Landfill (G1)

The name or term "Landfill" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Landfill (disambiguation).

Landfill is an Autobot Targetmaster from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Picture this with stink-lines.

Why doesn't anybody like Landfill? Why do they step (very far) to the side when he passes by? He can't understand it. He's a really nice guy. He's always happy. He's good at his job, and he always does what he is told. Why, then, do his friends avoid him? This makes him very sad.

His comrades know the answer very well, but how do you tell a 'bot that he should clean his bodywork every once in a while, without upsetting him and making him think he's being insulted? It wouldn't help, anyway... he'd not see the need to clean up even if directly ordered to do so. It's a shame Landfill can't just realize on his own that if one is not to be selective about which cargoes he hauls, then one must be willing to use a little surfactant and solvent on occasion.

His Targetmaster partners Flintlock and Silencer try to make Landfill understand that if he wants to make friends, he has to work on his hygiene, but this effort is to no avail.

Fiction

Marvel Comics continuity

Marvel The Transformers comics

This is what happens when he hears "Uh-oh Stinky" for the umpteenth time.

Landfill was a soldier under Emirate Xaaron's command on Cybertron, first seen during the brief period where the Classic Pretenders rallied the resistance movement with several successful assaults on Lord Thunderwing's territory. Yesterday's Heroes!

When Galvatron and the heralds of Unicron assaulted Xaaron's camp, Landfill stayed behind to cover his leader's escape. He suffered some injuries battling Hook, but managed to survive thanks to Unicron calling off his dogs to hunt the errant Galvatron instead. Out of Time!

Landfill and Quickmix later attended Primus's oration on Cybertron, where the united Autobot and Decepticon forces were told of their god's eons-old struggle against his opposite number, Unicron. The Void!

Trigger-Happy!

As part of a sting operation to capture two Decepticons delivering battle plans, Landfill, Quickmix, and Scoop posed as ordinary construction vehicles to funnel them into an ambush. Unfortunately, the mission was botched when Backstreet, their lookout, fired his weapon prematurely, giving away the Autobots' presence and position. Rather than face the consequences of his actions, Backstreet went on the run, forcing the rest of the Autobots to hunt down their rogue comrade. Two days into the chase, Landfill's hunting party learned the full story behind Backstreet's flight from justice; Override had exaggerated Optimus's anger over the situation after Backstreet's initial foul-up, and told the Trigger-bot that Optimus would call for his termination! Upon Override's admission to his part in Backstreet's nervous breakdown, Landfill could only let out a long, low whistle of amazement. Once the matter was cleared up, Optimus was able to convince Backstreet to return home. Trigger-Happy!

Marvel UK future timelines

Landfill #2, you're twice the bot Landfill #1 was!

In an alternate 1991, Landfill was working with Hot Rod and Quickmix when Scorponok manipulated them into protecting him from harm during the Decepticon Civil War. While the Autobot Code compelled them to drive off his assassins, Scorponok made good his escape from all his enemies. Aspects of Evil!

Transformers Comic-Magazin

Landfill was present when Powermaster Optimus Prime led the Autobots against the joint Decepticon leaders Shockwave and Megatron, who had tried to hijack the oil reserves of Alaska. The Autobots drove off the Decepticons, but not before Quickmix shot a Minibot because he turned off his targeting computer. Optimus then sat his troops down and explained to them the differences between Autobots and Decepticons. Attack at Dawn

Landfill was among the Autobots monitoring the Decepticons from a distance when Megatron made peaceful gestures to Humanity in New York City. The Autobots returned to the Ark and discovered that a statue of Snaptrap that the Decepticons had gifted to New York was actually Snaptrap in disguise. Snaptrap went on a rampage and the Decepticons used this distraction to attack various other targets. Optimus Prime led the Autobots to narrowly defeat this menace. The Troy Principle Those events were recorded on a videotape that was later found and watched by Autobots on Cybertron after a nuclear disaster in Kalis. In Memory of Earth

When the Decepticons stole three nuclear missiles from the United State Federation to hold the world to ransom, Optimus Prime put the entire burden of discovering their whereabouts on the shoulders of the Double Targetmasters, who were sent to scout possible locations.Megatron's Ultimatum

The characteristics of Landfill and the other "Small Targetmaster Autobots" were reviewed by Optimus Prime and Bumblebee in a simulation watched by Goldbug.Memories of Bumblebee

Regeneration One

Regeneration One continues from the Marvel US series, and does not include the UK stories or any subsequently published stories.

The Pewl-Aid Man

Twenty-odd years after the end of hostilities between the Autobots and the Decepticons, Landfill fell victim to Scorponok's Gene Key and went on a rampage. Natural Selection, Part Three He was shot down alongside Crankcase by Crosshairs (though with weapons set to "disrupt") as Grimlock and the Autobot resistance stormed the Civil Defense Hub. Natural Selection, Part Five

Later, after the Gene Key's effects had been reversed, Landfill and Scoop constructed Earth's end of a space bridge network in the Glass Mountains, Oklahoma. The War to End All Wars, Part 2

Ladybird Books continuity

Landfill was present on Nebulos during the hostage exchange concerning Highbrow. Autobot Hostage

Landfill later assisted Optimus Prime in charting a planet-wide search for Decepticon activity on Nebulos. Decepticons Underground

The Transformers cartoon

Off in that corner there.

Many millions of years ago, on the planet Cybertron, life existed. But not life as we know it today. Intelligent robots that could think and feel inhabited the cities. Apparently among those robots were the Autobots Landfill, Quickmix, and Scoop, who transformed from their vehicle modes and shot at some unknown attackers. G2: More than Meets the Eye, Part 1

Footage from the commercial featuring the Autobot "Double Targetmaster" trio was spliced into the Generation 2 version of the episode by way of the Cybernet Space Cube. Outside of this, the only other "appearance" by the Double Targetmasters in The Transformers was reuse of the same commercial animation in the season 5 title sequence.

2005 IDW continuity

First appearance: Spotlight: Blaster

Stuck in an enclosed space with Landfill. Poor guys.

Several hundred years ago, Landfill was sharing a foxhole with Jazz and Smokescreen on Cybertron, waiting for the latest broadcast from Blaster, the Voice of the war movement.

The broadcast... never came. Spotlight: Blaster

After the Surge, Landfill was stationed in the Morobishi Canyons of Karashi-Delta. The Autobots won that fight thanks to Landfill's courageous commander, the aerial strategist Rotorstorm. Bullets

Following the end of the war, Landfill left the Autobots to join the unaligned population of a rebuilt Iacon. He aided Scoop's Construction Patrol in restoring power to the city after it was caught in a battle between the Autobots and Decepticons. Three Monologues Landfill took care of wounded civilians during the Necrotitan's attack on the city, Finis Temporis and was among those who celebrated after the giant was defeated. The Becoming

Commercial appearances

Landfill, Scoop, and Quickmix came to the rescue of their Targetmaster partners as they were being chased down by Needlenose and Spinister. Flintlock and Silencer first attached themselves to Landfill's vehicle mode, then Landfill transformed and wielded them both as guns. Double Targetmasters commercial

Toys

The Transformers

Hey, is it me or does the whole room stink?

• Landfill (Targetmaster, 1988)

• Known designers: Richard Marcej (packaging)

Released in the fifth year of the original Transformers toyline (fourth in Europe), Landfill transforms into a beige and brown Nissan Diesel WD38 Off-road Heavy Dump Truck. His dumping tray is non-functional, and also you can't put anything in it due to his unusual arm transformation scheme. His Targetmaster partners Flintlock and Silencer (or any other accessories with 5 mm posts) can be stored in the two peg holes on either side of the dumping tray.

As was the standard of smaller Transformers toys of this era, Landfill has very limited articulation, all located in his ratcheting shoulder joints. The arm panels should be held in place when posing the arms since they do not lock into position. Flintlock and Silencer can become two separate handguns, or be combined together to form a single rifle.

No version of this character or mold was released in Japan.

• More information on Landfill at TFU.info

Notes

Foreign names

• Japanese: Landfill (ランドフィル Randofiru)
• French: Décharge (Canada, "Landfill")
• Hungarian: Töltés