Wheelarch

Wheelarch is a Transformer from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Him Wheelarch! Him friend.

Wheelarch is a member of the Rodion police force and brothers with Springarm and Valve. While he works together with Springarm on the force, he doesn't seem to idolize their captain, Orion Pax, as much as him.

Fiction

IDW Generation 1 continuity

Wheelarch was looking at a screen at the Rodion police station when Megatron was released from captivity. Chaos Theory #1

Some time later, Wheelarch and Springarm were patrolling the streets without finding a single criminal to arrest. Springarm gushed a bit over how great Orion Pax was and how it finally felt like the police were making a difference, while Wheelarch thought he sounded lame. They both shut up once it turned out the reason they missed all the crime was because Orion had already arrested everyone. Shortly after Orion had left on another patrol, some thugs with connections to the Senate attacked the police station to rescue their "friend" Whirl, killing Wheelarch and Springarm. Their heads were placed in Orion Pax's display cabinet to mock him, while Wheelarch's body was left on the steps to the building. Chaos Theory #2

Notes

• He turns into a Cybertronian motorbike. James Roberts has said that Transformers with that alternate mode were pushed into the police force in pre-war, functionist Cybertron; beside Springarm, we see two more policebots with this body-type in "Stet".

Foreign name

• Japanese: Wheelarch (ホイルアーチ Hoiruāchi)