Sanjay Bharwaney

Sanjay Bharwaney is a human from the 2005 IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

"I hear your uncle Apu calling me to the front with the Windex."

Doctor Sanjay Bharwaney, codename Hi-Tech, is a scientist whose accomplishments in anti-Transformer technology have guided his career from Skywatch to Earth Defense Command to his current job at G.I. Joe. He lost his wife during the Decepticon invasion of Earth, but despite harboring a grudge against the Transformer race, he's come to develop some faith in the Autobots. During the days of Skywatch, when he was providing the organization with technology from his position at Darkmatter Logic's research and development, he supported Colonel Horiuchi's plan to form a secret alliance with the Autobots by designing badges that let Horiuchi trap the Autobots in their vehicle modes.

Sanjay has a daughter named Serena, who is taken care of by a babysitter named Swati since the loss of her mother.

Fiction

2005 IDW continuity

When the Autobots began to rebel against Horiuchi's methods of controlling them, they tracked the origin of the control badges to Sanjay, and made plans to obtain his master control board and use it to deactivate the badges. Since Horiuchi's involvement with the Autobots was of an unofficial nature (read: against orders), Sanjay kept the control board in his own house, and Bumblebee was sent to retrieve it. After tricking Serena into giving him the device while Sanjay was at work, Bumblebee successfully modified and returned it, while Sanjay was left none the wiser... or at he least he would've been, if Skywarp hadn't learned about the badges as well and attacked his home. The Gift Horse

Bumblebee returned to save the Bharwaneys, much to Serena's joy. Sanjay himself was shocked, but his surprise soon turned to anger as he realized Bumblebee had messed with his device and blamed him for Skywarp finding them. Serena insisted that Bumblebee was a good robot, but her father brushed her off, as his wife would still be alive if not for the Transformers' obsession with war. As the three desperately fled from the Decepticon, Bumblebee urged Sanjay to shut off the control board, as Skywarp was using it to track them. However, this was impossible, as Bumblebee's hacking had turned the board into nothing but a mini-EMP to take out the badges. Disappointed how the Autobots had betrayed Horiuchi, Sanjay was tempted to use it to burn out the circuits of both Bumblebee and Skywarp, but Serena stopped him. He reminded his daughter that Bumblebee wasn't really her friend, and had only used her to get his hands on the control board, but calmed down when Bumblebee offered his truly sincere apology to her.

In order to protect the humans, Bumblebee sent them on their own and asked Sanjay for the board, and he reluctantly agreed to trust him and handed it over. The Bharwaneys were subsequently taken to safety by Horiuchi's lieutenant Klonowski, and witnessed Bumblebee using the board to take out both himself and Skywarp. Wings of Wax

Some time later, Sanjay was approached at his workplace by Bumblebee, who asked for his help in scanning a radiation signature. Having realized by now that the Autobot was a friendly guy who had only had the best intentions in mind, not to mention having saved his daughter's life, he happily agreed to use Darkmatter Logic's spectrographs to scan the signature, allowing Bumblebee to pinpoint the location of the Decepticons' space bridge. The Question

Some time after the Transformers left Earth, Sanjay joined the EDC as a scientist and worked on the "mind bomb" based off the brain of a Cybertronian. Sanjay warned Marissa Faireborn on the dangers of detonating the bomb before it was ready for field use, but was ordered to detonate it anyway. The Mind Bomb As he was chastising Marissa afterwards, Galvatron and Soundwave suddenly warped into their base. A victim of the mind bomb, Galvatron admitted to Sanjay that it was indeed an impressive weapon, then threatened to kill the scientist and everyone else from New Mexico if it was ever used on him again. Full Fathom Five When Prowl and Jazz infiltrated the base, Sanjay used a localized mind bomb to knock out Prowl, but was then knocked out himself due to Devastator's attack on the building. I Dream of Wires

When Cosmos scouted out the EDC base's condition following the attack, Sanjay deployed the defenses against him and observed as Sideswipe and Sky Lynx showed up to bail him out. He reported to Marissa that Cosmos had not attacked but only defended himself against the missiles, and wondered if the Autobots had any connection to the reappearance of Spike Witwicky. Signals, Calls, and Marches When the EDC's army of Thrust and Ramjet clones was remotely activated by Garrison Blackrock, a shocked Sanjay tried and failed to stop them from launching. ONoffON Fearing what would happen if the Decepticons learned of this army, he asked EDC's ally Thundercracker to stop them. The Obliterati

For some reason, Sanjay seemed to enjoy listening to Thundercracker's screenplay reading. The Nothing Man He also defended Buster's presence at the top secret military base, and said "Hi!" to the adorable pup in the halls. Helden

When the Decepticons launched a full-scale invasion of China, Sanjay activated a wide-spectrum mindbomb assault to bring down the Cybertronians. However, Galvatron had taken possession of Garrison Blackrock and devised a counter-measure to the weapon, allowing him to escape with a select cadre. (Mexico Old and New, beware.) Once Upon a Time on Earth Blackrock wasn't content to remain Galvatron's prisoner, however, and he encoded a message in the Onyx source code that Sanjay was able to translate. It led Earth Defense Command to Galvatron's undersea base, allowing the rescue of Blackrock and his new ally, Skywarp. It's Beginning To And Back AgainAs Above...So Below

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Foreign names

• Japanese: Sanjay Bharwaney (サンジェイ・バーウィニー Sanjei Bāwinī)