Slash (POTP)

The name or term "Slash" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Slash (disambiguation).

Slash is an Autobot Dinobot from the 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.

Fiction

Legends comic

By the year 2040, peace had been declared between the Autobots and Decepticons. Slash was present with Grimlock, Kakuryu and others when Optimus Prime, and Megatron officially shook hands and declared the reunion of the Cybertron Alliance. Epiloge

Generations Selects Special Comic

In 2050, Slash attended a meeting with her Dinobot big bros on Dinobot Island, during which they saw a time gate open to reveal the Quintessons, who immediately sought to subdue the Dinobots to sell as merchandise. The Quintessons summoned Predaking for assistance and he had Grimlock on the ropes till he tapped into Earth's Angolmois Energy to manifest a pair of Magma Blades, to Slash's excitement. To even the odds, Predaking took Slash hostage, but the Dinobots were able to combine into Volcanicus to defeat Predaking and save Slash. In the battle's aftermath, the older Dinobots were contacted by Spike Witwicky, who requested assistance with the Selector revolt. The five Dinobots left to help, but not before Grimlock left Slash in charge of the island. Volcanicus comic 1

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 her constant disappearing and reappearing unnerved some autobots on the base.

• 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

Power of the Primes

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, 2018)

• 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 in Spark move 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.

Early CG stock renders of her robot mode omit the silver paint on her shoulders.

Though designated for a first quarter 2018 release, Slash's wave reached U.S. store shelves in November 2017.

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)