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[[Image:Barricade-comicsadaptation-death.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Your face? GIVE ME YOUR WHOLE FREAKING HEAD!]] | [[Image:Barricade-comicsadaptation-death.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Your face? GIVE ME YOUR WHOLE FREAKING HEAD!]] | ||
[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] | [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] rather ruthlessly decapitated [[Bonecrusher (Movie)|Bonecrusher]]. | ||
[[Frenzy (Movie)|Frenzy]] was decapitated ... by [[Mikaela Banes|a chick!]] ... but his head lived on, taking a cell-phone [[alternate mode]] of its own. Frenzy is able to do this because he has a special, decentralized, modular nervous system. | [[Frenzy (Movie)|Frenzy]] was decapitated ... by [[Mikaela Banes|a chick!]] ... but his head lived on, taking a cell-phone [[alternate mode]] of its own. Frenzy is able to do this because he has a special, decentralized, modular nervous system. {{storylink|Transformers (2007)|Transformers}} | ||
[[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]] was decapitated by Optimus Prime, apparently killing him. {{storylink|Movie Adaptation Issue Number Four|Movie Adaptation #4}} | |||
{{note|Barricade's decapitation was not shown in the film and later comics [[retcon]] him as surviving with his head still on his shoulders.}} | |||
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*In | *In the [[Live-action film series|movie continuity]], [[Frenzy (Movie)|Frenzy's]] decentralized nervous system allows him to not only survive decapitation, but to continue remain active as a mere head, even taking on a new alternate mode. | ||
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Revision as of 03:22, 6 August 2009
Decapitation is a means of defeating an opponent by which his head is removed. Depending on the continuity, this may lead to death.
Optimus Prime loves it while Bonecrusher hates it.
Fiction
Generation 1
Marvel Comics continuity
After defeating the Autobots, Shockwave removed Optimus Prime's head from his body for the purpose of accessing the Creation Matrix. The New Order Prime's head remained conscious and able to communicate with Buster Witwicky. The Worse of Two Evils! When he was finished with Prime's head, he disposed of a fake Optimus Prime as part of a ruse to trick the Autobots. The Autobots did indeed find the head and install it back on Prime's body. The fake head took control of Optimus's body and immediately started attacking the Autobots. Prime Time!
Cartoon continuity
Optimus Prime was decapitated by Hook as part of his disassembly after falling into Megatron's trap. This did not prevent him from being able to have partial control over his body parts. City of Steel
Cybertonium depletion caused Powerglide's head to fall off, though he still had full control over the rest of his body. Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1
IDW comics continuity
Runamuck was decapitated by the Whirling Reaper. His head remained alive, fully conscious and still able to speak, until another Reaper smashed it with a very large boulder.
Beast Wars cartoon
Decapitation is notably non-fatal for the Beast Warriors. Waspinator's head frequently comes off, Silverbolt got his head knocked off in an explosion, Nemesis Part 1 and when Inferno and Megatron accidentally slammed into each other, they swapped heads. Coming of the Fuzors (Part 1)
Live-action film series continuity
Optimus Prime rather ruthlessly decapitated Bonecrusher.
Frenzy was decapitated ... by a chick! ... but his head lived on, taking a cell-phone alternate mode of its own. Frenzy is able to do this because he has a special, decentralized, modular nervous system. Transformers
Barricade was decapitated by Optimus Prime, apparently killing him. Movie Adaptation #4
Animated continuity
The Headmaster uses his Headmaster unit to cut off the heads of Transformers so that he can take control over their bodies. Yet this does not kill his victims.
Two stand out examples of surviving decapitation are worth noting. The first is the example of Megatron, who was decapitated during an uncontrolled re-entry into Earth's atmosphere. Transform and Roll Out He was sent into stasis lock as a result, but was reactivated fifty years latter thanks to Sari Sumdac's key, which had been powered with the energies of the AllSpark. Home Is Where the Spark Is
The other major example is Starscream, but this is atypical. Starscream's survival was because of an AllSpark fragment embedded in his head, meaning he could survive any normally spark threatening injury as long as the shard was in his head. Mission Accomplished
Trivia
- In the movie continuity, Frenzy's decentralized nervous system allows him to not only survive decapitation, but to continue remain active as a mere head, even taking on a new alternate mode.
