Rock Lord
In uncharted regions of the universe, creatures from Quartex sleep undisturbed by light or civilization. Though their dormant state may resemble common asteroids, this camouflage conceals their true ferocity. Feared by robots, their appetite for metal is matched only by their ferocious strength in battle. They are legend. They are... the Rock Lords!
Fiction
Animated cartoon
After untold aeons of peaceful slumber, a cluster of Rock Lords was abruptly awakened by an unexpected, light-emitting intruder in their midst. No sooner did they swarm over the massive alien than it vanished. Still, the disturbance was not a complete disappointment: a moment later, a small but tasty-looking... thing appeared in the intruder's place, and was quickly devoured by the nearest Rock Lord.
Sated, the devourer prepared to return to sleep, but was disturbed to find itself suddenly alone in an alien, gravity-bound environment. Even worse, light now constantly poured down on it from some new, horrible menace. Destroying everything in its path, it might have found an escape from this terrible place if it weren't for a tiny, irritatingly quick assailant that shattered the Rock Lord into hundreds of pieces. The three smaller Rock Lords that regenerated from its shattered body hardly stood a chance. TransWarped
The Cool comic
A Rock Lord battled Team Athenia somewhere in space, easily trouncing them until Rodimus got everyone working together to figure out its weakness and destroying it. The Cool Extra issue 2
Ask Vector Prime
There were Rock Lords in the Xobitor universes too!
In the universe of Aurex 615.03 Epsilon, Maximals and Predacons took the form of Rock Lords as part of the "Colossus War" on Rock Planet.
Sideways boasts he's dated some "fem-rocks".
Cy-Kill finds the Gargent ones pathetic. He was asked to tell us more about them.
When Gong and Sideways mucked about with time and space, mixing up a Gargent world with a Primax universe circa 2005, the Rock Lords showed up in a universe in place of the Junkions. The evil warlord Magmar launched an attack on a combined Guardian/Autobot force and almost wiped them out, but Hot Rod and Kup had made contact with goodie rocks under Boulder. These Rock Lords drove off Magmar's goons, allowing Major Mo and his Autobot/Guardians to head after Galvatron. Echoes and Fragments
Renegade Rhetoric
Eons ago, a civilization of advanced, organic Ro-Beings on the planet Quartex were threatened by the stellar radiation from a nearby star. Their connection to nature and dislike of technology prompted them to hatch a plan: every living being would be fused with rock at the moment the radiation wave hit. The process was imperfect, and almost all of the Rock Lords had forgotten who they once were.
Several important battles in the conflict between Guardian and Renegade involved Rock Lords. The Renegades failed to disrupt a diplomatic mission from the good Rock Lords to Gobotron. Evil Rock Lord Stoneheart attempted to kidnap the lead singer of the High Rollahz in advance of an interstellar concert. The Renegades temporarily forced the Fossil Lords to aid them. The Ro-Guns helped Boulder and the good Rock Lord forces when they were trapped by Magmar. And the Combiner Wars which ultimately decided the conflict decisively for the Guardians involved a team up between the Renegades and the evil Rock Lords and the Guardians and the good Rock Lords. Transformers: Renegade Rhetoric
| Name | Alternate mode | Profile | Other notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boulder | Tungsten | Boulder leads the heroic Rock Lords against the machinations of his mortal enemy Magmar. He's a good friend of Leader-1, and has aided the Guardians on plenty of adventures. On one notable escapade, he found himself fighting alongside the RoGuns in a joint effort to upset Magmar's Tumbler Tower and its power over plate tectonics. | In the amalgam reality created by Sideways, Boulder and the Rock Lords filled in for the Junkions. |
| Nuggit | Gold | Unlike the other Rock Lords, Nuggit is a purely mechanical robot! The last surviving artifact of the original Ro-Being civilization, he possesses the ability to interface with the lost library of Clastixandria. In the wake of the final Renegade-Guardian conflict, he did just that, restoring the knowledge of the original Ro-Beings to the other Rock Lords and transforming Quartex into a paradise once more. | |
| Granite | Take a guess. | Granite is probably a fairly tough guy. | In the amalgam reality, Granite was among the Rock Lords who ambushed the stranded Autobots and Guardians after they crash-landed on Quartex. |
| Marbles | Cristobalite | A powerful psychic, Marbles possess the ability to see the future; when Magmar sprang a trap for Boulder's tribe of Rock Lords, Marbles was the only one who managed to see through the deception. He wound up working with the visiting RoGun Squirt, and the two ran up against Slimestone after discovering Magmar's plan to control the Tumbler Tower. | In the amalgam reality created by Sideways, Marbles kissed Grimlock. |
| Crackpot | Azurite | Crackpot is a bit of a goof, but he loves human culture. Boulder reluctantly allowed him to stage a Ned Dilettante concert in Quartex's Ingot Ampitheatre. When Magmar and the Renegades crashed the concert, Crackpot teamed up with Nick and the Guardians to set things right before Boulder even knew what had happened. Crackpot saved the day, thanks to a nearby heard of narlirhinos. | |
| Pulver-Eyes | Dolomite | Pulver-Eyes is big, slow, and a little uncouth, but that didn't stop Boulder from bringing him to Gobotron to formalize a peace treaty between the Rock Lords and Guardians. | Don't mess with Pulver Eyes, or he'll... well.. you know. |
| Solitaire | Diamond | Solitaire is one of the few surviving Jewel Lords. She's on good terms with Boulder, and on one occasion the two travelled to Gobotron to sign a peace treaty. She was present during the final conflict of the Renegade-Guardian war on Quartex, overseeing a cooperation treaty between Gobotron, Earth, and Quartex. After Leader-1 and Boulder were taken hostage after Cy-Kill's "Nemesis" combiner attacked, she briefly took command of the Guardians. In the aftermath she and Nuggit reactivated the original library of Clastixandria. | |
| Flamestone | Ruby | Flamestone is another Jewel Lord. During Cy-Kill's Nemesis attack, Flamestone tangled with Terra-Roc. | |
| Sunstone | Amber | Sunstone's pompous attitude annoyed Turbo when the Guardians and heroic Rock Lords convened with UNECOM to sign a treaty, yet in the ensuing fight Turbo was glad to have Sunstone on his side during a Renegade attack; Sunstone fought against Spike Stone and teamed up with Turbo against nine other evil Rock Lords. | |
| Jaw Bone | Combiner head | The noble Jaw Bone leads the Fossil Lords, a sub-group of combining Rock Lords. He has a daughter named Ulna. When Cy-Kill sought to take advantage of the Fossil Lord's combining power, he took Ulna hostage and forced the Fossil Lords to attack UNECOM. Fortunately, Leader-1 managed to put things right, and after the Guardians had rescued Ulna, the Fossil Lords turned on Cy-Kill. | The Fossil Lords didn't appear in Battle of the Rock Lords. |
| Rib Cage | Combiner chest | Like the other Fossil Lords, Rib Cage was blackmailed into joining the Renegades until the Guardians saved the day. They appeared again to battle Monsterous during Cy-Kill's combiner attack on Quartex. | |
| Hip Bone | Combiner legs | Like the other Fossil Lords, Hip Bone was blackmailed into joining the Renegades until the Guardians saved the day. They appeared again to battle Monsterous during Cy-Kill's combiner attack on Quartex. | |
| Tail Bone | Combiner tail | Like the other Fossil Lords, Tail Bone was blackmailed into joining the Renegades until the Guardians saved the day. They appeared again to battle Monsterous during Cy-Kill's combiner attack on Quartex. | |
| Fossilsaurus | Combiner | The awesomely powerful Fossilsaurus is the combined form of all four Rock Lords; a gigantic robotic fossil dinosaur. When merged, Fossilsaurus is an almost unstoppable juggernaut able to easily break apart Courageous. | Fossilsaurus is way cooler than any of the dinosaur combiners we got in Transformers. |
| Rock Roller | As a Shock Rock, Rock Roller transforms into a free-rolling rock. He accompanied Boulder and Solitaire on a diplomatic visit to Gobotron, where he was framed by Cy-Kill and Bug Bite. |
Notes
- The Rock Lords began as a one-off homage to Tonka's GoBots' spinoff toyline the Rock Lords (tagline: Powerful Living Rocks!), which appeared in GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords and came from the planet Quartex. Actual Tonka Rock Lords characters Nuggit, Brimstone, Boulder, Granite and Spearhead make easter egg appearances as crowd-filling NAILs in IDW's Robots in Disguise #4.
- The AllSpark Almanac II retconned in that the GoBots were their universe's Transformers, with Gobotron as a form of Primus. This would presumably make these Rock Lords those Rock Lords as well! Hasbro franchise Robotix (also retconned into being versions of Transformers) also had transforming rock creatures and in 2015 Fun Publications' Ask Vector Prime explicitly made them the same Rock Lords! See what happens when you let fans run the asylum?
