Axe (weapon)

This article is about a type of melee weapon. For the Andalite Animorph, see Ax.

Speak softly and carry a big old axe.

Transformers sometimes use axes for melee weapons.

Fiction

Generation 1 cartoon

Optimus Prime wielded an Energon-axe during a fight against Megatron on a kind of important dam. Although the original toy did not include this accessory, it became closely associated with the character.

Beast Wars Neo

Mach Kick's tail converts into a hatchet.

Unicron Trilogy

Strongarm generates an axe as an energon weapon, Scourge's tail becomes an axe when he is in robot mode, and Metroplex has his colossal axe Sparkdrinker.

Live-Action Movie Series

While Optimus's retractable blade weapon has been interpreted as a sword rather then an axe in this contuinity, the AWESOMENESS of axes hasn't been overlooked: the Ratchet toy has a fold-out axe in one forearm (although no fiction to date has depicted him using it), Bumblebee possesses a retractable battle axe for melee combat; Jetfire's landing-gear cane converts to an axe, and Crosshairs has an axe as well.

Transformers Animated

Optimus Prime uses a rocket-powered axe as a signature weapon and for transport. Before the events of the series, it is shown that this weapon would have been used primarily as a tool rather then a weapon, used to clear rubble and detritus from space bridges. Not that that makes it any less effective in combat.