Plasma bomb
There's a reason why Trypticon's the ultimate Decepticon warrior. He's the size of a city (most of the time), he's all kinds of powerful, and is essentially, a walking, talking arsenal. One of his myriad of devastating weapons include his heat-seeking plasma bombs which he shoots from his mouth. With them, he's able to reap all sorts of destruction before he's inevitably thrown into an ocean.
Similar plasma-based explosive devices available to both Autobots and Decepticons include plasma charges, plasma-charged bombs, plasma-density charges, and phase-charges, which are also known as plasma mines.
Fiction
[edit]Marvel The Transformers comics
[edit]In dinosaur mode, Trypticon could shoot heat-seeking plasma bombs from his mouth and he carried a particle beam cannon within his sinus cavity. Trypticon's Universe profile When fighting the Dinobots outside the Ark, he fired bombs from his mouth that hit Slag and Sludge. King of the Hill!
Dreamwave Generation One continuity
[edit]In dinosaur mode Trypticon could launch plasma bombs from his mouth. Trypticon's More than Meets the Eye profile Thunderwing's Pretender shell's interstellar jet mode was armed with electrostatic guns, gas ports, wing-mounted cyclone cannons, and a full load of plasma-charged bombs. Thunderwing's More than Meets the Eye profile
2005 IDW continuity
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During the reign of Zeta Prime, Orion Pax and a group of Autobots were sent into the Torus-City of Nyon to track down Swindle, who was selling stolen "grade-A, top-of-the-line" phase-charges to the local neutralists. Catching him in the middle of a deal, a firefight ensued and although they were able to apprehend Swindle, the Autobots appeared to be the aggressors in the eyes of the local population—which led to them being targeted by another neutralist with one of the phase-charges soon afterwards. Law and Disorder When Zeta sent them back to the Rust Narrows to bring Hot Rod in, local intel led them to the Acropolex where Hound discovered that the floor had been laid with deactivated "plasma mines". Ruins Zeta Prime's Omega Destructors attacked in full force soon afterwards, armed with vamparc ribbons, and rather than let his people be drained of their energon, Hot Rod remotely detonated all of the phase-charges he had secreted around Nyon, destroying the city. Purge
In an attempt to stop Trypticon in Harmonex, Orion Pax—now Optimus Prime—requisitioned fusion-borers, grav-inhibitors and industrial-grade phase-charges from Ultra Magnus. The Illusion of Control
When a seam of Regenesis ore was discovered beneath a dig site in Eden, Texas, Bludgeon sent the facsimile constructs Markham and Fleming to plant plasma-density charges near a pocket of natural gas close to the main shaft. When the charges detonated the gas the site was evacuated, allowing the Decepticons to move in and take the ore for themselves.
Once Bludgeon considered his mission complete, he used a plasma-density charge to destroy his base within Mount St. Helens. By tossing the explosive into the magma flowing inside the mountain, he triggered a massive volcanic eruption that erased all evidence of his stay on the planet. Spotlight: Soundwave
Plasma-density charges were used in the bombing that crippled Omega Supreme. The End of the Beginning of the World
Toys
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- Accessories: 2 loading ramps, 2 blaster stands, single-barreled blaster, double-barreled blaster, 2 scanners, 2 connectors, large tower, small tower, left & right tank treads, laser cannon
- The Transformers Trypticon came with a chromed weapon, labelled as a double-barreled blaster in his instructions, that could fit in his dinosaur mode mouth and was described as being able to shoot plasma bombs in his packaging bio.
- Trypticon was reissued in 2015 as part of the Platinum Edition line. This mold was also retooled, redecoed, and sold without accessories as Beast Wars II Gigastorm.
- Thunderwing (Mega Pretender, 1989)
- Accessories: Pretender shell, 2 large lasers, small laser
- The Transformers Thunderwing was armed with plasma charges, according to his packaging bio.
Notes
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- Unusually for an introductory appearance in an early issue of the Marvel run intended to showcase Trypticon's abilities, in "King of the Hill!" neither his plasma bombs nor his particle beam cannon are called out in the dialogue or narration despite them being clearly depicted in the art; instead the issue highlights his use of sonic-scrambler mines, weapons that his toy does not have.
- Following the first phase-charge's detonation in "Law and Disorder", Hound recognised it by the smell of the plasma-residue.