Editing Photon (subgroup)

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:''The Photons are a [[Decepticon]] [[subgroup]] from the [[Generation 1 cartoon continuity|cartoon portion]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''

The '''Photons''' are a Decepticon sub-faction led by [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]]. They all look identical, patterned after their leader.

==Fiction==
====''Wings Universe''====
When Reflector joined [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]]'s forces, the Photons went with him. {{storylink|A Team Effort}}

====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Ken Sansom]] (English, "Divide and Conquer")}}
[[File:GenericDecepticons MTMTE.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.75]]
[[File:DivideandConquer SympatheticDecepticon.jpg|upright=1|thumb|Hey, Reflector, want this candy bar? *tosses it to the ground and stomps on it.*]]
Numerous robots sharing Reflector's design were present during the Decepticons' early activities on [[Earth]], helping to pillage the planet's energy. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 2}} One such robot helped [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] to load [[energon cube]]s onto a transport that would take them through the [[space bridge]] to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. When [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] reminded Starscream that the transport required a driver, the unfortunate warrior was selected; he begged that he not be chosen, but his words fell on deaf ears as Starscream forcibly picked him up and dropped him into the transport craft. Fortunately, the robot's piloting skills allowed him to traverse the space bridge, and he safely arrived on Cybertron with his energon payload. {{storylink|Divide and Conquer}}

Some of these robots were later seen among Shockwave's forces on Cybertron. Two of them transported the wounded [[Doctor Arkeville]] to the medical bay at Starscream's order. {{storylink|Countdown to Extinction (episode)|Countdown to Extinction}}
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===''Timelines''===
[[Flash Sentry]] was a higher-ranked member of the Photons. During the [[Battle of Autobot City]], Flash Sentry and most of the Photons went missing in action. {{storylink|Flash Sentry#Combiner Wars|BotCon 2016 Flash Sentry profile card}}

==Notes==
[[File:Watchdog tud3.jpg|right|thumb]]
* The first season of the Generation 1 cartoon occasionally used Reflector's design for generic Decepticons whose identities were not singled out by scripts; the robot in "Divide and Conquer" was identified only as "Unnamed Decepticon" in the script, while the two in "Countdown to Extinction" were originally scripted as being the primitive [[Medicroid]]s seen elsewhere in the episode. The Transformers Collectors' Club coined the named "Photons" to refer to these Reflector duplicates in 2010.
* The "[[Watchdog (G1)|watchdogs]]" featured in "[[The Ultimate Doom, Part 3]]" share Reflector's purple-and-grey colour scheme (right). Perhaps these Decepticon hovercars are the Cybertronian alternate modes of the Photons?
 
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