<div style="border: 2px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); margin: 0pt auto 0.2em; padding: 2px; width: 90%; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); text-align: left;">'''Note:''' ''Events from the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Transformers_%28Marvel_Comics%29#Marvel_UK" title="The Transformers (Marvel Comics)">UK-only</a> comic stories are in italics.''</div>
{{note|Events from the [[The Transformers (Marvel Comics)#Marvel_UK|UK-only]] comic stories are in italics.}}
<i>Smeltdown was part of a marauding group of mutants who encountered the young <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Autobot" title="Autobot">Autobots</a> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Tailgate" title="Tailgate">Tailgate</a>, <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Flattop_%28Autobot%29" title="Flattop (Autobot)">Flattop</a> and <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Subsea" title="Subsea">Subsea</a> in the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Underworld" title="Underworld">Underworld</a>
when the trio foolishly decided to take the ancient Autobot "trial by
fire". Smeltdown slew Flattop, and subsequently died in a spectacular
explosion when Tailgate ruptured the gas tank in his furnace, taking <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Jackhammer_%28Mutant%29" title="Jackhammer (Mutant)">Jackhammer</a>, <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Slayride" title="Slayride">Slayride</a>, and <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Warhead" title="Warhead">Warhead</a> with him. The flames caused by his fiery death soon served as a funeral pyre for <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Rotgut" title="Rotgut">Rotgut</a> <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Underworld%21" title="Underworld!">Underworld!</a></span>, and the explosion ruptured the barrier between the Underworld and the lower levels of <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cybertron_%28planet%29" title="Cybertron (planet)">Cybertron</a>, allowing the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Demon" title="Demon">demons</a> to escape. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Demons%21" title="Demons!">Demons!</a></span></i>
''Smeltdown was part of a marauding group of mutants who encountered the young [[Autobot|Autobots]] [[Tailgate]], [[Flattop (Autobot)|Flattop]] and [[Subsea]] in the [[Underworld]] when the trio foolishly decided to take the ancient Autobot "trial by fire". Smeltdown slew Flattop, and subsequently died in a spectacular explosion when Tailgate ruptured the gas tank in his furnace, taking [[Jackhammer (Mutant)|Jackhammer]], [[Slayride]], and [[Warhead]] with him. The flames caused by his fiery death soon served as a funeral pyre for [[Rotgut]] {{storylink|Underworld!|Underworld!}}, and the explosion ruptured the barrier between the Underworld and the lower levels of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], allowing the [[Demon|demons]] to escape. {{storylink|Demons!|Demons!}}''
==External links==
* [http://s90690880.onlinehome.us/jhiaxus/ukcomics/mutants.htm The Mutants at the Obscure Transformers Website]
Smeltdown doesn't talk much. Generally, he lets the furnace in his chest and the flame-spewing nozzles he has in place of hands do the talking.
Fiction
Marvel comic continuity
Events from the UK-only comic stories are in italics.
Smeltdown was part of a marauding group of mutants who encountered the young AutobotsTailgate, Flattop and Subsea in the Underworld when the trio foolishly decided to take the ancient Autobot "trial by fire". Smeltdown slew Flattop, and subsequently died in a spectacular explosion when Tailgate ruptured the gas tank in his furnace, taking Jackhammer, Slayride, and Warhead with him. The flames caused by his fiery death soon served as a funeral pyre for RotgutUnderworld!, and the explosion ruptured the barrier between the Underworld and the lower levels of Cybertron, allowing the demons to escape. Demons!
