Thundertron

Thundertron is a Star Seeker from the Aligned continuity family.

Thundertron is the leader of the Star Seekers and Captain of the Tidal Wave. He proclaims to be "the mightiest freebooter on the spaceways". Asides from being a merciless pirate, he has an unquenchable hatred for Cybertron and its inhabitants, which seems to stem from Cybertron allowing the Space Bridges to collapse and separate from the Cybertronian colonies. He vows to hunt down any who come from Cybertron and kill them. He doesn't seem to be any more merciful with anyone else who would get in his way.

Thundertron has been described as 'king-sized' with blue and silver armor and brow plates and blue spiky protrusions on his head. The yellow spikes and claws on his armor and the leonine face in the center of his torso may indicate a beast mode. One of his most noticeable features is that one of his legs has been replaced below the knee by a long steel strut.

Fiction

Aligned novels

Sensing the energy trail of a Cybertronian ship, Thundertron had his ship land on Velocitron. He quickly questioned the planet's leader if there were any Cybertronians there. She said there were none, but the leader's refusal to divulge where they were, her insolence in asking the fault of being Cybertronian, and her rival's insistence that she was Cybertronian quickly made Thundertron lose his temper and ordered his crew to attack.

Following the energy trail, they traveled through a space bridge to Junkion, where he found not only the Cybertronian ship, but another. While the Cybertronians were fighting each other, Thundertron met with the leader of the locals. He quickly forced the Junkions to repair his ship and attach a space bridge to it. He had two crew members show the Junkions they meant business by killing one of them. As soon as the space bridge was attached, Thundertron ordered the Star Seekers to attack the Cybertronians. Exiles

Games

Transformers Online

Transformers Online

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Toys

Prime

• Thundertron (Voyager, 2012)

  

Part of Voyager Class wave 4 of the Prime: Robots in Disguise Toyline, Thundertron transformers from a robotic wolf, to a peg-legged space pirate and back!

Notes

• Thundertron's status as a captain of a independent ship, his apparent peg leg, and his unending quest for vengeance harken to Captain Ahab from the classic novel, Moby-Dick. He isn't the first.
• Thundertron makes use of the universal greeting when he first speaks with the natives of Velocitron and Junkion. Of course, he doesn't act friendly very long afterwards.
• The Star Seeker pirates were first previewed to fans at BotCon, showing all new versions of familiar characters. This, combined with the way Exiles purposely hides their Captain's identity for an extended period, leads to something of a disconnect when, in what is clearly written to be a big dramatic reveal at the end of the book we find out the Captain IS... a new character we've never heard of?

Foreign names

• Mandarin: Pò Tiān Léi (破天雷)