Garrison Kreiger

The name or term "Blitz" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Blitz (disambiguation).

Kreiger is a human from the Generation 1 continuity family.

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Garrison Kreiger, aka General Blitz is an Axis leader turned terrorist leader of the I.R.O.N. Army, making him two villains in one.

Fiction

Story of Binaltech

According to Agent Faireborne's investigations, General Kreiger and Count von Rani together led the Concurrence, a cabal of humans who planned to drive all Transformers away from Earth, turning the Solar System into a robot-free "resort". To accomplish this, the Concurrence began creating Decepticon Binaltechs to challenge the Autobot Binaltechs. What they would have done with the Decepticons after that is anybody's guess. Expose All of Evil's Designs!

TransTech

During World War II, Kreiger—under his nom de guerre General Blitz—led the I.R.O.N. Army, Kalistan's elite force. Somehow he'd made contact with the Decepticons and was using their super-science to help the Axis-aligned Kalistan in the war, much to the interest of the Allies. 'Blitz' would experiment on that real American hero, Sgt. Savage.

It was he who named Kalistan's team the Invasion, Reconnaissance, Occupation, and Neutralization Army. Hawk has to admit that guy has a flair for the dramatic! Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter, 2016/05/01

IDW Generation 1 Continuity

In WW2, a young Garrison Kreiger - codenamed "Blitz" - served alongside Master Sergeant Savage and his Screaming Eagles. In 1943, while on a mission in Kalistan, the Screaming Eagles encountered robotic troops fighting for the Germans. One of these robots managed to land a hit on Kreiger, scarring his left eye. But the encounter inspired Kreiger...

Over the next several decades, he would spend years hunting down what he knew as "Binaltech", until finding it in an Egpytian pyramid, with the help of Dr. Elliot March, who Kreiger promptly killed. In the ruins, Kreiger found a mysterious "talisman", and began using it to animate and control a horde of robots, before sending out a distress beacon. This attracted not only the attention of Joe Colton and his Adventure Team, but also Soundwave. A battle ensued between the team and Soundwave, until the Cybertronian decided to leave, having realized the talisman wasn't his goal. In the aftermath, Kreiger took the device for himself, without giving his "rescuers" so much as a "thank you". According to Richard Ruby, he went on to murder Mike Power. Following that, Kreiger established the "International Robotics Operations Network", before disappearing under mysterious circumstances. The Secret of the Mummy's Tomb

Notes

Doctor General Garrison Garrett "Blitz" Kreiger Stromm has almost as many looks as he does names!

• General Garrison Kreiger AKA General Blitz, hails from Sgt. Savage and his Screaming Eagles, an early '90s attempt to rebrand the G.I. Joe toyline to stave off faltering sales. It presented Kreiger as an American soldier in World War II who defected to the I.R.O.N. Army (the main Axis power in that universe) and had become its leader by the modern day. This franchise had a short life, ending when Kenner took over Hasbro's "boys' toys" brands and replaced it with G.I. Joe Extreme. That series continued to feature the Sgt. Savage character, but against a new villain: Count von Rani, aka Iron Klaw, and his paramilitary organization S.K.A.R. The I.R.O.N. Army was referred to in one episode, but not Blitz. It was the TransTech Facebook pages that finally brought more of his backstory into Transformers fiction, as well as inventing a tie between Sgt. Savage's two enemies (previously the I.R.O.N. Army and S.K.A.R. were unrelated).
• In the lone direct-to-video Sgt. Savage and his Screaming Eagles episode, General Blitz is voiced by Transformers alumnus Garry Chalk.