Carter Sanford
- Carter Sanford is a human from the Armada portion of the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.

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This character has no official visual representation in any Transformers product or media... yet, at least.
Doctor Carter Sanford is a British archaeologist with a strict manner and some extremely fixed notions of how things should be done. He's not happy with sharing leadership of the expedition with the more casual Doctor Jessica Theist, and he's even less of a fan of the Mini-Cons which have somehow also become part of it. Especially Laserbeak, who enjoys dive-bombing his head.
In appearance, Sanford is short and balding.
Fiction
[edit]Transformers Legends anthology
[edit]Doctor Sanford's dig in the Labná ruins in Mexico was interrupted when Ransack enthusiastically ripped out a stone door, sending Theist and the Mini-Con tumbling into a cave below. Furious at the mess, Sanford threatened to kick the Mini-Cons and Kelly off the dig, but Theist suggested he take a look at what she'd found. After seeing the pictures Laserbeak was broadcasting back, Sanford climbed down with a first aid kit and somehow managed to apply medication and look at the pictographs on the walls at the same time.
With Laserbeak's help, they were able to unlock the recorded story of the Natiltec tribe and their encounter with strange beast warriors. Doctor Sanford was extraordinarily pleased, and promised never to say a bad word about the Mini-Cons again, promising them that international archaeology fame was in everyone's future. Fire in the Dark