Tracer (Micromaster)

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

Tracer is a Decepticon Micromaster from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Cheers, love! The cavalry's here!

Tracer is an integral part of the Military Patrol, swooping ahead of his teammates to scout out the opposition, and soften them up. He actually respects team leader Bombshock (and not just out of fear!), but still thinks he should lead the unit. Thus, he may be the only ambitious Decepticon who tries to get his superior promoted, rather than "unexpectedly dead".

Fiction

Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity

Tracer was an Autobot and a member of the Military Team, a group of strategic experts valued by the Battlestars. Trained to adapt to all combat situations, the four members possessed perfect accuracy with their firepower. Return of Convoy bio

2005 IDW continuity

You brought her, you trace 'er!

Tracer was one of the legions of Dead Universe Micromasters who pursued Hardhead and Nightbeat on Gorlam Prime. Spotlight: Hardhead

Beast Wars: Uprising

Tracer was a member of the Pavilion Guard at the High Pavilion of Iacon. At the end of the Grand Uprising, she fought to hold back the army of the Resistance from seizing the Builder Assembly. One of the last eight out of 400 Micromasters to survive, Tracer died defending the Builders' siege bunker. Derailment

2019 IDW continuity

First appearance: Transformers #16

I'll be gone in a blink!

Tracer was a member of The Rise, serving under Slipstream during "Team Stream's" attack on a remote Titan Net subsidiary hub. Tracer flew ahead and stealthily took out a guard before giving the all clear for the rest of the team to approach. They infiltrated the hub and used it to launch a data-bomb, shutting down the Titans in defensive orbit around Cybertron. The Change In Your Nature Part Four Once they abandoned the hub, the remaining Titan named Vigilem launched an attack on the Winged Moon at the direction of the Rise. It was severed from the Tether which conducted its energon down to the planet below. The Change In Your Nature Part Five

As the renamed Decepticons gained power, Team Stream was dispatched to the wayward Moon to lay claim to its energon stores. Wheeljack: Orbital Decay However, a team of engineers loyal to the old regime fortified the control center to keep Tracer and the others out. Tracer was electrocuted in one of their various booby-traps. The mission went from bad to worse once soldiers from Colonial Security arrived. When the engineers blew the core and destroyed the energon storage, the Decepticons cut their losses and fled aboard Astrotrain. Moon

Tracer and Team Stream helped the Rise ambush Optimus Prime when he visited the immersant site of his mentor, Codexa. His Guard got the Prime to safety, though, with the sacrifice of Ultra Magnus. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon: Part One

Word reached Megatron that Exarchon had returned in the Sonic Canyons. He ordered many of his Decepticons to eliminate this existential threat to Cybertron, including Team Stream. On the way, however, Slipstream received coded instructions from Shockwave to stand down. Blackjack knew what a danger Exarchon posed, and that was an order he could not follow. Tracer, it seemed, agreed with him. The two abandoned Slipstream to join up with Sixshot and finish the Threefold Spark. Tracer engaged in some jet-judo with the Seeker swarm until Exarchon himself emerged in his massive Deathsaurus body and struck at them. War's End Part Two Driven to a temporary retreat, Sixshot's unit agreed to work with Pyra Magna's Autobots on scene for the good of Cybertron. They staged a follow up attack, together with the rest of the mercurial Team Stream, and Exarchon was finally vanquished. War's End Part Four

Games

Transformers Legends

Abandoning all subtlety, the Decepticons unleashed the Military Patrol on New York City. Tracer and the rest of the team caused chaos on a city-wide scale until a team of Autobots led by Jetfire drove them out. Full Assault

Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive

Tracer was in command of the first Decepticon base attacked and destroyed by the Autobots during a series of raids. He battled against the invader in helicopter mode, but was eventually defeated. Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive

Toys

The Transformers

Your MOM'S a tracer!

• Military Patrol (Micromaster Patrol, 1990)
  • Accessories: Helicopter rotor

Released in the seventh and final year of the original Transformers toyline in the US, Micromaster Tracer is a tiny robot that transforms into a tiny black AH-64 Apache attack helicopter. The spinning main rotor can be removed and attached to either arm in robot mode as a sort of weapon.

He was only available in a four-pack with the rest of the Military Patrol: Bombshock, Dropshot, and Growl.

The rotor blade is the same mold as the one used by Blaze Master.

• More information on Tracer at TFU.info

• Military Team (Micro Transformer team, 1991)
  • ID number: C-363
  • Accessories: Helicopter rotor, Micro Trailer #3

Tracer was also released in Takara's Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers line, during the Return of Convoy year. While the toy had no notable physical changes from the Hasbro release, like most Return of Convoy Micromasters, he was marketed as an Autobot instead of a Decepticon.

Like the Hasbro toy, he was only available in a complete set with his teammates, but this release included Micro Trailer #3.

Notes

Foreign names

• Japanese: Tracer (トレーサー Torēsā)
• French: Traceur (Canada)
• Italian: Pantera