M.A.S.K.

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The Mobile Armored Strike Kommand, or M.A.S.K. for short, is a secret peacekeeping organization. They typically operate specially modified vehicles that can transform or otherwise reconfigure themselves into battle modes.

Or in other words: They're masked crusaders working overtime, fighting crime! (fighting CRIME!)

Fiction

Unit:E comic

Now they're really fighting crime.

M.A.S.K. was a team of civil servants—policeman Matt Trakker, medic Hannah Moon, firefighter Glenn Gephard, and the married duo of Damone and Vanessa Kendall—who were busy trying to restore order in Detroit after the government abandoned the populace. The five found a workshop full of ancient technology belonging to "The League of Ancient Wheelmen" and were using this technology to stop the decay of Detroit. Unit:E

Aligned continuity family

Prime cartoon

But can it change into a mobile defense unit?

M.A.S.K. was a division of the United States military that developed an "experimental, all-terrain, expeditionary fighting vehicle". This vehicle was brought to Optimus Prime so he could scan a new alternate mode. Project Predacon

2015 Robots in Disguise cartoon

By the time that Bumblebee returned to Earth, the vehicle had made its way into mass production. One of Our Mini-Cons Is Missing

Knights of Unicron

Boulder Hill (HQ of M.A.S.K.) was the fifth venue for the Knights of Unicron on their 2014 "Till All Are One" tour. Knights of Unicron

Ask Vector Prime

Vector Prime noted that most realities containing an iteration of the Mobile Armored Strike Kommand were in the Megaverse and thus fell outside the purview of the Transcendent Technomorphs. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/11

Transformers vs. G.I. Joe

M.A.S.K. were the fictional heroes of a franchise featured in the crossover series "GoBots vs. M.A.S.K.". Since the Transformers had ended up being nicknamed "GoBots" by G.I. Joe, Snake-Eyes figured this made the Joes M.A.S.K. Black Cybertron

IDW Generation 1 continuity

M.A.S.K. began as Project Spectrum, an effort to develop anti-Transformer weaponry overseen by Cornelius Trakker. At some point, Cornelius Trakker was "mysteriously murdered" (cough cough) and the totally trustworthy Miles "Mayhem" Manheim took over the operation. Miles Mayhem's profile

Following Optimus Prime's controversial annexation of Earth into the Council of Worlds, Manheim met with Joe Colton and Scarlett to discuss the ramifications of the Transformer threat to Earth and a new crisis sparked by Earth's supply of Ore-13. Colton turned over the captured Blitzwing to Manheim's operatives, hoping that he could put captured Cybertronian technology to good use.

After a clash between G.I. Joe and the Transformers in Portland, Manheim and his operatives Matt Trakker, Gloria Baker, Brad Turner, and Julio Lopez had already relocated to G.I. Joe's Governor's Island base, taking Blitzwing along with them. There, he introduced Scarlett to Project Spectrum's newest initiative–the Mobile Armored Strike Kommand, a team of operatives piloting transforming vehicles based off of Cybertronian physiology. M.A.S.K. made its debut shortly afterwards as the team headed out to neutralize Kup and Aileron, who had been investigating the mystery of Ore-13 in Greece. Their shapeshifting vehicles allowed them to get the drop on the unprepared Transformers–although the two Autobots fought back, the team managed to capture Kup. The Divine Source of Liberty

Notes

• Rik Alvarez would tell TFcon Charlotte in 2015 that Prime was intended to backdoor launch M.A.S.K., along with other brands, via a Unit:E crossover story.

External links

• M.A.S.K. at Wikipedia