Deluge (G2)
| The name or term "Deluge" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Deluge (disambiguation). |
- Deluge is a Decepticon Color Changer from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Deluge is a fully qualified mad scientist, equipped with all the intelligence, skills, and egotistic depravity that such a position requires. He may or may not have a mad cackling laugh or a Siamese cat, but his chinplate does perhaps resemble a goatee.
He is officially a scientific consultant, but prefers to shun the mundane workaday world and spend his days plotting Evil Schemes and designing Doomsday Weapons. His preferred instruments of destruction are not the tried and true missiles or energy weapons other Transformers use, no no. An evil genius must maintain his image, you know. Deluge would rather tear apart his enemies with high-pressure fluid jets. How delightfully eccentric of him.
If he ever meets that Autobot do-gooder who shares his name, Deluge will probably use his powers to see that he is torn apart, limb from limb, but not until he reveals his secret, secret plan! HAhaHaHAEha!
Fiction
IDW Generation 1 continuity
Deluge was part of the project to create the Insecticons, which spawned three thousand shuffling horrors and, starting with Bombshell, three sentient creatures. He giggled mid-sentence, the weirdo.
A year later, he escorted many Autobots to Cybertron via a portal and with only one other Decepticon, so the instant the portal went down they were trapped on the planet with their very angry "prisoners". All Hail Megatron #7 Deluge and Dirge were soon abandoned by the Autobots and the scientist was killed by the Insecticon swarm. Stick Together
Wings Universe
When a strange Autobot visitor and his Quintesson companion wandered into the wrong part of Cybertron, Deluge joined Jetstorm and the Battlechargers in intimidating the pair. Unfortunately for Deluge and the other Decepticons, their foe was way, way more powerful than they suspected and they were left defeated in a pile. The Coming Storm: Part 1
Deluge and Jetstorm later returned to Earth and hooked up with Clench and his Decepticon Syndicate. They battled against Aquafend and Gobots at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland when the forestonite gas escaped and mutated their CNA. Generation 2: Redux
Beast Wars: Uprising
Deluge was an Autobot scientist, working on defensive measures. At some point he defected, and fought alongside the likes of the Predacons. He witnessed the many bots who sacrificed themselves against Unicron, mostly to no avail, and began to research Point One Percenters. Many subjects died due to his experimentation. He was close when peace was imposed by the Human Confederacy and had to abandon his research, for a time. But when Predacons and Maximals emerged, he resumed his research, lest they some day be needed. Once again he had many horrible failures, but this time succeeded in creating Protoform X and Trans-Mutate. The Inexorable March
The Human Confederacy was aware of Deluge's reputation as a scientist. Chak figured that if anyone would be able to take Doctor Okagi's work on superstring resonance flatlines and apply to them Cybertronian tech, it'd be him or Spanner. Intersectionality
A year after the end of the Grand Uprising, the elderly and decrepit Deluge continued his work, now experimenting on some Vehicon drones. Protoform X, now calling himself Rampage, tracked Deluge down to ask him why. Deluge explained himself, and pointed to the Vehicon Apocalypse as justification for is actions. Rampage was not impressed; he murdered his 'father' and destroyed his research. Deluge thanked him for the quick death he was granted. The Inexorable March
Commercial appearances
Deluge dueled Drench on Cybertron. Color Changers commercial
Games
Transformers Legends
Shockwave and Deluge were dispatched to rein in the Constructicons when the team started getting friendly with the Autobots. The Master Builders
Toys
Generation 2
- Deluge (Color Changer, 1993)
- Accessories: Water-cannon
- A redeco of the European Autobot Aquaspeeder Speedstream, Deluge transforms into an Indy style race car, seemingly based on the Williams FW14. His front half is covered in temperature-sensitive paint, going pale white if hit with warm water (or if he just gets warm by other methods). His weapon is a single-barreled water pistol formed from his car-mode spoiler/engine. He also has stickers on each side of the driver's seat that read "M. Edminson".
- There is a tooling variation of this toy. Some have a water-cannon with the spoiler attached by a single bar, with a wider, shorter bellows attached to a raised base. Other versions use a two-peg connector for the spoiler with a thinner, taller bellows, and the attachment "base" is missing. It is unknown which version of the toy came first, and to complicate the issue, Speedstream's cannon uses a two-peg/thin-bellows setup, but has a (slightly different) raised attachment base.
Notes
- E. J. Su gave Deluge a deliberate redesign for his appearance in The Transformers: All Hail Megatron.[1]
Foreign names
- Japanese: Deluge (デリュージ Deryūji)
