Trypticon (WFC)

The name or term "Trypticon" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Trypticon (disambiguation).

Trypticon is a Decepticon from the Prime continuity family.

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Yes, there was a grammatically incorrect caption regarding my discharge of energy weaponry. Why do you ask?

Trypticon Station, located within the Trypticon Asteroid Belt, was built long ago and entrusted to the care of the Seekers to protect a powerful secret hidden within. When Starscream, commander of the Seekers went over to Megatron early in the war, the station, which he commanded, went with him.

Trypticon is more than just a station, though: it was programmed to be a sentient drone too, and was eventually recreated as a fully sentient, living Transformer.

You cannot stop me, Autobots. I am...Trypticon. I am...your death.Trypticon, before he goes Godzilla on everyone, Transformers: War for Cybertron

Fiction

Exodus: The Official History of the War for Cybertron

Prior to the war, Trypticon Station was used for research that could not be conducted planetside, including the first forays into sequestering the Dark Energon that had resulted from Unicron's attack on the planet. Its security was seen to by the Seeker caste. There are records that indicate that at the time Dark Energon was placed aboard by an ancient High Council the station underwent a major overhaul: Alpha Trion confirmed that it was given a spark and made a living being at that point. Air Commander Starscream was one of the few with knowledge of its secrets. As a result, he ordered his forces to occupy it after the capture of Sentinel Prime, as a bargaining chip in negotiations with Megatron and his growing Decepticon army. "Feel the burn of my laser!" -Trypticon During one of Starscream's absences, Megatron decided he tired of negotiations and took Trypticon Station by force. Upon Starscream's return to the station, Megatron pressed the Seeker and ultimately gained access to the facility's research on Dark Energon. Megatron noted to Shockwave that there was potential for a spark within Trypticon, though Shockwave pointed out the Well no longer produced sparks. Megatron suggested he use the sparks of the scientists killed and maimed in the seize of Trypticon to give life to the station.

The supplies of Dark Energon from the initial harvest were slender, so Megatron required the means to transfer large quantities of energon to the station so that they could be converted into the rarer resource. As Trypticon Station was configured to receive fuel from the Geosynchronous Energon Bridge in Crystal City, the Decepticons were able to transfer an initial supply, but not nearly enough for the ravenous rate at which they were consuming Dark Energon. This was eventually remedied by Megatron's capture of the Plasma Energy Chamber, which provided a nearly unlimited source of fuel directly from Cybertron's core.

After a team led by Optimus Prime ventured into the planet's core to cut off the transfer, Megatron decided to switch tactics. He allowed Shockwave to apply the experimental knowledge he had gleaned over the course of the war, and Trypticon was granted true life, including the ability to shape its corridors into a dizzying array of defense drones and Minicons. Ultimately, a team of Autobots aboard the Eight Track found a gap in the station's external defenses and managed to venture within and knock the behemoth from orbit.

Victory was brief, however, as Trypticon revealed a robot form and crawled from the wreckage planetside. Though initially the Wreckers and Omega Supreme were tasked with keeping the gargantuan Decepticon away from the Ark launch, this proved to be in vain, as Megatron boarded Trypticon along with a hand-picked crew of the Decepticon elite. Transforming into a Nemesis-class battleship, Trypticon pursued the Ark to, and subsequently through, the last remaining functional space bridge in Cybertronian orbit. As the Ark emerged in unknown space, the Nemesis was nowhere within sensor range. Exodus: The Official History of the War for Cybertron

Games

Transformers: War for Cybertron (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)

Voice actor: Fred Tatasciore (English)

Ha! Ha! Ha! You haven't defeated me, Autobots. You have only untethered your own destroyer!Trypticon decides to freak out the Aerialbots..., Transformers: War for Cybertron

After Optimus Prime learned of the coming Great Shutdown, he ordered an evacuation of all Autobots. When Megatron started using his space station to blow up the ships, Optimus Prime sent Jetfire, Air Raid, and Silverbolt to destroy the station. Flooding it with coolant while under heavy fire, the jets were about to blow it up...until they discovered that the station itself was alive. At this point, the Trypticon orbital weapon gun began first targeting locations on Cybertron such as Zeta Prime's Vaults, the Hall of Ancients, the Stellar Galleries and the Code Archives before finally acquiring the coordinates for Optimus Prime. The fliers hoped that they could prevent Iacon's destruction by destroying Trypticon's conversion cog, reverting him to his robot mode.

Unfortunately for the aerial Autobots, his robot mode was a gigantic, metal dinosaur. Jetfire destroyed his jetpack, and Trypticon plummeted to the planet below. Optimus, Ironhide, and Bumblebee went to investigate the crash and battled the titan, destroying his shoulder-mounted weapons systems by overloading them with energon batteries. The Autobots proceeded to shoot his exposed heat vents and to destroy a set of three power cores along his shoulders and back. Defeated, Trypticon made a last-ditch effort to attack, but lost his balance and fell into an energon lake below when Optimus Prime hit him with his axe. Transformers: War for Cybertron

Transformers: War for Cybertron (DS)

Megatron conquered Trypticon Space Station to manufacture Dark Energon to aid in his planet-wide conquest. However, Megatron found he needed to access the Core of Cybertron to continue to power their Dark Energon supply. Upon defeating Autobot leader Zeta Prime, and later Omega Supreme, Megatron succeeded in his quest.

However, not too long afterwards, newly ascended Autobot leader Optimus Prime freed the Core from the Dark Energon, and ordered a planet-wide evacuation of the population from Cybertron. Megatron began using Trypticon Space Station to fire upon the evacuating Autobot masses, prompting a strike from Optimus' team. The Autobots were able to make Trypticon Space Station crash to Cybertron... only for it to transform into a city-sized Decepticon dinosaur. Luckily, Optimus and his men finally defeated the titan, and ended the threat of Dark Energon for good. Transformers: War for Cybertron

Notes

• Trypticon has two seemingly conflicting origins in Exodus. Orion Pax researches the station and discovers that in "ancient times" it was secretly "recreated" from a simple space station and was raised to sentience, given a living spark (pg. 82) when Dark Energon was hidden aboard by an "ancient" iteration of the High Council headed by Sentinel Prime. Alpha Trion confirms this to be true. Beforehand, however Megatron refers to the station as being "semi-sentient" and afterwards as a sparkless drone before Shockwave makes it into a Transformer with many sparks.
• In the end credits for War for Cybertron, Trypticon is briefly seen grappling with Omega Supreme. Now if we had only seen that in gameplay.
• Unlike his G1 self, Trypticon is more intellegent and speaks in clear English.