Pincher (G1)

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Pincher is an Autobot Pretender from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Interesting placement of that drill-tail...

Pincher is what Wheeljack would be like if he spent a little too much time in the sun. A master of chemical cocktails, Pincher enjoys combining dangerous fluids of all kinds, whether it's a good idea or not. He can often be heard cackling to himself in his laboratory. A hard-working over-achiever, Pincher never knows when to quit, even when maybe he should. What he really needs is a good, honest hunchback to assist him, and keep him from blowing himself up with his own work.

Fiction

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Marvel The Transformers comics

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

Pincher was constantly teamed up with and commanding Longtooth and Doubleheader—a job that irked him whenever Longtooth went on another mad and dangerous charge at the enemy. In December 1989, he was called in by Emirate Xaaron to join the mission to retrieve the lost Creation Matrix. Whose Lifeforce Is It Anyway?

Scorponok's underachieving kid brother

Pincher led the trio to the town of Gottlieb on the planet Pequod, where they found a reanimated creature called the Klud was attacking fishing boats. Suspecting the creature's miraculous return may have been caused by exposure to the Matrix, the Autobots went looking for it, only to have Longtooth get his leg bitten off by the Klud. The crippled Autobot went rogue after that, hunting down the Klud for vengeance like a modern-day Ahab. Pincher and Doubleheader were placed in the uneasy position of having to terminate their fellow Autobot, or allow him to murder a (relatively) innocent lifeform in cold blood. Matters became even more complicated when the Decepticon Mayhem Attack Squad jumped the Pretenders before they could reason with Longtooth. Pincher managed to break free during the attack and confront the addle-brained Longtooth with the vows he took as an Autobot to protect all life. In the end, they survived the Decepticon attack, and Pincher's speech succeeded in staying Longtooth's hand—the Bionic Baby Beluga went free. Deadly Obsession

Marvel UK future timelines

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When the Autobots fled Cybertron in 2009, Pincher was among the roughly 440 Autobots on board a ship on its way to Earth. He and Doubleheader came across a dead guard in front of Engine Room Two, and on further investigation found that the systems had been severely sabotaged. The Void!

2005 IDW continuity

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First appearance: Stormbringer #1
"Check out the loser reading about me."

Pincher was stationed at a monitoring station aboard the Autobot Orbital Command Hub at the time of Thunderwing's reawakening. Stormbringer #1 He was later assigned to the Ark-17 with Siren and Sizzle, Guzzle's psych-screening suggesting he might have been among the radiation-suited Autobots who attempted to recover the stranded Kup. Spotlight: Kup Following Kup's rescue, Pincher returned to the Command Hub, where he and Overdrive gawked at the sight of the legendary Blaster wandering through the halls. Spotlight: Blaster

Pincher was among the Autobots who joined Rodimus's crew on the Lost Light once the war was over. He participated in a battle with a rogue group of Decepticons terrorizing the people of Temptoria, at one point punching out Bulletbike. Before & After

A Tale of the Pretenders

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While trying to find Metalhawk in Japan, Pincher and other Autobot Pretenders ran into a human woman who pleaded with them to save her siblings from Decepticon Pretenders. They soon found their teammate and were able to fight off the Decepticons. A Tale of the Pretenders

Toys

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The Transformers

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First Autobot in the Swiss armed forces
  • Pincher (Pretender, 1989)
The Transformers Pincher's inner robot transforms into the body of a scorpion, attaching to a sting-and-leg piece to complete the alt mode. His humanoid shell has a removable helmet, and can wear the scorpion tail and legs as a backpack. His small "laser torch" inner robot weapon can plug onto his back in scorpion mode. Like all of the 1989 Pretenders, the "laser torch" can store inside the shell in a port located in the leg.
No version of this mold or character was released in Japan.

Merchandise

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Transformers Character Card

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Released as part of the seventh wave of the e-HOBBY exclusive Transformers Character Card series, this pair of holographic trading cards depict super-deformed art of Pincher and Vroom along with character profiles and tech specs.

Notes

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Foreign names

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  • Japanese: Pincher (ピンチャー Pinchā)
  • French: Scorpion (France), Étau (Canada, "Vise")
  • Hungarian: Zsebes ("Pickpocket" or "Pocketed", the localizer might've associated the name "Pincher" with penny-pinching)
  • Italian: Tenax (Latin for "Tenacious", or a cool contraction for the word "Tenaglia", italian translation for "pincers")
  • Mandarin: Jiā Qián (China, 夹钳, "Clamp")
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