Acid pellet
Acid pellets are small projectiles formed of acid. The Autobot Prowl uses a gun that is capable of firing acid pellets, as well as lasers. Scattershot wields an automatic acid pellet gun, which is also used by Computron. A burst from Scattershot or Computron will burn you. Up to 500 times per minute. Doubleheader's Pretender shell, not as much with its semi-automatic acid pellet pistol. As a 'bot not known for his subtlety, Warpath uses a similar weapon but on a larger scale: acid shells.
Fiction
[edit]The Transformers cartoon
[edit]After Sparkplug Witwicky's metallic Frankenstein creation Autobot X unsurprisingly ran amok, Prowl, Ironhide and Trailbreaker stood up to the crazed robot with Prowl using his acid pellets to incapacitate Autobot X. Autobot Spike Responding to an SOS when the super-computer called TORQ III ran amok, the Autobots discovered TORQ was capable of controlling other machines in the area and Prowl found himself being swallowed whole by a rogue mechanical scoop. He fired an acid pellet down its gullet to give it the worst case of indegestion it's ever had by corroding its inner workings. Day of the Machines Later, Prowl would use his acid pellets to disarm a group of time displaced wild west outlaws by melting their guns. Dinobot Island, Part 2
Marvel Comics continuity
[edit]Marvel The Transformers comics
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Prowl was armed with a semi-automatic rifle that fired pellets filled with a highly corrosive acid up to 300 yards. Prowl's Universe profile In robot mode, Scattershot carried a 500 rounds-per-minute automatic acid-pellet gun, which could melt a Decepticon to slag in moments. Scattershot's Universe profile Computron also used this weapon. Computron's Universe profile Warpath could hit a hex-nut from 1.5 miles away with an acid shell from his gun. Warpath's Universe profile
During a confrontation between the Terrorcons and the Technobots in the Nebulan city of Splendora, Computron blasted Abominus with his acid-pellet gun while berating the Decepticon for being too dim-witted to understand what was happening. Love and Steel!
Transformers Annual 1985
[edit]Investigating suspicious activity in South America, the Autobots Prowl, Bumblebee, Twin Twist, and Top Spin discovered a replica of Megatron's fortress on Cybertron. Attacking the Decepticons, Bumblebee and the others found themselves suddenly paralysed by Dirge's fear-inducing engines but thankfully Prowl managed to steel his logic circuits and shot Dirge down with a few acid pellets. Hunted!
Regeneration One
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On a Cybertron overrun with shadow-leeches, Kup found Scattershot's acid-pellet gun outside the Star Chamber and used it to pierce through the door, much to the consternation of Ultra Magnus. The War to End All Wars, Part 5
Decepticon Poison
[edit]After discovering that the Decepticons had poisoned their fuel, Optimus Prime allowed Warpath and the rest of the refuelled Autobots to venture headlong into battle, fighting against Megatron himself, accompanied by a squad of Decepticon jets. Warpath's acid shells forced the jets accompanying Megatron to disperse. Decepticon Poison
Dreamwave Generation One continuity
[edit]Doubleheader's Pretender shell was armed with a semi-automatic acid pellet pistol. Doubleheader's More than Meets the Eye profile Prowl carried a gun that could fire electrically charged energy blasts or corrosive acid pellets. Prowl's More than Meets the Eye profile Scattershot wielded an acid-pellet gun that fired 500 rounds in 0.12 breems. Scattershot's More than Meets the Eye profile Computron also used Scattershot's acid pellet gun. Computron's More than Meets the Eye profile Warpath's tank cannon, also useable in robot mode, was capable of firing a variety of shells, including acid. Warpath's More than Meets the Eye profile
Toys
[edit]The Transformers
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- Prowl (Autobot Car, 1984-1985/1989)
- Accessories: laser gun, left & right missile launchers, 3 missiles
- The Transformers Prowl came with a chromed gun, labelled as a laser gun in his instructions but specified to fire high-corrosive acid pellets in his packaging bio.
- This mold was retooled and redecoed to create the simultaneously released Bluestreak, and again for Smokescreen. It was further redecoed and reissued many times over the years.
- Warpath (Mini-Vehicle, 1985)
- According to his packaging bio, The Transformers Warpath could fire acid shells. This mold was also used to make Treds.
- Accessories: acid-pellet gun, 2 artillery guns, Computron head, left & right Computron fists, Computron chestplate/base, 2 Computron foot-plates
- The Transformers Scattershot came with a large acid-pellet gun that his robot mode can hold. This toy was also available as part of a Computron giftset.
- Doubleheader (Pretender, 1989)
- Accessories: double helmet, rust-ray gun, acid pellet pistol, wings/backpack
- Doubleheader came with a white acid pellet pistol for his Pretender shell to wield.
Notes
[edit]- In a nod to his Generation 1 namesake, Transmetal 2 Prowl's packaging bio notes that he fires acid pellets, although it doesn't say from where.