Scrash (G1)

This article is about the Decepticon from Operation Combination. For the Decepticon from Animated, see Scrash (Animated).

Scrash is a Decepticon from the Operation Combination portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

The mysterious Decepticon High Regent Scrash (スクラッシュ Sukurasshu) commands the Decepticon forces from afar as they try to plunder the Earth of its energy. His troops consist of the mighty Battle Gaia, the Jet Corps, and the Master Chaos Power Core Combiners. Some accounts claim that he apparently turns into a large jet, but his true nature remains a mystery, with several events suggesting he has no body of his own, but rather possesses different forms as he chooses.

Fiction

Ask Vector Prime

The full origins of Scrash are unknown. Vector Prime called him a "bodiless terror", and explained that he was the product of "military science gone awry", but refrained from revealing any more details about his creation. Ask Vector Prime, 17/9/2015

e-HOBBY comics

By the year 2034, Scrash had possessed the body of the Decepticon Skyquake and secretly formed a new splinter faction of Decepticons, of which the Autobot-turned-Decepticon Eagle Eye was a member. Having sensed the coming of a new age, Scrash had ordered Eagle Eye to track down the Decepticon outcast Magnificus to convince the fugitive to join their team, as Scrash sought to exploit Magnificus's special psychometric powers. Badlands

United EX

In 2035, Scrash oversaw the Decepticons' new "Master Chaos" sub-group in its attempts to steal the new Power Core Combination technology that the Autobots had developed alongside humankind. When Combatmaster succeeded in purloining a set of drones intended for Choppermaster, he reported his success to Scrash, who then instructed him to release Battle Gaia in order to create a distraction that would allow them to continue their thefts. Prelude to the Siege

The Operation Combination story pages (see below) occur at this point.

The location of the Decepticons' base was revealed to the Autobots by Tankmaster, who held no loyalty to Scrash. Ocean Encounter Using this information, the Autobots staged an attack on the excavated mountain cave the Decepticons were operating out of, during which their human ally Clouder, piloting the lifeless Assaultmaster mecha, entered the cave itself. This was when Scrash struck, speaking directly into Clouder's mind and revealing that he had no body of his own, but that Assaultmaster would serve his needs perfectly... Hope for the Next Generation

The full details of subsequent events are unknown, but Scrash's possession of the Assaultmaster body resulted in a catastrophic event known as the "Prime Mode Plague of 2036." Scrash was ultimately defeated, but the details of this plague and most information about Scrash himself was locked away, along with the Energon Matrix technology that powered Power Core Combination. Ask Vector Prime, 17/9/2015

Operation Combination story pages

Commanding the Decepticons from a distance, Scrash ordered Battle Gaia and the Jet Corps to attack the Earth and plunder it of energy. The Decepticons only made it as far as Earth's orbit, where they were defeated by the Autobot Scrum Combination. Scrash was oddly absent from the battle, however... Conclusion

Operation Combination telephone audio adventures

At some point, Scrash commanded Flashwing, Deathplay, Darkfly, and Sharpedge in a bid to conquer Earth, joining the battle in his massive jet mode. Unfortunately for him and his minions, he was defeated by the new Autobots defending Earth, but primarily Sixbuilder. Kiss Players timeline

Eventually, Scrash's bid for Earth would fail. His legacy would leave the human race deeply skeptical about the Cybertron Alliance, leading to the murder of Kiloton and the recommencement of Autobot-Decepticon hostilities. Ask Vector Prime, 17/9/2015

Toys

No toy of Scrash was ever released, and he did not actually appear in any Operation Combination fiction, being mentioned only in its background material. Use of the Turbomasters and Predators in the Operation Combination toyline, coupled with the fact that he turns into a large jet, led fans to conjecture that Scrash would have been the Japanese version of the toy known in Hasbro markets as Skyquake; the fact that in some European markets Skyquake was sold under the name Crash seems to support this. Skyquake was also released in Japan in the European packaging, with only some legal information on the back changed to Japanese, which seems to bear the idea out further. Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II went along with this theory by showing an Animated character called "Air General Scrash" who looks very much like Skyquake. The fiction produced for the Transformers United EX toyline appeared to at long last show Scrash in its third chapter, when an image based on Skyquake appeared on a computer screen (pictured at the head of this article), but subsequent revelations changed the context for the image.

Notes

• Scrash's title in Japanese is sōtō (総統). This has various possible translations, including "supreme ruler", "president", "generalissimo", and the fandom's long-standing favorite (partially for its comedy value), "führer". With the United EX storyline, writer Andrew Hall elected to translate the term as "High Regent", using the word's meaning—an individual who acts as leader due to the absence of the real ruler—as a springboard to expand on Scrash's role in both this story and Operation Combination.