Needler (G1)
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- Needler is a Decepticon Action Master partner from the toyline portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Needler is the mechanoid partner to Bombshell, who uses his pincers and flamethrowers to destroy anything Bombshell doesn't mind-warp first.
Fiction
Dreamwave Generation One continuity
Bombshell used a type of cerebro-shell patterned on Needler. Infestation
This shell probably does not represent Needler him/itself. Needler's connection to cerebro-shell technology (if any) is unknown but can likely be attributed to Dreamwave's rampant use of Easter eggs.
Toys
Generation 1
- Bombshell with Needler (Action Master, 1991)
- Needler is a robotic scarab who was only sold with the Action Master version of Bombshell, available only in the European markets. He can plug into Bombshell's back, and pressing a trigger flips his head up and over Bombshell's, forming a battle mask of sorts.
Notes
- In Dreamwave's More than Meets the Eye profile series, every Action Master partner robot profiled was retroactively given the "Targetmaster" classification, though the partners to characters who had previous, non-Action Master toys were omitted from the books' lineup. However, the across-the-board application of the Targetmaster term for those that did appear makes a pretty clear inference that all of the Action Master partner-bots are Targetmasters... at least, as far as the Dreamwave universe is concerned.
