Evac (Cybertron)
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- Evac is an Autobot from the Cybertron portion of the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.
Evac is dedicated to protecting life. Charged with guarding Earth's Cyber Planet Key untold centuries ago, Evac has watched humankind grow and evolve, and does what he can to help them while keeping the existence of the Cybertronian race a secret from them. It's a balancing act, but one he gets a real kick out of. He's tough but fair, steadfast but never overly rigid, and never panics.
Evac and Crosswise are old friends, having hunted down the rogue Ancient Decepticons for the duration of their stay on Earth.
Fiction
Cybertron cartoon
- Voice actor: Bill Mondy (English), Hiroaki Hirata (Japanese), Jarosław Boberek (Polish), Arto Nieminen (Finnish)
Evac is, presumably, one of the descendants of the Transformers who came to Earth on the starship Atlantis. He lived on Earth in secret for centuries, hiding in plain sight as an Earth vehicle, protecting the world's Cyber Planet Key and helping Crosswise to capture and defeat the Ancient Decepticons. At some point, he saved the young "Mikey" Franklin from drowning in the Green River Rapids, leading to the young man's quest to learn just who saved him and why. Revelation
Years later, after Starscream awakened the Ancient Decepticons, Evac reunited with Crosswise and moved to stop them. He then encountered Optimus Prime and his team, who they learned came from their ancient homeworld of Cybertron. Trap Invasion Evac and Crosswise both joined Prime's team, and under Optimus's orders went to find Earth's Cyber Planet Key—only to be ambushed by Starscream's army and to have the Key (and the Keys from Velocitron and Jungle Planet and the Omega Lock) stolen after a lengthy battle. Retreat After this battle, he was reunited with Franklin, who was now a Colonel in the United States military. Revelation
Evac would continue to follow the other Autobots, all the way to Cybertron and beyond. On Gigantion, he, along with Optimus Prime and Override, met Metroplex, the leader of the giant Transformers. After a long trek through the levels of Gigantion, and the return to Cybertron, Evac returned to Earth to survey the damage - and to free the recaptured Ancient Decepticons, who he promised freedom to for helping to fight Galvatron. Afterwards, Evac followed Optimus and the other planetary leaders into the black hole, where they defeated Galvatron with their combined power. End
The black hole was closed soon after, but the battle was not over. When Galvatron damaged the thruster meant to send Jungle Planet back to its original position in space, Evac was one of the scores of Transformers who tried to right it again. After this succeeded, Evac and the others tried to help Optimus in his final battle with Galvatron, but all he and the others could do was watch. However, Galvatron was defeated anyway. Unfinished
After this, Evac considered his future with Crosswise, only for his former enemy, Lugnutz, to advise him to seek his fortune elsewhere. With Jungle Planet sage Backstop at his side, Evac took command of the starship Hyperborea in order to help with the new space bridge project, and left Crosswise in command of Earth.
Later, while on some unspecified adventure on an alien world, Evac used his rescue skills to help save several of his crew from an icy grave. Beginning
Toy bio and Cyber Key Code content
Evac was entrusted with Earth's Cyber Planet Key and wants to return to his home planet of Cybertron. Evac's on package bio In addition, he has taken a number of disguises over the years, including a blimp, 14 different kinds of helicopters, an army jet, a stealth jet, a bi-plane, and a propeller plane. Evac's Key code info
Galaxy Force manga
Kre-O online manga
When Inferno and Red Alert reconciled, Evac the helicopter was flying above them. Dive Into the Fire! The Rescue Operation of Friendship
Toys
Cybertron
- Evac (Legends of Cybertron, 2005)
- Accessories: Rotor blade
- Part of the second wave of Cybertron Legends of Cybertron toys, this miniature version of the Evac toy came out when the Legends line was still mainly released at "market six" stores, and even hit US store shelves before the larger one did! He transforms into a Eurocopter Dauphin rescue helicopter. The (non-firing) missile launchers are molded in a permanently deployed state; thus, unlike the Voyager toy, they cannot disguise as the helicopter's engine exhausts.
- The stock photography for this toy shows a few differences between the hand-painted prototype and the final product; the missile launchers have yellow bases in the stock but are solid blue on final, plus the final gained an Autobot symbol.
- This sculpt was used to make Classics Whirl and Universe Autobot Blades.
- Evac (Voyager Class, 2005)
- Japanese ID number: GC-18
- Accessories: 2 missiles, rotor blades, gold Earth-style Cyber Planet Key
- Part of the third wave of Cybertron Voyager Class toys, this larger, more articulated version of Evac has numerous gimmicks: His rotor blades spin using a geared push-button, and become a spinning-blade weapon mounted on his robot mode's left arm. He has an adjustable tow-hook on a string, which retracts with the push of a button: this gimmick ends up on his right robot mode arm. Inserting a Cyber Key into his back end (backpack in robot mode) swings around a pair of spring-loaded missile launchers which double as the helicopter's engine exhausts when not deployed (or loaded with missiles, for that matter).
- He came with a gold-bordered Earth-style translucent blue Cyber Planet Key; the Hasbro release has the Key Code "v49u" on the back.
- The Takara Galaxy Force Live Convoy release paints the previously bare-orange patch below the rotor button and the stripe on the front cockpit windows in the same light blue paint that surrounds them, and features a different paint layout for the light blue paint details on his forearms/helicopter sides.
- In 2006, Target stores got special exclusive versions of several Voyager Class toys (Evac, Leobreaker, and Mudflap) with a pair of bonus Mini-Cons. Evac came with Razorclaw and Steamhammer.
- Evac was later redecoed into Universe Voyager Class Autobot Blades and Springer, and BotCon 2011Shattered Glass Galvatron.
- Evac with Bonus Mini-Cons (Multi-pack, 2005)
- Accessories: 2 missiles, rotor blades, gold Earth-style Cyber Planet Key
- In 2006, Target stores got special exclusive versions of several Voyager Class toys (Evac, Leobreaker, and Mudflap) with a pair of bonus Mini-Cons. Evac came with Razorclaw and Steamhammer.
Notes
- According to Aaron Archer, Evac was originally going to be a more sci-fi-styled, twin-tailed helicopter.
- Development sketches shown on the BotCon 2005 exclusive version of IDW Publishing's Infiltration #0 show some weapon ideas that were dropped for Evac. Among them were a pair of tow-hooks that would detach to become "Martial Arts Chain Whips", and making his rotor blades into a hand-held sword. The animated series actually had Evac use his rotors as a sword several times, but the finished toy is not capable of holding them this way even though they are detachable.
- Evac's animation model used for the Cybertron cartoon is so absurdly toy-accurate that it even has the push-button used to activate the main rotor on the toy!
- Evac served as the basis for Shattered Glass Galvatron. Fun Publications's Jesse Wittenrich came up with the idea when he painted an unwanted Universe version of Springer (see toy section above) in G1 cartoon Galvatron's colors.
Foreign names
- Japanese: Live Convoy (ライブコンボイ Raibu Konboi)
- Hungarian: Kiürítő ("Evacuator"), Evac
- Korean: Livecon (라이브콘 Raibeukon)
