Spike Witwicky (G1)
Spike Witwicky is the oldest (or only) son of Sparkplug Witwicky.
Fiction
Animated continuity
Voice Actor: Corey Burton (US), Show Hayami → Masashi Ebara (Japan)
Spike was an adolescent woking with his father Sparkplug on an oil rig, when the Decepticons attacked. After the Autobots rescued them, they volunteered to become their native guides to planet Earth.
Spike had many adventures with the Autobots. In the course of these adventures he met Carly an impetuous prodigy and MIT graduate. Despite being smarter than him, older than thim (she could drive) and hotter than him, Carly displayed a noticable affection for the somewhat-dim Spike. They mated and produced offspring.
Spike later become an ambassador or something. He polished up good.
Marvel Comics continuity
Generation 1
(Note: Events from the UK-only comic stories are in italics.)
Spike Witwicky was away at college for the first few years of the Autobot/Decepticon war on Earth until he returned home to find his younger brother Buster kidnapped by the Decepticons. Spike soon became the binary-bond partner to the Headmaster Fortress Maximus, after Fortress Maximus' first partner, Galen, was killed in a battle with the Deception Scorponok.
In an alternate timeline in the year 2009, Decepticons had built a machine to destroy Earth while a space-time anomaly was eating entire planets. After Rodimus Prime orchestrated a plan to travel twenty years back in time to the source of the anomaly, Spike Witwicky and his son Daniel accused Rodimus of shirking his responsibilities towards Earth and guilted Rodimus into allotting more troops to help destroy the Decepticons' machine.
In another alternate timeline in the year 2009, Spike Witwicky was part of a very small Autobot/human resistance movement in a world where Galvatron II's Decepticons controlled North America. The handful of Autobots who remained alive despaired and were on the cusp of giving up, but Spike and Lisa (who shared growing feelings for each other) guilted them into one last suicidal attack on Decepticon headquarters in New York before the rest of the world could unleash a nuclear holocaust onto America at midnight. Though there were several casualties, Spike managed to hoist an American flag on the Decepticon stronghold on live television, a symbollic measure which prompted the end of the planned nuclear strike. Before Galvatron II could respond, the Decepticon despot was abducted by Hook, Line, and Sinker into another timeline.
Generation 2
He blowed up good.
Dreamwave Comics continuity
Toys
Generation 1
- Fortress Maximus with Spike (Headmaster, 1987)
- Spike was a Headmaster figure who came with Fortress Maximus. Gray and blue, he transformed into Cerebros' head, who then in turn became Fortress Maximus' head. Although the tech specs referred to 'the Nebulan leader, Spike', most assume it was supposed to represent the character from TV, making this the first Transformers toy of an Earth human.
Heroes of Cybertron
- Autobot Espionage Team
- PVC figures of Spike and Bumblebee came sold together as "Autobot Espionage Team." (At this point, Hasbro did not have the trademark rights to Bumblebee's name.) The two came packaged with HOC Fortress Maximus' right leg.
