Fizzle

Fizzle is an Autobot Sparkabot from the Generation 1 continuity family.

"But WHY is the cheap energon gone?"

If words really could win the war, Fizzle would have ended it centuries ago by sheer volume. He's actually not too bad a strategist. In fact, he's been responsible for many of the Autobots' greatest victories. He's just nowhere near as good as he claims to be. He's constantly coming up with elaborate fantasy-world scenarios of his greatness, and absolutely refuses to accept any blame for his failure to reach them.

Eventually, seized with the need to prove to everyone that his plans would be unimpeachable if it weren't for all the other people screwing them up, he took on the more threatening moniker of Blaze and set out on his own as a self-appointed Autobot hitman. The results have, perhaps predictably, been as mixed as anything he achieved as Fizzle.

He can sometimes be found drowning his sorrows in cheap energon. During these moments of over-energizing, he really gets bad at the bragging and blaming others. Once it's out of his system, he apologizes... but then he's right back at it again later.

Fiction

Marvel Generation 1 comics

Events from the UK-only comic stories are in italics.

Look, at least Sizzle's UK colors make sense. I transform from an entirely red robot into an entirely blue car.

Fizzle and his fellow Sparkler Mini-Bots were sent to Earth on an observation mission to be on the lookout for Galvatron's possible return. Once he did return, though, they could do little more than follow him to Florida, and radio desperately to the Wrecker for back-up after Galvatron took a swim in the ocean. While waiting for a reply, they were caught off-guard by the Firecons. Forced into battle, Fizzle demonstrated the quick-thinking and determination that earned him the function of "Strategist": he got set on fire, screamed like a Femmebot on a bad paint day, passed out in the water, and had to be rescued and returned to his peers by a bemused and mocking Galvatron. Enemy Action!

Seeking competent aid, the Sparklers broke Ultra Magnus free from the hardened magma that had trapped him in a volcano since his last bout with Galvatron. Luckily for them, Magnus was too out of it to ask why they didn't do this earlier. Once Ultra Magnus crumbled at the sight of Galvatron in their next encounter, Fizzle once again came up with a brilliant strategy to, quote: "give this everything we've got." Unfortunately Galvatron's strategy — to pick up Fizzle by the arm and use him to bludgeon the other Sparklers into submission — seemed to be far superior until Magnus snapped out of it and got in a few lucky, rage-filled punches. Salvage!

Returning to Cybertron for assistance, the Sparklers and Ultra Magnus got caught up in several misadventures, and ended up not returning to Earth with the Wreckers for the next battle with Galvatron.

The Sparkabots were next seen in Decepticon custody on Cybertron, but Fizzle, Sizzle and the Triggerbot Backstreet were suspiciously set free and sent to Earth by the space bridge. It seems Zarak of Earth had set up a sham foundation to hire human bounty hunters to hunt down Autobots for him. He had Fizzle and the others released from Cybertron as bait for a controlled test of these human Roadjammers, and their mode-lock jammer technology. After his two friends were jammered and taken into Roadjammer custody, Fizzle attempted to use his gift for strategy to avoid the same fate. This earned him a shotgun blast through the windshield...and being taken into Roadjammer custody. Fizzle and the others only escaped due to the Roadjammers' overconfidence in attempting to take down three Decepticons and Scorponok himself in addition to their chosen targets. Ca$h and Car-nage!

Transformers Comic-Magazin

Template:TransformersComicMagazin Fizzle was among the Autobots monitoring the Decepticons from a distance when Megatron made peaceful gestures to Humanity in New York City. The Autobots returned to the Ark and discovered that a statue of Snaptrap that the Decepticons had gifted to New York was actually Snaptrap in disguise. Snaptrap went on a rampage and the Decepticons used this distraction to attack various other targets. Optimus Prime led the Autobots to narrowly defeat this menace. Fizzle, Scoop, Quickmix and the other Sparkabots managed to bring down Piranacon. Transformers in Action: The Troy Principle

Fizzle investigated an abandoned Decepticon base at an airfield before spotting Needlenose, Dreadwind and Darkwing who then flew off. Later the Decepticons attacked an oil tanker, and he helped in the rescue effort. Transformers in the Battle for Peace: A Big Day for Powermaster Optimus Prime

Fleetway Generation 2 comics

Nice Laser Rod. Pity if something happened to it.

At some undetermined point in time, Blaze fought Jolt. Fleetway comic issue 1 gatefold poster

Grandreams Generation 2 Annual

So how many contradictory designs am I going to have?

Blaze served with his "brother Sparkabot" Sizzle as an engineer millions of years ago on planet Cybertron. Whether Blaze helped build the Ark like Sizzle is unknown. Official Transformers Generation 2 Annual bio

Blaze accompanied Jazz and Optimus Prime to the Brazilian rain forest to investigate a Transformer energy signature. The source of the readings turned out to be two terrifying robot dinosaurs! The Decepticons took advantage of the Autobots' surprise, leaving Blaze the last Autobot standing; he tried to take Megatron down himself, but was swatted aside. Fortunately, the creatures revealed themselves to be the Autobots Grimlock and Snarl, awakened for the first time since the age of the dinosaurs. The two Dinobots quickly drove off the attacking Decepticons, saving Blaze and his helpless friends. When Grimlock decided that he and Snarl would stay behind and search for their fellow Dinobots, Blaze chastised him for not joining the fight against the Decepticons. Optimus Prime advised Blaze to relax, as felt sure that the Autobots and Dinobots would be brothers-in-arms once Grimlock found his remaining companions. The Dinobots!

The preceding story is basically impossible to reconcile with any previously established fiction, even the Fleetway comics the Annual was coming out in support of. It thus appears to represent its own micro-continuity, as the events were never followed up on.

Wings Universe

Fizzle was stationed at Autobot City on Earth in 2010. He joined a squad of Autobots under Jazz's leadership to back-up Pyro and Rapido in Switzerland against Clench's Decepticon Syndicate. After being exposed to forestonite, Fizzle got all glowy n'stuff. Generation 2: Redux He gained the ability to sense his environment with new clarity, making him a marksman of the highest caliber. With his new powers and need to be part of the battle, Fizzle felt his name no longer suited him, and took on the moniker Blaze. Blaze's profile

Blaze joined Pyro's team as they investigated a break in at Quantum Laboratories, though as their shuttle flew through space, he was disgusted to learn that Sizzle, who'd told them they'd need a shuttle, had opted to stay behind. A message resulted in a visit to Nebulos, where Hi-Q had been kidnapped. A Flash Forward, Part 3 Following the trail left by the kidnappers, the team reached a strangely-altered Qre, where they were set upon by a training system, then captured by Jhiaxus and his Sharkticons. A Flash Forward, Part 4 That unfortunately meant Blaze had to listen to Jhiaxus's speeches. A Flash Forward, Part 5

IDW Generation 1 comics

After Cybertron was reborn in the wake of the D-Void's attack, Fizzle joined Rodimus's mission to use the map within the Matrix of Leadership to find the Knights of Cybertron at Cyberutopia. The mission's departure in the Lost Light was interrupted by an explosion in the ship sending it into premature quantum jump. The resulting hull breach sucked Fizzle out of the ship and he fell to a nearby planet, burning up in the atmosphere. How to Say Goodbye and Mean It Fortunately, he was found alive and apparently repaired, along with most of the other Transformers who had been sucked out of the ship. Hangers On

Toys

Generation 1

Fo' shizzle!

• Fizzle (Sparkabot, 1988)

Fizzle transforms into an offroad Baja buggy. As a Sparkabot, in this mode he has a friction-motor gimmick that not only propels his vehicle mode forward when "revved" up by pushing him forward on his rubber gear-wheel, but causes "cold" sparks to shoot from his back end.

This mold was also used to make Blaze and Wildspark.

• More information on Fizzle at TFU.info

Generation 2

One of these days, someone will draw me like this.

• Blaze (Sparkabot, 1993)

Blaze is a European/Australasian-market-only redeco of Fizzle. He retains Fizzle's sparking feature.

Blaze's card art shows his Sparkabot partner Sizzle, while Sizzle's card depicts Blaze. It is therefore arguable which Generation 2 Sparkabot is which, though it can be reasonably assumed that the redeco of the original Sizzle is still Sizzle. The switch led to all sorts of trouble, as the Generation 2 Sparkabots have never appeared in fiction in their proper colours.

• More information on Blaze at TFU.info

Notes

• Fizzle and Sizzle's robot-mode colors were switched throughout the original Marvel UK comics, resulting in a red-and-brown Fizzle and a shades-of-blue Sizzle... who turned into a blue buggy and a brown funny car, respectively.
• On the Fleetway gatefold poster featuring Blaze, Blaze's colors are based on his fellow Generation 2 Sparkabot Sizzle. In The Dinobots!, Blaze has not only Sizzle's coloration but his entire robot mode. His vehicle mode is still his own, albeit in Sizzle's colors. Tradition!
• The letters page in the third issue of Fleetway's Generation 2 comic declared that Blaze was Fizzle after adopting a new name. The Wings of Honor universe followed their lead, establishing "Blaze" as Fizzle's new loose-cannon identity after his exposure to forestonite.

Foreign names

• French: Pétille (Canada)