Simacore (RID)

Simacore is a Decepticon from the Robots in Disguise portion of the Aligned continuity family.

You are right, I have always known about man. From the evidence, I believe his wisdom must walk hand and hand with his idiocy.

Sneering and dismissive, Simacore knows that he's smart. This haughty Decepticon scientist sees no reason why he shouldn't lord his superior cerebration over the simpletons that dare to challenge his obvious intellectual superiority. If they were half as brilliant as he is, they wouldn't even think of competing against him in a test of brains or brawn. Unlike most eggheads, Simacore also boasts prodigious strength that goes hand-in-hand with a nasty temper, meaning that he's just as likely to pound your face in as he is to belittle your intelligence.

As a Deployer, Simacore has formed a partnership with the equally conceited Mini-Cons Axiom and Theorem. In spite of their frequent (well, constant) bickering, they make ideal research assistants. If things get really, er, hairy, they're more than happy to serve as backup in a fight, distracting foes before Simacore lays the smackdown.

“	How unusual to find Deductive skills, in a Dinobot.	”
—Simacore praising Grimlock's motive, "Metal Meltdown"

Fiction

2015 Robots in Disguise cartoon

Voice actor: Matthew Yang King (English), Tōru Ōkawa (Japanese), Cesare Rasini (Italian)

Dr. Zira, I must caution you. Experimental brain surgery on these creatures is one thing, and I'm all in favor of it.

On Cybertron, Simacore was a famously temperamental scientist. After an experiment went wrong, he took his frustrations out on his colleagues, which resulted in his imprisonment aboard the Alchemor. When the ship crashed on Earth, Simacore and his Mini-Cons escaped. To get back home, Simacore planned to build a starship. He broke into a particle research laboratory and stole a secondary control circuit from a particle accelerator. Before he could escape, he was confronted by Bumblebee, Strongarm, and a temporarily superintelligent Grimlock.

Simacore took advantage of Grimlock's newfound clumsiness to defeat him, then quickly clobbered Strongarm and Bumblebee before escaping. Realizing that Grimlock had made off with his circuitboard while he was preoccupied, he set off to confront the Dinobot, who had locked himself in an observation room. After realizing that he and his Mini-Cons were incapable of breaking through, Simacore took the other two Autobots hostage and magnetized them to a particle accelerator. With only a few minutes before the beam fired, Grimlock - who had been returned to his normal intellect, albeit temporarily immobilized- called Simacore to the observation room, where he intended to challenge the Decepticon to a contest of intelligence. Grimlock, Fixit, Denny, and Russell managed to stall Simacore long enough for Grimlock to regain mobility, whereupon he flattened the Decepticon with his signature cannonball move. Simacore and his Mini-Cons were subsequently put back in a stasis pod. Brainpower

Notes

• Simacore uses an altered version of Groundpounder's gorilla-themed character model, altered to resemble an Bornean orangutan.
• He seems to be a loose homage to Perceptor. Both are red and teal scientists, and his alternate mode resembles the toy Perceptor got in 2010.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Simacore (シマコア Shimakoa)