Editing Nightstick (G1)

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:''Nightstick is a [[Nebulan]] and a [[Targetmaster]] partner from the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:NightstickLeaping.jpg|right|300px|thumb|"You're probably confusing me with someone else."]]
Back on Nebulos, '''Nightstick''' was a master criminal. For some reason, he gave that up to undergo [[binary-bonding]] to [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]]. The loyal and honorable [[Decepticon]] warrior often finds himself at odds with the very dishonorable Nightstick and generally considers him an irritating pest.

Nightstick transforms into a black beam gun that fires a corrosive beam of blinding darkness (and no, that doesn't make a lot of sense).

The [[Autobot]] [[Ricochet (Headmasters)|Ricochet]]'s Targetmaster partner is also named "[[Nightstick (Ricochet)|Nightstick]]"... and looks ''identical.'' This seems a monumental coincidence, but whether there is an actual connection—or if they're perhaps the same individual—is unknown.

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
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Nightstick became the Targetmaster partner to Cyclonus, under [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]'s command, near the end of the Decepticons' stay on his homeworld of Nebulos. When the Autobots left Nebulos for Earth, Scorponok's Decepticons followed, as did their Nebulan partners. {{storylink|Brothers in Armor!!}}

''Nightstick remained in Cyclonus's service even after he and [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]] left Scorponok's crew. [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]'s leadership was periodically threatened by [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]], who was also originally from the future, as were Cyclonus and Scourge. Cyclonus and Scourge, desperate to return to 2008, offered their services to Shockwave to protect him from Galvatron, so long as they could take Galvatron's [[time-jump trigger mechanism]] when he was defeated.''

[[Image:Nightstickwreckinghavoc.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Well, Springer, you could just crush them first.]]
[[Image:Nightstickcrushed.jpg|right|100px|thumb|See?]]

''Nightstick traveled with Cyclonus, Scourge, and [[Fracas]] to predetermined coordinates, where they would surround and defeat Galvatron, and along the way they defeated a squad of [[United States]] military jets over [[Oregon]]. When they arrived in their destination, a human city, Galvatron was surprised that Cyclonus and Scourge did not travel alone, what with their tiny Nebulan companions, and that they dared to challenge him unarmed. He was subsequently surprised when Nightstick and Fracas transformed into the guns of their Decepticon partners. But before the battle could begin, they were interrupted by the sudden arrival of the [[Wrecker]]s! '' 

''[[Springer (G1)|Springer]] did not expect Cyclonus or Scourge to be there, nor that their guns would be able to transform and run away when removed from them. The battle was called off when they realized that Galvatron no longer had the time-jump trigger mechanism, and everyone went home. {{storylink|Wrecking Havoc}}''

''Later, Shockwave learned that the reason Cyclonus and Scourge wanted to return to 2008 was that they were co-leaders of the Decepticons—and that they had assassinated Shockwave to take that position! Shockwave unleashed his pet project on his would-be protectors and assassins, a brainwashed [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]. Megatron attacked and killed Cyclonus, while he grabbed and squeezed the gun-mode Nightstick, quite likely killing him. {{storylink|Dry Run!}}''

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===Generation 1 cartoon===
:''Voice Actor:'' [[Peter Cullen]] (English)

[[Image:Cyclonus tm.jpg|right|180px|thumb|See this? This... is my NIGHTSTICK!]]

A member of the [[Hive]], Nightstick initially suggested to [[Lord Zarak]] that the alien robots who had arrived on [[Nebulos]] should be "rubbed out" for "muscling in on our turf". Zarak had other ideas, however, and when a bargain was struck between the Hive and the Decepticons, Nightstick became the Targetmaster partner of Cyclonus. As they paired up, he told Cyclonus "the boys" all called him Nightstick, and he hoped Cyclonus liked "bustin' heads".

During a subsequent battle with the Autobots, Nightstick was briefly captured by [[Brainstorm]], who took a detailed scan of his exo-suit. The information obtained was then used to create the Autobot Targetmasters. {{storylink|The Rebirth, Part 2}}

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==Toys==
===Generation 1===
[[Image:NightstickDecep-1987toy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|]]
*'''Cyclonus''' (Targetmaster, 1987)

:Nightstick is a figure of an armored humanoid in black armor with gray legs. He folds in half to turn into a "black-beam gun" that can be held by any Targetmaster (or any toy that uses 5mm pegs for accessory holding/mounting).

: This mold was used without changes as the [[Autobot]] [[Ricochet (Headmasters)|Ricochet]]'s partner [[Nightstick (Ricochet)|Nightstick]]. (Yes, we know. [[#Trivia|See below.]])

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1987/Decepticon/Cyclonus/cyclonus.htm More information on Nightstick (with Cyclonus) at tfu.info]''

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===Universe (2008)===
====Generation 1 Series====
[[Image:Universe08Nightstick.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The first Nebulan to break the posability glass ceiling!]]
*'''Cyclonus''' (Deluxe, 2008)

: Part of the fourth wave of ''[[Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]]'' deluxes, Nightstick is once again available only with his larger partner Cyclonus, only this time he has some genuine posability, with swivels at the shoulders, elbows and hips. He is a "robot-to-machine figure"<ref>[http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/default.cfm?page=Products/Detail&amp;product_id=22998 Description on Hasbro's ''Transformers'' website]</ref> that transforms into a "laser cannon" that can be held in Cyclonus's right hand, mounted on his vehicle mode back, or—in an undocumented feature—plugged into the "wrist socket" created by leaving Cyclonus' fists in their vehicle-mode position. This undocumented combination emulates the "plug into the wrist" method of Targetmaster combination seen in the Japanese [[The Headmasters (cartoon)|''Headmasters'' cartoon]] (even though this is the ''first'' toy to actually be physically capable of such a combination, and Cyclonus wasn't a Targetmaster in that series, but it's still neat). His gun handle can also act as a [[Powerlinx]] port for a [[Mini-Con]].

: Nightstick is based ''very'' loosely on his [[Fracas]]-based [[character model]] ([[#Trivia|see below]]), if only for the rough shape of his gun mode and the fin on his helmet. Everything else appears to be an entirely new design.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2009/Decepticon/TFUCyclonus/cyclonus.htm More information on Universe Nightstick (and Cyclonus) at TFU.info]''

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===Henkei! Henkei!===
[[Image:Cyclonushenkeitoy.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Sometimes he breaks out the shiny pants.]]
*'''Cyclonus''' (Deluxe, 2009)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-07'''

: This [[redeco]] of the ''Universe'' mold hews more closely to the animation model's colors, having a mostly black upper body with silver legs, though in this case, the silver is shiny chrome. His primary gun barrel is also chromed silver. He was only available with the ''[[Henkei! Henkei! (toyline)|Henkei! Henkei!]]'' [[Cyclonus (G1)|version of Cyclonus]]. On this release, the gun can plug into either of Cyclonus' wrists, not just the right (see above).

:Nightstick was later redecoed  into ''Henkei!'' [[Strafe]]'s Targetmaster partner [[Daystick]].

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==Trivia==
* Nightstick and [[Fracas]]'s [[Character model|character models]] apparently got swapped around in pre-production, so Nightstick's fictional appearances in both cartoon and comic are based on Fracas's toy, and vice-versa, though unlike [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]][[FIBRIR|/]][[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]], they got the colors correct.

* As such, [[Krunix]] is ''technically'' a giant Fracas, not a giant Nightstick.

* Targetmaster Cyclonus's box art shows him holding the Nightstick mold in Fracas's colors; so basically he's got model-sheet Fracas.

* The character model switcharoo may be tied up in the two toys' use in Japan as well. In the Japanese ''[[The Headmasters (franchise)|The Headmasters]]'', series, the Hasbro Nightstick toy was sold as Stepper's partner "Nebulon" (the "name" given to Fracas in Scourge's on-package [[bio]]), and Fracas was given to [[Artfire]] and dubbed [[Nightstick (Artfire)|Nightstick]]. Confused yet? It gets worse.

* Here's how it gets worse. When [[Hasbro]] released Stepper under the name "Ricochet" as part of the Toys "R" Us [[exclusive]] [[Commemorative Series]], they gave Nebulon the name "Nightstick". Without a Hasbro bio for the newly-dubbed Nightstick, it's impossible to determine what relationship Cyclonus's Nightstick has with Ricochet's Nightstick in the Hasbro fiction... if Cyc-Night and Ric-Night are the same, or if Ric-Night is a non-Nebulan robot as he is in his Japanese bio, separate from Cyc-Night. Nguh. (But for this wiki's purposes, Ric-Night gets [[Nightstick (Ricochet)|his own page]].)

==References==
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[[Category:Decepticons]]
[[Category:Hive]]
[[Category: Henkei! Henkei! characters]]
[[Category:Nebulans]]
[[Category:Targetmasters]]
[[Category:Universe (2008)]]