Rust Dust: Difference between revisions

From MediaWiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
← Older edit
undoBerylRoll (talk | contribs)
9,127 edits
Elita2 (talk | contribs)
498 edits
BerylRoll (talk | contribs)
9,127 edits
 
(89 intermediate revisions by 31 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
{{factions|autobot}}
{{factions|autobot|{{factions/icons|custom=PotP-SolusPrime.png|cSize=25px|cLink=Solus Prime|cPretty=Solus Prime}}}}
:''Rust Dust is a [[Caminus|Camien]] [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
:''Rust Dust is a [[Caminus (planet)|Camien]] [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:RustDust-charactermodel.jpg|right|thumb|200px|You don't know what hard times are, daddy.]]


[[File:AnUneventfulNight-Rustdust.jpg|right|thumb|250px|DanananadaDADA! Dusty POWER!]]
'''Rust Dust''' is unbalanced in multiple senses. She's wobbly enough as a motorcycle that her teammates wonder how she stays on two wheels, and she's got hair-trigger reflexes that send her racing off at the merest possibility of an enemy. Often she's as likely to be racing into danger as out of it, but to Rust Dust's line of thinking a moving target is just harder to hit. And if she leads her friends on a wild turbofox chase... again... well there are worse things. Add in her upbeat, go-get-em attitude, and even an unbalanced little scrapper like her can inspire her larger, stronger teammates.
'''Rust Dust''' is an Autobot. She can combine with her fellow [[Torchbearer]]s to form [[Victorion]].
 
She can combine with her fellow [[Torchbearer]]s to form [[Victorion]].


==Fiction==
==Fiction==
===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
===2005 IDW continuity===
Soon after [[Caminus]] entered the [[Council of Worlds]], her team (under [[Pyra Magna]]) was sent to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] to search for the remains of [[Crystal City]].  
:*''First Appearance:'' [[An Uneventful Night|''Transformers: Combiner Hunters #1'']]
 
[[File:GhostStories-rustdust.jpg|thumb|left|300px|When animals attack.]]
 
Rust Dust derived her name from [[Cosmic Rust (disease)|an old poem]] that was part of the [[Light of the Forgefire]].
 
Rust Dust accompanied her fellow [[Torchbearer]]s on a mission to [[Parvus Oppidum]], an all but abandoned mining town that had recently been beset by bandits after the town's meager energon supply. Though things were quiet when they first arrived, the marauders soon returned and caught the Torchbearers off guard. Rust Dust's friend [[Fastbreak (G1)|Fastbreak]] was killed in the ensuing battle, a fate she narrowly avoided sharing. Eventually a black hole opened up under the town, prompting Rust Dust and her fellow Torchbearers to get to work trying to protect the townspeople. After the singularity and the marauders disappeared, leaving Parvus in ruins, the devastated Rust Dust held Fastbreak's corpse in her arms.
 
Some time later, Rust Dust began a friendship with fellow Torchbearer [[Pyra Magna (G1)|Pyra]], who had similarly been shaken by the events at Parvus. On one of their meetings, Pyra inquired about the origins of her name. After being named leader of the Torchbearers, Pyra Magna made Rust Dust part of her team. {{storylink|Ghost Stories}}
 
Soon after [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]] entered the [[Council of Worlds]], her team was sent to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] to search for the remains of [[Crystal City]].  
 
[[File:AnUneventfulNight-Rustdust.jpg|upright=1.2|thumb|DanananadaDADA! Dusty POWER!]]
It was Rust Dust that spotted strangers entering the [[Rust Sea|Sea of Rust]] and alerted Magna. That led to them intervening in a fight between [[Arcee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|some rando called Arcee]] and [[Cityspeaker]] [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] herself, with Arcee attempting to destroy the fabled [[Enigma of Combination]]. A horrified Rust Dust tried to save the Enigma and in the process, she accidentally turned all her team into the new combiner Victorion!


It was Rust Dust that spotted strangers entering the [[Rust Sea|Sea of Rust]] and alerted Magna. That led to them intervening in a fight between [[Arcee (G1)|some rando called Arcee]] and [[Cityspeaker]] [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] herself, with Arcee attempting to destroy the fabled [[Enigma of Combination]]. A horrified Rust Dust tried to save the Enigma and in the process, she accidentally turned all her team into the new combiner Victorion!
After a brief rampage, the gestalt separated and Rust Dust suggested they hide the Enigma on Caminus, if Arcee was so worried [[Starscream (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Starscream]] would use it. Windblade overrode her, saying they needed to ensure Cybertron and Caminus stayed allies. {{storylink|An Uneventful Night}}


After a brief rampage, the gestalt separated and Rust Dust suggested they hide the Enigma on Caminus, if Arcee was so worried [[Starscream (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Starscream]] would use it. Windblade overrode her, saying they needed to ensure Cybertron and Caminus stayed allies. {{storylink|An Uneventful Night}}
The Torchbearers opted to stay in the Rust Sea for a time, still learning to control their new powers. The inhabitants of the wasteland soon learned to avoid them. On one occasion, the team appeared to scare off a group of zombified [[Sweep (G1)|Sweep]]s. {{storylink|The Transformers: Redemption|Redemption}}  


The Torchbearers opted to stay in the Rust Sea for a time, still learning to control their new powers. The inhabitants of the wasteland soon learned to avoid them. On one occasion, the team appeared to scare off a group of zombified [[Sweep]]s. {{storylink|The Transformers: Redemption|Redemption}}  
[[File:Lagrange-OptimusAndTorchbearers.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.8|]]
They remained in exile until [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]]—seeking answers about what it ''truly'' meant to be a [[Prime (rank)|Prime]]—decided to visit the group. {{storylink|Conquerors Part 1: Aphelion|Aphelion}} Merging into Victorion, the Torchbearers tested Optimus's physical and spiritual resolve. Optimus's agnosticism about the [[Matrix of Leadership]] prompted Victorion to lay claim to the Matrix and vow to build Optimus into a worthy Prime. {{storylink|Conquerors Part 2: Lagrange|Lagrange}}  


They remained in exile until [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime]]- seeking answers about what it ''truly'' meant to be a [[Prime]], decided to visit the group. {{storylink|Conquerors Part 1: Aphelion|Aphelion}} Merging into Victorion, the Torchbearers tested Optimus's physical and spiritual resolve. Optimus's agnosticism about the [[Matrix of Leadership]] prompted Victorion to lay claim to the Matrix and vow to build Optimus into a worthy Prime. {{storylink|Conquerors Part 2: Lagrange|Lagrange}} ''Presumably'' she went to Earth with the other Torchbearers, but we've yet to see her there.
She went to Earth with the other Torchbearers, remaining out of sight for some time, though she was a part of the combiner when they saved Optimus from a human-built kilsat. {{storylink|All Hail Optimus Part 2: Edge of the Earth|Edge of the Earth}} And again when Victorion went into battle against the [[Seeker clone|human-made combiner]]s, at least until the combiner was forcibly separated thanks to trickery from [[Galvatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Galvatron]] leaving Rust Dust and her teammates floating at the bottom of the [[Indian Ocean]]. {{storylink|All Hail Optimus Part 4: It's Beginning To And Back Again|It's Beginning To And Back Again}} Knocked out by the separation, she remained unconscious while the other Autobots figured out how to end Galvatron's control over combiners. {{storylink|All Hail Optimus Part 5: As Above...So Below|As Above...So Below}}
 
By the time that the Torchbearers had regained consciousness, the fight had already moved offworld. {{storylink|All Hail Optimus Part 6: No Fair Fights|No Fair Fights}} Rust Dust and the Torchbearers helped round up the stragglers. {{storylink|White Light}} Though exhausted from the fighting, they were forced to form Victorion again to see off the Earth Defense Command. {{storylink|White Heat}}
 
After several uneventful months on Earth, the Torchbearers were later deployed to [[Oregon]] to defend Arcee and [[Jazz (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Jazz]] from a [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] attack. As Victorion, they used their gravity powers to harmlessly incapacitate human aircraft in the wake of [[Soundwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Soundwave]]'s EMP attack. {{storylink|Concorde Hymn}} The Torchbearers remained on guard outside [[Metrotitan (G1)|Metrotitan]] as the Transformers attempted to diffuse the growing [[Ore-13]] crisis that threatened to destroy Earth. When the [[Dire Wraith]]s and [[M.A.S.K.]] dropped all pretenses and attacked the city for its Ore-13 supplies, {{storylink|The New Colossus}} Victorion and the other Autobots defended their base from their combined forces and the monstrous [[Baron Karza]]. Overwhelmed by a tide of Dire Wraiths, Victorion split into her components to even the playing field. {{storylink|Valley Forge}}
 
[[File:FutureGloriesLost-KnightTemplarPrime.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.5|]]
When that crisis had passed, the Autobots and their new allies - including G.I. Joe and some recently arrived Transformer colonists with religious aspirations - turned their attention back to stabilizing the increasingly volatile Earth. The Torchbearers accompanied Optimus Prime when they traveled to the [[Matterhorn]] and intercept an alien craft on a collision course with Earth. {{storylink|New Cybertron Part 1: To Walk Among the Chosen|To Walk Among the Chosen}} As Victorion, the Torchbearers stood guard as the [[Junkion (species)|Junkion]]s disembarked from their craft, and watched as their leaders [[Wreck-Gar (G1)|Wreck-Gar]] and [[Rum-Maj]] parleyed with Optimus Prime. {{storylink|New Cybertron Part 2: A Lonely Pillar on the Plain|A Lonely Pillar on the Plain}}
 
Rust Dust and the Torchbearers stood by when Pyra Magna finally came to blows with Optimus Prime over his hypocrisy of leading via religious mandate when he himself did not believe. Nevertheless, they attended the meeting between the peoples of Earth, Cybertron, and Junk arranged by the Prime. Which, of course, immediately descended into open warfare. {{storylink|New Cybertron Part 4: Dance Among the Shadows|Dance Among the Shadows}} They engaged the attacking Junkions on the orders of the Prime, forming Victorion to deal with their foes. {{storylink|New Cybertron Part 5: Future Glories Lost|Future Glories Lost}} In the aftermath of the battle, the Junkions were given [[Marshall Islands|Bikini Atoll]] as a refugee city, building their own [[Little Cybertron]] on the island, with the somewhat reluctant assistance of the Torchbearers. {{storylink|The Next Day, and the Next}}
 
Rust Dust was at Autobot City when Metrotitan's Space Bridge ferried Earth's envoy of ambassadors to Cybertron to be accepted into the Council of Worlds. When contact with Cybertron was cut off, she and the Torchbearers locked down Autobot City in case an attack was directed back through the bridge. {{storylink|Primeless, Part 1}}
 
[[File:Ceremony RustDustSupports.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.7|Rust Crutch]]
The Torchbearers awaited Optimus Prime at Autobot City when he returned from the [[Ore-13]] mines with a supply of energon for Cybertron. {{storylink|The Falling, Chapter 1: Surfeit of Primes|Surfeit of Primes}} A situation developed when he delivered the energon to Cybertron, but Pyra Magna chose to keep her forces in reserve rather than rush to the Prime's side. {{storylink|The Falling, Chapter 2: Another Mine|Another Mine}} Of course, they had no say in the matter once Autobot City acted on its own accord and transported to Cybertron through its own space bridge portal. Metrotitan was then slain by [[Nemesis (BW)|Nemesis]], flagship of the prodigal Prime, [[Onyx Prime]]. {{storylink|The Falling, Chapter 3: The Ground|The Ground}}
 
In the wreckage of Metrotitan, the Torchbearers were faced the [[Maximal]]s of [[Liege Maximo]] and the fanatical combiner, [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]]. They formed Victorion in order to better defend their allies. The power of Devastator seemed to be so great that he overcame Victorion's gravity-manipulation abilities. {{storylink|The Falling, Chapter 4: The Hallowing|The Hallowing}} Victorion's fight with Devastator went poorly for some time and he held the upper hand. {{storylink|The Falling, Chapter 5: Endless Forever|Endless Forever}} Eventually, however, it was revealed that the Liege Maximo manipulated the gravity power of [[Ore-4]] to counteract Victorion's powers. Once Arcee dispatched him, Devastator fell easily and was pulverized by sustained gravimetric pressure. Rust Dust and the Torchbearers disconnected as Pyra Magna confronted Onyx Prime in his true form as [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Shockwave]] of the Decepticons. {{storylink|The Falling, Chapter 6: Unforgivable|Unforgivable}}
 
Rust Dust and the other Torchbearers narrowly escaped the destruction of their homeworld Caminus by the jaws of [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]].  {{storylink|Last Stand (Unicron)|Last Stand}}  Rust Dust and the others were concerned for Pyra Magna as they mourned the death of the [[Mistress of Flame]].  {{storylink|Stranger Eons}}  After Unicron appeared above Cybertron, the Torchbearers combined into Victorion to attack the planet-eater directly at the command of [[Elita One (G1)|Elita One]].  However, Victorion was defeated by [[Monstructor (G1)|Monstructor]], who killed [[Stormclash]] and forced them to de-combine.  {{storylink|Our Finest}}  Hitching a ride on [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]]'s [[Worldsweeper]] to Earth, the Torchbearers arrived in time for the final battle with Unicron and its followers.  {{storylink|Assembly (Unicron)|Assembly}}  With [[Slide]] taking Stormclash's place, the Torchbearers were able to form Victorion again and slay Monstructor with [[Superion (G1)|Superion]]'s help.  In the aftermath of Unicron's defeat, Rust Dust supported the wounded Pyra Magna as they accepted Slide into the Torchbearers.  {{storylink|Ceremony}}
 
In the days following Unicron's defeat, Rust Dust helped rebuild and attended Optimus Prime's funeral.  {{storylink|Post}}
 
===2019 IDW continuity===
{{first|[[War World: We Are Not Meant To Be Darkness|''Transformers'' #30]]}}
[[File:WeAreNotMeantToBeDarkness RustDustVNautilator.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.3|She'll come at you like a spider-monkey.]]
One of Pyra Magna's faithful [[Companion]]s, Rust Dust adopted her color scheme in protest of Pyra's imprisonment after the [[War of the Threefold Spark]].  She joined back up with her fellow Companions after Pyra Magna was released and enlisted by [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] to combat the Decepticon menace.  The Companions hid under a [[shimmer field]] as Pyra met with [[Strika (BM)|Strika]] as part of a parlay and sprung into action when it turned into an assassination attempt on their leader.  Facing off with a group of Decepticons that Strika had brought along, Rust Dust took point and pounced on a terrified [[Nautilator]] in the first moments of the fight. After driving the Decepticons off, Pyra announced that they would be putting their support behind Optimus Prime for the time being.  {{storylink|War World: We Are Not Meant To Be Darkness|We Are Not Meant To Be Darkness}}
 
[[File:SeaOfRustII RustDustVOffroad.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.3|Let's tango, axeman.]]
Rust Dust was part of a strike team sent aboard [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]] to rescue [[Termagax]] from an [[Insecticon clone]] swarm.  After clearing the Insecticons out, Rust Dust and [[Groundbreaker]] amused themselves by kicking a dead clone into the nearby [[Rust Sea|Sea of Rust]], where it was devoured by [[rust worm|rust worms]].  The Autobots took up a defensive position in front of [[House (building)|House]] when the Decepticons launched an attack and Rust Dust took on [[Offroad (CW)|Offroad]] in the ensuing melee. {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Sea of Rust II|Sea of Rust II}}
 
[[File:WarsEndPartTwo CompanionsArrive.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5|Last time she shows up in this continuity.]]
Rust Dust and her fellow Companions were poised to defend [[Crystal City]] when a large Decepticon force led by Strika launched an attack on it.  {{storylink|A Dust of Crystals}}  After [[Lodestar (Titan)|Lodestar]] and [[Computron (G1)|Computron]] arrived on the battlefield, Optimus Prime saw an opportunity to force a ceasefire with the Decepticons, and Rust Dust accompanied him to confront Strika.  {{storylink|The Landscape of Fear}}  Pyra Magna next had the Companions travel to the [[Sonic Canyons]] to confront a returned [[Exarchon]].  As they passed over the expanding Sea of Rust on their way there, they noticed the frenzied activity of the rust worms within it, which Rust Dust admitted was compelling to watch.  The Companions arrived at Exarchon's hideout to find a group of Decepticons led by [[Sixshot (G1)|Sixshot]] already engaged in battle with him.  {{storylink|War's End Part Two}}
{{-}}
 
==Games==
===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
[[file:RustDustEarthWars.jpg|thumb|upright=1.75| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A_lDhpQYFI&t=124s Rust Dust.... Hmmm..... That name's not tongue twisty enough. How about Rust Crust Must Gust Just Dust?]]]
Rust Dust has a habit of acting first and thinking later, tearing off into danger and rationalizing that a moving target is harder to hit than any target at all. The merest whiff of an enemy heat signature and she's away, more often than not leading the others on a wild goose chase.
 
She's so imbalanced, her teammates wonder how she manages to stay on two wheels, but often her hair-trigger instincts have proven invaluable. {{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars| Rust Dust bio}}
 
Rust Dust came to Earth alongside the rest of the Torchbearers, save Pyra Magna.
Rust Dust doesn't really do much, Campaign wise.
 
Rust Dust along with the other Torchbearers were in the Polyhex district on a scouting mission looking for the Dinobot Sludge. They couldn't find any trace of the big lug until Pyra Magna noticed a broken [[cerebro-shell]].
{{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars/Events| Polyhex Saga}}
 
*'''Class''': Special
*'''Lowest Star Rating''': 3 Stars (2 star in Beta)
*'''Weapons''': Rust Dust uses a Stun gun of the same make as Bumblebee. She can also back flip to avoid Cannon or Mortar fire.
*'''Ability: Artillery Support''': Call in Artillery at your current position and get away! Deals massive damage in a large area
{{--}}
 
===''Transformers Roleplaying Game''===
Rust Dust was a bubbly member of the Torchbearers. {{storylink|The Enigma of Combination}}


==Toys==
==Toys==
===Generations===
===''Combiner Wars''===
[[File:CombinerWarstoy-RustDust.jpg|right|thumb|300px|]]
[[File:CombinerWarstoy-RustDust.jpg|thumb|300px|There were two bad people... one was John Wayne, and he's dead, brother, and the other's right here.]]
*'''Victorion''' (Giftset, 2016)
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Victorion''' (Collection Pack, [[2016]])}}</ul>
:''Accessories:'' Sword
{{toydesigner|[[John Warden]] (Hasbro), [[Shogo Hasui]] (TakaraTomy)|[[You]] (initial concept)}}


:Rust Dust is a [[redeco]] of ''Combiner Wars'' [[Groove (G1)|Groove]], and transforms into a motorcycle. She can combine with [[Pyra Magna]], [[Skyburst (G1)|Skyburst]], [[Dustup]], [[Jumpstream]], and [[Stormclash]], and forms the chestplate of Victorion.
:''[[Combiner Wars (toyline)|Combiner Wars]]'' Rust Dust is a [[redeco]] of Legends Class [[Groove (G1)#Combiner Wars|Protectobot Groove]] from the same toy line, and transforms into a motorcycle of made-up model. She can combine with her teammates [[Pyra Magna (G1)#Toys|Pyra Magna]], [[Skyburst (G1)#Toys|Skyburst]], [[Stormclash#Toys|Stormclash]], [[Dust Up#Toys|Dust Up]], and [[Jumpstream#Toys|Jumpstream]], and forms the chestplate of Victorion. Like the rest of her Torchbearers, Rust Dust features Cybertronic [[tampograph]]s on her vehicle mode, which reads "''Far Away''" on her right and "''Never Roam''" on the left.


:This mold was also used to make ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 toyline)|Adventure]]'' [[Override (Adventure)|Override]] and was [[retool]]ed into ''Combiner Wars'' [[Wreck-Gar (G1)#Generations|Wreck-Gar]].
:The [[instructions]] for Victorion, all of the respective fictional appearances, and official artwork of the character (including the piece used on the packaging) depict Rust Dust's chestplate mode as sitting upright (motorcycle windshield at the top, wheel at the bottom), as opposed to Groove's upside down orientation. However, due to the way the Groove and [[Hot Spot (G1)#Combiner Wars|Hot Spot]] molds are designed to combine, the only two points of friction holding Rust Dust on in the "official" Victorion configuration, are the [[5 mm post]]s on Rust Dust's arms, leading to the chestplate outright falling off at the drop of a hat. The windshield of the motorcycle also partially obscures Victorion's face in this configuration too. The red paint used on Rust Dust's forearms is also prone to scratching off in places—specifically her knuckles (due to them scraping against the molded greebles on Pyra Magna in torso mode), and the tabs on either forearm (where they plug into her own legs for chestplate mode). The paint scraping off can also lead to less friction on the forearm tabs, making the chestplate mode less likely to hold together.
{{comingsoontoy}}
 
:Rust Dust was only available as part of a Victorion box set, including a poster and a collector card based on the set's packaging art. The set was one of several so-called "Collection Packs" that were "online exclusives" in the United States, available from online retailers such as [[Hasbro Toy Shop]], [[Amazon (website)|Amazon]], and [[BigBadToyStore]] as well as the online stores of "big box" retailers such as [[Toys"R"Us]], [[Walmart]], [[Target]], and [[Kmart]]. In Hasbro's Asian markets such as Singapore and Taiwan, the set was available at general retail. In Australia, it was sold at Toys"R"Us and Big W stores, whereas in Canada, was both sold at Toys"R"Us stores and available via Amazon Canada. In the United Kingdom, it was available via the UK Toys"R"Us website (but never sold in stores), whereas in Spain, it was available via the Spanish subsidiaries of [[Amazon (website)|Amazon]] and Carrefour, as well as the department store chain El Corte Inglés, supposedly also only available online.
 
:This sculpt was also used to make ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 toyline)|Adventure]]'' [[Override (RID)#Toys|Override]] and was [[retool]]ed into ''Combiner Wars'' [[Wreck-Gar (G1)#Combiner Wars|Wreck-Gar]]. It also served as the model for the non-toy ''[[Beast Wars: Uprising]]'' character [[Vampire (BWU)|Vampire]] and the ''[[Spatiotemporal Challengers]]'' incarnation of [[Scooter (GoBots)|Scooter]].
 
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2016/Autobot/CWRustDust/rustdust.htm More information on Rust Dust at TFU.info]''
{{--}}


==Notes==
==Notes==
* Much like Groove in the ''Combiner Wars'' miniseries, Rust Dust has the rather unfortunate distinction of being neglected by the artists. She's usually absent from group shots of the Torchbearers, and has only sporadically been seen as Victorion's chest armor, either. Oops?
*Early appearances of Victorion in the comics had an unfortunate tendency to omit Rust Dust.
*Much like Groove, when Rust Dust is drawn as part of Victorion, she's often drawn upside-down—with the front wheel erroneously pointing down instead of correctly up. This is presumably due to the fact that she appears that way in all stock photography.
*Continuing Rust Dust's unlucky streak, she's the only Rust Renegade not to get a redeco as a member of the [[4 Guards]].
*Though Rust Dust's toy has two separate eyes, carried over from Groove, her fictional appearances merge the two blue optics together into a single sunglasses-style visor.
 
===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Rust Dust''' (ラストダスト ''Rasuto Dasuto'')<!--Earth Wars-->
*''Mandarin:'' '''Xiù Chén''' (锈尘, "Rust Dust")


[[Category:Caminus]]
[[Category:Camiens]]
[[Category:Combiner Wars]]
[[Category:Combiner Wars Autobots]]
[[Category:Combiners]]
[[Category:Combiners]]
[[Category:Earth Wars Autobots]]
[[Category:Female Transformers]]
[[Category:Female Transformers]]
[[Category:IDW Generation 1 Autobots]]
[[Category:IDW (2005) Autobots]]
[[Category:IDW (2019) Transformers]]
[[Category:Torchbearers]]
[[Category:Transformers Roleplaying Game Autobots]]

Latest revision as of 14:43, 23 February 2026

Rust Dust is a Camien Autobot from the Generation 1 continuity family.
You don't know what hard times are, daddy.

Rust Dust is unbalanced in multiple senses. She's wobbly enough as a motorcycle that her teammates wonder how she stays on two wheels, and she's got hair-trigger reflexes that send her racing off at the merest possibility of an enemy. Often she's as likely to be racing into danger as out of it, but to Rust Dust's line of thinking a moving target is just harder to hit. And if she leads her friends on a wild turbofox chase... again... well there are worse things. Add in her upbeat, go-get-em attitude, and even an unbalanced little scrapper like her can inspire her larger, stronger teammates.

She can combine with her fellow Torchbearers to form Victorion.

Fiction

[edit]

2005 IDW continuity

[edit]
When animals attack.

Rust Dust derived her name from an old poem that was part of the Light of the Forgefire.

Rust Dust accompanied her fellow Torchbearers on a mission to Parvus Oppidum, an all but abandoned mining town that had recently been beset by bandits after the town's meager energon supply. Though things were quiet when they first arrived, the marauders soon returned and caught the Torchbearers off guard. Rust Dust's friend Fastbreak was killed in the ensuing battle, a fate she narrowly avoided sharing. Eventually a black hole opened up under the town, prompting Rust Dust and her fellow Torchbearers to get to work trying to protect the townspeople. After the singularity and the marauders disappeared, leaving Parvus in ruins, the devastated Rust Dust held Fastbreak's corpse in her arms.

Some time later, Rust Dust began a friendship with fellow Torchbearer Pyra, who had similarly been shaken by the events at Parvus. On one of their meetings, Pyra inquired about the origins of her name. After being named leader of the Torchbearers, Pyra Magna made Rust Dust part of her team. Ghost Stories

Soon after Caminus entered the Council of Worlds, her team was sent to Cybertron to search for the remains of Crystal City.

DanananadaDADA! Dusty POWER!

It was Rust Dust that spotted strangers entering the Sea of Rust and alerted Magna. That led to them intervening in a fight between some rando called Arcee and Cityspeaker Windblade herself, with Arcee attempting to destroy the fabled Enigma of Combination. A horrified Rust Dust tried to save the Enigma and in the process, she accidentally turned all her team into the new combiner Victorion!

After a brief rampage, the gestalt separated and Rust Dust suggested they hide the Enigma on Caminus, if Arcee was so worried Starscream would use it. Windblade overrode her, saying they needed to ensure Cybertron and Caminus stayed allies. An Uneventful Night

The Torchbearers opted to stay in the Rust Sea for a time, still learning to control their new powers. The inhabitants of the wasteland soon learned to avoid them. On one occasion, the team appeared to scare off a group of zombified Sweeps. Redemption

They remained in exile until Optimus Prime—seeking answers about what it truly meant to be a Prime—decided to visit the group. Aphelion Merging into Victorion, the Torchbearers tested Optimus's physical and spiritual resolve. Optimus's agnosticism about the Matrix of Leadership prompted Victorion to lay claim to the Matrix and vow to build Optimus into a worthy Prime. Lagrange

She went to Earth with the other Torchbearers, remaining out of sight for some time, though she was a part of the combiner when they saved Optimus from a human-built kilsat. Edge of the Earth And again when Victorion went into battle against the human-made combiners, at least until the combiner was forcibly separated thanks to trickery from Galvatron leaving Rust Dust and her teammates floating at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. It's Beginning To And Back Again Knocked out by the separation, she remained unconscious while the other Autobots figured out how to end Galvatron's control over combiners. As Above...So Below

By the time that the Torchbearers had regained consciousness, the fight had already moved offworld. No Fair Fights Rust Dust and the Torchbearers helped round up the stragglers. White Light Though exhausted from the fighting, they were forced to form Victorion again to see off the Earth Defense Command. White Heat

After several uneventful months on Earth, the Torchbearers were later deployed to Oregon to defend Arcee and Jazz from a G.I. Joe attack. As Victorion, they used their gravity powers to harmlessly incapacitate human aircraft in the wake of Soundwave's EMP attack. Concorde Hymn The Torchbearers remained on guard outside Metrotitan as the Transformers attempted to diffuse the growing Ore-13 crisis that threatened to destroy Earth. When the Dire Wraiths and M.A.S.K. dropped all pretenses and attacked the city for its Ore-13 supplies, The New Colossus Victorion and the other Autobots defended their base from their combined forces and the monstrous Baron Karza. Overwhelmed by a tide of Dire Wraiths, Victorion split into her components to even the playing field. Valley Forge

When that crisis had passed, the Autobots and their new allies - including G.I. Joe and some recently arrived Transformer colonists with religious aspirations - turned their attention back to stabilizing the increasingly volatile Earth. The Torchbearers accompanied Optimus Prime when they traveled to the Matterhorn and intercept an alien craft on a collision course with Earth. To Walk Among the Chosen As Victorion, the Torchbearers stood guard as the Junkions disembarked from their craft, and watched as their leaders Wreck-Gar and Rum-Maj parleyed with Optimus Prime. A Lonely Pillar on the Plain

Rust Dust and the Torchbearers stood by when Pyra Magna finally came to blows with Optimus Prime over his hypocrisy of leading via religious mandate when he himself did not believe. Nevertheless, they attended the meeting between the peoples of Earth, Cybertron, and Junk arranged by the Prime. Which, of course, immediately descended into open warfare. Dance Among the Shadows They engaged the attacking Junkions on the orders of the Prime, forming Victorion to deal with their foes. Future Glories Lost In the aftermath of the battle, the Junkions were given Bikini Atoll as a refugee city, building their own Little Cybertron on the island, with the somewhat reluctant assistance of the Torchbearers. The Next Day, and the Next

Rust Dust was at Autobot City when Metrotitan's Space Bridge ferried Earth's envoy of ambassadors to Cybertron to be accepted into the Council of Worlds. When contact with Cybertron was cut off, she and the Torchbearers locked down Autobot City in case an attack was directed back through the bridge. Primeless, Part 1

Rust Crutch

The Torchbearers awaited Optimus Prime at Autobot City when he returned from the Ore-13 mines with a supply of energon for Cybertron. Surfeit of Primes A situation developed when he delivered the energon to Cybertron, but Pyra Magna chose to keep her forces in reserve rather than rush to the Prime's side. Another Mine Of course, they had no say in the matter once Autobot City acted on its own accord and transported to Cybertron through its own space bridge portal. Metrotitan was then slain by Nemesis, flagship of the prodigal Prime, Onyx Prime. The Ground

In the wreckage of Metrotitan, the Torchbearers were faced the Maximals of Liege Maximo and the fanatical combiner, Devastator. They formed Victorion in order to better defend their allies. The power of Devastator seemed to be so great that he overcame Victorion's gravity-manipulation abilities. The Hallowing Victorion's fight with Devastator went poorly for some time and he held the upper hand. Endless Forever Eventually, however, it was revealed that the Liege Maximo manipulated the gravity power of Ore-4 to counteract Victorion's powers. Once Arcee dispatched him, Devastator fell easily and was pulverized by sustained gravimetric pressure. Rust Dust and the Torchbearers disconnected as Pyra Magna confronted Onyx Prime in his true form as Shockwave of the Decepticons. Unforgivable

Rust Dust and the other Torchbearers narrowly escaped the destruction of their homeworld Caminus by the jaws of Unicron. Last Stand Rust Dust and the others were concerned for Pyra Magna as they mourned the death of the Mistress of Flame. Stranger Eons After Unicron appeared above Cybertron, the Torchbearers combined into Victorion to attack the planet-eater directly at the command of Elita One. However, Victorion was defeated by Monstructor, who killed Stormclash and forced them to de-combine. Our Finest Hitching a ride on Bludgeon's Worldsweeper to Earth, the Torchbearers arrived in time for the final battle with Unicron and its followers. Assembly With Slide taking Stormclash's place, the Torchbearers were able to form Victorion again and slay Monstructor with Superion's help. In the aftermath of Unicron's defeat, Rust Dust supported the wounded Pyra Magna as they accepted Slide into the Torchbearers. Ceremony

In the days following Unicron's defeat, Rust Dust helped rebuild and attended Optimus Prime's funeral. Post

2019 IDW continuity

[edit]
First appearance: Transformers #30
She'll come at you like a spider-monkey.

One of Pyra Magna's faithful Companions, Rust Dust adopted her color scheme in protest of Pyra's imprisonment after the War of the Threefold Spark. She joined back up with her fellow Companions after Pyra Magna was released and enlisted by Optimus Prime to combat the Decepticon menace. The Companions hid under a shimmer field as Pyra met with Strika as part of a parlay and sprung into action when it turned into an assassination attempt on their leader. Facing off with a group of Decepticons that Strika had brought along, Rust Dust took point and pounced on a terrified Nautilator in the first moments of the fight. After driving the Decepticons off, Pyra announced that they would be putting their support behind Optimus Prime for the time being. We Are Not Meant To Be Darkness

Let's tango, axeman.

Rust Dust was part of a strike team sent aboard Sky Lynx to rescue Termagax from an Insecticon clone swarm. After clearing the Insecticons out, Rust Dust and Groundbreaker amused themselves by kicking a dead clone into the nearby Sea of Rust, where it was devoured by rust worms. The Autobots took up a defensive position in front of House when the Decepticons launched an attack and Rust Dust took on Offroad in the ensuing melee. Sea of Rust II

Last time she shows up in this continuity.

Rust Dust and her fellow Companions were poised to defend Crystal City when a large Decepticon force led by Strika launched an attack on it. A Dust of Crystals After Lodestar and Computron arrived on the battlefield, Optimus Prime saw an opportunity to force a ceasefire with the Decepticons, and Rust Dust accompanied him to confront Strika. The Landscape of Fear Pyra Magna next had the Companions travel to the Sonic Canyons to confront a returned Exarchon. As they passed over the expanding Sea of Rust on their way there, they noticed the frenzied activity of the rust worms within it, which Rust Dust admitted was compelling to watch. The Companions arrived at Exarchon's hideout to find a group of Decepticons led by Sixshot already engaged in battle with him. War's End Part Two

Games

[edit]

Transformers: Earth Wars

[edit]
Rust Dust.... Hmmm..... That name's not tongue twisty enough. How about Rust Crust Must Gust Just Dust?

Rust Dust has a habit of acting first and thinking later, tearing off into danger and rationalizing that a moving target is harder to hit than any target at all. The merest whiff of an enemy heat signature and she's away, more often than not leading the others on a wild goose chase.

She's so imbalanced, her teammates wonder how she manages to stay on two wheels, but often her hair-trigger instincts have proven invaluable. Rust Dust bio

Rust Dust came to Earth alongside the rest of the Torchbearers, save Pyra Magna. Rust Dust doesn't really do much, Campaign wise.

Rust Dust along with the other Torchbearers were in the Polyhex district on a scouting mission looking for the Dinobot Sludge. They couldn't find any trace of the big lug until Pyra Magna noticed a broken cerebro-shell. Polyhex Saga

  • Class: Special
  • Lowest Star Rating: 3 Stars (2 star in Beta)
  • Weapons: Rust Dust uses a Stun gun of the same make as Bumblebee. She can also back flip to avoid Cannon or Mortar fire.
  • Ability: Artillery Support: Call in Artillery at your current position and get away! Deals massive damage in a large area

Transformers Roleplaying Game

[edit]

Rust Dust was a bubbly member of the Torchbearers. The Enigma of Combination

Toys

[edit]

Combiner Wars

[edit]
There were two bad people... one was John Wayne, and he's dead, brother, and the other's right here.
  • Victorion (Collection Pack, 2016)
Combiner Wars Rust Dust is a redeco of Legends Class Protectobot Groove from the same toy line, and transforms into a motorcycle of made-up model. She can combine with her teammates Pyra Magna, Skyburst, Stormclash, Dust Up, and Jumpstream, and forms the chestplate of Victorion. Like the rest of her Torchbearers, Rust Dust features Cybertronic tampographs on her vehicle mode, which reads "Far Away" on her right and "Never Roam" on the left.
The instructions for Victorion, all of the respective fictional appearances, and official artwork of the character (including the piece used on the packaging) depict Rust Dust's chestplate mode as sitting upright (motorcycle windshield at the top, wheel at the bottom), as opposed to Groove's upside down orientation. However, due to the way the Groove and Hot Spot molds are designed to combine, the only two points of friction holding Rust Dust on in the "official" Victorion configuration, are the 5 mm posts on Rust Dust's arms, leading to the chestplate outright falling off at the drop of a hat. The windshield of the motorcycle also partially obscures Victorion's face in this configuration too. The red paint used on Rust Dust's forearms is also prone to scratching off in places—specifically her knuckles (due to them scraping against the molded greebles on Pyra Magna in torso mode), and the tabs on either forearm (where they plug into her own legs for chestplate mode). The paint scraping off can also lead to less friction on the forearm tabs, making the chestplate mode less likely to hold together.
Rust Dust was only available as part of a Victorion box set, including a poster and a collector card based on the set's packaging art. The set was one of several so-called "Collection Packs" that were "online exclusives" in the United States, available from online retailers such as Hasbro Toy Shop, Amazon, and BigBadToyStore as well as the online stores of "big box" retailers such as Toys"R"Us, Walmart, Target, and Kmart. In Hasbro's Asian markets such as Singapore and Taiwan, the set was available at general retail. In Australia, it was sold at Toys"R"Us and Big W stores, whereas in Canada, was both sold at Toys"R"Us stores and available via Amazon Canada. In the United Kingdom, it was available via the UK Toys"R"Us website (but never sold in stores), whereas in Spain, it was available via the Spanish subsidiaries of Amazon and Carrefour, as well as the department store chain El Corte Inglés, supposedly also only available online.
This sculpt was also used to make Adventure Override and was retooled into Combiner Wars Wreck-Gar. It also served as the model for the non-toy Beast Wars: Uprising character Vampire and the Spatiotemporal Challengers incarnation of Scooter.

Notes

[edit]
  • Early appearances of Victorion in the comics had an unfortunate tendency to omit Rust Dust.
  • Much like Groove, when Rust Dust is drawn as part of Victorion, she's often drawn upside-down—with the front wheel erroneously pointing down instead of correctly up. This is presumably due to the fact that she appears that way in all stock photography.
  • Continuing Rust Dust's unlucky streak, she's the only Rust Renegade not to get a redeco as a member of the 4 Guards.
  • Though Rust Dust's toy has two separate eyes, carried over from Groove, her fictional appearances merge the two blue optics together into a single sunglasses-style visor.

Foreign names

[edit]
  • Japanese: Rust Dust (ラストダスト Rasuto Dasuto)
  • Mandarin: Xiù Chén (锈尘, "Rust Dust")
Retrieved from "https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Rust_Dust&oldid=1896347"