Scourge (RID)
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- Scourge is a Decepticon from the Robots in Disguise continuity family.
A protoform scanning mishap resulted in a Decepticon protoform attaining attributes of Optimus Prime yet retaining the Decepticon programming. This protoform became Scourge. Scourge is arguably Megatron's second in command, leading the new Decepticon forces, a much more effective unit than Sky-Byte's Predacons.
He is a ruthless and cunning warrior who contains all of Optimus Prime's strengths and skill, but none of his compassion and mercy. He's also a very ambitious warrior, with plans to dethrone Megatron!
Natrually, Sky-Byte sees Scourge as a threat on just about every level. For once, he's right.
- Japanese name: Black Convoy
Fiction
Robots in Disguise cartoon
- Voice actor: ? (US), ? (Japan)
Dreamwave comics
Toys
Robots in Disguise
- Black Convoy (Destronger, 2000)
- Japanese ID number: D-012
- A repaint of the Laser Optimus Prime mold, Black Convoy is a black semi cab with teal paint apps, and darkish pink windows. His trailer is chrome, and he lacks all of Laser Prime's stickers. The toy lacks all of Laser Prime's electronics, to keep costs down. However, the arms still are restricted in motion, to prevent breaking the wires that no longer exist in the toy.
- Due to the molded G2 Autobot symbols on the discs Black Convoy's launcher has, Takara made Black Convoy's faction symbol the G2 Autobot one, but upside down.
- Scourge (Decepticon, 2002)
- The US release of Black Convoy, sold exclusively at Toys-R-Us. Virtually identical to Black Convoy, the only changes are that red translucent plastic replaces all the pink, and Decepticon sigils replace the G2 Autobot. Hasbro remolded the discs to make them blank, removing the faction symbol. The only change in paint is that Scourge has Decepticon sigils tampographed on his doors, while lacking Black Convoy's teal "stripe" along the cab's nose.
- X-Brawn / Scourge (Basic, 2002)
- Destructicon Scourge (Kay-Bee Toys exclusive, 2003)
- Destructicon Scourge is a redeco of Hero Optimus Prime. In either robot mode or tanker mode, he carries a missile launcher that fires when its air silo is squeezed. Scourge comes with two foam-tipped missiles which can store on his back in robot mode.
- By the time this toy was released, its tooling had degraded somewhat since Hero Prime's original production run. As a result, neither robot nor vehicle mode held together very well on many specimens. Additionally, keeping his missiles stored was difficult, as they liked to pop out from their storage clips involuntarily.
Trivia
- Scourge's color scheme pretty much set the tone for the parade of evil clones that would follow for the next five years.
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