Firebot (Armada)

This article is about the Armada-series Mini-Con. For the Classics-series Mini-Con, see Firebot (Classics).

Firebot is a Mini-Con from the Armada portion of the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.

I keep telling you, "Firebot" just isn't a good Cheat Commando name!

Firebot leads the Emergency Mini-Con Team and does so with unmatched zeal. His enthusiasm is infectious, pushing his already hardworking teammates to even greater levels. He doesn't stop until his job is done, and he pushes others to put in that same one-hundred-percent-plus—and they do.

He's a friend to his subordinates when he needs to be, a hard-nosed boss to them when he needs to be...even a brawler when he needs to be, and even sometimes when he doesn't really need to be. A fair few Decepticons have learned not to underestimate the little rescue worker.

In the Universe war, Firebot (or an alternate-universe version of him) is partnered with the Autobot Fireflight and fellow Mini-Con Thunderwing.

Japanese name: Draft

Fiction

Armada cartoon

Firebot's Mini-Con storage panel landed in a rather out-of-the-way location: on Mars. Jetfire and Starscream were dispatched to retrieve him. Mars

Dreamwave Armada comic

Firebot is one of the many Mini-Cons who gathered on Earth in preparation for the trip back to Cybertron and the battle with the chaos-bringer Unicron. Presumably, he joined Over-Run at the Loop, where the Mini-Cons channeled their energies through the Matrix and dealt the fatal blow to Unicron. The End

No, he didn't grow a gun-hand. That's Ratchet firing.

Universe comic

Firebot (or an alternate-universe incarnation of him) is one of the many captured Transformers who escaped from the Cauldron thanks to the quick thinking of Silverbolt and Trailbreaker. Escape

Toys

Armada

• Emergency Mini-Con Team (Basic, 2003)
  • Japanese ID number: MM-20

Firebot transforms into an aircraft-crash-response truck. He has a third "weapon mode" transformation, becoming a (non-firing) missile pod. He was only available with his teammates Makeshift and Prowl.

Late in the Armada toyline, the team was redecoed. Firebot was decoed as a tribute to Generation 1 Hot Spot, in a mainly light blue scheme.

This mold was also used to make Anti-Blaze, Cluster and Quench, and slightly retooled into Cybertron Graviton.

• More information on Firebot at TFU.info
• More information on redeco Firebot at TFU.info

• Emergency Micron X-Dimension (Basic, 2003)
  • Japanese ID number: MM-21

A low-run regular-retail "X-Dimension" redeco of the Emergency Team was made available in Japan, featuring a midnight blue and orange "Draft". This was the final set of X-Dimension Mini-Cons released.

• More information on X-Dimension Draft at TFU.info

Universe

• Fireflight with Firebot and Thunderwing (Deluxe, 2004)

Firebot was redecoed for the Universe series in a scheme similar to Quench's, but using a lighter yellow and maroon rather than red. He was only available as part of a Deluxe-sized multi-pack along with Fireflight and Thunderwing.

• More information on Universe Firebot at TFU.info