Hi-Test (G1)
- Hi-Test is a Nebulan in the Generation 1 continuity family.
Hi-Test is an overachieving perfectionist with the brains and determination to accomplish incredible things. But when his partner Hi-Q's accomplishments exceeded his own, Hi-Test's pride was injured. He became the Powermaster partner of the Decepticon Dreadwind, enabling him to experience new worlds and thrills he'd never dreamed of.
As a Powermaster, Hi-Test has been bio-engineered to transform into Dreadwind's engine, vastly increasing his power as well as allowing him to fuel himself on human foodstuffs. The process granted Hi-Test enormously increased strength, however it has also made he and Dreadwind interdependent- they must link up on a semi-regular basis in order to survive. If Hi-Test removes his external armor he can pass for a Caucasian human. (In some continuities.)
Hi-Test finds that it's his duty to nag the depressive Dreadwind in order to keep him on-task. Hi-Test's perfectionist nature allows Dreadwind to perform his duties despite his depressive fits- he knows the nebulan will always remind him what he has to do...
Fiction
Marvel Comics continuity
Generation 1
Hi-Test was an overachieving perfectionist with the brains and determination to accomplish things no one has ever done before. Those attributes, which made him so attractive to Hi-Q as a partner, also doomed their relationship. When it was Hi-Q's breakthrough, not his own, that allowed the Council of Peers to poision all fuel on Nebulos for Transformers, Hi-Test walked out, vowing to prove Hi-Q was a fraud.
Hi-Test had a plan to get even. He picked up the thief Throttle in a bar to serve as his new partner, and had him steal Hi-Q's research data on fuel conversion. He and Throttle bio-mechanically engineered their bodies to become Powermasters using this data, putting lie to Hi-Q's promise of a Nebulos free of Transformers. People Power!
Classics
Hi-Test encounters Grimlock and finds the Dinobot leader surprisingly disarming.
Trivia
- Hi-Test is 65 Earth years old[1] in 1989, and he implies that Nebulan years are measured differently. Which is probably a given, but we can thank him for clarifying.
