Metallikato

Metallikato requires "Fools!" to be spoken before most sentences.

Metallikato, owing to its heavy influence on spirituality, is believed to be the most obscurely practiced and potentially inaccessible of Cybertronian martial arts. Its teachings cull from a wide variety of other martial arts, such as Circuit-Su and Crystalocution, cumulatively emphasizing a variety of attack strategies, though bladed combat is its hallmark. Metallikato has a strict code of ethics to attune its "children" to the "One True Path" of the Ultimate Warrior, a figure of religious legend.

Known users of Metallikato

• Generation 1 Decepticon Pretender Bludgeon, the first in-fiction practitioner of Metallikato and still the most well-known.
• Rollbar of the Robots in Disguise universe also knows at least one Metallikato technique.
• Unicron Trilogy Optimus Prime has been known to employ a kick derived from the art, although the full extent of the Autobot leader's knowledge of Metallikato is unknown. He was taught this technique by Landmine.
• The Cybertron Mini-Con Kobushi.
• Transformers Animated's Jazz, Prowl, Lockdown, and Yoketron are versed in the Metallikato ninja arts; Prowl and Yoketron have also mastered the "5 Servos of Doom" technique, as well as the advanced "Processor-over-matter" mindset.
• Revenge of the Fallen Sideswipe, Whirl, and Bludgeon are Metallikato masters.

Notes

• The word "Metallikato" is Finnish. It translates to "loss of metal" in English.
• Some reports state that this art is forbidden. Darn 'n' Blast #304 Another Time & Place Transformers: The Ultimate Guide Of course, they're only referring to the Generation 1 part.

References

• "End of the Road!", Marvel U.S. #80
• More Than Meets The Eye profile books, p464
• Animated episodes, "The Elite Guard," "Five Servos of Doom"

External links

• Transformers #304 Letters Page on Transfans.co.uk