Joe (G1)
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- Joe is an Autobot Micromaster from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Joe (ジョー Jō) is a friendly, sociable type who is always willing to offer a fellow Autobot his counsel and ease their worries. This dovetails well with his job as the information analyst of the Liner Team. He uses his remote probe Gripper to gather data from afar, carefully analyze it and help the team formulate plans. Joe can also manipulate radio waves, which presumably aids him in his information gathering.
Fiction
Micromaster
Joe was one of many Cyberdroids who evolved into Micromasters thanks to a mysterious energy wave. Finding themselves on Earth, they blended into human society and fought against those Micromasters who had evolved into Decepticons. A New Transformer Legend Begins!!
Joe and Sireen developed a vaccine program to counter the Reverse Evolution virus, a Decepticon weapon that had turned the rest of the Turbo Team into Decepticons. Enter the Urban Disaster Relief Specialists!! He also assisted Converter with scans that revealed a special stratum below a dormant volcano. Sixtrain! Activate Red Mode!! After the creation of the Metrobase at the volcano, Joe, Converter and Crush-Bull uncovered a mysterious life-pod in the middle of a pitched battle that released a pulse of tachyon energy, knocking all of the Micromasters temporarily offline. The Menace of Landcross's Combining Formation!
The Battlestars manga and story pages
Years later, Joe and the rest of the Liner Team were recruited by Sky Garry into the ranks of the Battlestars. Great Six Combination Warrior Sixliner!
Wars comics
When the Fallen attempted to consume the power of Vector Sigma for himself, Metroplex gathered the Autobot trains in defense of Cybertron. Joe and the Liner Team joined forces with the Trainbots and Train Team in a massive coupling that restrained the Fallen long enough for Shouki and Goshooter to finish him off. Train Wars 2
Toys
Return of Convoy
- Sixliner (Micromaster Sixteam, 1991)
- Japanese ID number: C-370
- Originally released in a giftset with his fellow Micromaster trains, Joe transforms into a Super Hitachi bullet train engine. His rear socket-hitch allows him to connect end-to-end with any fellow train or combiner kibble weapon with a peg-hitch. He can form either leg to the two train-team combiners, but his nominal placement is as the right leg of Sixliner.
Micromaster
- Joe (Micromaster, 2002)
- Sixliner ID number: 5
- Accessories: Sixliner right & left fists
- Joe and his teammates were re-released in Japan in 2002 as the first assortment of The Transformers: Micromaster, this time sold in identical individual boxes, identifiable only by the number on their instruction sheets visible through a small hole in the box. Like the rest of the Micromaster figures, Joe's stickers were either replaced with tampographs or dropped entirely, though he did gain a few new spots of color.
Notes
- Joe, like all of the six-team Micromasters, had no individual bio information whatsoever until his Micromaster release a decade after his original Return of Convoy release.
- Joe is the only Sixliner mold to not be redecoed or retooled for the later Sixtrain toy; the robot in his place in that set is the entirely-new mold Windy.
- Though his Micromaster bio specifically assigns him the Gripper probe, the original Return of Convoy Sixliner instruction booklet shows Alan towing it.
