Insecticon (WFC)

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

The Insecticons are Transformers from the Aligned continuity family.

Michael Bay's A Bug's Life.

Denizens of the under levels of Cybertron, the Insecticons live in destructive swarms, eating metal and remodeling the landscape into enormous interconnected hive networks.

Fiction

Aligned novels

Shockwave experimented on three specimens, optimizing them for battle in the gladiatorial arenas of Kaon by turning them into combiners—something that disgusted the gladiator Megatronus. They were primitive to the point of barely possessing a sentient consciousness, but surprisingly capable fighters. The way they moved together gave away their nature as combiners even when separate. Even with one of their number dead, the remaining two could combine into a hovering attack mode.

The trio competed in the gladiatorial Tournament of Champions when they encountered Megatronus. He allowed them to scan a vehicle form before attacking. One emerged from a scrapheap as an all-terrain vehicle with magnetic studded tracks and sought a vantage point on the combat pit's wall, while another sprayed acid on Megatronus's shoulder. Megatronus caught the third Insecticon's multiple, vibrobladed hands and tore an arm off, flinging it into the audience and causing havoc.

Taking fire from the other two, Megatronus made the wounded Insecticon fire his own ion cannon into its neck, killing it in an attempt to ensure there would be no combination. He then slammed the acid-spitter to the floor, but it wriggled away and managed to combine with the ATV, wiring itself into girders while blasting and spitting acid at the gladiator. Megatronus transformed and blasted them, before pinning them down in robot mode and smashing them to pieces with two maces. Megatronus roared "I still function!", as the crowd began chanting a shortened version of his name: Megatron. Exodus

Prime cartoon

Voice actor: Frank Welker (English), Steven Blum (English), Kevin Michael Richardson (English)

Who thinks they can squash me like a bug?

An Insecticon was left in stasis on Cybertron, acting as a Decepticon sentry. It was awakened by Jack and Arcee's arrival in Kaon. Orion Pax, Part 2

As they used the Key to Vector Sigma to reveal a hidden passage under the city's arena, the Insecticon attacked. Arcee attempted to distract it so that Jack could escape into the newly-revealed entrance, but she was soundly beaten when it slammed her into the arena wall. The Insecticon then tracked Jack to Vector Sigma, but was horrified to see the supercomputer covered in scraplets. Jack hurled one of the scraplets at the Insecticon so that they would stop feeding on Vector Sigma, and the rest of the swarm followed it in attacking the larger beast-bot. The Insecticon was savaged, falling off the bridge into a chasm as it was eaten alive. Orion Pax, Part 3

Megatron put Eradicating Aerosol in his deck for just such an occasion.

When Starscream was seeking Energon scraps in an old mine, he noticed an Insecticon doing the same, and was surprised that one was on Earth. Starscream demanded that the Insecticon hand over the Energon it had found, though it instead turned on him and attacked, before Airachnid called it off. Airachnid had managed to control it, due to their being related. Though Starscream suggested that they all team up to end Megatron, Airachnid instead ordered the Insecticon to attack him, however he escaped. Sometime later, the Insecticon attacked Megatron as part of Airachnid's trap, refusing to obey him instead. The Insecticon had the upper hand on the Decepticon leader, particularly when Airachnid removed his fusion cannon from the equation, however Megatron eventually triumphed as he beheaded the Insecticon.

However, as the escaped Airachnid discovered, it was only a scout for an entire hive of Insecticons in stasis underground.Crossfire

Airachnid awoke the Insecticons after detecting a signal from the Nemesis, and sent most of them to terminate Megatron, while others attempted to protect her from the Autobots who arrived to see what was happening. While Optimus Prime and Bumblebee eliminated the Insecticons attacking them, Arcee chased down Airachnid and put her in stasis. At that point her control of the Insecticons ceased, and those attacking the Nemesis stopped and proclaimed their loyalty to Megatron. Then, the Nemesis crashed. Armada

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Megatron later used Dark Energon to bring the ship back online but as a consequence the ship started making its own decisions. Megatron then sent all of the ship's crew, including the Insecticons, to stop the Nemesis. They failed and were stasis locked. They started recovering after Jack disabled the ship's Dark Energon influence. Flying Mind

Games

Fall of Cybertron

Me Grimlock say I squash you like bug.

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