Campolongo

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Campolongo is an Autobot-allied human from the 2005 IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
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Campolongo is a member of Skywatch under Spike Witwicky's command. He's kind of a goofball.

Fiction

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2005 IDW continuity

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When several Autobots were detected travelling in the desert, Campolongo took point in a unit commanded by Pennington. Equipped with a powered exoskeleton that enhanced his abilities, Campolongo snuck up on the Autobot Beachcomber and slapped a suppressor on his chest while the other Autobots were investigating a landmine Blurr had run over. Landing on the Autobot after the suppressor forced him to transform, Campolongo boasted of his singular heroics. Tracks almost opened fire on Campolongo in retaliation, until he was reminded by Hoist that the Autobots can't harm the humans. A Rude Awakening

Campolongo was deployed on a Skywatch aerial transport when Spike Witwicky was ambushed by the Stunticons whilst out on a joyride in Breakdown. On the way back to base, they spotted the giant Decepticon combiner Menasor duking it out with the Autobots at the site of Hot Rod's rocket launch site. Observing the battle, Campolongo noted that the two ancient foes would not stop fighting until they killed each other or Skywatch captured them all. Seasons in Flight Earthworks

Later, with the Autobots now (unofficial) allies of Skywatch, Campolongo attempted to befriend the aliens and help them understand human culture by providing his DVDs to them. Ranks of Bronze Campolongo lightly mocked Joe Henderson in the mess after a Skywatch martial arts exercise, escalating into friendly wrestling which saw them crash from a glass screen into a hallway. An unimpressed Witwicky ordered Campolongo to clean up the mess. Scrapper

Soon after a devastating attack by North Korea-backed Combaticons on South Korean and American forces, Campolongo alerted Spike and the Autobots to a troubling live address by the President of the United States, where he declared Cybertronians to be weapons of mass destruction and that the United States would respond with force if any nation used the alien visitors as muscle. This was especially worrying for Skywatch, as Spike had been preparing to formally utilize the Autobots to fight against the Combaticons in Korea. However, with the President's unwitting proclamation, they were now forced to do so, but in disguise. The Land Ironclads

Later, in trade for getting a real haircut, I tragically become comic relief.

After a hasty preparation period, the small team docked at the South Korean port of Incheon, and Campolongo was tasked with convincing the local customs official that he was really a stevedore and they were really delivering a handful of cars from the United States right in the middle of a war. Unfortunately, their hastily prepared story was failing, forcing him to take drastic measures and knock out the customs official, which earned him a rebuke from both Henderson and Spike. He protested his innocence considering he wasn't provided a copy of the shipping manifest and the hasty planning of the mission. During the battle in the city, Campolongo and Henderson deployed from Optimus Prime's trailer in Skywatch crash suits, but were unable to prevent Brawl from escaping. Ranks of Bronze

During their better-prepared attack on the Combaticons, Campolongo and Henderson held Vortex down while Ratchet attempted to cut off his rotor blades. The Decepticon slipped out of their grasp, but luckily the former Decepticon Thundercracker arrived to shoot him out of the sky. Hawk Among the Sparrows

Once the Combaticons were defeated and the North Korean threat neutralized, the Autobots and Skywatch returned to America, only for their transport to be shot down over the Pacific Ocean. The Demolished Man By cooping up in Optimus Prime's relatively waterproof trailer and traveling underwater for two days, Campolongo and his mates made it to shore and learned that Megatron's Decepticons had come back for revenge. As Megatron had defeated a number of Autobots and left them to the mercy of paranoid and heavily armed humans, Campolongo and Spike went with Jazz to try to defuse the situation, but were unable to get past the police blockade. To their horror, Jazz then made a crucial mistake and killed one of the men. Burning Chrome

Campolongo, Spike, and Henderson later visited Pennington, who was in the hospital recovering from injuries sustained during Megatron's attack. Enemy Mine

Notes

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  • In his first appearance, shown at the top of this article, his name was spelled "Campologno".
  • Campolongo is based on Jim Campolongo, the real-life friend of IDW Publishing writer Mike Costa, who is a writer and story editor on the popular USA Network crime drama White Collar.
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