Brawn (SG)
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- Brawn is an evil Autobot from the Shattered Glass continuity family.
Icy and detached, Brawn is a brawler who'll punch you in the face with his nucleon shock gauntlets, or wipe the floor with you using his Tekkaido moves.
He later got reformatted as X-Brawn.
Fiction
Shattered Glass
Brawn was on board the Ark when it traveled to Earth and crashed into the ocean off the United States' west coast. He ended up later being part of the group of Autobots that met up with Rodimus when the wayward Autobot (who had been the only one to reach an escape pod before the crash) finally arrived at the Ark's crash site. Goldbug initially ordered Brawn to transform Rodimus forcibly back to robot mode, then dismember him, but Rodimus was able to talk his way out of it before Brawn could do the deed.
He then was part of the assault force that hijacked the Burpleson Air Force Base so Rodimus could fulfill his plan to use the humans' Global Orbiting Defense Satellites to hold Earth hostage unless they met his demands.
Afterwards, when the Decepticons tried having Soundwave and their human allies infiltrate the base with a cover story, Brawn was assigned to be their "chaperone". Soundwave decided to signal for an all-out attack as a distraction, which proved to be successful, as Brawn ended up leaving them to defend against the assault. Eye in the Sky
Months later, Brawn and Elita-One headed up a scheme to create attack drones out of Earth cars via a rigged car wash. When the Decepticons arrived to interfere, Brawn intercepted and faced off against Bombshell. He initially was able to hold his own, throwing a barrage of Earth cars the Insecticon was forced to dodge, and easily blocking a retaliatory anestho-shell with his gauntlets. However, when he had his mind assaulted by Blitzwing's new sonic powers, it distracted him enough for a second shell to connect and send him into unconsciousness.
The Decepticons eventually proved to be too much for Elita-One on her own, so she draped the still-snoozing Brawn over her altmode and high-tailed it back to the Ark.
Later, Brawn had recovered from his unconscious spell, though he and the Autobots found themselves now hearing Blitzwing's sonic assault constantly. Brawn explained that the signal was causing problems on the emergency frequency where it couldn't be shut off, and advised simply ignoring it. When Rodimus pointed out that didn't seem to be working very well, Brawn's wincing reaction confirmed Rodimus's suspicions and belied Brawn's earlier advice. Blitzwing Bop
Brawn was among the Autobots who sprung an ambush on a group of Decepticons. Once they were tied up, he and Ratchet had to restrain Swoop from attacking the prisoners. After R.J. Blackrock turned up in a Centurion battle mech, Brawn attempted to attack him, only to be surprised by a hefty kick. Transhuman
Following a particularly bad defeat on Earth at the hands of the Decepticons, Brawn was among the Autobots who left for Cybertron aboard Sky Lynx. When their ride announced they would have to lighten their load, Brawn, being among the most badly wounded of the Autobots, was dumped out of the airlock along with Optimus Prime and a number of others. They subsequently found themselves in the presence of Unicron. Familiar Reflections
Brawn was transformed into X-Brawn, one of the Knights of Unicron serving the equally transformed Nova Prime. They returned to Cybertron to help Nova Prime overthrow Rodimus and his chaotic ways. Out of the One, Many
Toys
Transformers (2007)
- Strongarm (Scout, 2007)
- Accessories: Crane boom/rifle, spare tire halves, Autobot-type energon star
- Strongarm is a redeco of the Energon series Strongarm toy, transforming into a Cybertronic jeep. He has a clear-plastic "energon" crane-boom/rifle and spare tire which can combine to form a large axe.
- This mold was also used to make BotCon 2005 Fallback and 2007 movie Crosshairs. The axe mold was separated and used for multiple Takara promotional energon weapons, as well as being released in reddish-orange with the Japanese "Wild" redeco of Energon Ironhide.
Notes
- The concept of Brawn's gauntlets likely stems from the unreleased Universe (2003) Brawn figure, which would also have been a redeco of the Strongarm toy and featured snap-on energon gauntlets. According to the creator of this character, you can use the spare tire halves as shock gauntlets by putting them in his fists.[1]
- His X-Brawn design is based on Combiner Wars Rook with a new head and Robots in Disguise (2001) X-Brawn's color scheme.
