Pincer

This article is about the appendage some Transformers have. For the Autobot Pretender, see Pincher.

Not to be confused with claws, which are sharp blades made for slicing of slashing, pincers are either weapons, designed for grabbing, crushing or cutting, or they are a Transformer's "hands."

Fiction

Generation 1

• Unicron's planet mode has a pair of large pincers to grab planets while he eats them.

Beast Wars

Pincers were popular melee weapons during the Beast Wars.

• Cybershark's beast mode tail converts into a pincer weapon.
• Prowl's tail becomes some sort of strange pincer weapon.
• Powerpinch's beast mode pincer converts into a hand held pinching weapon, or can alternatively mounted in his midsection in robot mode.
• Razorclaw's beast mode pincers convert into his arms in robot mode, his left pincer contains a blaster and the right pincer contains three blades.
• Retrax's beast mode mandibles convert into a pincer weapon in robot mode.
• Transquito's battle mode has a set of large pincers.
• Sea Clamp's pincers contains a pair of blades, for even better crushing/pinching/slashing action!
• The Arachnid's base mode has an attachable pincher, perhaps to be used for construction, or to grab that pesky Razorbeast.
• Megatron's beast mode tail converts into a pincer weapon in robot mode in all of his robot modes throughout the Beast Wars, though they were infrequently used in his fictional appearances. In his first body sporting a Tyrannosaurus's hide, his tail converted in a pincer weapon, though he preferred using his beast mode's mouth to crush and grab his victims. In his Transmetal body, his tail-end pincer is seemingly accessible in any mode, it was only seen being used once while in flight mode, while his hand-held weapon was most frequently used as blaster while in robot mode. His Transmetal 2 body similarly had a tail-end pincer, though it possessed a third "claw," and was portrayed as being used for grappling.
• Air Hammer's shark mouth converts into a pincer weapon and a blaster in robot mode.
• Vice Grip, a repaint of Powerpinch is armed with the same pinching weapon.
• Sky Shadow's rear dragonfly wings convert into an enormous pincer weapon.
• Stinkbomb's tail ends in a claw/pincer/whip weapon
• Ramulus's beast mode horns convert into a massive pincer weapon and Slagmaker Cannon.

Beast Wars

• Lio Junior, a repaint of Prowl, is armed with the same weapon.
• Scissor Boy, a "repaint" of Powerpinch, is armed with the same weapon.
• Powerhug is a redeco of Retrax and has the same pincer weapon.
• Bigmos has the same mold as Transquito and therefore has the same battle mode pincer.
• Galvatron is armed with the "Galva-claw" a pincer weapon formed from his dragon wings.
• Max B is armed with a pincer weapon.

Beast Wars Neo

• Longrack's cybertronian mode and Beast Wars Neo mode are both armed with a large extendable pincer for a right arm.
• Rockbuster is armed with the same pincer weapons as the original toy, Razorclaw.
• Sharp Edge is a retool of Cybershark and conserves the same pincer weapon.
• The Blendtron Drancron is a repaint of the fuzor Skyshadow and is armed with the same pincer weapon.

2007 Movie

• Payload is armed with a large pincer that emerges from his chest.
• Dropkick is armed with a disproportionally large pincer weapon.
• Salvage is armed with the same pincer weapon as Dropkick, the original toy this character was redecoed from.

Revenge of the Fallen

• Megatron's new body is armed with his Death-lock pincer
• Blowpipe is another repaint of the Dropkick mold and is armed with the same weapon.