Blackout (G1)
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- Blackout is a Decepticon Micromaster from the Generation 1 continuity family.
As the high-ranking co-commander of the powerful Decepticon Anti-Aircraft Base, Blackout's duties include inspiring his troops with the usual rousing speeches about determination and devotion to duty. However, when the chips are down, Blackout's immediate reaction is to forget all that crap and run for his life. Basically a coward, Blackout probably couldn't hold it together at all if not for fear of disappointing his legitimately valiant partner, Spaceshot.
Fiction
Beast Wars: Uprising
Blackout and Spaceshot were sisters, and among the few Decepticons who remained mobile on a post-war Cybertron thanks to their more energy-efficient Micromaster bodies. As part of Hot Rod's team operating out of Micropolis, they helped counter the efforts of the Resistance, who sought to overthrow the current Cybertronian government, the Builders of Cybertron.
The sisters were called to attend a meeting after the rebel Maximal Grimlock managed to steal a potent weapon, the G-Virus. After being brought up to date on the situation, Hot Rod dispatched his team to help guard what he foresaw as being the terrorists' most likely target: Tesarus Arena during the upcoming gladiatorial games.
Hot Rod's prediction turned out to be accurate. When Grimlock and his team's intrusion was detected, Hot Rod had Blackout and Spaceshot accompany him to confront the trespassers. After dodging an ion disc lobbed at them by The Man Terror, the sisters occupied themselves with the Predacon and his fellow rebel, Snapper, while Hot Rod tussled with Grimlock himself. Spaceshot was defeated and dismembered by the Man Terror, sending Blackout into a rage. She avenged her sister by blowing the Predacon to scrap, only to be herself taken out of the fight when Snapper collapsed some rubble down onto her. Micro-Aggressions
Toys
Generation 1
- Decepticon Anti-Aircraft Base (Micromaster Combiner, 1990)
- Accessories: "Anti-Aircraft Base" tank, "scout vehicle", ramp, 2 cannons, bazooka, communications dish, "radar drum", missile launcher
- Blackout transforms into the front half of a blue and gray B-1 bomber jet. He was sold exclusively in a set which includes Spaceshot (who transforms into the rear end of said jet), and the Anti-Aircraft Base. As a Micromaster Combiner, Blackout can combine with any other Micromaster Combiner, Combiner Transport, or Micro Trailer to form new and excitingly unworkable vehicle modes (although combining him with anyone but Spaceshot requires him to be slightly mistransformed, as his arms extend backwards beyond his connection point).
- Blackout is unique among Micromasters—being the only Micromaster able to turn his head.
This makes him great for drunk driving poses in the little jeep that comes with his Anti-Aircraft Base.
Notes
- Dreamwave's More than Meets the Eye profile books accidentally reversed the character models for Blackout and Spaceshot, portraying Spaceshot as the front half of their combined vehicle mode and Blackout as the rear half. This error carried over into the bio text as well, so it is entirely possible that the personality assigned to Blackout was intended for Spaceshot, and vice versa.
- That mistake reappeared almost ten years later when, for reasons unknown, Spaceshot was featured in a character lineup on Hubworld.com's Generation 1 cartoon page, visually represented by Dreamwave's erroneous Blackout art.[1]
