Maccadam

This article is about the Transformer bartender from many continuities. For the human general from Animated, see Macadam.

Maccadam is a bar owner on Cybertron in nearly every continuity family.

Accorded Neutral Territory.

Maccadam is the manager of Maccadam's Old Oil House. Maccadam is largely unseen by the populace of Cybertron, and he is rumoured to be one of the thirteen original Transformers by its drunken patrons. (His bar serves "exceptionally pure oil," after all.) He has strict in-house rules against fighting within its confines.

Fiction

Marvel Comics continuity

Marvel The Transformers comics

This character appeared exclusively in the UK portion of the Marvel Comics continuity.

Spit and polish, that's the way.

Maccadam was working the night Quickswitch was meant to meet his Decepticon contact to receive information vital to the Autobot resistance. Unfortunately the party was crashed by a pair of Mecannibals (on the trail of Dreadwind and Darkwing) who had eaten Rocky. Quickswitch fought off the Mecannibals, levelling the building in the process. Out to Lunch!

Regeneration One

Following the effects of Scorponok's Gene Key on the populace of Cybertron, Maccadam was sweeping up debris outside his bar. Destiny, Part One

The Ultimate Guide

Maccadam was behind the bar at his joint, cleaning glasses as usual, while Zarak Maximus was working on the door and throwing out an unruly patron.

Kre-O online manga

First Aid and Hot Spot had a conversation at Maccadam's bar, where he was cleaning a mug. Bad at Fighting? Rescue Team Protectobots, Dispatch!

TransTech

One of the more absurd rumors in Axiom Nexus about Galva Convoy was that he was Maccadam. BotCon 2015 Galva Convoy bio

Notes

• A macadam is a type of pavement predating modern asphalt, made of crushed stone that's compacted into layers then bound with tar. Maccadam's name might have been derived from this, although it's spelled with an additional "c".
• Maccadam's Old Oil House has been shown to exist within multiple Generation 1 continuities, the Unicron Trilogy continuities, the Movie continuity, the Transformers Animated cartoon continuity and the Aligned continuity novels. Logically, this means Maccadam exists within all those universes, but he has only shown up personally in the Aligned novel Retribution, where he is discovered as the piano player in the bar, and an Autobot sympathizer.
  • Although Alpha Trion and Maccadam interact directly in Retribution, there is no indication of a shared past or familiarity between them that would support the rumors that Maccadam is Alchemist Prime of the Thirteen. In fact, Alchemist Prime is even called out by name in an earlier discussion between Trion and Shockwave, with Alpha Trion stating he knew Alchemist Prime left Cybertron ages ago.
• In the Dreamwave Generation One continuity, Maccadam's Old Oil House was suggested to exist out of the normal space and time continuum. This was shortly after semi-established to be true in "Prime Spark", which posed the bar as some sort of multiversal meeting place. All this further pushes the theory crafted by the 2004 ?Transformers: The Ultimate Guide book that its owner Maccadam is one of the Thirteen Original Transformers and the same being across continuities. However, nothing definitive has been revealed about the matter, and Hasbro effectively ignored Maccadam when establishing the Aligned version of the 13. The 2015 edition of Ask Vector Prime paid homage to the Maccadam rumour by hinting that his true identity is that of the Thirteen member Alchemist Prime, but this is also said to be a rumour. That same year, the Transformers Collectors Club magazine story "Out of the One, Many" featured a teal-colored member of the Thirteen who strongly resembled the mustachioed bartender seen in The Ultimate Guide's artwork for Maccadam's Old Oil House, further tying into the rumour.
• When we see the exterior of the IDW continuity Maccadam's New Oil House in "Shadowplay, Part 1: Post Hoc", on the sign there is an image of a 'bot with facial hair, wearing a hat, shirt and tie. Could this be our first glimpse of the elusive Maccadam?
• Like all non-toy Transformers in the Kre-O manga, Maccadam uses actual Kre-O parts, specifically the ever-popular Hound helmet piece. His appearance and coloration, as well as his pose, is based on a piece of artwork from Transformers: The Ultimate Guide. The homage is further compounded by Sixshot, Phoenix, and Lander being in the background.