl (G1)]]
*[[Slugfest (G1)]] / [[Slugfest (SG)|Slugfest (Shattered Glass)]]
*[[Doryu (G1)]] <ref name="pretender" />
*[[Saberback]] / [[Striker]] / [[Snarl (Dinobots)]]
*[[Hacksaw]]
*[[Doryu (SG)]]
*[[Snarl (FOC)]]
*[[Snarl (AOE)]]
*[[Chase (RB)|Chase the Rescue Dinobot (RB)]]

====''Styracosaurus''====
[[File:WFC-Kingdom Deluxe Ractonite.jpg|upright=1.2|thumb]]
*[[Killer Punch]]
*[[Kakuryu (SG)]]
*[[Grimstone (PCC)]] / [[Kakuryu (G1)]]
*[[Ractonite]]

====''Triceratops''====
[[File:AoE Wal-Mart 2-pack scout Slug.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb]]
*[[Slag (G1)]]
*[[Kakuryu (G1)]] <ref name="pretender" />
*[[Guiledart]] / [[Triceradon (BM)]] / [[Triceradon (Dinobots)]]
*[[Knockdown (Classics)]] / [[Ironlunge]] / [[Stockade (Universe 2008)]] / [[Triceradon (DOTM)]] / [[Thunderlips]]
*[[Snarl (Animated)]]
*[[Slug (FOC)]]
*[[Slug (AOE)]]
*[[Boulder|Boulder the Rescue Dinobot]]
*[[Tricerashot]] <ref name="motif" />
*[['Tops]]
*[[Trisourtops]] / [[Tricitrustops]]
*[[Tricranius]]
*[[Slug (Cyberverse)]]
*[[Leafback]]

====''Tyrannosaurus''====
[[File:Beast Machines T-Wrecks.jpg|right|upright=1.4|thumb|"Down, Dino. Down, boy! Down, boy! Down!!"]]
*[[Grimlock (G1)]] / NBE 08
*[[Overkill (G1)]] / [[Overkill (SG)]]
*[[Goryu (G1)]] <ref name="pretender" />
*[[Megatron (BW)]] / [[T-Wrecks]] / [[Tyrannocon Rex]]
*[[Trypticon (G1)]] / [[Megastorm|Gigastorm]]
*[[Tyrannitron]]
*[[Tri-Rex]]
*[[Terrorsaur (Classics)]] / [[Gnashteeth]] / [[Ransack (Universe 2008)]] / [[Dualor (DOTM)]] / [[Ivan]]
*[[Predacon (Armada)]] / [[Preditron]]
*[[Grimlock (Energon)]]
*[[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron (Cybertron)]] / [[Cindersaur (G1)#Timelines|Cindersaur]] / [[Megatron (BWSG)]]
*[[Grimlock (Animated)]]
*[[Grimlock (SG)]]
*[[Goryu (SG)]]
*[[Grimlock (WFC)|Grimlock (FOC)]]
*[[Grimlock (RID 2015)]]
*[[Grimlock (AOE)]]
*[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Primal (Rescue Bots)]]
*[[Squeezeplay (G1)#Generations|Crashbash]] / [[Grimlock (G1)/toys#Clobber|Clobber]] / [[Overkill (G1)#Generations|Overboard]] / [[Butla#Legends|Butla]] <ref name="partner" />
*[[Sharp-T]]
*[[Grimlock (Cyberverse)]]
*[[Bogusaurus Rex]] / [[Stinkosaurus Rex]] / [[Greeny Rex]] / [[Bum Sprout]]
*[[Javasaurus Rex]] / [[Roarista]] / [[Goldasaurus Blend]]
*[[Hoist (RB)]] {{storylink|Big Wheels}}
*[[Paleotrex]] / [[Transmutate (BW)#Generations|Transmutate]] / [[Skelivore]]
*[[Tyrannocon Rex]]
*[[Captain Volca]]

====''Velociraptor''====
[[File:DB-toy Grimlock.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb]]
*[[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] / [[Grimlock (G1)]] / [[Thrust (BW)|Thrustor]] / [[Grimlock (Dinobots)]]
*[[Dinobot II]] / [[Rapticon (BM)|Rapticon]]
*[[Razor Claw]]
*[[Reptron (Go-Bots)]] / [[Dino-Bot]] / [[Greg (Go-Bots)]] / [[Reptron (Universe)]]
*[[Slash (AOE)]]
*[[Dinobot (BWSG)]]
*[[Velocirazor]]
*[[Bumblebee (WFC)/toys#RaptorRescan|Bumblebee (WFC)]]
*[[Slash (POTP)]] / [[Cindersaur (G1)#Generations|Cindersaur]]
*The [[Raptoricon]]s
**[[Thrashclaw]]
**[[Slice (G1)]]
**[[Gnash]]
**[[Shred]]
*[[Lance (RB)|Lance the Raptor-Bot]]
*[[Slash (RBA)]]

===Pterosaurs===
====''Pteranodon''====
[[File:Cybertron Brimstone toy.jpg|right|upright=1.1|thumb|Won't you, take me, on your mighty wings...]]
*[[Swoop (G1)]]
*[[Graphy]]
*[[Yokuryu]] <ref name="pretender" />
*[[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] / [[Fractyl]] / [[Lazorbeak]] / [[Hydra (BW)|Hydra]] / [[Terranotron (Dinobots)]] / [[Terrorsaur (BWSG)]]
*[[Terranotron (BM)]] / [[Terrorsaur (Armada)]] / [[Ravenus]]
*[[Reptix]] / [[Windrazor (Universe)]] / [[Rav (DOTM)]] / [[Paulie]]
*[[Swoop (Energon)]]
*[[Brimstone (Cybertron)]] / [[Swoop (SG)|Swoop (Shattered Glass)]]
*[[Swoop (Animated)]]
*[[Swoop (WFC)]]
*[[Nosedive]]
*[[Blades (RB)|Blades The Rescue Dino-Bot (RB)]]
*[[Pterry]]
*[[Ptero]]
*[[Pteraxadon]] / [[Terror-Daxtyl]] / [[Enerax]] / [[Sights]] / [[Fireglide]]
*[[Wingfinger]]
*[[Swoop (Cyberverse)]]

==Birds==
===Condors (genera ''Vultur'' and ''Gymnogyps'')===
[[File:Mov-toy RGR NightBeat7.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4]]
*[[Laserbeak (G1)]] / [[Buzzsaw (G1)]] / [[Garboil (G1)]] / [[Sundor]] / [[Non-Biological Extraterrestrial|NBE 57]] / [[Laserbeak (SG)|Laserbeak (Shattered Glass)]] / [[Buzzsaw (SG)|Buzzsaw (Shattered Glass)]] / [[Buzzsaw (ROTF)]]
*[[Silverbolt (Fuzor)|Silverbolt (Beast Machines)]]
*[[Laserbeak (Cybertron)]] / [[Hell Buzzsaw]] / [[Blockrock]]
*[[Booster X10]] / [[Night Beat 7]]
*[[Laserbeak (Animated)]] / [[Buzzsaw (Animated)]] / [[Garboil (Animated)]] / [[Sunder (Animated)]] / [[Laserbeak (KOU)]]
*[[Laserbeak (DOTM)]] <ref name="motif" />

===Eagles (order Accipitriformes)===
[[File:G1Divebomb toy.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4]]
*[[Divebomb (G1)]]
*[[Squawktalk (G1)]] / [[Squawktalk (SG)]]
*[[Eaglebreast]]
*[[Silverbolt (G1)]] / [[Skywarp (BW)]]
*[[Silverbolt (Fuzor)]] / [[Windrazor (BW)]] <ref name="fuzor" />
*[[Screech (Action Master)|Screech]]
*[[Dreadwing (Classics)]] / [[Wedge Shape]] / [[Longview (Universe)]] / [[Divebomb (SG)]]
*[[Talon (RB)]]

===Hawks and falcons (order Falconiformes)===
[[File:Airazorbwtfmtoy1.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.4|It's a bird! It's a plane! It's both!]]
*[[Hawkbreast]]
*[[Wingspan]]
*[[Doubledealer]] / [[Clouder|Doubleclouder]]
*[[Airazor (BW)]]
*[[Tigerhawk]] / [[Razorclaw (Universe)]] <ref name="fuzor" />
*[[Tobias]]
*[[Air Hammer (BW)|Air Hammer]] <ref name="fuzor" />
*[[Sights (G1)|Sights]]
*[[Airazor (Armada)]]
*[[Divebomb (Energon)]] / [[Blackout (Terrorcon)|Blackout (Energon)]] / [[Laserbeak (G1)]] / [[Buzzsaw (G1)]]
*[[Baru]]
*[[Airazor (ROTB)]]

===Owls (order Strigiformes)===
[[File:Prowl tm2 fktoy.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Beast Wars Prowl.]]
*[[Prowl (TM2)|Prowl II]]
*[[Icebird]]
*[[Blurray Murray]] / [[Gol-D]]
*[[Nightshade (ES)|Nightshade]]
{{-}}

==Synapsids==
====''Dimetrodon''====
[[File:DB-toy Sludge.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.4|Dinobots Sludge]]
*[[Sling (BW)|Sling]] / [[Sludge (Dinobots)]]
*[[Dinobot (PCC)|"Spinosaurus" drone]] / [[Kakuryu (G1)#United EX 2|Saber-Ryu Drone]]
*[[Gnaw (AOE)|Gnaw (Construct-Bot)]]
{{-}}

==Mammals==
===Bats===
[[File:G1Ratbat toy.jpg|right|upright=1.4|thumb|He tried to get a recurring role in ''Batman Beyond''.]]
*[[Kōmoribreast]]
*[[Mindwipe (G1)|Mindwipe]]
*[[Nightscream (BM)]]
*[[Batscout]] / [[Nightshriek]] / [[True One]]
*[[Noctorro]] <ref name="fuzor" />
*[[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]] / [[Onyx Primal]]
*[[Ratbat (G1)]] / [[Ratbat (SG)|Ratbat (Shattered Glass)]] / [[Wingthing (G1)]]
*[[Skar (G1)|Skar]] / [[Clouder]]
*[[Sonar (BW)]]
*[[Soundwave (BW)]]
*[[Megatron (RID)]]
*[[Ratbat (Animated)]] / [[Wingthing (Animated)]] / [[Ratbat (KOU)]]
*[[Hades]]
*[[Ratbat (ROTF)]]
*[[Convobat]]
*[[Nightstrike]]
*[[Ratbat (WFC)]] / [[Psychobat]]
*[[Nyx]]
*[[Dracula|Draculus]]

===Bovids===
[[File:G1toy-Horri-Bull.jpg|right|upright=1.4|thumb|Not a Terror dog, we swear.]]
*[[Tantrum (G1)|Tantrum]]
*[[Noctorro]] <ref name="fuzor" />
*[[Horri-Bull]]
*[[Longhorn]]
*[[Bonecrusher (BW)]] / [[Bighorn]]
*[[Bisonbreast]]
*[[Ramulus]]
*[[Baro]]
*[[Bolt (G1)|Bolt]]
*[[Terrashock]] / [[Overhead]] <ref name="motif" />
*[[Smashdown]] / [[Malleus Minotaurus]] <ref name="motif" />

===Canines===
'''Wolves / Dogs''' (''Canis lupus'')
[[File:BW-toy WolfangMaximal.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.4|Timber from ''G.I. Joe'' Crossovers...if such a toyline existed.]]
*[[Carnivac (G1)|Carnivac]]
*[[Wolfang (Maximal)]] / [[Wolfang (Predacon)]] / [[K-9]] / [[BB|Max-B]]
*[[Weirdwolf (G1)]]
*[[Sixshot (G1)|Sixshot]]
*the [[Cub]]
*[[Silverbolt (Fuzor)]] / [[Windrazor (BW)]] <ref name="fuzor" />
*[[Quickstrike (BM)]]
*[[Noble (BM)|Noble]]
*[[Cassie]]
*[[Overbite (Classics)]] / [[Gredator]] / [[Razorclaw (SG)|Razorclaw (Shattered Glass)]] / [[Scavenger (Universe 2008)]]
*[[Bruticus (RID)]]
*[[Snarl (Cybertron)]]
*[[Beast-Bot|Preditron]]
*[[Steeljaw (DOTM)]]
*[[Servo (RB)]]
*[[Growl (RB)]]
*[[Steeljaw (AOE)]]
*[[Wolfang (Prime)]]
*[[Sawback]]
*[[Fireplug]]
*[[Sergeant Slobber]]
*[[Steeljaw (RID)]] / [[Phantomjaw]] <ref name="motif" />
*[[Silverhound]] <ref name="motif" />
*[[Clipshade]] <ref name="motif" />
*[[Thunderhowl (Cyberverse)]]
*[[Mutt-Chievous]]
*[[Coach Husky]]
*[[Silverfang]]
*[[Chainclaw (ROTB)]]
*[[Bullseye (Target)|Bullseye]]

===Proboscideans===
[[File:Primetoy-TakaraTomy-Ozu.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3]]
*[[Shuffler]]
*[[Ironhide (G1)]] / [[Santon]]
*[[Torca (BW)]] / [[Elphaorpha]] <ref name="fuzor" />
*[[Big Convoy]] / [[Black Big Convoy]] / [[Nemesis Prime (Universe)|Nemesis Prime (Universe 2003)]] / [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Mammoth]]
*[[Megatron (RID)|Galvatron (RID)]] / [[Deathsaurus (G1)]]
*[[Ozu (Prime)]] / [[Geki]]
*[[Masterdominus]]
*[[Hydrophant]]

===Equines===
[[File:BWN-toy MachKick.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4]]
*[[Battle Unicorn]] / [[Magna Stampede]]
*[[Dropshot (Armada)]] / [[Dropshot (SG)|Dropshot (Shattered Glass)]]
*[[Mach Kick]]
*[[Strada]]
*[[Unilla Icequeencone]] / [[King Candyhooves]] / [[Sugar Saddle]]

===Felines===
'''Jaguars''' (''Panthera onca'')

*[[Ravage (G1)]] / [[Glit (KP)|Glit]] / [[Howlback (G1)]] / [[Ravage (SG)|Ravage (Shattered Glass)]] / [[Howlback (BB)]]
*[[Panther]]
*[[Jaguarbreast]]
*[[Ax]]
*[[Battle Ravage]] / [[Command Ravage]]
*[[Beast-Bot|Beast-Bot II]]
*[[Ravage (ROTF)]]
*[[Scratch]] / [[Razorpaw]] <ref name="motif" />
*[[Snarlsaber]]

'''Tigers''' (''Panthera tigris'')
[[File:Tigatron-HasbroToy.jpg|right|upright=1.4|thumb|Tigertron after visiting a tanning salon.]]
*[[CatSCAN]]
*[[Rampage (G1)]]
*[[Snarl (Classics)]] / [[Apexus]] / [[Snow Cat (Universe)]] / [[Rampage (SG)|Rampage (Shattered Glass)]] / [[Catilla (DOTM)]]
*[[Tigerbreast]]
*[[Toraizer]]
*[[Tigatron]]
*[[Tigerhawk]] / [[Razorclaw (Universe)]] <ref name="fuzor" />
*[[Bantor (BW)]] <ref name="fuzor" />
*[[Jake_(Animorphs)|Jake]]
*[[Tigertron]] / [[George (Go-Bots)|George]]
*[[Stripes]]
*[[Arrowstripe]]

'''Lions''' (''Panthera leo'')
[[File:Prime voyager Thundertron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4]]
*[[Angela]] / [[Eggleo]] / [[Dark Eggleo]]
*[[Lio Convoy]] / [[Black Lio Convoy]] / [[Dark Amber Leo Prime]]
*[[Lionbreast]]
*[[Leonicus]]
*[[Prowl (G1)]] / [[Lio Junior]]
*[[Razorclaw (G1)]]
*[[Lionizer (G1)]] / [[Dazzlestrike]]
*[[Snarl (BM)]] / [[Alpha Trion]]
*[[Rachel]]
*[[Lione]]
*[[Steeljaw (G1)]] / [[Steeljaw (SG)]] / [[Nightstalker (G1)]]
*[[Under-3]]
*[[Ginrai (robot)|Victory Leo]] / [[Victory Leo]]
*[[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Leobreaker]] / [[Nemesis Breaker]]
*[[Steeljaw (Animated)]] / [[Lionizer (Animated)]]
*[[Thundertron]] / [[Go Prime]] / [[Cheetor (BW)|Alpha Trizer]]
*[[Valor|Valor the Lion-Bot]]
*[[Hunter (RB Mini-Con)|Hunter the Lion-Bot]]
*[[Lionblade]]

'''Cheetahs''' (''Acinonyx jubatus'')

*[[Cheetor (BW)]] / [[Shadow Panther]] / [[Nightprowler]] / [[Cheetor (BWSG)]]
*[[Che]]
*[[Cataclysm (BW)]] / [[Cheetor (Armada)]]
*[[Cheetor (Go-Bots)]] / [[Chuck (Go-Bots)|Chuck]]
*[[Swift (RB)]]
*[[Cheetor (Cyberverse)]]
*[[Cheetor (ROTB)]]

===Primates===
'''Gorillas''' (''Gorilla gorilla'')
[[File:G1toy-Beastbox.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Could 100 humans take ''him'' on?]]
*[[Apeface]]
*[[Beastbox (G1)]] / [[Beastbox (SG)]]
*[[Optimus Primal (BW)]] / [[Optimus Primal (BWSG)]]
*[[Apelinq (BM)|Apelinq]]
*[[Primal Prime]] / [[Rodimus Primal]]
*[[Beast-Bot|Gorillabot]] / [[Max (Go-Bots)]] / [[Beast-Bot]] / [[Gorilla-Bot]]
*[[Optimus Prime (Armada)/toys#Gorilla|Optimus Prime (Cybertron)]]
*[[Marco]]
*[[Beastbox (ROTF)]]
*[[Oilmaster]] / [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#TFSS|Optimus Prime]] <ref name="pretender" />
*[[Silverback|Silverback the Gorilla-Bot]]
*[[Rarigo]] / [[Ape X Arms]]
*[[Chilla Gorilla]] / [[Abominable Soundman]] / [[Tranquillabeast]] / [[Grinded G. Ears]]
*[[Grrr'illa Grimes]] / [[Flood Jug]]
*[[Snorg the Conquerer]]
*[[Nemesis Primal]]
*[[Optimus Primal (ROTB)]] / [[Apelinq (ROTB)]]

'''Humans''' (''Homo sapiens'')
[[File:PretenderStarscream toy.jpg|right|upright=1.4|thumb|"I'm not an animal! I'm a <s>human being</s> Pretender shell!"]]

*[[Cloudburst]] / [[Phoenix (G1)]] <ref name="pretender" />
*[[Landmine (G1)]] / [[Lander]] <ref name="pretender" />
*[[Waverider]] / [[Diver (G1)]] <ref name="pretender" />
*[[Groundbreaker]] <ref name="pretender" />
*[[Sky High (Pretender)]] <ref name="pretender" />
*[[Splashdown]] <ref name="pretender" />
*[[Metalhawk (G1)]] <ref name="pretender" />
*[[Doubleheader]] <ref name="pretender" />
*[[Pincher (G1)]] <ref name="pretender" />
*[[Stranglehold]] <ref name="pretender" />
*[[Bumblebee (G1)/toys|Bumblebee (G1)]] <ref name="pretender" />
*[[Grimlock (G1)/toys|Grimlock (G1)]] <ref name="pretender" />
*[[Jazz (G1)/toys|Jazz (G1)]] <ref name="pretender" />
*[[Starscream (G1)/toys|Starscream (G1)]] <ref name="pretender" />
*[[Crossblades (G1)]] <ref name="pretender" />
*[[Skyhammer (G1)]] <ref name="pretender" />
*[[Vroom (G1)]] <ref name="pretender" />
*[[Simon Furman]] ''(In a [[Transformers (Titan Magazine)|Titan]] magazine [[Letters page|letters column]], [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] joked that Furman was a [[Maximal]])''.
*[[Michael Bay]] ''([[Hasbro]] jokingly produced a toy of him, included as an "[[easter egg]]" on the [[Transformers (film)|live-action movie]] DVD.)''
*[[Sari Sumdac (Animated)]]
*[[Alice (ROTF)|Alice]]
*[[Reflector (G1)#Alternity|Reflector (G1)]] <ref name="pretender" />
*The [[new lab assistant]]
*[[Sovereign]] / [[G.B. Blackrock]] <ref name="IDW">This character qualifies due to their portrayal in the 2005 IDW continuity only.</ref>
*[[Quintessa (TLK)|Quintessa]]
*[[Overlord (G1)]] <ref name="IDW" />

===Rhinos===
[[File:Beast Wars-Transmetal Rhinox-toy.jpg|upright=1.2|thumb|Just when you thought a rhino's skin couldn't get any tougher...]]

*[[Headstrong (G1)]]
*[[Ramhorn (G1)]] / [[Ramhorn (SG)]]
*[[Stranglehold]]
*[[Greatshot]]
*[[Hornbreast]]
*[[Top-Heavy]]
*[[Fire Beast]]
*[[Rhino (BW)]]
*[[Rhinox (BW)]]
*[[Rhinox (Armada)]]
*[[Backstop (Cybertron)]] / [[Backstop (TF 2010)]]
*[[Ramhorn (Animated)]]
*[[Rumble (ROTF)]]
*[[Zamu]]
*[[Transit (RID)]] <ref name="motif" />
*[[Transit (G1)]] <ref name="motif" />
*[[Rhinox (ROTB)]]

===Rabbits===
[[File:BWN-toy Stampy.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Beast Wars Neo Stampy]]
*[[Moon (BW)|Moon]]
*[[Stampy (BW)|Stampy]]
*[[Kitte Shūshū]]
*[[The Great Mumbo Bumblo]]
*[[Drizzlefluff Tinkletail]]
{{-}}

===Rodents===
'''Rats'''
*[[Rattrap (BW)]] / [[Packrat]]
*[[Rattrap (BWSG)]] / [[Labrat]]
*[[Rattle Tail]]

===Ursines===
'''Bears''' (genus ''Ursus'')
[[File:BW Barbearian toy.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Rise and Shine, Ursine!]]
*[[Chainclaw (G1)]]
*[[Grizzly-1]] / [[Polar Claw]] / [[Survive]]
*[[Icebird]]
*[[Jake]]
*[[Kuma Kinkin]]
*[[Bear Transformer]]
*[[Sequoia]]
*[[Polarclaw]] <ref name="motif" />
*[[Cuddle Wuddle]] / [[Goldie Snuggleshine]] <ref>Characters using this mold technically turn into ''teddy'' bears.</ref>
{{-}}

==Mythical creatures==
===[[Dragon]]s===
[[File:Cryotekridtoy.jpg|right|upright=1.4|thumb|Moonlights as a Yu-Gi-Oh! card.]]

*[[Doublecross]]
*[[Sinnertwin (G1)]] / [[Sinnertwin (SG)]]
*[[Hun-Gurrr (G1)]]
*[[Snapdragon (G1)]]
*[[Deathsaurus (G1)]] / [[Deathsaurus (SG)]]
*''Likely'' [[Esmeral (G1)|Esmeral]] / [[Esmeral (SG)]]
*[[Mechatron]]
*[[Megatron (BW)]] / [[Cryotek (RID)]]
*[[Galvatron (BW)]] / [[Unicron]]
*[[Nightscream (Classics)]] / [[Dragoyell]] / [[Brimstone (Universe)]] / [[Sling (AOE)]]
*[[Noble (BM)|Savage]]
*[[Megatron (RID)]]
*[[Scourge (Cybertron)]] / [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon (Classics)]] / [[Bruticus (RID)]]
*[[Predaking (Prime)]] / [[Dragotron]]
*[[Ripclaw]] / [[Ser-Ket (Prime)]] / [[Bakudora]]
*[[Skystalker (Prime)]] / [[Backbite (Prime)]] / [[Skylynx (Prime)]] / [[Judora (Go!)|Judora]]
*[[Lazerback (Prime)]] / [[Vertebreak (Prime)]] / [[Gaidora (Go!)|Gaidora]]
*[[Hun-Gurrr (Prime)]] / [[Dorara]]
*[[Twinstrike (Prime)]] / [[Garara (Go!)|Garara]] / [[Thrash (TLK)]]
*[[Blight (Prime)]] / [[Burara]] / [[Gorge]]
*[[Windrazor (Prime)]] / [[Divebomb (Prime)]] / [[Barara]] / [[Rupture]]
*[[Hydrax]]
*[[Optimus Prime (WFC)/toys#Exprime|Optimus Exprime]]
*[[Dragonus]] / [[Windra]] / [[Dragonblaster]]
*[[Flamesnort]] <ref name="motif" />
*[[Drake (RB)]]
*[[Wingblaze]] / [[Freezer Burn]]
*[[Bumblebee (WFC)/toys#Knight Watch|Knight Watch Bumblebee]]
*[[Squeezeplay (G1)#Generations|Crashbash]] / [[Grimlock (G1)/toys#Clobber|Clobber]] / [[Overkill (G1)#Generations|Overboard]] / [[Butla#Legends|Butla]] <ref name="partner">This character qualities even if they are a partner drone.</ref>
*[[Steelbane]] / [[Skullitron]] / [[Crimsonflame]]
*[[Dragonstorm]]
*[[Rootwing]] / [[Smerg the Sad]]
*[[Sugar Breath]] / [[Milton]]
*[[Sour Wing]] / [[Aday]] / [[Sweet Fang]]
*[[Heatwave (RB)]]

==References==
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Animals]]
[[Category:Earth]]
[[Category:Toys]]

Goryu (G1)

2025-05-29T16:22:28Z

Vanya: /* Foreign names */ Meaning is Ace literally, but also sounds phonetically like Ice.

{{factions|decepticon}}
{{disambig2|the evil Decepticon|the heroic Decepticon Dinocon|Goryu (SG)}}
:''Goryu is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Victory (franchise)|Victory]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Goryu1.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Gorgo. You know? GORGO!?]]

The leader of the [[Dinoforce]], '''Goryu''' (ゴウリュウ ''Gōryū'') is a mighty proud little bot. Sure, the rest of the team are varying degrees of idiot. Sure, they have an abysmal success rate. Sure, they constantly get on his nerves, bungle plans, and generally make life miserable for him. But they're ''his team''. He's leading a ''whole team'', under the command of [[Deathsaurus (G1)|Deathsaurus]], one of the greatest [[Decepticon]] Emperors ever! That's amazing! He dreams of the Dinoforce being instrumental to ultimate Decepticon victory. And for all the berating and beating of his subordinates, he genuinely cares about them and wants them to be the best dang warriors they can be, all in the name of Emperor Deathsaurus.

On the battlefield, Goryu can be quite the terror, riding to battle on the back of his semi-autonomous ''Tyrannosaurus'' shell rather than inside it as his subordinates do. That's because actually merging with his shell can result in a massive discharge of electrical energy that can leave both enemy and ally alike a smoking, burned-out husk, an attack he's dubbed the "Go-Tyranno Sparky". Even without the shell, he can hold his own with the best, firing heat rays from his claws and manipulating gravity to incapacitate and crush opponents, typically by creating trapping rings of energy that he hurls from his club.

Sadly, his gung-ho attitude, penchant for not listening to his subordinates' warnings, and desire to impress Deathsaurus often means that all that power ends up wasted on ill-thought-out actions.

Someday though, he'll show them all how great he and his team are. Especially that jerk [[Leozack]]. He'll show 'em.

Goryu can combine with his underlings to form [[Dinoking]].

==Fiction==
===Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''Victory'' cartoon====
[[File:Victory-Ep01 DinoforceAttacks.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|{{w|Dinosaurs Attack!}}]]
{{voiceactor|[[Daisuke Gōri]] (Japanese)}}

Years ago, Goryu led the Dinoforce in a raid on a [[Mars (planet)|Mars]] research ship, robbing it of as much [[energon]] as they could carry. The sheer amount of destruction they inflicted on the ship caused it to explode, resulting in the deaths of nearly all on board, including [[Jan Minakaze|Jan]]'s parents. The Dinoforce made their escape before [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]] arrived, too late to save anyone but the infant Jan, who had been put into an escape pod. {{storylink|Attack! Leozack}}

When Deathsaurus revived the Decepticon campaign to take [[Earth]], he unleashed the Dinoforce to steal energon from the [[human]]s' lunar operations. After tearing through a floating space station under construction, they descended on the [[Moon (moon)|Moon]] and attacked the lunar base, running rampant until the [[Brainmaster]]s arrived. Goryu led the charge against the Autobots, though he had to step aside a moment to berate [[Kakuryu (G1)|Kakuryu]] for his sorry choice of weapon in the fight. When [[Braver]] made a break to help evacuate the humans from the devastated base, Goryu hit him with a binding energy ring from his club, then hit him with the club proper, sending the Brainmaster tumbling into a crevasse. The remaining two Autobots soon found themselves on the ropes until Star Saber arrived, who sent them to help evacuate the base while he took care of Dinoforce. Goryu tried to rally his troops into attacking the Autobot leader, and they ''almost'' did, but chickened out at the last moment before Star Saber flattened them anyway. Goryu had a go at it himself, but a sustained energy beam from Saber's sword sent ''him'' falling into a crevasse. Goryu pulled himself out just as Deathsaurus arrived, bearing witness to the Decepticon leader's defeat, and fled at speed as Deathsaurus retreated on the ''[[Thunder Arrow]]''. {{storylink|The Brave Hero of the Universe - Star Saber}}

[[File:SneakAttack Goryu whispering.jpg|thumb|left|200px]]

Goryu was immediately summoned to Deathsaurus's throne room afterward, where [[Leozack]] gave the order for Dinoforce to destroy the Autobot [[Galaxy Base]], where the lunar base refugees were waiting for transport back to Earth. Goryu questioned the logic of worrying about that, thinking it was more important to deal with "that Star Saber guy". Leozack was none too pleased with the backtalk, and a pointed question from Deathsaurus sent Goryu quickly scampering to go take out the Galaxy Base, loudly and violently waking the Dinoforce from their post-battle nap. They stopped at some floating wreckage, spotting the lone Autobot [[Wingwaver]] on his way from [[Victory (planet)|Planet V]] to the Galaxy Base, and Goryu decided that ambushing and killing the Autobot would be a good warmup. Wingwaver put up a good fight (and Kakuryu kept bungling), but the sheer numbers were against him, and soon he found himself struggling to fend off a furious serious of club strikes from Goryu. The Brainmasters intervened once again, giving Wingwaver the chance to escape. As the rest of the Dinoforce exited their shells to take on the Autobots, Goryu enacted a fairly savvy (for him) plan, sending the dino shells ahead to destroy the Galaxy Base while the Decepticons finished the fight with the Brainmasters. Unable to take the trio out even with superior numbers, Goryu called for combination, and to the Brainmasters' shock, the team merged into the gigantic [[Dinoking]], who proved more than a match for the Autobots. Star Saber left the Galaxy Base to tackle Dinoking and send the Brainmasters back to defend the Galaxy Base. After taking several shots from Saber's "V-Star" weapon, Dinoking engaged the Autobot Supreme Commander in melee combat, but ended up getting absolutely trounced, and the team de-combined and fled for their lives.

Meanwhile, the dino shells used the absence of Star Saber to close the gap and begin wrecking the Galaxy Base. Goryu's ''T.rex'' attempted to take out [[Holi]] and Jan when they fled their wrecked battle station, but [[Dashtacker]] blinded it with an intense light-burst from the [[Flasher]], giving Wingwaver and [[Machtackle]] an opening to deliver a double flying kick. To make things worse, the shuttle at the top of Galaxy Base revealed itself to be the giant Autobot [[Galaxy Shuttle]], who used the rocket thrusters in his feet to send the shells flying uncontrollably into the void of space. {{storylink|Sneak Attack! Dinoking}}

The Dinoforce accompanied Leozack (on Deathsaurus's orders) on a mission to kill Star Saber as the Autobot commander visited the [[Schwimmbad School]] in the Alps to drop off his adopted son Jan. After some mindless destruction of the school grounds, the Dinoforce joined into Dinoking once again at the arrival of the Brainmaster trio. But this time the Autobots combined as well, forming [[Road Caesar]] and besting the brute, while the Dinoforce's shells were driven off by Jan piloting the V-Star. And with Leozack gravely wounded, the Decepticons beat a hasty retreat, the rest of Dinoforce clinging desperately to [[Yokuryu]] as they made an aerial escape. {{storylink|Attack! Leozack}}

The Decepticons assembled in Deathsaurus's throne room to discuss a new plan, not to merely steal energy, but to steal an ''entire'' floating energy plant, allowing them to continuously power their war effort. Leozack, joined by fellow [[Breastforce]] soldiers [[Killbison]], [[Jallguar]] and [[Drillhorn (G1)|Drillhorn]], made no effort to disguise their contempt for the Dinoforce, and Goryu's protestations earned him a rebuke from Deathsaurus ''and'' a threat of pummeling from Killbison. As the Dinoforce began their attack, Goryu, still nursing a grudge from his earlier humiliation, decided that the "take the whole plant" objective was a stupid plan for nerds, and ordered the team to go with their usual plan, "steal as much energy as you can carry and destroy everything else"... and had Yokuryu lightly toasted when the flier pointed out the original plan. Goryu's fun was soon interrupted by Dashtacker and Machtackle, and with the arrival of Wingwaver (and a just-shot-down Yokuryu), Goryu made the call to combine. Dinoking kept the Multiforce on the ropes, until he was distracted by Leozack and Drillhorn, who had arrived to yell at the Dinoforce for causing too much destruction. Their argument gave Multiforce the break they needed to combine into [[Landcross (G1)|Landcross]], and while he put up a good fight against Dinoking, interference from the Breastforce nearly got the Autobot combiner killed. But the timely arrival of Star Saber (sensing a pattern yet?) turned the tide, and the dino-combiner was once again beaten into his component robots. Goryu made the call to flee, leaving Leozack and Drillhorn to deal with two ''very large'' Autobots. {{storylink|Unite!! Multiforce}}

[[File:Victory uranium goryu.jpg|thumb|200px|Ride the dragon! (Okay, dinosaur. Whatever, it's a reference... okay, it should be 'Chase the dragon'. SHUT UP.)]]

The Dinoforce took up training on a tropical island, with Goryu pushing his troops to work harder and harder. Their training was interrupted by Leozack, who ordered them to join him in his newest scheme: taking over the [[Ocean Exhibition]] amusement park! Goryu was immediately skeptical of the whole thing, and the arrogant Leozak declared that the oceanic structure was to become ''his'' new base, from which ''he'' would soon rule the Decepticons after deposing Deathsaurus! Goryu remained completely unconvinced that this was anything approaching a good idea, but went along with the plan anyway. Dinoforce went with the standard "smash everything" tactic, Goryu muttering to himself the whole time as Leozack made haughty declarations to the fleeing humans, and trying to keep Kakuryu on-task. The Autobots arrived, but the Decepticons retreated to a building full of trapped humans, preventing the Autobots from attacking them. Leozack ordered the Dinoforce to destroy the Brainmasters, and they moved forward... and the Brainmasters ran away, the Dinoforce in hot pursuit, luring them away from the hostages and right into a royal pummeling. The two teams combined into their respective super robots, but the fight was short-lived as Dinoking caught sight of Leozack fleeing the battle, and dove into the water to follow suit. Back at the ''Thunder Arrow'', the Dinoforce had a nice ''schadenfreude''-fueled chuckle as they watched Leozack grovel and lie about the failed plan to Deathsaurus, who simply walked away without a word. {{storylink|Move Out! Rescue Team}}

The Dinoforce and Breastforce were sent to the [[Neo Uranium Mine]] in [[Africa]] to pillage the "beta uranium" excavated there. After taking the plant, Dinoforce was ordered to haul out the uranium while the Breastforce guarded a large number of human hostages they had taken to ensure the Autobots couldn't stop them. Suffering through Kakuryu's multiple bumbles, Goryu had the team pull tons of unrefined ore cases out of the storehouse into the open for pickup. Leozack returned to the surface to check up on them and order them around some more, and an irked Goryu led the charge to attack the oncoming Autobots... only to discover his troops weren't following for some reason. But the battle was soon joined, and Goryu took multiple heavy blows from [[Blacker]] and Star Saber, ''and'' Kakuryu, of course. Sick of getting pummeled, Goryu commanded the Dinoforce to combine and take on Star Saber. This time, Dinoking revealed a new trick, generating a "Dino Power" energy tornado that held Star Saber in place until the Autobot ''cut his way out of it''. Before Dinoking could attack again, Star Saber unleased his "Blade of Wrath" attack, sending spears of light energy from the heavens that pierced through the combiner, forcing him to disassemble and return to the ''Thunder Arrow'' empty-handed. {{storylink|Infiltration... The Uranium Mine}}

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Despite their prior failures, the Decepticons had still managed to stockpile a considerable amount of energy resources, which they kept in a base hidden deep in the Amazon jungle. Naturally, the Dinoforce was tasked with grunt work, manually unloading the newly acquired energy caches from the ''Thunder Arrow''. When Yokuryu returned from patrol to report a massive flock of birds suddenly flying away, Goryu took him and [[Rairyu]] to investigate in case the disturbance was Autobot-caused... which it was. They discovered the Multiforce and Blacker in a river and moved in to attack. Blacker took off as a distraction, and the Dinoforcers single-mindedly gave chase, letting the Multiforce slip away and try and get out of the Decepticons' jamming field to call back to base. After quite a long chase, Blacker took a moment to rest, but Goryu had managed to keep on him and got in a number of good hits with his club before Rairyu arrived to gang up on him and beat the Autobot down. But [[Wingwaver]] had doubled back and knocked the two Decepticons for a loop, giving him the chance to grab his injured commander and escape into the jungle. {{storylink|Explosion!! The Energy Base}}

Dinoforce was sent to accompany the Breastforce —now with [[Hellbat (G1)|Hellbat]] added to their ranks— to [[Marine City]] as backup for Drillhorn's plan to steal a massive fuel tanker, the ''[[Big Baron]]''. Dinoforce were sent to plant a neutron bomb at a hidden location in the city... which Kakuryu nearly divulged to Blacker under threat, but Goryu stepped in to free his sniveling subordinate. The Dinoforce retreated to the bomb's hiding place, [[Marine Tower]], and lay in wait for the Autobots. The six joined into Dinoking again to take out Saber, Laster and Blacker, the latter two using high-speed driving and combat maneuvers to actually topple the giant on their own while Saber took care of the Decepticons who were hijacking the fuel tanker. {{storylink|Tanker Hijack Operation}}

Having kidnapped Jan and Holi, Hellbat summoned the Dinoforce to his secret cave base with plans to use the hostages so he and the Dinoforce (well, mostly him) could unseat Leozack as Deathsaurus's right hand. While Hellbat played up the obsequiousness to butter up Goryu, he also muttered insults under his breath a little too loudly and took to ordering Kakuryu around, both of which cheesed off the Dinoforce commander. They watched as Hellbat threatened Jan with a knife, then suffered alongside Jan as the Breastforcer used high sonic frequencies to torture the boy, trying to extract information about Star Saber's weaknesses. When that didn't work, Goryu went with a more old-fashioned form of threat, spinning the studs on his club on retractable cables and promising to bash them silly if they didn't talk. Kakuryu asked if the boss was going a bit too far, a question that distracted Goryu and made him accidentally bind himself up in his own cables. The hostages were thrown in a cell while Hellbat and Goryu bickered more about the plan, only for Jan and Holi to quickly escape. The two attempted to steal Jan's communicator from the main base, but were spotted by Hellbat, and Goryu used his club's energy rings to attack, not really caring about their value as hostages. The attacks instead sent a massive support beam crashing down on top of Goryu, giving the Autobots a chance to escape and contact Star Saber. Goryu chased the pair through a water sluice and accidentally carved a way out for them with his energy rings, sending them splashing through the air in a large canyon. But Star Saber and Galaxy Shuttle had arrived and safely caught them, leading the Dinoforce to merge into Dinoking and take on the commander. Star Saber brought down an entire cliff face on the brute, and as he picked himself from the rubble, he saw the mammoth Galaxy Shuttle standing over him as well. The Dinoforce split up again and dove for a nearby lake to run away. Back at the ''Thunder Arrow'', Goryu bristled as Hellbat threw both Leozack and Dinoforce under the bus, but at the very least, Hellbat then promptly embarrassed himself, as the top secret information disk he'd stolen from Jan turned out to just be the boy's math homework and some electronic doodles and games. {{storylink|Rescue Jan!!}}

When the Decepticons set up a trap in the [[asteroid belt]] to capture passing human spaceships, the Dinoforce were tasked with draining all the energy from each captured ship before they were broken down for parts. Of course, a mishap from Kakuryu resulted in Goryu taking an unintended whallop, which ''then'' led to an ''intended'' whallop on Kakuryu's skull. Goryu stepped in to examine a newly captured ship, noting its lack of crew and higher-quality materials than normal, traits that made Leozack suspicious. But Drillhorn's arrival with the first samples of "[[energy alloy]]" made from the ships quickly distracted the Breastforce commander. As Leozack left to show the sample to Deathsaurus, Drillhorn demonstrated the alloy's explosive power for Goryu, unknowingly providing the perfect distraction for Saber to disengage from the decoy ship and investigate the asteroid base. As the Dinoforce moved in to dismantle the decoy, Saber returned from his investigation, and with the need for subterfuge gone, pulled the V-Star from the decoy, which sent a massive chunk of ship flying of and squishing Goryu underneath. Star Saber took on the entire contingent of Decepticons by himself, the separate Saber and V-Star bodies wreaking havoc and destroying the Decepticons' ship-capture devices. Dinoforce was ordered to defend the ''Thunder Arrow'' from the V-Star's attacks, which meant they were able to quickly run away to shelter inside it when the ''rest'' of the Autobot forces arrived. Goryu warned Deathsaurus that they were all at risk of destruction, and the Emperor had the ''Thunder Arrow'' pull away to preserve the spoils they'd acquired so far, leaving Breastforce to fend for themselves (though that fight didn't last long once Saber joined with the V-Star). {{storylink|A Fierce Battle!! The Asteroid}}

[[File:ResurrectionFortress Dinoforce panic.jpg|upright=1|thumb|They spend about 50% of their screen time in varying states of this.]]

Dinoforce joined Deathsaurus on a journey to the [[Dark Nebula]], where they used their complete energy stockpile to power up the gargantuan [[Planet-Destroying Fortress]] trapped within it. They celebrated as the fortress lit up... and gawped as it quickly powered down again. Goryu lamented that they didn't bring enough energy, but Deathsaurus explained he was well aware of that and just wanted to see if the death machine was still functional in the first place. After hearing the story of how the fortress came to be sealed away by Star Saber years ago, the Dinoforce were brought to tears. They were then sent to their battle stations when Yokuryu reported a brief glimpse of Star Saber and an Autobot spaceship on the long-range scanners, as Deathsaurus was absolutely ''livid'' after recalling his great loss and eager to take revenge on Star Saber ''right then and there''. As Deathsaurus directly engaged his mortal enemy, Dinoforce piloted the ''Thunder Arrow'' in pursuit of the Autobot shuttle. The larger ship caught up with them and attached an energy tube to it, which not only drained the ship's power cells, but cut a hole in its side so the Dinoforce could board it. Their furious charge was briefly stopped by a hail of junk and debris from the Autobot [[Rescue Patrol Team]], but they managed to overpower the [[Micromaster]]s... for a moment, before a torrent of high-pressure water from [[Fire]]'s water cannons sent them watersliding all the way back to the ''Thunder Arrow''. Now ''really'' honked off, Goryu sent a massive bomb through the tube, but Jan managed to stop it by using manipulator arms to wind a steel cable around the tube and draw it tight, squeezing the tube and preventing the bomb from passing through. Bouncing off the obstruction, the bomb slid ''back'' at high speed, smashing through the ''Arrow''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s now-closed bay doors, ricocheting around the bomb bay, and eventually smashing its way out the other side of the ship, leaving the Dinoforce in a battered and scattered pile. A dazed Goryu wondered why they hadn't all been atomized in an explosion, only for Kakuryu to realize he'd not installed the bomb's ignition plug. With the ''Arrow'' damaged, the energy tube dissipated, and the ship was set adrift, both Dinoforce and Deathsaurus retreating to restore themselves and fight another day. {{storylink|Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress}}

With their energy reserves now depleted, the Breastforce and Dinoforce were dispatched to raid the massive [[Schaeffer Energy]] plant in America; the unique, incredibly powerful energy source would be a massive boon to the Decepticon war effort. While Breastforce guarded the (curiously unguarded) plant against Autobot aid, Dinoforce loaded up a transport with an entire warehouse's stock of Schaeffer Energy ore. For once, they were able to get away with it, as the Brainmasters, who had infiltrated the base to protect the ore, pulled away from the chase to protect both Star Saber and countless humans from the Decepticons' newest threat, the Breastforce combiner [[Liokaiser]]. {{storylink|Battle Up of Wrath!!}} Continuing their plundering, the Dinoforce attacked a desert oil field. Deciding that he didn't want Kakuryu messing up their spoils, he ordered the dipstick dino to simply round up and guard the plant workers. Goryu spotted the incoming Galaxy Shuttle, but told his troops to ignore them and stick to draining the plant's energy. This display of seeming carelessness led the overconfident Autobots directly into a trap, as Drillhorn and Killbision popped out of the sand to shoot the shuttle down. The energy-stealing continued to go well with the lack of Autobot interference, even if Goryu had to later deal with a foam-covered Kakuryu, who had been bested by the tiny Autobot [[Fire]]. Sadly, this was not to last, as the Breastforce and ''Thunder Arrow'' were forced to retreat without them following a thrashing from Star Saber and [[Greatshot]], and an assault from Braver and Laster, who had escaped the trap, detonated the energon cube stacks, sending Dinoforce running into the desert. {{storylink|Crisis! Ambush in the Desert}}

With the Autobots' strongest fighters seriously injured, the Decepticons ramped up their fuel raids, eager to take advantage of the Autobots' weakness. The Dinoforce attacked the [[New Cheyenne Airport]]'s fuel depot, with only the seriously outgunned Dashtacker and Machtackle there to try and stop them. Wingwaver, Holi, Fire, [[Pīpō]], and a still-injured Blacker arrived on Galaxy Shuttle as backup, and wild fire from Kakuryu nearly resulted in Goryu being crushed under a falling radar tower. But with Blacker's injury keeping him out of the fight, the Dinoforce were able to overwhelm the Autobots and run off with a ton of pilfered energon. {{storylink|Ginrai Dies!!}} Next they attacked the [[Energy Road]] in America, a cross-country highway used by a massive tractor-trailer that hauled energy supplies from the west coast to the east. As they lay in wait for the transport, Goryu was eager to smash the incoming Multiforce, but Leozack reminded him that their job was to take the tanker's energy stocks. As Leozack and Hellbat left to take on the flying Multiforcers, Goryu got his wish for battle as the ground-based bots ran to the tanker's rescue as the Dinoforce closed in. Drastically outnumbered, Multiforce combined into Landcross, and while he initially got the upper hand on the Decepticons, Dinoforce merged into Dinoking to take him on, even throwing one of the gigantic energy containers directly in front of Landcross and detonating it with a blast from his axe. Swatting away the new arrivals Laster and Braver, Dinoking moved to torture Landcross a bit, toying with the Autobot and beating him down repeatedly. Landcross was saved by the arrival of Victory Leo, the reborn form of the Autobot Commander [[Ginrai (robot)|God Ginrai]], who absolutely ''trounced'' all of the Decepticons. Dinoking tried the "throw a volatile energy tank" move again, but Victory Leo shot it before he could get to the "throw" part, and the resulting explosion blasted Dinoking into his component robots, who quickly ran for the hills. {{storylink|Fight!! Victory Leo}}

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The Dinoforce and Leozack were sent to pillage an oil refinery in [[Pakistan]], having been assured there would be no counterattack, as any attempt by the Autobots to interfere would result in a missile strike against a helpless human population center courtesy of Deathsaurus's new orbiting missile platform. While Goryu was happy for an easy mission, Leozack felt the whole thing was cowardly, leading to a round of smack-talk between the two. Their bickering was interrupted by a way-too-carefree Kakuryu, who nearly dropped his stack of energon cubes when Goryu yelled at him, causing the Dinoforce leader to scramble madly to keep them from falling and exploding. Unfortunately, the nearby Victory Leo hadn't been alerted to the threat, and he charged into smack Dinoforce around, blowing off Leozack's warning as a mere bluff. As Goryu moved to call his commander in retaliation, the Brainmasters arrived to restrain Victory Leo to prevent a missile strike, much to the Decepticons' amusement. Dinoforce continued to create energon cubes and haul them away, mocking the impotent Autobots as they did. Star Saber arrived as well, and after an argument and scuffle with Victory Leo, the two merged into the "Victory Saber" superjet. With their speed now boosted to never-before-seen levels, the pair blasted off to destroy the missile satellite before it could launch another attack, and the Brainmasters were finally free to send the Decepticons packing. {{storylink|The Tide Is Turned! The Ultimate Weapon, the Victory Unification}}

[[File:Dinoforce goryuisgreat.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1|Those who complain about [[Beast_Wars:_Transformers_(cartoon)|Beast Wars']] occasional use of Warner-physics... probably haven't seen this.]]

Enraged by this newest loss, Deathsaurus raged at Goryu and the Breastforce, blaming them for reasons that only made sense in the furious Decepticon Emperor's head. After a calming dangle-Leozack-by-the-head, Deathsaurus ordered his troops to change their focus to destroying Victory Saber; Goryu chuckled to himself from the rear of the assembled Decepticon crowd, a plan already in his head to put him in Deathsaurus's good graces ''and'' show up Leozack. Thus began his dastardly "Plan For Me and By Me", planning to use the children at Jan's school as hostages so Dinoforce could wipe out Star Saber without the Autobot able to lift a finger out of fear of the kids' safety. He sent Kakuryu and Rairyu ahead to spy on Jan's school, and the two returned to warn Goryu about the appearance of a new Autobot warrior (actually Jan in his new ''[[Illumina II]]'' mech). But Goryu wasn't about to change the plan now, and ordered the attack... until Kakuryu reminded him of their recent failures against Victory Leo, which quickly took the wind out of Goryu's sails, and he decided they should scout out this new Autobot's abilities first. After the mech (coincidentally) dodged a charged up shot from Kakuryu, Goryu decided he'd seen enough, and ordered the attack anyway. After all, it was just ''one'' Autobot! The Dinoforce's party of destruction was quickly interrupted by Jan standing up to them, leading to a tense stand-off. Which then ended with Dinoforce, once again over-cautious at this Autobot's unknown power, trying to surround him and failing, ending up in a tangled pile away from the school. As Jan booked it to draw them away further, Goryu realized (read: was told by Rairyu) that this new Autobot was probably ''not'' an unstoppable super-warrior, and Goryu took off alone in a fit of anger to crush it. He managed to tangle up the mech's legs with an energy ring, and set his boot down, ready to crush it, but was given pause as Star Saber and Victory Leo arrived. But not much pause, as his plan was definitely working: thanks to his hostage, the Autobots could not fight back as the rest of Dinoforce laid into them with their combined firepower. But Jan used the mech's only "offensive" capability, a swarm of smokescreen missiles, sending the Dinoforce scrambling blind and giving him the chance to get clear. Dinoforce combined into Dinoking, complete with a new ultimate weapon, the [[Dinoblaster cannon]], to take on Victory Saber. Despite the weapon's impressive firepower, Victory Saber beat the Decepticon ''very'' quickly, forcing them back into their components in a battered pile. As Victory Saber raised his sword, Goryu stood in front of his troops, demanding the Autobot take ''his'' life and spare the others. The rest of the team then demanded the opposite, intending to sacrifice themselves so Goryu could escape, bringing their commander to tears. Witnessing this display, Victory Saber sheathed his sword and turned away, remarking that Goryu had good mechs under his command, and they should go heal up, leaving a stunned Goryu to think about what just happened. {{storylink|Jan - Defend the Campus!!}}

[[File:Victory36 goryubighead.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1|...or this.]]

Drillhorn had Goryu and Kakuryu bring a container of [[Doriya]] insects to Deathsaurus, a task the bug-loving Kakuryu loved, and the bug-''hating'' Goryu was less than thrilled about. He was even less thrilled when Leozack had Kakuryu open the container, leading to a very quick demonstration of the insects' hunger for [[living metal]] as they swarmed the screaming Dinoforcer. Drillhorn was able to lure them back into their container with a chunk that had fallen off Kakuryu, and Goryu took his subordinate to the infirmary. {{storylink|The Death-Bringing Space Insects!!}}

[[File:Victory37 goryudefects.jpg|upright=1|thumb|With my last breath, ''I curse Kakuryu!'']]

When Hellbat discovered the location of the sunken city of [[Atlantis]] (yes, really), Dinoforce was dispatched to line the seabed surrounding the city with the ''entirety'' of the Decepticons' energy stores, a move Goryu felt was a big waste. But Hellbat's plan proved fruitful: by detonating the energon the city was lifted to the surface, and the Decepticons were able to raid its even ''larger'' energy stores uncontested while the Autobots were distracted and spread thin by the devastation caused by tidal waves from the island's rising. Dinoforce were able to load the ''Thunder Arrow'' to capacity, and Deathsaurus took off with the ship, ordering them to keep gathering up the remaining energy for his return, which he said was "soon". Except "soon" turned out to be "never" as Atlantis once again started sinking into the sea, the rushing water washing Dinoforce away. {{storylink|The Terror of the Giant Tidal Waves}} They washed up on a nearby beach (inconveniently near the Autobot Shuttle Base), Goryu insistent that they ''weren't'' just abandoned by their Emperor, and that they needed to get back to work. When Yokuryu reported there was a nearby shuttleport full of stealable energy, Goryu made the call to raid it. Once again confronted by Star Saber and Victory Leo in their work, the team formed Dinoking to take them on. But the fight was interrupted by ''a giant flaming meteor from space'', which slammed into the area nearby, the impact explosion forcibly splitting the combiner. A grievously-injured Goryu railed at the Autobot for using such a devastating attack, but Victory Saber countered that this was Deathsaurus's doing: he had restored the Planet-Destroying Fortress with Atlantis's energy, and was using it to hurl giant meteors towards Earth, striking spots across the globe. Stunned, Goryu couldn't accept that his Emperor would simply leave them to die, but the reality of the situation soon crept in when he realized that Star Saber was simply not the kind of bot to lie. He gruffly refused medical aid from Pīpō, but got it anyway once he passed out from his injuries. {{storylink|The Wrath of the Resurrected Giant Fortress!}}

The Dinoforce were given shelter at the Autobot base as Deathsaurus continued his assault on the Earth, Goryu being held in the increasingly-full infirmary alongside the battered Brainmasters. After regaining consciousness, Goryu asked Kakuryu to fetch any Autobot he could find, needing to discuss something with them. The only one available was the human Jan, as Landcross and the Rescue Force were dealing with the fallout of a near-miss meteor strike. Ready to pay back his former Emperor for his betrayal, Goryu gave the boy the plans to the Fortress's power core. This act proved to be pivotal to the Autobots' final victory as Jan took the information into space, resulting in the destruction of the Fortress and the deaths of Liokaiser and Deathsaurus, saving the Earth from destruction. With the war now over, Goryu and the Dinoforce stayed on Earth, taking up construction jobs and putting their strength to ''helping'' mankind. {{storylink|Showdown! The Fortress vs the Victory Unification}}

====''Legends'' comic====
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Goryu was present at the unveiling of the [[Cybertron Alliance]] with [[Kakuryu (G1)|his former teammate]]. {{storylink|Transformers Legends Final Chapter "Epiloge"|Epiloge}}

===''Victory'' comic===
[[File:Goryu and his little guy.jpg|thumb|right|250px|''There he is, my little guyyyyy! There he is; my little guy. Isn’t he cute?'']]

Goryu and his Dinoforce rode their shells into battle, ransacking the planet Earth. They attempted to escalate the devastation by forming [[Dinoking]], but were stopped cold by the power of [[Landcross (G1)|Landcross]]. {{storylink|So Cool! Our Ally, Star Saber!}}

Goryu stood watch as [[Kakuryu (G1)|Kakuryu]] went through his daily fitness routine. {{storylink|Star Saber, Warrior of Love!}}

On [[Guard]], Goryu oversaw the Decepticons' slave labor as they constructed the mighty [[Solon Kitakaze (G1)|King Solon]] armor for Deathsaurus's protege. {{storylink|Victory Saber Is Strong!}}

As the Autobots infiltrated the Decepticon Space Stronghold, their sudden appearance scattered Goryu and the Dinoforce. The fighting soon ceased as the Decepticons revealed they only sought energy for their families, including the adorable [[Baby Dinoforce|Dinobabies]]. He has a son. Seriously. {{storylink|The Grand Victory War}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
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Goryu was part of [[Deathsaurus (G1)|Deathsaurus]]'s contingent of Decepticons stationed in their [[Warworld]]. In agreement with [[Tarn (G1)|Tarn]], Deathsaurus and his forces joined with the [[Decepticon Justice Division]] to continue the Decepticon dream and eliminate [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]]. {{storylink|The Permanent Revolution}}
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==Toys==
===''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers''===
{{anchor|Victory}}
[[File:Victory-toy Goryu.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Why can't I form the torso? Wait, Kakuryu forms the torso?]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Goryu''' (''Dinoforce'', [[1989]])}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''D-322'''
:*''Accessories'': ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' shell, shell back, "Tyranno Gun", Dinoking foot-plate
{{toydesigner|[[Kōjin Ōno]] (TakaraTomy), [[Masakatsu Saito]] (concept artist)}}

: Released in the ''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (toyline)#1989 (Victory)|Victory]]'' portion of Takara's ''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (toyline)|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers]]'' toyline, Goryu is a [[redeco]] of the [[Hasbro]] [[Pretender Monster]] [[Icepick (G1)#Toys|Icepick]], transforming into a bipedal, clawed monster-thing. He can also transform into either leg to Dinoforce's combined [[Dinoking#Toys|Dinoking]] mode, but his nominal placement is as the giant's left leg.

: He comes with a rubbery, cyborg ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' shell he hides inside; sadly, there is no way to securely perch him on the beast's back as he does in the anime. The back of the shell can also store his rifle and the Dinoking footplate. This shell, like all the Dinoforce shells, has a pair of QC flaws that appear nearly universal: the shell has a nasty tendency to "sweat" an oily residue, plus the metallic paints age poorly, with the gold famously developing a green patina, while the silver just gets uneven and grody-looking. While some water and a little bit of hand-soap should take care of the slime, there's not much to be done about the green discoloration.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1989/Destron/Goryu/goryu.htm More information on Goryu at TFU.info]''

{{-}}{{anchor|Dinoking}}
[[File:Victorytoy dinoking giftset.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|It's Megazord time!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Dinoking''' (''Dinoforce'' giftset, 1989)}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''D-328'''
:*''Accessories'': ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' shell, shell back, "Tyranno Gun", Dinoking foot-plate
{{toydesigner|[[Kōjin Ōno]] (TakaraTomy)}}

: All six members of the [[Dinoforce]] were available both in individual boxes, and in a complete six-piece gift set. While there are no differences in the toys themselves, the giftset lacks any [[bio]] or [[Tech Spec]] cards for the individual components, only having cards for the combined mode.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1989/Destron/Dinoking/dinoking.htm More information on Dinoking at TFU.info]''
{{--}}

===''Legacy''===
[[File:Legacy-toy Goryu.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|I'm gonna ''correct'' you until you're fully functional!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Dinoking''' (Gift set, 2024)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': Tail-blaster, club
:*''TakaraTomy name'': '''Decepticon Dinoking''' (ディセプティコンダイノキング)
:*''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''TL-89'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[March 29]], [[2025]]
{{toydesigner|[[Evan Brooks]] (Hasbro), [[Shuhei Umezu]] and [[Shogo Hasui]] (TakaraTomy)|[[Amy Bence]] (packaging)<ref>[https://youtu.be/PdsHMGVDZFg?si=7IIIhq2AU8jwMnSx Interview] with [[Hasbro]] designer [[Evan Brooks]] on the Triple Takeover podcast, from their YouTube channel</ref>}}<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/CjNwidkuAN4/ Design notes on the ''Legacy Evolution'' Dinobots] from [[Hasbro]] designer [[Evan Brooks]] on Instagram.</ref>

: Finally achieving the form this mold was meant to be from the beginning, ''[[Transformers: Legacy|Legacy: United]]'' Goryu is a [[redeco]] and new-head [[retool]]ing of ''Legacy: Evolution'' Core Class [[Grimlock (G1)/toys#Legacy|Grimlock]], transforming into a robotic ''Tyrannosaurus rex''. Part of his beast mode tail detaches to become a twin-barreled gun in robot mode. He also comes with an all-new club accessory to whack subordinates with, emulating his anime portrayal.

: Goryu also forms the left leg to [[Dinoking#Legacy|Dinoking]]. In this form, a new pair of large (non-firing) missile racks that come with his teammate [[Rairyu#Legacy|Rairyu]] form footplates for that little extra bit of height and stability. His club forms the lower handle to Dinoking's huge axe.

: 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 Goryu'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 Goryu's left robot foot providing clearance on the gestalt's thigh panels (the left half of Rairyu's robot legs/rear tail). Also the footplate is designed to attach to him specifically and is only jointed for useful left-foot ankle-tilting.

: He was originally only available in a [[Hasbro Pulse Con 2024]] box set of six Dinoforce members, along with [[Doryu (G1)#Legacy|Doryu]], [[Gairyu#Legacy|Gairyu]], [[Kakuryu (G1)#Legacy|Kakuryu]], Rairyu, and [[Yokuryu#Legacy|Yokuryu]]. Later, this set was released in Japan under TakaraTomy's ''[[T-SPARK]]'' banner.
{{-}}

==Notes==
*''Gōryū'' corresponds with 強竜, meaning "Strong Dinosaur".
* The ''Victory'' anime depicted the Dinoforce members as carrying melee weapons, rather than the blasters the toys actually came with; Goryu packs a large club which he mainly uses to brain his subordinates, but it can also create rings of energy that can ensnare targets. And while they are sometimes depicted as riding their shells (Goryu more often than the others), obviously the toys proper cannot do this. ''Plus'', their mechanical beast modes are never shown, making them kind of the mirror of the ''[[Transformers: Super-God Masterforce (cartoon)|Super-God Masterforce]]'' [[Seacon (Masterforce)|Seacons]].

===Foreign names===
*''English:'' '''Icepick''' ([[Omni Productions]] dub)
*''Mandarin:'' '''Pick''' (Taiwan, 皮哥 ''Píkē''), '''Ace'''/'''Ice''' (Taiwan Omni Productions dub, 艾斯 ''Àisī''), '''Gāojiǎoguài''' (China, 高脚怪, "Long-legged Monster")
*''Russian:'' '''Zadavala''' (Задавала, "Arrogant")
*''Spanish:'' '''Ice''' (America)

[[Category:Dinoforce]]
[[Category:IDW (2005) Decepticons]]
[[Category:Legacy Decepticons]]
[[Category:Legends Decepticons]]
[[Category:Second Cybertron Alliance]]

Party Wallop

2025-05-27T05:51:55Z

Vanya: /* Notes */

{{factions|autobot|hofsilver}}
:''Party Wallop is an [[Autobot]] affiliated with the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]] (via [[Transformers Collaborative|Collaborative]])''.
[[File:Collab_PartyWallop.jpg|right|upright=1.67|thumb|''I'm a Metalhead, a Metalhead...'']]

'''Party Wallop''' is one bot who's ready to kick some shell.
{{TOCclear}}

==Toys==
===''Collaborative''===
[[File:CollaborativePartyWallop figure.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|"I've been Certified Turtlefied!"]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{bp-a1|'''Party Wallop''' (June 2024)}}</ul>
:*''TakaraTomy name:'' '''Party Wallop''' (パーティーワロップ)
:*''TakaraTomy release date:'' [[2025]] [[March 29]]
:*''Accessories'': 5 skullcaps (Party Wallop, [[Leonardo]], [[Donatello]], [[Raphael]], [[Michelangelo (TMNT)|Michelangelo]]), 2 katana, bo staff, 2 sai, 2 nunchaku, mini-pizza
{{toydesigner|[[Brian Parrish]] (Hasbro),<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/live/52ddGYMyvpE?si=7l7OP6YeEB9W82xR&t=9841 Transformers Panel] at [[Hasbro Pulse Con 2024]] with [[Ben MacCrae]], [[Evan Brooks]], [[Mark Maher]], [[Marcelo Matere]], and [[Nate Purswell]].</ref> [[Amy Bence]] (packaging artist), [[Matthew Cohen]] (photography)}}<ref>[[March 28]], [[2024]]'s [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlrpW_ZFKvE Hasbro Pulse | Transformers 40th Anniversary Fanstream | March 28, 2024] on YouTube, with [[Ben MacCrae]], [[Evan Brooks]], [[Mark Maher]], [[Kelly Rose]], and [[Matt Ferguson]].</ref>

:''[[Transformers Collaborative|Collaborative]]'' Party Wallop is a roughly-Voyager-sized toy, transforming from humanoid-turtle-like robot into the Turtles' "Party Wagon" vehicle, based on its design in the original {{w|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 TV series)|1987 cartoon series}}. In van mode, the roof-mounted (non-firing) guns and side-mounted red "lights" can rotate/elevate, plus the ends of the cannons are [[Fire Blast effect]]-compatible. The logo/shield in the van's front center can pop off, revealing a tiny personal pan pizza.

: In robot mode, Party Wallop has a ''lot'' of display options available. Party Wallop's head pops apart above the "muzzle", to be replaced with one of five different skullcaps: a baseline green for default Party Wallop, then four others with "bandanas", one each in one of the Turtles' colors (Leo in blue, Donnie in purple, Raph in red, Mikey in orange). The currently unused skullcaps can be stored in Party Wallop's back assembly/shell. The Wagon's entire front end can stay attached to the robot's torso, or be removed and worn as a shield, revealing a more turtle-plastron-like torso design. This sub-torso features a rotating belt buckle, each side displaying one of the four Turtle's initials (L, D, R, M) in their trademark colors to match the chosen bandana (or not, go nuts).

: On top of that, he comes with Cybertronian versions of each of the boys' signature weapons: Leo's katanas, Donnie's bo staff, Raph's sais, and Mikey's nunchaku. All seven of these weapons can be stored in both robot and vehicle mode, with a series of tabs and [[5 mm post]]s/holes allowing all of them to be readily accessible for battle in robot mode, not merely stuffed into his back-shell.

: Rather than being packaged in a box like previous ''Collaborative'' figures, Party Wallop comes packaged in an large blister pack. Said blister pack uses [[The Transformers (toyline)|Generation 1]]-style package design not dissimilar to [[Ectotron#Collaborative|Ectotron]] and [[Gigawatt#Collaborative|Gigawatt]], with "rips" in the packaging revealing images of the four Turtles, which reuse contemporary stock art styled after the '80s cartoon.

: Party Wallop was accidentally revealed a bit too early by an [[Amazon]] Australia listing, which was taken down shortly thereafter. He was then properly revealed on the [[March 28]] [[Hasbro Pulse]] fanstream the next day... but not before listings began appearing ''again'', this time making him available for pre-order upwards of a few hours ahead of schedule. He arrived in stores mid July 2024.

==Notes==
[[File:TMNT Raphael Transformer.jpg|upright=1|thumb|This is ''Rise'' erasure and we won't stand for it.]]
* Party Wallop's pupil-less, toothy scowl recalls the original ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' action figure range by {{w|Playmates Toys}}, which (partially thanks to using the original {{w|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Mirage Studios)|comic series}} as a basis) used this expression for nearly ''every figure'' of the four Ninja Turtles.
* This isn't the first time the Party Wagon has been officially reimagined as a [[Transformer]]. Back in [[2022]], the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' Instagram account shared an illustration of a robotic Raphael transforming into the iconic vehicle to promote the launch of ''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (cartoon)|Transformers: EarthSpark]]'' on [[Nickelodeon]] - though the images used for both Raph and the Party Wagon were based on the versions from the 2012 cartoon, rather than the '87 cartoon that would be the basis for Party Wallop.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=teenage mutant ninja bot|link=https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl2BftILmh6/|name=Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|site=Instagram|year=2022|month=12|day=6}}</ref>
* And that wasn't even the only time! In 1993, Playmates released a subline of transforming figures called Road Ready Mutations which including a version of Splinter that transformed into a small scale Party Wagon.
* Nor was it even the only time that year! The 1993 Playmates toy catalogue showed off what would have been a [[Size class|Titan]] by Transformers standards. The unreleased "Muta-Party Wagon" would have been a full sized party wagon that could transform into a 19 inch tall mecha with a pilot seat that would have accommodated a standard 5 inch TMNT figure.
**Interestingly, the robot mode would have closely resembled the robot ninja turtle, Metalhead.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese'': '''Party Wallop''' (パーティーワロップ ''Pātī Waroppu'')

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Collaborative Autobots]]
[[Category:Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]
[[Category:Toy-only characters]]

Party Wallop

2025-05-27T05:51:10Z

Vanya: /* Notes */ minor revision

{{factions|autobot|hofsilver}}
:''Party Wallop is an [[Autobot]] affiliated with the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]] (via [[Transformers Collaborative|Collaborative]])''.
[[File:Collab_PartyWallop.jpg|right|upright=1.67|thumb|''I'm a Metalhead, a Metalhead...'']]

'''Party Wallop''' is one bot who's ready to kick some shell.
{{TOCclear}}

==Toys==
===''Collaborative''===
[[File:CollaborativePartyWallop figure.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|"I've been Certified Turtlefied!"]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{bp-a1|'''Party Wallop''' (June 2024)}}</ul>
:*''TakaraTomy name:'' '''Party Wallop''' (パーティーワロップ)
:*''TakaraTomy release date:'' [[2025]] [[March 29]]
:*''Accessories'': 5 skullcaps (Party Wallop, [[Leonardo]], [[Donatello]], [[Raphael]], [[Michelangelo (TMNT)|Michelangelo]]), 2 katana, bo staff, 2 sai, 2 nunchaku, mini-pizza
{{toydesigner|[[Brian Parrish]] (Hasbro),<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/live/52ddGYMyvpE?si=7l7OP6YeEB9W82xR&t=9841 Transformers Panel] at [[Hasbro Pulse Con 2024]] with [[Ben MacCrae]], [[Evan Brooks]], [[Mark Maher]], [[Marcelo Matere]], and [[Nate Purswell]].</ref> [[Amy Bence]] (packaging artist), [[Matthew Cohen]] (photography)}}<ref>[[March 28]], [[2024]]'s [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlrpW_ZFKvE Hasbro Pulse | Transformers 40th Anniversary Fanstream | March 28, 2024] on YouTube, with [[Ben MacCrae]], [[Evan Brooks]], [[Mark Maher]], [[Kelly Rose]], and [[Matt Ferguson]].</ref>

:''[[Transformers Collaborative|Collaborative]]'' Party Wallop is a roughly-Voyager-sized toy, transforming from humanoid-turtle-like robot into the Turtles' "Party Wagon" vehicle, based on its design in the original {{w|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 TV series)|1987 cartoon series}}. In van mode, the roof-mounted (non-firing) guns and side-mounted red "lights" can rotate/elevate, plus the ends of the cannons are [[Fire Blast effect]]-compatible. The logo/shield in the van's front center can pop off, revealing a tiny personal pan pizza.

: In robot mode, Party Wallop has a ''lot'' of display options available. Party Wallop's head pops apart above the "muzzle", to be replaced with one of five different skullcaps: a baseline green for default Party Wallop, then four others with "bandanas", one each in one of the Turtles' colors (Leo in blue, Donnie in purple, Raph in red, Mikey in orange). The currently unused skullcaps can be stored in Party Wallop's back assembly/shell. The Wagon's entire front end can stay attached to the robot's torso, or be removed and worn as a shield, revealing a more turtle-plastron-like torso design. This sub-torso features a rotating belt buckle, each side displaying one of the four Turtle's initials (L, D, R, M) in their trademark colors to match the chosen bandana (or not, go nuts).

: On top of that, he comes with Cybertronian versions of each of the boys' signature weapons: Leo's katanas, Donnie's bo staff, Raph's sais, and Mikey's nunchaku. All seven of these weapons can be stored in both robot and vehicle mode, with a series of tabs and [[5 mm post]]s/holes allowing all of them to be readily accessible for battle in robot mode, not merely stuffed into his back-shell.

: Rather than being packaged in a box like previous ''Collaborative'' figures, Party Wallop comes packaged in an large blister pack. Said blister pack uses [[The Transformers (toyline)|Generation 1]]-style package design not dissimilar to [[Ectotron#Collaborative|Ectotron]] and [[Gigawatt#Collaborative|Gigawatt]], with "rips" in the packaging revealing images of the four Turtles, which reuse contemporary stock art styled after the '80s cartoon.

: Party Wallop was accidentally revealed a bit too early by an [[Amazon]] Australia listing, which was taken down shortly thereafter. He was then properly revealed on the [[March 28]] [[Hasbro Pulse]] fanstream the next day... but not before listings began appearing ''again'', this time making him available for pre-order upwards of a few hours ahead of schedule. He arrived in stores mid July 2024.

==Notes==
[[File:TMNT Raphael Transformer.jpg|upright=1|thumb|This is ''Rise'' erasure and we won't stand for it.]]
* Party Wallop's pupil-less, toothy scowl recalls the original ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' action figure range by {{w|Playmates Toys}}, which (partially thanks to using the original {{w|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Mirage Studios)|comic series}} as a basis) used this expression for nearly ''every figure'' of the four Ninja Turtles.
* This isn't the first time the Party Wagon has been officially reimagined as a [[Transformer]]. Back in [[2022]], the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' Instagram account shared an illustration of a robotic Raphael transforming into the iconic vehicle to promote the launch of ''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (cartoon)|Transformers: EarthSpark]]'' on [[Nickelodeon]] - though the images used for both Raph and the Party Wagon were based on the versions from the 2012 cartoon, rather than the '87 cartoon that would be the basis for Party Wallop.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=teenage mutant ninja bot|link=https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl2BftILmh6/|name=Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|site=Instagram|year=2022|month=12|day=6}}</ref>
* And that wasn't even the only time! In 1993, Playmates released a subline of transforming figures called Road Ready Mutations which including a version of Splinter that transformed into a small scale Party Wagon.
* Nor was it even the only time that year! The Playmates toy catalogue showed off what would have been a [[Size class|Titan]] by Transformers standards. The unreleased "Muta-Party Wagon" would have been a full sized party wagon that could transform into a 19 inch tall mecha with a pilot seat that would have accommodated a standard 5 inch TMNT figure.
**Interestingly, the robot mode would have closely resembled the robot ninja turtle, Metalhead.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese'': '''Party Wallop''' (パーティーワロップ ''Pātī Waroppu'')

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Collaborative Autobots]]
[[Category:Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]
[[Category:Toy-only characters]]

Party Wallop

2025-05-27T05:50:18Z

Vanya: /* Notes */

{{factions|autobot|hofsilver}}
:''Party Wallop is an [[Autobot]] affiliated with the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]] (via [[Transformers Collaborative|Collaborative]])''.
[[File:Collab_PartyWallop.jpg|right|upright=1.67|thumb|''I'm a Metalhead, a Metalhead...'']]

'''Party Wallop''' is one bot who's ready to kick some shell.
{{TOCclear}}

==Toys==
===''Collaborative''===
[[File:CollaborativePartyWallop figure.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|"I've been Certified Turtlefied!"]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{bp-a1|'''Party Wallop''' (June 2024)}}</ul>
:*''TakaraTomy name:'' '''Party Wallop''' (パーティーワロップ)
:*''TakaraTomy release date:'' [[2025]] [[March 29]]
:*''Accessories'': 5 skullcaps (Party Wallop, [[Leonardo]], [[Donatello]], [[Raphael]], [[Michelangelo (TMNT)|Michelangelo]]), 2 katana, bo staff, 2 sai, 2 nunchaku, mini-pizza
{{toydesigner|[[Brian Parrish]] (Hasbro),<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/live/52ddGYMyvpE?si=7l7OP6YeEB9W82xR&t=9841 Transformers Panel] at [[Hasbro Pulse Con 2024]] with [[Ben MacCrae]], [[Evan Brooks]], [[Mark Maher]], [[Marcelo Matere]], and [[Nate Purswell]].</ref> [[Amy Bence]] (packaging artist), [[Matthew Cohen]] (photography)}}<ref>[[March 28]], [[2024]]'s [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlrpW_ZFKvE Hasbro Pulse | Transformers 40th Anniversary Fanstream | March 28, 2024] on YouTube, with [[Ben MacCrae]], [[Evan Brooks]], [[Mark Maher]], [[Kelly Rose]], and [[Matt Ferguson]].</ref>

:''[[Transformers Collaborative|Collaborative]]'' Party Wallop is a roughly-Voyager-sized toy, transforming from humanoid-turtle-like robot into the Turtles' "Party Wagon" vehicle, based on its design in the original {{w|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 TV series)|1987 cartoon series}}. In van mode, the roof-mounted (non-firing) guns and side-mounted red "lights" can rotate/elevate, plus the ends of the cannons are [[Fire Blast effect]]-compatible. The logo/shield in the van's front center can pop off, revealing a tiny personal pan pizza.

: In robot mode, Party Wallop has a ''lot'' of display options available. Party Wallop's head pops apart above the "muzzle", to be replaced with one of five different skullcaps: a baseline green for default Party Wallop, then four others with "bandanas", one each in one of the Turtles' colors (Leo in blue, Donnie in purple, Raph in red, Mikey in orange). The currently unused skullcaps can be stored in Party Wallop's back assembly/shell. The Wagon's entire front end can stay attached to the robot's torso, or be removed and worn as a shield, revealing a more turtle-plastron-like torso design. This sub-torso features a rotating belt buckle, each side displaying one of the four Turtle's initials (L, D, R, M) in their trademark colors to match the chosen bandana (or not, go nuts).

: On top of that, he comes with Cybertronian versions of each of the boys' signature weapons: Leo's katanas, Donnie's bo staff, Raph's sais, and Mikey's nunchaku. All seven of these weapons can be stored in both robot and vehicle mode, with a series of tabs and [[5 mm post]]s/holes allowing all of them to be readily accessible for battle in robot mode, not merely stuffed into his back-shell.

: Rather than being packaged in a box like previous ''Collaborative'' figures, Party Wallop comes packaged in an large blister pack. Said blister pack uses [[The Transformers (toyline)|Generation 1]]-style package design not dissimilar to [[Ectotron#Collaborative|Ectotron]] and [[Gigawatt#Collaborative|Gigawatt]], with "rips" in the packaging revealing images of the four Turtles, which reuse contemporary stock art styled after the '80s cartoon.

: Party Wallop was accidentally revealed a bit too early by an [[Amazon]] Australia listing, which was taken down shortly thereafter. He was then properly revealed on the [[March 28]] [[Hasbro Pulse]] fanstream the next day... but not before listings began appearing ''again'', this time making him available for pre-order upwards of a few hours ahead of schedule. He arrived in stores mid July 2024.

==Notes==
[[File:TMNT Raphael Transformer.jpg|upright=1|thumb|This is ''Rise'' erasure and we won't stand for it.]]
* Party Wallop's pupil-less, toothy scowl recalls the original ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' action figure range by {{w|Playmates Toys}}, which (partially thanks to using the original {{w|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Mirage Studios)|comic series}} as a basis) used this expression for nearly ''every figure'' of the four Ninja Turtles.
* This isn't the first time the Party Wagon has been officially reimagined as a [[Transformer]]. Back in [[2022]], the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' Instagram account shared an illustration of a robotic Raphael transforming into the iconic vehicle to promote the launch of ''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (cartoon)|Transformers: EarthSpark]]'' on [[Nickelodeon]] - though the images used for both Raph and the Party Wagon were based on the versions from the 2012 cartoon, rather than the '87 cartoon that would be the basis for Party Wallop.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=teenage mutant ninja bot|link=https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl2BftILmh6/|name=Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|site=Instagram|year=2022|month=12|day=6}}</ref>
* And that wasn't even the only time! In 1993, Playmates released a subline of transforming figures called Road Ready Mutations which including a version of Splinter that transformed into a small scale Party Wagon.
* Nor was it that even only time that year! The Playmates toy catalogue showed off what would have been a [[Size class|Titan]] by Transformers standards. The unreleased "Muta-Party Wagon" would have been a full sized party wagon that could transform into a 19 inch tall mecha with a pilot seat that would have accommodated a standard 5 inch TMNT figure.
**Interestingly, the robot mode would have closely resembled the robot ninja turtle, Metalhead.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese'': '''Party Wallop''' (パーティーワロップ ''Pātī Waroppu'')

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Collaborative Autobots]]
[[Category:Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]
[[Category:Toy-only characters]]

Party Wallop

2025-05-27T05:48:40Z

Vanya: /* Notes */ Added information about Road Ready Splinter & the unreleased Muta-Party Wagon.

{{factions|autobot|hofsilver}}
:''Party Wallop is an [[Autobot]] affiliated with the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]] (via [[Transformers Collaborative|Collaborative]])''.
[[File:Collab_PartyWallop.jpg|right|upright=1.67|thumb|''I'm a Metalhead, a Metalhead...'']]

'''Party Wallop''' is one bot who's ready to kick some shell.
{{TOCclear}}

==Toys==
===''Collaborative''===
[[File:CollaborativePartyWallop figure.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|"I've been Certified Turtlefied!"]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{bp-a1|'''Party Wallop''' (June 2024)}}</ul>
:*''TakaraTomy name:'' '''Party Wallop''' (パーティーワロップ)
:*''TakaraTomy release date:'' [[2025]] [[March 29]]
:*''Accessories'': 5 skullcaps (Party Wallop, [[Leonardo]], [[Donatello]], [[Raphael]], [[Michelangelo (TMNT)|Michelangelo]]), 2 katana, bo staff, 2 sai, 2 nunchaku, mini-pizza
{{toydesigner|[[Brian Parrish]] (Hasbro),<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/live/52ddGYMyvpE?si=7l7OP6YeEB9W82xR&t=9841 Transformers Panel] at [[Hasbro Pulse Con 2024]] with [[Ben MacCrae]], [[Evan Brooks]], [[Mark Maher]], [[Marcelo Matere]], and [[Nate Purswell]].</ref> [[Amy Bence]] (packaging artist), [[Matthew Cohen]] (photography)}}<ref>[[March 28]], [[2024]]'s [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlrpW_ZFKvE Hasbro Pulse | Transformers 40th Anniversary Fanstream | March 28, 2024] on YouTube, with [[Ben MacCrae]], [[Evan Brooks]], [[Mark Maher]], [[Kelly Rose]], and [[Matt Ferguson]].</ref>

:''[[Transformers Collaborative|Collaborative]]'' Party Wallop is a roughly-Voyager-sized toy, transforming from humanoid-turtle-like robot into the Turtles' "Party Wagon" vehicle, based on its design in the original {{w|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 TV series)|1987 cartoon series}}. In van mode, the roof-mounted (non-firing) guns and side-mounted red "lights" can rotate/elevate, plus the ends of the cannons are [[Fire Blast effect]]-compatible. The logo/shield in the van's front center can pop off, revealing a tiny personal pan pizza.

: In robot mode, Party Wallop has a ''lot'' of display options available. Party Wallop's head pops apart above the "muzzle", to be replaced with one of five different skullcaps: a baseline green for default Party Wallop, then four others with "bandanas", one each in one of the Turtles' colors (Leo in blue, Donnie in purple, Raph in red, Mikey in orange). The currently unused skullcaps can be stored in Party Wallop's back assembly/shell. The Wagon's entire front end can stay attached to the robot's torso, or be removed and worn as a shield, revealing a more turtle-plastron-like torso design. This sub-torso features a rotating belt buckle, each side displaying one of the four Turtle's initials (L, D, R, M) in their trademark colors to match the chosen bandana (or not, go nuts).

: On top of that, he comes with Cybertronian versions of each of the boys' signature weapons: Leo's katanas, Donnie's bo staff, Raph's sais, and Mikey's nunchaku. All seven of these weapons can be stored in both robot and vehicle mode, with a series of tabs and [[5 mm post]]s/holes allowing all of them to be readily accessible for battle in robot mode, not merely stuffed into his back-shell.

: Rather than being packaged in a box like previous ''Collaborative'' figures, Party Wallop comes packaged in an large blister pack. Said blister pack uses [[The Transformers (toyline)|Generation 1]]-style package design not dissimilar to [[Ectotron#Collaborative|Ectotron]] and [[Gigawatt#Collaborative|Gigawatt]], with "rips" in the packaging revealing images of the four Turtles, which reuse contemporary stock art styled after the '80s cartoon.

: Party Wallop was accidentally revealed a bit too early by an [[Amazon]] Australia listing, which was taken down shortly thereafter. He was then properly revealed on the [[March 28]] [[Hasbro Pulse]] fanstream the next day... but not before listings began appearing ''again'', this time making him available for pre-order upwards of a few hours ahead of schedule. He arrived in stores mid July 2024.

==Notes==
[[File:TMNT Raphael Transformer.jpg|upright=1|thumb|This is ''Rise'' erasure and we won't stand for it.]]
* Party Wallop's pupil-less, toothy scowl recalls the original ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' action figure range by {{w|Playmates Toys}}, which (partially thanks to using the original {{w|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Mirage Studios)|comic series}} as a basis) used this expression for nearly ''every figure'' of the four Ninja Turtles.
* This isn't the first time the Party Wagon has been officially reimagined as a [[Transformer]]. Back in [[2022]], the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' Instagram account shared an illustration of a robotic Raphael transforming into the iconic vehicle to promote the launch of ''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (cartoon)|Transformers: EarthSpark]]'' on [[Nickelodeon]] - though the images used for both Raph and the Party Wagon were based on the versions from the 2012 cartoon, rather than the '87 cartoon that would be the basis for Party Wallop.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=teenage mutant ninja bot|link=https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl2BftILmh6/|name=Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|site=Instagram|year=2022|month=12|day=6}}</ref>
* And that wasn't even the only time! In 1993, Playmates released a subline of transforming figures called Road Ready Mutations which including a version of Splinter that transformed into a small scale Party Wagon.
* Nor was it the first time! In that same year, the Playmates toy catalogue showed off what would have been a [[Size class|Titan]] by Transformers standards. The unreleased "Muta-Party Wagon" would have been a full sized party wagon that could transform into a 19 inch tall mecha with a pilot seat that would have accommodated a standard 5 inch TMNT figure.
**Interestingly, the robot mode would have closely resembled the robot ninja turtle, Metalhead.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese'': '''Party Wallop''' (パーティーワロップ ''Pātī Waroppu'')

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Collaborative Autobots]]
[[Category:Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]
[[Category:Toy-only characters]]

Talk:Elita-1 (ES)

2025-05-14T04:43:22Z

Vanya: /* Alt mode is an SUV? */

== Alt mode is an SUV? ==

I know the concept art says "PINK SUV CAR PAINT", but that seems to me to be in reference to the picture below it.
Her actual alt mode looks a hell of a lot more like a UTV to me.
- [[User:Vanya|Vanya]] ([[User talk:Vanya|talk]]) 00:42, 14 May 2025 (EDT)

Talk:Elita-1 (ES)

2025-05-14T04:43:05Z

Vanya:

== Alt mode is an SUV? ==

I know the concept art says "PINK SUV CAR PAINT", but that seems to me to be in reference to the picture below it.
Her actual alt mode looks a hell of a lot more like a UTV to me.
-- [[User:Vanya|Vanya]] ([[User talk:Vanya|talk]]) 00:42, 14 May 2025 (EDT)

Talk:Elita-1 (ES)

2025-05-14T04:42:33Z

Vanya: I don't think she actually transforms into an SUV.

== Alt mode is an SUV? ==

I know the concept art says "PINK SUV CAR PAINT", but that seems to me to be in reference to the picture below it.
Her actual alt mode looks a hell of a lot more like a UTV to me.
[[User:Vanya|Vanya]] ([[User talk:Vanya|talk]]) 00:42, 14 May 2025 (EDT)

Talk:Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes

2025-05-12T02:09:52Z

Vanya: /* What is the use of these "Popular" alternate mode pages? */

==Limits==
... You know, if it's going to be "popular" alternate modes, it should be a form that at least, you know, more than two people share. I say three seperate characters (if not three different MOLDS) is the bare minimum. [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 03:13, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

: Me, I'd say five to six characters, with preferably a minimum of three or four different "molds" (since some of these bodies/characters may end up as fiction-only). Rampant redecoing is kinda cheating. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 03:38, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

:: I think we also have to be kind of tough on what counts. For cars, it should be same make and model. For critters, though, I'm gonna have to go with same general species. "Scorpions" seems acceptable to me, but "birds" doesn't. You'd have to do something more like "falcons" or "eagles" for it to seem alright. I dunno why. Also, what do we do with Fuzors? I'm kind of loath to include the Sharkticons and Seacons and shit, but, say, Overbite's bio identifies him as a "shark," while Snapdragon's just calls him a "reptile." [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 22:11, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

::: For invertebrates, I don't know HasTak have ever made multiple distinct species, so the way we count scorpions and crabs is fine. Spiders might be the exception there. The vertebrate section, however, is a MESS. We have a "wolves" section that excludes the domestic subspecies of Canis lupus, and then an entire order of mammals lumped together as "bats". Vertebrates should probably be broken down by species, although that makes a mess of bears. Breaking it down by genus, though, would lump together the lions, tigers, and jaguars... which is just wrong. -[[User:Rotty|Rotty]] 23:06, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

::::This just seems to be the way humans think about other animals--there's a strong pro-mammal bias. Every child can identify mammal species on sight ("wolf," "lion," "tiger," "gorilla"), but more distantly related animals are usually known only at the order or even subclass level ("parrot", "shark"). Their kind all look alike. --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] 00:49, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

:::::Aaron Archer doesn't care about black-winged Macaws (or whatever). [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 01:16, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

:::::Indeed Thy, I was thinking just that as I wrote it. It's what we're stuck with though, since HasTak really DID make the crabs and scorpions to all look alike. The ones we need to clean up are "bats" and "sharks"... -[[User:Rotty|Rotty]] 01:20, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

::::Also, aside from K-9, have there BEEN any other TF non-wolf-canines? That hyena guy, I guess. I think the other issue is that "lions" is gonna have twelve guys, tops. "Big cats" is more like 40 guys. If we're going to do this at ALL, we should err on the side of making it manageable, and if that means dividing mammals more than dividing invertebrates, then I'm all for it. (also, seriously, we need a "two headed monster" category.) [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 01:30, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

:::::Hoop, hyenas are Feliforms. ''Canis'' is just wolves (including the domestic dog and dingo), the coyote, and jackals. :) -[[User:Rotty|Rotty]] 01:37, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

:I think this page is a useful reference whenever three or more characters from multiple molds share a vehicle mode. In the case of rampant redecoing, that mold's section on each character's toy page covers the body-sharing, so we should delete things like the Volkswagen Beetle. -[[User:Rotty|Rotty]] 03:40, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

::We are getting a section on Tigers, right? -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 03:44, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

I wouldn't mind seeing this article changed from "popular" to "shared," and have no numerical restrictions, just list all specific alt modes that more than one character uses. --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] 03:58, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

: Then we're basically making the page utterly redundant and useless, since we're talking what, half the TF cast? 
: This is looking at the phenomenon of certain alternate mode models popping up more often than others, and across multiple unique toy molds. There are a LOT of unique Dassault Rafale jets in TFdom. A LOT of that Fizzle-style Baja Buggy. A LOT of those huge earth-mover dump-trucks. Two characters having the same altmode over almost 25 years doesn't quite impress, especially considering the sheer amount of redecoing of molds going on. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 04:24, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

On an unrelated note, with the section on beast modes containing only lions, tigers, and bears, it's practically crying out for an "Oh My" header. Any Transformers that turn into beasts that are so utterly bizarre no one has any idea what they hell they are? - [[User:Dark T Zeratul|Dark T Zeratul]] 08:05, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

:Enough of them that are similar enough to each other to make up a listing on this page? Without checking, I'd say "probably not". --[[User:Sntint|Sntint]] 13:57, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

::The only "monster" types I could even remotely entertain doing an entry here for would be "two headed dragon" (Hun-Grarararrrrugh, Doublecross, etc.) and "bug monster" (Repugnus, Repugnus) [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 21:31, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

==Requirements and cleanup==
I think it's time we took a serious look at this page. It's currently a damn sprawling mess. 
# First of all... let's decide on a "minimum requirements". I think the primary one should be "at least three unique 'molds' across as many different characters", (which would include instances like the IDW characters who have different model altmodes from their originals). 
# Next... what counts as "close enough"? Neither make of Ferrari goes over two molds, but the two makes are pretty damn close visually. 
# Let me propose this as an alternate method of listing to cut waaaaaay back on vertical space... it would need to be noted up top that these are grouped by mold, but still.

:* [[Side Burn (RID)|''RID'' Side Burn]] / [[Roulette (Universe)|''Universe'' Roulette]] / [[Shadow Striker (Universe)|''Universe'' Shadow Striker]]

:* ''RID'' Side Burn ([[Spychanger]]) / [[Jazz (G1)#Universe|G1 Jazz (''Universe'')]]

:* [[Sideswipe (G1)#Alternators|G1 Sideswipe (''Alternators'')]] / [[Dead End (G1)#Alternators|Dead End (''Alternators'')]] / [[Sunstreaker (G1)#Alternators/Binaltech Asterisk|Sunstreaker (''Alternators'')]]

:* [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] (IDW comic, non-toy appearance)

Just kicking around stuff. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 01:12, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

"Three molds" is definitely the right threshold. For the vehicles, your format looks good. None of the vehicular mold mates on this list are retooled to represent different models, so it works. Animal mold mates DO get turned into different species, though. -[[User:Rotty|Rotty]] 01:25, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

: I can get behind "three molds," most def. I would argue that with autos, it should be make and model, but not necessarily year. The Mustang gets in, because there are three Mustang TFs, even though one is a first-gen and the other two are fifth-gen. The Ferraris don't, I don't think, 'cause they're different models. [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 01:32, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

:: I've only left the Ferraris in because you'd think that, like the Porsches and Lamborghinis, at least ''one'' of their supercars would have a mold threepeat in the 23-year history of the brand and it just wasn't coming to mind. -[[User:Rotty|Rotty]] 01:39, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Would Dromaeosauridae (raptors and Deinonychus) count? It's got a mold (''Beast Wars'' Dinobot) shared by three characters, another mold (Transmetal 2 Dinobot) shared by two characters, and a retool (Thrustor) for one character. [[User:Interrobang|Interrobang]] 03:21, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

:'''No'''. We should only include individual species of vertebrates. "Dromaeosauridae" is waaay out of line, and there are only two unique molds anyway. The list you're making in the Sandbox is really flawed, with a "Walrus" list consisting entirely of a Pretender shell being indicative of how problematic it is. -[[User:Rotty|Rotty]] 03:29, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
::That list only exists so I can keep track of how many Transformers fall under whatever classification. I'm not going to place it in here. Jesus, no. Regardless, the reason I put in "Dromaeosauridae" is because people can't seem to make up their mind on what exact species the two molds are. [[User:Interrobang|Interrobang]] 03:31, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

==On Beasts...==
Or, more accurately, Beast Wars. I gotta be honest. I'm... not really thinking that including BW is a good idea, and I'm even questioning "beast modes" altogether. I mean... "Bears" is not the same level of specific classification as "Dassault Rafales". Which was kind of the point of the article... "ain't there a lot of Dassault Rafales" is considerably more curious than "ain't there a lot of sorta t-rexes", given the wide variety of fighter jet makes. 
And even with the fudging made to avoid licensing on many a vehicle mode... it's nowhere as much fudging as the likes of the Cheetor mold, which has been used to be a cheetah, a tiger and a panther, three pretty damn different types of big cat. BM probably not either. Most of the organic beast modes are... really, really vague and bad representations of actual animals, as much so as the wholly-mechanical ones where Ravage being a jaguar is mostly a matter of "okay, if you say so". Damn guy could be a puma, cheetah, cougar... --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 03:42, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
:Yeeah. While I like the concept, it all needs too much hand-waving for my liking. We have to pack all spiders together to make a decent list, even though the species are as different as lions are to tigers. Arbitrary criteria isn't something we can do away with in animals. [[User:Interrobang|Interrobang]] 04:03, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
::I freely admit I added the beast section in the first place because I wanted to mock this article. That said, I think it's a legitimate section (albeit of an article I find silly.)
::...you should dump the fuzors though. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 06:38, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

==Beast split==

I'm going to remove the beasts from this page and create one called "Popular beast modes" if there is no objection. The feeling seems to be that having lists for Gorilla, Canis, Tyrannosaurus, etc. is useful but can't be measured by the same standard as "Man, there sure are a lot of Lamborghini Diablos". -[[User:Rotty|Rotty]] 05:11, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

==Brawl is not an Abrams==

Well, no more than the Rattler is an A-10. He was a repurposed "stealth tank" from ''XXX: State of the Union''. -[[User:Rotty|Rotty]] 05:33, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

== Siren/RX-7 ==

Since two people seem to be against me on this I figured I'd post some photographic proof:
[http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t285/Detour84/TF/go-rx7.jpg]

Note the lack of secondary headlights on the Supra that are clearly present on the RX-7, among other glaringly obvious differences. I hope that clears everything up. [[User:Detour|Detour]] 08:47, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

I have to agree with Detour, being a mechanic. Siren/Go Shooter is much more like a FC3S 2nd Generation RX-7 then the Supra. I can see why people might think it's a Mark II or Mark III of Toyota's turn from Celica Supra to just plain Supra, but the FC3S has more of the little details that show that it's more like it. Also the rear lights on the Siren/Go Shooter toy have more of the curvature of a RX-7 FC3S Savanna.

:[http://tfu.info/1988/Cybertron/GoShooter/goshooter.htm Siren]
:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mk3_supra.jpg Supra]
:[http://auto.indiamart.com/cars/photo-gallery/gifs/car91b.jpg RX-7]

:Note Siren's (okay, Go Shuta's - Siren's hood emblem is more distracting) centerline hood bump, absent on any of the appropriate model-year RX-7s, as well as the prominent front fender. Also notice the lack of an air intake on the toy as seen on the FC3S. If you ask me, the problem here is that the animators have decided to draw some other car for the cartoon - much like they did with all the Combaticons.

:I find it highly unlikely that two white cars were both intended by Hasbro and Takara to be RX-7s in the same year. Getaway is inarguably an RX-7 Turbo II.

:I don't care enough about this page to try to decide how this affects Siren's listing on it. -[[User:LV|LV]] 14:55, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

:This isn't my area of expertise at all, but, if there is a seemingly legitimate uncertainty due to hybridized features or something, it is far better to explicitly note this in the article (regardless of where he's placed) than to just pick one or the other with no explanation. --[[User:Steve-o|Steve-o]] 17:34, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

The example you used in your photos is the FB3S, the first generation of the RX-7 line, not a good example. Also the FC3S came without the hood air intake also, just it's difficult to find a photo of one on short notice, the one pictured was the Savanna model, the more sporty version.

:It's like Proto said, not all models of the RX-7 came with a hood air intake. Here's one without: [http://www.pro-imports.ie/images/rx7001.jpg]. Steve-O, I don't think there's uncertainty since I pretty much recognized Siren as being an RX-7 right away. I'm a Supra worshipper... if Siren was a Supra, I'd have recognized it and I'd be the first one flipping out with joy over it and pointing it out on the respective articles.
:Also, what's wrong with having two distinct toys sharing an alt mode in the same year? 1984 gave us two different Lamborghini toys, didn't it? And in 1985 we got both Camshaft and the RX-7 Minispy.
::You have yet to address the blatant difference in the front fascia between the matching Siren and Supra and the RX-7, as well as centerline hood bulge, which still do not match using your new picture. Removal of the hood air intake does not make the lines of the front end or hood match. -[[User:LV|LV]] 01:18, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

== Big Trucks ==

Did someone forgot to put the Peterbilt 379 in this section? Optimus turns into a civilian vehicle.
:The word you're missing is "Popular." In other words, something more than one Transformer turns into. Please read! It's essential. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 02:15, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

You and I know how many semi trucks are there in the G1 Series.([[User:76.195.186.73|76.195.186.73]] 00:26, 4 December 2007 (UTC))

==Space Shuttles==
There is already three space shuttles can you please put it down on the article? Astrotrain, Jetfire and Sky Lynx are the same American Space Shuttles.([[User:76.213.157.97|76.213.157.97]] 00:01, 12 December 2007 (UTC))
:Jetfire has never been an American space shuttle. His Armada form is ''similar'' but still quite Cybertronian. [[Blast Off (G1)|Blast Off]] however qualifies easily.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|Talk]] 00:05, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
::There's also Mach, the Micromaster Combiners shuttle, the Sixwing component, and Galaxy Shuttle. --[[User:FortMax|FortMax]] 02:00, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

== Military tanks ==

Since this only includes one particular tank, I don't think it needs its own sub-heading. I propose it and "Military aircraft" be combined into "Military vehicles", or "Military hardware". Any objections? --[[User:Sntint|Sntint]] 23:02, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
:Works for me. Military ground vehicles outside of the "traditional" tanks don't seem to be too common in TFdom, do they. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 23:34, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

== Aircraft ==

Are you sure that many transformers turn into F-15s and F-22s?([[User:MARV 2000|MARV 2000]] 23:57, 10 March 2008 (UTC))

This page is missing the SR-71 Blackbird. Micromaster Vanquish and Fireshot, possibly Micromaster Whisper, Minicon Terradive, and ROTF Jetfire. (Gobots Snoop, too, but that's off-topic)
:Vanquish/Fireshot and Jetfire are SR-71s but Whisper is based on one of the many supposed F-19 designs and Terradive is only vaguely similar to an SR-71. That makes only 2 molds, it takes a minimum of 3 molds to get on this page. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 14:50, 18 May 2011 (EDT)

::Snapdragon and Overlord are also SR-71s. (7 years later? better late than never!) -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] ([[User talk:Repowers|talk]]) 14:08, 15 January 2018 (EST)

==Nissan Z==
With Classics Prowl well on his way, would the Z series be considered a popular altmode, given the 280Z (Prowl, Bluestreak, Smokescreen), the 300ZX (Streetwise) and the 350Z (Classics Prowl)? --[[User:74.57.3.251|74.57.3.251]] 21:57, 11 March 2008 (UTC) ([[User:Detour|Detour at work]])
:Your wish. My command. [[User:Panopticon|Panopticon]] 18:31, 24 November 2011 (EST) ([[User:Panopticon|Panopticon]])

== Aircraft Carriers ==
What about them? We have [[Flattop (G1)|Flattop]], [[Broadside (G1)]] and [[Tidal Wave (Armada)]] and maybe some more which I'm not aware of. That's enough, or not? I'm not sure where to put them, "military vehicles" or "miscallenous". --[[User:2A6|2A6]] 22:41, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
:To be fair, Flattop's alt mode is a jet, he just comes with another jet that turns into an aircraft carrier. - [[User:Semysane|Semysane]] 01:01, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
::[[Majin Zarak]] qualifies, though.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|Talk]] 01:13, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
: I'm kind of loath to do "aircraft carrier" because that's kind of vague - if Recharge were here, he could probably clarify, but I'm pretty sure that "aircraft carrier" is like "racing motorcycle" - there are a lot of different designs out there, and some of them are probably fudged for TFs sake. If someone who knew what they were talking about (like 'Charge) could actually sit down and go "Tidal Wave, Broadside, and Flattop's carrier are all ''Nimitz''-class carriers or close enough," then go for it. Otherwise it's like saying that Groove, Glide, and RiD Axer all belong together because they're touring bikes. (note that I don't think this is gonna happen, because Tidal Wave's carrier is basically a marginally better depiction of an aircraft carrier than Grandus.) [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 11:57, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
::I'm with Hoop on this. I mean, we do have one kinda-vague set, the Baja buggy... but at least that one has a fairly hefty group of dudes in that form (plus I don't know if there even IS a "brand" for them). If you're kinda struggling for three... --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 13:28, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
: I also had that thought about the necessity of specific types/classes of carriers when I wrote the initial post, but then again I thought that Aircraft carriers should be treated as a single group, mainly because the TF Aircraft carrier-designs are pretty generic and stylized and those differences and details which an expert would look for at real carriers are simply not present at those lil' toys. I mean, to make a car into an 4" toy, it only has to be downsized to a scale of 1:50 or so, to make a 4 inch toy out of an aircraft carrier means a scale of 1:"severalhundred". Thus a lot more details are ironed out. But it's your decision, not mine. --[[User:2A6|2A6]] 23:06, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
:: If I felt that the TF aircraft carriers were designed with even a REMOTE eye for accuracy, I'd be more willing to consider it, but as it stands, the TF carriers are all *very* crude approximations, even taking toy scale into issue - they're better at being aircraft carriers than say, Grandus or Majin Zarak, but they're all still basically "big flat thing with a little towery bit=aircraft carrier." [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 01:11, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

== Dassault Rafaele ==

G2 Eagle Eye is listed here as a Rafaele, but his page calls him a EF2000 Eurofighter. Which is it? --[[User:Xaaron|Xaaron]] 17:24, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

== Construction Vehicles ==
For a project I'm working on, I'd like to be able to source the various construction vehicles. I think quite a few fulfil the rules above. One problem is the two sides of the Atlantic use different terms. On the east we use terms like cement mixers, diggers and er, other terms I haven't used since I was 6! [[User:Drmick|Drmick]] 10:55, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

== Motorcycles ==
Likewise for the same reasons above. Specific model types of motor-cycles (as is applied to cars) might be being a bit too strict. [[User:Drmick|Drmick]] 10:55, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

==VW Beetle==
Um... IDW Goldbug doesn't actually turn into a VW, does he? I thought he was a Cybertronian whatever. So we're still at only two for this one. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 14:49, 9 August 2009 (EDT)
:IDW Goldbug doesn't turn into a VW, but surely the Goldbug toy that he's based on is still associated with the character. Besides ... Donald Duck, completely separate character, so whether or not you count Goldbug, we're at three. --[[User:Jimsorenson|Jimsorenson]] 15:38, 9 August 2009 (EDT)
::I don't know that I would consider the original Goldbug toy an IDW Goldbug. Especially since it was designed to be a renamed/rebuilt Bumblebee and ''was'' a renamed/rebuilt Bumblebee for over 20 years. Donald Duck is the only VW Beetle toy that was not first made and marketed as the Bumblebee character. Until we get a VW Beetle toy that is ''explicitly'' supposed to be IDW Goldbug, we shouldn't include him. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 15:55, 9 August 2009 (EDT)
:::The requirement isn't that the toy is first made and marketed as a new character though, just that it exists. Characters like Volks and Bugbite and Glyph certainly count as a different mold/character use, even if they were Bumblebee first. As for repurposed toys, I think they're totally valid. You MIGHT hang an argument on the idea that the Goldbug toy doesn't match up with the IDW body depiction of the character, but that's a slippery slope. Animated Blackouts only ever appears as a Cybertronian jet, but you'd still associate his character with the Earth mode helicopter toy, no? Long story short, Beetles have many, many molds and many, many characters. This includes at least 3, possibly 4, unique character/mold designations. At this point, to not include him would be silly. --[[User:Jimsorenson|Jimsorenson]] 16:34, 9 August 2009 (EDT)
::::Well, the requirement is at least that an existing toy repurposed is officially stated to be that certain other character, I would think? The Animated Blackout toy is officially Blackout even if we never see him in fiction as the Earth helicopter. And folks like the Shattered Glass characters are officially shown/said to be certain toys. But we got zip that officially says or shows that IDW Goldbug = toy Goldbug. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 16:46, 9 August 2009 (EDT)
:::::Really? Would you seriously put forth the proposition that the IDW Throttlebots are not based on the Throttlebot toys? The funny thing is, it doesn't even matter for this argument. With or without Goldbug, Beetles qualify. I therefor propose that we move this discussion over to the [[Goldbug (IDW)]] page where it belongs.--[[User:Jimsorenson|Jimsorenson]] 16:54, 9 August 2009 (EDT)
::::::I'd put forth that they're based on the Throttlebot ''characters'', obviously. Whether they're based on the toys is another matter entirely, considering that they don't even have Earth modes yet to judge from. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 17:08, 9 August 2009 (EDT)
::::::No, Beetles would ''not'' qualify. Every VW Beetle mold that is not Donald Duck was first designed for and sold as the character of Bumblebee, even if one was Bumblebee with a different name. Redecos are not qualifications, new characters or not, otherwise this list would be way, way longer. And it is kind of pointless to go "look, a toy of the exact same character as another toy shares an altmode!", so "World's Smallest" toys are out too. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 17:56, 9 August 2009 (EDT)
:::::::Siph, I love you but you're just flat out wrong on this. The qualifications listed on the page are: "There must be at least three unique toy molds (or in-fiction appearances, in the case of non-toy bodies/characters) that share the model. There must also be at least one unique character per mold." We never say anything about 'the first use of the mold has to be a different character than the first use of the other molds.' If you think that the requirement for inclusion should change, well, that's a completely separate argument. We've got three characters across three molds - let's say World's Smallest/Bumblebee, 1984 VW mold/Bug Bite, and the Disney Label / Donald Duck here. It doesn't matter that Bug Bite shares a mold with Bumblebee. If it did, then every time a later redeco comes out that homages an earlier character, we'd have to go and start removing popular alt modes, and that's lunacy.--[[User:Jimsorenson|Jimsorenson]] 18:13, 9 August 2009 (EDT)
::::::::Then the top is worded wrong. Look at the other lists as they are now. Not a one counts same-character-same-altmode-different-toys to get up to three, because "three different molds made for three different characters" is what we've been using as the yardstick. And I have no clue what you're on about for removing entries based on later homages. The point is ''the original toys' design intent''. That so many different toy molds were developed to be different characters yet kept going back to specific vehicle makes is the point of the article. It is ''not'' interesting when a single character has a bunch of different molds all based on a single alternate mode. That's ''expected''. Nor is it interesting when a mold is redecoed to be another character; that too is very very commonplace. We list each mold's redecos out of completeness/linking-to-more-obscure-stuff's sake, not as a yardstick (and we shouldn't list same-character redecos like "Red Bumblebee" because ''holy fuck'' would that make some listings, such as the G2 Go-Bots molds, stupidly long for no good reason). It is the creation of an entirely new mold based on a recurring vehicle that is a character who hasn't been one of those yet (be it because they didn't exist previously or had another alternate mode) that's the oddity. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 18:30, 9 August 2009 (EDT)
:::::::::OK, the discussion becomes, what SHOULD the criteria for inclusion be, since apparently you're not happy with the way it's been listed out for the past, I dunno, year or so? I'm not sure I see how it's relevant what the designers intention is. I mean, technically, the 1984 Bumblebee toy wasn't intended to be Bumblebee, or even a real car, at all, right? It was intended to be a penny racer in the Microman line. So, then, you have one toy that was intended to be something not Bumblebee and repurposed and redecoed into a bunch of guys (including Bumblebee), then a few toys intended to be Bumblebee, then a toy intended to be Donald Duck. So we're STILL ok, even by the 'designer intention' criteria you proposed above. --[[User:Jimsorenson|Jimsorenson]] 18:54, 9 August 2009 (EDT)

== Buses? ==

What's the feeling on buses? The article for Ironhide (Animated) says he's a minibus (although Cybertronian, so that may not count). Additionally, the school bus at Murray Wright High School has a notation that says it's actually the FOURTH bus Transformer. Granted, I think all these buses have been different models (double-decker, metro, school, etc.) so they still might not be appropriate... [[User:Skyshock Thunderblast|Skyshock Thunderblast]] 12:22, 20 August 2009 (EDT)
:For this article, we'd pretty much need to know the specific models of the buses - we can't just put "Bus" on the list. -[[User:Mazenoise|Mazenoise]] 12:30, 20 August 2009 (EDT)
::Yeah, thought so. Most of the buses are all really small or really hidden, and even if I knew the models, they'd all be different. I should've thought of that. [[User:Skyshock Thunderblast|Skyshock Thunderblast]] 19:42, 20 August 2009 (EDT)

== F-35 Lightning II ==

There is already 4 transformers that turn into an F-35 Lightninh II and that's breakaway, sunstorm, armada thrust and rotf thrust([[User:Dr L|Dr L]] 13:22, 14 September 2009 (EDT))
:That's only two molds. --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 13:25, 14 September 2009 (EDT)

Armada Thrust is 1

Breakaway and his other 2 redecos are 2

Finally Skyquake is 3.
([[Special:Contributions/173.196.186.120|173.196.186.120]] 13:24, 28 September 2011 (EDT))

Should [[Skyfeather]] be included on the list? They're minor as all hell but they seem pretty bang-on for an F-35, just with lift fans in the wings...
([[User:Aurus|Aurus]] 15:09, 30 July 2023 (PDT))

== Eurocopter Dauphin ==

[[Blazemaster|''Revenge of The Fallen'' Blaze Master]] is listed here as a Dauphin, but his own page says he is a [[wikipedia:Bell 412|Bell 412]]. He certainly looks more like the Bell to me. If we remove him from the Dauphin listing, the whole section must go away. Just looking for agreement before proceeding. [[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 13:21, 16 November 2009 (EST)
:Removed section due to lack of response to above notice. [[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 17:52, 21 November 2009 (EST)

== H-Tank ==

I know this page isn't the right place as they're not Earth vehicles and would need to be a specific model anyway, but given the TF-unique nature of the H-tank, should we have something listing all of them? Apologies if there already is such a list (or a discussion of this elsewhere), but I couldn't find one. [[User:J'mie|J'mie]] 16:50, 23 February 2010 (EST)

Anyone want to weigh in on this H-tank thing?[[User:Skyshock Thunderblast|Skyshock Thunderblast]] 20:21, 2 February 2011 (EST)

:Given the original comment was made a year ago, I guess the answer is "No". It wouldn't belong in this article at any rate, as it's not an Earth mode. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 20:56, 2 February 2011 (EST)

== Wikipedia links ==

Would anyone object to adding links to the Wikipedia articles for the real-world vehicles? --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 12:26, 31 December 2010 (EST)

== Modified designs ==

How do we treat vehicle designs that have been modified by Hasbro to circumvent licensing? How do we treat full-on hybrid designs, such as Reveal the Shield Windcharger (60% Ford Mustang, 40% Chevrolet Camaro)?--[[Special:Contributions/87.164.51.87|87.164.51.87]] 08:23, 1 October 2011 (EDT)
:And why was I not logged in?--[[User:Nevermore|Nevermore]] 08:24, 1 October 2011 (EDT)

== Battle Mole/Drill Tank ==

While in real life the Battle Mole was a flop they seem to have caught on in the transformers universes and other fictions as it has appeared several times as an earth mode, it was used by

Quickswitch/Sixknight
Nosecone (G1)
Drillhorn/Rescue Force 3
Digger 3
Galvatron (BWII)

These are just the ones who use it as an earth mode there are a few others that have drill tanks as cybertronian modes. While they do not exist in real life it is a popular earth vehicle mode. Any objections to adding this
:Yes, there are objections. First, it isn't an earth vehicle because it doesn't exist. Second, the characters listed vary wildly in what the drill tank looks like. They aren't so much the same vehicle, only the same type of vehicle. This would be like adding the categories "car", "jet", "tank" and "motorcycle". --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 10:00, 13 October 2011 (EDT)

== Funny Cars==
I figured this was a worthwhile addition - while there are some distinct differences between the three molds, some of them seem largely due to the toy design (Sizzle's oddly-shaped rear is necessary for robot-mode stability, while Ground Hog has no such concerns) - I could see the case that Meanstreak is a different model from the other two, but I'd chalk that up to ten years of changes in funny car racing (compare a late 80s NASCAR stocker with a mid 90s one). This is, of course, specifically for the dragster-style funny cars, and not for other dragsters or similar (although I think there's only one of those anyway). [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 13:50, 1 May 2012 (EDT)

== Sector 7 Buggy? ==
Just wondering how/if we should count the RPM line? I think the only new addition to this list would be "Sector 7 Buggy" for Landmine/L.M.-1/Armorhide/Comettor (Deluxe), Dune Runner/Crankstart/Rollbar/Beachcomber/Sandstorm (Basic) and then the RPM of Rollbar. Given that we had so many stinkin' redecos of the first two molds, I think "Sector 7 Buggy" is a worthwhile addition. The RPMs had limited fiction, so I'm inclined to accept them as "earth modes" if they're obviously something (Landmine yes, Bluestreak the RPM Sideswipe redeco that doesn't actually look like a Corvette, no.) [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 11:00, 19 March 2013 (EDT)
:Self-replying - I think this adds the Audi R8 as well - You've got RPM, Legends, and Deluxe versions of Sideways, plus one extra character of each mold - RPM Crumplezone, Legends Override, and Deluxe Dead End. I'll hold off on this one for some feedback, though. [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 11:41, 19 March 2013 (EDT)
:The page description requires "one unique character per mold". The RPM Landmine mold has no unique characters. --[[User:Flicky1991|flicky]][[User talk:Flicky1991|1991]] 11:42, 19 March 2013 (EDT)
::I don't think that requirement is actually phrased very well. The way it is phrased means that if we had three molds made for character A in the same alt mode one of which was later redecoed into character B and another of which was redecoed into character C, that would not count. I don't think that that is truly what was intended. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 13:08, 19 March 2013 (EDT)
:::Hang on - I think I'm in the wrong here, otherwise Pretender Bumblebee would be listed separately - 'Goldbug' here is IDW Goldbug, who's a separate guy. I take it back, the Sector 7 buggy doesn't get a listing. (But the Audi R8 totally does.) [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 13:17, 19 March 2013 (EDT)
:::Followup - Yeah, based on that big slapfight between Jim and Sipher up there, the buggy is out, but the Audi is in. [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 13:19, 19 March 2013 (EDT)

== G1 Drag Strip and real open-wheel types? ==

I noticed that [[Drag Strip (G1)]] didn't have an entry under the Open Wheel Race Car section, even though his alt-form should qualify. Also, since model variants have been listed in other sections, would it be acceptable to list the real-life equivalents in this section to those that are applicable? Examples: [[Mirage (G1)]] (Ligier JS-11); Drag Strip (G1) (Tyrell P34), Mirage (MW)/et al. (Penske PC-18). (Not going to make changes myself unless I get an OK here.) [[User:Kyojikasshu|Kyojikasshu]] ([[User talk:Kyojikasshu|talk]]) 12:46, 27 June 2014 (EDT)
(minor edit to fix Mirage's link...)[[User:Kyojikasshu|Kyojikasshu]] ([[User talk:Kyojikasshu|talk]]) 12:47, 27 June 2014 (EDT)

== Porsche / Le Mans ==

Tailspin, Daytonus, and Backstreet are listed under Porsche 962, but also under Le Mans racers. I don't know enough about cars to make the edit, but it has got to be one or the other, right? --[[User:Xaaron|Xaaron]] ([[User talk:Xaaron|talk]]) 17:38, 27 June 2014 (EDT)
:i don't know cars well, either, but the top pic at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_962 shows a car "which raced at the 1988 24 Hours of Le Mans". After a VERY cursory browse of Wikipedia, i THINK the Porsche 962 is a TYPE of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Mans_Prototype Le Mans Prototype] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_prototype sports prototype race car]? So it's kind of like if [[Tracks (G1)]], [[Freeway (G1)]], and [[Sideswipe (Movie)]] were all listed under "Corvette", and listed again under "Chevrolet". --[[User:Rhymus|Rhymus]] ([[User talk:Rhymus|talk]]) 05:39, 23 January 2015 (EST)

== taxi cabs? ==

Not counting the [[battle taxi]]s from the G1 cartoon's [[City of Steel (episode)]], only three Transformers are taxis: [[Taxi-Bot]], [[Overcharge (Universe)|Overcharge]], and [[Bumblebee_(Prime)#Prime:_First_Edition|one version of Bumblebee]].
:i was thinking about putting that as a note on those three characters' pages (my gut tells me the rarity is noteworthy), but then i realized that taxi cabs meet the criteria from this article's intro:
::There must be at least three unique toy molds (or in-fiction appearances, in the case of non-toy bodies/characters) that share the model. There must also be at least one unique character per mold. Certain models are "lumped" together...
Then again, are these three different enough not to be "lumped" together? the same way that [[Prowl (G1)]], [[Stakeout (G1)]], and [[Barricade (Movie)]] don't get lumped together as "Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes: police cars". In that case, should i add my note to the three Taxi-formers' pages, or is the rarity of their alternate mode too trivial for TFWiki?
--[[User:Rhymus|Rhymus]] ([[User talk:Rhymus|talk]]) 05:29, 23 January 2015 (EST)

== Freightliner WFT-8664T ==

Should we add it in? I believe it fits the criteria; both Optimus Prime (G1 and SG), Ultra Magnus (G1), Delta Magnus, Nemesis Prime/Black Convoy (G1), and the Eldedroids share the same truck cab, plus there are at least 6 different unique ‎Freightliner molds. The first being in G1 with Optimus, his retool Magnus, and their redecos. Then the second, third, forth, and fifth, being all three Optimus versions and the second version of Ultra Magnus, and their many redecos. --[[User:DDog|DDog]] ([[User talk:DDog|talk]]) 22:37, 3 April 2020 (EDT)

== Where are the trucks? ==

There’s got to be more trucks than the ones Optimus uses.
:I was wondering that myself. Then I started thinking of a larger question about these pages and the limitations placed on them. What is the point of these limited lists? So I'm going to ask. --[[User:Vanya|Vanya]] ([[User talk:Vanya|talk]]) 21:58, 11 May 2025 (EDT)

== What is the use of these "Popular" alternate mode pages? ==

The article explains that the policies in place are to keep the article in line with "the phenomenon being explored".
But I call into question whether that phenomenon is actually being explored at all.
The article also asks, "after all, isn't it kinda weird that out of all the myriad types of fighter jet there are in the world, that the Dassault Rafale in particular seems to pop up so often across soooooo many jet-form toy-characters?"
To which I have to point out that making a list of those Transformers with that alt mode does absolutely nothing to answer that question.
I could understand if each section included information about why these alt modes are popular, but it doesn't and the linked articles don't shed any light on it at all.

So what's the point of these alt mode articles in the first place?

I personally use these pages for two purposes:
1) To try to find a character when I can only remember what their alt mode is.
2) To look for other characters that share the same alt mode (usually for the purpose of finding a character I can use for a custom figure).

However, in their current state, these articles are often useless because of their limitations.
And some of the pages are almost entirely useless because they are just articles that I have to comb through in order to find the information I'm looking for (licensed alt modes), or contain links to articles that must be combed through (non-vehicle non-beast).
Some pages have the same limitations, but the categories are so broad (Cybertronian alt modes) that way more characters are included than on other lists.
Despite having these limitations (for what I find to be an outdated reason, verticality of pages) there is actually very little consistency between these like articles.

So I ask again, what is the purpose of these pages?
If it's to examine the phenomenon of common alt modes, then let's see some actual information in these pages about it.

However, if the purpose is more so ease of research, I propose these pages be overhauled and expanded.
Instead of limiting what characters can be listed on a couple pages covering a broad class of transformations, I feel it would be far more useful to instead have multiple pages with more focused, less limited lists.
For example Popular Earth modes can easily be split into Civilian Ground Vehicles, Civilian Aircraft, Military Ground Vehicles, Military Aircraft, and Watercraft (since there are so few boats, ships, and submarines).
A page could be added specifically for Fictional alt modes that don't fit a make or model to go along with the Licensed alt mode page (with the licensed page being expanded to include non-toy characters as well).
These pages could be an invaluable research tool that is simpler and quicker to use than the search bar.

-- [[User:Vanya|Vanya]] ([[User talk:Vanya|talk]]) 21:58, 11 May 2025 (EDT)

Talk:Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes

2025-05-12T01:58:05Z

Vanya: Arguing for an overhaul.

==Limits==
... You know, if it's going to be "popular" alternate modes, it should be a form that at least, you know, more than two people share. I say three seperate characters (if not three different MOLDS) is the bare minimum. [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 03:13, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

: Me, I'd say five to six characters, with preferably a minimum of three or four different "molds" (since some of these bodies/characters may end up as fiction-only). Rampant redecoing is kinda cheating. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 03:38, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

:: I think we also have to be kind of tough on what counts. For cars, it should be same make and model. For critters, though, I'm gonna have to go with same general species. "Scorpions" seems acceptable to me, but "birds" doesn't. You'd have to do something more like "falcons" or "eagles" for it to seem alright. I dunno why. Also, what do we do with Fuzors? I'm kind of loath to include the Sharkticons and Seacons and shit, but, say, Overbite's bio identifies him as a "shark," while Snapdragon's just calls him a "reptile." [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 22:11, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

::: For invertebrates, I don't know HasTak have ever made multiple distinct species, so the way we count scorpions and crabs is fine. Spiders might be the exception there. The vertebrate section, however, is a MESS. We have a "wolves" section that excludes the domestic subspecies of Canis lupus, and then an entire order of mammals lumped together as "bats". Vertebrates should probably be broken down by species, although that makes a mess of bears. Breaking it down by genus, though, would lump together the lions, tigers, and jaguars... which is just wrong. -[[User:Rotty|Rotty]] 23:06, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

::::This just seems to be the way humans think about other animals--there's a strong pro-mammal bias. Every child can identify mammal species on sight ("wolf," "lion," "tiger," "gorilla"), but more distantly related animals are usually known only at the order or even subclass level ("parrot", "shark"). Their kind all look alike. --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] 00:49, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

:::::Aaron Archer doesn't care about black-winged Macaws (or whatever). [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 01:16, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

:::::Indeed Thy, I was thinking just that as I wrote it. It's what we're stuck with though, since HasTak really DID make the crabs and scorpions to all look alike. The ones we need to clean up are "bats" and "sharks"... -[[User:Rotty|Rotty]] 01:20, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

::::Also, aside from K-9, have there BEEN any other TF non-wolf-canines? That hyena guy, I guess. I think the other issue is that "lions" is gonna have twelve guys, tops. "Big cats" is more like 40 guys. If we're going to do this at ALL, we should err on the side of making it manageable, and if that means dividing mammals more than dividing invertebrates, then I'm all for it. (also, seriously, we need a "two headed monster" category.) [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 01:30, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

:::::Hoop, hyenas are Feliforms. ''Canis'' is just wolves (including the domestic dog and dingo), the coyote, and jackals. :) -[[User:Rotty|Rotty]] 01:37, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

:I think this page is a useful reference whenever three or more characters from multiple molds share a vehicle mode. In the case of rampant redecoing, that mold's section on each character's toy page covers the body-sharing, so we should delete things like the Volkswagen Beetle. -[[User:Rotty|Rotty]] 03:40, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

::We are getting a section on Tigers, right? -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 03:44, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

I wouldn't mind seeing this article changed from "popular" to "shared," and have no numerical restrictions, just list all specific alt modes that more than one character uses. --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] 03:58, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

: Then we're basically making the page utterly redundant and useless, since we're talking what, half the TF cast? 
: This is looking at the phenomenon of certain alternate mode models popping up more often than others, and across multiple unique toy molds. There are a LOT of unique Dassault Rafale jets in TFdom. A LOT of that Fizzle-style Baja Buggy. A LOT of those huge earth-mover dump-trucks. Two characters having the same altmode over almost 25 years doesn't quite impress, especially considering the sheer amount of redecoing of molds going on. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 04:24, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

On an unrelated note, with the section on beast modes containing only lions, tigers, and bears, it's practically crying out for an "Oh My" header. Any Transformers that turn into beasts that are so utterly bizarre no one has any idea what they hell they are? - [[User:Dark T Zeratul|Dark T Zeratul]] 08:05, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

:Enough of them that are similar enough to each other to make up a listing on this page? Without checking, I'd say "probably not". --[[User:Sntint|Sntint]] 13:57, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

::The only "monster" types I could even remotely entertain doing an entry here for would be "two headed dragon" (Hun-Grarararrrrugh, Doublecross, etc.) and "bug monster" (Repugnus, Repugnus) [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 21:31, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

==Requirements and cleanup==
I think it's time we took a serious look at this page. It's currently a damn sprawling mess. 
# First of all... let's decide on a "minimum requirements". I think the primary one should be "at least three unique 'molds' across as many different characters", (which would include instances like the IDW characters who have different model altmodes from their originals). 
# Next... what counts as "close enough"? Neither make of Ferrari goes over two molds, but the two makes are pretty damn close visually. 
# Let me propose this as an alternate method of listing to cut waaaaaay back on vertical space... it would need to be noted up top that these are grouped by mold, but still.

:* [[Side Burn (RID)|''RID'' Side Burn]] / [[Roulette (Universe)|''Universe'' Roulette]] / [[Shadow Striker (Universe)|''Universe'' Shadow Striker]]

:* ''RID'' Side Burn ([[Spychanger]]) / [[Jazz (G1)#Universe|G1 Jazz (''Universe'')]]

:* [[Sideswipe (G1)#Alternators|G1 Sideswipe (''Alternators'')]] / [[Dead End (G1)#Alternators|Dead End (''Alternators'')]] / [[Sunstreaker (G1)#Alternators/Binaltech Asterisk|Sunstreaker (''Alternators'')]]

:* [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] (IDW comic, non-toy appearance)

Just kicking around stuff. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 01:12, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

"Three molds" is definitely the right threshold. For the vehicles, your format looks good. None of the vehicular mold mates on this list are retooled to represent different models, so it works. Animal mold mates DO get turned into different species, though. -[[User:Rotty|Rotty]] 01:25, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

: I can get behind "three molds," most def. I would argue that with autos, it should be make and model, but not necessarily year. The Mustang gets in, because there are three Mustang TFs, even though one is a first-gen and the other two are fifth-gen. The Ferraris don't, I don't think, 'cause they're different models. [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 01:32, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

:: I've only left the Ferraris in because you'd think that, like the Porsches and Lamborghinis, at least ''one'' of their supercars would have a mold threepeat in the 23-year history of the brand and it just wasn't coming to mind. -[[User:Rotty|Rotty]] 01:39, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Would Dromaeosauridae (raptors and Deinonychus) count? It's got a mold (''Beast Wars'' Dinobot) shared by three characters, another mold (Transmetal 2 Dinobot) shared by two characters, and a retool (Thrustor) for one character. [[User:Interrobang|Interrobang]] 03:21, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

:'''No'''. We should only include individual species of vertebrates. "Dromaeosauridae" is waaay out of line, and there are only two unique molds anyway. The list you're making in the Sandbox is really flawed, with a "Walrus" list consisting entirely of a Pretender shell being indicative of how problematic it is. -[[User:Rotty|Rotty]] 03:29, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
::That list only exists so I can keep track of how many Transformers fall under whatever classification. I'm not going to place it in here. Jesus, no. Regardless, the reason I put in "Dromaeosauridae" is because people can't seem to make up their mind on what exact species the two molds are. [[User:Interrobang|Interrobang]] 03:31, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

==On Beasts...==
Or, more accurately, Beast Wars. I gotta be honest. I'm... not really thinking that including BW is a good idea, and I'm even questioning "beast modes" altogether. I mean... "Bears" is not the same level of specific classification as "Dassault Rafales". Which was kind of the point of the article... "ain't there a lot of Dassault Rafales" is considerably more curious than "ain't there a lot of sorta t-rexes", given the wide variety of fighter jet makes. 
And even with the fudging made to avoid licensing on many a vehicle mode... it's nowhere as much fudging as the likes of the Cheetor mold, which has been used to be a cheetah, a tiger and a panther, three pretty damn different types of big cat. BM probably not either. Most of the organic beast modes are... really, really vague and bad representations of actual animals, as much so as the wholly-mechanical ones where Ravage being a jaguar is mostly a matter of "okay, if you say so". Damn guy could be a puma, cheetah, cougar... --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 03:42, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
:Yeeah. While I like the concept, it all needs too much hand-waving for my liking. We have to pack all spiders together to make a decent list, even though the species are as different as lions are to tigers. Arbitrary criteria isn't something we can do away with in animals. [[User:Interrobang|Interrobang]] 04:03, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
::I freely admit I added the beast section in the first place because I wanted to mock this article. That said, I think it's a legitimate section (albeit of an article I find silly.)
::...you should dump the fuzors though. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 06:38, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

==Beast split==

I'm going to remove the beasts from this page and create one called "Popular beast modes" if there is no objection. The feeling seems to be that having lists for Gorilla, Canis, Tyrannosaurus, etc. is useful but can't be measured by the same standard as "Man, there sure are a lot of Lamborghini Diablos". -[[User:Rotty|Rotty]] 05:11, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

==Brawl is not an Abrams==

Well, no more than the Rattler is an A-10. He was a repurposed "stealth tank" from ''XXX: State of the Union''. -[[User:Rotty|Rotty]] 05:33, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

== Siren/RX-7 ==

Since two people seem to be against me on this I figured I'd post some photographic proof:
[http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t285/Detour84/TF/go-rx7.jpg]

Note the lack of secondary headlights on the Supra that are clearly present on the RX-7, among other glaringly obvious differences. I hope that clears everything up. [[User:Detour|Detour]] 08:47, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

I have to agree with Detour, being a mechanic. Siren/Go Shooter is much more like a FC3S 2nd Generation RX-7 then the Supra. I can see why people might think it's a Mark II or Mark III of Toyota's turn from Celica Supra to just plain Supra, but the FC3S has more of the little details that show that it's more like it. Also the rear lights on the Siren/Go Shooter toy have more of the curvature of a RX-7 FC3S Savanna.

:[http://tfu.info/1988/Cybertron/GoShooter/goshooter.htm Siren]
:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mk3_supra.jpg Supra]
:[http://auto.indiamart.com/cars/photo-gallery/gifs/car91b.jpg RX-7]

:Note Siren's (okay, Go Shuta's - Siren's hood emblem is more distracting) centerline hood bump, absent on any of the appropriate model-year RX-7s, as well as the prominent front fender. Also notice the lack of an air intake on the toy as seen on the FC3S. If you ask me, the problem here is that the animators have decided to draw some other car for the cartoon - much like they did with all the Combaticons.

:I find it highly unlikely that two white cars were both intended by Hasbro and Takara to be RX-7s in the same year. Getaway is inarguably an RX-7 Turbo II.

:I don't care enough about this page to try to decide how this affects Siren's listing on it. -[[User:LV|LV]] 14:55, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

:This isn't my area of expertise at all, but, if there is a seemingly legitimate uncertainty due to hybridized features or something, it is far better to explicitly note this in the article (regardless of where he's placed) than to just pick one or the other with no explanation. --[[User:Steve-o|Steve-o]] 17:34, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

The example you used in your photos is the FB3S, the first generation of the RX-7 line, not a good example. Also the FC3S came without the hood air intake also, just it's difficult to find a photo of one on short notice, the one pictured was the Savanna model, the more sporty version.

:It's like Proto said, not all models of the RX-7 came with a hood air intake. Here's one without: [http://www.pro-imports.ie/images/rx7001.jpg]. Steve-O, I don't think there's uncertainty since I pretty much recognized Siren as being an RX-7 right away. I'm a Supra worshipper... if Siren was a Supra, I'd have recognized it and I'd be the first one flipping out with joy over it and pointing it out on the respective articles.
:Also, what's wrong with having two distinct toys sharing an alt mode in the same year? 1984 gave us two different Lamborghini toys, didn't it? And in 1985 we got both Camshaft and the RX-7 Minispy.
::You have yet to address the blatant difference in the front fascia between the matching Siren and Supra and the RX-7, as well as centerline hood bulge, which still do not match using your new picture. Removal of the hood air intake does not make the lines of the front end or hood match. -[[User:LV|LV]] 01:18, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

== Big Trucks ==

Did someone forgot to put the Peterbilt 379 in this section? Optimus turns into a civilian vehicle.
:The word you're missing is "Popular." In other words, something more than one Transformer turns into. Please read! It's essential. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 02:15, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

You and I know how many semi trucks are there in the G1 Series.([[User:76.195.186.73|76.195.186.73]] 00:26, 4 December 2007 (UTC))

==Space Shuttles==
There is already three space shuttles can you please put it down on the article? Astrotrain, Jetfire and Sky Lynx are the same American Space Shuttles.([[User:76.213.157.97|76.213.157.97]] 00:01, 12 December 2007 (UTC))
:Jetfire has never been an American space shuttle. His Armada form is ''similar'' but still quite Cybertronian. [[Blast Off (G1)|Blast Off]] however qualifies easily.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|Talk]] 00:05, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
::There's also Mach, the Micromaster Combiners shuttle, the Sixwing component, and Galaxy Shuttle. --[[User:FortMax|FortMax]] 02:00, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

== Military tanks ==

Since this only includes one particular tank, I don't think it needs its own sub-heading. I propose it and "Military aircraft" be combined into "Military vehicles", or "Military hardware". Any objections? --[[User:Sntint|Sntint]] 23:02, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
:Works for me. Military ground vehicles outside of the "traditional" tanks don't seem to be too common in TFdom, do they. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 23:34, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

== Aircraft ==

Are you sure that many transformers turn into F-15s and F-22s?([[User:MARV 2000|MARV 2000]] 23:57, 10 March 2008 (UTC))

This page is missing the SR-71 Blackbird. Micromaster Vanquish and Fireshot, possibly Micromaster Whisper, Minicon Terradive, and ROTF Jetfire. (Gobots Snoop, too, but that's off-topic)
:Vanquish/Fireshot and Jetfire are SR-71s but Whisper is based on one of the many supposed F-19 designs and Terradive is only vaguely similar to an SR-71. That makes only 2 molds, it takes a minimum of 3 molds to get on this page. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 14:50, 18 May 2011 (EDT)

::Snapdragon and Overlord are also SR-71s. (7 years later? better late than never!) -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] ([[User talk:Repowers|talk]]) 14:08, 15 January 2018 (EST)

==Nissan Z==
With Classics Prowl well on his way, would the Z series be considered a popular altmode, given the 280Z (Prowl, Bluestreak, Smokescreen), the 300ZX (Streetwise) and the 350Z (Classics Prowl)? --[[User:74.57.3.251|74.57.3.251]] 21:57, 11 March 2008 (UTC) ([[User:Detour|Detour at work]])
:Your wish. My command. [[User:Panopticon|Panopticon]] 18:31, 24 November 2011 (EST) ([[User:Panopticon|Panopticon]])

== Aircraft Carriers ==
What about them? We have [[Flattop (G1)|Flattop]], [[Broadside (G1)]] and [[Tidal Wave (Armada)]] and maybe some more which I'm not aware of. That's enough, or not? I'm not sure where to put them, "military vehicles" or "miscallenous". --[[User:2A6|2A6]] 22:41, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
:To be fair, Flattop's alt mode is a jet, he just comes with another jet that turns into an aircraft carrier. - [[User:Semysane|Semysane]] 01:01, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
::[[Majin Zarak]] qualifies, though.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|Talk]] 01:13, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
: I'm kind of loath to do "aircraft carrier" because that's kind of vague - if Recharge were here, he could probably clarify, but I'm pretty sure that "aircraft carrier" is like "racing motorcycle" - there are a lot of different designs out there, and some of them are probably fudged for TFs sake. If someone who knew what they were talking about (like 'Charge) could actually sit down and go "Tidal Wave, Broadside, and Flattop's carrier are all ''Nimitz''-class carriers or close enough," then go for it. Otherwise it's like saying that Groove, Glide, and RiD Axer all belong together because they're touring bikes. (note that I don't think this is gonna happen, because Tidal Wave's carrier is basically a marginally better depiction of an aircraft carrier than Grandus.) [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 11:57, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
::I'm with Hoop on this. I mean, we do have one kinda-vague set, the Baja buggy... but at least that one has a fairly hefty group of dudes in that form (plus I don't know if there even IS a "brand" for them). If you're kinda struggling for three... --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 13:28, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
: I also had that thought about the necessity of specific types/classes of carriers when I wrote the initial post, but then again I thought that Aircraft carriers should be treated as a single group, mainly because the TF Aircraft carrier-designs are pretty generic and stylized and those differences and details which an expert would look for at real carriers are simply not present at those lil' toys. I mean, to make a car into an 4" toy, it only has to be downsized to a scale of 1:50 or so, to make a 4 inch toy out of an aircraft carrier means a scale of 1:"severalhundred". Thus a lot more details are ironed out. But it's your decision, not mine. --[[User:2A6|2A6]] 23:06, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
:: If I felt that the TF aircraft carriers were designed with even a REMOTE eye for accuracy, I'd be more willing to consider it, but as it stands, the TF carriers are all *very* crude approximations, even taking toy scale into issue - they're better at being aircraft carriers than say, Grandus or Majin Zarak, but they're all still basically "big flat thing with a little towery bit=aircraft carrier." [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 01:11, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

== Dassault Rafaele ==

G2 Eagle Eye is listed here as a Rafaele, but his page calls him a EF2000 Eurofighter. Which is it? --[[User:Xaaron|Xaaron]] 17:24, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

== Construction Vehicles ==
For a project I'm working on, I'd like to be able to source the various construction vehicles. I think quite a few fulfil the rules above. One problem is the two sides of the Atlantic use different terms. On the east we use terms like cement mixers, diggers and er, other terms I haven't used since I was 6! [[User:Drmick|Drmick]] 10:55, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

== Motorcycles ==
Likewise for the same reasons above. Specific model types of motor-cycles (as is applied to cars) might be being a bit too strict. [[User:Drmick|Drmick]] 10:55, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

==VW Beetle==
Um... IDW Goldbug doesn't actually turn into a VW, does he? I thought he was a Cybertronian whatever. So we're still at only two for this one. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 14:49, 9 August 2009 (EDT)
:IDW Goldbug doesn't turn into a VW, but surely the Goldbug toy that he's based on is still associated with the character. Besides ... Donald Duck, completely separate character, so whether or not you count Goldbug, we're at three. --[[User:Jimsorenson|Jimsorenson]] 15:38, 9 August 2009 (EDT)
::I don't know that I would consider the original Goldbug toy an IDW Goldbug. Especially since it was designed to be a renamed/rebuilt Bumblebee and ''was'' a renamed/rebuilt Bumblebee for over 20 years. Donald Duck is the only VW Beetle toy that was not first made and marketed as the Bumblebee character. Until we get a VW Beetle toy that is ''explicitly'' supposed to be IDW Goldbug, we shouldn't include him. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 15:55, 9 August 2009 (EDT)
:::The requirement isn't that the toy is first made and marketed as a new character though, just that it exists. Characters like Volks and Bugbite and Glyph certainly count as a different mold/character use, even if they were Bumblebee first. As for repurposed toys, I think they're totally valid. You MIGHT hang an argument on the idea that the Goldbug toy doesn't match up with the IDW body depiction of the character, but that's a slippery slope. Animated Blackouts only ever appears as a Cybertronian jet, but you'd still associate his character with the Earth mode helicopter toy, no? Long story short, Beetles have many, many molds and many, many characters. This includes at least 3, possibly 4, unique character/mold designations. At this point, to not include him would be silly. --[[User:Jimsorenson|Jimsorenson]] 16:34, 9 August 2009 (EDT)
::::Well, the requirement is at least that an existing toy repurposed is officially stated to be that certain other character, I would think? The Animated Blackout toy is officially Blackout even if we never see him in fiction as the Earth helicopter. And folks like the Shattered Glass characters are officially shown/said to be certain toys. But we got zip that officially says or shows that IDW Goldbug = toy Goldbug. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 16:46, 9 August 2009 (EDT)
:::::Really? Would you seriously put forth the proposition that the IDW Throttlebots are not based on the Throttlebot toys? The funny thing is, it doesn't even matter for this argument. With or without Goldbug, Beetles qualify. I therefor propose that we move this discussion over to the [[Goldbug (IDW)]] page where it belongs.--[[User:Jimsorenson|Jimsorenson]] 16:54, 9 August 2009 (EDT)
::::::I'd put forth that they're based on the Throttlebot ''characters'', obviously. Whether they're based on the toys is another matter entirely, considering that they don't even have Earth modes yet to judge from. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 17:08, 9 August 2009 (EDT)
::::::No, Beetles would ''not'' qualify. Every VW Beetle mold that is not Donald Duck was first designed for and sold as the character of Bumblebee, even if one was Bumblebee with a different name. Redecos are not qualifications, new characters or not, otherwise this list would be way, way longer. And it is kind of pointless to go "look, a toy of the exact same character as another toy shares an altmode!", so "World's Smallest" toys are out too. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 17:56, 9 August 2009 (EDT)
:::::::Siph, I love you but you're just flat out wrong on this. The qualifications listed on the page are: "There must be at least three unique toy molds (or in-fiction appearances, in the case of non-toy bodies/characters) that share the model. There must also be at least one unique character per mold." We never say anything about 'the first use of the mold has to be a different character than the first use of the other molds.' If you think that the requirement for inclusion should change, well, that's a completely separate argument. We've got three characters across three molds - let's say World's Smallest/Bumblebee, 1984 VW mold/Bug Bite, and the Disney Label / Donald Duck here. It doesn't matter that Bug Bite shares a mold with Bumblebee. If it did, then every time a later redeco comes out that homages an earlier character, we'd have to go and start removing popular alt modes, and that's lunacy.--[[User:Jimsorenson|Jimsorenson]] 18:13, 9 August 2009 (EDT)
::::::::Then the top is worded wrong. Look at the other lists as they are now. Not a one counts same-character-same-altmode-different-toys to get up to three, because "three different molds made for three different characters" is what we've been using as the yardstick. And I have no clue what you're on about for removing entries based on later homages. The point is ''the original toys' design intent''. That so many different toy molds were developed to be different characters yet kept going back to specific vehicle makes is the point of the article. It is ''not'' interesting when a single character has a bunch of different molds all based on a single alternate mode. That's ''expected''. Nor is it interesting when a mold is redecoed to be another character; that too is very very commonplace. We list each mold's redecos out of completeness/linking-to-more-obscure-stuff's sake, not as a yardstick (and we shouldn't list same-character redecos like "Red Bumblebee" because ''holy fuck'' would that make some listings, such as the G2 Go-Bots molds, stupidly long for no good reason). It is the creation of an entirely new mold based on a recurring vehicle that is a character who hasn't been one of those yet (be it because they didn't exist previously or had another alternate mode) that's the oddity. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 18:30, 9 August 2009 (EDT)
:::::::::OK, the discussion becomes, what SHOULD the criteria for inclusion be, since apparently you're not happy with the way it's been listed out for the past, I dunno, year or so? I'm not sure I see how it's relevant what the designers intention is. I mean, technically, the 1984 Bumblebee toy wasn't intended to be Bumblebee, or even a real car, at all, right? It was intended to be a penny racer in the Microman line. So, then, you have one toy that was intended to be something not Bumblebee and repurposed and redecoed into a bunch of guys (including Bumblebee), then a few toys intended to be Bumblebee, then a toy intended to be Donald Duck. So we're STILL ok, even by the 'designer intention' criteria you proposed above. --[[User:Jimsorenson|Jimsorenson]] 18:54, 9 August 2009 (EDT)

== Buses? ==

What's the feeling on buses? The article for Ironhide (Animated) says he's a minibus (although Cybertronian, so that may not count). Additionally, the school bus at Murray Wright High School has a notation that says it's actually the FOURTH bus Transformer. Granted, I think all these buses have been different models (double-decker, metro, school, etc.) so they still might not be appropriate... [[User:Skyshock Thunderblast|Skyshock Thunderblast]] 12:22, 20 August 2009 (EDT)
:For this article, we'd pretty much need to know the specific models of the buses - we can't just put "Bus" on the list. -[[User:Mazenoise|Mazenoise]] 12:30, 20 August 2009 (EDT)
::Yeah, thought so. Most of the buses are all really small or really hidden, and even if I knew the models, they'd all be different. I should've thought of that. [[User:Skyshock Thunderblast|Skyshock Thunderblast]] 19:42, 20 August 2009 (EDT)

== F-35 Lightning II ==

There is already 4 transformers that turn into an F-35 Lightninh II and that's breakaway, sunstorm, armada thrust and rotf thrust([[User:Dr L|Dr L]] 13:22, 14 September 2009 (EDT))
:That's only two molds. --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 13:25, 14 September 2009 (EDT)

Armada Thrust is 1

Breakaway and his other 2 redecos are 2

Finally Skyquake is 3.
([[Special:Contributions/173.196.186.120|173.196.186.120]] 13:24, 28 September 2011 (EDT))

Should [[Skyfeather]] be included on the list? They're minor as all hell but they seem pretty bang-on for an F-35, just with lift fans in the wings...
([[User:Aurus|Aurus]] 15:09, 30 July 2023 (PDT))

== Eurocopter Dauphin ==

[[Blazemaster|''Revenge of The Fallen'' Blaze Master]] is listed here as a Dauphin, but his own page says he is a [[wikipedia:Bell 412|Bell 412]]. He certainly looks more like the Bell to me. If we remove him from the Dauphin listing, the whole section must go away. Just looking for agreement before proceeding. [[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 13:21, 16 November 2009 (EST)
:Removed section due to lack of response to above notice. [[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 17:52, 21 November 2009 (EST)

== H-Tank ==

I know this page isn't the right place as they're not Earth vehicles and would need to be a specific model anyway, but given the TF-unique nature of the H-tank, should we have something listing all of them? Apologies if there already is such a list (or a discussion of this elsewhere), but I couldn't find one. [[User:J'mie|J'mie]] 16:50, 23 February 2010 (EST)

Anyone want to weigh in on this H-tank thing?[[User:Skyshock Thunderblast|Skyshock Thunderblast]] 20:21, 2 February 2011 (EST)

:Given the original comment was made a year ago, I guess the answer is "No". It wouldn't belong in this article at any rate, as it's not an Earth mode. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 20:56, 2 February 2011 (EST)

== Wikipedia links ==

Would anyone object to adding links to the Wikipedia articles for the real-world vehicles? --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 12:26, 31 December 2010 (EST)

== Modified designs ==

How do we treat vehicle designs that have been modified by Hasbro to circumvent licensing? How do we treat full-on hybrid designs, such as Reveal the Shield Windcharger (60% Ford Mustang, 40% Chevrolet Camaro)?--[[Special:Contributions/87.164.51.87|87.164.51.87]] 08:23, 1 October 2011 (EDT)
:And why was I not logged in?--[[User:Nevermore|Nevermore]] 08:24, 1 October 2011 (EDT)

== Battle Mole/Drill Tank ==

While in real life the Battle Mole was a flop they seem to have caught on in the transformers universes and other fictions as it has appeared several times as an earth mode, it was used by

Quickswitch/Sixknight
Nosecone (G1)
Drillhorn/Rescue Force 3
Digger 3
Galvatron (BWII)

These are just the ones who use it as an earth mode there are a few others that have drill tanks as cybertronian modes. While they do not exist in real life it is a popular earth vehicle mode. Any objections to adding this
:Yes, there are objections. First, it isn't an earth vehicle because it doesn't exist. Second, the characters listed vary wildly in what the drill tank looks like. They aren't so much the same vehicle, only the same type of vehicle. This would be like adding the categories "car", "jet", "tank" and "motorcycle". --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 10:00, 13 October 2011 (EDT)

== Funny Cars==
I figured this was a worthwhile addition - while there are some distinct differences between the three molds, some of them seem largely due to the toy design (Sizzle's oddly-shaped rear is necessary for robot-mode stability, while Ground Hog has no such concerns) - I could see the case that Meanstreak is a different model from the other two, but I'd chalk that up to ten years of changes in funny car racing (compare a late 80s NASCAR stocker with a mid 90s one). This is, of course, specifically for the dragster-style funny cars, and not for other dragsters or similar (although I think there's only one of those anyway). [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 13:50, 1 May 2012 (EDT)

== Sector 7 Buggy? ==
Just wondering how/if we should count the RPM line? I think the only new addition to this list would be "Sector 7 Buggy" for Landmine/L.M.-1/Armorhide/Comettor (Deluxe), Dune Runner/Crankstart/Rollbar/Beachcomber/Sandstorm (Basic) and then the RPM of Rollbar. Given that we had so many stinkin' redecos of the first two molds, I think "Sector 7 Buggy" is a worthwhile addition. The RPMs had limited fiction, so I'm inclined to accept them as "earth modes" if they're obviously something (Landmine yes, Bluestreak the RPM Sideswipe redeco that doesn't actually look like a Corvette, no.) [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 11:00, 19 March 2013 (EDT)
:Self-replying - I think this adds the Audi R8 as well - You've got RPM, Legends, and Deluxe versions of Sideways, plus one extra character of each mold - RPM Crumplezone, Legends Override, and Deluxe Dead End. I'll hold off on this one for some feedback, though. [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 11:41, 19 March 2013 (EDT)
:The page description requires "one unique character per mold". The RPM Landmine mold has no unique characters. --[[User:Flicky1991|flicky]][[User talk:Flicky1991|1991]] 11:42, 19 March 2013 (EDT)
::I don't think that requirement is actually phrased very well. The way it is phrased means that if we had three molds made for character A in the same alt mode one of which was later redecoed into character B and another of which was redecoed into character C, that would not count. I don't think that that is truly what was intended. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 13:08, 19 March 2013 (EDT)
:::Hang on - I think I'm in the wrong here, otherwise Pretender Bumblebee would be listed separately - 'Goldbug' here is IDW Goldbug, who's a separate guy. I take it back, the Sector 7 buggy doesn't get a listing. (But the Audi R8 totally does.) [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 13:17, 19 March 2013 (EDT)
:::Followup - Yeah, based on that big slapfight between Jim and Sipher up there, the buggy is out, but the Audi is in. [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 13:19, 19 March 2013 (EDT)

== G1 Drag Strip and real open-wheel types? ==

I noticed that [[Drag Strip (G1)]] didn't have an entry under the Open Wheel Race Car section, even though his alt-form should qualify. Also, since model variants have been listed in other sections, would it be acceptable to list the real-life equivalents in this section to those that are applicable? Examples: [[Mirage (G1)]] (Ligier JS-11); Drag Strip (G1) (Tyrell P34), Mirage (MW)/et al. (Penske PC-18). (Not going to make changes myself unless I get an OK here.) [[User:Kyojikasshu|Kyojikasshu]] ([[User talk:Kyojikasshu|talk]]) 12:46, 27 June 2014 (EDT)
(minor edit to fix Mirage's link...)[[User:Kyojikasshu|Kyojikasshu]] ([[User talk:Kyojikasshu|talk]]) 12:47, 27 June 2014 (EDT)

== Porsche / Le Mans ==

Tailspin, Daytonus, and Backstreet are listed under Porsche 962, but also under Le Mans racers. I don't know enough about cars to make the edit, but it has got to be one or the other, right? --[[User:Xaaron|Xaaron]] ([[User talk:Xaaron|talk]]) 17:38, 27 June 2014 (EDT)
:i don't know cars well, either, but the top pic at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_962 shows a car "which raced at the 1988 24 Hours of Le Mans". After a VERY cursory browse of Wikipedia, i THINK the Porsche 962 is a TYPE of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Mans_Prototype Le Mans Prototype] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_prototype sports prototype race car]? So it's kind of like if [[Tracks (G1)]], [[Freeway (G1)]], and [[Sideswipe (Movie)]] were all listed under "Corvette", and listed again under "Chevrolet". --[[User:Rhymus|Rhymus]] ([[User talk:Rhymus|talk]]) 05:39, 23 January 2015 (EST)

== taxi cabs? ==

Not counting the [[battle taxi]]s from the G1 cartoon's [[City of Steel (episode)]], only three Transformers are taxis: [[Taxi-Bot]], [[Overcharge (Universe)|Overcharge]], and [[Bumblebee_(Prime)#Prime:_First_Edition|one version of Bumblebee]].
:i was thinking about putting that as a note on those three characters' pages (my gut tells me the rarity is noteworthy), but then i realized that taxi cabs meet the criteria from this article's intro:
::There must be at least three unique toy molds (or in-fiction appearances, in the case of non-toy bodies/characters) that share the model. There must also be at least one unique character per mold. Certain models are "lumped" together...
Then again, are these three different enough not to be "lumped" together? the same way that [[Prowl (G1)]], [[Stakeout (G1)]], and [[Barricade (Movie)]] don't get lumped together as "Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes: police cars". In that case, should i add my note to the three Taxi-formers' pages, or is the rarity of their alternate mode too trivial for TFWiki?
--[[User:Rhymus|Rhymus]] ([[User talk:Rhymus|talk]]) 05:29, 23 January 2015 (EST)

== Freightliner WFT-8664T ==

Should we add it in? I believe it fits the criteria; both Optimus Prime (G1 and SG), Ultra Magnus (G1), Delta Magnus, Nemesis Prime/Black Convoy (G1), and the Eldedroids share the same truck cab, plus there are at least 6 different unique ‎Freightliner molds. The first being in G1 with Optimus, his retool Magnus, and their redecos. Then the second, third, forth, and fifth, being all three Optimus versions and the second version of Ultra Magnus, and their many redecos. --[[User:DDog|DDog]] ([[User talk:DDog|talk]]) 22:37, 3 April 2020 (EDT)

== Where are the trucks? ==

There’s got to be more trucks than the ones Optimus uses.
:I was wondering that myself. Then I started thinking of a larger question about these pages and the limitations placed on them. What is the point of these limited lists? So I'm going to ask. --[[User:Vanya|Vanya]] ([[User talk:Vanya|talk]]) 21:58, 11 May 2025 (EDT)

== What is the use of these "Popular" alternate mode pages? ==

The article explains that the policies in place are to keep the article in line with "the phenomenon being explored".
But I call into question whether that phenomenon is actually being explored at all.
The article also asks, "after all, isn't it kinda weird that out of all the myriad types of fighter jet there are in the world, that the Dassault Rafale in particular seems to pop up so often across soooooo many jet-form toy-characters?"
To which I have to point out that making a list of those Transformers with that alt mode does absolutely nothing to answer that question.
I could understand if each section included information about why these alt modes are popular, but it doesn't and the linked articles don't shed any light on it at all.

So what's the point of these alt mode articles in the first place?

I personally use these pages for two purposes:
1) To try to find a character when I can only remember what their alt mode is.
2) To look for other characters that share the same alt mode (usually for the purpose of finding a character I can use for a custom figure).

However, in their current state, these articles are often useless because of their limitations.
And some of the pages are almost entirely useless because they are just articles that I have to comb through in order to find the information I'm looking for (licensed alt modes), or contain links to articles that must be combed through (non-vehicle non-beast).
Some pages have the same limitations, but the categories are so broad (Cybertronian alt modes) that way more characters are included than on other lists.
Despite having these limitations (for what I find to be an outdated reason, verticality of pages) there is actually very little consistency between these like articles.

So I ask again, what is the purpose of these pages?
If it's to examine the phenomenon of common alt modes, then let's see some actual information in these pages about it.

However, if the purpose is more so ease of research, I propose these pages be overhauled and expanded.
Instead of limiting what characters can be listed on a couple pages covering a broad class of transformations, I feel it would be far more useful to instead have multiple pages with more focused, less limited lists.
For example Popular Earth modes can easily be split into Civilian Ground Vehicles, Civilian Aircraft, Military Ground Vehicles, Military Aircraft, and Watercraft (since there are so few boats, ships, and submarines).
A page could be added specifically for Fictional alt modes that don't fit a make or model to go along with the Licensed alt mode page (with the licensed page being expanded to include non-toy characters as well).
These pages could be an invaluable research tool that is simpler and quicker to use than the search bar.
-- [[User:Vanya|Vanya]] ([[User talk:Vanya|talk]]) 21:58, 11 May 2025 (EDT)

Purple Wicked Convoy

2025-05-10T05:41:03Z

Vanya: Literal translation with changed word order fixed.

{{disambigr|Purple|other uses of the word|Purple (disambiguation)}}
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:''Purple Wicked Convoy is a [[Primus Vanguard|Warrior of the Seven Lights]] from the [[Precursor World continuity|Precursor World]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:PurpleWickedConvoyFullBody.jpg|200px|thumb|Bump into him in the street and he'll drop a [[Monstructor (G1)|Monstructor]] on your ass.]]

That someone like '''Purple Wicked Convoy''' (パープル邪悪なる{{ruby|司令官|コンボイ}} ''Pāpuru Jaakunaru Konboi'', lit. "Purple Wicked Commander")<ref>The Primus Vanguard utilize an elaborate form of Japanese wordplay to impart a sort of "B-side" moniker. In this case the title "Wicked Commander Purple" is read as the name "Purple Wicked Convoy." See the [[Japanese language#Furigana|Japanese language]] article for further details on how this works.</ref> could be a commander in the supposedly righteous [[Primus Vanguard]] may come as a surprise to some. Exceedingly cunning, he'll seemingly leap on any chance to obtain even greater power, but usually leaves the heavy lifting to another party, like his collection of [[Pretender Monster|monsters]]. He'd rather stand on the sidelines or sit in his base on the [[Purple Planet]] as he watches the action, enjoying his trademark [[Gari Robo-kun|grape popsicle]]. The fact that his [[Purple Order]] is composed entirely of [[Shockwave (disambiguation)|Shockwaves]] probably raises some eyebrows too, not to mention his self-proclaimed title of "Defender of Chaos".<ref>''Subete no Konton o Mamorumono'' (すべての混乱を守る者)</ref> But [[Primus#The old universe|Primus]] chose him to guard the [[Purple Matrix]] for a reason, and are you gonna question ''his'' judgement?

Of course, this is all what he'd ''like'' you to think. Among his fellow Vanguard commanders, he's absolutely the most easy-going, leaning into the malevolent trappings of his station only when he thinks it'll help keep the universe safe. Mind you, he should probably work on actually telling his allies about these ruses in the first place...

The popsicle is also his signature weapon. Yes, really.

==Fiction==
===Precursor World===
Chosen to bear the Purple Matrix and lead the Purple Order in their defense of the universe of [[Star Power|Purple Star Power]], Purple Wicked Convoy wielded his mighty popsicle in the [[Primus Vanguard]]'s final battle against their ancient enemy the [[Specter]]s for the fate of their multiverse. He joined with the other commanders of the Vanguard to eradicate the Specters by unleashing all seven Star Powers at once, which had the side effect of knitting their multiverse into a [[Precursor World|single, multicolored world]].

Wicked attended a subsequent conference of Primus Vanguard command to discuss the new threat of the [[Vok]], displaying his characteristic panache while listening to [[Primus#The old universe|Primus]]'s presentation. After Primus resolved to [[Black Legendisc|scry into the future]] to gather intelligence on their foes, Wicked loitered in the hallways of [[Ivory Towers|Vanguard headquarters]] with [[White Gallant Convoy]] and [[Yellow Splendid Convoy]], remarking that he had not seen Primus around for some time as they gossiped about what he could have seen. Shortly thereafter, Primus burst into the hallway to their collective shock, exclaiming that his pet [[Primacron]] had escaped and rambling about how he needed all of their Matrices immediately so that he could end the universe. An alarmed Wicked left with his comrades as the Vanguard commanders left Primus to ravings and returned to their respective planets, save an impassive [[Blue Big Convoy]]. {{storylink|Generations Selects Special Comic Finale Prelude|Finale Prelude}}

Wicked was conferring with a number of Purple Warriors when Primus sent word to the Primus Vanguard to be on their guard following the destruction of the [[Blue Order]] at the hands of the [[Straxus (G1)#Precursor World|Straxuses]] and [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity#Generations Selects Special Comic (1)|Ultra Megatron Omega]]. While the rest of the Vanguard was attacked by the [[Seacon (BW)|Seacons]], Megatron and the Straxuses attacked the [[Purple Planet]] directly. [[Shockwave (Cyberverse)|Shockwave]] then reported to Wicked that they had lost contact with the other Vanguard members. Sensing an opportunity, Wicked contacted Megatron with an offer to join forces and conquer the universe. {{storylink|God Neptune comic 1}}

[[File:Omega Hand Mode.jpg|250px|thumb|left|Is "talk to the hand" played out for [[Super Mode|these]]?]]

The Purple-Megatron-Straxus alliance made their way into outer space to meet [[God Neptune]], who had already stolen the other Matrices and had his sights set on the [[Purple Matrix]] and the [[α Matrix|Blue Matrix]] held by Megatron. Wicked hung back as various challengers attacked the combiner, including Megatron and the remaining Primus Vanguard commanders, before allowing Megatron to combine with his trailer into a new "SF Gun mode", whose power was enough to force God Neptune apart. He then enjoyed an [[Gari Robo-kun|ice lolly]] and looked on as the Straxuses fretted over Ultra Megatron following his bisection at the hands of [[Halfshell]]. {{storylink|God Neptune comic 2}}

After Megatron Omega pulled himself together, Wicked called on him for another combination attack on the similarly reconstituted God Neptune with the mighty "Omega Hand Mode", only to be thwarted by—[[Lawbhammer]]? Interrupting the fight, the forgotten Seacon arrived with the [[Golden Age (GS)|Golden Age]], Primus's secret eight army, and forcibly seized control of the combiner. The hits kept coming as Primus himself entered the fray, ramming Wicked and Megatron's combination apart with his vehicle mode. As Wicked and Megatron struggled to reform their SF Gun mode, Primus overwhelmed them with his Big Bang Cannon and absorbed Megatron's Blue Star Power into his Silver Matrix. Calling on the Lawbhammer-controlled God Neptune, Primus commanded the combiner to transfer the five Star Powers the Seacons had gathered into the [[Neptune Sword]] and toss him the blade. Now juiced to the gills with six of the seven Star Powers, Primus ran Wicked and his Matrix both through with a single thrust of the Neptune Sword. Wicked was shattered instantly, leaving behind only a lone popsicle glowing with a mysterious light... {{storylink|Generations Selects Special Comic Finale Prelude|Finale Prelude}}

...which shortly after transformed into Wicked himself, his [[spark]] having been transferred into it to serve as his back-up body (at the cost of some downsizing)! Wicked gave some encouragement to the despondent Primus, who had been reduced to his core self, the Oracle. He explained that he'd tricked everyone into thinking he'd gone rogue, and had seemingly teamed up with Megatron Omega to try and build a rapport with him, hoping to convince Megatron to get over himself and fight for good. This very much did not work, and after Megatron upgraded himself into Gold Megatron using the [[Golden Power]], he found himself dueling with [[Purple Megatron]] of the [[New Primus Vanguard]] for the Purple name.

It all worked out in the end, as Wicked was later seen as a leader of the next-generation Primus Vanguard alongside fellow veteran [[Red Sentinel Prime|Burning Red Sentinel Prime]]. {{storylink|Generations Selects Special Comic Finale|Finale}}
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==Toys==
===''Masterpiece''===
[[File:TF-Masterpiece-SG-Optimus-Prime.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|A reflection of a reflection of a reflection... Is Purple Wicked Convoy the Waluigi of ''Transformers''?]]
*'''Shattered Glass Optimus Prime''' (November [[2016]])
**''Accessories'': [[Ion blaster#MP10|Ion blaster]], [[Matrix of Leadership/toys#Masterpiece 2|Matrix of Leadership]], [[Energon-axe#mp10|energon-axe]], trailer/[[Combat Deck (SG)|Combat Deck]]
{{note|[[Optimus Prime (SG)#Generations|Shattered Glass Optimus Prime]] was [[Repurposing|repurposed]] as Purple Wicked Convoy by ''[[Generations Selects Special Comic]]''.}}
:After several [[knockoff]]s and [[IP theft|unofficial]] releases, "Shattered Glass Optimus Prime" was finally released as an official Hasbro Asia exclusive under the ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)|Generations]] [[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' line. As a redeco of ''Masterpiece'' [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#MP10|MP-10 Convoy]], he transforms into a Freightliner FL86, though the back half is much larger and robot-leggier in proportion (so much that a ladder is on each side). Although not easily breakable, care must be taken for posing the index fingers; extending the finger even far would cause it to pop off.

:Optimus Prime also comes with a hand-held ion blaster which can collapse and store inside a compartment on his back in either mode, as well as an energon-axe that slips over Optimus Prime's right hand. He also lacks the [[Spike Witwicky (G1)#Masterpiece|Spike Witwicky]] and [[Roller (G1)#Masterpiece|Roller]] figures. Shattered Glass Optimus Prime also comes with his own Combat Deck and [[die-cast]] Matrix of Leadership, the latter of which remains the same colors as the original MP-10 Convoy.

:The packaging design very closely resembles then-concurrent ''Generations''-branded ''[[Transformers: Platinum Edition|Platinum Edition]]'', featuring numerous elements otherwise unique to ''Platinum Edition'' packaging, except the title "Platinum Edition" is replaced by "Shattered Glass". Hasbro ID number MP-09 within its ''Generations Masterpiece'' range of MP-01 to MP-10, and Shattered Glass Optimus Prime was released between [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#Masterpiece 2|MP-08]] and [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#Masterpiece|MP-10]], lending to the possibility that MP-09 was intended to be his.
{{MP10Mold}}
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===''War for Cybertron Trilogy''===
[[File:TF-Generations-Selects-SG-Optimus-Prime.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|That thing you all did anyway, now in canon flavor.]]
*'''Shattered Glass Optimus Prime & Shattered Glass Ratchet''' (2-pack, [[2020]])
**''ID number:'' '''WFC-GS17'''
**''Accessories:'' Ion blaster, [[Matrix of Leadership/toys#War for Cybertron Trilogy|Matrix of Leadership]]
{{note|[[Optimus Prime (SG)#War for Cybertron Trilogy|Shattered Glass Optimus Prime]] was repurposed as Purple Wicked Convoy by ''Generations Selects Special Comic''. Again!}}
:A ''[[Generations Selects (toyline)|Generations Selects]]'' add-on to ''[[War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Earthrise]]'', Shattered Glass Optimus Prime is a redeco of ''Earthrise'' [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Optimus Prime]] without [[Combat Deck (G1)#War for Cybertron: Earthrise|his trailer]]. He features a color scheme inspired by his ''Masterpiece'' toy, complete with a cracked window. Optimus Prime is Voyager Class-sized mold with the front of the head and legs, knee flaps, and various inner parts reused from ''[[War for Cybertron: Siege|Siege]]'' Voyager Class [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#War for Cybertron: Siege|Optimus Prime]]. This also means that, like the ''Siege'' toy, the truck mode is unusually small for a Voyager figure.

:The figure features an opening chest compartment containing a removable ''evil'' [[Matrix of Leadership/toys#War for Cybertron Trilogy|Matrix of Leadership]].<ref>[https://hasbropulse.com/products/transformers-generations-selects-deluxe-wfc-gs17-shattered-glass-ratchet-and-optimus-prime "...the pack features an evil Matrix of Leadership accessory."]</ref> His transformation scheme reuses some engineering and concepts from the ''Siege'' Voyager Class Optimus Prime figures and ''[[Studio Series]]'' [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#SS38|38 Optimus Prime]], with a new torso transformation. Interestingly, his rear wheels are borrowed from ''Studio Series'' [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#SS32|32]] and [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#SS44|44 Optimus Prime]]. Optimus Prime features a hinge joint in each of his knuckles but without the flip-out post hole mechanism, instead of having it facilitated by the shape of his palm and thumb. Interestingly, the placement of his front wheels in robot mode evokes the [[Studio OX]] version of his character model (though significantly larger compared to the artwork). Optimus also has molded drilled-rotor brake discs, a surprising detail for a mainline ''Transformers'' figure.

:As the front grill/wheel piece is connected with a c-clip, removing it allows the waist to turn without being hindered. Whether by coincidence or not, the Energon Strikeshield from the ''Siege'' Voyager Class Optimus Prime figure can attach onto the forearm (if the hands are tucked away) with the tabs on the axe's hinged handle, though it looks better on the left side.

:The product description for the set made mention of ''Shattered Glass'' comics by [[IDW Publishing]],<ref>[https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/134753 "...inspired by the Shattered Glass comics created in partnership with IDW..."]</ref> either being a miscredit of [[Fun Publications]] convention comic, or a far too-early mention of IDW's [[2021]] ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (IDW)|Shattered Glass]]'' comic.

:He is bundled with [[Ratchet (SG)#War for Cybertron Trilogy|Shattered Glass Ratchet]], and was revealed on the [[September 8]] [https://www.instagram.com/p/CE4pc4OgZb6/ TransformersTuesday]. Much like most 2020 ''Selects'' product, the toy is only branded as part of the ''[[War for Cybertron Trilogy (toyline)|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]'' and not ''Earthrise''.
{{WFCEarthriseOptimusPrimeMold}}
{{--}}

==Notes==
*In an ouroboros of Japanese ''Transformers'' fandom nerdery, Purple's character contains several references to the character of Akane Shinjo from [[Studio Trigger]]'s [[2018]] anime, ''{{w|SSSS.Gridman}}'', which heavily pulled from ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]'' itself; Akane's main outfit and various accessories are patterned after ''Shattered Glass'' Optimus (including glasses cracked on the right side). Her ''kaijū'' figure collection is represented by the aforementioned Pretender Monsters as well as statues of the [[Fusion creature]]s, while Purple's Shockwave cohorts contacting him via holographic screen is reminiscent of her alien benefactor Alexis Kerib. It's probably not a coincidence that [[Shockwave (Cyberverse)|''Cyberverse'' Shockwave]] shares his Japanese voice actor, [[Tetsu Inada]], with Kerib.
*Despite existing before the concepts of Autobot and Decepticon, Purple Wicked Convoy is drawn with his toy's Autobot insignias. This is presumably due to the fact that the ''Autobot symbol itself'' was [[Repurposing|repurposed]] into the Vanguard's sigil in the original Precursor World [[Spin Off|e-HOBBY comics]].
*Purple's transformation from being a popsicle stick is accompanied by the traditional "gi-go-ga-go-go" onomatopoeia for transforming in Japanese fiction, hilariously implying that he can mechanically turn into a tiny wooden stick.

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Primus Vanguard}}

[[Category:Convoys]]
[[Category:Japanese-original Transformers]]
[[Category:Matrix bearers]]
[[Category:Purple Order]]
[[Category:Repurposed toys]]

Go Prime

2025-05-10T05:40:30Z

Vanya: Literal translation with changed word order fixed.

{{factions|autobot|primusvanguard}}
{{disambig3|Go}}
[[File:TFGo GoPrime ScreenCap.jpg|right|thumb|upright=2.2|Long-lost child of [[The Fallen]] and Blackbeard the Pirate.]]

Little is known about the ancient [[Swordbot]] '''Go Prime''' (ゴウプライム ''Gō Puraimu'') beyond that he possesses the power of both the Samurai and the Ninja. He is referred to as a "sword master", and it was he who trained both the [[Swordbot Samurai Team]] and the [[Swordbot Shinobi Team]]. He possesses the ability to manipulate space-time, and is capable of appearing at any time or place. He can even use this power to transport the sparks of other Transformers across interstellar distances. While he can only fight for short periods of time due to overexposure to the [[Black Legendisc]], his combat ability surpasses that of the other Swordbots.

In truth, Go Prime is a resident of the primeval [[Precursor World]] where he leads the [[Black Parade]] of the [[Primus Vanguard]] as '''Black Go Prime''' (ブラック{{ruby|聡明なる|ゴウ}}{{ruby|元帥|プライム}}, lit. "Black Wise Marshal"),<ref>As with other Primus Vanguard officers, Black Go Prime's title is subject to a form of Japanese wordplay wherein "Wise Marshal" is written in Japanese text as ''Sōmeinaru Gensui'' (聡明なる元帥) but given the arbitrary foreign pronunciation "Go Prime" (ゴウプライム). See the [[Japanese language#Furigana|Japanese language]] article for further details on how this works.</ref> or occasionally '''Master Black Lion''' (マスター黒獅子 ''Masutā Kurojishi''). His Black Legendisc is the Matrix of [[Star Power|Black Star Power]], his badge of office. His [[Mini-Con]] partner is [[Go (Go!)|Go]].

==Fiction==
===Precursor World===
[[File:BlackLegendiscPass.jpg|upright=1.5|thumb|left|"Give me your magic compass, Time Pirate." "Not a pirate, not what that is."]]
In the initial seven universes that existed before the [[G1 World|Known World]], Black Go Prime was leader of the [[Black Parade]] within the [[Primus Vanguard]]. One day, they collectively fought the [[Specter]]s. {{storylink|Generations Selects Special Comic Finale Prelude|Finale Prelude}} When [[Straxus (G1)|Chief Straxus]] was corned by three Specters, he called out to "Master Black Lion" and the [[Three Musketeers]] for assistance, {{storylink|Blue Big Convoy comic}} but they were occupied with Specters of their own. Once [[Blue Big Convoy]] discovered that maximum output from his [[α Matrix|α Matrix Cannon]] was enough to vanquish Specters, the leaders of the Vanguard collectively decided to unleash the full power of their Matrices, seemingly wiping out the Specters and unifying the seven universes into [[Precursor World|one]].

However, the single universe came under attack from the [[Vok]]. Seeking answers to this threat from the future, [[Primus#The old universe|Primus]] demanded that Go hand over the Black Legendisc so that he could peer into what was yet to come. Despite Go's warnings about tampering with time and the future, Primus went ahead and used the Legendisc. What he learned seemingly drove him mad, and the concerned Primes and Convoys, including Black Go Prime, returned to their home planets, leaving Primus with only Blue Big Convoy as company. {{storylink|Generations Selects Special Comic Finale Prelude|Finale Prelude}}

[[File:Grand Scourge and Go Prime.jpg|thumb|upright=1.0|Now you have to wear a peg leg, har har!]]
Somewhere in spacetime, Go Prime was defeated by the murderous [[Grand Scourge]], who ripped off Go Prime's right foot and massacred many other [[Transformer]]s. Their talk was interrupted by [[Deadlock (Cloud)|Deadlock]], who was furious at the death of his [[Lockdown (Cloud)|mentor]]. Scourge easily fended off his attacks and vanished away, and Go Prime was left to witness Deadlock's vow to hunt down and kill Scourge. {{storylink|Decepticon Jaeger Deadlock}}

Go Prime would welcome Deadlock to the Black Parade, intending to train him as a [[Swordbot]]. Well into his training, they were alerted by Primus to the end of the [[Blue Order]] and the threat of [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Megatron Omega]] {{storylink|God Neptune comic 1}} and the Black Planet was soon invaded by [[Coelagon]], who desired the Black Legendisc. The Black Parade failed to prevent Coelagon from wresting the artifact from them. {{storylink|God Neptune comic 1}}

Go, however, remained in the fight; along with [[Yellow Splendid Convoy]] and [[Green Tender Convoy]], he flew into space to restrain [[God Neptune]] after a surprise attack by the phantom [[Blue Big Convoy]]. Though they had the combiner on the ropes long enough for [[White Gallant Convoy|White Convoy Grand Prime]] to begin his attack, Go was sent flying with the others when God Neptune drew his [[Neptune Sword]] and subsequently expired. {{storylink|God Neptune comic 2}} His spirit still continued on, and assisted in fighting back against [[Primacron]] within [[Blue Planet (GS)|Neo Primus]] with the equally ethereal Yellow Convoy and Green Convoy in defense of their disgraced master.

[[Black Megatron]] sought to take Black Go Prime's position as representative of the Black Light, but he and his [[New Primus Vanguard|cadre of like-minded Megatrons]] were defeated. Much later, student would become teacher as Deadlock assumed the position of Black representative in [[Magna Convoy]]'s Primus Vanguard. {{storylink|Generations Selects Special Comic Finale|Finale}}
{{--}}

==Toys==
===''Go!''===
[[File:TFGo Go Prime Stock.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.66|Ladies and gentlemen, the name of the game is ''Go!'' And [[Animorph|two]] [[M.A.S.K.|teams]] are here to compete for a jackpot worth up to $20,000!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Go Prime''' (Voyager, [[2013]])}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''G25'''
:*''Release date'': [[December 21]], 2013
:*''Accessories:'' Two swords, beast-leg/blade
{{toydesigner|[[Shogo Hasui]] (TakaraTomy)}}

: Part of the [[TakaraTomy]] [[Triple Combination: Transformers Go! (toyline)|''Go!'' toyline]], Go Prime is a [[redeco]] of ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)|Prime]]'' Voyager Class [[Thundertron#Toys|Thundertron]], transforming into a mechanical lion. His right [[robot mode]] foot can detach to reveal a bladed "peg-leg", with the original foot converting into a claw-weapon. He also comes with a redeco of the twin swords that originally came with [[Kenzan#Toys|Kenzan]], which he can hold or plug into his [[beast mode]]'s hip/wings.

: This toy was also redecoed into [[Lio Convoy#Prime|Leo Prime]] and [[Cheetor (BW)/toys#BotCon2014|Alpha Trizer]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2013/Autobot/GoPrime/goprime.htm More information on Go Prime at TFU.info]''

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Primus Vanguard}}

[[Category:Black Parade]]
[[Category:Dimension hoppers]]
[[Category:Go! Autobots]]
[[Category:Japanese-original Transformers]]
[[Category:Ninjas]]
[[Category:Primes]]

Red Sentinel Prime

2025-05-10T05:39:33Z

Vanya: Literal translation with changed word order fixed.

{{disambig3|Sentinel Prime}}
{{factions|primusvanguard}}

:''Red Sentinel Prime is a [[Primus Vanguard|Warrior of the Seven Lights]] from the [[Precursor World continuity|Precursor World]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:RedSentinelPrimeGlamourShot.jpg|250px|thumb|In a rare moment of not eating crow.]]

A member of the [[Sentinel Armada]] who rose to [[Primus Vanguard]] command, the cantankerous '''Red Sentinel Prime''' (レッド{{ruby|最強なる元帥|センチネルプライム}} ''Reddo Senchineru Puraimu'', lit. "Red Strongest Marshal")<ref name="vanguard">As with other Primus Vanguard officers, Red Sentinel Prime's title is subject to a form of Japanese technique wherein "Strongest Marshal" is written in Japanese text as ''Saikyōnaru Gensui'' (最強なる元帥) but given the arbitrary pronunciation "Sentinel Prime" (センチネルプライム). In his new body, this becomes "Incandescent Red Strongest Marshal", spelled ''Shakunetsu no Akaki Saikyōnaru Gensui'' (灼熱の赤き最強なる元帥), with the pronunciation "Burning Red Sentinel Prime" (バーニングレッドセンチネルプライム). See the [[Japanese language#Furigana|Japanese language]] article for further details on how this works.</ref> leads the [[Red Order]] from the fiery [[Red Planet]]. He may be a singular contrarian blowhard amongst his fellow commanders, but he's a surprisingly altruistic soul at heart, and he can be depended upon to wield his fearsome [[Matrix Buster|Red Matrix]] in defense of the [[Precursor World]] when push comes to shove.

When push really did come to shove, Sentinel fell and rose again as the even spicier '''Burning Red Sentinel Prime''' ({{ruby|灼熱の|バーニング}}{{ruby|赤き|レッド}}{{ruby|最強なる|センチネル}}{{ruby|元帥|プライム}} ''Bāningu Reddo Senchineru Puraimu'', lit. "Incandescent Red Strongest Marshal").<ref name="vanguard"/>

==Fiction==
===Precursor World===
[[File:RedSentinelPrimeCore.jpg|left|thumb|Irreducible grump.]]

Red Sentinel Prime fought in the [[Primus Vanguard]]'s final battle against their ancient enemy the [[Specter]]s for the fate of their multiverse. Unusually for an Order leader, Sentinel played double duty as the Red Order's representative in the [[Sentinel Armada]], the Vanguard's joint starfleet. As such when [[Blue Big Convoy]] lit a distress beacon after draining his Blue Star Power annihilating a Specter squadron, Sentinel was among the host that came to his aid. {{storylink|Blue Big Convoy comic}} When [[White Gallant Convoy]], inspired by Blue's tactic, proposed unleashing the power of all of their matrices to defeat the Specters once and for all, he dismissed the concept as idiotic. Shouted down by the others, Sentinel begrudgingly unleashed the power of his Matrix alongside the rest of Vanguard command and ate his words as their seven united Star Powers successfully eradicated the Specters, with the side effect of knitted their multiverse into a [[Precursor World|single, multicolored world]].

[[File:Burning Red Sentinel Prime.jpg|upright=1|thumb|And you thought he had [[burning spirit|Fire Guts]] before.]]

Sentinel attended a subsequent conference of Primus Vanguard command to discuss the new threat of the [[Vok]]. At the close of the meeting [[Primus#The old universe|Primus]] resolved to [[Black Legendisc|scry into the future]] and [[G1 World|whatever he saw]] led him to hole himself up in his quarters for some time until he burst into the hallways of [[Ivory Towers|their headquarters]], exclaiming that his pet [[Primacron]] had escaped and rambling to his generals about how he needed all of their Matrices immediately so that he could end the universe. An alarmed Sentinel left with his comrades as the Vanguard commanders left Primus to ravings and returned to their respective planets, save an impassive Blue. {{storylink|Generations Selects Special Comic Finale Prelude|Finale Prelude}}

Sitting on his throne on the [[Red Planet]], he was visibly disgusted following a telepathic message from Primus revealed that the [[Blue Order]] had failed in their duty of defending the [[Blue Planet (GS)|Blue Planet]] and the rest of the Vanguard was now at risk. He was confident in his abilities to see off any foe, however, noting that as a [[Prime (rank)|Prime]] of the Vanguard, he was the boss of several [[Convoy (rank)|Convoys]]. He ordered his Matrix Buster charged with its Red Matrix power source and had it fire on an oncoming foe. This turned out to be the [[Angolmois Energy]]-empowered [[Terrormander]], who promptly called him a big wuss and blew him up. {{storylink|God Neptune comic 1}}

Sentinel was down but very much not out, at the cost of being reduced to a [[Headmaster (technology)|head]]. He was eventually able to make his way into outer space, where he met with Primus, now reduced to the Oracle, who had just received his own butt-kicking at the hands of [[Primacron]] piloting the [[Blue Planet (GS)|Neo Primus]] robot. The Oracle was delighted to see him alive, and Sentinel showed some actual depth of character, encouraging the Oracle to stick to the mission [[The One]] had given him so long ago: to battle against malicious [[Angolmois Energy]] as the embodiment of its righteous opposite. He then revealed his new [[transtector]], a flame-styled tank, proclaiming himself ''Burning'' Red Sentinel Prime, and rejoined his comrades in battle against Neo Primus. {{storylink|Generations Selects Special Comic Finale|Finale}}

Some time after this, Sentinel would meet [[Megalligator]], who had somehow gotten ahold of the [[Creation Matrix (GS)|Green Matrix]]. Unknown to either of them, this meeting was observed by [[Bludgeon (G1)#Precursor World|Bludgeon]] and [[Soundwave (BW)#Precursor World|Soundwave]]. {{storylink|Cybertron Magna Convoy}} Everything would turn out right in the end, with Sentinel eventually becoming a member of the next-generation Primus Vanguard alongside fellow veteran [[Purple Wicked Convoy]]. {{storylink|Generations Selects Special Comic Finale|Finale}}
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==Toys==
===''Titans Return''===
[[File:TF-Generations-Titans-Return-Titan-Force-Sentinel-Prime.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|A hunka hunka burnin' red.]]
*'''Titan Force''' (Multi-pack, [[July 21]], 2016)
**''Accessories:'' 2 Guns, Infinitus Titan Master
{{Note|[[Sentinel Prime (G1)#Titans Return|''Titan Force'' Sentinel Prime]] was [[Repurposing|repurposed]] as Red Sentinel Prime.}}
:This recolored version of Sentinel Prime with translucent orange parts was only available in a [[giftset]] together with "Titan Force" redecoes of [[Brainstorm (G1)#Titans Return|Brainstorm]] and [[Windblade (G1)#Titans Return|Windblade]], each with unique decoration. Rather than being marked as an Autobot, he instead bears the symbol of the Security Forces that his troops wore in the ''[[The Transformers: Megatron Origin|Megatron Origin]]'' comic.

:In the United States, this set was [[exclusive]] to the [[Hasbro Toy Shop]] website and the Hasbro Toy Shop booth at [[San Diego Comic-Con]] 2016. In the United Kingdom, it was exclusive to the A1 Toys website and their booth at London Film & Comic Con 2016 (with Brainstorm renamed into "Charon" for [[trademark]] reasons); in China, it was exclusive to Cybertron Con Shanghai; in Hong Kong, it was exclusive to Animation-Comic-Game 2016; and in Canada, it was exclusive to the HasbroStore booth at Fan Expo 2016.
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==Notes==
*Red Sentinel Prime indulges in even more multi-pun drifting than usual, as the added context of the [[Sentinel Armada]] reveals his name as not only a play on the [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|original Sentinel Prime]], but the [[Guardian robot|Omega Sentinels]] as well.
*The twist of Red Sentinel Prime's survival revealed that he is a diminutive [[headmaster (technology)#Japanese cartoon continuity|headmaster]] piloting a lifeless "Sentinel" [[transtector]] in the classic Japanese style.
**This mirrors the fate of Generation 1 Sentinel Prime's [[Sentinel Prime (G1)#2005 IDW continuity|incarnation]] in the [[2005 IDW continuity]].
**Whether this holds true for his Sentinel Armada comrades, all of whom are ''also'' recolors of the [[Sentinel Prime (G1)#Titans Return|''Titans Return'' Sentinel Prime]] toy, remains unrevealed.
*Red Sentinel Prime's second transtector is a [[Redeco#"Virtual" redecos|"virtual" redeco]] of [[Hardhead (G1)#Generations|''Titans Return'' Hardhead]] in the stylings of [[Optimus Primal (BW)/toys#Burning|''Beast Wars'' Burning Convoy]].

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Primus Vanguard}}

[[Category:Japanese-original Transformers]]
[[Category:Matrix bearers]]
[[Category:Primes]]
[[Category:Red Order]]
[[Category:Repurposed toys]]

Green Tender Convoy

2025-05-10T05:38:34Z

Vanya: Literal translation with changed word order fixed.

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:''Green Tender Convoy is a [[Primus Vanguard|Warrior of the Seven Lights]] from the [[Precursor World continuity|Precursor World]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:GreenTenderConvoyGlamourShot.jpg|250px|thumb|[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/k6bhtmOvmmNaCKx4SV7 ''Jiai Jō!'']]]

The nature-loving '''Green Tender Convoy''' (グリーン慈愛なる{{ruby|司令官|コンボイ}} ''Gurīn Jiainaru Konboi'', lit. "Green Affectionate Commander")<ref>The Primus Vanguard utilize an elaborate form of Japanese wordplay to impart a sort of "B-side" moniker. In this case the title "Affectionate Commander Green" is read as the name "Green Tender Convoy." See the [[Japanese language#Furigana|Japanese language]] article for further details on how this works.</ref> has been blessed with a role in the [[Primus Vanguard]] that truly suits him: the defence of the plants and animals of the [[Green Planet]], assisted by his [[Green Order]]. His greatest duty, however, is his guardianship of the life-giving [[Creation Matrix (GS)|Green Matrix]].

==Fiction==
===Precursor World===
[[File:Primus Vanguard Green Order.jpg|250px|thumb|left|We ultimately decided against translating it as "Daddy Convoy".]]

Chosen to bear the Green Matrix and lead the Green Order in their defense of the universe of [[Star Power|Green Star Power]], Green Tender Convoy fought in the [[Primus Vanguard]]'s final battle against their ancient enemy the [[Specter]]s for the fate of their multiverse. When [[White Gallant Convoy]] proposed unleashing the power of all of their matrices to defeat the Specters once and for all, he expressed misgivings that they could destroy their entire reality in the process. [[Blue Big Convoy]], evidently a superior student of cosmology, assured Tender that their universes would simply merge. Tender reluctantly unleashed the power of his Matrix alongside the rest of Vanguard command and Blue's words proved true as their seven united Star Powers both eradicated the Specters and knitted their multiverse into a [[Precursor World|single, multicolored world]].

Tender attended a subsequent conference of Primus Vanguard command to discuss the new threat of the [[Vok]]. At the close of the meeting [[Primus#The old universe|Primus]] resolved to [[Black Legendisc|scry into the future]] and [[G1 World|whatever he saw]] led him to hole himself up in his quarters for some time until he burst into the hallways of [[Ivory Towers|their headquarters]], exclaiming that his pet [[Primacron]] had escaped and rambling to his generals about how he needed all of their Matrices immediately so that he could end the universe. An alarmed Tender left with his comrades as the Vanguard commanders left Primus to ravings and returned to their respective planets, save an impassive Blue. {{storylink|Generations Selects Special Comic Finale Prelude|Finale Prelude}}

Tender was enjoying the natural splendor of the [[Green Planet]] with the rest of his Order when he received a telepathic message from Primus, warning that they would shortly be under attack following the destruction of the [[Blue Order]]. However, when their foe arrived it wasn't [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity#Generations Selects Special Comic .281.29|Ultra Megatron]] as expected, but an [[Angolmois Energy|Angolmois]]-empowered [[Sea Phantom]]. Tender swore to protect the plants, animals, and Green Matrix alike. As Sea Phantom was later seen with said Matrix, the fight clearly didn't go well. {{storylink|God Neptune comic 1}}

Tender wasn't out of the running just yet, as along with [[Yellow Splendid Convoy]] and [[Go Prime|Black Go Prime]] he flew into space to restrain [[God Neptune]] after a surprise attack by the phantom [[Blue Big Convoy]]. Though they had the combiner on the ropes long enough for [[White Gallant Convoy|White Convoy Grand Prime]] to begin his attack, Tender was sent flying with the others when God Neptune drew his [[Neptune Sword]] and subsequently expired. {{storylink|God Neptune comic 2}} His spirit still continued on, and assisted in fighting back against [[Primacron]] within [[Blue Planet (GS)|Neo Primus]] with the equally ethereal Black Prime and Yellow Convoy in defense of their disgraced master.

[[Green Megatron]] sought to take Green Tender Convoy's position as representative of the Green Light, but he ended up being possessed by the [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity#Generations Selects Special Comic (2)|benevolent Megatron]] from the [[G1 World]]'s [[2050]]. This Megatron would go on to represent the Green in [[Magna Convoy]]'s Primus Vanguard. {{storylink|Generations Selects Special Comic Finale|Finale}}
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==Toys==
===''Prime''===
[[File:Beast-Hunters-Weaponizers-BeastTrackerOptimus.jpg|300px|thumb|Off to burn down [[Nerv]] headquarters.]]
*'''Beast Tracker Optimus Prime''' (Weaponizer, 2013)
**''Accessories:'' Rifle, Dragon Sword

{{note|[[Optimus Prime (WFC)/toys#BHWeaponizer|Beast Tracker Optimus Prime]] was repurposed as Green Tender Convoy in "[[God Neptune comic 1]]".}}
: A redeco of ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)#Robots in Disguise (2012)|Prime: Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Optimus Prime (WFC)/toys#Weaponizer|Weaponizer Optimus Prime]], this figure swaps out the red plastics with forest green, has new green paint applications on his torso, loses the electronics, and gains an additional "Dragon Sword" accessory, a slightly smaller version of the Ultimate Class Beast Hunter Optimus Prime's "Dragon-hunting sword".

: His stock photography is mistransformed, as his back kibble is not resting on his back, but rather fanned out.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2013/Autobot/BTOptimusPrime/optimusprime.htm More information on Beast Tracker Optimus Prime at TFU.info]''
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==Notes==
*While all the Primus Vanguard commanders have pretty fancy names, Green's takes the cake, with ''jiainaru'' being an adjective derived from a word meaning "parental affection". We've chosen to translate it as "Tender" as a reflection of his affectionate and tender attitude towards his animal friends.<ref>[[Source:God Neptune comic 1 translation#Translation notes|God Neptune comic 1 translation notes]]</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Primus Vanguard}}

[[Category:Convoys]]
[[Category:Green Order]]
[[Category:Japanese-original Transformers]]
[[Category:Matrix bearers]]
[[Category:Repurposed toys]]

White Gallant Convoy

2025-05-10T05:37:59Z

Vanya: Literal translation with changed word order fixed.

{{disambigr|White|other uses of the word|White (disambiguation)}}
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:''White Gallant Convoy is a [[Primus Vanguard|Warrior of the Seven Lights]] from the [[Precursor World continuity|Precursor World]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:WhiteGallantConvoyFullBody.jpg|upright=0.7|thumb|"You don't get it... I'm not my original character White Gallant Convoy! I'm the ''actual Star Convoy'', trapped in the real world!"]]

'''White Gallant Convoy''' (ホワイト勇敢なる{{ruby|司令官|コンボイ}} ''Howaito Yūkannaru Konboi'', lit. "White Gallant Commander")<ref name="vanguard">As with other Primus Vanguard officers, White Gallant Convoy's title is subject to a form of Japanese wordplay wherein the term the term "Commander" is written ''Shireikan'' (司令官) but given the arbitrary foreign pronunciation "Convoy" (コンボイ). In Combiner mode, his title becomes ''Shireikan Gattai Gensui'' (司令官合体元帥), spoken as "Convoy Grand Prime" (コンボイグランドプライム). See the [[Japanese language#Furigana|Japanese language]] article for further details on how this works.</ref> is the leader of the [[White Order]] of the [[Primus Vanguard]] and bearer of the [[Matrix Saber|White Matrix]]. Based out of the icy [[White Planet]], he's primarily concerned with public safety in its chilly cities. Just don't point out that he looks, talks and acts a whole lot like [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Star Convoy]]. He might get existential and do something rash.

When things get rough, he can combine with [[Prowl (G1)#Precursor World|Prowl]], [[Groove (G1)#Precursor World|Groove]], [[Rook (CW)#Precursor World|Rook]], and [[Streetwise (G1)#Precursor World|Streetwise]] to upgrade himself into '''White Convoy Grand Prime''' (ホワイト{{ruby|司令官|コンボイ}}{{ruby|合体|グランド}}{{ruby|元帥|プライム}} ''Howaito Konboi Gurando Puraimu'', lit. "Commander Combination Marshal White").<ref name="vanguard"/>

==Fiction==
===Precursor World===
[[File:Grand Prime Mode.jpg|upright=1.3|thumb|left|WHITE]]
Chosen to bear the White Matrix and lead the White Order in their defense of the universe of [[Star Power|White Star Power]], White Gallant Convoy fought in the [[Primus Vanguard]]'s final battle against their ancient enemy the [[Specter]]s for the fate of their multiverse. When [[Blue Big Convoy]] reported in that he had managed to obliterate a squad of Specters by hitting them with the full power of his [[α Matrix|Blue Matrix]], Gallant was struck with an idea: they could defeat the Specters once and for all by unleashing their Star Powers, previously a preciously guarded resource, all at once! After a brief but urgent debate he managed to get the rest of Vanguard command on board, and joined with them to eradicate the Specters by unleashing all seven Star Powers at once, which had the side effect of knitting their multiverse into a [[Precursor World|single, multicolored world]].

Gallant attended a subsequent conference of Primus Vanguard command to discuss the new threat of the [[Vok]], where he presented his findings with the White Matrix that their enemy appeared to have come from the future. After [[Primus#The old universe|Primus]] resolved to [[Black Legendisc|scry into said future]] to gather intelligence on their foes, Gallant loitered in the hallways of [[Ivory Towers|Vanguard headquarters]] with [[Purple Wicked Convoy]] and [[Yellow Splendid Convoy]], remarking that he found Primus's absence of late concerning as they gossiped about what he could have seen. Shortly thereafter, Primus burst into the hallway to their collective shock, exclaiming that his pet [[Primacron]] had escaped and rambling about how he needed all of their Matrices immediately so that he could end the universe. An alarmed Gallant left with his comrades as the Vanguard commanders left Primus to ravings and returned to their respective planets, save an impassive Blue. {{storylink|Generations Selects Special Comic Finale Prelude|Finale Prelude}}

White Gallant Convoy drove through a town on the [[White Planet]] one morning, on his way to the White Order base enjoying greeting the citizens and the pleasant snowy air. Pleased with how well he and the other White Warriors had been protecting public order, he wasn't too concerned when [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] informed him that two interdimensional interlopers were doing battle on the [[Blue Planet (GS)|Blue Planet]]. Watching the battle between [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity#Generations Selects Special Comic (2)|Star Convoy]] and [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Super Megatron]], he marvelled at the Autobot leader's own gallantry as Prowl commented on his physical resemblance to Gallant. With Primus having apparently spoken of a coming visitor from the "[[G1 World|next world]]", Gallant came to the conclusion that Star Convoy was following Gallant's own motto of freedom being the right of all sentient beings because he was the reincarnation of Gallant! He gravely noted then that in order for Star Convoy to be born, he would inevitably have to die... {{storylink|God Neptune comic 2}}

A few hours later, Gallant and the rest of his order received a telepathic message from Primus, warning that the [[Blue Order]] had been destroyed, and that Megatron would soon be on his way to steal the other repositories of Star Power from the Vanguard. Gallant would then be informed of an attack on the White Planet, though rather than Megatron, it was a giant turtle: an [[Angolmois Energy]]-empowered [[Halfshell]]. Halfshell defeated the White Order and stole the White Matrix, empowering [[God Neptune]] to the level of a true god. {{storylink|God Neptune comic 1}}

Gallant wasn't out of action yet, however, and flew into space to take on the combiner in his Grand Prime mode. As he rocketed towards God Neptune, restrained by the other Primus Vanguard commanders, he telepathically contacted Star Convoy, leaving the future to him. At the last second, however, God Neptune was able to break free and swing his [[Neptune Sword]], bisecting Gallant. Gallant still wasn't defeated, having hidden his [[spark]] inside the Neptune Sword, copying a trick from Blue. Speaking to a morose [[Halfshell]] through the blade, he revealed that he now understood that Halfshell had merely been doing the dirty work of an unseen foe to revive his fallen crew, and encouraged him to do the right thing, leading Halfshell to cut the now-evolved Megatron Omega in half. {{storylink|God Neptune comic 2}}

[[White Megatron]] sought to take White Gallant Convoy's position as representative of the White Light, but he and his [[New Primus Vanguard|cadre of like-minded Megatrons]] were defeated. Much later, [[Drift (G1)|Drift]] would come to represent the White in [[Magna Convoy]]'s Primus Vanguard. {{storylink|Generations Selects Special Comic Finale|Finale}}
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==Toys==
===''Combiner Wars''===
[[File:CWVoyagerBattleCoreOptimusPrime.jpg|upright=2.2|thumb|One retool is all it takes to give a perfectly good mold anxiety.]]
*'''Battle Core Optimus Prime''' (Voyager Class, [[2015]])
**'''3 of 5: [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]]'''
**''Accessories:'' Two blasters (combine into large rifle)
{{note|White Gallant Convoy is an official [[repurposing]] of Battle Core Optimus Prime.}}

:"Battle Core Optimus Prime" is a white redeco and slight retool of the previous ''Combiner Wars'' Optimus figure. According to the Hasbro panel at [[BotCon 2015]], his new head is based on Star Convoy.

:The figure features newly redesigned hip ratchets to make both robot and combiner mode stable, which were also installed in both TakaraTomy's [[Motormaster (G1)#Unite Warriors|Motormaster]], [[Grand Scourge#Toys|Grand Scourge]], and a revision wave of Hasbro's Motormaster. The pegs that Legends Class [[Hot Rod (G1)/toys#Combiner Wars|Rodimus]] (or [[Blackjack (G1)#Generations|Blackjack]]) attaches to have also been slightly modified to provide a tighter fit, making the latter toy much less prone to falling out.

:Battle Core Optimus Prime can combine with any Deluxe Class toy with the ''Combiner Wars''-styled joint—but, of course, he is intended to be combined with [[Sunstreaker (G1)/toys#Generations|Sunstreaker]], [[Mirage (G1)/toys#Combiner Wars|Mirage]], [[Prowl (G1)/toys#Generations|Prowl]], and [[Ironhide (G1)/toys#Combiner Wars|Ironhide]] to form [[Optimus Maximus (G1)#Generations|Optimus Maximus]]. He can also combine with ''Unite Warriors'' [[Streetwise (G1)#UW03|Streetwise]], [[Groove (G1)#UW03|Groove]], [[Prowl (G1)/toys#Unite Warriors|Prowl]], and ''Combiner Wars'' [[Rook (CW)#Toys|Rook]] to form White Convoy Grand Prime, as seen in the [[God Neptune comic 2|''Generations Selects'' story promoting God Neptune]]. Grand Prime specifically uses the white Combiner hands and feet used in the ''Unite Warriors'' release of [[Superion (G1)#Unite Warriors|Superion]].

:Battle Core Optimus Prime comes packaged with a collector's card based on his packaging art. the prototype printed on the back of the box & the stock photos, and the CG model in the instructions had him possessing a single tampographed/stickered symbol on his left arm.

:He and the last three waves of ''Combiner Wars'' Deluxe and Voyager figures later showed up in the U.S. at TJ Maxx at reduced prices.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2015/Autobot/CWBCOptimusPrime/optimusprime.htm More information on ''Combiner Wars'' Battle Core Optimus Prime at TFU.info]''
{{CWOptimusPrimeMold}}
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===''Combiner Wars''/''Unite Warriors''===
{{anchor|Grand}}
[[File:White Convoy Grand Prime toy.jpg|upright=1.2|thumb|Here to give [[Modulus]] a run for his money.]]
*'''Protectobot Rook''' (Deluxe Class, 2015)
*'''Battle Core Optimus Prime''' (Voyager Class, 2015)
*'''Superion''' (giftset, [[June 27]], [[2015]])
*'''Guardian''' (giftset, [[December 12]], [[2015]])
*'''Convoy Grand Prime''' (giftset, [[February 27]], [[2016]])
{{toydesigner|[[John Warden]] and [[Shogo Hasui]] (Rook), [[Hisashi Yuki]] (Groove)|[[Joe Kyde]] (deco, Rook)}}

:White Gallant Convoy's [[Super Mode|super mode]] "White Convoy Grand Prime" is made up of Voyager Class ''[[Combiner Wars (toyline)|Combiner Wars]]'' [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#BattleCoreOP|Battle Core Optimus Prime]] as the torso and four Deluxe Class figures as limbs: ''Combiner Wars'' [[Rook (CW)#Generations|Rook]], ''[[Transformers Unite Warriors|Unite Warriors]]'' [[Prowl (G1)/toys#Unite Warriors|Prowl]] (exclusive to the [[Optimus Maximus (G1)#Unite Warriors|Convoy Grand Prime]] box set), as well as ''Unite Warriors'' [[Streetwise (G1)#Unite Warriors 2|Streetwise]] and [[Groove (G1)#Unite Warriors 2|Groove]] (both exclusive to the ''Unite Warriors'' [[Defensor (G1)#Unite Warriors|Guardian]] box set). Finally, the white hand/foot/gun accessories exclusive to ''Unite Warriors'' [[Superion (G1)#Unite Warriors|Superion]] make up the extremities to produce a comically expensive Combiner composed of three different [[TakaraTomy]] box sets and two ''Combiner Wars'' figures never released in Japan. As with the other Combiners in the line(s), any deluxe toy can become an arm or a leg, and each Deluxe figure's weapons can become hands or feet for the combined mode.

:Battle Core Optimus Prime has the improved hip joints also featured on the second run of [[Motormaster (G1)#Combiner Wars|Motormaster]]. This allows for a more natural pose in robot mode, as well as a more stable combined mode.
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==Notes==
*While the ''Combiner Wars'' Voyager Class Optimus mould is already a strong reference to the [[Transformers: Energon (franchise)|''Energon'']] [[Optimus Prime (Armada)/toys#Energon|incarnation]] of the character, Gallant is shown with a trailer that resembles Prime's in that series. Furthermore, that character's Japanese name was "Grand Convoy" (グランドコンボイ), which likely influenced the name of the ''[[Transformers Unite Warriors|Unite Warriors]]'' [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Convoy Grand Prime]] that this guy's combined form of White Convoy Grand Prime is named after.
*Despite existing before the concepts of Autobot and Decepticon, White Gallant Convoy is drawn with his toy's Autobot insignias. This is presumably due to the fact that the ''Autobot symbol itself'' was [[Repurposing|repurposed]] into the Vanguard's sigil in the original Precursor World [[Spin Off|e-HOBBY comics]].

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Primus Vanguard}}

[[Category:Convoys]]
[[Category:Japanese-original Transformers]]
[[Category:Matrix bearers]]
[[Category:White Order]]
[[Category:Repurposed toys]]

Yellow Splendid Convoy

2025-05-10T05:35:47Z

Vanya: literal translations don't change the word order no reason to move Yellow to the end.

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:''Yellow Splendid Convoy is a [[Primus Vanguard|Warrior of the Seven Lights]] from the [[Precursor World continuity|Precursor World]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:GenerationsSelects Yellow Splendid Convoy.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.66|Well, that's just 華麗なる.]]

Splendid by name, splendid by nature, the always prim and proper [[Primus Vanguard]] commander '''Yellow Splendid Convoy''' (イエロー華麗なる{{ruby|司令官|コンボイ}} ''Ierō Kareinaru Konboi'', lit. "Yellow Splendid Commander")<ref>The Primus Vanguard utilize an elaborate form of Japanese wordplay to impart a sort of "B-side" moniker. In this case the title "Splendid Commander Yellow" is read as the name "Yellow Splendid Convoy." See the [[Japanese language#Furigana|Japanese language]] article for further details on how this works.</ref> leads her [[Yellow Order]] from the front. Her impenetrable [[Matrix Gauntlet]] keeps her safe from harm, and even against overwhelming foes she'll keep fighting until the end (and beyond).

As she likes to say, with a burning heart, nothing is impossible!<ref>Shared catchprase with her moldmate [[Optimus Prime (RID)|Fire Convoy]] as per [[God Neptune comic 2#Notes|God Neptune comic 2]]</ref>

==Fiction==
===Precursor World===
[[File:YellowSplendidConvoyPrimusMeeting.jpg|upright=1|thumb|left|GET ME PICTURES! PICTURES OF [[Blackarachnia (BW)|SPIDER-WOMAN]]!]]

Chosen to bear the [[Matrix Gauntlet|Yellow Matrix]] and lead the all-female [[Yellow Order]] in their defense of the universe of [[Star Power|Yellow Star Power]], Yellow Splendid Convoy personally delivered the news of [[Brightes|Blue Brightes Convoy's]] passing at the ghostly hands(?) of their ancient enemies the [[Specter]]s to [[Primus#The old universe|Primus]].

In the [[Primus Vanguard]]'s final battle for the fate of their multiverse, she joined with the other commanders of the Vanguard to eradicate the Specters by unleashing all seven Star Powers at once, which had the side effect of knitting their multiverse into a [[Precursor World|single, multicolored world]].

Splendid attended a subsequent conference of Primus Vanguard command to discuss the new threat of the [[Vok]]. After Primus resolved to [[Black Legendisc|scry into the future]] to gather intelligence on their foes, Splendid loitered in the hallways of [[Ivory Towers|Vanguard headquarters]] with [[White Gallant Convoy]] and [[Purple Wicked Convoy]], remarking that Primus's vision must have been truly awe inspiring to give the god-king pause as they gossiped about what he could have seen. Shortly thereafter, Primus burst into the hallway to their collective shock, exclaiming that his pet [[Primacron]] had escaped and rambling about how he needed all of their Matrices immediately so that he could end the universe. An alarmed Splendid left with her comrades as the Vanguard commanders left Primus to ravings and returned to their respective planets, save an impassive [[Blue Big Convoy]]. {{storylink|Generations Selects Special Comic Finale Prelude|Finale Prelude}}

While spending time next to a lagoon on the sandy [[Yellow Planet]], Splendid received a message from Primus, warning her that the [[Blue Order]] had fallen and that [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Megatron Omega]] would be coming for the Seven Lights, including her Yellow Matrix. Instead of their expected visitor, she and her Order were met by [[Scylla]], who swiftly defeated them using her [[Angolmois Energy|Angolmois]] Kiss of Death, {{storylink|God Neptune comic 1}} and the Matrix Gauntlet was taken and used as the hand of [[God Neptune]].

Down but not out, Splendid flew into space along with [[Green Tender Convoy]] and [[Go Prime|Black Go Prime]], restraining God Neptune after a surprise attack by the phantom Blue Big Convoy. Though they had the combiner on the ropes long enough for [[White Gallant Convoy|White Convoy Grand Prime]] to begin his attack, Splendid was sent flying with the others when God Neptune drew his [[Neptune Sword]] and subsequently expired. {{storylink|God Neptune comic 2}} Her spirit still continued on, and assisted in fighting back against [[Primacron]] within [[Blue Planet (GS)|Neo Primus]] with the equally ethereal Black Prime and Green Convoy in defense of their disgraced master.

[[Yellow Megatron]] sought to take Yellow Splendid Convoy's position as representative of the Yellow Light, but he and his [[New Primus Vanguard|cadre of like-minded Megatrons]] were defeated. Much later, [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]] would come to represent the Yellow in [[Magna Convoy]]'s Primus Vanguard. {{storylink|Generations Selects Special Comic Finale|Finale}}
{{--}}

==Toys==
===''Universe'' (2003)===
[[File:Universe2003toy-OptimusPrimeSuper.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Yet another example of [[Ironfist (G1)#Notes|Razorbeast Syndrome]]. Hope you've got the money to get a [[Matrix Gauntlet|POTP Predaking and a Golden Lagoon Starscream]] too!]]
*'''Optimus Prime''' (Supreme Class, 2003)
**''Accessories'': Pistol, 4 missiles
{{note|This toy debuted as Yellow Splendid Convoy in "[[God Neptune comic 1]]".}}
: A [[Sam's Club]] [[exclusive]], the ''[[Transformers: Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' release of ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 toyline)|Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Optimus Prime (RID)#Toys|Optimus Prime]] basically swapped out all of its red plastic for a yellow color with a black "bandolier". She transforms into a Japanese-style fire truck of seemingly made-up design (but with the distinct divided front windows of a Mitsubishi Fuso K Series K201 ladder truck), the forward section of which truck detaches to become her standard [[robot mode]]. Her '[[trailer]]' can be reconfigured into a sort of battle station, which can then be disassembled and attached around the robot to form her Battle Mode. For some reason, the Autobot symbol on her chest in Battle Mode is left unpainted. As an undocumented feature, Optimus Prime's pistol can be stored on the right side of a backpack.

: The toy incorrectly proclaims that Optimus Prime's transformation into super mode uses the code-phrase "[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|maximize]]". Additionally, the toy has the unfortunate tendency for its rubber tires to split down its molding connection. The ladder comes complete with missiles allowing them to be launched one-at-a-time via individual triggers. The standard [[robot mode]] has four pegs on its arms that happen to be sculpted in such a way that they can function as [[Mini-Con]] ports, though they weren't designed with this in mind, since the original toy came out before the ''[[Transformers: Armada (toyline)|Armada]]'' toyline.

: She came packed in [[robot mode]] in an upright display package, which featured a sticker on the front with a hilariously mistransformed [[Omega Prime]], advertising the toy's combining ability with the simultaneously-released, slightly-redecoed Sam's Club exclusive ''Universe'' release of ''Robots in Disguise'' [[Ultra Magnus (RID)|Ultra Magnus]].

: This Optimus Prime was also [[Repurposing|repurposed]] as [[Hot Shot (Armada)#Bot on the Street|''Armada'' Hot Shot]]'s "[[Hot Shot (Armada)/toys#Universe (2003)|Shotimus Prime]]" body.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2003/Autobot/TFUOptimusPrime/optimusprime.htm More information on ''Universe'' Optimus Prime at TFU.info]''

==Notes==
*"Kareinaru" (華麗なる) can also mean "magnificent" or "gorgeous"; we've chosen to translate it as "Splendid" as a midpoint between these meanings.<ref>[[Source:God Neptune comic 1 translation#Translation notes|God Neptune comic 1 translation notes]]</ref>
*Yellow Splendid Convoy was likely inspired by [[Optimus Prime (Universe)|another yellow ''Robots in Disguise'' Optimus Prime toy]] being characterized as female.
*Despite existing before the concepts of Autobot and Decepticon, Yellow Splendid Convoy has her toy's Autobot insignia on her chest. This is presumably due to the fact that the Autobot symbol itself was [[Repurposing|repurposed]] into the Vanguard's sigil in the original Precursor World [[Spin Off|e-HOBBY comics]].

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Primus Vanguard}}

[[Category:Convoys]]
[[Category:Female Transformers]]
[[Category:Yellow Order]]

Hefter

2025-05-06T18:58:54Z

Vanya: /* 2005 IDW continuity */ spelling: graffiting -> graffitiing

{{faction|decepticon}}
:''Hefter is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[2005 IDW continuity|2005 IDW portion]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:OP1 Hefter.jpg|thumb|right|300px]]

'''Hefter''' is a laborer and [[Decepticon]] sympathizer.

==Fiction==
===2005 IDW continuity===
During the reign of [[Zeta Prime (G1)|Zeta Prime]], '''Hefter of [[Uraya]]''' was a manual laborer and friend to [[Tappet]]. He aspired to be an astrophysicist, but the lingering [[Functionism|functionist]] doctrine dictated that he use his forklift [[alternate mode]] to perform manual labor at one of Cybertron's many spaceports. Inspired by their message, Hefter joined the Decepticons and took to graffitiing their rhetoric, and was also suspected of being a gunrunner for them. He was soon arrested and placed into police custody, where he <s>mysteriously died</s> was killed by the corrupt officer [[Outback (G1)|Outback]]. Tappet demanded justice for his friend, though [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Orion Pax]]'s assurances did little to convince him it would happen. Following Hefter's death, a protest erupted outside of police headquarters, asking for justice. Zeta, meanwhile, couldn't even be bothered to remember the guy's name, coldly claiming that "Lifter" had "got what was coming to him", something Pax found disconcerting. Outback later basically admitted to the act and was proud of it, and Orion would have [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] look at Hefter's body and confirm that his injuries didn't match the official record, yet another victim of Cybertron's corruption. {{storylink|New Cybertron Part 1: To Walk Among the Chosen|To Walk Among the Chosen}}

While awaiting [[Jetfire (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Jetfire]], [[Prowl (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Prowl]] reviewed the case behind Hefter's demise. {{storylink|The Next Day, and the Next}}

Even after four million years, Tappet would hold a grudge against "Orion", in part due to the circumstances surrounding Hefter's death. {{storylink|Transformers: The Death of Optimus Prime|The Death of Optimus Prime}}

==Notes==
[[File:Hefter-character model.jpg|thumb|]]
*Hefter's colors are taken from [[Smokescreen (Armada)|''Armada'' Smokescreen]]<ref>{{citesocial|quote=(Totally based the dudes color scheme on Armada Smokescreen, just cuz I liked it, but the bots got a different name. I know ppl be wonderin)|link=https://twitter.com/jcburcham/status/786676459897102336|name=Josh Burcham|site=Twitter|year=2016|month=10|day=13|(defunct=)}}</ref> while his forklift alt-mode and being mistaken for "Lifter" are ''probably'' references to [[Liftor]], Smokescreen's [[Mini-Con]] partner.
*Line artist [[Kei Zama]] posted a plain full-body look at Hefter on Twitter.<ref>Since-deleted tweet by [https://twitter.com/kei_zama @kei_zama]</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Comic-only Decepticons]]
[[Category:IDW (2005) Decepticons]]

Talk:Runway (Generations)

2024-11-18T14:38:20Z

Vanya:

Would it be worth noting that Runway's alt mode bears a strong resemblance to the ships from the Raiden series of space shooters?
--[[User:Vanya|Vanya]] ([[User talk:Vanya|talk]]) 09:37, 18 November 2024 (EST)

Talk:Runway (Generations)

2024-11-18T14:37:57Z

Vanya:

Would it be worth noting that Runway's alt mode beard a resemblance to the ships from the Raiden series of space shooters?
--[[User:Vanya|Vanya]] ([[User talk:Vanya|talk]]) 09:37, 18 November 2024 (EST)

Talk:Runway (Generations)

2024-11-18T14:37:36Z

Vanya: Add a note?

Would it be worth noting that Runway's aly mode beard a resemblance to the ships from the Raiden series of space shooters?
--[[User:Vanya|Vanya]] ([[User talk:Vanya|talk]]) 09:37, 18 November 2024 (EST)

More than Meets the Eye, Part 1

2024-11-05T17:14:43Z

Vanya: In the featured characters section Rumble was listed as 23 and Reflector as 22 which is incorrect as Rumble appears several scenes earlier than Reflector does. I swapped their positions and corrected the numbers appropriately.

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|image=MTMtE Part1 Prime repair.jpg
|caption=Prime spends a few hours at a discount tanning salon.
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|airdate=[[September 17]], [[1984]]
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'''In search of energy, the Autobots leave Cybertron and are pursued by the Decepticons.'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:MTMtE1 Wheeljack and Bumblebee collect energy.jpg|left|thumb|"That's not that impressive. I can transform too, y'know."]]
On [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], many [[MYA|millions of years ago]], the [[Autobot]]s are on the verge of extinction. Eons of war with the [[Decepticon]]s, their bitter enemies, have drained the planet's once plentiful resources. Autobots [[Wheeljack (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Wheeljack]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]] have managed to find a scant few [[Conductor|energy conductors]] and muse that what they've found won't last very long. Bumblebee loads the conductors into Wheeljack and they head back towards [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]]. However, as they reach the bridge to home base, they run into a Decepticon patrol. Wheeljack's attempt to drive through is cut short by enemy fire, and they're soon literally surrounded by a ring of fire, thanks to the Decepticons' flame throwers. The pair manage to escape the flames and ram their way through the Decepticons, two of whom give chase. The pursuing Decepticons manage to hit Bumblebee with their lasers, and the smaller Autobot is forced to drive aboard Wheeljack. Wheeljack manages to evade the two Decepticons by heading underground and arrives at Iacon. As they enter the fortress, a nearby sensor lamp reveals itself to be [[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]], who dispatches [[Laserbeak (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Laserbeak]] to do some spying. Also returning to Iacon is [[Jazz (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Jazz]], who reports to [[Prime (rank)|Autobot leader]] [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] that he was unable to find any energy in Cybertron's lower regions. Optimus confers with Jazz, [[Prowl (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Prowl]] and [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] on the plan to leave Cybertron on a mission to search for energy elsewhere. Having heard all they need, Laserbeak and Soundwave depart.

[[File:MTMtE1 Ark and Nemesis over Earth.jpg|thumb|Starting a long, long tradition of Transformer ships crashing on Earth.]]
Inside [[Decepticon Headquarters (G1 Cybertron)|their base]], [[Decepticon leader]] [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] plots to intercept the Autobots, and leaves his [[second-in-command|first lieutenant]] [[Shockwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Shockwave]] in charge of Cybertron. [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] asserts the war would have been won if the Decepticons were under his leadership.

The Autobots blast off aboard [[Ark (G1)|their spaceship]], and the Decepticons give chase in their [[Nemesis (G1)|Decepticon cruiser]]. The Autobots immediately run into trouble when two large asteroids collide in front of them, resulting in a storm of rock that pelts both ships, until [[Ironhide (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ironhide]] uses the ship's weapons to clear a path. The Autobots next detect the pursuing ship, but are unable to outrun the Decepticon cruiser, which locks onto them with [[tractor beam]]s. The Autobot ship's lasers are out of power, so the Autobots are forced to instead engage the Decepticons in combat once they board. With no one at the respective helms, both ships drift into [[Earth]]'s gravity well, and despite Prime's best efforts to right the Autobot ship, both vessels spin out of control and crash. The Autobot ship embeds itself in the side of a volcano.

Four million years pass. It is the year 1984, and volcanic activity stirs the half-buried ship, awakening the computer systems aboard. [[Teletraan I]] sends out a [[Sky Spy]] satellite to reconnoiter this new world, and scans examples of terrestrial machinery in order to reformat the Transformers into new [[Alternate mode|alt modes]]. The Decepticon [[Skywarp (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Skywarp]] happens to be the one who is in the path of the repair beam, and thus is awakened first. He revives Megatron, and the other Decepticons follow. Leaving the Autobot ship, Megatron observes that much time has passed since the crash but declares their mission to find energy is unchanged. An impudent Starscream leaves a parting shot, blasting the rocks over the ship in an attempt to bury it further. However, he unwittingly knocks Optimus Prime into the repair beam and the Autobot leader is revived.

[[File:Cliffgun.JPG|thumb|left|"You see the size of that gun he fired at us? It was bigger than him!"]]
The Decepticons locate a clearing and Megatron puts Starscream in charge of converting the area for the construction of a [[Victory (G1)|new star cruiser]]. Soundwave, Starscream and [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] head for a nearby power station to find the needed raw materials. Meanwhile, the Autobots have all been repaired. Optimus Prime announces that they need to find out what the Decepticons are doing, and dispatches [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] and [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] to scout the area. Starscream and his team arrive at the power station, where Starscream again grouses about wanting to lead the Decepticons, and has Rumble use his pile drivers to level the plant. Some time later, Hound and Cliffjumper find the Decepticons in the middle of work on their ship. Though Cliffjumper's keen to wade in, Hound listens in as the Decepticons plan to take [[energon cube]]s back to Cybertron. Cliffjumper rashly takes a shot at Megatron, but misses, and Soundwave unleashes Laserbeak in pursuit. Though the pair split up, Laserbeak detaches a laser cannon so he can pursue both Autobots. While Cliffjumper manages to deal with the cannon, Laserbeak blasts Hound, sending him off a cliff.

[[File:MTMtE Part1 OilRig battle.jpg|thumb|Do yourself a favor, don't smoke at a Cybertronian waterpark.]]
Autobot medic [[Ratchet (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ratchet]] and [[Hauler]] come to fetch Hound. Cliffjumper apologizes for giving away their position as Hound is winched to safety. Meanwhile, Decepticons [[Thundercracker (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Thundercracker]] and [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]] spot an Earth vehicle approaching. The two human workers find the demolished power station, but while they're puzzling over what happened to it, [[Ravage (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ravage]] attacks and frightens them away.

Hound is repaired, and reports what he overheard: that the Decepticons are on the hunt for energy. Prime has Jazz assemble a battle group to go after them and the Autobots roll out. Elsewhere Laserbeak returns to the Decepticon construction site with the news that he's found a new source of energy. The Decepticons attack an off-shore [[oil rig]], where [[Sparkplug Witwicky]] and his son [[Spike Witwicky (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Spike]] work. The humans attempt to resist, but it's futile and they end up jumping or falling overboard. The Decepticons begin filling energon cubes from the [[oil]] pipeline, but as Megatron is telling Starscream that they will need a lot more energy, the Autobots arrive to spoil their party. A battle erupts on the drilling platform until the Decepticons simply grab what they can and take off. Megatron blasts the rig's supports, tipping it into the ocean and taking the Autobots with it. Another shot ignites the oil, turning the surface of the sea into an inferno. Realizing the humans are in danger, Optimus Prime tries to save Spike and Sparkplug while the Decepticons retreat with their energon plunder.

'''[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 2|To be continued...]]'''
{{--}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Wheeljack (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Wheeljack]] (1)
*[[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]] (2)
*[[Prowl (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Prowl]] (12)
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] (13)
*[[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] (14)
*[[Jazz (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Jazz]] (15)
*[[Ratchet (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ratchet]] (18)
*[[Ironhide (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ironhide]] (19)
*[[Sideswipe (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Sideswipe]] (20)
*[[Teletraan I]] (21)
*[[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] (24)
*[[Hound (G1)|Hound]] (25)
*[[Hauler]] (26)
*[[Sunstreaker (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Sunstreaker]] (32)
*[[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] (33)
*[[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]] (34)
*[[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] (35)
*[[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]] (36)
*[[Gears (G1)|Gears]] (37)
*[[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]] (38)

|c2=
*[[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] (3)
*[[Thundercracker (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Thundercracker]] (4)
*[[Skywarp (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Skywarp]] (5)
*[[Sunstorm (G1)|Yellow Seeker]] (6)
*[[Hotlink (G1)|Purple Seeker]] (7)
*[[Bitstream (G1)|Light blue Seeker]] (8)
*[[Nacelle (G1)|Dark blue Seeker]] (9)
*[[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]] (10)
*[[Laserbeak (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Laserbeak]] (11)
*[[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] (16)
*[[Shockwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Shockwave]] (17)
*[[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] (22)
*[[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]] (23)
*[[Ravage (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ravage]] (27)

|c3=
*[[Joe (MTMTE)|Joe]] (28)
*[[Frank (G1)|Power plant worker]] (29)
*[[Spike Witwicky (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Spike Witwicky]] (30)
*[[Sparkplug Witwicky]] (31)
}}

==Quotes==
[[File:MTMTE1-JazzProwlPrimeTrailbreaker.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4]]
"Prime told me there'd be days like this." 
"And you didn't believe him?" 
"I do now!"
:—'''Bumblebee''' and '''Wheeljack''' under fire.

"When do we start the search mission?" 
"Soon as you're ready to launch."
:—'''Prowl''' is told to hurry up by '''Optimus Prime'''.

"Fear not, Megatron. Cybertron shall remain as you leave it."
:—'''Shockwave''', more accurate than he realizes.

"Leakin' lubricant!"
:—'''Ironhide'''

"What about materials?" 
"Use your imagination!"
:—'''Starscream''' and '''Megatron'''

"Here's something to keep you warm."
:—'''Megatron''' as he ignites the oil spill.

==Season 5==
{{note|When this episode was rebroadcast in [[The Transformers (cartoon)#Season 5|the fifth season]] of ''The Transformers'', it contained new bookending segments with original story material.}}

[[File:PrimeTakesTommyIntoSpace.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|"There's no ''air'' in space!" "But there's an Air in Space Museum!"]]

The young human [[Tommy Kennedy]], a resident of [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]], needs help from [[Powermaster]] [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]]. He runs out into the middle of a barren wasteland, calling Prime's name. Prime arrives via rocket-boots and, after lifting Tommy up to his head, asks him what's the trouble. As it turns out, Tommy has a "special project" for school that's due soon and only Prime can help him. Optimus inquires what the project is about, but Tommy dodges the question, simply saying that he needs to know how the Autobots arrived on Earth. Prime concedes, "Okay Tommy, I've handled enough emergencies to know that ''some things'' just can't wait." Prime then launches into the tale of how the Autobots and the Decepticons left Cybertron, crash-landed on Earth and began their war for energy anew...

Prime continues into the next part of his story, about their first encounter with humans and whatnot, but Tommy stops him. Tommy says he's out of time and he ''really'' has to get back to Autobot City. Prime offers to give him the ride on the condition that next time they hang out, he tells him the juicy details of this "special project". Prime then blasts off into space with Tommy clinging to his shoulder (and somehow not dying horribly).

{{--}}

==Notes==
===Production information===
* Script revisions: 13th March 1984
* Returned to the US for telecine: 27th August 1984
* Official Sunbow Productions synopsis:
:''In search of the precious energy needed to rebuild their war torn planet Cybertron - the Autobots venture forth into outer space. But the evil Decepticons attack them and the two robot armies crash on Earth.''
:''Four million years later, the Autobots and Decepticons are reactivated and the battle between the forces of good and evil rages anew. Megatron, the brutal leader of the Decepticons, vows to conquer the Universe. And only the Autobots have a chance of stopping him. Megatron's first step: to plunder the Earth's sources of energy.''
:''The Decepticons capture an offshore oil rig, convert the oil into Energon cubes and destroy the rig, leaving the workers and their Autobot rescuers trapped in the burning wreckage.''
:''Then the evil robots create a tremendous tidal wave which threatens to destroy a power plant and flood an entire valley...''
:''And Megatron discovers the Ruby Crystals of Burma - the ultimate power source that will enable him to conquer the universe...''
:''In a race against time, the Autobots track the Decepticons to the Crystal Mines of Burma, but their dangerous mission backfires and Optimus Prime must risk his very existence in a desperate space battle as the Decepticons rocket back to Cybertron with enough energy to rule the universe forever.''<ref>This is the only time an official Sunbow Productions synopsis would cover an entire miniseries instead of the individual episodes.</ref>

===Deleted scenes===
Added Scenes
* Shockwave's appearance was added in script revisions during March 1984, under the early name of Flash Beam. Presumably as a reaction to the toy line's retail success at Toyfair 1984 the month before, as Hasbro would have given the green light to plans for the toyline's second year.

Changed Scenes
* After the montage at the start of Act II, after the volcanic eruption “Four Million Years Later”. We cut to “Several Days Later” when the lava from the eruption has dried and hardened. Inside the ship, Teletraan I comes back online. It uses an Electron Gun that emerges from the side of the ship to blast through the rock. Its beam punching through the volcano wall and bouncing off several rocks in the area to form a “satellite dish” of energy. Through this energy, Teletraan receives data on Earth, displayed on its monitor. It then uses this data to repair the wrecked occupants of the ship, with Soundwave the first to be revived. This sequence was changed during storyboard revisions to have Teletraan I send out manual Sky Spies to collect data for Earth modes, rebuilding those placed in its repair beam into those new modes.
* Throughout the miniseries, wherever possible to do so without affecting the plot, instances of the Autobots flying are replaced by them driving or are cut entirely.
* Some scale issues are present, likely due to using toys for reference. The script describes Soundwave as being the size of Andre The Giant, while Megatron does not mass-shift when transforming to gun mode, nor is he wielded by other Decepticons. Instead he transforms into a giant gun mode and remains in mid-air while firing (similar to the show's intro).

Deleted Scenes
* The Decepticon “welcoming committee” is a blockade at one end of a bridge. Wheeljack deploys his deflector shields and he and Bumblebee crash through the barriers, with several generic Decepticons in pursuit. The two get halfway across the bridge before they see another blockade waiting for them at the other end. Wheeljack swerves to a halt as the two Autobots are now caught in crossfire.
* As Wheeljack brings the damaged Bumblebee into Iacon, Soundwave is skulking in the shadows outside. We get many establishing shots of the Ark being constructed. Ratchet works on Bumblebee in the med bay, who is praised for his energy-finding efforts by Optimus Prime.
* After Soundwave recalls Laserbeak and takes off, we cut to a “futuristic” airfield with the Decepticon starship in the distance, resting at a launch tower. A plane-mode Soundwave lands and transforms. Like his earlier lamppost mode, this was an example of George Arthur Bloom's idea that the Transformers could assume any form for disguise, which would be largely eliminated during script revisions to maintain [[Show-accuracy|toy-accuracy]].
* General scenes aboard the Ark include Trailbreaker and Prime consulting on energy sources. Ironhide complaining to Mirage about wanting to see action. Mirage in turn reminiscing about Cybertron before the war.
* Prowl reports to Prime that they're possibly being followed. Prime orders “release the Viewtrex!”. A metallic sensor rod emerges from the ship and scans space. Meanwhile, aboard the Decepticon ship, Megatron orders Soundwave to “execute cover phase”. Much to Starscream's irritation, who suggests blowing up the Autobots instead. Megatron shoots down that idea “If Optimus Prime knows of an energy source, let him lead us to it.”, thus explaining why Megatron didn't take Starscream's suggestion and just end them right there when they were all in one place. “Cover phase” is a form of cloaking device, the Decepticon ship disappearing both onscreen and on the Autobots’ monitors.
* Rumble uses his piledriver arms at the base of a mountain that supports one end of a railroad trestle. A freight train above is crossing as the trestle begins to fall apart, its cars plunging into the water while the engine makes it to safety. The other Decepticons collect the steel girders of the wrecked trestle, Starscream noting “I’m glad you’re on our side, Rumble!”
* While Hound and Cliffjumper are spying on the Decepticon base, Skywarp and Thundercracker are grumbling about doing grunt work. Megatron appears before them and berates Skywarp. When Thundercracker attempts to apologise, Megatron hits him in the head with such force that he is sent flying across the construction site. Landing in a heap and having to twist his own head back into place.
* As Thundercracker reports back to base about the approaching humans, Skywarp randomly finds a frisbee (“some Earth gadget”). Throwing it to a disinterested Starscream, who throws it back, only for it to be blasted out of mid-air by Megatron. Demanding Starscream get to work, who then chafes at being given orders. This argument is interrupted by Thundercracker's transmission reaching Soundwave.
* Discussing Hound's report, Prowl suggests warning humanity about the Decepticons, to which Jazz replies “They’d never believe us, Prowl.”. Optimus Prime agrees, stating “...and it’s up to us. We brought them here.”
* The Autobot “battle unit” is brought to a halt by Prime, who sees on his “vista scope” the Decepticons flying to the oil rig. The Autobots transform and take to the skies in pursuit.
* The final major scene of the episode sees Brawn and Huffer atop the last intact derrick on the burning oil rig, carrying the rig's large hose. Ignoring Huffer's complaints that it won't work, Brawn calls down to Windcharger to turn the water on. Their firefighting efforts aren't enough, even with the water supply turned all the way up. The derrick collapses and tips into the sea. Brawn jumps free, but Huffer lands with the Derrick and is entangled in the metal girders. Brawn rushes over to free him, while a short distance away, Prime is still trying to free Spike and Sparkplug with the ring of fire coming ever closer.

===Continuity notes===
* Wheeljack says there isn't enough energy in the conductors they find to "last a [[Units of time|quartrex]]". Bumblebee and Wheeljack were "one [[Units of length|megamile]]" from the bridge to Iacon. Prowl provides a report from the Autobot ship's "[[Viewtrex]]".
* Along with the [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|first issue of the Marvel comic]] (of which this series is ''technically'' an adaptation), this episode establishes several iconic aspects of the cartoon and the entire [[Transformers brand]]. The planet Cybertron and its city Iacon both appear in many other media and continuities. The crash of the Ark and the four-million-year slumber of its inhabitants likewise recur in several other versions of the Generation 1 story.
* The orange Seeker from the "welcoming committee", visible for all of about two seconds, was [[Retcon|retroactively established]] to be the neo-G1 character [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]]. Other characters in the same shot were later named [[Hotlink (G1)|Hotlink]] (the purple Seeker with the flamethrower), [[Bitstream (G1)|Bitstream]] (the blue Seeker behind him holding his weapon like a rifle), and [[Nacelle (G1)|Nacelle]] (the dark blue Seeker barely visible between Sunstorm and Hotlink).
[[File:Cybertronlaserbeak.jpg|thumb|Tommy! How's the peeping?]]
* We get a look at Cybertronian alternate modes for Bumblebee, Wheeljack, Skywarp, Thundercracker, Jazz, and Soundwave. Meanwhile, Laserbeak is given a Cybertronian ''robot'' mode. Soundwave's toy can totally be configured into that lamp-post mode.
*Trailbreaker's presence alongside Jazz and Prowl on Cybertron is just about the ''only'' indication of his "defense strategist" [[function]] in the cartoon.
*Three episodes from now, we will see that Shockwave was true to his word, and Cybertron has not changed one iota in four million years.
*The Decepticon vessel is last seen spiraling out of control, unpiloted, toward Earth. It will be rediscovered in the Season 2 episode "[[Microbots]]". The unnamed ship would finally be given a title almost 15 years later, when it was referred to as the ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]'' in the [[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|''Beast Wars'']] episode "[[Nemesis Part 1]]".
*The events of the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' cartoon take place during the 4 million years in which the Autobots and Decepticons lie dormant in the wreckage of the Ark... a time frame covered by about 5 seconds of footage in this episode.
[[File:Sky Spy.jpg|thumb]]
*As the satellite-like probe (later dubbed a [[Sky Spy]]) leaves the Ark, we see a city skyline in the distance. While the cartoon's animation could never make up its mind about what was around the crashed ship (oceanside cliffs? desert? forests and rivers?), one might take this city to be [[Central City (Earth)|Central City]], later established to have jurisdiction over the land where the Autobot ship rests.
[[File:MTME1 Reflector camera.jpg|thumb|Yep, pretty clearly an SLR.]]
[[File:Ratchetg1cartoon.jpg|thumb|Repair bay optional.]]
*Gadgets and powers:
**Wheeljack raises deflector shields<ref>Specifically named in deleted dialogue.</ref> in vehicle mode to block the Decepticon laser-blasts.
**Wheeljack deploys a pair of tiny spinning blades from his front bumper, which lets him... drive through fire? Per the original script, it was supposed to be a metal battering ram with "spinning propeller-like blades" on the end of it.
**Laserbeak spies with a pair of cylindrical doodads that come out of the side of his head.
**Rumble demonstrates his earth-quake-making power, which consists of banging the ground with a couple of big pile drivers that replace his arms. This will become one of the cartoon's most frequently-seen special powers, to the point that it eventually would carry over to the Marvel comics as well. (This power also seems to exclude Rumble himself from its effects, as the ground under him never cracks open.)
**Hound pops out a little wrist radar dish that lets him hear what the Decepticons are saying from some distance away.
**Soundwave can display graphics—the space cruiser, in this case—on his chest door.
**Cliffjumper somehow stores on his person a [[Cliffjumper's bazooka|bazooka]] that's as big as he is. We don't want to know how he does this. Although it does look like it's collapsible.
**Cliffjumper also can deploy a gun from the rear of vehicle mode that fires his signature [[glass gas]].
**Laserbeak's cannons are shown to be able to disconnect from him, fly on their own and target Autobots independently. Although an ability actively described in his ''[[The Transformers Universe (Marvel)|Universe]]'' profile, this would be the only time Laserbeak would employ his weapons this way.
**Ratchet is shown splitting into his robot form and his repair bay; however, the repair bay is never seen again.
**Reflector, being a super-advanced space robot, can take a photograph and instantly spit out a paper print of the resulting image. Instant photographs?! It must be THE FUTURE!
**Starscream "activates the <s>noal</s> null ray", which freezes the device it's aimed at.
[[File:Hauler01-sm.jpg|thumb|Frank Lloyd ''Wrong''.]]
*A [[Grapple (G1)|Grapple]]-like crane named [[Hauler]] is seen with Cliffjumper, recovering Hound; he's never seen again, however. Fans have speculated that this was to be an earlier release of Grapple's toy, aborted for reasons unknown.
*[[Energon cube]]s make their first appearance here. They have to be compressed before they convert the fuel they have been filled with into energon, at which point they glow a sort of yellowish-white iridescent-y rainbow-y sort of color. The "compressing a stack" aspect of the cubes was quickly done away with after the pilot mini-series, but the rainbow-glow would stick around for a little while before being phased out in favor of a pink-purple coloration that became the standard representation of energon cubes down through ''Transformers'' history.
*Despite being known for the command "Autobots, transform!", Optimus Prime doesn't actually issue it until two episodes later, in [[More than Meets the Eye, Part 3|part 3]]. Megatron beats him to it with the less-common counterpart "Decepticons, transform!" command to his troops on the oil-rig. They, however, do not actually transform - just Megatron himself.

===Real-world references===
*As with the corresponding [[The Transformers (issue)|first issue of the Marvel comic]], the here-unnamed [[Mount St. Hilary|volcano]] is certainly inspired by the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.
*''The Transformers'' made heavy use of the sound effects library that sprung out of the movie ''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]''. Fans have a tendency to make tiresome shocked exclamations that Laserbeak sounds like a [[TIE Fighter]]; it is therefore instructive to catalog these sound effects, which are used ''far'' more extensively than just a couple of TIE engine roars. About half a dozen sound effects tend to appear in nearly every episode, and at least a dozen total are known to have been used on ''The Transformers''. In this episode:
**The sound of the [[Death Star]] firing to destroy Alderaan, and Alderaan's subsequent explosion, is used as Skywarp and Thundercracker strafe Bumblebee and Wheeljack, and again as they abandon their pursuit.
**The sound of the Seeker training sphere aboard the ''[[Millennium Falcon]]'', along with [[Luke Skywalker|Luke]]'s [[lightsaber]] humming and igniting, is used as Soundwave begins making energon cubes.
*We also get the lesser-used ''[[Star Trek]]'' sliding door sound effect as Soundwave sends Laserbeak after Hound and Cliffjumper.
*There are also hints of the Sonic Screwdriver sound effect from ''[[Doctor Who]]'', most notably Wheeljack opening and closing his rear door.

===Animation and technical errors===
*In the very first shot, stars are shown passing in front of Cybertron.
*Soundwave's mouthplate doesn't move during his "Autobots are set to launch" line.
[[File:Sunstorm Cartoon.jpg|thumb|Then again, Thundercracker has ''two'' wings.]]
*The Decepticon "welcoming committee" is a bit confusing:
**The initial shot shows [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]], [[Skywarp (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Skywarp]], and [[Thundercracker (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Thundercracker]]. None of these characters were in this scene in the original script, which just credited the characters as "Decepticons"; Starscream, in particular, is shown to be at Decepticon headquarters in a minute, and the voice that comes out of his mouth ("Autobots! Stop them!") is intended for a generic character and is provided by [[Dan Gilvezan]] instead of [[Chris Latta]].
**All three are absent from the second shot, which shows four new characters: a purple one with a flamethrower, a golden-yellow one, a rich blue one, and a dark navy one.
**The third shot, as Wheeljack bears down on the group, shows a total of five Seekers, all very small figures with block coloring, one purple, one black, and the other three grey. In the very next shot, Wheeljack is shown barrelling through Starscream, Skywarp, and Thundercracker again.
**The final shot of the group sees Thundercracker and Skywarp transforming to pursue them. Though originally scripted only to be generic Decepticons, the pair subsequently have lines in what will become recognizable as their normal voices ("They've gone underground, we'll never catch 'em now!"/"We'd better report back to Megatron," provided by [[John Stephenson]] and [[Frank Welker]] respectively), indicating the script was reworked with the genuine intention of placing the two characters in the scene.
**Less explicable, though, is the voice heard declaring "After them!" just before Skywarp and Thundercracker take off. No speaker is obvious (nobody's mouth is seen moving on-screen) and the line was not in the original teleplay for the episode. Presumably, it was meant to be another generic Decepticon from the group ordering the two into action, but as the line is provided by Frank Welker, the possibility exists that it's supposed to be Skywarp speaking. If so, though, the voice is way off from his normal one, sounding almost exactly like Megatron.
*Bumblebee steps out of Wheeljack and immediately fires a shot in the completely opposite direction from their attackers. Was he testing his gun??
*Bumblebee is repeatedly shown to be a hovercar... yet somehow he's got wheels and an axle when the Seekers manage to hit him.
*Bumblebee is repeatedly shown to be ''wider'' than Wheeljack in [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]], yet he has no trouble driving right into Wheeljack's cargo compartment. He ''keeps'' driving in until he's completely out of sight, even though we can see at least half of the compartment.
*As Wheeljack opens his cargo compartment to let Bumblebee in, the energy conductors clip through his vehicle mode.
*Coloring errors:
**As Megatron gives Shockwave his orders, Starscream is missing his canopy lines, and Soundwave's eject button is blue, while his backpack is white.[[File:MTMTEProwlstreak.jpg|thumb|TakaraTomy later used this shot as a justification for giving ''Masterpiece'' Prowl his shoulder cannons.]]
**Bluestreak is colored like Prowl as the Autobots stumble around in the wake of the asteroid collision; Trailbreaker, meanwhile, has one white and one gray hand.
**Starscream has a red "collar" around his neck as he prepares the tractor beam.
**When the Autobots and Decepticons fight aboard the ''Ark'', there are two Starscreams - one fighting Prowl, the other fighting Ironhide.
**As Starscream fires on the Autobot ship, the top segment of his canopy is red instead of gray in some frames.
**As the gathered Decepticons gaze at the desert from atop the volcano, Skywarp's arm cannon is colored teal.
**Part of Megatron's fusion cannon is white as he says "we'll set up here".
**Soundwave's eject button is blue instead of white as Megatron orders him to plan the new space cruiser.
**After landing at the power plant, Soundwave's eject button is blue, instead of... y'know what? Let's just say the colorists screwed up this little detail ''all the freaking time'', and leave it at that.
**As Starscream talks about his plans with Soundwave and Rumble standing behind him, the tip of Soundwave's shoulder cannon is colored entirely black.
**When Optimus Prime assigns Hound his mission, the establishing shot has Cliffjumper with Bumblebee's yellow colors.
**In the long shot of the Decepticons building their base, Soundwave appears in Sideswipe's colors. The Seekers also appear to have the wrong colors in this shot - the one standing behind Megatron is colored as Skywarp and the one opposite him is colored as Starscream, but in the next shot they become Starscream and Thundercracker respectively.
**Cliffjumper's mirror housings are white instead of red as he delivers his "moonbeam" line.
**Ratchet's Autobot symbol is gray before he jumps off the cliff.
**Prime's running light housings are white instead of red as he orders Jazz to organize a battle unit.
**In the pan across the battle unit, Sideswipe's helm is red instead of black, and the top of Trailbreaker's chest is white instead of black.
**The center segment of Megatron's fusion cannon is white as the wrenches & etc. bounce off of him.
**Soundwave's cheekguards are blue instead of white as he starts making energon cubes.
*The retracting segments of Iacon's dome appear to come out of solid, unbroken metal. The interior shot of the bridge also shows the segments retracting incorrectly. Since the ship is upright at a 90-degree angle, the retracting segments should go from camera-right to camera-left, down the length of the ship.
*Sideswipe's missing his shoulder launcher as he mans an Ark console.
[[File:ArkCartoon1.jpg|thumb|If it's supposed to be transparent, then it probably shouldn't be blocking out the scenery behind it.]]
*The Ark's exhaust comes from ''behind'' the thruster ports.
*The Decepticon insignia on the Nemesis is missing its "eyes" as the Ark blasts off.
*Presumably, an impact is supposed to be knocking Jazz out of the pilot's seat; what the animation actually shows, however, is Prime saying "Jazz!", to which Jazz responds by spontaneously flying out of his seat.
*Immediately after a shot of Optimus Prime rallying his troops to prepare to repulse Decepticon boarders ("Prepare for battle!"), the same animation is re-used, but this time with Megatron's voice urging his troops to "Attack! Attack!" When the episode was re-done for the ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (cartoon)|Generation 2]]'' series, this scene was amended by placing a shot of Megatron sitting on this throne from earlier in the episode over the image, shouting the command. (In the same shot, Prowl's eye is missing and the cameraman's hand can be seen for a few frames during the second instance, which ''was'' fixed for the Rhino DVD release)
*A shot of Soundwave being kicked out of frame by Ironhide is immediately followed by Soundwave sparring with Ratchet.
*After Ratchet is thrown into the console, Optimus Prime and Megatron enter the frame, struggling with each other. Megatron is missing his fusion cannon in this shot, but it reappears when the angle changes to show them grappling as Prime asks for a status report.
*Ratchet is shown being thrown by Soundwave, but after Optimus Prime asks for a status report, Ratchet is seen fighting with Thundercracker on the other side of the room.
*When Soundwave tosses Ratchet into a console aboard the Ark, the Autobot Medic is sporting a Decepticon symbol in the center of his chest windshield, most likely the result of the animator carrying over Soundwave's design.
*As the above shot pans across the bridge to the right, we see Soundwave has teleported from one side of the bridge to the other, slumped against a console.
*In the pan shot on the Ark when the Transformers find out they're going to crash, there are TWO Soundwaves and TWO Starscreams.
*As the Ark rocks and sends the combatants tumbling, the left arm of the second Soundwave turns into an extended smear of gray paint for a couple of frames.
*The voice that reports about g-forces is Prowl's, but he's struggling with Starscream and doesn't seem to have time to read a console or make a report or anything. Although it's hard to tell due to the ship shaking, Jazz's mouth seems to be moving, and he ''does'' seem to be looking at machinery.
*Quite a few generic robots are mixed in among the identifiable inert Transformers in the crashed ship, including [[Hauler]] and a yellow version of Jazz.
*The land around the volcano changes frequently between shots. Sometimes it's rocky desert; other times it's got forests and a river, sometimes both at once. This trend would continue throughout the whole series.
*When Megatron orders Skywarp to revive the other Decepticons, his voice is missing the metallic echo usually applied to it.
*Megatron is missing his barrel as he speaks to his newly revived troops. In a close-up, he has a "five o'clock shadow", as the central segment of his face is a darker shade than the rest of it.
[[File:Mtmte1 prepare the energon cubes.jpg|thumb]]
*Starscream has no transformation sound as he lands at the power plant.
*Hound's voice carries a soundproof-room echo as he comments on how different Earth is.
*Hound says that he got shot in the drive train, but Laserbeak shot him topside. Did the shot go straight through him??
*Reflector's three component robots are standing shoulder-to-shoulder as they turn to look at the truck, but are standing in a line in the next shot.
*After Thundercracker informs Soundwave about the approaching vehicle, there's a [[scene transition]]. The final frame of the scene transition is faded into an image of Sparkplug and Wheeljack working on Optimus Prime from "Divide and Conquer".
*In the Autobot roll call scene, when Jazz calls Prowl's name, Cliffjumper transforms as well. Ratchet is shown in vehicle mode, even though Jazz never called his name. Finally, near the end, Optimus Prime's headlights are red instead of white, but in the next scene this is corrected.
*Rumble isn't a big guy, but he should at ''least'' be a few feet taller than a human. He's shown the same height as Sparkplug.
*Starscream is missing his wing insignia as Megatron returns to his robot form.
*Ironhide and Starscream are shown sparring with poles, while Prowl and Thundercracker have a shootout from cover. In the very next shot, Ironhide is taking on Skywarp and Thundercracker, while Starscream is now busy with Huffer and Gears, and Prowl is grappling with a Reflector. In the shot after that, Prowl is suddenly free from Reflector and charging toward Skywarp.
*A red robot of indeterminate character model is shown retreating with the Decepticons. It looks a bit like an upside-down Sideswipe.
*When Rumble knocks Spike into the water, Sparkplug yells "Pike!", due to an editing error in the creation of the dialog track. (The original 'unslugged' cassette from the recording session has "Spike!")
*Frank Welker is not listed among the voice actors in the credits sequence. This error would be repeated in the other two parts of the miniseries as well.

===Continuity errors===
[[File:MTMtE Part1 Cybertron.jpg|thumb|Pale silver dot]]
*Later episodes will go to some length to establish that Cybertron is outside of our galaxy. There's even some implication that it's not inside ''any'' galaxy, but that unlikely notion is put to the lie by the very first shots of this episode, which show its surface illuminated by an unseen sun, and the space around it filled with stars.
*Whether for reasons of cost (unlikely considering how much effort was expended on this episode's artwork) or to avoid confusing the kiddies, hardly any of the Transformers were designed to have Cybertronian [[robot mode]]s (Laserbeak is the sole exception). Thus we get the strange phenomena of, for example, Jazz having a Porsche 911 bumper on his chest, four million years before Porsches were invented. This also leads to some strange transformations, with guys like Bumblebee and Wheeljack not having a single part from their vehicle forms visible in their robot modes.
*Soundwave is in robot mode outside of Iacon, not transforming back to lamppost mode until Jazz is practically on top of him. How could Jazz have failed to notice the big blue Decepticon right in front of him?
[[File:Shockwave Hands.jpg|thumb|''My honey my baby Don't put Shockwave upon no shelf She said don't gimme no lines And keep your hands... hand... whatever... to yourself!'']]
*During the scene in [[Decepticon Headquarters (G1 Cybertron)|Decepticon Headquarters]], Shockwave is consistently drawn with two hands. This may not be an error ''per se'', as he shows up a couple of other times with two hands, and plenty of characters can retract their hands and replace them with various gadgets and weapons. Not to mention that the 4 million year gap between this episode and his next appearance (when his left hand is replaced with a laser cannon) leaves plenty of time for him to have lost and subsequently replaced the hand offscreen. However, this still goes against his toy design and his established character model.
*Two asteroids in deep space just show up out of nowhere and collide? Right by the passing ship? The cosmic improbability beggars the imagination.
*Oddly enough, nobody opens fire during the scuffle when the Decepticons board the Ark... not even Megatron.
*The Transformers' interplanetary cruise is ''incredibly'' short. At no point do they engage any kind of faster-than-light drive, yet somehow they go from Cybertron to Earth in what seems to be a matter of minutes. The only possible gap that might account for this is the scene cut between the Decepticon launch and the asteroid collision.
*The animation would have us believe that the Autobot spacecraft has just been sticking out of the side of this active volcano for ages, without anybody noticing. The intended gist might have been that the eruption uncovered it, but the animation doesn't show it.
*Cliffjumper somehow stores on his person a [[Cliffjumper's bazooka|cannon]] that's as big as he is.
*Okay, maybe it's not an actual error. But considering how many ordinary Transformers are shown to have enhanced visual abilities (Hot Rod, Rumble, Arcee, etc.) it seems a tad ridiculous that Thundercracker needs to use Reflector's camera mode to zoom in a little bit on the approaching truck. It's ''insanely'' ridiculous that Reflector produces Polaroid prints. He's not even that kind of camera! (More to the point, he should just be able to see what's visible through his own viewfinder.)
*While he is getting repaired by Ratchet, Hound refers to an Energon cube as "some kind of cube", implying that the Autobots don't know what Energon cubes are. The inference that energon cubes are a Decepticon invention holds true for almost the entirety of the pre-movie cartoon, during which time they are never used by the Autobots (something that is even made a plot point in "[[Traitor (episode)|Traitor]]"). We say "almost" because of a contradictory flashback in "[[War Dawn (episode)|War Dawn]]" that shows what appear to be energon cubes being used by Autobots nine million years in the past. By the time of the movie, the Autobots are shown to have begun using the cubes, and continue to do so throughout the third season. It's possible that Hound is a younger Autobot and was not created until after Autobots stopped using Energon cubes. Optimus would know what they are, since he was there back then in "War Dawn".
*During Jazz's roll-call of the Autobots, he neglects to call out Cliffjumper's name. The little red guy transforms anyway.
*The large cast frequently gave the animators trouble in remembering which secondary characters should or should not be present, especially concerning the Autobots. Thus, we frequently must catalog appearing/disappearing Autobots:
**Jazz's battle group consists of Prowl, Cliffjumper, Trailbreaker, Wheeljack, Mirage, Sunstreaker, Sideswipe, and Ironhide. Even before they've left headquarters, the problems start, as Ironhide disappears and Ratchet takes his place. Ratchet is still with the group when they arrive.
**Bluestreak joins the group as they fly toward the oil rig.
**Huffer and Brawn are with them as they land on the platform.
**Gears is visible in a wide shot of the battle.
*In what ''universe'' is it legal for a fourteen-year-old American kid to be working on an oil rig, even ''with'' his father? The original script offers an unexpected answer for this: Spike was SUPPOSED to be seventeen! While still not meeting real-life legal requirements (you have to be 18 to work on an oil rig), it's at least a ''little'' better. This intended info about Spike's age was either unnoticed or ignored by the writer(s) who put together the show's subsequent story bible, which declared Spike to be fourteen—a fact that worked its way into "[[A Plague of Insecticons]]", where Spike states he isn't old enough to drive yet.
[[File:MTMtE1 spare seeker.jpg|thumb|right]]
*Until the oil platform attack, the episode has consistently portrayed the Decepticon forces as Megatron, Soundwave, 3 tapes, 3 jets, and 3 Reflectors. Things start to fall apart here, as a purple jet is shown diving alongside Thundercracker. It gets ''much'' worse in the following episodes.
*''The Transformers'' had a tendency to frequently exaggerate the capabilities of humans to survive being dropped, punched, swatted, hit, etc. As a main protagonist, Spike Witwicky was especially susceptible to this treatment; thus we catalog the adventures of ''Superhuman Spike!'':
**Spike punches Rumble in the back without breaking or even seeming to hurt his fist.
**Spike survives being bashed aside by Rumble's metal fist without even bruising a rib.
*When Starscream fires his [[null-ray]], ice appears on the machinery that the ray hits. However, a null ray only stops the flow of electricity; it doesn't cause freezing. (Megatron prompts him with the strange command to "activate the null ray", as if it's some external piece of equipment.)
*Flying Autobots:
**In this and the following two episodes, the Autobots are all shown flying just as easily as the Decepticons. Once the show went into full production, this ability mostly disappeared, with occasional exceptions due to special abilities (Wheeljack, Sideswipe, the Dinobots), and some [[Roll for It|scripting]], [[Attack of the Autobots (episode)|animation]] and [[The Master Builders (episode)|sound]] [[Fire on the Mountain (episode)|effect]] screw-ups. The change was, in part, to help distinguish the two forces (and perhaps because it doesn't make sense for the Autobots to drive places if they can just fly there instead).

===Trivia===
*Shockwave's appearance hints that Hasbro was already planning for expansion of the toyline. His toy was not among the initial 28 characters advertised by the 1984 Transformers catalog, yet there he is, making a short appearance that obviously sets up the possibility of future appearances. His toy would be one of the very first 1985 toys to see release, and his character would return in the very first post-pilot episode.
[[File:Cartoon Cybertron Marvel Iacon case 1.jpg|upright=1.95|thumb]]
*While Ironhide exclaiming "leakin' lubricant!" was in the original script, him ''physically'' leaking lubricant was not called for, suggesting the storyboard artist was unaware that Ironhide was merely using a catchphase from his character bio.
*The episode ends with a preview of "Part 2". While other multi-part Transformers episodes generally refer to the episode by its title ("Next time, on ''The Transformers'': 'The Ultimate Doom'"), this preview uses the series title, ''The Transformers'', as "More Than Meets the Eye" is a retroactive name for the three-part episode, which began as a mini-series before becoming a regular program.
*Many later episodes would mine this one for recycled footage, particularly the line up of transforming Autobots near the end. Transformation sequences (with and without new backgrounds) from this episode appear in "[[Heavy Metal War]]", "[[Blaster Blues]]", and others. Optimus Prime's third-act transformation sequence from this episode was revised and improved for "[[Transport to Oblivion (episode)|Transport to Oblivion]]", and the revision was used in ''dozens'' of episodes thereafter.
*Imagery of Cybertron from this episode was used to depict Iacon in the [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|Marvel story]] "[[And There Shall Come...a Leader!]]". Several buildings are clearly taken from the cartoon, and the most precious comparison has to be the tunnel entrance used by Wheeljack and Bumblebee to get energy conductors to the cartoon's dome-shaped Autobot headquarters, which is exactly the same as the one [[Fusion (Marvel)|Fusion]] and [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] used to get shatter bombs to the [[Great Dome]]. The only difference is that the next piece of road for Fusion and Bluestreak is the same road Wheeljack and Bumblebee drove over before entering the tunnel.
[[File:G2DoubleTargetmasters.jpg|upright=1.95|thumb|The new RCA Colortrak, with Commercial-in-Commercial feature!]]
*The mid-80s [[Family Home Entertainment]] VHS release of "More Than Meets the Eye" was granted the {{w|Film Advisory Board}} Award of Excellence, proudly displayed on the video box cover above. However, this particular "award" does not reflect the ''quality'' of any work submitted, but rather that the work is "family-friendly". Cheeky, that.
*The three parter was released on video in the United Kingdom in 1986 under the title "Arrival from Cybertron".
*Footage from the [[commercial]] featuring the Autobot [[Targetmaster (technology)|Double Targetmaster]] trio was spliced into the ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (cartoon)|Generation 2]]'' version of this episode by way of the [[Cybernet Space Cube]]. Outside of this, they never actually appeared in the cartoon.
*Footage from this episode was used to represent a historical video in "[[Transform and Roll Out]]", the opening movie for ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Transformers Animated]]''.
*In 2016, "Transformers At The Moon" released onto YouTube<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwOQhJ_UA5E</ref> a collection of audio clips from the original Sunbow Productions "unslugged" cassette tapes and included many scenes deleted from the final show.
** Also on this tape is what [[Wally Burr]] terms "Body English", which consists of various Autobots and Decepticons grunting and groaning during the fight on the oil platform; "Body English" was recorded for Optimus Prime, Megatron, Starscream, Wheeljack, Reflector, all of the Decepticon troops, and the workers
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===Foreign localization===
'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Plein la vue - Partie 1'''" ("Show off - Part 1")
:*''Original airdate (France):'' [[June 1]], [[1985]]
:*''Original airdate (Canada):'' [[March 30]], [[1985]]
::*Concerning the European French dub:
:::*When transforming back as [[Wheeljack (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Wheeljack]] arrives, [[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]] does not say anything. In the original version, he warns [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]].
:::*For some reason, the dialog between [[Thundercracker (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Thundercracker]] and Soundwave is left in English. ("Thundercracker to Soundwave, Thundercracker to Soundwave!" - "Proceed, Thundercracker.")
:::*This is the first episode of a long series in which various Transformers names are replaced by additional dialogue to avoid pronouncing the rather difficult English names ("Move!", "We have no choice!", "Come on!", or Soundwave saying "Warning!" every time he ejects a cassette). Some other names are distorted (Irok, Soundax, Balbee...).

'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Im Weltraum verschollen'''" (''Generation 2'', "Lost in Space")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[April 30]], [[1994]]

'''Italian'''
:*''Title (dub 1):'' "'''Fuga da Cybertron'''" ("Escape from Cybertron")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?
::*Hauler is not named, so it looks like he is actually Grapple.
::*Reflector is called "Reflector'''s'''".
::*When Megatron orders Soundwave to release Ravage, in this dub he instead orders Ravage to attack, despite the latter being inside Soundwave.
::*When Jazz calls the Autobots by name, he says nothing when he calls Sunstreaker in English, and then calls his name when he should instead call Sideswipe. The latter in not mentioned at all.
::*In the next episode preview, Sherman Dam is called by its English name, despite being translated as ''diga di Sherman'' in the episode itself.

:*''Title (dub 2):'' "'''Molto più di quel che appare - Prima parte'''" ("Much More than What Appears - First Part")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?
::*Hauler is renamed "Grapple" in order to retcon them as the same character.
::*When Rumble is ejected for the first time, Soundwave [[FIRRIB|calls him Frenzy]].

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Chikyū e no Michi'''" (地球への道, "The Road to Earth")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[July 6]], [[1985]]
::*When [[Hotlink (G1)|the Seeker]] fires the ring of flame around [[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]] and [[Wheeljack (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Wheeljack]] from his flame-thrower, he shouts out the name of his "special attack" in traditional anime-style. It was called the "Fire Attack", by the way.
::*'''Cut:''' Immediately after [[Skywarp (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Skywarp]] says, "Megatron, my leader, we are alive again", a few seconds of the close-up of him and [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] staring at each other and the fade away into the next scene is cut. Megatron's line, "Quickly, we must revive the other Decepticons", followed by him carrying and dropping [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]], was also cut. The sequence resumes right after Megatron sets Reflector down next to [[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]].
::*"[[Hauler]]" is not referred to by name in this version and most Japanese fans just presumed him to have been [[Grapple (G1)|Grapple]]. Most Japanese fans, [[Hirofumi Ichikawa|but not all]].

'''Mandarin'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Dìyī Tiān'''" (第一天, "The First Day")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Brazilian Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Mais do Que Os Olhos Veem, Parte 1'''" ("More than Meets the Eye, Part 1")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?
::*This episode did not air in the 1980s and was first released on DVD with a different dub from the rest of the show.

'''Russian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Ne vsjo tak prosto (Chast' 1)'''" (Не всё так просто (Часть 1), "Not All Is So Simple (Part 1)")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Serbian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Više nego što se vidi prvi deo'''" (''Generation 2'', Више него што се види први део, "More than Meets the Eye Part 1"), "'''Sile zla prvi deo'''" (''Generation 2'', Силе зла први део, "Forces of Evil Part 1")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

===Toys inspired by this episode===
[[File:G1toy-SunstormeHobby.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|right|WHAT HAVE WE DONE]]
*'''''[[The Transformers: Collector's Edition|Collector's Edition]]'' 89 [[Sunstorm (G1)#Collector's Edition|Sunstorm]] ([[TakaraTomy|Takara]], 2003/2009)'''
:An [[e-HOBBY]] [[exclusive]] redeco of the original ''[[The Transformers (toyline)|Generation 1]]'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Generation 1|Starscream]] toy, representing the yellow [[generic]] [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] seen in this episode. In part thanks to being given additional prominence in [[Dreamwave Productions]]' comic books, the character would subsequently spawn a plethora of additional toys, including ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' figures by both Hasbro and Takara. While most "Sunstorm" figures are based on the standard Seeker body-type that transforms into an Earth jet, both the ''[[Titanium Series]]'' "Cybertron Heroes" [[Sunstorm (G1)#Titanium Series|Sunstorm]] figure and the ''[[Legends Class (2005)|Legends]] of [[Transformers: Cybertron (toyline)|Cybertron]]'' [[Sunstorm (Universe)#Cybertron|Sunstorm]] figure (the latter of which represents the [[Unicron Trilogy continuity family|Unicron Trilogy]] version of Sunstorm) transform into Cybertronian fighter jets that are heavily inspired by the Seekers' "tetrajet" alternate mode seen in this episode. The original Sunstorm figure was later re-released in 2009, once again exclusive to e-HOBBY.

[[File:MP Prowl.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|right|The shoulder cannons absolutely needed to be justified with an episode screencap… which actually shows an animation error.]]
*'''''Collector's Edition'' 88 [[Hauler#Collector's Edition|RoadHauler]] (Takara, 2003)'''
:An e-HOBBY exclusive redeco of the original ''Generation 1'' [[Grapple (G1)#Generation 1|Grapple]] toy in a [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicon]]-inspired green color scheme, intended to represent the Grapple lookalike seen in this episode, with the choice for his colors taking inspiration from "[[The Secret of Omega Supreme (episode)|The Secret of Omega Supreme]]" and "[[Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4]]".

*'''''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' MP-13 [[Soundwave (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|Soundwave]] (TakaraTomy, 2013)'''
:One of the accessories included with the figure is a display grid that attaches over his chest door: The last page of the instruction booklet features a pair of cutouts you can place underneath the grid to simulate Soundwave projecting them on his chest, one of them being the space cruiser blueprints from this episode.

*'''''Masterpiece'' MP-17 [[Prowl (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|Prowl]] (TakaraTomy, 2013)'''
:Although they were technically based on the original ''Generation 1'' toy, TakaraTomy specifically used a screencap from this episode to "justify" the inclusion of shoulder cannons with their ''Masterpiece'' toy of Prowl… a screencap that actually depicts an ''animation error'' with ''[[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]]'' colored like Prowl (see above), hence the shoulder cannons.

*'''''Masterpiece'' MP-29 [[Shockwave (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|Destron Laserwave]] (TakaraTomy, 2016)'''
:Among the other accessories, this figure includes a normal left hand that replaces his laser gun to recreate Shockwave's two-handed appearance in this episode, plus an alternate right hand to recreate the salute he gives to Megatron.

*'''''[[War for Cybertron: Siege]]'' (2019)'''
:Representing Cybertronian forms rather than Earth modes, many of the figures from ''Siege'' are either directly based upon or incorporate features or design elements referencing this episode. Voyager [[Starscream (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Siege|Starscream]] transforms into a tetrajet based on thie episode, [[Soundwave (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Siege|Soundwave]] has an "easter egg" third mode of "Cybertronian Sensor Lamp", and although ''Siege'' [[Laserbeak (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Siege|Laserbeak]] still resembles his more bird-like form, his head design is a direct reference to his cartoon Cybertronian form.

*'''''[[War for Cybertron: Earthrise]]'' [[Cliffjumper (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Cliffjumper]] (2020)'''
:This figure comes with the giant cannon from this episode as one of its accessories. The ''Buzzworthy Bumblebee'' redeco of the figure features a deco that closely resembles the weapon's color in the show.

*'''''[[War for Cybertron: Kingdom]]'' [[Ark (G1)#War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Autobot Ark]] (2021)'''
:A Titan-class transforming figure based directly off the Ark's appearance in this episode. One of its included accessories is the [[Sky Spy]] drone that provided the Autobots and Decepticons their Earth alt-modes

*'''''[[Buzzworthy Bumblebee]]'' [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#BuzzworthyOrigin|Origin Bumblebee]] (2021)'''
:This figure is based on Bumblebee's Cybertronian form, and comes with five [[Conductor|conductor rods]].

*'''''[[Studio Series]]'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Coronation Starscream]] (2022)'''
:The throne accessory included with this figure is based on the one Megatron [[:File:Mtmte1 megatron throne.jpg|uses]] in the Nemesis from this episode.

*'''''[[Buzzworthy Bumblebee]]'' [[Jazz (G1)/toys#Buzzworthy Bumblebee|Origin Autobot Jazz]] (2023)''
:This figure is based on Jazz's Cybertronian form.

*'''''[[Transformers: Legacy|Transformers Legacy Evolution]]'' [[Nemesis (G1)#Legacy 2|Nemesis]] (2023)''
:A Titan class transforming figure based directly on the ship the Decepticons used to follow the Autobots to Earth. One of its advertised features is a boarding dock to simulate the Decepticon attack on the Ark.

*'''''[[Transformers: Legacy|Transformers Legacy United]]'' [[Wheeljack (G1)/toys#Legacy|Origin Wheeljack]] (2024)''
:A Voyager class based on his Cybertronian form, being the first on-screen Transformer, and can fit [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#BuzzworthyOrigin|Bumblebee]] (even including sculpted conductor rod storage racks!) into his trunk. Oddly, this toy is not part of the Buzzworthy lineup.
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==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;VHS
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 1985 — ''The Transformers'' — Volume 1: "More than Meets the Eye" ([[Family Home Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1985 — ''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' ([[VAP]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 1986 — ''The Transformers'' — Arrival from Cybertron ([[Video Gems|A.M.T. Video Gems]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 1988 — ''The Transformers'' — Arrival from Cybertron ([[Video Gems|V.I.P. Video Gems]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 1991 — ''The Transformers'' — Arrival from Cybertron ([[Video Gems|Little Gems Junior Video Club]]) 
[[File:Flag of Canada.png|20px|Canada]] 1999 — ''The Transformers: Generation 2'' — More than Meets the Eye ([[Malofilm|Seville Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2001 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Exclusively from Blockbuster ([[The Original Transformers|Rhino Entertainment]])
;{{w|LaserDisc}}
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1994 — ''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' — Convoy Set ([[TakaraTomy|Takara]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1998 — ''The Transformers'' — Autobot Edition ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]]) — Japanese audio only.
;DVD
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2001 — ''The Transformers'' — DVD Box 1 (Pioneer LDC) — Japanese audio only. 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2002 — ''Transformers: Generation 2'' ([[Maverick Entertainment|Sony Wonder]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2002 — ''Transformers'' — Original Series: Volume Two (Sony Wonder) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2002 — ''Transformers'' — Complete Original Series: Deluxe Edition (Sony Wonder) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2002 — ''The Original Transformers'' — First Season Collector's Edition ([[The Original Transformers|Rhino Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2002 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Volume One (Rhino Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2003 — ''Transformers'' — Collection 1: Series 1 ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Season 1 ([[Metrodome]]) 
[[File:Flag of France.png|20px|France]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Volume 1 ([[Déclic Images]]) — European French audio only. 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2006 — The Best of ''The Transformers'' (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2006 — ''Transformers'' — The Complete Generation One Collection (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2006 — Cult Sci-Fi Legends (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2007 — ''Transformers'' — The Classic Episodes (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2007 — ''Classic Transformers'' — Series One: Part One (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2007 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of Italy.png|20px|Italy]] 2008 — ''Transformers'' — Volume 01: Stagione Uno Parte Prima ([[Medianetwork Communication]]) — English and Italian audio. 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2009 — ''Transformers'' — Season One (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection: Decepticon Edition (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete First Season: 25th Anniversary Edition ([[Shout! Studios|Shout! Factory]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — More than Meets the Eye (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Series: 25th Anniversary "Matrix of Leadership" Collection (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2011 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Original Series (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2014 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete First Season: 30th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2014 — ''Transformers'' — The Classic Animated Series (Metrodome)

==External links==
*[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hd2wbHm760yJOXTQ2toOyVUAPosa2suB/view?usp=drive_link Full episode script, with revision pages dated 13th March 1984]

==References==
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[[Category:The Transformers episodes]]
[[Category:Generation 2 episodes]]
[[Category:MSTF]]
[[Category:Pack-in material]]
[[Category:Universe (2008)]]