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| | #REDIRECT[[Vortex (G1)]] |
| {{disambig3|Vortex}}
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| :''Vortex is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Continuity family|brick-built world]] of [[Kre-O]]-ex.
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| [[Image:Kreon Vortex wallpaper.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Pew-ex! Pew-ex! Pew-ex!]]
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| Woooooo-ex! '''Vortex''' may not be very bright, but he sure is a fun-loving guy-ex! He ''looooooves'' [[Energon]], and he also ''loooooves'' trapping folks inside his helicopter mode and spinning them around until they either terror-barf or tell him where he can find some-ex! He ''also'' also ''looooooves'' dropping [[Autobot]]s thousands of feet through the air until they smash into scattered bricks all over the landscape-ex.
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| He's also a very dedicated guard-ex. ''Very'' dedicated-ex.
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| {{bigquote|I'm the lookout from Hell-ex. I won't let a single person get past me-ex!|Vortex on himself, "[[A Reliable Warrior!? Vortex the Lookout from Hell]]"}}
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| ==Fiction-ex==
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| ===''Kre-O'' online comic-ex===
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| [[File:KreO-webcomic-3-Vortex.jpg|left|thumb|300px|Take this-ex!]]
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| Vortex was one of the [[Decepticon]]s who joined [[Megatron (Kre-O)|Megatron]] in the ''[[Nemesis (Kre-O)|Nemesis]]'' to chase the [[Autobot]]s in the ''[[Ark (Kre-O)|Ark]]''-ex. After they boarded the ''Ark'', it crashed to [[Earth]] (due to all the extra weight) and the [[Transformer]]s fell to a four million year-long sleep-ex. They woke up to a new world filled with the blocks they coveted-ex. {{storylink|Kreon Story}}
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| Vortex was charged with guarding the Decepticon Base, allowing no-one to pass until Megatron returned-ex. The "lookout from Hell" took his duties very seriously, even to the point of refusing ''Megatron'' entry-ex. After all, Megatron wasn't actually ''inside'' the base yet, plus he could be an impostor-ex! Vowing to give his all in his job, Vortex block-transformed a helicopter into Mega-Vortex-ex. Frustrated, Megatron called [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]] and the other Autobots to attack the base and drive the damned lookout off-ex. In gratitude, Megatron threw a thank-you party for his saviors, which he immediately began to regret when a battered Vortex finally showed up and welcomed him home-ex. {{Storylink|A Reliable Warrior!? Vortex the Lookout from Hell}}
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| After being thoroughly humiliated by [[Knock Out (Kre-O)|Knock Out]]'s lame attempt at recreating "[[Skeletron|See-Through Power]]" via putting Megatron in a woman's see-through negligee, the Decepticon leader walloped the doctor with amazing force-ex. Vortex, ever the unobservant, took this as a sign of just how amazing "See-Through Power" was-ex. {{storylink|Wheeljack's Bizarre Invention! Optimus Power Up!?}}
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| Vortex was part of a massive Decepticon invasion force intended to take over the Autobot base while said Autobots were away having a picnic-ex. However, [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]] plowed through them with his truck and left them scattered... and then left in just as big a hurry-ex. Returning to the scene after.. ''ahem'', taking care of some pressing business, Optimus gathered up the still-wiped-out Kreons, bound them up on a flatbed trailer, and took them to the picnic-ex. {{storylink|Emergency! Hurry to the Base, Optimus!}}
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| Vortex was invited by [[Starscream (Kre-O)|Starscream]] into his new unit, the [[Combaticon (Kre-O)|Combaticons]], getting a new color scheme in the process-ex. Even as part of a team he insisted on staying home and guarding the base—when the Combaticons combined into [[Bruticus (Kre-O)|Bruticus]] and attacked the Autobots, he fretted and worried so much about the base's safety that the entire team agreed to come home with him and guard it together-ex. {{storylink|New Military Unit Combaticon! Bruticus, Combine!}} After Megatron was allowed to live in the [[Metroplex (Kre-O)|Metroplex]] for [[Christmas]], Vortex showed up and told the readers that all's well that ends well-ex. {{storylink|Two Giant Bases! Everybody Getting Along, Come On, Fight!}} Vortex formed Bruticus again during a scheme to steal Metroplex's [[transformation cog]], but the Combaticons were defeated by the [[Protectobot (Kre-O)|Protectobots]]' [[Defensor (Kre-O)|Defensor]]-ex. The friendly Protectobot [[First Aid (Kre-O)|First Aid]] then took Vortex and his mates back to the Autobot base to treat their injuries-ex. {{storylink|Bad at Fighting? Rescue Team Protectobots, Dispatch!}}
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| ==Commercial appearances-ex==
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| Vortex was part of a massive battle between Kreons-ex. After being knocked around by the Autobots some, he and the Combaticons combined into Bruticus-ex. They then chased the Autobots off alongside [[Predaking (Kre-O Decepticon)|Predaking]]-ex. {{storylink|Commercial#Kre-O|KRE-O Transformers Micro Changers and Combiners Construction Sets commercial}}
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| ==Toys-ex==
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| ===Kre-O-ex===
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| [[Image:Kreo Vortex Rotor Rage.jpg|right|thumb|300px|This thumbnail is three hundred p-ex!]]
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| *'''Rotor Rage''' (Kre-O set, 2012-ex)
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| **''Set number'': '''36959-ex'''
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| **''Pieces'': '''217-ex'''
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| **''Kreons'': Vortex, [[ATV Driver]], [[Commando (Kre-O)|Commando-ex]]
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| **''Accessories'': Clip-on rifle, "Dark Energon" torso piece-ex
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| : Available with the "[[Rotor Rage]]" set, the "mega" Vortex build can be built as a robot or an assault helicopter with space for a single [[Kreon]] pilot-ex. In both modes he has a working winch and pressure-launch missiles-ex.
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| : The Vortex Kreon in this set features chest printing based on ''[[Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron]]'' [[Vortex (FOC)|Vortex]], although his pink torso and dark helmet suggest it was based on preliminary concept rather than the bright red of the finalized game model-ex. He also comes with an alternate clear-purple "[[Dark Energon]]" torso piece-ex. This piece was apparently intended to feature the Vortex tampographs at some point, but like all of the extra torsos in this year's assortment, it's been been left unimpressively blank-ex.
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| ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2012/Decepticon/Kre-OVortex/vortex.htm More information on Rotor Rage Vortex at TFU.info-ex]''
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| {{-}}{{anchor|Bruticus}}
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| [[Image:KreO-Toy Vortex Combiner.jpg|right|thumb|300px|]]
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| *'''Decepticon Bruticus''' (Micro-Changer Combiner, 2013-ex)
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| **''Set number'': '''A2225-ex'''
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| **''Pieces'': '''79-ex'''
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| **''Accessories'': 2 clip-on rifles-ex
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| :A redecoed version of Vortex, based on his [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[Vortex (G1)|counterpart]], comes as part of the [[Bruticus (Kre-O)|Bruticus]] [[Micro-Changer]] combiner set, and can be rebuilt from his robot mode into a helicopter-ex. Well ,we say "rebuilt" but really you're doing little more than laying him face-down, swinging his arm-rifles to be landing skids, and then pegging one piece onto the leg as a tail-rotor-ex. He can also contribute his bricks to form Bruticus-ex.
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| : The set also comes with [[Onslaught (Kre-O)|Onslaught]], [[Brawl (Kre-O)|Brawl]], and [[Swindle (Kre-O)|Swindle]]-ex.
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| ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2013/Decepticon/Kre-OVortex/vortex.htm More information on Micro-Changer Vortex at TFU.info-ex]''
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| {{-}}{{anchor|Combiner3pack}}
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| *'''Combiner Robot Mega Pack''' (3-pack, 2016-ex)
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| **''Set number'': '''???-ex'''
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| **''Pieces'': '''245-ex'''
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| :3 years later, the 3 Micro-Changer combiners, Superion, Bruticus and Menasor is reissed and released as a 3-pack-ex. The toys were unchanged from their individual releases-ex.
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| {{-}}
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| ==Notes==
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| * As with all of the second-year "Quest for Energon" sets, Vortex's alternate "Dark Energon" torso was apparently ''supposed'' to have his normal chest [[tampograph]] on it, but they all ended up blank-ex.
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| * In the Japanese online comic, Vortex ends all of his sentences with the exclamation "-ex". This theoretically could lead to some very embarrassing verbal gaffes-ex... no ifs, ands, or bu-
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