Vanquish

This article is about the Decepticon Micromaster. For his Japanese Autobot counterpart, see Vanquish (ROC).

Vanquish is a Decepticon Micromaster from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Milking the giant cow... OF VICTORY!

Vanquish is the silent partner in his combiner relationship with Fireshot. He prefers to fly under the radar, both figuratively and literally, and achieves his goals by going unnoticed. He stays on Fireshot's good side, in case he should ever achieve his goal of replacing Direct-Hit as team leader of the Battle Squad.

Also? Cool name.

Fiction

Generation 1 cartoon continuity

Wings Universe

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

Vanquish and Falcon were servants of the Decepticon Warlord Deathsaurus when the Great War began. They held the Combaticons captive behind a field of Oan energy until Deathsaurus was ready for an audience. The Coming Storm: Part 4

Marvel Comics continuity

Regeneration One

Vanquish was a member of Soundwave's group of Neo-Decepticons at Fort Scyk in Polyhex. Counterpoint

IDW Generation 1 continuity

By one account, Vanquish was a factionless Transformer born from a hot spot inside one of the Metrotitans who left Cybertron to colonize other worlds. His planet came to be populated by small robots able to combine with one another; Windblade caught a glimpse of him splitting off from Fireshot when she was merged with Metroplex's mind. Windblade #4

In apparent contradiction to Windblade's vision, a later account identified Vanquish as full-size Decepticon with a dedicated alternate mode of his own, serving under Gigatron on a desolate planet that was home to the Stone Army. Responding to an attack on some of their men, Vanquish and a team of other Decepticons apprehended the two responsible, Drift and Ratchet, and took them and their own captive, the Decepticon Grit to the large stone castle serving as Gigatron's base. Empire of Stone #1 Though Vanquish appeared loyal to Gigatron, standing by his side as he held council with the two Autobot captives, he was, in fact, the confidant of Gigatron's aide Hellbat, and joined him in confronting the prisoners after they escaped and located the chamber containing the dormant Stone Army. Empire of Stone #2 He and Drift engaged in a swordfight, but Vanquish had to break off the duel to help Hellbat, who was being mauled by Grit. Vanquish then flung Grit off a fatal drop, forcing Drift and Ratchet to drop what they were doing to rescue him, thereby giving Hellbat time to activate the Stone Army. Empire of Stone #3 In the chaos that followed, Grit came looking for payback, but Vanquish had little interest in fighting him; when Drift got close enough to threaten Hellbat, Vanquish ran Grit through with his swords so that he could go to his boss's aid. Getting close enough to do so, however, was Vanquish's last mistake: even impaled, Grit was able to us the last of his strength to tear Vanquish's head off, killing him. Empire of Stone #4

Toys

Generation 1

• Battle Squad (Micromaster Combiner Squad, 1990)

Vanquish transforms into the rear half of a SR-71 Blackbird stealth jet, which he forms with his combiner partner Fireshot. He can be connected to any other Micromaster Combiner, although with most he'll look pretty silly.

Vanquish was only available in a six-pack with his squad mates Fireshot, Direct-Hit, Half-Track, Meltdown and Power Punch.

• More information on Vanquish at TFU.info

Notes

• It seems likely that the Vanquish seen in Windblade #4 and the one from Empire of Stone are not the same individual, given that no mention is made of Empire of Stone's Vanquish being from a colony planet, and he turns into a full jet on his own. Perhaps the colony Vanquish is actually just a suspiciously similar-looking individual?

Foreign names

• French: Vanqueur (Canada)
• Italian: Dedalo