Amalgamous Prime

Amalgamous Prime is a member of the Thirteen from the Aligned continuity family.

Go ahead, try and make a toy of me. I dare you.

Amalgamous Prime is one of the Thirteen, the original Primes, who were created by Primus to battle and defeat his nemesis, Unicron. A gentle, good-natured prankster, Amalgamous Prime was the trickster of the Thirteen and the master of change; he could instantaneously assume just about any shape he could imagine. Amalgamous's curious nature and independent mind meant that he rarely stayed in one place for very long. His equally mutable Scythe mimicked his own whimsical form, constantly changing from one shape or state of matter to another. Supposedly, he would go on to found the Shifters, who took after his fluid and malleable nature.

Fiction

The Covenant of Primus

Amalgamous Prime was the ninth Prime created by Primus to defeat Unicron. Uniquely, he possessed two artifacts of power- his shapeshifting Scythe and the original transformation cog, which would become the template for all later T-cogs. In the ensuing battle against Primus's archenemy, Amalgamous fought on the front lines as a warrior, and together the Thirteen saw off Unicron. In the age of peace and rebuilding that followed, Amalgamous, Liege Maximo, and Micronus Prime busied themselves with mining and refining Energon, although personality conflicts simmered between the trio and Alpha Trion, Prima, and Vector Prime, who Amalgamous viewed as bossy and controlling.

After the schism that resulted in the deaths of Solus Prime and Liege Maximo and the self-imposed exile of Megatronus, Amalgamous eventually left Cybertron for parts unknown, although legend claims that he returned to Cybertron and founded the Shifters.

After Cybertron's Golden Age, Mercury and her displaced fleet of Neutronian refugees discovered Amalgamous Prime's Transformation Cog near a black hole, and took it on board. Prolonged exposure to the Cog altered their physiologies, giving them the power of unlimited shapeshifting and the ability to combine with one another into many different forms. Thus altered, these Transformers renamed themselves Mutacons, and began searching for Amalgamous in the hopes that he could undo the change before they permanently merged into a single amorphous being. The Covenant of Primus

Prime cartoon

According to legend, at the beginning of time, Unicron and Primus battled each other for eons, with neither side remaining victorious for long. Till, that is, Primus created the Thirteen. These Thirteen defeated Unicron and cast him into space. One Shall Rise, Part 1

Aligned novels

Among the Thirteen, Amalgamous Prime's talent for change was rivaled only by Nexus Prime. While Nexus excelled in combination, separation, and alt-forms, though, Amalgamous Prime could alter his shape itself, assuming any appearance he desired. Impatient and perhaps selfish, Amalgamous expressed his distaste to Solus Prime when she dedicated so much of her time to the creation of Megatronus's Requiem Blaster. Amalgamous Prime's fate after the betrayal of Megatronus and the plotting of Liege Maximo remained unknown. Only Alpha Trion and Alchemist Prime remained on Cybertron as the planet's civilization developed, but legend has it that Amalgamous may have returned at a later date, and the rarely seen modern Transformers known as "Shifters" are somehow descended from him. Exiles

Ask Vector Prime

Amalgamous, originally known as Adaptus, was one of Vector Prime's siblings among the Thirteen. Some time after the splintering of the Thirteen, Adaptus and four of his siblings ended up in the Realm of the Primes. When Vector Prime (who had self-induced amnesia in order to protect the location of Nexus Prime's components) ended up in the Realm of the Primes during his campaign against Mogahn the Mass, Vector's siblings unlocked his memories as Primus's appointed guardian of space and time. Vector Prime then returned to normal space and wrested away Mogahn's Cyber Caliber. Using Adaptus's gift, Vector reformatted the blade into Rhisling and vanquished Mogahn, sending the Mass back in time and thus causing the Big Bang.

However due to his competing memories from outside and inside of the Uniend Cluster, Vector Prime was unsure where and when exactly Adaptus/Amalgamous was his sibling. Ask Vector Prime

IDW Generation 1 continuity

Amalgamous was one of the Thirteen Primes who led the Thirteen Tribes that arose on Cybertron following the departure of the Knights of Cybertron.. Lagrange