Louisiana bounty hunters
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- The Louisiana bounty hunters are four à five bounty hunters from the Marvel portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
The "Louisiana bounty hunters" were "bumbling amateur" bounty hunters who came to the Louisiana bayous in order to kill the Decepticon Starscream.
Fiction
[edit]Marvel Comics continuity
[edit]Marvel The Transformers comics
[edit]Earthforce
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Megatron and Shockwave had anonymously put a price on Starscream's head with which they baited a few bounty hunters waaaaaay not up to the task of taking down the Seeker. This was fine; their true purpose was not to destroy Starscream, but to have him know about the anonymous contract so he'd suspect his co-leader Soundwave of trying to get rid of him and attack him.
The first bounty hunter to attack Starscream, out alone for a stroll or something, was of a reptilian appearance. From his flying platform, he tried to sharpshoot the target, but Starscream noticed him in time to dodge the blast. Then he shot back, killing the reptile.
Starscream got little time to contemplate on what had just happened before the second bounty hunter, resembling a jousting knight, attacked. Starscream simply grabbed the lance and threw the knight over against a tree, presumably killing him. The horse kinda disappeared into thin air.
The third and fourth bounty hunter were some sort of conjoined blobs, evidently brighter than the other two because they took some time observing their target to find a good moment to attack. However, they failed to kill Starscream with the first shot as well, allowing the Decepticon to get right back at them by first shooting them, then separating them. Since they weren't dead yet either, Starscream demanded to know from them why he was being hunted. They told him, a development observed from afar by Megatron and Shockwave. Since Starscream's attention immediately went to the suspected culprit behind the attack (indeed, Soundwave), he may have not bothered finishing the two blobs off. Assassins
Notes
[edit]- The cover of "Assassins" shows a fifth bounty hunter who in a later issue's letters page was confirmed to be a Predator. This bounty hunter didn't appear in the actual story.