Deluge (G2)

This article is about the Decepticon mad scientist. For the Autobot Aquaspeeder, see Deluge (G1).

Deluge is a Decepticon Color Changer from the Generation 1 continuity family.

"You can't stop me this time, Batman!"

Deluge is a fully qualified mad scientist, equipped with all the intelligence, skills, and egotistic depravity that such a position requires. He may or may not have a mad cackling laugh or a Siamese cat, but his chinplate does perhaps resemble a goatee.

He is officially a scientific consultant, but prefers to shun the mundane workaday world and spend his days plotting Evil Schemes and designing Doomsday Weapons. His preferred instruments of destruction are not the tried and true missiles or energy weapons other Transformers use, no no. An evil genius must maintain his image, you know. Deluge would rather tear apart his enemies with high-pressure fluid jets. How delightfully eccentric of him.

If he ever meets that Autobot do-gooder who shares his name, Deluge will probably use his powers to see that he is torn apart, limb from limb, but not until he reveals his secret, secret plan! HAhaHaHAEha!

Fiction

IDW comics continuity

Job satisfaction!

Deluge was part of the project to create the Insecticons, which spawned three thousand shuffling horrors and, starting with Bombshell, three sentient creatures. He giggled mid-sentence, the weirdo.

A year later, he escorted many Autobots to Cybertron via a portal and with only one other Decepticon, so the instant the portal went down they were trapped on the planet with their very angry "prisoners". Genius, my ass. All Hail Megatron #7 Deluge and Dirge have not been seen since.

Wings of Honor

Sure, I'm a mad scientist, but I also moonlight as a common thug.

When a strange Autobot visitor and his Quintesson companion wandered into the wrong part of Cybertron, Deluge joined Jetstorm and the Battlechargers in intimidating the pair. Unfortunately for Deluge and the other Decepticons, their foe was way, way more powerful than they suspected and they were left defeated in a pile. The Coming Storm: Part 1

Deluge and Jetstorm later returned to Earth and hooked up with Clench and his Decepticon Syndicate. They battled against Aquafend and Gobots at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland when the forestonite gas escaped and mutated their CNA. Generation 2: Redux

Toys

Generation 2

• Deluge (Color Changer, 1993)
  • Accessories: Water-cannon

A redeco of the European Autobot Aquaspeeder Speedstream, Deluge transforms into an Indy style race car. His front half is covered in temperature-sensitive paint, going pale white if hit with warm water (or if he just gets warm by other methods). His weapon is a single-barreled water pistol formed from his car-mode spoiler/engine. He also has stickers on each side of the driver's seat that read "M. Edminson".

There is a tooling variation of this toy. Some have a water-cannon with the spoiler attached by a single bar, with a wider, shorter bellows attached to a raised base. Other versions use a two-peg connector for the spoiler with a thinner, taller bellows, and the attachment "base" is missing. It is unknown which version of the toy came first, and to complicate the issue, Speedstream's cannon uses a two-peg/thin-bellows setup, but has a (slightly different) raised attachment base.

• More information on Deluge at TFU.info

Notes

• E. J. Su gave Deluge a deliberate redesign for his appearance in the IDW comics.