Atom-smasher rifle

Seacon leader Snaptrap has an atom-smasher rifle that is also used by the gestalt Piranacon.

Fiction

Dreamwave Generation One continuity

Motormaster wielded an atom-smasher rifle, Motormaster's More than Meets the Eye profile as did Menasor. Menasor's More than Meets the Eye profile

Rad's Targetmaster partner Lionizer transformed into an atom-smasher rifle that broke its targets down at an atomic level and which could combine with Rad's particle blaster to increase its power. Rad's More than Meets the Eye profile

Snaptrap was armed with a turret-mounted atom-smasher gun that he could also use in robot mode. Snaptrap's More than Meets the Eye profile

Toys

The Transformers

• Snaptrap (Seacon, 1988)

• Accessories: atom-smasher rifle, incendiary sword, half-shell shield/chestplate, 2 footplates, left & right combiner fists, super robot head

Although The Transformers Snaptrap's instructions label his weapons generically as laser and sword, his packaging bio reveals that they represent a semi-automatic atom-smasher rifle and incendiary sword. In turtle mode the rifle can be mounted on the rear half of the shell, or he can hold it in robot mode.

This toy was available as part of a Piranacon giftset and has been redecoed and reissued. The mold was also used to make Halfshell, though he lacked the rifle accessory.

Notes

• Snaptrap's Marvel Universe profile upgrades his weapon to an atom smasher cannon.
• Conversely, and oddly given their established penchant for rifles, the writers of Dreamwave's More than Meets the Eye went the other way and genericised Snaptrap's weapon as an atom-smasher gun.