Ratchet (SG)
| This article is about the evil Autobot "medic". For his heroic Autobot medic counterpart, see Ratchet (G1). For a list of other meanings, see Ratchet (disambiguation). |
- Ratchet is an evil Autobot "medic" from the Shattered Glass continuity family.
To say Ratchet is the Autobots' medic would be a falsehood. Ratchet is where Optimus Prime sends the wounded from battle, but not for repairs. No, they are sent there for punishment. Any Autobot ordered there has to be dragged kicking and screaming.
It's not that Ratchet wants to terrorize his patients. In fact, he honestly believes that he's doing them a great favor! Who wouldn't want some rusty old equipment replacing their head? That would look so cool! And he really doesn't understand why they get so upset after seeing the end result of his loving care. But Ratchet shrugs off their cries of protest and confusion. They'll come around eventually.
Fiction
Shattered Glass
Mirage, a down-and-out bank robber volunteered for one of Ratchet's "upgrades" so he could gain permanent partial transparency. That was likely the last time anyone paid attention to Mirage. Around Cybertron #7
After a harrowing Dinobot Hunt, Rodimus woke up on Ratchet's operating table, having lost a hand in a battle with Grimlock and the Decepticons. Rodimus, in a panic, immediately tried to leave, and objected to Ratchet's offer to add a second vocoder. It was then that Rodimus noticed that his hand had been not repaired, but replaced with a jagged sawblade. Ratchet was momentarily saddened by Rodimus's dissatisfaction with his "upgrade," but his grin of psychotic amusement returned quickly enough.
Blurr was morbidly fascinated with speculating on what was likely to happen to Wheeljack after Prime ordered that Ratchet should oversee Wheeljack's Earth-mode refit. Dungeons & Dinobots
When the Autobots found themselves beset by Blitzwing's new uncontrollable broadcasting powers overwhelming their emergency channel, Rodimus looked to Ratchet for a solution. The miserable medic perked right up at his abilities being needed, and said all it would take was a micro-laser.
When he came up with a sonic jackhammer instead, and, when that was pointed out to him, asked if anyone really needed their personalities, Rodimus dropped the idea. Ratchet was too busy being enthralled by "Zydrate Anatomy" to care overmuch. Blitzwing Bop
Ratchet helped Wheeljack set up a work area when the Autobots captured Sephie Beller, who had augmented herself with Cybertronian tech. As Wheeljack prepared for a vivisection, Ratchet handed him medical tools. The operation was suspended by the arrival of the Decepticons, whom the Autobots were able to take captive. Ratchet and Brawn were soon kept busy restraining Swoop from attacking the prisoners. The arrival of R.J. Blackrock in a giant mech delayed any executions. During the ensuing fight, Ratchet knocked Sephie out of the air with his crane boom, and she blindly retaliated by blasting him in the head, causing bits of his helmet to go flying. On seeing their medic was wounded, the Autobots retreated back to the Ark. Transhuman
At some unspecified point in time, Ratchet and a team of Autobots somehow under the command of both Rodimus Prime and Optimus Prime fought Thundercracker and Ravage in the Transformers' greatest battle on Earth, "Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction." According to Ravage, anyway. Recordicons #3
After the mass arrival of positive-universe Transformers, Ratchet enacted a plan to cheat his own mortality and stole Crystalline Containment technology from the new heroic Autobots, using it to store a copy of his brain, to be activated in a new body in the event of his deactivation. Customization class SG Ratchet bio
Following the Autobots' particularly bad defeat at Decepticon City on Earth at the hands of the Decepticons, Ratchet was among the Autobots who left for Cybertron aboard Sky Lynx. Restoration When their ride announced they would have to lighten their load, Ratchet, being among the most badly wounded of the Autobots, was dumped out of the airlock along with Optimus Prime, Brawn, Prowl, and Inferno. They subsequently found themselves in the presence of Unicron, Familiar Reflections who reformatted them to serve his needs. Ratchet became one of the Autotroopers serving Checkpoint among the Knights of Unicron. After returning to Cybertron, he assisted Nova Prime in overthrowing Rodimus. Out of the One, Many
Ratchet's reformatting triggered the activation of his "backup", whose new body was equipped with combiner technology, but suffered from freezing and rebooting issues thanks to compatibility issues with the extradimensional Crystalline Containment technology. Ever the mad doctor, Ratchet was able to plant viruses in and seize control of the brain functions of those unfortunates he combined with. Customization class SG Ratchet bio
SD SG
Ratchet visited a distant point in the timeline frequently in order to help out his fellow doc-bot, Rhinox, fool his teammates into thinking that he had all sorts of miracle cures up his sleeve. On one such visit, Ratchet wondered aloud how his numerous trips into the time-stream hadn't muddle the whole thing to mush already. Rhinox assured him that he had taken measures to prevent such a thing from happening. Satisfied, Ratchet dropped off a cure for stasis lock before returning to his own time, wishing Rhinox good luck in keeping his teammates in the dark about their meetings. SD SG #6
Toys
Combiner Wars
"Oh, all the time. I don't think that it's anything to worry about."
- Autobot Ratchet (2016)
- Accessories: Combiner hand/foot, axe
- Exclusive to BotCon 2016's customization class, Ratchet is a redeco of Generations Combiner Wars First Aid with a previously-unused pretooled head. Like all Combiner Wars Deluxe toys, he can become an arm or a leg for any compatible Voyager-class figure.
- Class participants were given four deco options for the Ratchet head (Marvel G1, cartoon G1, G2, and Shattered Glass Ratchet) and a fifth deco option for the automatically-included-in-the-sprues First Aid head as Medix. Four sticker sheets were available, but class participants were only allowed a G1 sticker sheet and one other of their choice.
- Class participants who finished creating their toy in-class were given an exclusive Enigma of Combination accessory that can be either held by Ratchet/Medix or fit into Ultra Prime or Optimus Maximus's chest. Unpainted/unstickered versions of Ratchet with the Ratchet head were offered for sale at the convention to regular attendees.
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