Wheelie (ROTF)

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

Wheelie is an Autobot and a Decepticon from the Revenge of the Fallen portion of the live-action film continuity family. He is sometimes known as Wheels.

Whaddaya lookin' at, slobberpuss?!

Wheelie is a sneaky little salvage and scrap drone, always underfoot when you least expect it. As a reconnaissance specialist, he's equipped to the teeth with mid-range surveillance equipment. But his real asset is stealth, tooling along unseen and unsuspected while he accomplishes his mission. Unfortunately for his mission, he often bites off more than he can chew—and ends up being the one chewed on!

Although he does seem to have a bit of a "mouth" on him, Wheelie isn't really a bad sort: a loving home and a little strict discipline could whip him into shape. Allow disgruntlement with the Autobots to grow, however, and he may get mean...

Easy, Warrior Goddess, I'm just a little salvage scrap drone.Wheelie, shortly after earning the nickname "Blinky", Revenge of the Fallen

Fiction

Pre-Revenge of the Fallen Titan Magazines

"Are you sure this'll take my weeeiiiggggh- *KRNCH*

During the Decepticon plot to frame Mudflap and Skids, Wheelie was parachuted onto their prison convoy by Starscream. Once there, he swiftly freed the twins and offered them a place in the Decepticons before he made good his escape.

Also, he totally murdered two people. Outlaw Blues

The following is in Law and Disorder letters page continuity.

Ironhide really, really, really dislikes Wheelie. Optimus Prime stopped him using the guy as a 'target marker' #15's Law and Disorder and he's asked the Decepticons to come collect (and torture) him. #10's Law and Disorder

Revenge of the Fallen film

Voice actor: Tom Kenny (English), Naoki Tatsuta (Japanese), Rainer Fritzsche (German), Luca Dal Fabbro (Italian), Sérgio Stern (Portuguese), Carlo Vázquez (Latin American-Spanish)

No disassemble!

Disguised as a remote-controlled monster truck toy, Wheelie was ordered by Soundwave to steal the AllSpark fragment that belonged to Mikaela Banes. Wheelie attempted to unlock the safe in her garage containing the fragment, but the noise he made in trying to avoid the various dangerous objects on the floor alerted her to his presence, so she picked him up with tongs and burnt out his left eye with a blowtorch. Mikaela then demanded to know what he was doing there, and Wheelie explained that he needed to bring the AllSpark shard to the Decepticons, or he'd be terminated, begging mercy of Mikaela, who he dubbed "Warrior Goddess". Despite his protests, Mikaela locked him inside a box, which she took to Princeton University when Sam Witwicky told her he had been having visions and breakdowns induced by the fragment. Although Starscream later bisected Mikaela's car, Wheelie's box was undamaged and she retrieved and stored it in Bumblebee's boot.

Wheelie was let out of the box at Seymour Simmons's deli in New York City. Mikaela held him with a chain, but promised she would not hurt him if he promised to explain the Cyberglyphics Sam had been hallucinating about. Wheelie identified the symbols as the Language of the Primes, and said that he couldn't read it. When he noticed the pictures of suspected Transformers, he identified them as the Seekers, saying they could read the language and he could tell them where to find them. Wheelie did, and he accompanied Mikaela, Sam, Simmons, Leo Spitz, Bumblebee, Skids and Mudflap to find Jetfire at the Smithsonian. Wheelie told the humans that Jetfire was a living legend, like "chairman of the board" type, and instructed Sam to point the shard at the Blackbird.

This is the culmination of 25 years of Transformers fiction. You've come a long way, baby.

The surge of energon sent through Jetfire awoke the ancient Seeker, who was irritable and cantankerous, and Wheelie noted that Jetfire had not aged very well. As the larger Decepticon made his way outside, he inquired on the state of the civil war, and informed the group that he had defected years earlier. Wheelie was shocked by Jetfire's discussion of how he defected from the Decepticons to the Autobots, a thought which had never occurred to him, and decided he too would defect to Warrior Goddess, humping Mikaela's leg in joy. Sam objected, but Mikaela noted Wheelie was faithful, unlike her boyfriend. That did not stop Sam from punting Wheelie.

Wheelie was taken by Jetfire's space bridge to Jordan, and from there he travelled with the humans and Autobots to the Pyramids of Egypt. He was present in when Bumblebee was stopped by the Egyptian checkpoint officers. They arrived in Cairo, where he presumably decided to stay safely while everyone else searched for the Tomb of the Primes. Revenge of the Fallen

Wheelie is never seen again after entering the run-down building in Cairo with the human characters.

Revenge of the Fallen novelization

In Egypt, Wheels stopped a police car by jumping onto its windscreen and smashing it, before Bumblebee and the Twins scared off the officers. After that he ripped off a wiper as a trophy, ran back to Mikaela and buried his face in her cleavage. Later, when the good guys had beaten the Decepticons, Wheelie spun around Sam and Mikaela happily in vehicle mode. Revenge of the Fallen

Coloring books

Oh SNAP!

Post-Revenge of the Fallen Titan Magazines

The answer was "on page 4".

It had been a year and a half since his defection, and the Autobots still didn't trust Wheelie (Ironhide in particular making no secret of his contempt) and he knew it. When he volunteered to help hit a Decepticon command hub and was rebuffed, Wheelie tore into the Autobots for how they would never trust him and how they were still waiting for him to backstab them. Bitter and angry, Wheelie went off... to backstab them, warning Bludgeon of the Autobot/NEST strike team so they could be ambushed.

But Bludgeon was being backstabbed too, as Wheelie disabled the command hub's security features and summoned in Megatron to Earth. Megatron welcomed him back into the fold Divided Loyalties and Wheelie knew that, with the true leader back, he could come back in from the cold. Yes, it had all gone well for Wheelie... until Dead End, half dead and crazed for "SPARE... PARTS!", came into the command hub. The Autobots would turn up later and finds bits of Wheelie, sending them to Ratchet to see if there was anything he could do...A Short, Sharp Lesson!

IDW Dark of the Moon comics

Sam, Bumblebee and Wheelie took Brains to his college. But then the decepticons attacked. Rising Storm issue 2 In the battle that folowed, Wheelie alerted Sam that Brains was missing. This eventually let them to rescue Brains from Space Case. Rising Storm issue 3 Wheelie then welcomed Brains to the autobots, causing Brains to cry. after the battle he and Brains moved to Washington D.C with Sam. Rising Storm issue 4

Dark of the Moon film

Voice actor: Tom Kenny (English)

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Toys

Revenge of the Fallen

WHEEL•E

• Autobot Wheelie (Deluxe, 2009)
  • Japanese ID number: RA-09

Wheelie transforms into a pretty generic "remote controlled" 4 wheel drive truck with oversized tires. his chest features a flip-around panel that shifts his allegiance from Decepticon to Autobot (and back). His eyes are on independent rotating swivels, giving him the ability to have somewhat different expressions. Each eye is also sculpted differently, with his left eye having less details than the right, a reference to when Mikaela blow-torched his eye.

• More information on Wheelie at TFU.info

Now a toy that actually matches my size.

• Autobot Wheelie (Legends, 2009)

Part of the fifth wave of Legends Class figures, Wheelie transforms into a generic "remote controlled" 4 wheel drive pickup truck with oversized tires.You can see his eyes in vehicle mode, right where his rear window should be, yeah.

Notes

Sadly, you can't buy the big one in stores.

• The physical prop for Wheelie's vehicle mode used for the movie is a modified monster truck version of a Ford F-350 pick-up truck, specifically a customized Tamiya F-350 High Lift RC toy including a grille guard, with the body slightly shortened and mounted on an HPI Wheely King chassis. Other modifications include the use of Integy Alloy TVP chassis plates, HPI Spike Truck Wheels and (possibly scratch-built) fender add-ons for the truck body itself. A prop for one of Wheelie's feet, complete with an attached tire, was also made.

• Wheelie was a bit different in earlier drafts of the Revenge of the Fallen script. Originally, he was named "Wheels", and was a much more primitive little creature, speaking in a broken, simplistic dialogue—source of the "Warrior Goddess" epithet that seems fairly out of place with the fast-talking Italian accent he ultimately wound up with in the finished film. This version of the character appeared in the film novelization in the IDW comic adaptation, since they were both based on the script; furthermore, Simon Furman rather oddly kept using this portrayal of the character in Titan's UK comic several months after the film had come out before knocking it off about a year-and-a-half later.

• In their audio commentary on the Revenge of the Fallen DVD and Blu-ray release, screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman refer to Wheelie by his early working name, "Wheels". Michael Bay, meanwhile, calls him by his toys' name.

• Seeing Mikaela for the first time, Wheelie describes her as "hot" but "not too bright." Interesting that a sentient machine would find a human sexually attractive. He, in fact, humps her leg later in the movie.

• Nelson confirmed that Wheelie will be back in Dark of the Moon. Titan Magazines and Hasbro UK may not have known this, since Wheelie defected back to the Decepticons - in a way that left an Autobot dead - in one issue and then had him eaten in the next! The Autobots are unaware he betrayed them and talk like Ratchet can patch him up, but that seems a last-minute "oh whoops" patch-up.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Wheelie (ホィーリー Hīrī)
• German: Wheeler (Revenge of the Fallen dub)