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'''Backbeat''' is a member of [[Hot Rod]]'s unit to [[Ki-Aleta]], and the team's explosives expert. His [[alternate mode]] is a hover-crane. | '''Backbeat''' is a member of [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]]'s unit to [[Ki-Aleta]], and the team's explosives expert. His [[alternate mode]] is a hover-crane. | ||
Revision as of 07:18, 6 April 2009
- Backbeat is an Autobot from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Backbeat is a member of Hot Rod's unit to Ki-Aleta, and the team's explosives expert. His alternate mode is a hover-crane.
Fiction
IDW comics continuity
Upon arriving at the Omega Bunker, Backbeat reported that the local weather conditions played havoc with his instrumentation. He, Gizmo and Dealer set up a diversion involving a holomatter generation and low-yield explosives to keep the ancient structure's Omega Guardians busy while Hot Rod and Download tunneled their way into the Magnificence's chamber. Spotlight: Hot Rod
Dealer's memory of the events revealed that he personally killed Backbeat by shooting him from behind. Spotlight: Doubledealer
Trivia
- Backbeat's fate was not shown in Spotlight: Hot Rod, but was revealed in Spotlight: Doubledealer, published almost two years later.
