Legislator

The Legislators are Transformers from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

The Legislators are massive sword-wielding 'bots who can combine into a shuttlecraft, shoot fire from their mouths, and are fond of the number "1984".

Nineteen eighty-four.The Legislators, Hangers On

Fiction

IDW Generation 1 continuity

Skids awoke, amnesiac, to find himself aboard a mode-locked shuttlecraft flying over a planet. As the shuttle began to transform, Skids - trusting his instincts - reset the mode lock, pointed the shuttle at the planet's surface, and bailed out.

The explosive crash of the shuttle killed one of its three component bots. The two survivors transformed into their massive robot forms and, toting swords and repeating the phrase "Nineteen eighty-four", advanced relentlessly to attack Skids. The wayward theoretician magnetized the corpse of Polaris and attached it to one of the giants, then blew up the body's fuel supply, taking out the first giant. When the other kept coming, Skids took it out with an array of built-in weaponry and pit-fighter-worthy moves. Hangers On

Tailgate, who witnessed the battle, would be reminded of the Legislators while learning about obsolete sub-section of the Autobot Code: specifically, paragraph 19 (80) 4 dealt with thought warfare, a threat that never materialized... at least as far as Ultra Magnus knew. How Ratchet Got His Hands Back

Upon reaching the fabled Crystal City of the Circle of Light, the crew of the Lost Light found it had been utterly razed. While tapping into the brain module of the Metrotitan beneath the ruins, Chromedome saw from its memories that the Legislators had abducted the entire populace. Primus: You, Me, and Other Revelations

Notes

• The name "Legislators" comes from the concept art for the robots, published in the first trade paperback volume for the series.