Editing Trannis

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:''Trannis is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''


[[File:EarlyDecepticonLeader01.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Minnesota Viking-bot]]

'''Trannis''' is a [[Decepticon leader|Decepticon warlord]] whose job is to do lots of stuff but be forgotten about when [[Megatron (G1)|a more]] [[Straxus (G1)|famous]] one shows up.

==Fiction==
===Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics===
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A young Trannis seized control of the Decepticon army after [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]]'s crew became lost on Earth. He conquered most of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], but the Autobots held their fortified capital of [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] for hundreds of thousands of years until Trannis decided it wasn't worth taking, so he razed it instead. At that point, all of the [[Council of Autobot Elders]] except [[Emirate]] [[Xaaron]] surrendered to him. Trannis immediately had them killed. Emirate Xaaron escaped to form an underground resistance.

Trannis eventually became complacent in his rule and fell out of favor among some of the Decepticons. The [[Decepticon High Command|Decepticon high command]] made plans to get rid of him, but the [[Wrecker]]s beat them to the punch when they assassinated him. The Autobots were pretty sure this would be a good thing. 

He was succeeded by [[Straxus (G1)|Straxus]]. ''Nice one, Wreckers.'' {{storylink|Cybertron: The Middle Years!}}

===''The Transformers'' cartoon===
{{Note|This guy was never named in the cartoon and was nicknamed "early Decepticon leader" until ''[[Ask Vector Prime]]'' [[retcon|said]] he was Trannis in 2015.}}
He engaged on a campaign of conquest with [[Early Decepticons|his soldiers]]. Towards the end of the Second Cybertronian War, he was chased by [[Hood Transformer|some Autobot]]. The Decepticon leader whipped his attacker off his motorcycle, but then that motorcycle crashed into his and made him fall off too. Before he even got up, [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]] jumped in and kicked the snot out of him. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4}}

===''Wings Universe''===
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Trannis used to lead the early Decepticons and its ASD-324-ddd-3e3c1 hordes before Sentinel Prime thumped him. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime}} He resurfaced as the warlord of a Decepticon faction in the early days of the Great War. Under constant threat by the [[Cybertron Elite Guard]], he and the other Warlords banded together to form a war council. In one meeting, they reviewed footage of some of Megatron's men being wiped out by the Elite Guard. Trannis didn't much care, because they were Megatron's men, but [[Straxus (G1)|Straxus]] and [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] pointed out that the Elite Guard didn't care which faction those Decepticons belonged to. The Warlords began to cooperate. This didn't last long—[[Deathsaurus (Victory)|Deathsaurus]] sent [[Falcon (G1)|Falcon]] along to the next meeting with a bomb that killed Trannis and the other Warlords in attendance. {{storylink|A Team Effort}}

==Notes==
*Trannis's name was the inspiration for that of an abandoned [[OTFCC 2004]]-[[exclusive]] [[redeco]] of [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 toyline)|2001 ''Robots in Disguise'']] [[Rail Racer (RID)|Rail Racer]] that would have been named "[[Dominus Trannis]]".
* Early Decepticon leader's model also turns up among the [[Junkion (species)|Junkions]] manipulated by the Quintessons in "[[The Big Broadcast of 2006 (episode)|The Big Broadcast of 2006]]". The model then has a more Junkionish deco and is likely someone entirely different.
* According to [[ABN]], Vector Prime "always lies about Five Faces of Darkness". {{storylink|Recordicons#Recordicons #9|Recordicons #9}} If true, this would mean that the guy from Five Faces isn't necessarily Trannis but as there's no objective evidence either way, at least this way "Early Decepticon leader" gets a name and prose-guy Trannis gets an actual picture.


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