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[[File:Triggerbots-us67a.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|FACT: Triggerbots are robots.]]
The '''Triggerbots''' are a trio of Autobot soldiers, all of whom sport rather massive concealed guns that they can flip out when needed.
The '''Triggerbots''' are a trio of Autobot soldiers, all of whom sport rather massive concealed guns that they can flip out when needed.


The Triggerbots are...
The Triggerbots are...


*[[Backstreet]]
*[[Backstreet (G1)|Backstreet]]
*[[Dogfight]]
*[[Dogfight (G1)|Dogfight]]
*[[Override (G1)|Override]]
*[[Override (G1)|Override]]
The Decepticon sub-group utilizing this technology is known as the [[Triggercon]]s.


==Fiction==
==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Generation 1====
====Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics====
{{noteukonly}}
{{noteukonly}}
[[File:FlamesofBoltax-Triggerbots.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|FACT: The purpose of the Triggerbot is to flip out guns and shoot people.]]
The trio accompanied a junior [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] on his mission to visit High Circuit Master [[Boltax (G1)|Boltax]], and were each instrumental in getting the group past a series of booby traps. They didn't think much of Prime's decision to visit the place, however, and Prime left them behind as he entered Boltax's Temple of Knowledge. {{storylink|The Flames of Boltax!}}


[[Image:Optimusprimeg1preearthmarvel2.jpg|250px|left|thumb|FACT: The purpose of the Triggerbot is to flip out guns and shoot people.]]
Millions of years later, the team was captured by the Decepticons, along with their Sparkabot compatriots. Backstreet was sent to Earth, along with two of the Sparkabots, so that the [[Z Foundation]] could test out their new Transformer-scrambling jammer devices. Backstreet's heat rays were unable to prevent a human bounty hunter from immobilizing him with a jammer. They were eventually freed, and made their way back to Cybertron. {{storylink|Ca$h and Car-nage!}}
The trio accompanied a junior Optimus Prime on his mission to visit High Circuit Master [[Boltax]], and were each instrumental in getting the group past a series of booby traps. They didn't think much of Prime's decision to visit the place, however, and Prime left them behind as he  entered Boltax's Temple of Knowledge. {{storylink|The Flames of Boltax!}}


Millions of years later, the team was captured by the Decepticons, along with their Sparkabot compatriots. Backstreet was sent to Earth, along with two of the Sparkabots, so that the [[Z Foundation]] could test out their new Transformer-scrambling jammer devices. Backstreet's heat rays were unable to prevent a human bounty hunter from immobilizing him with a jammer.  They were eventually freed, and made their way back to Cybertron. {{storylink|Ca$h and Car-nage!}}
[[File:Triggerbots nuclo deatomiser cannon race with the devil.jpg|thumb|FACT: On the one hand they don't give a crap, but on the other hand, Triggerbots are very careful and precise.]]
''The Triggerbots were sent in an [[Ark shuttlecraft#"Ark"-type|Autobot shuttle]] to track [[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]] and [[Darkwing (G1)|Darkwing]] on their mission to Earth. Unfortunately they were spotted and ended up battling [[Dreadwing (G1)|Dreadwing]] near the [[Moon (moon)|Moon]]. Instead of deploying the shuttle's [[nuclo-deatomiser cannon]], they opted instead to let the Decepticons detonate the shuttle's [[energon]] stores, faking their deaths so that they could discreetly follow down to the planet's surface.''


The Triggerbots were later sent by Emirate Xaaron as a search team during the [[Matrix Quest]], to the planet of [[Cheyne]]. Instead of the Matrix, they found a family of psychic vampires who ensnared their minds, to feed off of their hopes and dreams.  Dogfight finally managed to break free of their control with help from the locals; he then rescued his two comrades. {{storylink|Kings of the Wild Frontier}}
''The Decepticons had been sent to retrieve the body of [[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]] which, as it turned out, was still partially powered by the [[Underbase]], resulting in the Triggerbots having to face off against the murderous [[zombie]] while also protecting the archaeologist [[Susan Hoffman]] and her [[Susan Hoffman#Assistants|assistants]] from the predations of the local [[Juluth|tribespeople]]. Ultimately Dreadwind and Darkwing were able to get back to Cybertron with their prize, while the Triggerbots commiserated with their new-found human friends.'' {{storylink|Race with the Devil}}


====Generation 2====
The Triggerbots were later sent by Emirate Xaaron as a search team during the [[Matrix Quest]], to the planet of [[Cheyne]]. Instead of the Matrix, they found a family of psychic vampires who ensnared their minds, to feed off of their hopes and dreams. Dogfight finally managed to break free of their control with help from the locals; he then rescued his two comrades. {{storylink|Kings of the Wild Frontier.}}
Override was part of a team sent to stop a revitalized Megatron on Earth.  He attacked Megatron solo, to distract the Decepticon leader while other Autobots snuck aboard the ''Ark''. Megatron ripped him to shreds, presumably killing him. {{storylink|Final Transformations}}
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===IDW continuity===
====''Transformers Comic-Magazin''====
Dogfight, apparently a neophyte, helped out Optimus Prime during the second coming of Thunderwing. {{storylink|Stormbringer}}
Triggerbots are high-speed, agile Autobots who transform on just a single electrical impulse. They have had tough training from Prime himself and have chosen fantasy vehicle forms. The team comprised the heroic Autobots [[Ruckus (G1)|Ruckus]], [[Crankcase (G1)|Crankcase]], [[Windsweeper]], and Backstreet.{{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 11|Transformers in Action: He Who Laughs Last ...}} {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 12|Transformers in Action: "By their Blasters you shall know them ...!"}}
 
The Triggerbots were first seen as part of a large army during the twin crises of a sinking oil tanker and the multiverse snapping.{{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 9|The Transformers' Grand Hour: Headmaster of the Dimensions}}
 
During a planet-wide Decepticon attack on [[oil]] refineries, the Triggercons were spread throughout several cities and holding off the slower Powermasters. Luckily the Triggerbots arrived! The team masterfully exploited their strengths and the enemy's weakness by drawing the Triggercons into built-up urban areas (....uh....) where they could manoeuver faster. During this, they weathered friendly fire from humans (maybe cos you took the fight into a damn city). {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 11|He Who Laughs Last ...}} After this, that bastard Crankcase clearly defected to join the evil Triggercons Dogfight and Override!{{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 12|Transformers in Action: "By their Blasters you shall know them ...!"}}
 
During a major threat to the Earth, Backstreet was in charge of the [[Rocket Base]] and its joint Triggerbot-[[Micromaster]] crew. When the Decepticons seemed likely to use [[Super Blaster]]s, Backstreet did a bad thing for the greater good: he started ceasefire negotiations, then had his crew gun down the unprepared Decepticons. Earth was saved {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 13|The Energon Trap}} ''but at what moral cost?!''
{{-}}
 
====Marvel ''Generation 2'' comic====
[[File:Final Transformations Megatron kills Override.jpg|thumb|left|FACT: Triggerbots die ALL THE TIME.]]
Override was part of a team sent to stop a revitalized [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] on Earth. He attacked Megatron solo, to distract the Decepticon leader while other Autobots snuck aboard the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]]. Megatron ripped him to shreds, presumably killing him.  {{storylink|Final Transformations}}
{{-}}
 
====''Regeneration One''====
{{NoteRG1}}
[[File:Autobot security team natural selection.jpg|thumb|upright=1.9|FACT: Just like other robots, Triggerbots can be mean <u>OR</u> totally awesome.]]
The Triggerbots, along with [[Crosshairs (G1)|Crosshairs]] and [[Sureshot (G1)|Sureshot]], formed a security team that accompanied the new Autobot leader [[Hot Rod (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Hot Rod]] in apprehending the errant [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobot]] [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]] on his return to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Although offered the choice to come quietly, Grimlock chose to do things the hard way, resisting all the way to [[Bastion-five lock-up]], where he managed to escape by apparently infecting [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] with [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]'s [[Gene Key]]. {{storylink|Natural Selection, Part Two}} Shortly afterwards, Dogfight fell victim to the Gene Key, {{storylink|Natural Selection, Part Three|Natural Selection, Part Three cover}} as did Override, {{storylink|Natural Selection, Part Three}} and they assisted Scorponok and Perceptor in constructing a large-scale version of the device at the [[Sonic Canyons]]. Thankfully, Perceptor was only bluffing and managed to reverse the Gene Key's effects, shouting at the Triggercons to get clear while Grimlock and Scorponok battled for the last time. {{storylink|Natural Selection, Part Five}}
 
Dogfight joined the other aerial Autobots in defending Cybertron against [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]]'s ''[[Warworld]]'' {{storylink|Destiny, Part Four}} as a diversionary tactic devised by [[Prowl (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Prowl]] to allow the [[Wreckers]] to sneak aboard the ''Warworld''. {{storylink|Destiny, Part Five}}
 
Having survived the battle against the forces of [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]] at the [[Hub (G2)|Hub Network]], Backstreet returned first to Cybertron, then formed part of a squad under Prowl's command that travelled by [[space bridge]] to Earth, where they were ambushed by [[Linda Chang]]'s troops in the [[Glass Mountains]]. After [[Roadbuster (G1)|Roadbuster]] had negotiated a ceasefire, the [[human]]s and Autobots united and journeyed to [[Nebulos]], defeating the corrupted [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] in the [[Clar Macro-jungle]]. {{storylink|The War to End All Wars, Part 5}}
 
===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
When Megatron took over Cybertron during the [[Age of Internment]], Override and Dogfight managed to evade capture and hooked up with a resistance cell headed [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] and [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]]. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.2}} When one of their away teams was having trouble apprehending one of [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]'s [[Air Warrior|Aerospace Extermination Squadron]] drones, Override fetched Perceptor out of a meeting so the brainier 'bot could help coordinate the mission. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.3}}
 
{{Unreleased WW comic}}
 
All three Triggerbots accompanied Blaster as he used an ancient map of Cybertron's depths to infiltrate Megatron's slave camp, only for them to be discovered by Megatron himself. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.4}}
 
===2005 IDW continuity===
 
Dogfight and the Triggerbots were part of the [[Ark-27]]'s crew in the service of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]]. Dogfight made a point of telling Prime what an honor it was to serve alongside him. {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 2}} They were present for the second Battle of Thunderhead Pass as [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] was resurrected by [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]]'s cult. {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 4}} The Ark-27 with the Triggerbots also arrived at the [[Muta-Gaath Nebula]] to detain [[Monstructor (G1)|Monstructor]] and medevac [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] at Prime's request. {{storylink|Spotlight: Optimus Prime}}
 
===''Wings Universe''===


During the [[Machine Wars (event)|Machine Wars]], the Triggerbots fought in Cybertron's defense against [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]] and his horde of invading clones. {{storylink|Termination}}
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==Toys==
==Toys==
===Generation 1===
===''The Transformers''===
The Triggerbot sub-team was released in 1988, as carded toys at the $3 price point. The Triggerbots feature flip-out guns in both vehicle and robot modes, with very limited posability. Like most sub-groups at the time, they had [[Decepticon]] counterparts: the [[Triggercon]]s. Along with the Sparkabots and Firecons, they replaced 1987's Throttlebots as the line's lowest-cost offerings for 1988.
[[File:G1Backstreet toy.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|Backstreet's guns are cool, and by cool, I mean totally sweet.]]
*'''Triggerbots''' (1988):
**[[Backstreet (G1)|Backstreet]]
**[[Dogfight (G1)|Dogfight]]
**[[Override (G1)|Override]]
: The Triggerbots were sold individually carded at the $3 price point. The Triggerbots feature flip-out guns in both [[alternate mode|vehicle]] and [[robot mode]]s, with very limited posability. Like most sub-groups at the time, they had [[Decepticon]] counterparts: the [[Triggercon]]s. Along with the [[Sparkabot]]s and [[Firecon]]s, they replaced 1987's [[Throttlebot]]s as the line's lowest-cost offerings for 1988.


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Latest revision as of 21:39, 20 September 2024

FACT: Triggerbots are robots.

The Triggerbots are a trio of Autobot soldiers, all of whom sport rather massive concealed guns that they can flip out when needed.

The Triggerbots are...

The Decepticon sub-group utilizing this technology is known as the Triggercons.

Fiction

[edit]

Marvel Comics continuity

[edit]

Marvel The Transformers comics

[edit]
Events from the UK-only comic stories are in italics.
FACT: The purpose of the Triggerbot is to flip out guns and shoot people.

The trio accompanied a junior Optimus Prime on his mission to visit High Circuit Master Boltax, and were each instrumental in getting the group past a series of booby traps. They didn't think much of Prime's decision to visit the place, however, and Prime left them behind as he entered Boltax's Temple of Knowledge. The Flames of Boltax!

Millions of years later, the team was captured by the Decepticons, along with their Sparkabot compatriots. Backstreet was sent to Earth, along with two of the Sparkabots, so that the Z Foundation could test out their new Transformer-scrambling jammer devices. Backstreet's heat rays were unable to prevent a human bounty hunter from immobilizing him with a jammer. They were eventually freed, and made their way back to Cybertron. Ca$h and Car-nage!

FACT: On the one hand they don't give a crap, but on the other hand, Triggerbots are very careful and precise.

The Triggerbots were sent in an Autobot shuttle to track Dreadwind and Darkwing on their mission to Earth. Unfortunately they were spotted and ended up battling Dreadwing near the Moon. Instead of deploying the shuttle's nuclo-deatomiser cannon, they opted instead to let the Decepticons detonate the shuttle's energon stores, faking their deaths so that they could discreetly follow down to the planet's surface.

The Decepticons had been sent to retrieve the body of Starscream which, as it turned out, was still partially powered by the Underbase, resulting in the Triggerbots having to face off against the murderous zombie while also protecting the archaeologist Susan Hoffman and her assistants from the predations of the local tribespeople. Ultimately Dreadwind and Darkwing were able to get back to Cybertron with their prize, while the Triggerbots commiserated with their new-found human friends. Race with the Devil

The Triggerbots were later sent by Emirate Xaaron as a search team during the Matrix Quest, to the planet of Cheyne. Instead of the Matrix, they found a family of psychic vampires who ensnared their minds, to feed off of their hopes and dreams. Dogfight finally managed to break free of their control with help from the locals; he then rescued his two comrades. Kings of the Wild Frontier.

Transformers Comic-Magazin

[edit]

Triggerbots are high-speed, agile Autobots who transform on just a single electrical impulse. They have had tough training from Prime himself and have chosen fantasy vehicle forms. The team comprised the heroic Autobots Ruckus, Crankcase, Windsweeper, and Backstreet.Transformers in Action: He Who Laughs Last ... Transformers in Action: "By their Blasters you shall know them ...!"

The Triggerbots were first seen as part of a large army during the twin crises of a sinking oil tanker and the multiverse snapping.The Transformers' Grand Hour: Headmaster of the Dimensions

During a planet-wide Decepticon attack on oil refineries, the Triggercons were spread throughout several cities and holding off the slower Powermasters. Luckily the Triggerbots arrived! The team masterfully exploited their strengths and the enemy's weakness by drawing the Triggercons into built-up urban areas (....uh....) where they could manoeuver faster. During this, they weathered friendly fire from humans (maybe cos you took the fight into a damn city). He Who Laughs Last ... After this, that bastard Crankcase clearly defected to join the evil Triggercons Dogfight and Override!Transformers in Action: "By their Blasters you shall know them ...!"

During a major threat to the Earth, Backstreet was in charge of the Rocket Base and its joint Triggerbot-Micromaster crew. When the Decepticons seemed likely to use Super Blasters, Backstreet did a bad thing for the greater good: he started ceasefire negotiations, then had his crew gun down the unprepared Decepticons. Earth was saved The Energon Trap but at what moral cost?!

Marvel Generation 2 comic

[edit]
FACT: Triggerbots die ALL THE TIME.

Override was part of a team sent to stop a revitalized Megatron on Earth. He attacked Megatron solo, to distract the Decepticon leader while other Autobots snuck aboard the Ark. Megatron ripped him to shreds, presumably killing him. Final Transformations

Regeneration One

[edit]
Regeneration One continues from the Marvel US series, and does not include the UK stories or any subsequently published stories.
FACT: Just like other robots, Triggerbots can be mean OR totally awesome.

The Triggerbots, along with Crosshairs and Sureshot, formed a security team that accompanied the new Autobot leader Hot Rod in apprehending the errant Dinobot Grimlock on his return to Cybertron. Although offered the choice to come quietly, Grimlock chose to do things the hard way, resisting all the way to Bastion-five lock-up, where he managed to escape by apparently infecting Perceptor with Scorponok's Gene Key. Natural Selection, Part Two Shortly afterwards, Dogfight fell victim to the Gene Key, Natural Selection, Part Three cover as did Override, Natural Selection, Part Three and they assisted Scorponok and Perceptor in constructing a large-scale version of the device at the Sonic Canyons. Thankfully, Perceptor was only bluffing and managed to reverse the Gene Key's effects, shouting at the Triggercons to get clear while Grimlock and Scorponok battled for the last time. Natural Selection, Part Five

Dogfight joined the other aerial Autobots in defending Cybertron against Bludgeon's Warworld Destiny, Part Four as a diversionary tactic devised by Prowl to allow the Wreckers to sneak aboard the Warworld. Destiny, Part Five

Having survived the battle against the forces of Jhiaxus at the Hub Network, Backstreet returned first to Cybertron, then formed part of a squad under Prowl's command that travelled by space bridge to Earth, where they were ambushed by Linda Chang's troops in the Glass Mountains. After Roadbuster had negotiated a ceasefire, the humans and Autobots united and journeyed to Nebulos, defeating the corrupted Fortress Maximus in the Clar Macro-jungle. The War to End All Wars, Part 5

Dreamwave Generation One continuity

[edit]

When Megatron took over Cybertron during the Age of Internment, Override and Dogfight managed to evade capture and hooked up with a resistance cell headed Perceptor and Blaster. The Age of Wrath Pt.2 When one of their away teams was having trouble apprehending one of Megatron's Aerospace Extermination Squadron drones, Override fetched Perceptor out of a meeting so the brainier 'bot could help coordinate the mission. The Age of Wrath Pt.3

The Age of Wrath ceased publication before the story could conclude. The following would have taken place in unpublished issues.

All three Triggerbots accompanied Blaster as he used an ancient map of Cybertron's depths to infiltrate Megatron's slave camp, only for them to be discovered by Megatron himself. The Age of Wrath Pt.4

2005 IDW continuity

[edit]

Dogfight and the Triggerbots were part of the Ark-27's crew in the service of Optimus Prime. Dogfight made a point of telling Prime what an honor it was to serve alongside him. Stormbringer issue 2 They were present for the second Battle of Thunderhead Pass as Thunderwing was resurrected by Bludgeon's cult. Stormbringer issue 4 The Ark-27 with the Triggerbots also arrived at the Muta-Gaath Nebula to detain Monstructor and medevac Omega Supreme at Prime's request. Spotlight: Optimus Prime

Wings Universe

[edit]

During the Machine Wars, the Triggerbots fought in Cybertron's defense against Jhiaxus and his horde of invading clones. Termination

Toys

[edit]

The Transformers

[edit]
Backstreet's guns are cool, and by cool, I mean totally sweet.
The Triggerbots were sold individually carded at the $3 price point. The Triggerbots feature flip-out guns in both vehicle and robot modes, with very limited posability. Like most sub-groups at the time, they had Decepticon counterparts: the Triggercons. Along with the Sparkabots and Firecons, they replaced 1987's Throttlebots as the line's lowest-cost offerings for 1988.
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