Freedom Fighter

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Freedom Fighter is an Autobot from the Generation 1 continuity family.
What?

Very little is known about Freedom Fighter's motives and history. He appears to be intensely patriotic, having modeled his appearance after both the Autobot faction symbol and the face of his leader, Optimus Prime. In fact, he may be quite unstable.

Freedom Fighter possesses the ability to intercept electromagnetic radiation with frequencies ranging from roughly 530 kHz to 1710 kHz, and can emit sounds—at varying intensity—which represent any [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}amplitude modulation|{{#if:||amplitude modulation}}]] found in the intercepted radiation. Electromagnetic waves of this sort are sometimes used for communication by many species, making Freedom Fighter a valuable resource for the Autobot army.

He is unusual for a Transformer in that he not only has no humanoid robot mode, but no ambulatory mode at all—he has no limbs or visible means of propulsion. It may be that he wished to completely dedicate his time and energy to his primary job of monitoring radio broadcasts, and had his body modified accordingly.

Merchandise

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The Transformers

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Huh?
  • AM Radio ("Freedom Fighter")
One of the forms taken by Freedom Fighter was that of an AM radio (which came with a carrying strap) released by Hasbro licensee Nasta under their "Power-Tronic" brand sometime in 1984 or 1985. His transformation sequence, shown at right, was somewhat awkward.
  • Mini Headset Radio ("Freedom Fighter")
The other form taken by Freedom Fighter was that of a mini headset radio in the form of a pair of headphones, also released by Nasta. One of the advertised features was a "dual image shield".

Notes

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  • It's not entirely clear if it was actually Nasta's intention to market the two toys as an actual character named "Freedom Fighter". In the case of the equally odd "Enemy" (also released by Nasta), there were at least both a distinct pre-existing character design (the Generation 1 Frenzy/Rumble design) and a pre-existing color scheme (the unused alternate Micro Change color scheme for the Frenzy/Rumble figure) that would eventually inspire TakaraTomy to canonize "Enemy" as an actual character in 2012, whereas the "Freedom Fighter" toys were just… an oddly-shaped AM radio that resembled Optimus Prime's head, and a pair of headphones, with no real robot mode. Add to that the fact that another Nasta toy, the "Wireless Microphone", was given the even weirder character name "Microphone" (with the faction designation being "Decepticon—Enemy"), despite clearly being designed to represent Megatron's alternate mode, while Nasta's other toys were given no character names at all, even though two of them were clearly designed to represent Ultra Magnus… and you can't help but wonder if Nasta put any thought into the names and designations they were putting onto their toys' packaging.

See also

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