Skidplate - Revision history

S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47 at 07:18, 27 October 2025

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	:''Skidplate is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Transformers Roleplaying Game]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family\|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''		:''Skidplate is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Transformers Roleplaying Game]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family\|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

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	'''Skidplate''' is an easygoing 'bot who tries to be everyone's friend. Unfortunately, many people find his demeanor somewhat disconcerting. He transforms into a van.		A rare Earth-born Transformer, '''Skidplate''' is an easygoing 'bot who tries to be everyone's friend. Unfortunately, many people find his demeanor somewhat disconcerting. He transforms into a van.

	==Games==		==Games==

Locoman at 18:23, 10 December 2023

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			:''Skidplate is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Transformers Roleplaying Game]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family\|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

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			'''Skidplate''' is an easygoing 'bot who tries to be everyone's friend. Unfortunately, many people find his demeanor somewhat disconcerting. He transforms into a van.

			==Games==
			===''Transformers Roleplaying Game''===
			Skidplate and the other members of the [[Bee Team (G1)\|Bee Team]] were dispatched to [[Indiana]] to deal with the [[Pit Crew]], who were attempting to sabotage the [[Autobot Road]]. They discovered that the Decepticons had taken control of the nearby [[Indiana Speedway]] and seized a recently-landed [[energon]] meteor; after a brief showdown with the Decepticons, the team pursued the Decepticons back to their temporary base, where they confronted the Decepticons and their leader [[Scrap (G1)\|Scrap]] in final battle. {{storylink\|Winner's Cup}}

			[[Category:Earth-born Transformers]]
			[[Category:Generation 1 Autobots]]
			[[Category:Female Transformers]]

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	~~:''"Yeah? And you can kiss my skidplate, fearless leader."''-~~[[~~Rattrap]], [[Beast Wars, Part 1]]~~		#REDIRECT [[Anatomic euphemism#Skidplate]]<div id="wikia-credits"><br /><br /><small>From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</small></div>

	A '''skidplate''' is a protective shield, applied to equipment such as an [[Groundshaker\|all-terrain vehicle]], that protects vulnerable parts like [[manifold]]s, [[gearbox]]es, and presumably [[boron compressor]]s from damage.

	It is also a figurative location which others may be requested to [[kiss]], or accused of kissing. This is generally done with some element of anger or disdain, and without any [[Kiss Players\|genuine desire for such contact to occur]].

	Peculiarily, this figurative contact may be hypothetically initiated voluntarily by the supposed kisser. Generally this is only found in third-person references to said kisser, and is a way to accuse him of trying to curry favor with the owner of the metaphorical skidplate in question.

	~~Example usage:~~

	*"Carblast keeps complimenting our leader. It's totally insincere, but he thinks it's going to get him a promotion. Carblast is such a skidplate-kisser."

	*"Carblast can kiss my skidplate. He's not getting any promotion."

	This usage rather inexplicably mirrors [[human]] references to systems more analogous to [[Transformer]] tailpipes or exhaust ports. Indeed, in human vernacular, these systems are frequently seen to figuratively [[for safety reasons\|require covering]], rather than providing it.

	~~Perhaps there is some link to human language after all, as their culture contains [[Jesse\|a well-known link between kissing and apologizing]].~~

	~~[[Category: Euphemisms]]~~
	~~[[Category: Transformer anatomy~~]]<div id="wikia-credits"><br /><br /><small>From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</small></div>

Autobus Prime: Forgot a shade of meaning.

2007-11-10T15:23:39Z

Forgot a shade of meaning.

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	It is also a figurative location which others may be requested to [[kiss]], or accused of kissing. This is generally done with some element of anger or disdain, and without any [[Kiss Players\|genuine desire for such contact to occur]].		It is also a figurative location which others may be requested to [[kiss]], or accused of kissing. This is generally done with some element of anger or disdain, and without any [[Kiss Players\|genuine desire for such contact to occur]].

			Peculiarily, this figurative contact may be hypothetically initiated voluntarily by the supposed kisser. Generally this is only found in third-person references to said kisser, and is a way to accuse him of trying to curry favor with the owner of the metaphorical skidplate in question.

	Example usage:		Example usage:

Autobus Prime: What's this? A glaring lack?

2007-11-10T15:20:23Z

What's this? A glaring lack?

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:''"Yeah? And you can kiss my skidplate, fearless leader."''-[[Rattrap]], [[Beast Wars, Part 1]]

A '''skidplate''' is a protective shield, applied to equipment such as an [[Groundshaker|all-terrain vehicle]], that protects vulnerable parts like [[manifold]]s, [[gearbox]]es, and presumably [[boron compressor]]s from damage.

It is also a figurative location which others may be requested to [[kiss]], or accused of kissing. This is generally done with some element of anger or disdain, and without any [[Kiss Players|genuine desire for such contact to occur]].

Example usage:

*"Carblast keeps complimenting our leader. It's totally insincere, but he thinks it's going to get him a promotion. Carblast is such a skidplate-kisser."

*"Carblast can kiss my skidplate. He's not getting any promotion."

This usage rather inexplicably mirrors [[human]] references to systems more analogous to [[Transformer]] tailpipes or exhaust ports. Indeed, in human vernacular, these systems are frequently seen to figuratively [[for safety reasons|require covering]], rather than providing it.

Perhaps there is some link to human language after all, as their culture contains [[Jesse|a well-known link between kissing and apologizing]].

[[Category: Euphemisms]]
[[Category: Transformer anatomy]]<div id="wikia-credits"><br /><br /><small>From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</small></div>

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