Magnum

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Magnum is an Autobot from the Wings Universe portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Magnus's brother from another mother.

Originally, Magnum never wanted to be in a leadership position, but his years in the Autobot Military Academy installed a need within him to prove himself capable. He's demonstrated his leadership skills time and time again, even (and especially) when leadership meant leading by example. Now that he's moved up the ranks to the Autobot High Council, the only part of his job that he truly resents is the political deadlock that keeps him from being as quick to act as he'd prefer. He believes his Elite Guard, given true autonomy, is the best answer to the rise in Decepticon activity, rather than Council member Alpha Trion's mostly symbolic (he feels) "Prime" initiative.

Despite being a capable warrior, Magnum is seen mostly behind his desk. Due to his frustration with politics, he delegates most of his duties to Sentinel Major, and occasionally retaliates against the political machine by giving surprisingly impulsive orders.

Magnum transforms into a "Haughty Hauler" that carries long-range missile launchers.

Fiction

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Wings Universe

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Long ago, in the opening stages of the Cybertronian civil war, Magnum and the rest of Autobot High Command were keeping an eye on a handful of unorganized rogues called the Decepticons. But when they suddenly found themselves a leader, everything changed. Magnum feared that things had already begun to escalate into war. Things got even worse when the Van De Graaff was shot down over Beta-Nine, putting its precious cargo at risk. Fearing the Decepticons had done the deed and may soon recover the cargo, Magnum contacted the Autobot ship closest to Beta-Nine, the Eight Track. He ordered its crew to recover the cargo at any cost!

The crew of the Eight Track succeeded, and to reward them for their bravery, Magnum inducted the four of them into the Elite Guard, a new unit that Autobot High Command had recently assembled. See, the war had officially begun... Wings of Honor

At some point, Magnum came across Ironfist working as a menial laborer in a Polyhex factory. After witnessing him assemble one of the most complex weapons ever engineered, Magnum put the worker-bot through a fast-paced initiation into the Elite Guard, and personally attended his induction into the Guard's ranks. Ironfist's profile in Club magazine #36

And he's a great judge of character.

Fifteen years after the war's beginning, Magnum contacted Thunder Clash with information on his team's next mission. After Metalhawk's team escorted Thunder Clash's team to Space Port Bravo, the former group returned to Elite Guard Headquarters for briefing. Magnum and Sentinel Major met them on the landing pad, where Magnum praised Metalhawk's team for their excellence despite their relative newness. Because of their proven abilities, Metalhawk paired them with another new team, the Combaticons, on a mission to attack the believed leaders of the Decepticon uprising. The Coming Storm: Part 2 Magnum assigned the teams to aid an archaeological team. Afterwards, he was somewhat skeptical of the reports turned in by the two teams, and assigned them a new mission in Praxium. Flames of Yesterday

Metalhawk reported on the success of another mission to Magnum. The Coming Storm: Part 3 Sentinel Major reported to Magnum that he'd sent the Stealth Team on a mission to deal with Gutcruncher. Magnum was pleased with the progress in dealing with the myriad Warlords, but not with the recent capture of the Combaticons by Decepticon forces. He sidelined Metalhawk's team, believing that Metalhawk may have been compromised as a result. A Team Effort

Following the deaths of most of the Elite Guard at the hands of Bruticus, the giant which Deathsaurus had turned the Combaticons into, Magnum gathered the remaining guardsmen at the Autobot High Council Citadel. His intention was to show the Autobot High Council that the Elite Guard was still their primary line of defense, but instead he found that the Council was appointing Optimus Prime the leader of a new military. Battle Lines, Part 1 Undaunted, he got permission from sympathetic council members to take the remaining guard on a mission to find and eliminate Deathsaurus. They stopped by the Auxiliary Weapons Locker, where Magnum was forced to give the entry code by his own assistant, Outback, before they could enter. When Ricochet, Moonracer, and Outback volunteered to join the team, he stressed to them the disaster that awaited them should the mission fail. Battle Lines, Part 2

"What I did to the Combaticons?"
"You used your spark to corrupt their Autobot protoforms!"
"Errr, that was Megatron. Are you colorblind?"

They began their search for Deathsaurus's base, but instead found Side Burn, who claimed to already know the location of their target. He couldn't tell them much before the group was attacked by Deathsaurus's troops. Magnum realized that Deathsaurus had surely been warned in advance of the Elite Guard's approach by his many spies, but rallied his men to fight back. When Deathsaurus himself made an appearance, Magnum assaulted him for his mind warping of the Combaticons. Deathsaurus claimed that he had done nothing to the Combaticons' minds, and his suggestion that Magnum might also be tempted to become a Decepticon only served to make Magnum angrier. Battle Lines, Part 3

As the pair fought, Magnum finally got tired of Deathsaurus's baiting and gave him a good blast to the chest. Unfortunately for Magnum, this just resulted in an enraged Lyzack laying into him with her sword, slicing the end off his gun and smashing his chest windscreen. He was saved from a killing blow by Thunderclash, though as the other Autobot helped him up, Deathsaurus reappeared to finish them himself. The pair were rescued by Sprocket, and in the aftermath of the Decepticon retreat, Magnum ordered his team back to base for repairs. Battle Lines, Part 4

A week later in Iacon, Magnum approached Optimus Prime to beg forgiveness for seeing him as an adversary. Just as the two were about to reconcile, Dion interrupted them to tell them of a Decepticon attack on the city. They and Side Burn scrambled for Iacon's perimeter wall, where they were witness to its crumbling at the hands of a new combiner, Devastator! Battle Lines, Part 5

Which is which isn't important right now.

Magnum led the Autobots valiantly against overwhelming odds. When Dion's suggestion to aim at Devastator's knees resulted in the titan falling, Magnum commended his excellent strategy, and said that some day he would be a "great Magnum." Even with Devastator down, the Autobots still had Megatron to deal with. Though Optimus Prime reminded Megatron that he had not one, but two Autobot leaders to contend with, the Decepticon leader made sure to rectify that. With a blast of his fusion cannon, he destroyed Magnum and would have also destroyed Optimus Prime if Dion hadn't taken the shot meant for him.

Though both Magnum and Dion fell, the Autobots were ultimately victorious. In the wake of their victory, Alpha Trion did what he could for Magnum and Dion, but he told Optimus Prime only one of them could survive their wounds. One died and the other was rebuilt into Ultra Magnus. Battle Lines, Part 6

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Almost looks like Moonracer, really.

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