Springarm

Springarm is an Autobot from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Springarm is the archetypal good oppressor. An officer of the Rodion Police, he's polite to prisoners, efficient, and does a good job. Unfortunately, the system he's part of has people who... don't do quite a good job, much to his quiet horror.

Fiction

IDW Generation 1 continuity

Springarm was the initial interrogator of the prisoner Megatron, arrested for two assaults. He efficiently went through the preliminary questions, including the archaic one of whether Megatron was "forged or constructed cold"; when questioned that Cybertron was meant to be beyond apartheid, Springarm said to ignore the question. He was still partly into it when Whirl took over.

Captain Optimus found out Megatron wasn't responsible for the crime and had Springarm go release him. To Springarm's horror, Whirl was beating Megatron half to death and told the younger officer to turn around and say he didn't see anything, until he learnt the prisoner was free to go. After taking him to Optimus, Springarm escorted the prisoner out and gave him his confiscated political datatrack back. He was the first to hear Megatron say the "tron" part wasn't from electronic but from neutron, as in the bomb, but the significance passed him by... Chaos Theory Part 1

Notes

• Springarm sports the same type of head as Prowl and Bluestreak.
• His alternate mode appears to be some sort of motorcycle.