Skram (G2)

This article is about the Autobot Axelerator from Generation 1. For the Autobot from Transformers Animated, see Skram (Animated).

Skram is an Autobot from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Everybody stands just a little farther away when he's crack-patrolling.

Skram only takes this war thing so seriously. After all, if you can't have a little fun even in the middle of an eons-long race-wide civil war, what's the point? Luckily for him (and his fellow Axelerators), his idea of "fun" consists mostly of barreling into incredibly dangerous situations, banging some Decepticon skulls together, and somehow beating the ugliest odds and turning things into a victory for the Autobots.

Of course, he might brag a bit once it's all over, but his results are hard to argue with.

Fiction

Fleetway Generation 2 comics

Skram was part of the Autobot squad sent to Earth to stop Bludgeon's troops from trashing the place. Skram went with Jazz and Sideswipe to handle the rank-and-file while Optimus Prime took on Bludgeon. War Without End

When the Skyscorchers were pulled away, Skram thought they had won. Boy, was he wrong. He and the other two ran to help Prime and showed up in time to mop up some Decepticons that the Dinobots had slapped around. War Zone

IDW comics continuity

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We can't very well see off-panel, can we now? Idiot.

Skram was one of the Autobots stationed at Thunderhead Pass under the command of Hound to guard the remains of Thunderwing. He was witness to Hound's dressing down of Sideswipe when the latter broke radio silence to request a transfer to Earth. He was knocked offline during an attack on the outpost by a powerful Transformer, but the intruder chose to spare Skram's life, as well as the lives of most of the other Autobots stationed there, in a small act of rebellion against his master. Spotlight: Galvatron

Later, Optimus Prime informed Hound that his unit should make preparations to come to Earth as reinforcements. Devastation #1 However, due to the extraction of prisoners from Garrus-9, Hound's unit, including Skram, was diverted there instead. Devastation #6

On the way, their ship, the Ark-12, was attacked by Cyclonus, and Skram reported on the ship's damage. He apparently stayed aboard the ship while the others caught up with Cyclonus on the surface of Corata-Vaz. Spotlight: Cyclonus

Skram later joined in with the rest of Hound's team and the Wreckers in fighting Thunderwing, who was stationed as a guardian for a Nega-Core situated on Corata-Vaz. Spotlight: Hardhead Spotlight: Doubledealer

An obscure guy that lives to see the end of the story arc? Holy crap!

Hound's team was then put under the command of Fortress Maximus and sent to Earth to deal with the Nega-Core there and its guardians, Straxus and Grindcore. Skram was thereafter given the unenviable task of retrieving Arcee and guiding her through a couple of space bridge portals to a confrontation with Jhiaxus on Gorlam Prime. Spotlight: Sideswipe

Wings of Honor

Skram was one of the second generation Transformers created on Earth out of the Cyberfactory. When these new Transformers chose sides, Skram became a member of the Autobots. In 2010, he was stationed at Autobot City, and rolled into battle in Switzerland at Jazz's command to back-up Pyro and Rapido. Generation 2: Redux

Toys

Generation 1

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His name is "Marks" backwards. Communist propaganda?

• Skram (Axelerator, 1993)
  • Accessories: Engine block gun

Sold as part of the Axelerator assortment, Skram transforms into a Chevrolet Corvette Stingray. His exposed chrome-silver engine block becomes a pistol for robot mode. This toy is also gang-molded with Windbreaker.

He was initially released in the European market in 1993, during the transitional time when the Transformers toys took on the new Generation 2 sigils, but the packaging lacked the "Generation 2" line-name.

• More information on Skram at TFU.info

Generation 2

• Skram (Axelerator/Small Car, 1994)
  • Accessories: Engine block gun

In European markets, Skram was re-released in the Generation 2 line proper without any real changes. However, in the US line, he was released as part of the "Small Cars" assortment, and his clear-pink plastic was changed to a clear-smoke color.

Notes

• While Skram's original UK release gives him the function of "Platoon Trouble Shooter", the later US release changes this to "Crack Patrol". Make of that what you will.
• Skram is the only Axelerator who has not been shown as part of the canceled Block Town series. Since he is gang-molded with Windbreaker, a Block Town Skram would be a red car with white robot parts.
• Skram's European-market coloration was used as the basis for the Maximal Command Security Force trooper Getout.

Foreign names

• Dutch & French: Smash
• Italian: Mercury