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Toy bios

2005

Skyfall:

• Toy notes: redecoed from Energon Sky Shadow/Terradive.
• Skyfall's bio is a shortened version of the one that appears in the Club magazine.

Deathsaurus:

• Toy notes: redecoed from Robots in Disguise Megatron, with a retooled head.
• Characters mentioned include: Star Saber.
• Star Saber and Deathsaurus were the leaders of the Autobot and Decepticon factions in the Victory franchise, hence their rivalry mentioned here.
• Emperor of Destruction is a Japanese term used to refer to the leader of the Decepticons/Predacons/etc.
• Notably, the fact that Maximals and Predacons exist places DiE at the very end stage of the Great War. While the DiE continuity would never be revisited aside from a...contentious appearance in The Razor's Edge, several ideas, such as the Autobot/Maximal and Decepticon/Predacon alliances, would later be explored in other BotCon fiction.
• The ability of his wings to absorb sunlight was part of Deathsaurus' original powerset in his tech specs, while the corrosive energy seems to be a reference to his Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon.

Dirge:

• Toy notes: redecoed from Beast Wars Buzzclaw.
• This is the first mention of a Insecticon clan of ancient Cybertronians in fiction. While undoubtedly not a reference, later continuities, such as the Aligned and IDW G1 continuities, would establish their versions of Insecticons as a race of ancient Cybertronians.

Buzzclaw:

• Toy notes: redecoed from Beast Wars Buzzclaw.
• Gladitorial combat being part of pre-war society was first introduced in State Games, and has become a major part of Cybertronian history since. Polyhex was introduced in issue 17 of the Marvel Transformers comic.
• The Insecticons ability to clone themselves was introduced in the original Transformers cartoon.

Ironhide:

• Toy notes: redecoed from Energon Tow-Line, with a retooled head. (Shared with Ratchet)
• Characters mentioned include: Optimus Prime.
• "Leaking lubricant" is an euphemism shouted by Ironhide in More than Meets the Eye, Part 1.
• Moonbase One and Moonbase Two were introduced and destroyed in The Transformers: The Movie. Presumably this means that Cybertron had two other moons not seen in the film.
• The Reconfiguration Matrix was originally mentioned in the Generation 2 Go-Bot Optimus Prime toy's bio, and it would be expanded upon in the Japanese Generation 2 story pages and pack-in manga.
• Ironhide's Trithyllium-steel skin was mentioned in his original bio, along with his ability to shoot chemicals and other liquids from his arms. His ability to combine with his trailer unit is presumably a reference to the original toy's Onebox component.

Fallback:

• Toy notes: redecoed from Energon Strongarm.
• Characters mentioned include: Ultra Magnus and Rodimus Prime.
• Fallback's change from Outback is explained here as the result of a near fatal injury, with a new outlook on life given when he was rebuilt.

Chromia:

• Toy notes: redecoed from Energon Arcee, with a retooled head. (Shared with Firestar)
• Characters mentioned include: Firestar.
• Notably, "Chromia's" toy has a deco, head, and personality based on Moonracer, as she was originally the one who this toy was intended for.

Ricochet:

• Toy notes: redecoed from Generation 2 Hooligan.
• Characters mentioned include: Bumblebee.
• Ricochet was based upon on a fan character Ben Yee made when he was younger.
• Bumblebee was originally the Autobot's espionage agent in the original toyline. Looks like he's graduated to the top!

Ratchet:

• Toy notes: redecoed from Energon Tow-Line, with a retooled head. (Shared with Ironhide)

Flareup:

• Toy notes: redecoed from Energon Arcee, with a retooled head. (Shared with Chromia)
• Characters mentioned include: Firestar.
• Flareup was originally the student of Firestar, in a reference to the fact that she was originally intended to be a toy for Firestar, and is evidently designed to look like her.

Virulent Clones:

• Toy notes: redecoed from Beast Wars Buzzclaw.
• As mentioned in the bio card for Buzzclaw, the Insecticons cloning ability originates from the G1 cartoon. Deathsaurus has had to unlock it from its latent state due to Dirge and Buzzclaw's changing body forms, presumably referring to their rather....organic looking body types.

Flamewar:

• Toy notes: redecoed from Energon Arcee.
• Characters mentioned include: Megatron and the Tripredacus Council.
• Her body type is noted to be stolen from the Autobots.

Ramjet:

• Toy notes: redecoed from Cybertron Legends-class Starscream.

2006

Landquake:

• Toy notes: redecoed from Energon Blight/Kickback.
• Characters mentioned include: Megatron.
• Landquake's bio is a shortened version of the one that appeared in the Club magazine.

Optimus Primal:

• Toy notes: redecoed from Cybertron Crumplezone, with a retooled head.
• Mentioned characters include: Optimus Prime.

Rhinox:

• Toy notes: redecoed from Cybertron Landmine.
• Characters mentioned include: Optimus Primal.

Cheetor:

• Toy notes: redecoed from Cybertron Clocker with a retooled head. (Shared with Tigatron)
• Characters mentioned include: The Maximal Command Security Force and Optimus Primal.

Rattrap

• Toy notes: redecoed from Cybertron Ransack.
• Characters mentioned include: Optimus Primal.

Dinobot

• Toy notes: redecoed from Cybertron Cybertron, using the head from the Armada Hoits version of the mold.
• Characters mentioned include: Megatron and the Tripredacus Council.

Megatron:

• Toy notes: redecoed from Cybertron Cybertron Defense Red Alert, with a retooled head.
• Characters mentioned include: Megatron.

Waspinator

• Toy notes: redecoed from Machine Wars Skywarp/Thundercracker.
• Characters mentioned include: Megatron.

Laserbeak

• Toy notes: redecoed from Energon Divebomb.
• Characters mentioned include: Divebomb, Ravage, and the Tripredacus Council.

Buzzsaw:

• Toy notes: redecoed from Energon Divebomb.
• Characters mentioned include: Megatron and Shockwave.

Tigatron/Unit 2:

• Toy notes: redecoed from Cybertron Clocker with a retooled head. (Shared with Cheetor)

Rumble:

• Toy notes: recolored from Cybertron Scrapmetal. with the alternate "Cobybot" head.
• Characters mentioned include: Frenzy, the Swarm, Unicron and Soundwave.
• Frenzy's death in Marvel Generation 2 comic issue #12 is mentioned.
• Apparently Rumble enjoys Bubblegum pop.

Inferno:

• Toy notes: recolored from Cybertron Scrapmetal
• Characters mentioned include: Megatron, Optimus Primal, and Unicron.
• Inferno is noted to be a Vehicon General, having survived the Beast Wars, unlike his main counterpart, who died in the final episode of the Beast Wars cartoon.

2007

Breakaway:

• Toy notes: redecoed from Energon Treadshot/Windrazor
• Characters mentioned: Primus and the Caretaker.
• Breakaway's bio is a shortened version of the one in the Club magazine.

Astrotrain:

• Toy notes: redecoed from Armada Jetfire
• Characters mentioned include: Megatron.
• Astrotrain left the main Decepticon force after the Unicron Battles.

Airazor:

• Several abilities mentioned come from Airazor's original bio.

Bug Bite:

• Characters mentioned include: Bludgeon.

Dreadwind:

• Characters mentioned include: Darkwing and Bludgeon.

Thundercracker:

• Characters mentioned include: Megatron, Starscream, Bludgeon, and Skywarp.
• Thundercracker leaves Megatron's forces because Starcream still serves with Megatron; Staracream murdered Thundercracker in Marvel Transformers issue #50.

Dirge: nothing notable.

Thrust:

• Characters mentioned include: Megatron and Bludgeon.
• Thrust was the last Decepticon brought back online by Megatron.

Alpha Trion:

• Characters mentioned include: other Alpha Trions.
• Alpha Trion's other name, A3, comes from Generation 1 cartoon episode Forever Is a Long Time Coming.
• Beta Maxx is named for the unsuccessful video format, the Betamax

Weirdwolf:

• Characters mentioned include: Fortress Maximus, Scorponok, and Monzo.

Springer:

• Characters mentioned include: Grimlock and Bludgeon.

Huffer:

• Characters mentioned include: Optimus Prime.

Mirage:

• Characters mentioned include: Unicron, Megatron, and Optimus Prime.

Overkill:

• Characters mentioned include: Grimlock.
• Overkill's size-changing glitch comes from his Marvel The Transformers Universe series.

TOTGD bios

Stopgap:

• Stopgap spent several years undercover on Edaps, which is backwards for Spade, and named after fictional detective Sam Spade.

Backslash:

• Mentioned characters: Cryotek, Sharkticons, Buzzbomb, Scoponok, Megatron.
• The eye optics used by several Predacons in Beast Wars are noted to be a popular modification among Predacons.

Buzzbomb:

• Mentioned characters include: Cryotek, Backslash.

Dirge:

• Mentioned characters include: Cryotek, Blot
• Among the possessions Dirges has "aquired" include the Hand of Blot (presumably the hand of the G1 Terrorcon), and the Boltaxian Codex found in the slums of Darkmount, named for Marvel-original Transformer Boltax.

Cryotek

• Mentioned characters include: Deathsaurus, Megatron.
• Before the end of the war, Cryotek worked as a supply manager under Deathsaurus.

Micro-Sized profiles

March 2nd profiles: Bunker-Buster, Knockdown, Nightscream, Offshoot, and Strongarm.

• Mentioned characters include: Scourge, Override, and Dirt Boss.
• Bunker-Buster is based off an unreleased redeco of the Attacktix Mini-Con mold, based on Energon Skyboom. Knockdown, Nightscream,Offshoot, and Strongarm were included with a special released of the Cybertron Primus toy, exclusive to Wal-Mart.
• Bunker-Buster is one of the lunar Mini-Con rebels under Thrust's command.
• Knockdown comes from the Jungle Planet.
• Nightscream comes from Gigantion. The idea that Gigantion's people were usually not allowed to return to lower levels comes from Cybertron episode Giant.
• Offshoot is from Velocitron, and is a partner of Dirt Boss; she shares his grudge with Override.
• Strongarm is one of the Earth-based Cybertronians, and works with the monster hunters (including Crosswise.) He is noted to have holomatter avatars, technology introduced in IDW's Infiltration.

March 9th profiles: Hawkeye, Highgear, Hydroplane, Rockslide, and Solar Flare.

• Mentioned characters include: Decepticlones, Backstop, Scourge, and Leobreaker.
• Hawkeye and Highgear come from the Armada video game, while Hydroplane, Rockslide, and Solar Flare are all renamed versions of Japanese Galaxy Force Toys"R"Us exclusives, here dubbed the Noble Force Mini-Con Team, and were made to be partner of Leobreaker (although he can't powerlinx with them).
• Hawkeye is based off of the character of "Hawkeye" Pierce from M*A*S*H.
• Highgear is convinced there is a planet dedicated to racing.
• The Noble Force Team were created by the Jungle Planet Key.
• "Hydroplaning" occurs when a car hits a thin sheet of water that causes it to lose direct contact with the ground and, thus, likely spin out or crash.

March 16th profiles: Aftershock, Breakage, Heavy Metal, Jumpstart, Kickflip, and Mudbath.

• Mentioned characters include: Terrorcons, Wreckage, the Land Military Mini-Con Team, and the Mini-Con Council of Sages.
• Aftershock and Jumpstart are from the Armada video game, while the others from the third wave of Micron Boosters.
• It is noted that combinations into a sentient Mini-Con is extremely difficult, which is why most combinations are into weapons.

March 23rd profiles: Barnstorm, Buildup, the Dead End Drones/Dead End Generals, Drop-Test, Flashbang, and the Matrix Cannon.

• Mentioned characters include: Terrorcons, Unicron, Galvatron, Failsafe, and Primus.
• Barnstorm comes from the 3rd wave of Micron Boosters, the Dead End Drones came from the 5th wave, and Drop-Test from the firt. Buildup, Flashbang, and Matrix Cannon come from the Armada video game.
• The Dead End Drone's schematics were obtained by Galvatron, presumably from his time in Unicron in Energon.
• Drop-Test's personality is based on Walter Sobchak from The Big Lebowski.
• The Transformer depicted holding the Matrix Cannon is a generic seen in the Armada episode Past, using Fortress Maximus' character model. Nicknamed Christmas Maximus, he would later get the name Peritus Maximus from Ask Vector Prime.

May 4th: Astro-Hook, Astro-Line, Astro-Sinker, Claymore, and Overwatch.

• Mentioned characters include: Astrotrain and Starcatcher.
• Overwatch and Claymore come from the Armada video game. Astro-Train, Astro-Line, and Astro-Sinker are three of club exclusive Astrotrain's Mini-Con partners.

May 18th: Kickback, Repeater, Rock Krusher, Saw Boss, and Starscatcher.

• Mentioned characters include: Metroplex, Drill Bit, and Astrotrain.
• Kickback is from the Armada video game; Repeater, Rock Krusher, and Saw Boss were Galaxy Force exclusive Mini-Cons; Starcatcher is one of the Mini-Con partners of club exclusive Astrotrain.
• Rock Krusher is named for one of the Crooks in the Hasbro toyline COPS. Saw Boss, meanwhile, is named for the main villain of the Mattel toyline Wheeled Warriors.
• Starcatcher graduated from the Eeviac Science Academy, named for Man or Astro-man? album EEVIAC Operational Index and Reference Guide, Including Other Modern Computational Devices.

May 25th: Flashdrive, Jackknife, Maverick, Skull Buster, Smackdown, and the Vorpal Saber.

• Mentioned characters: Barnstorm, Trickshot, Unicron, Nemesis Prime, the Star Saber. the Skyboom Shield, and the Requiem Blaster.
• Flashdrive was part of the third wave of Micron Boosters; Jackknife, Maverick, and Skull Buster were Micron Legend exclusive Mini-Cons; Smackdown comes from the Armada video game.
• A male character named Trickshot is mentioned in Flashdrive's bio; presumably, this was meant to be the American name of the Mini-Con Triac. Because the Wiki didn't record this, Ask Vector Prime would later establish them as a female character named Bingo.
• Skull Buster is named for the G.I. Joe character.
• Smackdown's mannerisms are based on Dwayne Johnson.
• The Vorpal Saber is named for the "vorpal sword" from Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem the Jabberwocky.

June 8th: Covert, Flashbox, Heavy Barrel, Highjump, Lookout, and Road Rebel.

• Mentioned characters: Laserbeak, Megatron, and Buzzsaw.
• Covert, Highjump, and Lookout come from the Armada video game; Flashbox is a generic Mini-Con from the Armada episode Miracle. Heavy Barrel is from the fourth wave of Micron Boosters, while Road Rebel is from the second.