Lug (IDW)
| This article is about the treasure hunter. For the Nebulan Headmaster, see Lug (G1). |
- Lug is a Transformer from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Unlike her treasure-hunting partner Anode, Lug prefers to err on the side of caution. She transforms into a backpack.
Fiction
IDW Generation 1 continuity
Lug of Celestica Tetracornacapria This Machine Kills Fascists was either originally from or lived for a long time on Cybertron. She was one of the many 'bots to abandon the planet due to the Great War and swear never to return. Some Other Cybertron
A long time ago, Lug met Anode, and Anode met Lug. The two became close, but got separated when Anode went on to train in her profession at a Camien medical facility. Some time later, Anode left Caminus and came back to Lug. Anode told her that she missed her too much, and that's why she quit. Lug would come to feel tremendous guilt for the event. Bad Moon Rising
Five hundred years ago, Lug and Anode travelled to Luna 2 at the request of a client named Techy. They found themselves being attacked by a Decepticon Cybernought; although Anode successfully deployed a forcefield, Lug was still convinced they were going to die. The time-travelling Necrobot arrived, attempting to rescue them both from what would have been their presumed deaths (as was his habit).
After recovering from the time jump in a stasis capsule, Anode awoke on the Necroworld, and suggested to Lug that they'd been rescued. They were informed of recent events they had missed by Ultra Magnus. After this, the two were met by Swerve, who asked them some nonsensical questions under the guise of "background checks". After Anode was alarmed by hearing Velocity's name uttered by Swerve, the duo attempted to leave by way of the teleporter, but were stopped by Rodimus and Drift.
When Rodimus and a small group of Transformers decided to use the teleporter to head back to Cybertron to pick up another ship, Anode stayed behind with the other time-displaced Cybertronians. Some Other Cybertron After repairing diplomatic relations following Anode's insulting of Ultra Magnus, Lug sat by the Memorial to the Disappeared and played some music to relax before Anode tracked her down. The two discussed plans for the future and whether or not they owed the Autobots anything before Fangry interrupted the discussion by being violenty thrown into the memorial by Tailgate. When Anode tried to calm the minibot, he backhanded her, sending her flying to be impaled on a piece of debris. A panicking Lug called for help and Kaput soon came. Lug was by Anode's bedside when she awoke and watched as Velocity tried (and failed) to perform a citizen's arrest on Anode before the medic demanded to discuss the Lighthouse. Anomie
Anode explained she was a blacksmith and the snowflake was a piece of sentio metallico but that she hadn't stolen any as the records said. She'd falsified them to have a pretext to leave the planet. Realizing that she'd been left in the dark about this, Lug rushed out of the room, A World Misplaced and fled back to the memorial. Anode followed her back and Lug confessed her feelings of betrayal as she'd always believed she was the reason that Anode had abandoned her apprenticeship. Anode revealed the role she'd played in the death of a protoform and faked a theft as an excuse to flee despite her co-workers being understanding and sympathetic. Lug believed that Anode needed to feel hated for what she'd done. Anode offered an apology but when she looked up, Lug was gone...Bad Moon Rising
...because Lug hadn't ever been with her on Necroworld. She was just a hallucination that Anode had developed as a result of timesickness; a look at the security camera footage showed Anode exiting her stasis pod alone and talking to thin air. A despondent Anode checked the names on the Memorial to the Disappeared and mournfully concluded that Lug had not survived the explosion the Necrobot had saved her from. Modes of Production
Notes
- Lug's transformation scheme is patterned on Titans Return Rewind.
- Her name is a type of electrical connector.
