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==Toys==
==Toys==
===''The Transformers''===
===''The Transformers''===
[[File:G1-toy_Lube.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|[[Nexus Maximus]] needs your help!]]
[[File:G1-toy_Lube.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|[[Nexus Prime#Naming issues|Nexus Maximus]] needs your help!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Slapdash''' (Autobot Powermaster, 1988)}}</ul>
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Slapdash''' (Autobot Powermaster, 1988)}}</ul>


Revision as of 22:24, 2 November 2024

Lube is an Autobot-allied Nebulan Powermaster from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Proudly upholding the honorable tradition of double entendre Transformer names.

Lube is a by-the-book, no-nonsense... okay, he's a temperamental tightass is what he is. As such, he's usually screaming at his Autobot partner Slapdash... though many times it's from a great distance. Even though Lube provides energy for the Powermaster, the slacking Slapdash often leaves Lube behind before charging off into battle, leaving the Autobot stuck in vehicle mode.

Fiction

Marvel The Transformers comics

Events from the UK-only comic stories are in italics.
Lube is on the left.

After the first group of Transformer visitors left Nebulos, Hi-Q (working at the request of the Council of Peers) radiated the planet's fuel supply so that it was poisonous to robots. Lube was at Hi-Q's side when the project was implemented.

Some time after this had happened, Lube was working in the Hi-Q Industrial Research Complex with two more of Hi-Q's assistants, Hotwire and Kari. He was urging Hotwire to be careful with an electrostatic oscillator at the time, and getting annoyed over the latter gloating that he would be able to fix it blindfolded. Then, Goldbug, Getaway, Joyride, and Slapdash arrived to ask Hi-Q for help rebuilding Optimus Prime. The Autobots were warned that if they used Nebulon fuel they would freeze up and eventually die. Eventually Optimus Prime was rebuilt and Hi-Q decided to become his Powermaster partner in order to save his life and to defend Nebulos against Darkwing and Dreadwind (who were already Powermasters). Following his example, Lube quickly volunteered to be partnered to Slapdash.

The new Autobot Powermasters defeated Darkwing and Dreadwind. Hi-Test and Throttle were banished from Nebulos, so they took off with their partners.

The Powermaster process altered the circuitry of the Autobots to the point where they could not be separated from their partners. They had to stick together, but, for the sake of Nebulon peace, the Autobots could not remain there. So they all left on the Steelhaven to meet up with the other Autobots, leaving their friend Kari behind. People Power!

In transit to the Moon Optimus Prime filled the Nebulons in on the Autobot/Decepticon war, only for the history lesson to be interrupted by a transmission advertising the "Cosmic Carnival." Optimus and Goldbug investigated the show upon learning that their fellow Autobot Sky Lynx was part of the line-up, though the rest of the crew did not join them; the Cosmic Carnival had a very steep entrance fee, and they didn't have the currency to spare. The Cosmic Carnival Shortly after arriving on Earth, Lube and the Powermasters learned that the town of Border Flats had been destroyed due to the presence of some giant robots. Tracking down the suspected Decepticons in no time, Lube and his teammates found themselves attacking another group of Autobots! The whole incident turned out to be a misunderstanding, brought about when Sandstorm, Broadside, and Inferno had attempted to join a Christmas celebration, only to accidentally send the whole town into a panic. Cold Comfort and Joy!

After Joyride's pursuit of Quake accidentally led to the fatal injury of an innocent human, Hi-Q and the Nebulans rigged up some advanced medical equipment to cure him. Unfortunately, Throttle stole the isotopic power cell that made the equipment functional and, to make matters worse, the Aerialbots shot him down in Dreadwing over the ocean while trying to retrieve it. Lube and the Nebulan Powermasters went along with their Autobot partners in order to protect them from the crushing depths. Despite the danger posed by the Seacons, Optimus Prime ordered Lube and the Nebulans separate from the Powermasters and retrieve the power cell for the injured man. They succeeded, and unwittingly assured the mission's success by breaching the Dreadwing's cockpit in the process; with their own Nebulan allies now at risk of drowning, the Seacons gave up the offensive to rescue them. Dreadwing Down!

Lube was meant to accompany Slapdash on a mission to Alternate Reality, Inc., where Optimus Prime had left behind a floppy disk containing a copy of his mind. Unfortunately, his absent-minded Autobot partner forgot to bring him along! As a result, Slapdash was left unable to transform throughout the mission. Prime Bomb!

TransTech

One version of Lube was a Cyberdroid and Offworlder in Axiom Nexus. Lube worked at for Axiom Nexus News, often repairing cameras after Rook's tantrums. Just before an interview with General Hawk, Rook chatted with Lube about what Rook perceived as the ridiculousness of human names. Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News, 2016/05/01

Beast Wars: Uprising

Lube was a Cyberdroid bodywork specialist at Hotwire's in Iacon. He was interviewed by officer Wolfang about touch-up work he did on a deceased Builder named Twirl. Lube pointed the MaxCop to The Way Of All Things, a bar Twirl was planning to go to after her appointment. Trigger Warnings

Commercial appearances

All you need is lube!
Doot doot doot doot doot!
All you need is lube!
Lube! Lube!
Lube is all you need!

Lube accompanied Slapdash as the Autobot Powermasters went out for a drive. They were shocked to encounter the Decepticon Powermasters, and Lube assumed his engine mode to allow Slapdash to transform and fight back against their aggressors. Powermasters commercial

Toys

The Transformers

Nexus Maximus needs your help!
  • Slapdash (Autobot Powermaster, 1988)
Released in the fifth year of the The Transformers toyline (fourth year in the European line), Lube is an orange-limbed armored humanoid figure that converts into an engine block. In this form, he can fit into the engine socket of any Autobot Powermaster mold (without any added grease), unlocking its transformation from vehicle to robot mode. (He can fit into Decepticon sockets, but will not unlock their transformation.)
He was only available packed in with his partner, Slapdash.
Slapdash and Lube were sold in Japan without changes as the Godmaster Road King. The Lube figure was also redecoed to make the Masterforce Warrior Vollet.


Notes

  • Lube's Dreamwave profile art was used as inspiration for a preliminary version of the Titans Return character Sovereign.
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