Editing Buster Witwicky (G1)

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:''Buster [[Witwicky]] is a [[human]] friend of the [[Autobot]]s from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[Image:Buster.jpg|right|250px|thumb|HOW IS AUTTO FIXED?]]
Unlike his father [[Sparkplug Witwicky|Sparkplug]], '''Buster Witwicky''' doesn't understand cars—or for that matter, anything mechanical. Buster prefers reading books, much to the frustration of his father. If only Buster were interested in something useful, like auto repair. Instead, foolish Buster, if he keeps on reading, may end up with a paid scholarship to ''college''. That is a road that could only lead to ruin.

He has an older brother, [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike]], who is away at college, and another brother [[Butch Witwicky (G1)|Butch]] who is just... ''away''.


:''Portuguese name (Brazil comics)'': '''Buster Centelha'''
:''Portuguese name (Portugal comics)'': '''Giga Witwicky'''

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
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[[Image:Odisengage.jpg|left|250px|thumb|You probably don't want to know where Buster's other hand is.]]
Buster and his girlfriend [[Jesse]] were making out at a drive-in theatre (blocking the movie from view of his friend [["O"]]) when their car was hit from behind by a yellow Volkswagen Beetle. Buster got out to investigate and discovered that the little car was unmanned. There was no one inside! Suddenly, the drive-in theatre became a war zone as jets appeared and attacked. During an explosion, the Beetle was damaged. Buster was stunned to realize the car seemed to be crying (the puss), and leaking a strange substance which was not oil! Buster sent his friends to get help, while he drove the Beetle home, figuring his father could fix it.

His father, Sparkplug, was overjoyed at first when he stumbled across Buster and the Beetle in his garage. Had his son decided to follow in his footsteps? But before Buster could explain, the damaged Volkswagen Beetle spoke to them. "Help me, please! I'm dying!" {{storylink|The Transformers (issue)|The Transformers}}

Buster convinced his father to fix the Autobot, and the boy quickly became friends with him. Buster and Sparkplug became embroiled in the Autobot/Decepticon conflict, and Sparkplug developed a technique to allow Transformers to use Earth fuels that haven't been converted to Energon. When the Decepticons kidnapped Sparkplug and attempted to force him to duplicate the process for them, he tricked them by tampering with the fuel. Sparkplug was rescued before the Decepticon attack on the Autobots thanks to [[Gears (G1)|Gears]] and [[Spider-Man]], but when an argument among the Autobots about his loyalties caused him to suffer a heart attack (though [[Jazz (G1)|unleashing a wall of flame in front of him]] didn't help), he was rushed to the hospital by Ratchet and Buster.

[[Image:NewOrder-OptimusPrimehead.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Sparkplug always knew his son would eventually get ahead.]]
While they were gone, the Decepticons attacked, but at the moment of their victory, the poisoned fuel caused the Decepticons to fall inoperative. However, the Autobots' victory was short-lived, as Shockwave arrived, having recently been awakened from his four million year old sleep on Earth, and quickly defeated the Autobots. {{storylink|The Last Stand}} This left Ratchet the only functioning Autobot, with the others inactive inside the now-Decepticon-occupied Ark. Buster volunteered to sneak inside to see what was going on, and in the course of doing so found the severed head of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]]. {{storylink|The New Order}}

Prime told him that he was the only hope for the Autobots, understandably confusing the human. Prime told Buster to disconnect two wires from his head and to apply them to his (Buster's) temples. This shocked Buster and rendered him unconscious for a time. When he woke up, he made his way out of the Ark and reunited with Ratchet. Unknown to Buster, this process passed the essence of the Autobot Creation Matrix to him in order to keep it out of Shockwave's hand. {{storylink|The Worse of Two Evils!}}

[[Image:Jetfireconstruct.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Yeah, but is it art?]]
While in possession of the Matrix energy, Buster developed telekinetic powers over machines, but they were often accompanied by searing pain in his head. After Ratchet had managed to defeat Megatron (thanks to help from the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]]) and free the Autobots (except for Optimus' head, which Shockwave still had captive), {{storylink|Repeat Performance!}} Shockwave learned of Buster's possession of the Matrix energy and sent the (for now) mindless shell of [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] to retrieve the human. Buster used his Creation Matrix powers to disassemble Jetfire, then reassemble him and control him directly. After an attempt to infiltrate [[Blackrock Aerospace Assembly Plant Number One|Shockwave's base]] to rescue Prime's head backfired, Buster was captured, only to eventually regain control of Jetfire and free Prime. {{storylink|Prime Time!}}

''After passing the Matrix back to Prime, Wheeljack and Ratchet built a robotic exosuit for him, much to Prime’s disapproval. In an attempt to prove himself, Buster took the suit and went to the [[Fortress Sinister|Decepticon Fortress]] and managed to defeat [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] in battle. Unfortunately he was then attacked and pursued by Shockwave. Only the intervention of the Autobots saved his life.'' {{storylink|Robot Buster!}}

[[Image:BusterCU.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Hmmm. I have some kind of fuzz on my chin. That's never happened before...]]
''Buster found himself plagued by dreams in which he encountered a new breed of Transformers. Linking minds with Optimus Prime, it was revealed that the Matrix had left an imprint in his mind of the [[Special Teams]], next generation of combining Transformers. The Decepticons had managed to eavesdrop on the vision and so the designs were also revealed to then.'' {{storylink|Devastation Derby!}} {{storylink|Second Generation!}}

''Jetfire later approached Buster, who he felt able to talk to because of the part Buster had played in his creation. A number of errors in judgement had caused him to become concerned that because he had been created on Earth he had a greater loyalty to humans than to the Autobots. Buster was able to convince him that he should be proud to be the first Earth-born Autobot.'' {{storylink|The Gift}}

[[Image:TFGenerations12.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Good? Bad? I'm the guy with the squeegee.]]
Buster would later play a major role in disabling [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]]'s plan to hypnotize humans into giving fuel to the Decepticons via a chain of car washes (yes, really). {{storylink|Buster Witwicky and the Car Wash of Doom}} He was also taken hostage by Ratbat in order to prevent the US military from attacking the Decepticons' base (at the time, a starship disguised as a tropical island). {{storylink|Club Con!}}

Buster's adventures with the Transformers ended soon thereafter, though his brother Spike would play a large role in the Autobot/Decepticon war as well, much to the dismay of Sparkplug (who, understandably, wanted nothing to do with the Transformers any more). It didn't help that when the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] found Buster, [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] had left him freezing in the [[Arctic]], as bait for a three-way fight between the Autobots, Ratbat's Decepticons, and [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]'s Decepticons. Buster's brother Spike, and Spike's partner [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] defrosted Buster, who then told Ratbat that Starscream tricked them all, and everyone took off after Starscream- and went straight into a fight against an [[Underbase]]-powered Starscream. During the fight, Buster almost froze to death, "accidentally" told Starscream that Prime launched a rocket to the Underbase (the message was "meant" for his brother Spike), was caught in a later firefight between Ratbat and Scorponok, and nearly broke his hand on [[Hi-Q]]'s helmet. {{storylink|Dark Star (issue)|Dark Star}}     

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===Coloring books===
As an adult in the year 2005, Buster had married Jesse and together they bought up their son [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel]]. The latter hung out with the Autobots a lot, which his parents were fine with. However, when the Autobots planned a search for a lost crate of energon cubes, Buster and Jesse drew the line and forbade their son to go along. {{storylink|The Lost Treasure of Cybertron}} 

===Dreamwave comics continuity===
{{note|Events of the [[Keepers Trilogy]] are in italics.}}
Buster took the death of his father hard. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 1|Prime Directive #1}} ''Following the death, Buster racked up enormous gambling debts, which Spike ended up having to pay off. {{storylink|Hardwired}}'' Buster subsequently joined the military. {{storylink|Lost and Found (issue)|Lost and Found}}

==Notes==
* "Buster" and "Spike", as well as "[[Butch Witwicky (G1)|Butch]]", were all names considered for the Witwicky boy character in early production material. One such early document shows Spike as the original name, but crossed off and corrected with "Buster" in pen (in [[Bob Budiansky]]'s handwriting). This suggests that Buster was intended to be the final name of the principal human character, but either Sunbow did not receive the revised materials, or a mistake was made somewhere. It is believed that "Butch" was a very, very early name for the character. See [[Butch Witwicky (G1)|Butch Witwicky]] for a more in-depth explanation.

* Buster's favorite band is [[Purple Fungus]]. {{storylink|Attack of the Insecticons}}

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