Squadron X
- Squadron X is a team of Decepticons from the 2005 IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
For a time, Squadron X was the Decepticons' answer to the Wreckers. While the Wreckers used their unique sense of bravado and brutality to right wrongs, Squadron X left a wake of indiscriminate corpses. As such, the Wreckers' leader, Impactor, was obsessed with tracking them down and ending them. Their personal battlecruiser is the Pale Fire.
Their roster included:
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Fiction
2005 IDW continuity
Squadron X became a crusade for Impactor, maybe because, deep down, he recognised something of the Wreckers in them. Zero Point
While Squadron X was refueling on Pova after transporting munitions, Ferak's Squadron X profile the Wreckers confronted their counterparts and started a fight. Squadron X lost and were taken into captivity. Zero Point However, the Autobots had signed a treaty with the Povians that gave the Autobots no jurisdiction on the world and, to avoid a political incident, Impactor was ordered to let the prisoners go. Rather than do this, he locked himself in Squadron X's cell with them and murdered them all while all the other Wreckers—bar Springer—did nothing. For this, Impactor was sent to Garrus-9 and condemned as "the Autobot who went too far". Last Stand of the Wreckers #5
All the other Wreckers were utterly horrified by what had happened, not realizing Impactor had meant to murder them, and turned to Springer to take command so the Wreckers wouldn't be shut down. Or so they told Springer—actually, they'd been glad to watch Impactor do it, and wanted to avoid going on trial themselves. Zero Point
Impactor's crime was covered up in official accounts and secondary sources that took after them. Wreckers: Declassified in particular drummed up a grandiose story of the Wreckers vs. Squadron X and claimed that, when captured, Squadron X broke free of their inhibitor harnesses. This narrative stated that Impactor, realizing that their rivalry with Squadron X could never end with them in containment, ordered the Wreckers to take them out permanently. Last Stand of the Wreckers #4 Bullets
The AllSpark Almanac
During the Great War, Squadron X was defeated at Pova. The AllSpark Almanac II
Wings Universe
Notes
- In the Wreckers' comic series of origin, their opposing team was the Mayhem Attack Squad.
- To further dirty up the Wreckers' murder of Squadron X, the character profiles in the second Last Stand hardcover told us that Ferak was going to retire after one last job and Earthquake was going to be murdered for pathologically hero-worshipping Optimus Prime.
- Squadron X's roster is composed of many of the named minor Decepticon non-toy characters from the original Marvel Comics run. This was to give the comic some characters it could easily kill off but who weren't generics, who were obscure enough that they could be as powerful as the script said without readers going "hang on...", and to give hardcore fans a big grin. The text-only "Wings Universe" members, meanwhile, are all named after minor G.I. Joe villains.
- Colorist Josh Burcham has admitted using the Obscure Transformers Website as a reference for the characters' color schemes... except for Crosscut, whose colors he made up since the character was never given a color scheme in his original Marvel appearance.
- This is the fanwankiest subgroup that there ever was or ever will be.
- Go on. Prove us wrong. We'd like to see you try.
Foreign names
- Japanese: Squadron X (スコードロンX[1] Sukōdoron X)
References
- ↑ Japanese reprint of The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers.
