Trickout

Trickout is an Autobot Mini-Con from the Robots in Disguise portion of the Aligned continuity family.

Pay no attention to the 'bot behind the curtain.

It doesn't creepier than Trickout. One of Soundwave's new subordinates, Trickout hangs around during Autobot battles, watching for the perfect time to steal the Bee Team's Decepticon Hunters. With those wheels he has for feet, he can make a clean getaway. Sometimes he works with Strongarm.

Fiction

2015 Robots in Disguise cartoon

Special delivery.

Soundwave dispatched Trickout through a GroundBridge, ordering him to find more Decepticon Hunters. Defrosted Trickout managed to grab Sideswipe's weapon while the Autobots were busy being inadvertently merged, and returned it to Soundwave. The Great Divide

Toys

Robots in Disguise (2015)

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• Strongarm & Trickout (Activator Combiner, 2017)

Packed in with Strongarm as part of the first wave of Activator Combiners, Trickout transforms from a wheel-footed Mini-Con into a rocket-propelled monster truck in a single step. Awesome. By pulling down a black "handle" on his truck underside, his truck mode can be mounted on top of Strongarm's truck mode (or any other larger Activator Combiner) to unlock her "Throttle Up" mode. (This mode can also be activated without a Mini-Con, but what's the fun in that?)

Though undocumented, with the handle down, Trickout's truck mode also serves as a pistol by pointing the rocket-barrel-having back end at the enemy.

Notes

• It is unclear if Trickout is an intended homage of G1 Ironhide.