Pincher (GoBots)
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- Pincher is a Renegade from the GoBots continuity family posing as a Predacon from the Generation 1 continuity family.
This character has no official visual representation in any Transformers product or media... yet, at least.
Pincher is a blue and gold Monster GoBot, with ties to the Master Renegade.
Fiction
Renegade Rhetoric
Cy-Kill created Pincher as an ambassador to Vamp and Scorp on Antares III. Pincher was successful, bringing them into Cy-Kill's orbit. Renegade Rhetoric (1), 2015/10/15 Cy-Kill worried, however, that Vamp and Scorp were a bad influence on Pincher and was leery of creating a Monster GoBot block within his force. Renegade Rhetoric (1), 2015/10/16
Pincher participated in several more Renegade misadventures, notably attacking a UNECOM base on Mercury, temporarily defecting back to the Master Renegade's side, and tracking down the mysterious Renegade Gong to help find the missing Cy-Kill when he was stranded in Axiom Nexus. Renegade Rhetoric (2)
Ask Vector Prime
When a Primax and a Gargent universe were tuned together, Pincher was one of several Monster GoBots in the service of the Master Renegade on Antares III. They engaged in the practice of capturing any and all who chanced to land on their planet and throwing them in a pit of Dactyl monsters, though not before giving them a mockery of a trial. Echoes and Fragments
Beast Wars: Uprising
Several GoBots from Gargent 984.08 Alpha escaped the Cataclysm by travelling to Primax 209.0 Gamma and integrating themselves in with the local Predacons. 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. Cultural Appropriation During the Grand Uprising, Bladez and Pincher traded the G-Virus to Grimlock in exchange for everything the Resistance knew about the Human Confederacy. Micro-Aggressions
Pincher and the Antares Eight 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.
Pincher and the Monster Gobots faced unexpected resistance, however, from a multi-factional group called the Ex-Bots. They interfered with the seizing of the tower, and were only stopped when Creepy got the drop on one of their members, Stiletto. In a second assault by the Cybertronians, Pincher was dogfighting with the DeathEagle Stiletto when she lured him near the tower. Her partner Snapper fired off in tank mode, throwing Pincher into a spin. Stiletto spun around and finished him off, sending Pincher crashing into the ground in an explosive mess. Cultural Appropriation
Notes
- Pincher's creation and role as ambassador to Antares III is taken from the five-part "Gobotron Saga" of Challenge of the GoBots.
- A miscolored Pincher, or someone who looks just like him, is shown as a murdered Angolmois junkie in The Ascending #2.
