Stalker (G1)
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- Stalker is a Decepticon Predator from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Stalker is the Predators' communications specialist. The only land-based member of the team, he is a master of the double bluff and thrives on causing confusion among his enemies. It's his job to keep the Predators' communiques from being intercepted by their Turbomaster foes, but he also takes a cruel pleasure in using his 'Garble' comms systems to scramble the Autobots' own signals.
He has a talent for causing things pain.
Fiction
Predator Air Attack!
Stalker finally clashed with his Turbomaster rival, the legendary Rotorstorm. He declared that the Autobot should prepare to die, then fired his arm blasters. Predator Air Attack!
IDW Generation 1 continuity
Millions of years ago, Stalker worked with Skyquake and Clench during the deathmatch sports of Kaon, at the time Megatron first entered the tournaments. Megatron Origin #2 At some point after the war began, Stalker was staffed at Grindcore, where he administrated "mouth flowers", a mouth-installed inhibitor spike, to Autobot prisoners. If you didn't have a mouth, Stalker would... 'make' one. Speak, Memory: Part 1
And I enjoy the career that I picked
I'm your dentiiiiist
And I get off on the pain I inflict!
After his stint at the prison, Stalker was part of Skyquake's Predator force sent to crush a resistance movement in the Skomiloch Territories. He upgraded his optics and colouring to better fight the area's atmospheric conditions. During this time away from regular Decepticon protocols, Stalker hung out with Snare and treated prisoners cruelly for the pleasure of it. Snare's personnel evaluation
The Predators were sent to seize Garrus-9. When Overlord took over, Stalker began to advise him. Last Stand of the Wreckers #1
Stalker was later with Overlord when the Wreckers arrived in the Pit. Stalker informed Overlord that a second group was free in the base. After Twin Twist, Springer, and Impactor were captured, Stalker began torturing Twin Twist within Garrus-9's "Spark Extrainction Chamber". Last Stand of the Wreckers #3
After taking a quick break to fetch a downright nasty torture instrument known as an endoscopic claw, Stalker continued to torture Twin Twist until he suddenly died when his brother, Topspin, committed suicide elsewhere. Stalker was disappointed that his victim had died before he could really start enjoying himself, but shrugged it off and moved on to Impactor. Before he could begin, he was interrupted by Kup and Guzzle, who had been led there by his fellow Predator Snare. Enraged by Snare's betrayal, Stalker fatally injured the traitor, but was in turn killed when Springer was released and stabbed him through the head with his own torture device. Last Stand of the Wreckers #4
Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity
The Multiforce fought the Predators in the Skomiloch Territories after they were displaced from their native time by a dimensional shock. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/06/01
Toys
Generation 1
- Stalker (Medium Predator, 1992)
- Accessories: Missile launcher, radar, 5 missiles
- Stalker transforms in to a four-tracked satellite station and rocket launcher and is equipped with a missile launcher, usable in both modes. His rocket also serves as his Megavisor scope, but also features its own slide, showing a schematic vehicle mode image of Rotorstorm.
- This mold was used to make both the Machine Wars: Transformers and Universe versions of Soundwave.
Notes
- Stalker's Megavisor slide is labeled with several text pointers, some of which are Easter eggs of sorts. The labels read "TAK-A-RA", "MA-R-VEL", "YO-KE", and "AUG-U-SA".
Foreign names
- French: Traqueur (Canada)
- French/Dutch: Buzzard (France, the Netherlands, Belgium)
- Italian: Blindo
