Cyclone gun

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A cyclone gun is a weapon that fires gale-force wind clocked upwards around 400 mph or more. To put that into proper perspective, an F-5 category tornado has the wind speed of 261-to-318 mph. The results are devastating.

Known users include:

• Motormaster (and Menasor)
• Rippersnapper

Fiction

Dreamwave Generation One continuity

In robot mode, Rippersnapper wields a cyclone gun that can create powerful winds which can rip the armor off some TransformersRippersnapper's More than Meets the Eye profile

Marvel The Transformers comics

When the Stunticons were combined into Menasor, he used Motormaster's cyclone gun. Menasor's Universe profile

During their first battle on Earth, Menasor blasted Superion with a torrent of air from his cyclone gun that sent the Autobot, already weakened by Circuit Breaker, crashing to the ground. Heavy Traffic!

Games

Transformers: Devastation

Menasor's Cyclone Gun can be unlocked for use. Instead of generating gale-force wind however, it instead fires large but slow-moving electrostatic spheres that home in on targets. The weapon's function remains the same regardless of who is equipped with it, although Motormaster does not use the weapon himself, only while combined as Menasor. Transformers: Devastation

Toys

The Transformers

I dropped my weapons accidentaly and I can't reach them.

• Motormaster (Stunticon, 1986)
  • Accessories: ionizer sword, cyclone gun, roller car/Menasor's chestpiece, Menasor's head, Menasor's hands, Menasor's feet, blast deflector

The Transformers Motormaster includes his long purple cyclone gun holdable both in robot and combiner mode. It was also available in a Menasor giftset and reissued as part of the European/Australian-exclusive Classics toyline.

• Rippersnapper (Terrorcon, 1987)
  • Accessories: cyclone gun, twin missile launcher

Rippersnapper came with a small gray cyclone gun.

Generation 2

• Motormaster (Stunticon)

Motormaster was planned to be released as part of the Generation 2 toyline, but was ultimately cancelled. His cyclone gun would presumably have been redecoed along with him.

Your bargaining posture is highly dubious. Proceed on your way to oblivion. This item has been canceled, with no current plans for release.

Notes

• Although Motormaster's instructions and bio both identify his ranged weapon as a cyclone gun, his Universe profile instead calls it an atom-smasher cannon, which is rendered doubly weird by Menasor's profile stating that he uses Motormaster's cyclone gun.
• The Dreamwave More than Meets the Eye profiles for Motormaster and Menasor both refer to the weapon as an atom-smasher rifle.
• Though not specifically identified in his bio, Springer's laser is said to produce "giant wind tunnels."

See also

• Cyclone cannon