Rampage (G1)

This article is about the Generation 1 Predacon. For the Beast Wars Predacon, see Rampage (BW).

Rampage is a Decepticon in the Generation 1 continuity family.

Rampage is a bundle of overenergetic, destructive fury. He has difficulty thinking or talking for more than a short time without bursting into a wild rage and smashing everything around him. The blatant trail of wreckage makes it easy to follow him anywhere. The only thing that really calms him down is television. Generally the more mindless and stupid the programming, the more enraptured and entranced he becomes. Rampage can watch music videos for hours and hours without twitching a circuit.

He and his fellow Predacons can combine to form Predaking.

Fiction

Marvel Comics continuity

Rampage and the Predacons operated as mercenary hunters on Cybertron, willing to track and kill anyone for the right price, even Megatron. Shockwave hired them to eliminate Megatron for him, and their second attempt proved successful enough to get him out of the way for awhile. The Predacons moved in full-time with the Decepticons of Earth after that, and Rampage later had a truly spectacular fight with Scorponok's animal flunky Apeface during the first Decepticon Civil War -- after ripping off Apeface's arm and spitting it out, the Horrorcon then proceeded to beat the Predacon with it severely. Rampage shook the stars out from his optic sensors long enough to get blown to smithereens by Starscream along with his teammates.

Animated continuity

Voice actor: Laurie Faso (US), (Japan)

Dreamwave comics continuity

Rampage and his fellow Predacons were apparently Decepticon warlords at some point in the past. Exactly when is unclear, but they were exiled from Cybertron and eventually wound up on Planet Beest. The Predacons' higher brain functions degraded and they became feral, wandering bestially on the planet until Megatron found them, tamed them, and taught them to beg for robo-kibble. Rampage and the others then helped him overcome Shockwave and Starscream to reclaim Megatron's army for him.

IDW comics continuity

As a crewman aborad the Thanatos, Rampage was dispatched to Cybertron to destroy the newly reactivated Thunderwing (and, if necessary, Cybertron). Rampage, at a weapons station, canceled the bombardment on Razorclaw's order with one second remaining after Optimus Prime neutralized Thunderwing.

Beast Wars

Beast Wars: The Gathering

On Cybertron, a group of five symbols appeared on the walls of a room containing a transwarp shunt device. The five symbols seemed to represent a lion, a bird, a bull, a rhinoceros, and another feline of some variety. The Gathering, Part 2

Toys

Generation 1

• Rampage (1986)

Japanese ID number: ???

Titanium Series

• Predaking (2006?)

The arm of this 3" die-cast figurine is technically Rampage.

External links

• Rampage at TFU.info
• Rampage's Universe profile at NTFA.net
  
  
  From Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki, a Wikia wiki.