Kup (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity

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"Kup, you've lived an interesting life."
"That's a lie and you know it! But I have watched a lot of movies..."

Kup, Security Officer.

Marvel The Transformers comics

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Events from the UK-only comic stories are in italics.

Kup and a platoon of Autobots were feeling pretty good about their mission on Deneb IV when suddenly the entire platoon was nearly washed away by a surprise Decepticon attack of acid rain. The Desert Island of Space!

"It all started back in nineteen dickety-two. We had to say 'dickety' 'cause the Kaiser had stolen our word 'twenty'. I chased that rascal to get it back, but gave up after dickety-six miles..."

Several hundred years ago, Kup became afflicted with combat fatigue, a loss of nerves and will brought on by too many millions of years of non-stop fighting. Considering himself a liability to the Autobot cause, Kup went into "retirement", wandering space alone in his starship, waiting for the end eventually to take him. He was shaken out of his misery when he crossed paths with a pair of Tyroxian fighters attempting to destroy a lone spacecraft. Spurred into action, Kup disabled the pursuers and brought the hunted pilot on-board, and was surprised to finding he was a fellow Autobot named Hot Rod. Hot Rod was thrilled to have found aid and eagerly tried to recruit Kup into helping him return to Tyroxia and save his comrade Blurr, but Kup wasn't interested in getting involved any further, and he only agreed to take Hot Rod back to Cybertron. The young punk reprogrammed the ship's navigation computers, though, and landed on Tyroxia to rescue Blurr by himself. Kup was finally shaken out of his funk when he realized that Hot Rod represented everything he used to be, and he single-handedly saved Hot Rod and Blurr from their Tyroxian tormentors. His fighting spirit restored, Kup returned to Cybertron with the two Autobots and joined Fortress Maximus's troops alongside his new allies. Kup's Story!

"Seeeex! What's so unappealing about hearing your elderly father talk about seeex? I had seeeeeeeeex!"

When Fortress Maximus became disheartened by the never-ending cycle of violence on Cybertron, he made plans to escape the war and set up a new life on the planet Nebulos. Though Kup's actions had become a violent mirror of their so-called enemies, he and many of his top warriors chose to follow their leader to this new world aboard the starship Steelhaven. Tragically, a series of incidents and misunderstandings brought the Autobots and Nebulans to the brink of war within days of their arrival. Kup, forgetting why he had traveled there to begin with, was very happy to return fire, and was only stopped by Fortress Maximus himself. They retreated, and in a desperate attempt to show their true intentions, Fortress Maximus, Kup and several others disarmed themselves in front of the Nebulan gates. Furthermore, Fortress Maximus and four of his lieutenants beheaded themselves and agreed to leave their lifeless heads and bodies, as well as their various weapons, in Nebulan custody so that serious peace talks could be conducted. Ring of Hate!

"Come in! Come in! Mayday! I'm losing your transmission!"
"I said FRENCH FRIES!"
"What the-- Do we sell freench frrrriiieees...?"

Kup helped build an Autobot camp in a forest clearing during Fortress Maximus's absence. Soon, their camp was visited by Nebulan representatives from the Council of Peers interested in learning more about their interplanetary visitors, and Kup was glad to oblige. But one of the representatives, Lord Zarak, used the meeting as an opportunity to contact the Autobots' enemies, the Decepticons. Broken Glass!

Matters quickly deteriorated after the arrival of the Decepticons, and two factions of Nebulans joined with both Autobots and Decepticons through bio-mechanical engineering to become Headmasters. Events turned against the Autobots as Lord Zarak, who had binary-bonded to Decepticon leader Scorponok, was able to sway public opinion in favor of the Decepticons, labeling the Autobots as renegades and taking their Headmasters prisoner. Some Nebulans remained loyal to Fortress Maximus's partner, Galen, and traveled to the Autobot camp to forge an alliance. Making use of a new form of bio-mechanical engineering, Kup and the other weaponless Autobots were teamed with Nebulan Targetmasters to replace their lost guns. Kup personally was teamed with Recoil. His first mission working in tandem with the Nebulan went unfortunately awry; the Autobots traveled to the Nursery to protect it from the Decepticons, only for it to be reduced to rubble by the resulting firefight. As the conflict continued, both camps of Nebulans began to realize the devastation they were causing to their homeworld, and they decided to leave Nebulos and travel to Earth in search of other Transformers. Brothers in Armor!!

"This elevator only goes to the basement! And someone made an awwwwwful mess down there."

When Galen died on Earth and his role as Fortress Maximus's Headmaster partner was assumed by Spike Witwicky, Spike led Kup and the other Targetmasters on a mission to the Decepticon's island headquarters to rescue his brother, Buster Witwicky. Kup voiced bad feelings about the rescue mission, especially about Spike's suitability to lead the mission. However, when Spike continued fighting despite repeated setbacks, Kup admitted that although Spike brought too much sentiment into the battle, he backed his emotionalism with guts. The Desert Island of Space! Soon, Fortress Maximus's Autobots met up with the Earth-bound Autobots led by Grimlock, and somehow the two Autobot camps wound up witnessing a battle between Grimlock and Blaster for Autobot leadership. Kup, along with the Autobots from both camps, began to watch this battle on Earth's moon when Ratbat's Decepticons unleashed a surprise attack. Totaled!

Apparently, Kup was pretty well known among the Decepticon forces, as he appeared among the solid light simulated Autobots created by the Mayhem Attack Squad to test the mettle of Needlenose. The Hunting Party

After Optimus Prime's return, Kup took over as Prime's head of security aboard the Ark. When Prime took most of the Autobots to Earth to defend MacDill Air Force Base from the Micromaster Air Strike Patrol, Kup and the other Autobots who remained on board the Ark were defeated by Blackjack. Kup was the first to reawaken, however he startled Blackjack as he was arming a series of explosive charges, and the explosives were regrettably armed. All the Familiar Faces! The countdown could not be stopped, but Kup refused to jettison themselves from the Ark, leaving their fallen comrades in the med bay to die. An answer to the dilemma presented itself when Ratchet contacted them from Cybertron, as he had been kidnapped by Megatron. Ratchet orchestrated a trans-dimensional gate to send the explosives to Megatron's headquarters on Cybertron, which saved Kup and everyone else on board, but seemed to have killed both Ratchet and Megatron. Skin Deep Eye of the Storm

Kup attended the 1989 Transformers' Christmas party, where he joined Omega Supreme and Grimlock behind the sofa in scowling at Dreadwind and Darkwing. The Transformers #250 cover

Optimus Prime was hit hard by Ratchet's death, which alarmed Hot Rod and caused Kup to worry about the future of their cause. Subsequently, when Prime walked out on the Autobots, Kup was incredibly distressed, but not as much as when he learned Hot Rod had a "plan" to win Prime back. Hot Rod let loose a Mark V Guardian droid on the ship, which he secretly controlled, in order to fake an emergency and shake Prime out of his melancholy. But the droid turned on its master, and Kup and the others were brutally attacked. To Hot Rod's credit, this did jolt Prime to his senses, though Kup was probably too damaged to "thank" him. Yesterday's Heroes!

While Kup spent some down time with Hot Rod and a few others, the Ark was attacked by Thunderwing and his acolytes! Kup helped repel the intruders, who were seeking revenge on Nightbeat and Siren. Assault on the Ark!

The Matrix Quest resulted in the Decepticon Thunderwing being possessed by the corrupted Creation Matrix and running amok in the Ark's docking bay. Kup and two other Autobots tried to sneak up on Thunderwing as he accosted Optimus Prime, but Thunderwing had grown too omniscient by then, and Kup was noticed and forced to retreat. After Thunderwing and the Matrix were jettisoned off the Ark, Kup was helped up off the ground by another Autobot. All Fall Down

"There are only 49 stars on that flag."
"I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Missoura!"

During one of Kup's sweeps of the Ark, he caught Grimlock trying to swipe the bodies of his fallen Dinobots from their life support pods. Grimlock cold-cocked him and escaped with the bodies in a stolen shuttle. Eye of the Storm Kup recovered to find a monster forged from the bodies of Ratchet and Megatron, which Optimus Prime refused to kill. It fell on Kup to tell Optimus his decisions were causing him to lose the support of the Autobots, and Prime's recently announced decision to surrender to Scorponok didn't help things either. Kup reasoned that even if there was some part of Ratchet still inside the creature, Ratchet himself would not want to go on living in this fashion. Prime remained adamant in his refusal to kill the creature, until Kup told him that its unchecked rampage could end up destroying the Ark and everyone on board. Prime reluctantly had a change of heart, and tackled the grotesque monstrosity alone. However, when it came down to it, Prime couldn't pull the trigger, and despite the objections of Kup and the others, he ordered them separated, even though it would mean Megatron would live. The Pri¢e of Life!

"So I rode out the war posing as a German cabaret singer..."
"Won't you come home Franz Braüder? Won't you come hoooome?"
"Ach du lieber! Das es nicht ein booby!"

As planned, Prime surrendered his troops to Scorponok on the terms that they would consider an alliance against Unicron. Kup didn't take this very well, and when he was laughed at while surrendering his weapon, he lashed out at Apeface before being stopped by Prime. Kup told him he once knew an Optimus Prime who would have found another way, a Prime that would never ever surrender. Misfire was happy to interrupt this argument so that he could escort Kup to his cell. But Prime quickly grew restless in his own cell and, having disposed of his guard, he tracked down Kup and Hot Rod and asked them for his help. Though Hot Rod leaped at the chance, Kup was not so easily won back. Prime pleaded with him at length, explaining that as a warrior race that had battled for millions of years, that surrender would actually take the most courage of all! Realizing Prime was right, Kup agreed to help him and Hot Rod storm Lord Zarak's chambers. As Hot Rod grabbed Zarak, Kup sideswiped Scorponok's guard, Bludgeon, in vehicle mode, but transformed too close to Scorponok's body, so Zarak ordered it to grip its claw around his head. Kup told Hot Rod not to spare Zarak for his sake, but Prime stopped them both, insisting that each faction had to trust each other if they were to survive against Unicron. Zarak was persuaded, but before a handshake would have sealed the deal, the Decepticons' underground base collapsed in on itself as a rogue group of Decepticons led by Shockwave and Starscream attacked above. Surrender!

"I fell 8,000 feet onto a pile of jagged rocks! Of course, folks were tougher in those days. I was jitterbuggin' that very night!"

As the dust settled, Kup asked Prime if their truce meant they should be helping gather the Decepticons' wounded. Prime told him and Highbrow to instead focus on briefing the other Autobots as they emerged from the wreckage, and containing the growing battle so that it would not spill out into New York City. ...All This and Civil War 2 Things naturally escalated out of hand, and so Kup had the bright idea to enlist the Decepticon hypnotist Mindwipe at gunpoint, and had him "convince" his fellow Decepticons to lay down their arms for the greater good. This was working swimmingly until suddenly Kup and every other Transformer on Earth was suddenly raptured away to Cybertron. Out of Time! Kup was startled to see their creator, Primus, speaking to them through the body of Emirate Xaaron. Primus told Kup and the others of their eternal battle with Unicron, and of his imminent arrival. In response to this, Unicron cultists rose up from amongst the Cybertronians to destroy Primus's chosen leader, Optimus Prime, and Kup was more than happy to beat the cultists back into submission. They succeeded, but while Primus had begun lecturing his Transformers again, Kup's attention was elsewhere. He interrupted, wondering how exactly no one had noticed Unicron himself sneak up on the planet, clawed hand looming over their heads. The Void!

Kup and Getaway helped get Optimus Prime to safety, as their leader had succumbed to mysterious pain. Though Unicron ravaged the planet and destroyed countless Transformers, ultimately Optimus Prime sacrificed himself to destroy him, and Kup was among the lucky few who were still standing as Unicron's ashes fell to the planet's surface. On the Edge of Extinction! Kup and a handful of others found what was left of Optimus Prime's body, and he watched Prowl cradle their leader as he died. Still Life!

"Hellooooo? You have my pills! Helloooo? I'm cold and there are wolves after me."

Under the dubious leadership of Grimlock, the Autobots left their dying world and followed the Decepticons to Klo, but the Decepticons were waiting for them. In the massacre that followed, Kup was among the final five Autobots who had eluded death. But he and the others did not avoid capture for long, as a team of Decepticons found them hiding in the swamps. Amazingly, they were able to overpower these Decepticons and return to the main battlegrounds, where Optimus Prime had returned to them in a new body, thanks to the Neo-Knights and the Last Autobot! With the Last Autobots' godlike resurrection powers, Kup and the other Autobots were able to overwhelm the Decepticons, who retreated like whipped dogs. The war was over, and Optimus Prime told them it was time to go home! End of the Road!

Marvel UK future timelines

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"Will it work, Kup? I mean, 1986 seems like a long time ago!"
"Yesterday, lad, just yesterday!"{{#if:|{{{quote2}}}}}{{#if:Hot Rod and Kup discuss their upcoming time travel"Target: 2006 part 6"|Hot Rod and Kup discuss their upcoming time travel{{#if:"Target: 2006 part 6"|, "Target: 2006 part 6"|}}|}}
The movie adaptation, originally published by Marvel US, is in italics

At some point in time, Kup managed to defeat the Shrikebats of Dromedon by "inverting the polarities" of his ship. Judgment Day!

"Now Ironhide, there's one thing we don't stand for in the Autobots and that's trying to kill your commanding officer!"

In 1990, Kup, Hot Rod, and Blurr were captured by Megatron, but managed to escape thanks to the efforts of a double-agent named Warmonger. Aspects of Evil! In 2003, Kup was given the job of decoying the Decepticons over the plans for Autobot City. Ultra Magnus needed to get the plans to Earth's various governments unimpeded, while also taking steps to ensure the Decepticons would not get in the way of the Autobot efforts to build the city. So, he made an open and showy display of tasking Kup with being the courier that would bring the information to the humans. Sure enough, the Decepticon spy Ravage overheard those plans and sent the Stunticons out to intercept the old Autobot. Despite Hot Rod's good-intentioned efforts to stop them, the Stunticons made off with the fake plans, secure in their knowledge that they now knew the secrets of Autobot City. Ark Duty Kup was also present at the grand opening of the city a year later. When Shockwave and his troops attacked, he helped shield some human diplomats from harm. Aspects of Evil!

In 2005, Kup was stationed at Autobot City when Megatron and the Decepticons waged a full-on assault. Kup fought alongside Hot Rod and successfully drove the Decepticons off, but not soon enough to save Optimus Prime from succumbing to his wounds. The Planet-Eater!

"I'm edgy! I've got ants in my pants! I'm discombobulated! GET ME A CALMATIVE!"

After the attack on Autobot City in 2006 (yeah, we know), Kup, Hot Rod and Blurr received a psychic prodding from Unicron, alerting them to Galvatron's travel through the timestream back to 1986. Using Galvatron's own time-jump mechanisms, the Autobot trio followed him back into the past, mass-displacing Shockwave, Thundercracker and Frenzy in the process. Apparently reaching an instinctive conclusion that Galvatron could never be returned to the future by force, Kup and his comrades conspired with the Ultra Magnus of 1986 to trick the Decepticon into returning of his own volition.

As Ultra Magnus kept Galvatron busy, the future trio made arrangements to discourage him from staying, including taking Starscream's inert form, and stashing it out of the way. Stargazing When he returned to his base, Galvatron found his henchmen knocked unconscious and his super-weapon rigged to explode. Once it did, he was confronted with a taunting Starscream claiming credit, (though it was really a disguised Skywarp) and he was egged into blowing the treacherous Decepticon into smithereens. Believing Starscream's death at this juncture altered history, making his actions in 1986 part of an alternate timeline that wouldn't affect his own future, Galvatron reluctantly gave up his plans, picked up his goons, and returned to the future. Kup and his comrades, having successfully framed Starscream and driven Galvatron away, returned to 2006 themselves soon after, Target: 2006

"Dickety? Highly dubious."
"What you cackling at, fatty? Too much pie, that's your problem!"

Back in 2005 (uh huh), Kup fled Autobot City with Hot Rod and the Dinobots when the Decepticons (led by Galvatron) regrouped for a counterattack. Their ship was shot down on a strange alien world ruled by the Quintessons and Kup, along with Hot Rod and Grimlock, were taken to a cell. There, they met the last survivor of the planet Lithone, Kranix, who told them of Unicron's coming. Shortly after Krunix met his end, Kup, Hot Rod, and Grimlock were driven into the Sharkticon pits for their own execution. With the help of Wheelie and the rest of the Dinobots, the trio escaped the planet and headed out to track down their companions. Judgment Day! They found them on the planet of Junk, and forged an alliance with this world's natives before once more taking off, this time heading back on course to Cybertron. They arrived just in time to participate in the battle against Unicron, who was tearing Cybertron apart. Kup journeyed into Unicron's body with the other Autobots and witnessed Hot Rod's ascension into Rodimus Prime, as well as Galvatron's defeat. Once Unicron was destroyed by the Matrix of Leadership, Kup joined the other Autobots in rebuilding Cybertron. The Final Battle!

"Not many people know this, but I owned the first radio on Cybertron. T'weren't much on back then, just Shockwave reciting the alphabet over and over. 'A' he'd say. Then 'B'. 'C' would usually follow..."

After Unicron was defeated in 2006 (that again) and Hot Rod rose to become Rodimus Prime, Galvatron went missing. Unable to accept the Decepticon leader was truly dead without seeing the body, Rodimus Prime went searching for him with Kup and Blurr. Unfortunately, his lax attention to Cybertron gave the new Decepticon commander, Shockwave, time to consolidate the army under his control and begin the war anew. Rodimus was forced to return to Cybertron empty-handed, and he only made matters worse when he rashly took out a 10,000-shanix reward for any bounty hunter who could find Galvatron for him. This led to a freelance peacekeeping agent named Death's Head traveling back in time to 1987, where he had learned Galvatron had escaped after the battle with Unicron. Rodimus, Kup, and the other Autobots learned of this turn of events after successfully eliminating a squad of Decepticon Airborne hunter squad. Wanted: Galvatron — Dead or Alive! Realizing that a trigger-happy mercenary messing with the timestream was just as dangerous as Galvatron could ever be, Rodimus arranged a time-jump to clean up his mess, taking Kup, Blurr and Wreck-Gar back to 1987 along with him. Burning Sky!

In the past, the future Autobots once again found the 20th-century Ultra Magnus fighting with Galvatron, as the Decepticon leader attempted to extract vast amounts of energy from a volcano. Mere seconds after locating Galvatron and engaging him in combat, however, Kup and Blurr were knocked off-line when Galvatron hurled Ultra Magnus's beaten body at them. Hunters After regrouping, the Autobots concocted a plan to steal Galvatron's time-jump trigger device and rewire it to propel them all back to their proper place and time. While Kup and the others distracted Galvatron, Wreck-Gar and Rodimus Prime attempted to make the proper modifications. In the end, however, only the Autobots were launched back to the future; Galvatron had modified the device so that the temporal backlash did not affect him, and he stayed in the past. Fire on High!

"His name is Kup and he's got something you couldn't get at your fancy schools: life experience! Kup, tell em about your amazing life!"
"I spent forty years as a night watchman at a cranberry silo."

In 2008, Kup was on hand to witness a full-scale Decepticon assault at Autobase on Cybertron. He fought alongside Rodimus Prime and the other Autobots and, when Rodimus traveled to the planet of Junk to deal with Unicron (the cause behind the Decepticon offensive), Kup stepped up to lead the remaining Autobot forces alongside Ultra Magnus until Soundwave sounded a retreat and the Decepticons fled. The Legacy of Unicron! Later that year, Autobot City was attacked by Quintessons, and the deactivated Autobots were hung out on the outer walls as a warning for any would-be rescuers. Kup came to Earth with Rodimus Prime and crew to deal with the usurpers, and he led an advance team of Blurr, Smokescreen and Wideload in searching the complex. They were caught in a heated battle with the Quintessons' shock troopers, but managed to hold their own long enough for their leader to reach the control center and activate Metroplex himself. Resistance faltered rather quickly after that. Space Pirates!

As time passed, the long-term effects of Galvatron's presence in the past became overwhelming. A full-on time storm began brewing at both ends of the timeline, 1989 and 2009. In order to set the universe back on the right course, Rodimus Prime and Kup chose to travel back in time with Blurr, Arcee, Ultra Magnus and Red Alert to retrieve Galvatron. No, really, for sure this time. Problem was, this time their mass-displacement upon arrival took out 1989's Optimus Prime and several fellow Autobots, leading to more than a little consternation among their 20th-century counterparts. Fortress Maximus, guided by his neophyte Headmaster partner, Spike Witwicky, jumped to the conclusion that Optimus was dead and led his Autobots into battle with Rodimus and his group. Kup didn't fare too well at trying to fight Grimlock hand-to-hand, but soon cooler heads prevailed, and the Autobots joined forces not only with each other, but with a pair of detachments from the 1989 and 2009 Decepticon camps as well.

As the various groups tracked down Galvatron, they were shocked to find that not only had he joined forces with Megatron, but that the two of them had laid waste to the Cybertronian teams of the Autobot Wreckers and the Decepticon Mayhem Attack Squad. Kup joined Arcee and Ultra Magnus in trying to gun down Megatron, but was batted aside by the Decepticon's fusion cannon and lay unconscious, out of the battle for the rest of the conflict. Still, Galvatron was ultimately destroyed in battle with Optimus Prime and consumed wholly by the timestorm, restoring the timestream to a stable place. Kup and the other 2009 Autobots gathered together and prepared to return home to their lives. Time Wars

It didn't quite work out that way.

Back in 2009, the Autobots were horrified to find that Galvatron waited for them on Cybertron. It seemed the restoration of the timeline prevented Galvatron from having ever traveled back in time, and thus he had been present at the Decepticons' side for the last few years, which considerably altered the war effort in their favor. In the new 21st century, Galvatron and the Decepticons virtually controlled Cybertron, and only a few token bands of Autobot resistance remained on their home planet. Kup and the returnees adjusted as best they could, but the odds were hopelessly against them. The resistance on Cybertron ended when Galvatron and his men ransacked a resistance station, killing Blurr and the other Autobots present. Galvatron mutilated the corpses to drive Rodimus Prime into a killing frenzy, hoping to corrupt the Matrix itself through its host. Indeed, Kup and Arcee began experiencing fire in the depths of their souls before they managed to talk down Rodimus. The Autobots of Cybertron were then forced to flee the world entirely. Aspects of Evil!

On their voyage back to Earth and Autobot City, the Autobot shuttlecraft had just entered hyperspace when Pincher and Doubleheader alerted Kup to a problem: sabotage. Someone had killed a guard and torn up the engine room, damaging the guidance systems so that the ship would be flying blind when they came out of warp into who-knows-what. Sure enough, the ship materialized too close to Earth, and another bit of sabotage prevented the emergency retros from stopped their descent. It was going to be a heavy hit. What's worse, Kup's efforts to isolate the Decepticon life-signs of their saboteur turned up a nasty truth: No additional life signs were present on the shuttle. The saboteur was an Autobot! The Void! After failing to locate Rodimus Prime during the time the sabotage was being committed, Kup had a sinking feeling and set up a ruse to test Prime. When Arcee left to try and enter the sealed retro room through the air vents, Kup told Rodimus she was actually going to sneak through the coolant tanks. Fortunately for their landing, Arcee succeeded just in time. Unfortunately for...well, everything else, Kup was right: Rodimus Prime was the saboteur, possessed by the pure malevolence of Unicron, which had taken up residence inside the Matrix sometime ago. Apparently Galvatron's efforts to corrupt Rodimus back on Cybertron had jarred loose enough evil for Unicron to take hold on Rodimus Prime's consciousness. Edge of Impact

Battling the power of the Matrix influenced by the Devil himself, the Autobots were sorely outmatched against Rodimus. Despite Arcee's urgings, Kup desperately searched for another option besides lethal force. Shadow of Evil In the short term, Kup seemed to be correct: Rodimus managed to fight back Unicron's evil, caging it inside the Matrix long enough for Kup to remove the object from Rodimus's chest, temporarily severing their link. White Fire In the long term, however, the threat was far from over. Rodimus would again be consumed by evil in 2010, this time metamorphosing into Unicron reborn for a time, before caging the evil again. Kup and Arcee were present at this second rise of Unicron, but their ultimate fate is unknown. It is telling, however, that Rodimus Prime appeared to be beaten, ill, and totally alone by the time of 2356. Aspects of Evil!

Rhythms of Darkness!

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In an alternate future of 2009, the Autobots were overwhelmed by the forces of evil. Unicron consumed Cybertron utterly, and Earth came under heavy fire from Galvatron and his Decepticon legions. Kup and Blurr were personally executed by Cyclonus and Scourge. Rhythms of Darkness!

Marvel Generation 2 comic

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"When I read your magazine I don't see one wrinkled face or a single toothless grin. For Shame! --To the sickos at Modern Bride Magazine."

Kup and Optimus Prime's Autobots continued their pursuit of Bludgeon's Decepticons to an alien world which was believed to contain a cache of advanced weaponry. Both factions were quickly driven from the planet by a menacing monster guarding the technology. Ghosts

After the Autobot army splintered throughout the universe, Kup was working alongside Optimus Prime and Hot Rod. In mid-battle, Kup had to verbally nudge Prime out of his apocalyptic visions. Grimlock summoned Prime and his forces for help and Kup was present as Grimlock explained his discovery of several "little Cybertrons". The Autobots soon learned of Liege Centuro and his Cybertronians when Jhiaxus attacked them and took them prisoner. Kup and other Autobots were rescued by Prime and Grimlock from confinement on the Twilight. War Without End!

"I thought I recognized you! I gave you a plate of corn muffins back in 1947 to paint my chicken coop. And you never did it!"
"Those corn muffins were lousy!"
"PAINT MY CHICKEN COOP!"

Kup kicked a lot of skidplate during the battle between the Autobots and Cybertronians in the K'tord Nebula. It was soon learned that bots on both sides were infected by some kind of parasitic entity that fed off of rage. Kup was so under its influence that Optimus Prime had to hold him back from attacking one of the enemy after he and Jhiaxus had agreed to a truce. Primal Fear!

Kup appeared as one of many dismembered corpses in one of Optimus Prime's apocalyptic visions. As Optimus reached toward Kup, an inky black substance shot out of Kup's mouth, enveloped Prime and started to devour him. The real Kup then physically shook Optimus out of this vision, remarking that Transformers don't sleep. The crusty old Autobot reported that Grimlock had, against Prime's orders, left with a raiding party in tow. What Kup didn't say is that he wished Grimlock had asked him to come along. He got his chance to fight later when he went with Prime to rescue Grimlock from his bungled surprise attack on the Cybertronians. Devices and Desires!

"We leave you with the Autobots for three hours and the Decepticons take them away!?"
"Oh bitch, bitch, bitch."

Kup supervised war games between the Autobots as they waited for Optimus Prime to finish his quasi-mystical journey into the depths of Cybertron. The Power and the Glory Later, Kup fought with Autobots and Decepticons to repel the Cybertronian attack on the planet Ethos. Escalation! Thereafter, he was among the party that went to investigate J'asik, a moon completely desiccated down to a molecular level. Kup served as head of security, and was ordered to triple the security detail so that the Autobots' science team could safely finish their analysis. Swarm

Like all the other Autobots, Kup was at Autobase when the Cybertronian army launched a massive attack to get rid of the other Transformers once and for all. Helping defeat the first few waves Total War! and mop up after the attacks, Kup reported the sorry state of their fortifications to Grimlock when the Swarm attacked their position. A Rage in Heaven!

Regeneration One

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Regeneration One continues from the Marvel US series, and does not include the UK stories or any subsequently published stories.
"You know, you remind me of a poem I can't remember, a song that may never have existed, and a place I'm not sure I've ever been to."

Though tranquility reigned on Cybertron for twenty-one years, trouble began brewing again with "Neo-Decepticon" rabble-rousers disturbing the peace. Kup and Ultra Magnus informed Optimus Prime of this activity, and Kup suggested mobilizing the Wreckers as a response. His request was denied by Prime, with disastrous results: left unimpeded, Soundwave assassinated the Last Autobot! Counterpoint Later, Kup trained to take down at-large Decepticons using a holographic training session in Debris's Strategy-Tank. Against orders, he commissioned the Wreckers to take down the Deluxe Insecticons, who planned to detonate cobalt-60 Warbirds at the Pax Cybertronia Decommissioning Depot in Kalis.

Summoned to Nova Point to account for this to Optimus Prime, Kup and Hot Rod argued about over Prime's new outlook, with Kup angrily concluding that Prime's decision to mentor Hot Rod was a case of him looking for someone to take over leadership so that he could forget about the war entirely. Deciding that a more proactive attitude was needed to deal with the threats that still existed, Kup returned to Debris without even seeing Prime and gathered up the other Wreckers. Announcing his intent to visit Earth, Nebulos and the other worlds touched by the war to try and actually make a difference, the whole team elected to join him. Kup and the Wreckers hitched a lift with the Cosmic Carnival to Earth, but discovered that the entire planet had been devastated. They were blown out of the sky by nuclear missiles, launched by Megatron. Loose Ends, Part 1

"Ah, there's an interesting story behind this nickel. In 1957, I remember it was, I got up in the morning and made myself a piece of toast. I set the toaster to 3: Medium Brown..."

Using escape pods, they crash-landed on Earth. To send a message of their findings to Cybertron, Kup and the Wreckers targeted the Deep Space Network but Kup peeled off from the others to deal with Megatron's zombie-like army. He took down Tentakil, but was felled by Skywarp, and brought before Megatron, who showed the fate of Ratchet—his still-living head adorning Megatron's battle sled. Loose Ends, Part 2 Megatron infected Kup with Scraplets and broadcasted for the Wreckers to rescue him and be ambushed. Loose Ends, Part 3 Springer took Whirl and Sandstorm to rescue Kup while the others made a play for the Ark, and fought through its defenses. The flying trio were unsuccessful and were all grounded by Megatron's zombified Decepticons. When Megatron became preoccupied with Optimus Prime's arrival, Starscream managed to briefly voice an intelligible though, and revealed that Kup had to kill Ratchet to stop Megatron. Loose Ends, Part 4

"What was that last thing you said? 'Kup's Little Helper'? What's that? ...Which one of you is the mailman?"

Through much struggle, Kup dragged himself over to Ratchet. He was tended to by First Aid who gave him a treatment for the Scraplets. Kup regained some strength and demanded First Aid's gun, which he then used to end Ratchet's pitiful existence, disabling Megatron as well, allowing Optimus Prime to crush his spark. Loose Ends, Part 5

The injured Kup was successfully treated for Scraplets as the Autobots prepared to leave Earth. Prime stopped to apologize to Kup for not listening to him sooner, but Kup would only say it was too late for Springer and Ratchet and six billion humans to hear that apology. Natural Selection, Part One

On the way back to Cybertron on board the Valiant, Kup and the Autobots were nearly shot down by their own planetary defense systems, unaware that Scorponok had claimed the planet in their absence. Natural Selection, Part Four Fortunately, a small band of Autobots retook the missile defense hub before the Valiant was fried. Natural Selection, Part Five

"The eating of a good orange is a lot like a successful marriage--"
"Just eat the damn orange!"

Kup returned to a changed Cybertron, and did little to hide his disbelief that Optimus Prime named Hot Rod his successor. After a disastrous public address turned into a riot, Kup discouraged Hot Rod further, saying his promotion was just another bad call Prime had made lately and suggested to abdicate to Ultra Magnus immediately. Destiny, Part One

Kup assumed full leadership of the Wreckers in Springer's absence, but even his fellow commandos were starting to question his hard-boiled tactics. Roadbuster remarked that Springer knew the difference between when to be heavy-handed and when not. Destiny, Part Two Nevertheless, Kup remained Wreckers leader and oversaw their raid on the Neo-Decepticons' base at Fort Scyk. Destiny, Part Three

"You two look good. Open-casket good!"

As Bludgeon brought the Warworld to Cybertron, war broke out on Cybertron again. Kup was hot to charge out onto the battlefield with his squad, but Prowl and Perceptor forced him to wait until intelligence determined where they were needed the most. The moment came when analysis determined Bludgeon's horde of self-regenerating, self-evolving Blitz Engines relied on the Warworld for power. Destiny, Part Four The Wreckers were dispatched to infiltrate the Warworld and eliminate the connection. They were opposed by Bludgeon, who disabled Kup's team before coming after him personally. Kup survived thanks to the sudden arrival of Hot Rod, now arisen by the power of an alternate future's Matrix to become Rodimus Prime. Bludgeon and the Warworld went down, and the Decepticon uprising was finished. Less Than Zero Destiny, Part Five Surprised as he was by Hot Rod's about-face, Kup quickly accepted this new, more-imposing figure as the new Prime. The War to End All Wars, Part 1

"I first took a fancy to Mrs. Arcee because her raspy voice reminded me of my old Victrola. Oh, it was a fine machine with a vulcanized rubber listening tube which you crammed in your ear. The tube would go in easier with some sort of lubricant like linseed oil or doctor..."

When Rodimus Prime led the Autobots in an all-out attack on Jhiaxus and his genocidal Hub, Kup eagerly signed on. However, he also continued to make his own plans outside the chain-of-command, and prepped the Wreckers for an independent mission to sabotage the Hub. He activated then when the opening assault on the Hub did not have the effect intended, and the Autobots were forced to surrender. The War to End All Wars, Part 3 The Wreckers' chaotic guerrilla tactics proved highly effective on Jhiaxus's perfectly ordered system, but as they escaped Rodimus Prime still warned Kup they would be having an unpleasant conversation later. The War to End All Wars, Part 4

That conversation was put on hold when they returned to Cybertron and discovered a global necropolis, the planet drained of life and energy by the Anti-Matrix entity. As puppets of the Anti-Matrix reached out to Earth and Nebulos through the Autobots' space bridge hub, Kup joined Prowl on a squad that visited Earth. The Anti-Matrix was eventually contained on Cybertron, and the Autobots abandoned their world to seek other opportunities in the stars. The War to End All Wars, Part 5

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"I haven't been this relaxed since I was watch commander at Pearl Harbor."

In the early days of the Great War on Cybertron after the Ark's launch, Kup was one of Fortress Maximus's troops when they were attacked by Scorponok's troops. Secrets & Lies #3

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"Oral thermometer my eye! Think warm thoughts, boy, 'cause this is miiiiighty cold..."
  • Like the rest of the central The Transformers: The Movie cast, Kup had a preliminary character model by Floro Dery that was revised by Japanese artists before final animation. And just like the rest of the central movie cast, that early model was used as a basis for his early Marvel Comics appearances - more precisely for the US Marvel stories, José Delbo used the older model, while Andrew Wildman and Geoff Senior used the final model. Derek Yaniger and Manny Galan switched back to the older model for Kup's Generation 2 appearances. The final model features a slimmer torso, streamlined leg shapes, and signs of aging.
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