Tusks

This article is about the piano Transformer guy from the Marvel UK comics. For the ancient Transformer form the IDW comics, see Tusk.

Tusks is a guy that transforms into a piano from the Marvel portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

"Slag! Play me some filler, Johnny!"

Tusks plays music in the corner of Maccadam's Old Oil House.

Fiction

Marvel The Transformers comics

This character appeared exclusively in the UK portion of the Marvel Comics continuity.

Wonder if he plays Cold Slither.

The Decepticon Fang entered Maccadam's, and boy, was he cranky. Annoyed that Tusks's music wasn't to his own liking, he started bashing the tiny music-playing Transformer against the wall.

It took a while, but the Wreckers sitting at the other side of Maccadam's realized they should probably put a stop to this. Tusks should have been grateful that his prolonged maiming served as eye-opening symbolism—a metaphor, if you will—of the consequences of the Wreckers' indifference and slacked devotion to duty. Target: 2006

Ask Vector Prime

In some universal streams, Tusks downsized when energon became scare and became a Predacon. He fought alongside the reality-displaced cyborg Scales. Ask Vector Prime

Notes

• Tusks was not named in his original appearance. He received a name decades later via the Facebook edition of Ask Vector Prime.
• If you're puzzled by the name, bear in mind that piano keys were traditionally made with ivory.