Menasor (G1)

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

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Menasor is a Decepticon combiner from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Dennis the Menasor

Menasor was meant to be the ultimate Decepticon weapon, and perhaps he would have been if not for the fatal flaw in his design. His mind was designed to merge the psyches of the five Stunticons who compose his form. Unfortunately the great depth of resentment the four limb components feel towards Motormaster, plus the extreme differences in attitude that makes them less a team and more a destruction derby, and of course the tiny detail that they're all psychotic, has created a primal psychological rift and left Menasor an unpredictable mass of conflicting, chaotic impulses.

Extremely powerful, highly mentally unstable, and prone to violent tantrums where he lashes out at anything in range, Menasor is not a weapon to point and fire, but a raging monster to turn loose on the battlefield and then get as far out of range as possible.

Menasor is the combined form of all five Stunticons:

• Motormaster (leader)
• Drag Strip (right arm)
• Dead End (left arm)
• Wildrider (left leg)
• Breakdown (right leg)

In some universes, Offroad replaces Wildrider on the team, with Blackjack acting as a sixth component of the combiner.

“	Menasor crush! Destroy!	”
—Menasor on himself, "The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 2"

Fiction

Generation 1 cartoon continuity

The Transformers cartoon

Voice actor: Roger C. Carmel (English, "The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 2" only), Regis Cordic (English), Kōji Totani (Japanese), Toni Orlandi (Italian, second dub), Edgar Wald (Latin American), Willi Röbke (German, Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1), Thomas Rau (German, The Ultimate Weapon), Christoph Jablonka (German, Generation 2 Dub of The Ultimate Weapon)

- Don't offend the little ones, Prime!

Created by Megatron to counteract the Autobots' rule of the road, the Stunticons were powerful in their own right, but were also equipped with a secret ability by the Decepticon leader: they were the second Decepticon combiner team, able to merge into the towering Menasor. Megatron had the Stunticons unveil their combined form to battle the Autobots' new team, the Aerialbots, but Optimus Prime had predicted Menasor's existence, and had given the Aerialbots the power to combine into Superion. Menasor quickly took the upper hand in the fight that ensued between the two giants, his sheer aggression driving the Autobot combiner back, trapping him in a landslide. Just as Menasor was charging his opponent with intent to impale him on a factory smokestack, however, Omega Supreme appeared to intercept the Stunticon gestalt's attack. Omega freed Superion, and the two Autobots overpowered Menasor, forcing him to disengage and retreat. The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 2

When the Autobots obtained the weather-manipulating Pearl of Bahoudin, Megatron had the Stunticons merged into Menasor to reclaim the device. His heavy-handed efforts did more harm than good, however, as the Pearl was knocked free from Bumblebee's grasp and was swept up into a cyclone of its own making. Megatron abandoned the field of battle, leaving Menasor to menace the Autobots until the Pearl's storms wiped out all life on Earth. Bumblebee, Tracks and Bluestreak tried burying Menasor in a crevasse, but the giant's prodigious strength allowed him to tear free easily, forcing the Autobots back into a corner as he pressed his attack. Moments before the Autobots met their end, the raging jackass champion driver Auggie Cahnay hopped a cliff in his specially-designed car, launching it full speed straight into Menasor's face. Even Menasor couldn't shrug off an impact like that, and went down like a sack of tironium bricks. Trans-Europe Express

By the power of bumblebees!

Menasor's size and strength were brought into play when the Decepticons targeted the Statue of Liberty for destruction, as he could wield the Antillan Lightning Bug heat ray as a hand-held weapon. The Autobots defend the statue, and before Menasor could open fire with the Lightning Bug, a strafing run from the Aerialbots caused him to drop the weapon. His flying foes combined into Superion and the two titans grappling over the weapon until Superion triumphed, throwing Menasor so hard that he splintered into his component Stunticons, giving the Aerialbot combiner the chance to destroy the Lightning Bug. Cosmic Rust

"If you are me, then who am I? This is all way too confusing for me."

While gathering up the components required for a new Decepticon laser weapon, the Stunticons wound up being captured by the Decepticons. Looking to find out what Megatron was up to, a squad of Autobots used camouflage paint to disguise themselves as Stunticons to infiltrate the Decepticon camp, but while they were away on the mission, Breakdown managed to shake the true Stunticons free from their cells. The team united into Menasor, who felled their Autobot captors, then smashed his way out of the Autobots' volcano and took off for the Decepticons' temporary base. His arrival confused everyone, as he insisted that the "Stunticons" already present were impostors, but the Autobots were able to maintain their deception a while longer by "merging" into a Menasor form of their own through a combination of Windcharger's magnetic powers and Mirage's illusions. The two Menasors battled, but the Autobots' makeshift combination couldn't stand up to a slash from the true Menasor's sword, and their true identities were exposed. Menasor stood strong in the hail of firepower the Autobots proceeded to unleash against him, but when a cavalry of other Autobots then arrived, the combiner decided he had had enough, and fled. Masquerade

I'll kill you if you point out that I'm just Motormaster with some cars attached to my arms!

When the treacherous Starscream rampaged with his new Combaticon army, Megatron requested the assistance of the Stunticons, only to be rebuffed by Drag Strip. The Stunticons finally decided to take notice when the Combaticons' combined form of Bruticus defeated Devastator; at first, the rowdy bunch of cars did not care if Megatron was destroyed, but they realized Starscream would not simply stop at eliminating his former leader. The team quickly formed Menasor, who dispatched Bruticus with one mighty punch. Starscream's Brigade

In 2005, following their expulsion from Cybertron, the Stunticons retreated with the rest of the Decepticons to the planet of Chaar. When Astrotrain returned with a pittance of energon to go around, the Decepticons began fighting over the small handful of cubes, but Menasor held back until a victor had emerged in the form of Devastator, whom he then attacked. Menasor chopped the energy-deprived Constructicon combiner into his constituent 'bots, but before he could claim his prize, the Insecticons swooped into to snatch up the cube. At that point, Cyclonus arrived to chastise the squabbling Decepticons; Menasor and Astrotrain shared a wearied look as Cyclonus and the Sweeps mindlessly chanted their loyalty to the absent Galvatron. Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1

In 2006, the Stunticons attempted to attacked a weakened Defensor, who was missing First Aid, as he rescued a falling train. Unfortunately for them, no sooner had they combined into Menasor than Rodimus Prime and Ultra Magnus blasted their combined form in the back, disabling him before he even laid a hand on Defensor. The Ultimate Weapon

IDW Transformers: The Animated Movie adaptation

During the Battle of Autobot City in 2005, Menasor and Bruticus staged an attack on Autobot Headquarters, occupying the attentions of Omega Supreme, Superion and Defensor and preventing them from coming to the aid of their comrades in the besieged city. The Animated Movie trade paperback

Japanese cartoon continuity

The events of the Generation 1 cartoon occur in Japanese continuity as described above, except the events of 2005 and 2006 take place in 2010, and many additional stories are inserted into the timeline.

Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers story pages

When Menasor clashed with Superion in the heart of a major metropolitan area, the Stunticon combiner took the upper hand in the fight, but was bested when the Aerialbots separated and bound their opponent with energy ropes, making him an easy target for Scramble City's firepower. Story page #8 Later, Menasor teamed up with Devastator to wreak some havoc on the Autobots, but the Autobots had some new backup in the form of Defensor. Story page #12

During a later battle with the Autobots, Motormaster combined with the Combaticons to form a variant version of Menasor with Brawl and Blast Off as arms, and Vortex and Swindle as legs. The Autobots were aghast at the sight of this new menace, Story page #13 but likely not quite as aghast as they were at the sight of Menasor, Devastator and Bruticus's deformed bodies when they later gathered for another major battle. Story page #16

Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers manga

In the late 1980s, under orders from Megatron, Menasor joined the Seekers in an energy raid on Tokyo. Though challenged by Optimus Prime and a unit of Autobots, Menasor made short work of them by punching all he could in the face with his giant fist. His evil was bested, however, when Prime drove up a ramp and punched him in the face. The blow was powerful enough to force him to retreat. Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #1

Menasor later attacked a baseball stadium where Kenji was on a date, intending to turn it into a new Decepticon base. Kenji quickly summoned Defensor and Superion to battle the Decepticon, but Menasor was immediately aided by Bruticus. After a short skirmish, Decepticon victory seemed in the bag until Menasor got his legs knocked off. Groove and First Aid then latched onto the stumps and blasted Menasor away, dumping him in the Pacific Ocean, far away from Japan. Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #5

Scramble City cartoon

Voice actor: Kōji Totani (Japanese)

After the Aerialbots prevented an attempt by the Decepticons to attack the subterranean construction site of their Scramble City project, the Stunticons were called into action and soon combined into Menasor to battle their airborne rivals. When Superion unveiled the full extent of the Aerialbots' Scramble Power, reconfiguring his limbs to increase his power, Menasor shocked the Autobots by revealing that he too had the same ability. The Stunticons had a slightly better handle on the power, too; when Fireflight forgot his position on the combiner, leaving Superion legless, Menasor disconnected Wildrider and had him take the place of Superion's missing limb, crippling the Aerialbot gestalt. A barrage from the other Autobots severed Wildrider, and the restored Superion toppled Menasor, but the Combaticons then arrived to aid the Stunticons. Menasor and Bruticus tag-teamed Superion, but were both stopped when Scramble City itself was brought into battle to end the conflict. Scramble City: Mobilization

Full Throttle Scramble Power! manga

On a mission to steal energy from a power plant, the Stunticons formed Menasor to fight off the interfering Superion. With Superion weakened by a blast from the Decepticons' new electromagnetic Omega Whip cannon, Menasor reconfigured his limbs, positioning Drag Strip and Wildrider as his arms for a double gravito-gun attack that pinned the Aerialbot down. Unfortunately for Menasor, Metroplex and the other Autobots soon arrived, and the sight of the giant city-bot left the Stunticon combiner momentarily stunned, allowing Superion to right himself. Superion disengaged Slingshot, who knocked Wildrider loose from Menasor and took his place, immobilizing the Decepticon so that Superion could stomp him into defeat. Full Throttle Scramble Power!

Transformers 2010 story pages

Following the return of Galvatron and their alliance with the Quintessons, the Decepticons renewed their offensive against the Autobots. Menasor, Bruticus and Devastator joined the Decepticons' newest combiner Predaking in battling Superion and Defensor, though Predaking did most of the work as Menasor held back and smirked at the sight of his old rivals taking a beating. Story page #2 To fight back, the Autobots had to take the threat posed by Menasor and the other combiners into consideration and develop appropriate countermeasures. Story page #4

In an "imaginary tale" that proposed an alliance between the Stunticons, Aerialbots, Combaticons and Protectobots, a version of Menasor was formed who had Vortex for a right arm, Streetwise as his left arm, Groove as his right leg, and Fireflight as his left leg. Story page #5

The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers manga

The Stunticons joined the entire Decepticon army in a raid on Feminia to capture the Prime Energy Tower. Menasor was formed along with Predaking, Devastator and Bruticus to oppose the Autobot battalion guarding the tower; they were met by the Autobots' own big soldiers Superion, Defensor and Omega Supreme, but with the addition of Predaking to the fray, the Autobots were soon outnumbered. The Omnibots were there to save the day, tying Predaking's legs together and causing him to topple over and crush Menasor and the other combiners under his weight. The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers #5

The Great Transformer War manga

After tearing Superion into his component Aerialbots, the Stunticons merged into Menasor and joined Bruticus in defending Dinobase against incursion by the Protectobots. While his men kept the pair busy, Hot Spot used his repair bay mode to fix up the injured Aerialbots, who then blinded the giants with their dazzling "Scramble Shot" fly-by attack. The Great Transformer War #1

The Headmasters cartoon

Voice actor: Hōchū Ōtsuka, Tomomichi Nishimura (Japanese)

"Made... In... China...?"

The Stunticons participated in Galvatron's siege on Cybertron in the year 2011. They formed Menasor to fight their Autobot counterparts, but were steamrolled by the might and firepower of the Battleship Maximus. Returning to Earth, they were deployed to stop what appeared to be an attempt by the Aerialbots to steal a cache of Decepticon energon in the desert, but this was a feint to keep them busy and prevent them from interfering in Hot Rod's quest for the missing Matrix of Leadership. Realizing they had been had, the team formed Menasor and sped to Hot Rod's location in the Arctic, but Superion followed and took Menasor down despite his attempt to use Hot Rod as a shield. The Mystery of Planet Master

In San Francisco, Menasor assisted Bruticus in using a carnivorous plant to distract the Autobots from Scorponok's plans on Zarak. He fought against the Technobots' combined form, Computron. Head On!! Fortress Maximus Much later, the Stunticons assembled in the desert as their Ninja Commander Sixshot began issuing orders. They formed Menasor and took part in the escalating Decepticon war effort as five separate Autobot outposts were attacked simultaneously at Sixshot's command. The Emperor of Destruction Vanishes on an Iceberg

he got hit with a getsuga tensho

Following the Decepticons' apparent expulsion from Earth, Menasor was among the group who secretly did not leave the planet, but who instead withdrew to the sub-oceanic city of Lemuria, where he oversaw the processing of crysmagnetal for Scorponok's fiendish Death Towers. Following the towers' deployment, he joined the entire Decepticon army in battling the Autobots at the North Pole, where he would have killed Daniel Witwicky if Sixshot hadn't intervened on the boy's behalf, charging the combiner head-on and toppling him. When Scorponok's plan was foiled, Menasor escaped into space along with the rest of the Decepticons as the battle climaxed. The Final Showdown on Earth (Part 2)

Super-God Masterforce manga

Years later, the image of Menasor was among a group of holograms of older Decepticons projected by King Poseidon to deceive and confuse the Autobots under Ginrai's command. Burn, Super Soul! The New Commander Super Ginrai!

Zone manga & story pages

Menasor was among the Nine Great Demon Generals recruited by the Decepticons' newest Emperor of Destruction, Violen Jiger. Outfited with new armor and weaponry—including a giant shield that he could sling at his enemies, and some kind of funky transparent-green Phantom-of-the-Opera-lookin' half-face mask—Menasor was somewhat dubiously christened the "Intelligence General" of the group, and sent forth to conquer planets in pursuit of Violen Jiger's goal of creating a Decepticon Zone. Zone Part 1

Following the generals' successful destruction of the planet Feminia, which badly wounded current Autobot leader Victory Saber, a team consisting of Menasor, Bruticus, Abominus and Overlord attacked the leaderless Autobot Micromasters on the planet Zone and stole their Energon Z power source, a key component in Violen Jiger's plan. As they came under an intimidating amount of firepower from Zone Base, they feld with their prize; the Autobots tried to pursue them into space, but were stopped by BlackZarak and his energy web. Transformers: Zone

The Generals later schooled Metrotitan and the Metrosquad in the ways of evil, making them more than formidable foes for the Powered Masters. Zone Part 7

Zone cartoon

Those racecars are, like, 50 stories tall.

Voice actor: Masato Hirano (Japanese)

The Zone cartoon tells a slightly different, expanded version of Menasor and the other Generals' attacks on Feminia and Zone.

Together with Overlord and Abominus, Menasor laid waste to the world of Feminia, destroying the entire planet and nearly killing Autobot leader Star Saber. With the Autobots left in disarray, Violen Jiger gathered all nine of his generals together and instructed them to gather the energy sources necessary for him to create a Decepticon Zone: the Energon Z of planet Zone, and the mysterious Zodiac, concealed on Earth. Menasor joined Overlord, Abominus and Bruticus in attacking Zone; the armament of the Autobots' Zone Base was no match for the giants, and Menasor smashed the Gasoline Base component to pieces with his huge shield. Overlord tore the Energon Z power core out of Zone Base, and the team immediately departed to redenzvous with the other generals and hand over the Energon Z so they could take it with them to Earth. Enter the New Supreme Commander, Dai Atlas!

Wings Universe

Wings Universe is based on the Generation 1 cartoon, but deviates from it in cosmetic ways and continuity points.

After Cybertron entered its new Golden Age, the war between the Autobots and Decepticons still raged in space and on Earth. Menasor was permanently destroyed in battle with his nemesis, Defensor. Only Breakdown, acting as one of the giant's legs at the time, managed to survive the colossal damage Menasor suffered. He swore revenge against the last surviving Protectobot, Streetwise, dedicating himself to finishing the destruction his team had started. Generation 2: Redux

Marvel Comics continuity

Marvel The Transformers comics

Events from the UK-only comic stories are in italics.

Menasor first appeared in a series of dreams experienced by Buster Witwicky, in which the young boy saw the Decepticon combiner ambush Superion while the Autobot was distracted after defeating Shockwave in combat, only to be beaten back and buried in a landslide. Realizing in short order that these dreams were, in fact, visions of the future granted to Buster by the Creation Matrix his brain had briefly housed, the Autobots and Decepticons devised a way to peer into his mind. In this dream-vision, they watched as the Stunticons formed Menasor to combat the Protectobots as they attempted to save humans at the Pullen Power Plant. Menasor found himself physically outmatched by the Protectobot gestalt Defensor, but back-up soon arrived in the form of Bruticus. While Defensor and Bruticus grappled, Superion arrived to engage Menasor; unfortunately for the Stunticon combiner, his personality problems handicapped him, with Dead End taking objection to being ordered about, leading to him firing his weapons too late to hit Superion and accidentally blasting Bruticus instead. Menasor attempted to flee, but Superion stopped his flight by opening a crevasse under his feet with his stress fracture cannon. Second Generation!/The Special Teams Have Arrived

Using these dreams as a blueprint, the Decepticons constructed the Stunticons and imbued them with life via one of Bombshell's cerebro-shells, which siphoned off the energies of the Creation Matrix as Optimus Prime used it to bring the similarly-created Aerialbots to life. When the two teams subsequently met in battle over the Autobot named Skids and his human passenger, Donny Finkleberg, they merged into Menasor and Superion for the first time. The two gargantuan gladiators shattered a freeway overpass (or was it an entrance ramp...?) before engaging in hand-to-hand combat. Unfortunately for the Autobots, the ever-unhelpful robot hunter named Circuit Breaker entered the fray for RAAT and zapped Superion, temporarily overloading his circuitry and allowing Menasor to administer the coup-de-grace, courtesy of his cyclone rifle. Skids and Finkleberg disappeared in the melee, though, forcing the Stunticons to disconnect and begin searching for them anew. Heavy Traffic!

Later, Menasor attacked a Blackrock fuel plant, once again drawing the attention of the Aerialbots. Silverbolt and his team were forced to combine into Superion in order to battle the united Stunticons. Unfortunately for Silverbolt, this meant his teammates learned about his fear of heights due to the mental bleedover. Ashamed, he caused Superion to fight back extremely savagely against Menasor, almost injuring innocent civilians in the process. ...Perchance to Dream

Marvel UK future timelines

In 2008, the renegade Decepticons Scourge and Cyclonus teamed up with the freelance peacekeeping agent named Death's Head to assassinate Commander Shockwave. Cut off from the battle by a set of blast doors, Soundwave summoned Menasor to help him break through and deal with the traitors. The super-robot eventually succeeded, but it was too late. Shockwave was dead, and the Decepticons were forced to accept Scourge and Cyclonus as their new leaders. The Legacy of Unicron!

The Special Teams

A malfunction in the systems of the Autobots' new combiner team, the Aerialbots, caused them to briefly defect to the Decepticons, but when they returned to the Autobot ranks, Megatron was inspired to compensate for their loss by creating the Stunticons. After Starscream collected the freshly-created Stunticons from Cybertron, Megatron ordered them all to rendezvous with the rest of the Decepticon force at the recently-evacuated Pullham power plant. The Stunticons merged into Menasor to smash through the Protectobots guarding the plant, but Menasor was unprepared for the Protectobots' own ability to combine into Defensor. Bruticus soon arrived to back him up, but Superion then join the fray; Menasor and Superion squared off, with the Aerialbot combiner successfully damaging Menasor's armor with his stress fracture cannon. Having taken enough lumps for one day, Menasor disengaged into the individual Stunticons and fled. The Special Teams

Dreamwave Generation One continuity

Shoot him before his pelvic thrust is fully realized!

Menasor was one of several combiner robots based on the original prototype, Devastator. He existed as the combined form of Motormaster's Stunticons, but was effectively forced into retirement by the Crisis Intervention Accord, which outlawed the use of super-robots among the factions. War Within: The Dark Ages

At some point in Cybertron's recent history, the Stunticons were deemed psychotic and too dangerous to function in society, and as a result were placed into perpetual stasis lock inside of a prison facility, much to the relief of security officer Red Alert. More than Meets the Eye #6 However, in the year 2003, in an attempt to create a diversion while he set his final plans in motion, Shockwave had Rumble and Frenzy surreptitiously release the Stunticons, unleashing Menasor on an unsuspecting world once again. The deranged combiner ran amok for awhile, crushing Defensor when he tried to stand in his way, until Ultra Magnus arrived and took up the fight. Insulting the individual Constructicons as he battled, Magnus was able to fracture Menasor's mind, causing the five Stunticons' consciousnesses to began to bickering inside his head over whose fault it was that they were losing. Temporarily paralyzed by this mental turmoil, Menasor was left wide open, and Ultra Magnus rammed the combiner in the chest, forcing him to separate into his disabled component parts. Passive Aggression

G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers continuity

When a group of G.I. Joe and Cobra members ran into the Stunticons in 1930's Chicago, Optimus Prime warned them about the existence of Menasor. Thankfully, Motormaster wasn't around to form the giant. G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #2

After the Stunticons were recruited into Serpent O.R.'s army, Menasor attacked an Autobot peace ceremony, teaming up with Predaking and Piranacon to defeat Omega Supreme. The Art of War #3 He then tracked down Optimus Prime, stomped on a civilian Optimus had just saved, and delivered Reflector to pass a message on to the Autobot leader. The Art of War #4

The Beast Within

Just as the Decepticons were on the brink of a great victory over the Autobots, the tables turned when the Dinobots revealed their long-hidden combined form, The Beast. This misshapen monstrosity's raw power struck fear in all the Decepticons, but the Constructicons, Combaticons and Stunticons found the courage to combine and counter-attack. When the Beast effortlessly felled Bruticus and Devastator, however, Menasor thought twice about going through with an attack, and instead cowered before the monster, begging for mercy. But the Beast had none: it seized Menasor, lifted him above its head, and tore him to pieces. The Beast Within

Mystery of Convoy

For further information, see: #Games

Alternity

One of a higher-dimensional Megatron's many pawns in a "game full of death and suffering", Menasor was empowered to be pitted against an avatar of a higher-dimensional Optimus Prime, alongside endless hordes of other Decepticons. To Die Game!

Mystery of Convoy strategy guide manga

The five Stunticons confronted Ultra Magnus as he reached the end of the Floating City, combining into Menasor and opening fire on the Autobot. Magnus leapt over their blasts and returned fire, striking the combiner's weak point: the flashing spot in the middle of his forehead. Menasor's Weak Point is His Forehead!

IDW Generation 1 continuity

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Gestalt technology was the product of Nexus Prime's Enigma of Combination in the ancient past of Cybertron, and when it was lost, many dedicated themselves to rediscovering it. The Crucible Perhaps the most unexpected success was that accomplished by Swindle, who stole what little of the technology had been re-engineered, reunited the scattered Stunticons after they were left behind on Earth following the Decepticon evacuation of the planet, and gave them the ability to combine into Menasor. Keeping his accomplishment a secret, Swindle forged a phoney alliance with a splinter group of Autobots led by Hot Rod, but once they had completed construction of the spacecraft to take them off Earth, he revealed his intent to steal the ship and kill the Autobots, and had the Stunticons merge into Menasor before their horrified eyes. Enemies of the System Fortunately for the Autobots, the combination wasn't seamless, and the Stunticons were left with individualized consciousnesses instead of a gestalt Menasor mind. Unfortunately for Swindle's chosen first target, Ultra Magnus, they didn't disagree about killing him...only how to kill him. The arrival of Optimus Prime gave Menasor momentary pause, long enough for Bumblebee to recognize how uncoordinated Menasor's mind(s) was, and instruct the Autobots on exploiting that weakness. By selectively targeting the individual Stunticon components, the Autobots forced them to think of their own safety instead of Menasor's, making the giant easy prey. He was overwhelmed by their firepower, and broken down into separate Decepticons before capture. Earthworks

The Stunticons' makeshift combination would never function again, but represented a further step in the continuing rediscovery of the technology; Shockwave studied the records of his creation, Shockpoint which fed into the Decepticons' subsequent perfection of the process. Before the Dawn When Starscream later took rulership of Cybertron, he encouraged Wheeljack to help him create a functioning combiner of his own, citing Menasor as a particularly worrisome example of a combiner created by an unlikely source. The World of Tomorrow

Commercial appearances

• After some dramatic transforming and posing, the Stunticons and Aerialbots combined to do battle as Menasor and Superion. Superion evaded Menasor's firepower and closed in for a hand-to-hand fight, but Menasor was ready for the Aerialbot combiner and hurled him over his shoulder. Charging in to finish the job, however, Menasor was met by Superion's powerful fist and send reeling backwards to collide with a cliff-face, which collapsed and buried him. Aerialbots and Stunticons commercial

Games

Transformers: Mystery of Convoy

As Ultra Magnus searched for the truth behind Optimus Prime's death, he battled Menasor in a game of death and suffering. Transformers: Mystery of Convoy

Transformers: The Headmasters

When the Decepticons captured some of the Autobots' greatest warriors, Menasor and Abominus stood guard over Hardhead and Brainstorm on the Jail planet. They were defeated and their prisoners were rescued by Chromedome and the other freed Autobots. Transformers: The Headmasters

Transformers Legends

The Stunticons were created in response to the failure of a Decepticon campaign to acquire Autobot superfuel. Realizing they needed a strong ground force, the Stunticons were created by modifying Earth vehicles with Cybertronian technology, and then bringing them before Vector Sigma to be imbued with the spark of life. The Autobots brought the Aerialbots to life at the same time, and the Decepticons found themselves on the losing side until the Stunticons merged into Menasor. The Decepticons lost nonetheless, though they acquired the key to Vector Sigma as a consolation prize. The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1

Transformers: Battle Tactics

Transformers: Battle Tactics

Toys

Generation 1

Not Optimus Prime and the Autobots in cosplay.

• Menasor (1986)
  • Japanese ID number: D-55
  • Accessories: Head, left & right fists, left & right feet, roller car/chest plate, "blast deflector" waist plate, Motormaster's "cyclone gun" and sword, small Stunticons' individual guns

Menasor is formed out of all five Stunticon toys, with Motormaster serving as the central body component, and the four smaller team members as limbs, using additional attachments for Menasor's hands and feet, a mask for his head, waist armor, and a chestplate formed from the "roller car" figure included with Motormaster. He is armed with Motormaster's sword and cyclone rifle. As a "Scramble City"-style combiner, Menasor's limbs are fully interchangeable; any of his limb-components, or any members of the other compatible combiner teams, are able to form either an arm or leg for the giant. Menasor is the smallest, but sturdiest, of the Scramble City combiners.

Along with Metroplex, Superion, Bruticus and Defensor, Menasor was designed for an aborted Diaclone line that would have been called Jizai Gattai ("Free-Combination"), which was shelved to make way for the Transformers line. Menasor's five Stunticon components could be purchased either individually, or in a giftset. A Japanese "VS-A" set that would have packaged Menasor with Superion was planned, but went unreleased.

• More information on Menasor at TFU.info

Generation 2

Yowza.

• Menasor (unreleased)
  • Accessories: Head, left & right fists, left & right feet, roller car/chest plate, "blast deflector" waist plate, Motormaster's "cyclone gun" and sword, small Stunticons' individual guns

Redecos of all five Stunticons were planned for release in 1994, but were canceled, with only a handful of test shots and production samples made, including a small run of Breakdowns produced as a 1994 BotCon exclusive. Given the Generation 2 toyline's handling of other combiners, it is unlikely Menasor would have been released as a giftset even if the individual figures had made it to retail.

While the number of collectors who own Generation 2 Menasor is vanishingly small in this universe, at least one collector in another universe has managed to snag himself a set—Decepticon toy aficionado Shortround!

Your bargaining posture is highly dubious. Proceed on your way to oblivion. This item has been canceled, with no current plans for release.

Universe (2003)

Man. He looks like a rolling bruise.

• Menasor (Ultra, unreleased)

A redeco of Thunder Clash (or, more accurately, the Machine Wars Optimus Prime retooling) as Menasor was planned as a store exclusive for the Universe toyline, but was ultimately canceled. It was initially supposed to be Motormaster, but trademark issues forced a name change.

• Unproduced Universe Menasor package art at Iacon One Datatrax

Your bargaining posture is highly dubious. Proceed on your way to oblivion. This item has been canceled, with no current plans for release.

Classics

• Menasor (Legends, 2006)

Not Scourge.

This black and purple redeco of Legends of Cybertron Optimus Prime transforms into a Cybertronic truck cab. It was intended to be Motormaster, but the name trademark could not be obtained. The toy was given the name "Menasor", and the super robot's function of "Super Warrior," effectively making him Menasor, not Motormaster.

This mold was also used to make Universe Hot Zone.

• More information on Classics Menasor at TFU.info.

Titanium Series

Not Dark Hot Rod.

• Menasor (6" Cybertron Heroes, 2007)
  • Accessories: Rifle, display stand

A Hasbro Toy Shop exclusive first sold at San Diego Comic-Con 2007, Menasor is a redeco of the Titanium Series Rodimus Prime, transforming into a Cybertronic Winnebago-ish thing.

According to this Menasor's bio, he is a single entity built from the bodies of the individual Stunticons and controlled by their psychotic, permanently unified minds. Whether this same backstory applies to the Classics or Universe toys is unknown.

• More information on Titanium Menasor on TFU.info.

Generations

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Still not Optimus Prime and the Autobots in cosplay...or is he?

• Decepticon Dragstrip (Deluxe, 2014)
• Dead End (Deluxe, 2015)
• Motormaster (Voyager, 2015)
• Breakdown (Deluxe, 2015)
• Decepticon Offroad (Deluxe, 2015)
• Decepticon Blackjack (Legends, 2015)
  • Accessories: Sword (formed from Motormaster's sword and gun), 4 hands/feet, 4 small weapons

Part of the Combiner Wars subline, Generations Menasor is an entirely new mold Scramble City-style combiner made up of four Deluxe figures (Dragstrip, Breakdown, Dead End and new member Offroad) as limbs, a Voyager figure (Motormaster) as the torso, and Blackjack for the chestplate. He can wield a large, 5mm post sword formed by connecting Motormaster's smaller sword to his gun and can also hold any of the Deluxe components' smaller weapons. He was announced at San Diego Comic-Con 2014 along with fellow combiner Superion. His stock photo, seen at right, cleverly concealed an online listing image of Generations Huffer and Blackjack.

Merchandise

Transformers Ramune

• Menasor (1986)
  • ID number: 3

An unpainted figurine of Menasor was available as part of the second range of Kabaya's line of Transformers Ramune candy toys, tying in with the Scramble City toyline. Like all figures in the series, Menasor was sold in a blindpacked box with fizzy "ramune" candy, and featured a main body was made of hard red plastic, with soft grey PVC limbs articulated at the hips and shoulders.

• Menasor (1986)

Later in 1986, in the third Ramune wave, Menasor was among the characters immortalized as a soft rubber figurine, known as a keshigomu in Japan. He was available in either red, blue or yellow colors, and as before, came blindpacked with ramune candy. While similar to the separate range of keshigomu figures released by Takara that would later be imported by Hasbro as part of their Decoy promotion, Menasor and his wave-mates saw no American release.

Forms Robo

• Menasor (1986)

Menasor was also part of the small Forms Robo collection of larger keshigomu, with this chunkier version of the character standing at around twice the height of his Ramune figure. Like the other figures in this series, Menasor was packaged in an individual baggie and was available in red, blue, green and yellow.

Gaia Scramble/Transformers Gum

• Menasor (2013)

This incarnation of Menasor is formed by combining the separate Stunticons available in two of Kabaya's lines of candy toys: Dead End, Breakdown, Drag Strip and Wildrider were available as part of the Gaia Scramble line, while Motormaster was released through the Transformers Gum line. All five figures are snap-together model kits that use stickers for details and come with a stick of gum; Dead End and Breakdown share a mold, as do Drag Strip and Wildrider, each kit affecting minor differences in how they are assembled to differentiate the figures beyond color.

Notes

Menasor got dressed in a rush this morning.

• Menasor's instructions and package art depict Drag Strip and Breakdown as his arms, and Wildrider and Dead End as his legs, while the character model used for the cartoon and comic—which has gone on to become the "default" arrangement for Menasor in subsequent media—makes Drag Strip and Dead End the arms, and Breakdown and Wildrider the legs. An alternate model was designed for TV Magazine manga and story pages, seen at the top of this article, makes Drag Strip and Wildrider the arms, and Breakdown and Dead End the legs. Drag Strip's the only one in the same place in every configuration!
• An alternate animation character sheet from the original cartoon exists for Menasor. It features all of the limbs in different orientations (the arms upside-down, the legs reversed) from the final model and the chest sports an Autobot symbol (!), suggesting, perhaps, that the Stunticon and Aerialbot toy factions may have originally been the other way around. This model was used for the toy commercial which appeared to introduce the Stunticons and Aerialbots, though with the faction symbol corrected.
• The animators frequently misinterpreted Menasor's character model. Instead of having the four small Stunticons as his actual limbs (with, for example, his fist directly attached to Drag Strip's form), he was drawn as though the four cars attached on top of generic blocky limbs that extended from Motormaster, which would pretty much negate the whole point of the combining schtick.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Menasor (メナゾール Menazōru)
• French: Menaseur (Canada, limb cards and cartoon), Confusio (Canada, Motormaster's box)
• Italian: Pentacar (toyline and season 3), Ultrax (cartoon)
• Portuguese: Ameaçador (Brazil comic)
• Russian: Megasaur (Мегазавр Megazavr)

External links

• Menasor's Universe profile at NTFA.net