Editing Jack Arden

:''Jack Arden is a [[human]] from the [[live-action film series|live-action film continuity]].''
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Although he my be the latest in a long, long line of metallurgists, '''Jack Arden''' doesn't come across as the brightest bulb. He speaks simply and coarsely, he's not too good with anything but the simplest humour, and he doesn't often grasp the complex motivations of others, but his knowledge of metals is genuinely unparalleled, even if he does consider the work less than fulfilling.

==Fiction==
===IDW Publishing comics===

Arden was recruited by [[United States of America|United States]] Secret Service agent [[Billy North]] to join him, [[Walter Simmons]], [[Theodore Joseph Wells]], [[Reginald Danco]], [[Theodore Grant]] and [[Philippe Bowen]] on an expedition to the [[Arctic]], to verify the claims made by Captain [[Archibald Witwicky]] that he had found a giant [[Megatron (Movie)|metal man]] frozen in an ice cave. The claims proved true, and Arden immediately set to work examining the creature's metallic hide, all the while muttering to Bowen about how he couldn't grasp Wells's incredulous attitude towards the whole thing. Ultimately, Arden was forced to conclude that whatever the beast was made of, it was a metal he had never seen before—and that meant that they couldn't blast it out of the ice, since they couldn't tell if it would float. The debate about what to do next was promptly tabled when [[Jetfire (ROTF)|another of the metal man's kind]] came crashing into the cave and began attacking the men. Trying to figure out what to do, Arden realized that he did know ''one'' thing about the metal the creatures were made of: it froze at sub-zero temperatures. Danco used this information to put the other men's skills to work collapsing the ice sheet and sending the robot plunging into the freezing waters. As this was happening, Arden went to check on the injured North, only to discover that he had not survived the battle. His death weighed heavily on Simmons's conscience, but Arden was the first to speak up and stay he would stand by Simmons against any more of the robots that would come. After all, being a metallurgist wasn't nearly so exciting! {{storylink|Original}}

By 1913, unknown events had led Arden to part ways with [[Sector Seven|Simmons's group]]. He was replaced by [[Lou Hoover]]. {{storylink|Irreplaceable}}

==Notes==

*''[[Transformers: Sector 7|Sector 7]]'' author [[John Barber]] designed the [[First Seven]] represent disparate parts of the era their story takes place in. Having had his knowledge passed down from father to father, Arden represents the master-and-apprentice era of training and education, a school rapidly vanishing in the face of the Industrial Revolution.

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