Crowbar

Crowbar is a Decepticon Dread from the Dark of the Moon portion of the live-action film series continuity family.

"That must have been like, at least fifty pounds of meat."

Crowbar is well known as a master of breaking and entering. It doesn't matter if we're talking computer systems, human safes, or enemy compounds he's got the tools and skills needed to get you in. His weapons of choice are "nanotech sentries".

He also gives this wiki a lot of openings to make references to The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra.

Fiction

Dark of the Moon adaptations

When Sentinel Prime was being retrieved from Earth's Moon, Hatchet, Crowbar, and Crankcase surfaced quietly and secretly hitched a ride on the Autobots' shuttle back to Earth. Dark of the Moon (novel) Dark of the Moon #1

Dark of the Moon film

"If I could only reach you, we'd share... pain."

After Sentinel Prime was retrieved from Earth's Moon and reactivated, Megatron put into motion the plan that had been waiting in the wings for hundreds of years. With the human Sam Witwicky believing that the Decepticons wished to capture Sentinel and force him to use the control pillar to activate his space bridge, Crowbar, Crankcase and Hatchet were sent to pursue the Autobots. Crowbar closed in on Seymour Simmons' car, transformed, reached in and tossed the former Sector Seven agent behind him as he bounded ahead to knock over a highway sign for the other two to use as a ramp.

"This neck restrainer is most uncomfortable."

However, despite their best collective efforts to slow down the Autobots, Hatchet was quickly destroyed, and the remaining Dreads were soon confronted by the Autobot heavy-hitter, Ironhide, who stopped them in their tracks with a head-on collision. Faced with Ironhide's heavy weapons and Sideswipe, the Dreads seemingly capitulated by dropping their ranged weapons, but as soon as the Autobots followed suit, deployed spears to attack their enemies. Though Crowbar's spear found its mark, embedding itself into Ironhide's shoulder, Sideswipe tossed the Autobot veteran his discarded blaster, which he used to shoot the Decepticon in the face as Crowbar leaped to attack. Dark of the Moon (film)

Games

Dark of the Moon: Autobots/Decepticons

"Aliens? Us? Is that one of your Earth jokes?"

Voice actor: Steve Blum

While trying to break into a NEST facility, Starscream ordered Crowbar to create distractions around the city to keep the Autobots occupied. Crowbar told him he should mellow, and then went and fought at bunch of Autobots. Later on, when Crowbar was patrolling an Autobot base on a Pacific island, Starscream told him Optimus Prime was lurking somewhere around. Crowbar destroyed a bunch of buildings in an attempt to draw Optimus out, but the Autobot leader was a no-show.

Later Crowbar came to help Soundwave when the latter was trying to escape a NEST base. Crowbar was to cause a distraction, which to his delight meant he got to beat up that "shiny little twerp" Bumblebee. Following their escape, he retreated to the Decepticons' base in Siberia. He didn't think the Autobots would find them there, but told one of his fellow soldiers not to bug Megatron if they did. When the Autobots inevitably did turn up, Crowbar destroyed a whole bunch of them, but apparently not enough, as they eventually gained access to the base. Dark of the Moon: Autobots/Decepticons

Toys

Dark of the Moon

Cyberverse

"I'm sorry, my wife sometimes forgets that she is not a space alien."

• Crowbar (Cyberverse Legion, 2011)
  • Series: 1
  • ID number: 009
  • Japanese ID number: CV27

Part of the second wave of Cyberverse Legion single-pack toys, Crowbar is a surprisingly tall Legends-scale figure that transforms into a unmarked version of a Carbon Motors E7 Police car. He has molded detail around his head that resembles dreadlocks. His left hand is designed to interact with Cyberverse weapons and playsets. He has an extremely articulated lower body, capable of pivoting his feet, bending his knees inward and out, rotating and moving his thighs via his swivels and ball jointed hips, and rotating his waist. He's also one of the tallest Legion-Class figures, not even counting his long car-half arms.

Due to the pointed armor plating on his knees getting in the way, his arms/legs can be somewhat hard to transform. Also, due to the pegs on his legs being quite long, the connection that pegging the legs into the sides of his arms for vehicle mode is very tight, meaning that opening the vehicle rear/legs for robot mode can be quite difficult, and can occasionally result in the thighs popping off the swivels they're on.

"I'm an alien, Paul. Remember?"

• Ultimate Gift Set (Cyberverse multi-pack, 2011)

Part of the 2011 Christmastime Walmart-exclusive "Ultimate Gift Set" 5-pack, this version of Crowbar is a redeco of his individual toy... and he's excessively outnumbered. He comes with exclusive redecos of Optimus Prime, Powerglide, Bumblebee, and Sideswipe.

Yeah. One Decepticon, four Autobots, including Optimus freakin' Prime.

The stock photo of Crowbar's robot mode on the boxback is mistransformed, with the chestpiece flipped around to the back. Ironically, this severely improves the range of motion in his arms. (Online stock photos, however, show him properly transformed.)

Notes

• In early production, the Dreads were announced to be a pair of modified Chevrolet Suburbans. Photos of only two prop vehicles were even taken on-set. In the final movie, all three Dreads use identical Chevrolet Suburbans as their alternate modes, with individual robot modes between the three of them. For the toy line, Hasbro decided to give them individual alternate modes as well, which is why only Crankcase turns into a Suburban.
• The Transformers.com website's Vector Sigma database entry for Crowbar strangely illustrates his nanotech sentries using an image of Roadbuster's Assault Saw weapon.
• An early working name for him was "Hooligan".
• During the battle between the Dreads and the Autobots, when Crowbar crashes into a sign, Bonecrusher's battle cry from the first film is used as Crowbar's.