Rook (CW)

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Rook is an Autobot Protectobot from the Combiner Wars portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Good thing my name isn't Knight or my head would look like a horse.

A rising star assigned straight out of the Cybertronian Military Academy, Rook is the newest member of the Protectobots. An astute and courageous soldier, he must now take his extensive knowledge of military tactics and strategy and learn to apply it in his new role on a rescue team. Thankfully, his durabyllium super-alloy armor and hydraulic claw stand him in good stead, making evacuating wounded Autobots from danger zones a cinch. Rook may not have expected to wind up on this team, but he carries out his new role with fearless aplomb.

Fiction

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Prime Wars Trilogy marketing material

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Rook went above and beyond at the Cybertronian Military Academy, studying extensively to fight on the battlefield – so he was caught off-guard when, upon graduating, he was instead assigned as a new recruit for the Protectobots. By all appearances Rook successfully adjusted to his new role, using his hydraulic claw and heavy armor to fearlessly rescue wounded Autobots from the front lines so First Aid could repair them. Protectobot Rook's bio

Serving on Earth, Protectobot Blades' bioProtectobot Streetwise's bioProtectobot First Aid's bioProtectobot Rook's bio the protection of humanity - not just from Cybertronian threats, but from all sources of danger - Protectobot Hot Spot's bio was the team's highest priority. Customization class Medix bio

2005 IDW continuity

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First appearance: The Transformers #40 (in vision); Windblade #2 (full appearance)
Every crew's got a Scully.

Rook was in Mirage's visions of a Caminus consumed by flame and rampaging giants! The Possible Light

Rook happened to be standing around Lost Light #10 recap page when Starscream aimed the Enigma of Combination at some loosely-affiliated Autobots jokingly referred to as the "Protectobots" and then Rook was suddenly Defensor's arm. Mistakes and Mayhem

Following the Combiner Wars, Rook returned with the rest of his new team via shuttle to the Lost Light deep in space. However, their shuttle was too damaged to dock safely and had to crash within the Lost Light's shuttle bays. His fellow Protectobot First Aid seemed very suspicious of the ship's new commander, Getaway, but Rook made fun of First Aid for suspecting a conspiracy so easily. However, First Aid was quickly proven right that something was very wrong when Riptide appeared and told the team of Getaway's duplicity, and then they found disembodied brains and spines of crewmembers preserved at Swerve's. Rook and the others escaped the Lost Light on their original shuttle, but were shot down by the Lost Light, forced to return to the shuttle bays and had to crash just like before—unbeknownst to them, they were all trapped in a shared memory loop. Shouldn't have laughed at First Aid's conspiracy theory, huh, Rook? Full Circle

When Getaway decided to dirty Atomizer's hands in order to shore up the latter's wavering convictions, as well as remove the threat of Defensor, he ordered Atomizer to shoot one of the comatose Protectobots; it was Rook who wound up paying the price, exploding into pieces. First Aid would later lament that he never really got to know Rook. Journey's End

Precursor World

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A Warrior of the Seven Lights resembling Rook was a member of the White Order of the Primus Vanguard. He supported his commander White Gallant Convoy in battle when the dimension-hopping pirate Halfshell attacked the White Planet looking to plunder the Order's holy Matrix Saber. God Neptune comic 1

He later ventured forth to confront Halfshell's crew and retrieve the Saber as the left leg of the mighty White Convoy Grand Prime! The combiner was bisected by God Neptune. God Neptune comic 2

Commercial appearances

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Rook and the Protectobots received a message from Optimus Prime alerting them that Menasor was wreaking havoc in a human city, and that the threat was "bigger than ever." The Protectobots combined into Defensor to better combat the Decepticon. Transformers Generations: Combiner Wars commercials

Games

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Transformers: Battle Tactics

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I have two chinstraps, one for my chin, the other for my nose.

Rook participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He was an Epic character who could be recruited by collecting 500 units of Cybermetal, 250 units of Transmetal, and 50 cores of this character. Transformers: Battle Tactics

Transformers: Earth Wars

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  • Class: Warrior
  • Lowest Star Rating: 2 star
  • Weapons: Rook wields a flamethrower.
  • Ability: Explosive Decoy: Place a decoy that has 65% of Rook's health and attracts defenses. When destroyed, it explodes dealing damage in a large area. Only one decoy can be active at a time. At level 11, gives Rook a shield when destroyed that absorbs 50% of damage for 6 seconds.
    • Cost: 5 ability points + 3 for reuses.

Rook at Transformers: Earth Wars Wiki

Rook's 3 star version can be used to form Defensor.

Transformers Roleplaying Game

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Rook was a substitute Protectobot. The Enigma of Combination

Toys

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Combiner Wars

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Charge now, doctor!
  • Protectobot Rook (Deluxe Class, 2015)
    • 2 of 5: Defensor
    • Accessories: [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Hydraulic rescue tools|{{#if:Hydraulic clamp/spreader tool|Hydraulic clamp/spreader tool|Hydraulic rescue tools}}]], double-barreled gun/fist/foot
Released as part of the Combiner Wars subline imprint of Generations, "Protectobot Rook" transforms into an [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Reconnaissance vehicle|{{#if:armored reconnaissance|armored reconnaissance|Reconnaissance vehicle}}]]-style SWAT vehicle; reminiscent to a [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Type 87 ARV|{{#if:||Type 87 ARV}}]]. Rook is able to form a limb for any Combiner Wars-style Combiner, though he was intended to be combined with Hot Spot, Streetwise, First Aid, and Blades to form Defensor (with Groove now serving as a chest piece). Rook also forms the right leg of the Timelines-adjacent combiner Modulus and was (much later) cast as the left leg of White Convoy Grand Prime by the Generations Selects comic.
Rather than 5 mm hands, Rook has forward-facing 5 mm ports in front of his fists. This allows him to mount his hydraulic clamp-like accessory as an integrated weapon or use Combiner Wars combiner hands (one of which is included) as giant "Hulk hands". He also features ankle joints.
This mold was redecoed into Unite Warriors Wandering Roller, slightly retooled into Combiner Wars Impactor and Tarantulas, heavily retooled into Combiner Wars Swindle and Hound, and even further retooled into Unite Warriors Nosecone. This mold also served as the model for the non-toy Shattered Glass version of X-Brawn. Unfortunately, due to the internal molding of his shins, repeatedly transforming Rook will eventually create horizontal scratch marks across the hip parts of his thighs. This design flaw is present across every one of his retools as well.
Rook comes with a copy of "Combiner Wars #10" (actually The Transformers vol. 2 #34). In Canada, Latin America, and Europe, the comic was omitted and replaced with a collector card featuring the figure's package art.
As a part of the third and fourth wave promotion in Hasbro's Asian markets, a free sticker sheet for the Protectobots and Optimus Maximus was given out when purchasing any four Deluxe Class toys from those waves. As such, Rook was given Generation 1 toy-esque stickers for the owner to apply if they wanted.<ref>Protectobot and Optimus Maximus sticker promotion on TFW2005</ref>
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Notes

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"Grotusque and Mainframe? Man, there's no way I'm becoming a Protectobot if I stand over here!"
  • Rook's headsculpt is designed to evoke a [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Rook (chess)|{{#if:rook|rook|Rook (chess)}}]] playing piece from chess.<ref>TFWiki.net's Toy Fair 2015 report</ref> His deco was the work of Joe Kyde.<ref>TFWiki.net's Toy Fair 2015 report</ref>
  • Rook suddenly appeared among the Protectobots during Combiner Wars despite being totally unmentioned in the script, the rather notorious result of a rushed production and error-riddled artwork. Lost Light made use of that in its recap page by saying he was literally just some random 'bot who was moving past and got combiner-ed.
  • Rook was originally planned to be in "Deadly Aim", but Fun Publications later decided to use Offroad instead to make Wreckage 1.0 a Decepticon by majority.<ref>Post by NightViper (Jesse Wittenrich) on the Allspark Forums, 2016/08/23</ref>
  • As with all standard Combiner Wars molds, Rook's base tooling had an alternate "pretooled" head, in his case styled on Brawl. (Evidently, Hasbro had not yet budgeted a dedicated Brawl mold when they came up with the Rook-body idea.) A preliminary stage of the Computron multi-pack would have used this head as a new Ironfist, under the trademark-friendly name "Ironclad". Fun Publications also proposed using this tooling as the Shattered Glass incarnation of X-Brawn, but neither of these figures came to fruition.
  • In 2023, the Transformers: Earth Wars mobile game gave Rook a Generation 2-themed skin (see "Gallery" below) based upon the coloration of the Marvel Generation 2 Cybertronian Rook.

Foreign names

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  • Japanese: Rook (ルーク Rūku)
  • Korean: Rook (루크 Rukeu)
  • Mandarin: Dǔgùn (賭棍, "Gambler")<ref>Dǔgùn (賭棍) refers to a professional gambler while dǔtú (賭徒) would be the generic term for anyone who gambles.</ref>
  • Russian: Rook (Рук Ruk)
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  • Combiner Wars comic packaging art
    Combiner Wars comic packaging art
  • Earth Wars "G2 Rook" skin
    Earth Wars "G2 Rook" skin

References

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