Ironhide (Movie)
| The name or term "Ironhide" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Ironhide (disambiguation). |
- Ironhide is an Autobot from the Movie continuity family.
Ironhide is the Autobot's resident weapons specialist and Optimus Prime's old friend. He is old because he is hard. He's probably had enough replacement parts to build a small army, but Ironhide doggedly refuses to roll over and die for anyone. He'll fight to the bitter end and take down more than his fair share of Decepticons in the process.
He has more guns than a smaller third-world country.
Fiction
Official Movie Prequel comic
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Transformers (2007) movie
- Voice actor: Jess Harnell (English)
Ironhide is urinated upon by a rodent. This unpleasant situation is made worse by Sam Witwicky's refusal to let him shoot it. He is also not allowed to shoot the "annoying" parents.
He is, however, allowed to shoot the following:
- Brawl.
- Megatron.
- The ground.
Transformers The Game
- Voice actor: Mark Ryan
Brief aside with Optimus Prime reveals Ironhide's actions may have resulted in the destruction of a small planet at one point. Ironhide maintains that it was going to blow up anyway.
Toys
Transformers (2007)
- Ironhide (Voyager, 2007)
- Japanese ID Number: MA-09
- Ironhide transforms into a modified black 2006 GMC Topkick four-wheel drive pickup truck. The two exhaust smokestacks behind the rear cabin have been shortened from the real scaled length and the prototype due to safety and durability reasons, but otherwise the vehicle mode is very accurate to the real truck... well, aside from the fact Ironhide's massive missile launchers are quite visible underneath the vehicle.
- Ironhide features an Automorph gimmick in his legs during transformation: As the user swings down his feet, all of the panels that make up his legs automaticaly shift and fold into place. This gimmick does not affect Ironhide's articulation. The instructions omit the exact positioning of the roof panels and rear window on his back, confusingly.
- In robot mode, Ironhide is quite accurate to his CGI design, though obviously simplified for toy practicality. Contrary to appearances, he features full standard up-down and lateral shoulder articulation, as well as articulation in his elbows, hips and knees. His arm-mounted cannons are inactive while mounted on both arms. However, detaching the left arm cannon and combining it with the right arm creates a huge functional missile launcher that is almost as big as Ironhide himself. The missile launching mechanism itself isn't the typical spring-loaded button design, instead relying on a pressure-launch system to fire the missiles from the four barrels.
- Ironhide (Legends, 200?)
Fast Action Battlers
- Cannon Blast Ironhide (2007)
Trivia
- In the initial draft of the movie, Ironhide was not present among the Autobot cast. However, due to fan input, he replaced female Autobot Arcee in later drafts and the subsequent final script.
- In the movie, both of Ironhide's guns have 10,000 parts each.
