Dropkick (G1)

This article is about the Generation 1 drones. For the movieverse individual/drones, see Dropkick (Movie).

Dropkick drones are Decepticons from the cartoon portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Don't make fun of their giant novelty earmuffs.

Dropkick transport drones seemingly played a key role in the early days of the war launched by Megatron. Transforming from robots into Cybertronic flat bed trucks, they were used during energy raids both to transport warriors and to carry away the stolen fuel.

Warriors

"What's in YOUR wallet?"

Carried by the transport drones in the guise of innocuous cargo containers, these robots appear to have done the actual fighting on such raids.

These don't appear to be drones. One speaks intelligently and gives orders to the others.

Fiction

The Transformers cartoon

Voice actor: Keiichi Nanba (Japanese), Chikao Shiroyama (Japanese)

Nine million years ago Megatron approached a dockside warehouse, workplace of a young Autobot named Orion Pax, along with a fleet of his transport drones. After initially claiming he was simply looking for a place to "store his wares," once told that the site only stored energy, he dropped this pretense, and at his signal both transport drones and warriors transformed. After personally blasting both Orion and his girlfriend Ariel, he ordered the warriors to terminate the warehouse's other workers.

Pizza's here!

Sometime later, the warriors engaged a group of Guardian robots in battle, and managed to take one down with a blast to the face. Megatron's forces might have won the day, were it not for the sudden arrival of a mysterious stranger, whose laser rifle mowed down multiple warriors with ease.

Meanwhile, the transport drones prepared to remove the stored energy from the warehouse. What they didn't count on, however, was the presence of some time travelers determined to stop them at any cost. Their exit blocked by some of the warriors, these five heroes nonetheless risked their own lives and detonated the stockpiles, thereby destroying the warehouse. War Dawn

Wings Universe

Wings Universe is based on the Generation 1 cartoon, but deviates from it in cosmetic ways and continuity points.

Dion's final memory before his rebirth in a new body was being gunned down by Megatron's warriors. Battle Lines, Part 1

A group of Elite Guardsmen were searching for Shadowcaster's base when Onslaught spotted a suspicious truck carrying large crates. One of the crates was knocked off as the truck rounded a corner, and the crate transformed into a warrior. The Combaticons took the warrior into a nearby building where Brawl interrogated him. After obtaining the coordinates of Shadowcaster's base, Brawl terminated the Decepticon, though Onslaught later claimed to Metalhawk that the warrior had self-destructed. The Coming Storm: Part 3

Beast Wars: Uprising

Dropkick-model Terrorbots were used by Dynamic Energon Distilleries to haul cargo and energon to different locations. Gnashteeth and Scorponok re-appropriated the DED fleet to steal the plant's energon when they broke away to start their criminal enterprise. A covertly-purchased warehouse now full of energon was enough to get the Darksyders started. Identity Politics

Years later, Gnashteeth (now Megatron) used the Dropkick drones in a trap to snare his rival Cryotek. Posed as statues in Megatron's private residence, Cryotek's invading gang had no idea they were surrounded until the Dropkicks activated and tore through the Minions of Unicron. Not All Megatrons

Notes

• The transport drones of the Generation 1 cartoon had no name of their own for over 30 years until Beast Wars: Uprising named them "Dropkicks" in homage to the movieverse drones of the same name.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Yusō Robot (輸送ロボット Yusō Robotto, "Transport Robot"), Nimotsu Robot (荷物ロボット Nimotsu Robotto, "Payload Robot")