Brainmaster

The Brainmasters are an Autobot subgroup from the Victory era of the Generation 1 continuity family.

And when ya need a fightin' bot ya'd trust to watch yer...uh, legs...

The Brainmasters (ブレインマスター Bureinmasutā) are the elite members of the Galactic Defense Force Sector One troops. Though outwardly similar in practise to Headmasters, Brainmasters are actually the inverse: where Headmaster technology allows the diminutive Cyberdroids of Master to bond with large Transtector bodies, Brainmaster technology was created as a means of transferring the consciousness of a full-size Cybertronian to a Micromaster-scale Transtector. These tiny Transtectors, each known as a "Brain" or a "Brain Robo", link to their larger bodies by entering a chest cockpit, then moving up to take their place within the body's pre-existing helmet, forming the face and interior cerebral circuits of their large robot forms.

As an unexpected side-effect of the brainwave-duplication process, Brainmasters gained "Brain Power" (Burein Kinō): an incredible boost to their courage, strength, intelligence and skill that makes them "one of the most powerful warriors in the universe". Each of the four Brainmasters exemplifies one of these talents, represented by the name of their Brain. The four Brainmasters are:

• Star Saber (Brain of Courage)
• Blacker (Brain of Strength)
• Laster (Brain of Skill)
• Braver (Brain of Intelligence)

Fiction

Generation 1 cartoon continuity

Super-God Masterforce cartoon

Clips of the Brainmasters were seen when Shūta Gō and Grand Maximus were talking about the new Supreme Commander Star Saber. Shūta and Grand's Masterforce Super-Secrets!

Victory cartoon

Their brains is TINY.

The car Brainmasters serve in the Galactic Defense Forces Sector One Unit overseeing Earth while Star Saber served as Supreme Commander over all of the GDF from Planet V. Shortly after an attack by Deathsaurus on Earth, Star Saber joined the other Brainmasters there, replacing God Ginrai in command.

The Brainmasters served as the front line unit against the Decepticons while training the junior Autobots of the Multiforce and Rescue Patrol Team. For a long time they were the undisputed masters, defeating the talents of the Breastforce and laughing over the ease of defeating the Dinoforce. However, with the appearance of Liokaiser the Brainmasters were finally overmatched as the Decepticon Gestalt proved stronger than both Star Saber and the combined form of Road Caesar. However that wouldn't deter the elite warriors and all four Brainmasters strove to become stronger until they finally defeated their Decepticon foes.

Notes

• For years, Transformers fans have referred (and continue to refer) to the Brainmaster components of Star Saber, Blacker, Braver and Laster as "Yūki", "Riki", "Chie" and "Waza", as if they were proper names. These are, in fact, simply the Japanese words meaning "courage", "strength", "intelligence" and "skill"; the Brains do not have proper names, and are simply known as "Brain of Courage", etc.
• Additionally, the Brains are also popularly but mistakenly known by a set of names that are the result of mangled versions of the Japanese word above: "Yukio", "Sala" (from "chikara", another Japanese word for "strength"), "Siet" and "Razou".
• They are the only "Masters" to have never appeared in the US as well as having no Decepticons.
• Following the trend in later Japanese Generation 1 series, the three combining Brainmasters have pretty uniform tech spec numbers. Like their opposites in Victory, Breastforce, they essentially have straight 8's, with a couple numbers slightly higher or lower to indicate their specialties, and all have totals in the neighborhood of 64.

Foreign names

• English: Super-robot (Omni Productions dub)
• Mandarin: T^hóu-nǎu Chàn-shìh (Taiwan, 頭腦戰士, "Brain Warrior"), Zhìzhě Zhànshì (China, 智者战士, "Sage Warrior")