Yellow Face

Yellow Face is an Autobot from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Yellow Face (イエローフェイス Ierō Feisu) likes to accuse everybody else of being a spy. We wonder why.

Fiction

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Wars comics

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In actuality a Decepticon Mini-spy, Yellow Face passed himself off as a migrant worker who was sent from Cybertron to Earth to work on the Scramble City Project. When Hubcap caused a furor over the lesser status of his fellow crew on the freighter they were travelling on, Yellow Face feigned offense at being demeaned for being a laborer. Biting back, Yellow Face accused the Minibot of putting on a front to hide being the rumored spy informing the Decepticons about the Project.

To prevent any suspicion of himself, Yellow Face stole Blanched Soldier's energon sword and cut himself after stealing the blueprints to Scramble City. Pretending to be a victim, he allowed Arcee to recognize his injury as being from an energon sword before accusing Blanched Soldier of being the spy and demanding her be destroyed.

When the ship arrived at Earth, Yellow Face took off to turn over the blueprints to Galvatron II, but was berated for not realizing the files were protected by a passkey and sent to retrieve it from Teletraan I. Sneaking past Cliffjumper and Huffer, his cover was blown when Deerstalker, having figured out the spy's identity, arrived to finger him. Yellow Face attempted to make a run for it, but was stopped by Arcee. Captured and forced to listen to how Deerstalker figured out his scheme, Yellow Face then mocked his captors by explaining he already turned over the blueprints to a new Decepticon staff officer and pointing out he wasn't the only spy trying to get the passkey. Galvatron II, seeing what a blabbermouth he was becoming, shot and killed the Mini-spy from a distance. Metrowars: Spy

Commercial appearances

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Yellow Face blithely drove past Huffer and Cliffjumper into Autobot Headquarters, where he immediately began messing around with Teletraan I. The two guards then drove in, apparently realizing they didn't bother to check who this car-bot was, and the Mini-spy transformed to vehicle mode to hide his allegiance. When Huffer rubbed the little robot's rubsign and revealed that he was a Decepticon, the spy fled, leaving the Autobots in the dust. Mini-spies commercial

Toys

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The Transformers

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Nope.
(Rounded-casing variant in inset has "GOODYEAR" tires.)
  • Brawn (Mini-Vehicle, 1985)
  • Gears (Mini-Vehicle, 1985)
Yellow Face is specifically based on the yellow variant of the "FX-1 Type" (based on the Toyota FX-1 concept car) Motorized Transformer. Released in the early part of the second year of the original The Transformers toyline, the "Motorized Transformers" (see Mini-spy#Notes) were packed in with the re-releases of the six first-year Mini-Cars (now dubbed "Mini-Vehicles"). These were the first toys to debut with heat-sensitive rubsigns, and the only way to determine whether a given Motorized Transformer toy was an Autobot or Decepticon was by rubbing said rubsign. They also use a pull-back motor to zip along smooth surfaces. They're just packed with gimmicky goodness, especially considering that they were freebie pack-ins.
Sealed specimens that have survived to the modern day suggest that the color apparently depended on the figure they were packed with (it's possible that the faction also depended on the Mini-Car figure, but that's almost impossible to tell at this point); yellow came with Brawn and Gears.
On top of that, each model has three multi-part variations centered around the pull-back assembly:
  • The seemingly most common version of each toy has an angled motor casing with 8-spoke rear hubcaps and "DUNLOP"-branded tires.
  • Rarer variants have rounded casing with a shallower, more complicated hubcap pattern and "GOODYEAR"-branded tires. This matches the pre-Transformers versions of the toys previously released by Takara.
  • Rounded-casing versions may also have blank tires with no branding whatsoever. It is uncertain at this point which is the rarer round-casing version.
These toys seem especially susceptible to yellowing... yes, even the yellow ones often end up turning a nastier, darker-tinged yellow. Why is unclear, but there is an undeniable difference in the feel of the plastic they're made out of. Thus it's very possible they used a less durable/chemically-stable plastic than the normal Transformers toys were made out of, what with being fairly complex freebies added to already-not-expensive offerings, likely produced at different factories than normal Transformers toys by the "Koma" company.

Notes

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  • Following Deerstalker's [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Sherlock Holmes|{{#if:||Sherlock Holmes}}]] theming, Yellow Face is named after the story "[[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}The Adventure of the Yellow Face|{{#if:||The Adventure of the Yellow Face}}]]". Yes, we know.
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