Autotrooper (SG Knights of Unicron)

This article is about the heroic Knights of Unicron troopers. For the evil Secret Police troopers, see Autotrooper (SG Secret Police). For a list of other meanings, see Autotrooper (disambiguation).

The Autotroopers are Autobot soldiers from the Shattered Glass continuity family.

Guess which one used to be Inferno!

Under the command of Checkpoint, the Autotroopers serve Nova Prime in his crusade of enlightenment! Among their numbers are the former Ratchet and Inferno.

Fiction

Fun Publications Shattered Glass continuity

After being defeated during the battle of Decepticon City, the evil Autobots found themselves unable to make the trip all the way back to Cybertron; Sky Lynx didn't have the fuel reserves to lug all of those housed within him such a distance. To alleviate the load, several injured Autobots were cast out into space, only for them to be met by the benevolent Unicron. Promising them enlightenment, Unicron reformatted two of these wayward souls into Autotroopers. Out of the One, Many After returning to Cybertron and helping Nova Prime capture Rodimus Prime's troops, the heroic Autobots were startled to find the planet shifting beneath their feet...Primus, the dreaded Order-Bringer, had awakened and was assuming his robot form! Managing to avoid getting crushed during the transformation, the Autotroopers blinded Primus at a pivotal moment during his battle against his "sister" and fellow planet-bot Gaea, allowing her to vanquish her opponent while Nova Prime and his troops flew off into space. Gaea then assumed her own planet form, and the heroic Autobots settled upon this New Cybertron to be a part of a more peaceful Cybertronian civilization. The Future Buried...

Ratchet's transformation into an Autotrooper activated his backup body, which was programmed to house his consciousness should his original body be damaged or reformatted beyond repair. Customization class SG Ratchet bio

Notes

• In the pastiche of The Transformers: The Movie that is "Another Light", the Autotroopers take the role of the Sweeps, reformatted from defeated villains by Unicron to serve under their similarly reborn leader. Checkpoint, of course, is their Scourge. Unlike Scourge and the Sweeps however, the Autotroopers are not identical to Checkpoint, as their heads are visibly different from his, though identical to each other.
• The Autotroopers are modeled on the Combiner Wars Offroad mold. Per the Hasbro practice of creating "pretooled" alternate heads for Combiner Wars molds, the Autotroopers use the Generation 1 Hoist head associated with the Trailbreaker body retooling. According to BotCon collaborator Shawn D. Tessmann, the Autotroopers were at one stage intended to be the BotCon 2016 troop builder set, though the Autotroopers in the comic do not sport the new arms that the Trailbreaker/Hoist body also included).
  • An earlier concept had them based on the Thrilling 30 Trailbreaker mold (also using that mold's Hoist head).

See also

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Versions of Shattered Glass Autotroopers have appeared in other continuity families, including:

• Autotroopers, the evil Autobot secret police.
• Autotroopers, the heroic Decepticon counterparts to Animated Autotroopers.

For more information, see Autotrooper (disambiguation).