Doubleclouder

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Doubleclouder is a Decepticon from the Masterforce portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Doubleclouder (ダブルクラウダー Daburukuraudā) is a former Transtector who gained life from and independently of his former owner, Clouder, via the power of Masterforce. As such, Doubleclouder takes after Clouder's personality.

Fiction

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Super-God Masterforce cartoon

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Voice actor: Takeshi Kusao (Japanese){{#if: Simon Broad (English, Omni Productions dub)|, Simon Broad (English, Omni Productions dub)}}

When the Decepticons relocated to the Grand Canyon for an attack on North America, Clouder, Cancer, Wilder, and Bullhorn all joined with the Autobots in pursuing them. The four former Decepticons broke off into one of three teams, intending on tackling BlackZarak/Devil Z from behind, but as they were making their approach, they spotted Ranger and the Autobot Headmaster Juniors battling King Poseidon. They were about to leap into action, but just as they were about to combine with their Transtectors, they were suddenly struck down by a bolt of Devil Z's Devil Power. The alien separated the boys from their Transtectors, stripping them of their Master-Braces and bringing the robot bodies to life as true super-robot lifeforms.

Capturing their former "selves", the former Decepticon Transtectors rejoined the other Decepticons, where they threatened to do the same to the Autobots till God Ginrai arrived. In the following battle, the ex-Transectors were forced to drop the humans, who fled to safety. Devil Z, wishing to move on to Europe, ordered the Decepticons to join him there and they flew off, leaving behind the Autobots and the humans. Autobots! Desperate Attack!!

Super-God Masterforce comic

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The death of Devil Z caused the bond between the humans and their Transtectors to be broken, and Clouder became a normal human again as his now-living Transtector and those of all the other Decepticons headed into space to continue the fight against the Autobots. The Birth of the Super Life-Forms

Toys

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Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers

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  • Doubleclouder (Godmaster, 1988)
  • ID number: C-308
  • Accessories: Godmaster Transtector, chestplate/engine holder, "Anti-Transformer Super Missile"/"Sonic Blaster" and "Twin Beam Cannon"
Masterforce Clouder's "Doubleclouder" Transtector takes the form of a dark-green missile trailer, topped with a large white "Anti-Transformer Super Missile" and lacking any visible faction symbols. The figure comes packaged with not one, but two Godmaster engines, representing Clouder in his white and red humanoid Autobot armor, and his yellow and purple bat-like Decepticon armor. The Transtector can adopt two robot forms, depending on which of the two Godmaster engines is snapped into place in the socket in the toy's chassis; in vehicle mode, whichever engine is not in the socket can be stored inside the gold-chromed "engine holder" accessory, which plugs into the rear end of the Super Missile.
Attaching the Autobot engine unlocks the front of the missile trailer, allowing it to unfold as a pair of legs for a blue, white and dark green humanoid robot mode, to which the engine holder is attached as a chestplate. To arm this mode, the Super Missile splits into two separate weapons, the "Sonic Blaster" (the missile nosecone) and "Twin Beam Cannon" (the missile thruster), which can either be wielded in the robots hands, or mounted on its shoulders (the animation model places the Sonic Blaster on the figure's right shoulder, and uses the Twin Beam Cannon as a hand-held weapon). In this mode, the Decepticon engine can store by pegging into a hole on Clouder's… well, his butt.
To transform Clouder into his Decepticon eagle mode, the Decepticon engine is inserted into the socket, unlocking the sides of the rear of the vehicle mode, which swing down and unfold as the bird's legs. The toys instructions direct you to plug the Twin Beam Cannon into the eagle's back, and to snap the Sonic Blaster into the missile bracket on the eagle's underbelly, but the character's animation model depicts them combined as the Super Missile, mounted on the eagle's back. As in vehicle mode, the Autobot engine can be stored in the engine holder, attached to the missile.
This toy was released concurrently in Hasbro markets as Doubledealer, with several significant differences between the two, chiefly the use of grey plastic where Doubleclouder is white. Additionally, Doubleclouder features several additional metallic silver paint applications on his missile nosecone, eagle head and robot face; his chestplate is golden chrome while Doubledealer's is unpainted blue; and he has slightly different stickers, which are also golden where Doubledealer's are silver.

Notes

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  • Despite his toy's distinct color scheme (seen in his boxart, at right), Doubleclouder is colored like his Hasbro counterpart, Doubledealer, in the Super-God Masterforce cartoon (with the exception of the face of his robot form). Mind you, he's far from the only Super-God Masterforce character to have non-show-accurate colors, and of them all, he's the one that it's least noticeable on.
  • Unlike most of his fellow come-to-life-transtectors, Doubleclouder has yet to make any return appearances in any post-Masterforce media. The Masterforce anime finale did not even show Doubleclouder among the Decepticons flying away from Earth. Them's the breaks!

Foreign names

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  • English: Doubledealer (Shout! Factory sub)
  • Mandarin: Kuài Qiāngshǒu (China, 快枪手, "Quick Shooter"), Shuāngmiàn Yún (China, 双面云, "Double-faced Cloud")
  • Russian: Xameleon (Хамелеон, "Chameleon")
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