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Plot details for Transformers (2023) issue 17 follow. Spoilers have expired, you may remove this tag

Shredhead is an Autobot from the Energon Universe portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

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The first Autobot warrior born on Cybertron in years, Shredhead is created from the combined sparks of Cliffjumper's clan, not only to bolster the forces of Elita One's resistance cell, but to also bring back hope.

Fiction

Energon Universe

After Starscream (G1)#Energon Universe and the Decepticons killed Cliffjumper's clan,Transformers #6, he went back to the bombing site to collect the remaining spark energy of his friends. Storing their remains in a spark canister, he buried the canister under the rubble, reasoning that the Decepticons wouldn't disturb them when there appeared to be nothing left. Millennia later, after Cliffjumper had left Cybertron with Optimus Prime to Earth, then returned back to Cybertron by accident,Transformers #13 Emerging from the Well of AllSparks in the midst of the Great War, Shredhead was created to bolster the Autobot forces during a time of desperation. Given life by the former sparks of Cliffjumper's fallen clan, Shredhead was not true resurrection of them but was nevertheless able to recognize Cliffjumper upon coming online. Transformers #17

Notes

• Skybound editor Ben Abernathy stated that Shredhead had been in the pipeline for some time before his debut in Transformers #17.

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• According to Shawn Kelly, the ILM lead animator for Revenge of the Fallen, Devastator caused a computer to catch fire spontaneously and its insides to melt. One assumes he was exaggerating for the purposes of publicity, as it is improbable for modern computers to actually catch fire under operations for which they are designed, such as rendering an extremely complex model. The special features on the DVD do (indirectly) show one of the computers blowing, with lots of black smoke and the poor animator (and his keyboard) covered in soot. (This was all done as a prank, leading to said animator asking "What the hell, man?") Not quite melting, but still.

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• According to Shawn Kelly, the ILM lead animator for Revenge of the Fallen, Devastator caused a computer to catch fire spontaneously and its insides to melt during an overnight rendering and no one was in the studio. While one assumes he was exaggerating for the purposes of publicity, as it is improbable for modern computers to actually catch fire under operations for which they are designed (such as such as rendering an extremely complex model), ILM visual effects sequence supervisor Todd Vaziri notes that even with massive amounts of RAM the computer was not able to handle rendering the shots. The special features on the ROTF DVD reenacted the incident by pretending to have one of the sequences saved with all the high-resolution textures and calling across the office to have an animator open the scene, leading to a fake mushroom cloud of smoke blow over the cubicle walls as the poor animator walked over, his entire shirt covered in soot from his keyboard exploding, asking them "What the hell?"