John Powell
- John Powell is a human from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
John Powell is a police sergeant in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Fiction
IDW Generation 1 continuity
When two men with guns of Megatron's design were holding a number of injured Autobots at gunpoint in a playground, Powell and his men were sent in to defuse the situation. Ignoring Schwalbe's demands that they take the maniacs down, he had the other officers hold their fire until the alien weapons stopped brainwashing their wielders, who were left disoriented and taken into arrest. However, Powell grabbed one of the guns for himself and continued to threaten the Autobots, revealing he agreed with the vigilantes that the Transformers were a threat to humanity, and after all his job was "to protect." Bumblebee argued that the Autobots were there to protect people as well, otherwise they could just have stepped on the humans threatening them. Powell may have begun seeing the truth in his words... but we'll never know, because that's when Jazz came to his friends' rescue, saw him pointing a gun at them and promptly incinerated him. Burning Chrome His death was reported on the news as a Cybertronian "attack" on Albuquerque. Enemy Mine
Jazz would long harbor regret over his impulsive action, seeing Powell as an innocent man who shouldn't have gotten mixed up in the Transformers' war. Full Fathom Five
