D-Go
- D-Go is an Autobot Micromaster from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Liner Team leader D-Go (ディーゴ Dīgo) looks dangerously powerful, and he is. He's an expert sniper, and should he lose his temper, even his teammates have a hard time keeping him in check. But beneath the fearsome strength is a mind that carefully studies the logic behind any situation. Good friends with the healer Sireen, he works hard to develop strategies and find peaceful solutions to problems. This combination of strength and wisdom has made him the de facto leader of the Earth-based Autobot Micromasters.
D-Go combines with his team to form Sixliner.
Fiction
Micromaster
D-Go was one of many Cyberdroids who evolved into Micromasters thanks to a mysterious energy wave. Finding themselves on Earth, they blended into human society and fought against those Micromasters who had evolved into Decepticons. A New Transformer Legend Begins!!
When five of the six Turbo Team Autobots had been infected by the mind changer virus, D-Go devised a plan to allow Sireen to upload an antivirus to the entire team at once by combining with them to form Sixturbo. The strategy worked, and Sixturbo was returned to normal. Enter the Urban Disaster Relief Specialists!!
When mysterious green doppelgangers of the Build Team appeared and started wrecking human cities, D-Go called all the Autobots together and showed them footage of the attacks. Sixbuilder the Ill-Fated Warrior!? Later, D-Go and Sireen analyzed the reports on the strange Cybertronian metal plates that were unearthed at the base of a dormant volcano, and wondered if this discovery combined with the Matrix fragment within Desire would help them in their eventual goal in finding the lost Optimus Prime and his troops. Sixtrain! Activate Red Mode!! Though the Autobot forces were spread thin in their attempt to protect both the ruins they uncovered and the humans, D-Go and the other Autobots soon received reinforcements in the form of the Multiforce. D-Go initially hoped that the Multiforce had been sent from Cybertron to rescue his team, but learned that they had actually emerged from a dimensional rift from "another Earth." The Menace of Landcross's Combining Formation!
The Battlestars manga and story pages
Years later, D-Go and the rest of the Liner Team were recruited by Sky Garry into the ranks of the Battlestars. Great Six Combination Warrior Sixliner!
Wars manga
When the Fallen attempted to consume the power of Vector Sigma for himself, Metroplex gathered the Autobot trains in defense of Cybertron. D-Go and the Liner Team joined forces with the Trainbots and Train Team in a massive coupling that restrained the Fallen long enough for Shouki and Goshooter to finish him off. Train Wars 2
Toys
Return of Convoy
- Sixliner (Micro Transformer Six-Team, 1991)
- Japanese ID number: C-370
- Originally released in a giftset with his fellow Micromaster trains, D-Go transforms into a D51 steam locomotive. His rear pegged hitch allows him to connect end-to-end with any fellow train or combiner kibble weapon with a socket-hitch. He also has a small socket on the top of his train mode, allowing him to use the Giga-Techvolt weapon. He can form the back to any of the Six-team combiners, as well as the chest to any of the "kibble-jet" types, but his nominal placement is as the back of Sixliner.
Micromaster
- D-Go (Micromaster Sixtrain, 2002)
- Sixtrain ID number: 1
- Accessories: Sixliner head, rifle
- D-Go and his teammates were re-released in Japan in 2002 as the first assortment of The Transformers: Micromaster, this time in identical individual boxes, identifiable only by the number on his instruction sheet visible through a small hole in the box. Like the rest of the Micromaster figures, D-Go's stickers were either replaced with tampographs or dropped entirely, though he gained several new pieces of deco in exchange, especially in train mode.
Notes
- For a long time, it was thought that D-Go's name was "Diego". However, "Diego" is rendered in katakana as ディエゴ, Diego, featuring an "e" that D-Go (ディーゴ Dīgo) does not have. It was not until a connection was made between D-Go's name and alternate mode—a D51 steam locomotive—that the pun in his name was discovered: "go" is "five" in Japanese, effectively making his name "D-Five", and ergo a reference to that series of trains, which is extremely popular in Japan.
- D-Go, like all of the six-team Micromasters, had no individual bio information whatsoever until his Micromaster release a decade after his original Return of Convoy release.
- The original Return of Convoy Sixliner instruction booklet shows D-Go carrying the (then-unnamed) Giga-Techvolt weapon in train mode; in fact, of the three kibble-weapons, it is the only one where the text specifically calls out "it goes to this one guy". Micromaster later specifically assigned the weapon to Alan in his bio.
