Enemy (G1)

This article is about the evil Decepticon. For his heroic mirrorverse counterpart, see Enemy (SG).

Enemy is a Decepticon Mini-Cassette from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Not to be confused with Cobra, the Enemy.

Enemy takes his name seriously. He defines himself by his opposition to others; he likes to say that the long list of people who hate him shows just how important he is. It doesn't make him a great teammate. In fact, Enemy goes out of his way to not cooperate with his fellow Decepticons, solely to ensure that they don't like him.

On the other hand, his unnatural ability to be despised comes in handy on the battlefield. Enemy is cunning enough to goad the most important of his opponents into focusing on him, drawing them away from their friends and objectives and seriously compromising their usefulness.

He'll make you sound like a robot if you don't watch it.

Fiction

Dreamwave Generation One continuity

Could it be? Is it he?

While Shockwave led most of the Decepticon army into Iacon, several of Optimus Prime's troops snuck into Kolkular to end Megatron's plan to transform Cybertron into a spacefaring warship. Enemy, the Constructicons, Thrust, and others countered the Autobots when they were discovered. The War Within #5

It's possible that Enemy was merely a miscolored Frenzy or Rumble, even though The War Within didn't shy away from using Micro Change or Diaclone versions of toys as characters.

Legends comic

With Soundwave and the other Decepticon cassettes, Enemy was part of an attack on the Ark to steal the new Transform Super Cog in the late 1980s. Enemy attempted to finish off the Jumpstarters, but his attack was blocked in time by Nightstalker. Slugslinger's Ambition

Toys

Encore

Annoyingly enough, by the criteria of FIBRIR/FIRRIB, I'm actually blue.

• Soundblaster (2012)
  • ID number: 21
  • Accessories: Left & right guns, cassette case

Encore Enemy is a red and dark blue redeco of the Rumble/Frenzy mold, based on the red version of the Micro Change MC-01 Micross toy. He was included with Encore Soundblaster and Wingthing. As was the case with the other cassettes previously released with Soundblaster, Enemy sports a different sticker in place of his cassette spool image; an image of Fortress Maximus which reveals the city-bot's weak spots when viewed through Soundblaster's clear-red chest door (in the same way Tech Spec decoders work).

• Image gallery of Enemy at Seibertron.com

Masterpiece

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend."

• Cassettbot VS Cassettron (2017-12-23)
  • Japanese ID number: MP-15/16E
  • Accessories: Pink tape case, two piledrivers, piledriver mount, left & right "Thruster Guns".

Issued in a limited edition Masterpiece "Encore" set available from TakaraTomy Mall, along with Stripes, Nightstalker, and Wingthing, Enemy is a redeco of the Masterpiece Frumble mold. Enemy is unique in the set, in that his weapons are not integrated into his alt mode and transformation; he comes with a redeco of the Frumble piledrivers, as well as the silver guns, which can be held in his hands, mounted on his back, or stored inside the piledrivers.

If purchased from a seller supplied by Hasbro Asia, the set includes a collector coin, featuring Enemy's face on one side and the Autobot logo and names of all the included characters on the opposite side. The coin is mounted in a card resembling a cassette, similar to the cards housing the coins for MP-15 and MP-16, but styled like Enemy's cassette mode on the "A" side, while the "B" side resembles Stripes's cassette mode.

Merchandise

Generation 1

• AM Radio & Headset

Does he use anarchy?

Enemy first appeared in 1984 as part of a working AM radio & headset, a piece of merchandise made by Nasta under the "Power Tronic" imprimatur. Featuring a large wearable Decepticon symbol belt-clip, removing this item revealed Enemy, a solid red (with blue thighs and upper arms) simplification of the Rumble/Frenzy mold. Permanently attached to the radio, Enemy could not be removed without breakage, but could nevertheless transform in situ.

And you will sound more like a Transformer than most of the cast in the Combiner Wars cartoon.

• Enemy (voice changer)

Enemy was given life again the following year when Nasta released a voice-changer in 1985. A large disembodied head, Enemy again looked like a red Frenzy/Rumble, but this time with proper silver face detailing. If a kid talked into a headset that plugged into Enemy's noggin, his voice would be modified to sound robotic. Enemy came with a belt clip, power pack, and headset with built-in microphone, and ran on a single 9 volt battery (not included).

Notes

• By virtue of the standard sorting order of fiction, toys and merchandise established by TFWiki.net, Enemy's history with the Transformers brand comes across a little muddled on this page. Here's a quick chronological order: The color scheme originally started out as one of two alternate variants of the MC-01 Micross toy from Takara's Micro Change line. When Hasbro decided to release some of the Micro Change figures as part of their Transformers line in 1984, they picked the other version (colored in two different shades of blue) to become Frenzy, while an entirely new color scheme (black and red) was created to become Rumble. (The cartoon then swapped the two characters' color schemes; see "FIRRIB" for that mess.) The unused red and blue Micro Change color scheme would subsequently inspire two licensed toys released by Nasta, first the non-transforming "AM Radio & Headset" Decepticon (which didn't have a name) and then the "Electronic Voice Changer", which gave the disembodied head the somewhat odd name "Enemy". Being the only official name ever assigned to that particular color scheme, TakaraTomy, never shy of resorting to obscure inspirations as an excuse to release a redeco of an existing toy, used it for a reissue of the original toy in its unused Micro Change colors as part of the Encore line, and subsequently also for a redeco of the Masterpiece Rumble/Frenzy sculpt.

• Enemy is awesome.

• Knowing Takara's history of using miscolored extra characters for toy redecos, there is some fan speculation that Enemy's retconned first appearance could potentially be in More than Meets the Eye, Part 2 as a background generic. While the original MC-01 Micross toy from Takara's Micro Change line (as well as the two Nasta licensed toys) were colored red and blue, the Encore and Masterpiece issues are clearly a different reddish-orange and closer to the extra in the episode.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Enemy (エネミー Enemī)
• Italian: Nemico