Editing Leadfoot (G2)

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:''Leadfoot is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''

[[File:LeadfootG2commercial.jpg|284px|thumb|Without this, there could have been no ''Cars''.]]

'''Leadfoot''' is a speed machine who always manages to keep his cool no matter how fast he's going. Despite his function as a "defense specialist", he's most notable for using his incredible speed and sensor-deflecting armor for ''infiltrating'' enemy bases, then ripping them apart with his "[[Rotor Force|rotoprop]]" weapon.

Well, maybe the best defense is a good offense. You know who said that? Mel, the cook on ''Alice''.

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
====''Generation 2''====
[[File:Newdawn-volt-leadfoot.jpg|left|250px|thumb|"That car really motors!"<br>"'Cause I'm a transformin' rotor!!"<br>Erm, sure, Leadfoot.]]
Like the rest of the [[Rotor Force]], Leadfoot was originally one of [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]]'s next generation of [[Decepticon]]s, animated by the stolen power of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Creation Matrix]]. He first saw combat on [[Tykos]], when the Decepticons raided a [[rheanimum]] gas mine. {{storylink|New Dawn}}

Allying with the Autobots against the [[Cybertronian (faction)|Cybertronian Empire]] swiftly changed Leadfoot. He and [[Manta Ray (G2)|Manta Ray]] first partnered with [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] to ambush Cybertronian flyers, earning the Autobot's praise. {{storylink|Total War!}} More critically, Leadfoot saved his friend's life when [[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]] decided Manta Ray was insufficiently loyal, decapitating the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacon]] before he could kill Manta Ray. Leadfoot thought nothing of saving his partner, as Autobots have to stick together. {{storylink|A Rage in Heaven!}}
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====''Regeneration One''====
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[[File:Leadfoot rg1 loose ends 3.jpg|thumb|150px|You figure that out all on your lonesome?]]
Leadfoot was a member of the [[Wrecker]]s and along with the rest of the team went against [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s orders by intervening in a siege with Neo-Decepticon insurgents in a [[Kalis]] weapons-decommissioning facility. After bring the stalemate to an end by trapping [[Venom (G1)|Venom]], [[Chop Shop]] and [[Ransack (G1)|Ransack]] inside a [[detention sphere]], Leadfoot agreed to go on [[Kup (G1)|Kup]]'s journey to all the planets the Transformer war had ravaged. They started at [[Earth]] and Leadfoot controlled the surveillance drones; he was horrified at the site of the devastated Earth, asking what had happened. What happened was Megatron! {{storylink|Loose Ends, Part 1|Loose Ends #1}}

Having made it to Earth in the escape pods before Megatron destroyed their ship, the Wreckers decided to try to get a warning back to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] via the [[Deep Space Network]] in [[Goldstone]]. Upon discovering that they were being pursued by Megatron's [[zombie]] army, Leadfoot, [[Roadbuster (G1)|Roadbuster]] and [[Sandstorm (G1)|Sandstorm]] were dispatched to draw them away from the main group. {{storylink|Loose Ends, Part 2|Loose Ends #2}} Leadfoot reconvened with the other Wrekers (bar Kup, who had been captured by Megatron's forces) and met up with [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Circuit Smasher]]'s resistance cell at [[Argus Base]] where the humans enlightened the [[Autobot]]s about what had transpired in their absence. Leadfoot speculated that Megatron must have had some kind of help since he had neither the skills nor the resources to have accomplished so much alone and [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] surmised that the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] was most likely the source of his power. {{storylink|Loose Ends, Part 3|Loose Ends #3}}

As Springer, [[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]] and Sandstorm made their way to rescue Kup, the other Wreckers Leadfoot, [[Topspin (G1)|Topspin]], Roadbuster, [[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]] and [[Rack'n'Ruin|Rack 'n' Ruin]] launched an assault on the Ark, accompanied by Circuit Smasher and four humans wearing [[battlesuit]]s. Leadfoot was the first casualty of the battle, hit by [[autogun]] fire and flipped upside down with his wheels in the air. {{storylink|Loose Ends, Part 4|Loose Ends #4}}

After the battle was won, [[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]] put him on the critical list in his report to Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Natural Selection, Part 1|Natural Selection #1}} When the ship carrying Leadfoot and the others arrived in Cybertron's orbit, [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] ordered his troops to use Cybertron's defenses to blow the ship out of the air. {{storylink|Natural Selection, Part 4}} The Autobots on Cybertron managed to disarm the missiles before they destroyed the ship. {{storylink|Natural Selection, Part 5}}
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===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
[[File:SpotlightGalvatron Leadfoot.jpg|left|250px|thumb|How do you think LEADFOOT feels, jerk?]]
Leadfoot was one of the Autobots guarding [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]]'s remains at [[Thunderhead Pass]] on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. While on post, he tried to stop [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] from requesting a transfer to [[Earth]], then went back to duty while [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] sorted Sideswipe out. Unfortunately for Leadfoot, as he was on patrol, [[Galvatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|a mysterious being]] arrived to take Thunderwing. Leadfoot was taken by surprise as the powerful transformer grabbed him by the throat, and seconds later he was dead. Sideswipe, who was to relieve Leadfoot as punishment, arrived to find his comrade's lifeless body and swore revenge.  {{storylink|Spotlight: Galvatron}}

On their way to [[Garrus-9]], Hound's team sent telemetry on Leadfoot's death to the ''[[Ark-32]]''. After examining the data, [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] observed that it was as though a [[Necrotic virus|virus of "unlife"]] had attacked and destroyed every living [[cyber-cell]] in Leadfoot simultaneously in a fraction of a [[Units of time|nano-klik]]. More importantly, Nightbeat found this [[Spotlight: Nightbeat|somehow familiar...]]  {{storylink|Devastation issue 6|Devastation #6}}

===''Wings Universe''===
[[File:Leadfoot manta ray g2 redux.jpg|thumb|100px|[[John DiMaggio|Bite my glorious golden ass!]]]]
Leadfoot was one of many new Transformers created on Earth after [[2006]], when the war with the Decepticons had left the solar system for the further reaches of space. At the [[Cyberfactory]], a new generation was born out of human, [[Nebulan]], and Cybertronian technologies. Leadfoot and others like him were created as "citizens of Earth", but it was only a matter of time before conflict broke out. Leadfoot joined a legion of new Autobots under [[Pyro (G1)|Pyro]]'s leadership against [[Clench (G1)|Clench]] and his criminal Decepticon Syndicate. 

In [[2010]], Leadfoot was one of the first responders to the [[Large Hadron Collider]] in Switzerland, which had been taken over by the Syndicate. They were driven off by the Decepticons and their [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticon]] hordes, however, and Pyro was captured in the process. In a second strike, Leadfoot and the majority of the team kept [[Double Punch]] and the other Decepticon guards busy out front, while their emergency commander [[Rapido]] slipped in the rear to rescue Pyro. Leadfoot's team was placed in dire peril once the Decepticons began upgrading themselves with [[forestonite]], but luckily the [[Go-Bot (G2)|Go-Bot]]s and a large squad from [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]] arrived as reinforcements. [[Aquafend]] then sent him and [[Manta Ray (G2)|Manta Ray]] to the roof to fight through [[Ransack (G2)|Ransack]] and [[Powerdive]] and shut down the complex's wind turbines. The foursome were presumably still there when the forestonite gas raced through the planet's ventilation systems, giving super-powered upgrades to all Transformers present. {{storylink|Generation 2: Redux}}
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==Commercial appearances==
:''Voice actor:'' [[Garry Chalk]]

Leadfoot was speeding around a race track when it was attacked by the [[Laser Rod]], [[Sizzle (G2)|Sizzle]]. He transformed to robot mode in order to fight back and defend the speedway enthusiasts. Leadfoot also considers himself a "transforming rotor". How this belief relates to the secular notion of "[[Atechnogenesis|naturally-occurring gears, levers, and pulleys]]" is unknown.

==Toys==
===Generation 2===
[[File:G2-toy Leadfoot.jpg|300px|thumb|It's actually less counter-intuitive than it looks.]]
*'''Leadfoot''' (Rotor Force, 1994)
**''Accessories:'' Engine/launcher, 2 rotor discs

:Among the first of the totally-new molds designed for ''Generation 2'', Leadfoot transforms into a Lola T93 Indy car... with a giant rotor on top.  Hmm.  His "[[Rotor Force]]" engine block is a manually-wound spinner that launches his flying disc into the air. He graciously came with two in case you lost one. This assembly becomes a hand-held weapon for robot mode.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1994/Autobot/Leadfoot/leadfoot.htm More information on Leadfoot at TFU.info]''
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==Notes==
*Leadfoot is unique among the Rotor Force in that his [[alternate mode]] is ''not'' one that would normally have a large rotor or propeller.
*Maybe "defense specialist" means he's really good at getting ''through'' them?
*In the Marvel ''Generation 2'' comic, Decepticon speech bubbles were marked by triangles, while Autobots were marked by rectangles. Leadfoot and Manta Ray began with Decepticon bubbles, but were clearly Autobots in the last issue, once they switched sides.
*A crossword in ''[[The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual]]'' indicates that "[[Manta Ray (G2)|Piranha]]" and "Hotfoot" are brothers.


===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Leadfoot''' (リードフット ''Rīdofutto'')
*''UK:'' '''Hot Foot'''

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