Stunticon (Prime)

The name or term "Stunticon" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Stunticon (disambiguation).

The Stunticons are a Decepticon subgroup from the Aligned continuity family.

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The Stunticons plot to take over planets' roads in any way they can. Whether that be searching for Cybertronian weapons that can help them or setting up posts at different roadways controlled by one of their individual members, it doesn't matter. As long as they can take over the roads, they'll be satisfied. After all, the roads are their turf.

They are currently focusing their attention on Earth, but unfortunately a group of stupid lawbots are constantly interfering with their plans in order to defend the squishies. Stocking up on Cybertronian relics is the only way they can defend themselves and the tracking device they found will certainly help.

The group includes:

• The rough and tough leader Motormaster, obsessed with being "ruler of the roads".
• The brutish and overconfident Heatseeker, who fires heat-seeking missiles.
• The confidence-lacking Wildbreak, who can emit painful energy waves through the air or ground.
• Wildbreak's "buddy ol' pal" the scheming and opportunistic Dragstrip, who leaves enemies in the dust with his nitro boosts.
• The snobbish and snarky Slashmark, who literally tears up the roads with his energy-emitting tires.

The Stunticons are accomplished combiners with multiple tricks up their sleeves. They can double-up to share power: Dragstrip and Wildbreak have been known to form Dragbreak while Heatseeker and Slashmark form Heatmark. The entire group can also combine into the fearsome (if extremely unstable) titan Menasor.

Dead End, Breakdown and Wildrider have also been known to somehow be members of the team but their relations to the others are unknown.

Fiction

2015 Robots in Disguise cartoon

Bumblebee and his team first encountered Heatseeker, who had claimed Grand Valley in the name of the Stunticons. When Sideswipe and Strongarm arrived and engaged him, they realized that there was a nearby waste disposal site that posed a danger. King of the Hill (Part 1) Though Heatseeker was ultimately defeated by the Autobots, he managed to secure a device for detecting Cybertronian technology which he returned to Motormaster with. King of the Hill (Part 2) Drag Strip and Wildbreak later borrowed the device, intending to use it to find some tech to impress Motormaster. This led them to one of Windblade's caches in the city of West Rock, however the Autobots also happened to visit the cache and the resulting battle meant that the two Stunticons had to flee empty-handed. Bee Cool

Drag Strip managed to secure a Gravitic Adjuster, despite the Autobots' interference. Motormaster sent him to cause chaos with the device, however Drag Strip was eventually defeated by the Autobots while he was attacking a remote trooper station. The Great Divide All four of the Stunticon cars entered the Crown City Grand Prix, believing the winner's title of "Ruler of the Roads" was meant literally. Though the intention was for the three others to help Drag Strip win by eliminating the other racers, ultimately the four Stunticons' efforts were foiled by the Autobots when some of Heatseeker's missiles ended up hitting them instead of the intended target. Disordered Personalities Motormaster was not enthusiastic about his subordinates' efforts to date in conquering Earth. The Golden Knight

After they encountered a high-speed maglev train, Motormaster ordered the other Stunticons to secure whether it used as a power source. Although the four 'Cons succeeded in breaching the rail yard and getting to the train, they ended up battling the Autobots on its roof as it barrelled towards Crown City, and were all of them knocked off. They were forced to return in disgrace to a very unhappy Motormaster. Railroad Rage

Notes

The real stunt is driving with wheels on only one end of the car.

• Until their appearance in the third season of Robots in Disguise the only information on the existence of the Stunticon team came from the toy-bio of the Japanese-original Wildrider with said bio only mentioning himself and Breakdown. Even prior to that, Motormaster appeared exclusively in the DS version of War For Cybertron while Dragstrip appeared in most versions of the game and its sequels Fall of Cybertron and Rise of the Dark Spark alongside Breakdown. Ironically Dead End, while also appearing in the games has not yet been explicitly confirmed to be a Stunticon himself anywhere in the Aligned continuity. Wildrider, the only Stunticon absent from the games would later have a toy in the Prime toyline that included a unique Stunticon logo among its optional decals partly derived from the Team Stunticon symbol developed for BotCon 2011's "The Stunti-Con Job" comic and box set.
• By coincidence or design, Breakdown, Wildrider, and Dead End (the three more "traditional" Stunticons who appeared in Prime or got toys in the accompanying toyline) are the very same three who would be "replaced" later on in Robots in Disguise.

Foreign Names

• Japanese: Stunticon (スタンティコン Sutantikon)
• Mandarin: Tèjì Hǔ (特技虎, "Stunt Tiger")