Who's Who
The Who's Who was a feature in the Marvel UK comics that kept readers up to date with the current status of their favourite Transformers characters. Three editions of Who's Who were produced: one for the Decepticons in issue #48, a two-parter for the Autobots in issues #53-54 and one for the humans in issue #59. The Autobot Who's Who and the Decepticon Who's Who were subsequently reprinted in the Transformers Annual 1986.
They are in line with the then-current UK continuity where, for example, many of the Autobot characters that were deactivated during "Prime Time!" in the US comics were still active, and the human edition includes UK-only characters. Despite calls for its return on the letters page, the idea was never revisited, probably because the rapidly-growing Transformers cast rendered it impractical.
Decepticon Who's Who
[edit]- Shockwave — Missing, but presumed functional
- Soundwave — Acting Commander
- Megatron — Missing, presumed destroyed
- Starscream — Aerospace Commander
- Skywarp
- Thundercracker
Autobot Who's Who
[edit]- Optimus Prime — Autobot Commander
- Jazz — Joint second-in-command, injured
- Prowl — Joint second-in-command
- Jetfire — Aerospace Commander
- Mirage — Military Intelligence Officer
Technicians
[edit]- Ratchet — Chief Medical Officer, honorary member of High Command
- Ironhide — Security Officer
- Wheeljack — Chief Mechanical Engineer
- Grapple — Architect
- Hoist — Maintenance
- Grimlock — Dinobot Commander, injured
- Slag — Flamethrower, injured
- Sludge — Jungle Warrior, injured
- Snarl — Desert Warrior, injured
- Swoop — Aerial Commando, injured
Speedsters
[edit]- Bluestreak — Gunner, injured
- Tracks — Warrior
- Skids — Theoretician
- Smokescreen — Diversionary Tactician
- Sunstreaker — Warrior, injured with little possibility of revival
- Sideswipe — Warrior, injured
- Huffer — Construction Engineer, injured
- Bumblebee — Espionage
- Gears — Transport and Reconnaissance, injured
- Brawn — Demolitions
- Cliffjumper — Warrior, injured
- Windcharger — Warrior, injured
Trackers
[edit]- Hound — Scout
- Trailbreaker — Strategist
Human Who's Who
[edit]Friends/Allies
[edit]- Buster Witwicky
- Sparkplug Witwicky
- Jessie
- G.B. Blackrock
- Bomber Bill
- Spider-Man
- Sammy Harker
- Joy Meadows
- General Carl Thompson
Enemies/Antagonists
[edit]Notes
[edit]- Though Megatron is listed as "presumed destroyed" following his battle with Ratchet and the Dinobots, he returns to the comic just three issues later in issue #51.
- Jetfire is referred to as a "Valkyrie jet-fighter".
- Sunstreaker was not so badly injured after all — he would be revived twice, sometime before issue #174 and during issue #260.
- Jessie's entry says she hasn't directly been involved in the war yet but is "always likely to play a larger part" in the lives of the Transformers due to her relationship with Buster. This could have been foreshadowing for "Devastation Derby!", a story starting the very next issue.