Editing Duobot

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:''The Duobots are an [[Autobot]] subgroup from the [[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW portion]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''

[[File:Duobots Concept.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Shock and Ore.  Or Ore and Shock.  Whatever.]]

The '''Duobots''', [[Shock (G1)|Shock]] and [[Ore]], look pretty indistinguishable. Even though nobody can tell them apart and they ''seem'' like throwaway guys, they've done a lot of stuff!

==Fiction==
===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
The two Duobots made it through the war together, surviving the [[Battle for Hell's Point]], "the day it rained" on [[Babu Yar]], and the [[Simanzi Massacre]], where they braved the [[Crucible]]. They also had a prankster streak, having once welded [[Prowl (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Prowl's]] hands together for a gag. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 3: The Chaos of Warm Things|The Chaos of Warm Things}} {{storylink|The Gloaming}}

The Duobots were members of [[Special Operations]] and reported directly to Prowl. One of their regular jobs was handling field agents like [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] and [[Getaway]]. {{storylink|Remain in Light 4 of 5: Arm the Lonely|Arm the Lonely}} Along with [[Drift (G1)|Drift]], the Duobots were Prowl's agents aboard the ''[[Lost Light]]'', charged with attaching a [[slow cell]] containing [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] to the ship's hull and planting a tracer on its engines. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 1: How to Say Goodbye and Mean It|How to Say Goodbye and Mean It}} {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} Ore went down into the engine room to carry out their second task as the ship was taking off from [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], which unfortunately led him to be standing too close to the ship's [[quantum generator]]s when they activated. The resultant suspension of the local laws of space-time caused Ore to be fused with the engine, killing him and causing an explosion that crippled the ship. Hurled to some bleak corner of the galaxy, the ''Lost Light'' was able to put down on a small planet, where what was left of Ore's body was found by [[Brainstorm]] who remarked that, on the bright side, at least now they'd know which Duobot was which. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 2: Hangers On‎|Hangers On}} Meanwhile, an amnesiac Skids crashed near the ''Lost Light'': his homing device had locked onto the Duobots, his nearest handlers. {{storylink|Remain in Light 4 of 5: Arm the Lonely|Arm the Lonely}} 

Ore's passing was observed by [[Shock (G1)|Shock]], who then set about removing all incriminating evidence of their connection to Prowl, deleting the communication from him and heading down to the engine room to recover the discarded tracer. Unfortunately for Shock, he was set upon and killed by a [[Sparkeater (creature)|Sparkeater]] that had been hidden in the bowels of the ship. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 3: The Chaos of Warm Things|The Chaos of Warm Things}}

Some time later, Ore came back to life thanks to the "psychic scream" of a [[Metrotitan (body-type)|Metrotitan]]. Still fused to the engine and unaware of what had happened to him, he had a brief chat with [[Swerve (G1)|Swerve]] before disappearing together with the Metrotitan when it teleported away. {{storylink|Primus: You, Me, and Other Revelations|You, Me, and Other Revelations}}

The Duobots would be rather ignomiously remembered when Whirl described a batch of fallen attackers as being "deader than a Duobot". {{storylink|Finis Temporis: Dark Cybertron Chapter 9|Finis Temporis}}

==Notes==
*The Duobots were presumably created as an Autobot counterpart to the [[Duocon]]s, though with wheels on their legs and treads on their upper backs they don't appear to share that team's "air vehicle upper body combines with ground vehicle lower body" design scheme. Indeed, Shock's lament in "[[Liars, A to D Part 3: The Chaos of Warm Things|The Chaos of Warm Things]]" that he is now a "walking misnomer" might even suggest that instead of being two vehicles who form one robot, the Duobots are two ''robots'' who form one ''vehicle'', possibly making them the definition of the "duocombiners" mentioned in passing on MtMtE 10: Shadowplay, part 2, page 17. And, in the artist's version of "authorial intent" [[Alex Milne]] has confirmed on DeviantArt that he has designed a combined alt mode for the two, but is keeping it private for possible later publication.
*Conversely, when asked about the Duobots' combined mode in a [http://forum.idwpublishing.com/viewtopic.php?p=309202#309202 Q&A on the IDW forums] writer [[James Roberts]] replied: "In my head, the Duobots don’t combine – they’re more like clones. Sorry!" (That said, Roberts had previously used the term 'Duobot' in his fan novel ''Eugenesis'' to refer to cassette combiner [[Slamdance (G1)|Slamdance]].)
*As a product of the mind of English writer James Roberts, the fun double-meaning of Shock and Ore's names may not be immediately apparent to American readers. Try saying them out loud in a English accent.


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