Outlier (group)
Outliers are Transformers who possess abilities that have no apparent connection to their alternate mode. Persecuted in the Functionist era of Cybertron, some were hidden away within the Jhiaxian Academy of Advanced Technology, spending their time learning to control their extraordinary powers to protect the world that hated and feared them.
Known outliers include:
- Windcharger, whose arms act as magnets.
- Damus, better known by his alias "Glitch", an empurata victim with the ability to render non-sentient objects non-functional by touching them.
- Skids, who can quickly perfect any new skill he wants to. Later underwent a stress induced secondary mutation, the effect of which is unknown.
- Trailbreaker, who can generate forcefields.
- Skywarp, who can teleport.
- Soundwave, who has hearing so strong he can pick up thoughts.
- Ragnarok, who can bud identical copies of himself.
- Carnivac, whose sonic powers can debilitate other Cybertronians.
- Tailgate, who suffered a stress related mutation and developed enhanced strength, speed, and durability.
- Hubcap, who possesses a mastery of electromagnetic signals.
- Mindwipe, who has telepathic powers.
Fiction
IDW Generation 1 continuity
Senator Shockwave opened a school known as the Jhiaxian Academy of Advanced Technology, Shockwaves where Cybertronians could not only study science, but outliers could go to live safely and develop their abilities. Skids joined the academy as a trainee theoretician Patternism and Shockwave soon began to suspect he was also an outlier. An Intimate Beheading
Senator Shockwave and Captain Orion Pax would call on the aid of Windcharger, Glitch, and Skids to help steal the explosive fake Matrix housed in Nominus Prime's corpse. While they succeeded, Shockwave's patronage of his "outlier army" would be discovered in the process, and he was subjected to empurata and mind-warping "shadowplay" as a result. An Intimate Beheading
Ask Vector Prime
Ragnarok was an Outlier whose body could sporadically undergo an involuntary budding event. Unlike the normal process, his copies possessed both CNA and memories identical to those of the original Ragnarok. Ask Vector Prime, 25/6/2015
Swindle, Swindle and Swindle had a Transmetal driver software patch to deal with uncontrolled Outlier abilities. Swindle's Spiel, 4/10/2015
Notes
- Nautica is named as a suspected outlier in issue #31 of More Than Meets The Eye.
