Ratchet (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity

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Ratchet, the definitive Autobot medic since 1984.

Marvel The Transformers comics

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Events from the UK-only comic stories are in italics.
This look didn't last long.

Ratchet acted as one of the Autobots' medics since early in the war, even before Optimus Prime was handed full leadership of their forces. And There Shall Come...a Leader! He was one of the select Autobots chosen by Prime to travel aboard the Ark, and ended up in stasis lock for four million years at the base of Mount St. Hilary with the rest of the crew. Once the volcano exploded and the Transformers reactivated, Ratchet was rebuilt to transform into an ambulance. He responded to Gears's complaining by telling him that at least he didn't have to fix everyone all the time! Ratchet would rather be partying. The Transformers

What a comfortable-looking repair sled they're dragging Gears into.

As their war against the Decepticons continued on Earth, Ratchet joined the Autobots' debate about how to deal with their dwindling fuel resources. Thankfully, Bumblebee had located a human, Sparkplug Witwicky, who could help them convert fuel to a form usable by them, so the Ark was left in Ratchet's hands as the others left to meet with Bumblebee and his new human friends. Ratchet noted sadly that without fuel, even his considerable skills were useless. Power Play! While they were gone, Ratchet attended to the Ark. During his attempts at repairs, he uncovered something interesting in its memory databanks, but Optimus Prime cut him off before he could explain. Gears was badly damaged in the battle that followed, and his body was brought back to Ratchet for repairs. After working on him for a short period of time, Ratchet was amazed that he could already speak. Unfortunately, Gears had bad news; Sparkplug Witwicky had converted fuel for the Decepticons while he had been their prisoner! Prisoner of War!

The Autobots were outraged at this, which upset Sparkplug so much that he suffered a heart attack. Ratchet volunteered to drive Sparkplug and his son Buster to the hospital. While Buster stayed at the hospital with his ailing father, Ratchet held fast to his oath to preserve life, an oath which made no distinction between organic or mechanical life, and helped two paramedics to get to their emergency. The Last Stand Upon their return to the hospital, Ratchet was happy to learn that Sparkplug, now able to speak, had told Buster that he'd poisoned the Decepticons' fuel. While this conversation was taking place, his drivers, alarmed their ambulance could talk, were poking around his ambulance mode, trying to discover the tape deck they suspected to be there. After an angry, annoyed outburst, the humans fled. The New Order

To preserve continuity, let's pretend I'm not here! Phew, I see you've started with my head

At some... unspecified time during the Transformers' early days on Earth, Ratchet was present to give Brawn a neuro-tranquillizer to sedate the malfunctioning Autobot. The Enemy Within! At another time, Ratchet helped stave off the Decepticons as they attacked Sherman Dam. After witnessing Optimus lose a duel against Megatron atop of the dam, Ratchet attended to Hound, who had been injured while fighting Rumble. Decepticon Dam-Busters!

Staring also works.

Despite Buster's good news, Ratchet felt he should return to the Ark as swiftly as possible; no one there was responding to his communications. Buster accompanied him, and en route tried to explain to Ratchet that the traffic signals were non-sentient and would not respond to his pleas. When a red light turned green, eventually, after Ratchet's attempts at persuasion, the Autobot admonished the child for his lack of communication skills. But when Ratchet and Buster arrived at the Ark, they were horrified to discover Rumble and Frenzy standing sentry outside. Buster, who was small enough to slip in unnoticed, snuck inside to investigate. The New Order Buster later returned to Ratchet, looking like a fright, and told the Autobot that the Decepticons had taken over the Ark, and that their bodies were hung like meat from the ceiling! Even crazier still was when Shockwave carried the defeated body of Megatron back into the Ark. Ratchet began to worry that he was the last Autobot alive. The Worse of Two Evils!

Ratchet soon discovered, to his horror, that he was the last Autobot still functional on Earth, up against the entire Decepticon army. Covertly invading the Ark, he learned that even the mighty Optimus Prime had fallen. However, Prime's head, though detached, still functioned, and the Autobot Commander told Ratchet that he must rise up to meet this challenge. Ratchet did not believe he could; he was a doctor, not a warrior (damnit, Jim).

As he ruminated over what to do next, Ratchet was found out by Megatron. In his weakened state, Megatron could not hope to defeat Shockwave and reclaim his leadership, but Ratchet approached him with a possible solution. Ratchet knew how Shockwave had fallen 4 million years ago (having discovered this earlier within the Ark's memory databanks), and struck a deal, sealed by the Rite of Oneness: If Ratchet could defeat Shockwave, Megatron would relinquish Decepticon control of the Ark and its wrecked Autobot inhabitants. Warrior School!

Ratchet journeyed to the Savage Land, where the Dinobots had fought Shockwave to a stalemate, leaving all dormant in a tar pit prison. He dug up the Dinobots and repaired them. Soon after, he met with Megatron on a snowy ski slope and announced that he had fulfilled his half of the bargain; Shockwave was defeated. Megatron, of course, went back on his part of the deal and threatened to kill Ratchet. Ratchet declared that he knew all along Megatron would not hold up his end of the bargain and admitted that he had not, in fact, defeated Shockwave. The Dinobots sprung up out of the snow surrounding Megatron and fought him, but did not succeed in bringing him down. Megatron now stood alone, triumphant, mocking Ratchet and his lack of a warrior's edge. With nothing to lose, Ratchet charged Megatron, but he too was ineffectual against the Decepticon. However, the charge had loosened the ground on which Megatron stood, and the Decepticon leader fell off the cliff-side and disappeared. Repeat Performance!

On their return trip to the Ark, Ratchet helped educate the Dinobots about human/Autobot relations by telling them the story of a recent battle with the Decepticons at a hydroelectric dam. Decepticon Dam-Busters! When they arrived, Ratchet and the Dinobots found the Ark defended by Guardian, an Autobot combat drone which had been reprogrammed by Shockwave. Ratchet rescued the Dinobots from the powerful drone by remembering and exploiting one of its few weaknesses, an access port which could admit a fine laser. Ratchet then began the task of repairing the Autobots, placing priority on those whose command skills would be useful. This put him at odds with Dinobot leader Grimlock, who felt that the fallen Dinobot Swoop should be repaired first. As he worked, Ratchet discovered that the Guardian had been booby-trapped with a thermo-nuclear bomb, which threatened to blow the Ark and all those within it to smithereens should the Dinobots deliver the killing blow to the droid. The Wrath of Guardian!

Ratchet is not a huge fan of krumping.

Though Ratchet was helpless to intervene, Wheeljack managed to remote-control Optimus Prime's headless body, and stayed Grimlock's hand at the last moment. Said hand was destroyed as Guardian retaliated and fled, forcing Ratchet from taking a break from fixing the deactivated Autobots, and tending to the Dinobot instead. After "testing out" his repaired hand by punching Ratchet in the face, Grimlock went off to brood. The medic next began repairs on Windcharger, whom he hoped would help them deal with Guardian by using his magnetic powers. Once this was done, Grimlock had Ratchet fix up Swoop next, despite earlier objections. Swoop's repairs were completed just as Guardian burst into the repair bay, intent on detonating the bomb within his body himself. Windcharger wasn't fast enough to implement the Autobots' initial plan, forcing Swoop to carry Guardian up into the sky, where the bomb went off far away from the Ark. Believing Swoop to have perished in the blast, the Autobots held a mourning ceremony for their lost ally. The Wrath of Grimlock!

Upon completing the repairs of all the Autobots (except those who were extremely damaged), Ratchet had them all perform a check-up outside the Ark. Jazz wanted to make contacts with helpful humans, but Ratchet felt that retrieving the head of Optimus Prime was a higher priority. DIS-Integrated Circuits! Jazz would regardless make an ally in G.B. Blackrock, an industrialist who subsequently came to visit the Ark while Ratchet was reattaching Jazz's arm. The Next Best Thing to Being There! Blackrock helped Ratchet and Prowl eavesdrop on the Decepticons, who had taken up residence in Blackrock Aerospace Assembly Plant Number One. Eventually, they heard Shockwave state his plan to dispose of the head of Optimus Prime, and the two immediately dispatched the Autobots to intercept. Brainstorm!

After Optimus Prime's restoration, Prowl devised a plan to use the Matrix to create an army of monstrous Autobot warriors, and debate over the plan's ethics threatened to divide the Autobots. Ratchet remained neutral and asked Optimus Prime to step in and provide guidance. After a harrowing adventure, wherein Optimus was forced to rescue Bumblebee by himself, Optimus assembled Ratchet and the others to announce his decision on the matter. He declared that he had decided against the creation of super warriors, and that the debate was closed. Crisis of Command! Later, Ratchet repaired Bumblebee. He was made to leave his medical bay when a mind-controlled Swoop attacked the Ark. Ratchet and the other able-bodied Autobots pursued the Dinobot after he began struggling free from the mind that had enslaved his: Peter Anthony Morris. After they had followed him to Morris's lab, Swoop presented the Autobots with the scientist and left Optimus Prime with deciding his fate. While Optimus delivered judgement, Ratchet approached Swoop, only for the Dinobot to go berserk. Swoop was subdued, and Ratchet assessed that Swoop's outburst was the result of his cybo-dendrons fusing, due to spending four-million years submerged in tar. Worse yet; the other Dinobots, out on the loose, likely were on the verge of reverting to primal instincts for the same reason. The Icarus Theory Ratchet accompanied Bumblebee and Optimus Prime on a mission to retrieve the missing Dinobots, who had already begun a rampage in Doonstown. Ratchet attended to the several wounded Autobots, quietly worrying that he would not return them to his medical bay in time to save them. Dinobot Hunt! The Dinobots were rounded up and returned to the Ark as well, and Ratchet repaired their bodies, but the Dinobots were trapped in their dreams. Ratchet worried that their psychological flaws may have been keeping them in a loop which prevented them from awakening. Victory! At some point, Ratchet repaired Optimus Prime at the Autobots' UK base after the latter had led an investigation on a beam which could reverse Transformers' personalities. To a Power Unknown!

Megatron was reactivated by the mobster Joey Slick, and the weakened Decepticon recalled being defeated by Ratchet. Shooting Star!

As Optimus Prime was giving the newly-sentient Jetfire a tour of the Ark, Ratchet was keeping busy in the medical bay attending to several fallen Autobots. Rock and Roll-Out! Jetfire was assisting Ratchet in doing minor repair work when they heard news reports of a distressed Bumblebee under attack by Shockwave's Decepticons. Ratchet insisted angrily that something must be done. Plight of the Bumblebee!

Ratchet and Wheeljack collaborated on a Transformer-sized robotic suit, to be used by Buster Witwicky in battle. Optimus Prime was unamused, and ordered the suit destroyed. Feeling bad for Buster, Ratchet and Wheeljack agreed to destroy the suit... in a day's time. They didn't get the chance to do so, as Buster stole the suit, and destroyed it himself in a battle against Shockwave. Discovering Buster missing, Ratchet alerted Prime, and the Autobots headed out, managing to catch Shockwave just as he was about to squeeze the life out of Buster. Shockwave walked away rather than face the assembled Autobot forces, and Ratchet gave Buster a look-over, relieved to find the boy only had minimal injuries. Robot Buster!

When Buster was besieged by visions of combining Transformers, Ratchet insisted on taking him to the Ark for investigation, despite his father's objections. Devastation Derby! Ratchet himself featured prominently in Buster's visions, appearing in battle against Shockwave, only to be destroyed. When Buster woke up from his visions, Ratchet was there at his bedside, who then connected Optimus Prime and Buster mentally so that the two could share in the latter's visions. The two awoke, shouting "SPECIAL TEAMS!" and Ratchet queried Optimus further. This was interrupted when a medical bay alarm alerted them to the awakening of the Dinobots, who were finally rousing after having been damaged during the Dinobot Hunt. Grimlock shoved Ratchet, proving the Dinobot Commander was in his usual sorts. Second Generation!

After Tracks was injured in an altercation with Rumble, it fell upon both Ratchet and Hoist to restore him to full vitality. Missing in Action On another occasion, Hoist returned Jazz to headquarters after his fellow Autobot had sustained brain damage in an altercation against the Constructicons. Ratchet managed to restore Jazz to his full mental faculties. The Mission

Along with the other active Autobots, Ratchet witnessed the unveiling of Omega Supreme. When Ratchet expressed doubts that "this big lump" could protect the Ark and his patients, Omega Supreme promised him no harm would befall them. Command Performances!

During a meeting called by Optimus Prime, for which Ratchet and Prowl were called upon to make reports, the three screamed and suddenly vanished. The Autobots would later learn that they were displaced by the time travelling Decepticons Galvatron, Scourge, and Cyclonus. Target: 2006 The three appeared in Limbo, where they were soon joined by Shockwave, Thundercracker, and Frenzy, who themselves were displaced by time traveling Autobots. The Transformers felt compelled to join a conflict between two warring factions of the native creatures, though Optimus's refusal to use lethal force left the more pragmatic Shockwave in a better position forge alliances. Ultimately, Optimus discovered that everything was an illusion, and managed to dispel it by abiding by his stance on non-violence when urged to fight by the leader of the violent alien faction. Ratchet quickly surmised that the six Transformers' rage had been siphoned by mind-controlling Limbo parasites while they were sharing a dream-world fabricated by the later. Distant Thunder! After Galvatron and his two lieutenants were defeated and returned to their own time, Ratchet and the others were returned to their dimension. Target: 2006

As Ratchet tended to a wound Optimus Prime had received during an earlier battle, the Autobot leader had granted an audience to Skids and the untrustworthy human Donny Finkleberg. Finkleberg claimed he had information on the whereabouts of a group of Autobots who had traveled from Cybertron to Earth. Optimus Prime assigned Jetfire to assist Finkleberg, but Ratchet would have preferred extracting the information from the human painfully with his medical equipment. Optimus Prime left Ratchet before repairs could completed so that he could oversee Wheeljack's newest creation—the Aerialbots. Aerialbots over America! Optimus Prime later returned to Ratchet to finally have his wound sealed, but as Ratchet welded, the tiny mind-controlling Insecticon Bombshell injected a cerebro-shell inside the Autobot leader and fled the Ark. Heavy Traffic!

When Optimus Prime planned to fake his own death to teach the Autobots that they had to learn how to operate without him, Ratchet was one of the Autobots who loudly protested when Optimus told them all that he was going to "go on a reconnaissance mission to the Decepticon base." Later, Ratchet was among the Autobots who found "Optimus Prime's body" scattered across the woods. Prey! Ratchet comforted Wheeljack, the one Autobot secretly in on Optimus Prime's scheme. ...The Harder They Die! Ratchet presided over Optimus Prime's funeral (according to Earth custom), which was interrupted by Optimus Prime himself, returning from his adventures on Cybertron. Resurrection!

Such irony.

After the (actual) destruction of Optimus Prime, Ratchet tried and failed to repair him. Unable to deal with his failure, Ratchet wandered off on his own during Optimus's funeral. Ratchet decided that rather than moping, he should concern himself with the other damaged Autobots under his care, so he headed towards a junkyard to look for spare parts he could use. However, he was abducted in vehicle mode by the Mechanic and his accomplice Juan when the two thieves were found by the police. Ratchet revealed himself when they arrived at the Mechanic's hideout, but the Mechanic froze Ratchet with his own surgical weapon and hid outside. When he had unfrozen, Ratchet presumed the humans had fled and went back to the Ark, unaware that this was what the humans had been waiting for, as they intended to follow him to his hideout and steal even more of his weapons. Inside the Ark, Ratchet was again defeated by his own surgical tools. But using pieces he took from the junkyard, he repaired Prowl, and the appearance of the police car frightened the Mechanic away. The Mechanic escaped with Ratchet's tools and the power booster rod, but Ratchet was brought out of his funk, and vowed to repair as many Autobots as he could post-haste. Funeral for a Friend! Mechanical Difficulties!

Stories featuring G.I. Joe do not fit into the normal Marvel UK continuity. See G.I. Joe and the Transformers for details.

When Optimus learned of the unveiling of Power Station Alpha and sent Bumblebee to guard it against possible aggressors, Ratchet could be seen putting together the Aerialbots at his work station. He got them up and running just in time to fend off a Decepticon attack on the station, and sent them on their way. Blood on the Tracks

Shortly after Optimus Prime's funeral, Ratchet stood with Omega Supreme, Blaster, and the others, and an incoming fleet of aircraft piloted by the terrorist organization Cobra was detected. Ashes, Ashes... After the Autobots teamed up with the human counter-terrorist organization G.I. Joe, Ratchet worked with Mainframe, who had already begun to rebuild Bumblebee. Ratchet was surprised to see that Bumblebee had been upgraded by Mainframe into a more-powerful body, and after the process was completed (despite Doctor Mindbender's bickering), Bumblebee decided to rename himself Goldbug. ...All Fall Down!

Paging Dr. Smartass.

With Optimus Prime dead, Ratchet and a few other high-ranking Autobots assembled to nominate a new leader. Ratchet stressed that their nominee must be kind, just as Optimus Prime had been, someone who would be willing to give everything he had. After a surprise attack on the Ark by Trypticon, Ratchet had his answer. Ratchet's new patients, those that had suffered during the attack, had told him of Grimlock's selflessness in battle. The other Autobots agreed, and Grimlock was declared Autobot leader. King of the Hill! However, Grimlock's leadership quickly turned sour, and Ratchet joined the chorus of Autobots who wished Blaster would usurp the Dinobot's leadership. Spacehikers! After Blaster failed, Ratchet became the voice of sarcasm behind Grimlock's terrible decisions. When a second group of Autobots led by Fortress Maximus met Grimlock's Earth-bound Autobots, they brought with them a floppy disk containing the mind of the dead Optimus Prime. Ratchet couldn't contain his joy, and so Grimlock struck him down and told him to shut up. Ratchet was told to shut up again when he belittled Grimlock's disbelief that Fortress Maximus was part human. Grimlock set up a battle for Autobot supremacy between him and Blaster (who fought in Fortress Maximus' stead), so Ratchet and all of both Autobot groups stepped out onto the surface of Earth's moon to watch the fight. Ratchet cheered relentlessly for Blaster, but the spectators were cut short by a surprise Decepticon attack. After the Decepticons had fled, Ratchet was glad to see that Blaster and Grimlock had, for the moment, set aside their differences, because they would need all the cooperation they could muster to repair the fallen and the heavily damaged Ark. Totaled!

Ratchet was present when the Autobots traveled to the Arctic to rescue a freezing Buster Witwicky. He admired Buster's brother Spike's solution of placing Buster inside a heated chamber within Fortress Maximus to combat Buster's hypothermia. Dark Star

A solid light simulation of Ratchet was used in a training mission for the Mayhem Attack Squad. Ratchet's simulation was gutted by Stranglehold, who deemed Ratchet a "non-entity." The Hunting Party

After an Underbase-powered Starscream and a time-traveling Galvatron decimated the Earthbound Autobot forces, unfortunately Optimus Prime no longer possessed the life-giving powers of the Creation Matrix, so Ratchet was left with the monumental task of repairing them. Deathbringer During a period of work-induced stress, he began to hallucinate visions of his patients attacking him and accusing him of being worthless. It was during this time that the Decepticon Sports Car Patrol, posing as Autobots, offered to help transport Ratchet to Cybertron, where he could have access to new medical technology that had been created during his 4-million-year absence on Earth. He and three of the Sports Car Patrol took the bodies of Grimlock, Jazz, and Goldbug with him, though Ratchet was curious why Blackjack stayed behind on the Ark. Ratchet's concerns were answered when, upon arrival on Cybertron, he saw standing before him the believed-to-be-deceased Megatron, who had orchestrated the entire scheme. Back from the Dead

Megatron inadvertently activated Ratchet's dormant "evil genius" gene.

Megatron brought Ratchet the remains of Starscream, demanding Ratchet repair the Air Commander while Blackjack held the Ark and its medical bay inhabitants hostage. The Resurrection Gambit! Ratchet agreed, and he used Pretender technology to repair Starscream while secretly repairing Grimlock, Jazz, and Goldbug as well. After Pretender Starscream was sent to Earth, Megatron sought out Ratchet to kill him, but Ratchet had his own Pretenders ready. All the Familiar Faces! Ratchet sprung Grimlock, Jazz, and Bumblebee (Ratchet preferred Bumblebee's original form) on Megatron, but Megatron and his Micromasters were too powerful for them. The Pretenders and Micromasters' battle wandered outside Megatron's base, and Ratchet was left alone. Sacrificing his life, Ratchet warped the bombs Blackjack had put on the Ark into the Decepticon base in an attempt to kill both himself and Megatron. Megatron tried to escape through the warp portal, but Ratchet tackled him, and the base exploded. Skin Deep Eye of the Storm

Ratchet to the left of me, Megatron to the right—Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.

Optimus Prime was devastated by the loss of Ratchet. Yesterday's Heroes! He assigned the detective Nightbeat to investigate Ratchet's death, and Nightbeat hypothesized that Ratchet could possibly still be alive. There was an initial blast which could have knocked Ratchet into the portal and into unspace, a netherworld between the warp portal's starting and ending points. A probe was sent to retrieve him, and it succeeded—but it also brought back Megatron, who was fused with Ratchet as a single, monstrous being. Eye of the Storm The Ratchet/Megatron creature rampaged through the Ark, wounding several Autobots, but Optimus Prime would not let them harm it. This put Optimus Prime in an awkward position: was the life of Ratchet worth the possible loss of his other troops? The creature fought its way into the engine rooms and began tearing machinery apart, and Prime's choice was made for him: the creature had to be stopped, lest it doom all on board. Prime fought Ratchet/Megatron to a standstill, and, alarmingly, the part that was Ratchet took control and pulled Prime's gun to his own forehead, pleading for the Autobot Commander to put him out of his misery. In an unpopular decision, Optimus Prime ordered Fixit to separate Megatron and Ratchet, even if it meant saving Megatron. Bonded at a molecular level, neither could survive without the other, even when separated. The Pri¢e of Life!

Holy crap.

Separated by Fixit, they remained in stasis on the Ark until Grimlock and his Nucleon-revived Dinobots found the Ark abandoned during the Transformers' battle with Unicron. They filled the entire medical bay chambers with Nucleon, not aware that Megatron lay there in storage. The Void! Shockwave and Starscream stole the Ark after Unicron was defeated, in an attempt to return to Earth and conquer it. Still Life! However, just as Megatron awoke, Starscream and Shockwave were interrupted by Galvatron II, who had snuck on board before launch. While Galvatron and Megatron teamed up on Shockwave, Starscream went to check on any other possible survivors in the medical bay. He found Ratchet, whose mind was still connected to Megatron's, and Starscream began beating down the confused Autobot. However, when Starscream mused that Ratchet was no fun to kill, Ratchet became enraged and defeated him in a berserker state. Determined to end what he had started, Ratchet blew up the Ark as it was approaching Earth's orbit, sending all four Decepticons and himself to a supposed death.<ref>Except all the Decepticons eventually turn up alive.</ref> A Savage Circle

Dicet Alpha-zero, an inhabitant of Theturis, was an assignment to write a dissertation on the war between the Autobots and Decepticons on Earth. To this end, many of Ratchet's actions were chronicled, including his escorting Sparkplug Witwicky to the hospital and his defeat of Megatron using the Dinobots. The Quest!

Furman would have continued the Ratchet/Megatron plot for longer if the series hadn't ended, with a plan for Ratchet to be remotely controlled by Megatron ala the Hood secretly in psychic contact with Kyrano on [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Thunderbirds (TV series)|{{#if:Thunderbirds|Thunderbirds|Thunderbirds (TV series)}}]]<ref>Club magazine #2</ref>

Marvel UK future timelines

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Ratchet was present at the Ark in 2003 when Ultra Magnus announced his plans for a fully-functional transforming fortress known as Autobot City. Ark Duty

In an alternate future timeline, in the year 2005, Ratchet was stationed on Moonbase One. After Ironhide expressed frustration with inaction, he and Ratchet were assigned to a supply run to Autobot City on Earth, to collect the energon cubes necessary to power the Autobots' impending strike against Decepticon-controlled Cybertron. Ratchet and Ironhide left with Prowl and Brawn, but part-way into their journey, just after their shuttle had passed through an asteroid field, the Decepticons attacked and boarded the vessel and slew all on board. The Planet-Eater!

Marvel Generation 2 comic

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As Optimus Prime was being repaired after a catastrophic battle with Megatron, he recalled the events of the Transformer civil war thus far, including two of Megatron's encounters with Ratchet. Tales of Earth Part Four

Later on, Ratchet's selfless defense of Earthlings was one of the memories Optimus shared with the Swarm when it attempted to assimilate him. A Rage in Heaven!

Prime Wars Trilogy marketing material

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Two different bios were given for Ratchet with the BotCon 2016 customising class figure. We've chosen to document the one that broadly aligns with the Generation 2 comic on this page, and the one that slots neatly into the existing Combiner Wars microcontinuity on Ratchet's main page.

Still recuperating from his fusion with Megatron, Ratchet remained in stasis lock. Although his brain was intact, his body was slowly but surely rotting away. Optimus discovered the body of his old friend, and ordered Fixit and First Aid to attempt a full-body spark transplant.

The upgrade was largely a success; not only was it reinforced with rheanimum, increasing his durability, but his body also incorporated combiner technology, allowing him to form one of Defensor's limbs in place of the ailing First Aid. However, he still retained psychological scars from his fusion with Megatron, being significantly more aggressive on the battlefield, and was reluctant to combine without dire circumstances or Optimus Prime's specific request. Customization class Generation 2 Ratchet's bio

Classics

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Classics continues from the Marvel US series, and does not include the UK stories or any subsequently published stories.

Fifteen years after Ratchet seemingly perished with Megatron, Starscream, and Shockwave when the Ark crashed into the Yukon, Megatron had returned to power. Starscream had been fully rebuilt, Shockwave's disembodied head was rigged to exist only in a tortured advisory role, and Ratchet's body was stashed, seemingly lifeless, in a dark corner of Megatron's new throne room within the Ark's remains. Games of Deception

From martyr to furniture.

Megatron kept Ratchet there for his own amusement, able to talk but not to move, because the Decepticon leader had begun to consider his unlikely nemesis a friend. The Decepticon leader enjoyed toying with Ratchet's doubts; he asked Ratchet why Optimus Prime hadn't come to rescue him in all these years. Megatron also enjoyed hearing Ratchet's measured responses, many of which genuinely took him by surprise, though some Megatron didn't think Ratchet truly believed.

Megatron wanted Ratchet to know the real reason why the Transformers fight. After they watched Megatron's plan to assassinate Bludgeon (and end the Decepticon civil war) culminate in success, he told Ratchet why. It's not to win or to lose, but because of who they were. The Transformers were born to fight. Megatron picked up Ratchet's motionless body, set it inside a bubbling tank, and left him there. As Ratchet felt his body begin to dissolve, Megatron asked him to give Prime his regards.

Ratchet's happy? This can't be the Marvelverse.

Later, the Autobots secured the abandoned Ark and found Ratchet inside the tank, reformatted into a new body. However, Ratchet noted that his new surgical tools looked suspiciously like weapons. He recalled Megatron's words about why the Transformers fight. Did he truly have no choice? At Fight's End

By 2012, Ratchet was stationed with several other Autobots in Canada within the Ark II. He was present one day when Rad reported from the Ironworks base in Oregon about a foiled attack by Gigatron and his Decepticons. Soon thereafter, due to the actions of an evil Ultra Magnus from another dimension, a rift of space time opened over Earth, causing catastrophes worldwide. Ratchet assisted his peers in evacuating a devastated city block. Invasion

After relocating to the Ironworks, Ratchet and the Autobots escaped an apparent planetary collapse aboard one of Grimlock's shuttles. The Future Buried...

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.

In the years following the Ark's second crash, a group of humans managed to breach the ship and wound up reactivating Megatron. Still linked to Ratchet, the Decepticon leader used the Autobot's knowledge to reboot the craft, reprogramming Auntie to serve him and reanimate the Cybertronian corpses as zombie soldiers. Loose Ends #3 Forced to keep Ratchet alive, Megatron reduced the medic to a disembodied head adorning the Decepticon's battle sled, granting Ratchet enough self-awareness to be aware of his fate. Loose Ends #2 After Optimus Prime and the Autobots arrived to battle Megatron in 2012, the zombified Starscream managed to tell the Scraplet-infected Kup that killing Ratchet would defeat Megatron. Loose Ends #4

Kup struggled over to Ratchet and, with a borrowed gun from First Aid, finally ended Ratchet's suffering, which in turn immobilized Megatron and allowed Prime to destroy his mortal enemy once and for all. Loose Ends #5

Transformers '84

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Following the Dynobots being critically injured, Ratchet had them transferred to the medical bay aboard the Ark, putting their sparks in a magnetic containment field until their bodies could be mended and uploaded their minds into crystalline containment vessels. Following the Ark clearing a path for Cybertron through an oncoming asteroid belt, the ship was attacked by the Decepticons, crashing on Earth with all the passengers in stasis. Secrets & Lies #2

After the Ark had rebooted and the errant Dinobots had been tracked down, Ratchet logged a report on their recovery, one which Punch used to piece together what had become of Grimlock in the immediate aftermath of the fateful crash. Secrets & Lies #4

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