Slash (POTP)

This article is about the Generation 1 Dinobot. For the movieverse Dinobot, see Slash (AOE).

Slash is an Autobot Dinobot from Generation 1 continuity family.

Clever girl.

Slash is the newest member of the Dinobots, an elite tracker who always finds her target. When paired with a Prime Master, she tends to use her newfound power to further hone her tracking abilities.

Games

Transformers: Earth Wars

A turkey, huh? OK, try to imagine yourself in the Cretaceous Period. You get your first look at this "six foot turkey" as you enter a clearing. You stare at him, and he just stares right back. And that's when the attack comes. Not from the front, but from the side.

Competing with the Rust Renegades to find the Prime Cores first, Grimlock declared that what the Dinobot team needed was Slash. Beastie Bots Shortly thereafter, following Grimlock's explanation of Slash's history and personality, Slash appeared. Days of Old She declined to give details of her secret campaign on Cybertron, but the Dinobots soon turned their attention to the Quintus Prime Core and the Decepticon competition. Rogue Wars

• Class: Special
• Lowest Star Rating: 2 star
• Weapons: Slash rips defenses apart with her Velociraptor mode's sharp claws, and for some reason she uses some weird green beam (Fire breath?) to attack defenses from afar. She doesn't really have any bot mode weapons.
• Ability: Hunter Camouflage - For 10 seconds, you are invisible to defenses and use attacks dealing damage with a 50% chance to deal 2x damage and stun for 7 seconds.
  • Cost: 7 ability points +2 for reuses.

Toys

Generations

They show extreme intelligence–even problem-solving intelligence. Especially the Big One. We bred eight originally, but when she came in she took over the pride and killed all but two of the others. That one... when she looks at you, you can see she's working things out.

• Dinobot Slash (Legends Class, 2017)

• Japanese ID number: PP-04
• Japanese release date: May 25, 2018

Part of the first wave of Power of the Primes Legends Class toys, Slash can transform into a rough, robotic approximation of a Velociraptor. Her beast mode jaw can open and close, and a Prime Master can fit inside the compartment on her beast mode back once it is opened. Though she was released alongside her five teammates who combine into Volcanicus, Slash does not form any part of the Dinobot combiner. In both modes, she is fairly small for a Legends Class figure. Due to her extensively-long dino body, getting her to stand on her feet in dino mode can often prove difficult, limiting her to a raised head position.

There is a variant of this toy sporting the slightly-different movie-style Autobot insignia on her robot-mode chest.

The Prime Master cards that come with Slash are not multilingual like the others. Instead, each of them repeats the same English phrase four times. However, a multilingual Quintus Slash card was found...inside a Power of the Primes Dinobot Slug package.

This mold was retooled with a new robot mode head to make Cindersaur.

Notes

Take me down to the Autobot City/Where the grass is green and the girls are not represented proportionately

• Slash is inspired by the Age of Extinction character of the same name.
• Concept art of Slash depicts her as transforming into a different kind of dinosaur and reverse-gripping a pair of knives.
• While Slash was advertised as the first female Dinobot, this isn't quite correct. Slash is the first female Dinobot to receive a toy, as well as the first female Dinobot with an actual dinosaur mode, but she was preceded in fiction by the female Dinobot Strafe, who appeared in the 2005 IDW continuity and transforms into a draconic Orthrus-like creature. (Incidentally, Age of Extinction Slash was also intended by designers to be female, but this did not make it into published bios.)
• In an apparent failure of quality control, the backside of Slash's packaging uses the feminine form of "tracker" in French and Portuguese but the masculine form in Spanish.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Slash (スラッシュ Surasshu)