Wheeljack (SG)

This article is about the evil insane Autobot. For his heroic, slightly saner counterpart, see Wheeljack (G1). For a list of other meanings, see Wheeljack (disambiguation).

Wheeljack is an evil Autobot from the Shattered Glass continuity family.

This can only end well.

Wheeljack is a mad scientist in both senses of the word: crazy and angry. He's been laughed out of the Autobot ranks, and he's itching for a chance to prove his inventions aren't worthless.

I'm not crazy! Everyone else is just blind to my genius! I'll show you I'm not crazy! I’ll show every last one of them I'm not a foaming-mad megalomaniac with delusions of grandeur! As soon as I perfect my atomic supermutant alloygators, you'll all see I wasn't crazy!!!Wheeljack addresses claims made against his sanity, "Eye in the Sky"

Fiction

Shattered Glass

Wheeljack created an army of Dinobots to rain vengeance upon Optimus Prime for laughing at his genius. Dramatically riding into battle upon the head of a sauropod-styled Dinobot, Wheeljack proclaimed his intentions. However, Optimus convinced Wheeljack that if his Dinobots were able to take out the Decepticons, he would be welcomed back into the fold. Upon being ordered to attack the Decepticons, the enthusiastic beasts gave out a rousing battle cry. Then they turned on each other. As punishment for his failure, Wheeljack found himself performing degradingly basic repairs to the Ark's computer systems and was told that, should he sabotage the ship, he would be on it when it launched. Dungeons & Dinobots

Following the Ark's crash onto Earth, Rodimus ordered Wheeljack to adjust the ship's computer Teletraan-X to accept commands from only the two of them. After that was done, he, Rodimus, and Goldbug, aided by some human allies, infiltrated and took over Burpleson Air Force Base, a command station for a human orbital defense weapon. When the Decepticons attacked the base, Wheeljack was somewhat damaged and wandering the corridors when he was accosted by Ravage and a Decepticon-allied human who accused him, him of being crazy. So he gave chase. Eye in the Sky

Goldbug enlisted Wheeljack and Side Burn to build a Stellar Spanner, claiming that Rodimus had commanded it be done under "project silence". They were lacking a volunteer to try the Spanner when they were fortuitously attacked by Heatwave. While Heatwave blasted Side Burn (who was later Mysteriously Fine), Wheeljack and Goldbug grabbed Heatwave, and Wheeljack had the idea of forcing the Decepticon to transform. They bound him up and put him in the spanner, though he still managed to deliver a solid kick to Wheeljack. Annoyed, Wheeljack was so deep in this thoughts that he didn't have time to react when Blitzwing subsequently took him out with a Jet-Judo throw. Wheeljack was merely feigning, of course, and used an electro-shell to activate the Spanner. His victory was short-lived, as Blitzwing began broadcasting the noise the humans called "music" over the Autobot comm frequency, forcing Wheeljack to retreat with the others. Blitzwing Bop

When Sephie Beller had herself augmented with Cybertronian technology, Rodimus had Wheeljack turn his microwave gun on her. The gun successfully neutralized her, though Wheeljack was offended by Rodimus's suggestion she was dead, affirming that she would be perfectly fine when he and Ratchet vivisected her. Once he had Sephie properly bound, Wheeljack restored her to consciousness and asked her to answer some scientific questions while he carried out his work. Unfortunately Wheeljack didn't get a chance to get started before Beachcomber started acting up. When Rodimus informed him that there was a jamming field covering the area, Wheeljack realized with disappointment that his test subject was going to be used as a hostage instead. When the party was crashed by R.J. Blackrock in a giant suit of power armor, Wheeljack tried to turn the microwave gun on him, only to be sent flying by a missile. Transhuman

We already knew SG Wheeljack was a dimension-hopper.

Still serving Rodimus, Wheeljack eventually perfected a portable form of the stellar spanner, which he was able to mount as a drive system for a spacecraft. Using this, he began travel to other universes, in an effort to track the journey of Nexus Prime. On one such excursion he managed to deceive Slicer into thinking he was a future version of the Decepticon, and so through trade he obtained a sample of Forestonite. Before Slicer could realize that he'd been given a bum deal, Wheeljack was long gone. Generation 2: Redux

Recordicons

Wheeljack and a team of Autobots under the command of both Rodimus Prime and Optimus Prime fought Thundercracker and Ravage in the Transformers' greatest battle on Earth, "Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction". According to Ravage, anyway. Recordicons #3

Toys

Timelines

I don't hafta be French if you don't want me to be.

• Generation 2: Redux (BotCon 2010 attendee freebie)

A redeco of Energon Downshift, "Decepticon Slice" transforms into blue rally-deco sports car resembling a Mercedes Benz SLK R170 with red and black stripes. He has a pair of dark red clear-plastic guns: one a spring-loaded missile launcher, one non-firing. These can be hand-held or attached to Slice in various ways in both modes. He can also form the top or bottom half of any silver or bronze "Powerlinx" combiner. He was given free to BotCon 2010 Primus Package attendees.

This toy was also redecoed as Universe Downshift. The Autobot symbol sculpted into his collarbone is painted purple so that he can be repurposed as Shattered Glass Wheeljack.

• More information on Decepticon Slice at TFU.info

Notes

• Wheeljack's body is based on Energon Downshift, while his colors are based on Slicer, who is a redeco of Wheeljack's Action Master toy. Eventually, BotCon 2010 would take advantage of this by releasing a Slicer toy who could double as Wheeljack.