Bugsie
- Bugsie is a Renegade from the GoBots continuity family.
This character has no official visual representation in any Transformers product or media... yet, at least.
Bugsie is a Monster GoBot, with ties to the Master Renegade.
Fiction
Renegade Rhetoric
Bugsie, along with Klaws and Hornet, was active early on during the conflict between the Renegades and the Guardians. They abandoned the cause shortly after Cy-Kill took command to search for the Master Renegade, rejoining the Renegades much later after he resurfaced and proved to be less than impressive.
And it's a good thing Bugsie did, for he killed it as the Pirate King in the Renegade's production of Pirates of Penance!
Bugsie was one of several Renegades to enter the communication moon of Gobotron after Fitor stole it with an astro-beam. An injured Leader-1 took them out one-by-one. Bugsie was the first to go, and his communicator gave Leader-1 quite an advantage hunting down the other Renegades. Renegade Rhetoric (1)
Beast Wars: Uprising
When a Cataclysm threatened their home universe, most of the Monster GoBots fled their native reality as part of the great GoBot Diaspora. They wound up on the dystopian Cybertron of Primax 209.0 Gamma: a world where the Great War between the Autobots and Decepticons had evolved into a series of ritualized Games fought between their successors, the Maximals and Predacons. The GoBots adopted new Predacon bodies, and gained infamy as a street gang known as the "Antares Eight". Ask Vector Prime, 2015/05/14
As they settled in, the Renegades built up a secret base called the Erebos equipped with a Modifier and databanks charting the activities of other GoBots in the multiverse. At some point, they welcomed in a second group of GoBotic refugees: the Monsterous combiner team, and their handler Oddball. Unhappy with the stagnant Cybertronian social order, the Renegades began their own plan to overthrow the dominant "Builders" and rule in their place.
Bugsie and the Eight gathered information about the Human Confederacy and learned of an ancient Terran artifact the Rosetta Stone (renamed "The Stone of Sky Warp") held in the Museum of Decepticon Heritage. They arranged to appropriate the stone, and use it to lure the Terrans to Cybertron. Faking as if they were a Resistance team, the Antares Eight seized control of a trans-hyperwave caster in Proximax. Holding the Builder in charge hostage, they beamed demands for all Builders to leave Proximax in the name of the Resistance. In fact, the transmission was a trap to entice the humans, who monitored all Cybertronian transmissions, with a clear view of the Rosetta Stone in the background. The GoBots intended to use quantumite (a Gargent cluster substance unknown to the Transformers) to weaponized the caster, snare the unsuspecting humans when they arrived, and take their greater technology.
Bugsie and the Monster Gobots faced unexpected resistance, however, from a multi-factional group called the Ex-Bots. During the seizing of the tower, Bugsie was injured by the former MCSF officer Stiletto. He returned to the Erebos with Vamp and Scorp for repairs in the Modifier, with Stiletto as a captive. Stiletto antagonized Bugsie into striking her during the interrogation, letting her feign unconsciousness. Bugsie caught her trying to get free, but was too slow to stop her. Once Stiletto got her expert knife-wielding hands on a stylus, she jammed it directly into Bugsie's optic, piercing his cyborg brain and killing him. Cultural Appropriation
