Captain Fanzone's car
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- Captain Fanzone's car is a hapless vehicle from the Transformers Animated continuity.
Captain Fanzone's car is a rusty yellow sports car of undetermined model. It gets destroyed a lot, but always seems to be back in time for its next mauling. It was also the basis for Bumblebee's Earth vehicle altmode.
Fiction
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Captain Fanzone was seated in his car, about to eat a burger, when he received a radio call summoning all units to a Sumdac Systems building because a humongous nanobug was absorbing everything in its path. His car was thus present among the collected emergency vehicles when Teletran-1 scanned them for new altmodes for Optimus Prime and his crew of Autobots. Scrappy speedster Bumblebee adopted the look of the yellow hatchback, sans rust. When the Autobots made their debut to confront the nanobug, Fanzone briefly mistook 'Bee for his car, exclaiming, "How is my car driving itself?!" Transform and Roll Out
Fanzone's car was present for many of his encounters with Autobots and Decepticons, often in the role of "collateral damage". For example, in the Dinobots' debut appearance, Snarl knocked a car into the air with his tail, causing it to bounce amusingly off of Fanzone's vehicle. Blast from the Past Afterwards, he briefly used a normal police cruiser. Lost and Found
The resemblance between Fanzone's car and Bumblebee was occasionally useful, as when Fanzone drove Bumblebee to a ransom meeting with the Headmaster, thus sneaking the Autobot into the building under the guise of a normal car. Headmaster Sentinel Prime side-swiped Fanzone's car while leaving the Elite Guard ship. The Elite Guard
Fanzone pulled up to investigate a Decepticon sighting, Sentinel poked the car's roof and suggested Fanzone leave it to the Autobots. The Return of the Headmaster When the Autobots went to try and help the Elite Guard, Fanzone and Sari followed in Fanzone's car, and managed to get there without the car exploding. Mission Accomplished
The car's most energetic death yet came when Fanzone was investigating Master Disaster's underground races. He and Bumblebee ended up pursued by the crazy Decepticon Blitzwing. Bumblebee and Sari Sumdac urged Fanzone to jump into 'Bee, and moments later Blitzwing destroyed Fanzone's car with a missile. Velocity But, it was back yet again by the time of Optimus's duel with the Headmaster at Burger Bot. TransWarped A perfect virtual copy of it later appeared in Soundwave's virtual reality, where it was commandeered by the (virtually human) Bumblebee. Human Error, Part II
Toys
[edit]- Most of Bumblebee's toys will serve, so long as you don't transform them. You might want to paint on some rust, and scatter a few burger wrappers around the interior.
Notes
[edit]- No explanation has been explicitly offered for how Fanzone's car keeps coming back from being totaled. Either he's repeatedly buying identical cars, or he's getting them fixed at great expense (but not getting the rust fixed). Bumblebee idly wonders if it's the former, asking "What does he do, buy them by the dozen?" The AllSpark Almanac II
- On the other hand, dialog in "Velocity" implies that the car is the property of the Detroit Police Department. Given how large bureaucracies work, it's possible they bought a fleet of identical unmarked cars several years ago, and they're all rusting at about the same rate.
- Or, it's just a running gag.
- Whoever owns the car is clearly opting for the no-frills model, as Sari's candid comments on Bumblebee's alt-mode in "Nature Calls" suggest that it does not feature such basic mod-cons as a heater! Despite this, in "Velocity" it's established to possess a GPS navigation system.