Wreck-Gar (Animated)
- Wreck-Gar is an character from the Transformers Animated continuity family.
Recently brought to life by the power of the AllSpark, Wreck-Gar is simple-minded and highly suggestible. As he attempts to learn more about his identity, he never loses his sense of humor. His trash bin is an impressive bag of tricks, able to stash and deploy many useful items at a moment's notice, or make them seemingly disappear forever. Judging by the unbelievable amount of fanwank he constantly provides, he probably has the entire year 1986 stuffed in there too.
Fiction
Transformers Animated cartoon
- Voice actor: "Weird Al" Yankovic (English), Joachim Kaps (German)
 Spoiler warning: Plot details for Garbage In, Garbage Out follow. of the next episode/issue in the series or 30 days after release, whichever is sooner |
Wreck-Gar emerged from a garbage scow, self-aware but with no sense of history and identity. He tried to figure out what he was by studying objects in his environment--briefly tricked by a food label into thinking he was high-fructose corn syrup. Once ashore, Wreck-Gar's clumsy curiosity prevented police officers from apprehending the Angry Archer, and the villain conscripted Wreck-Gar as a sidekick. Wreck-Gar helped the Archer disable an armored car--and in the process attracted the attention of the Autobots. After being harshly berated by Ratchet, Wreck-Gar assumed he was good for only one thing--GARBAGE!--and set about trying to deliver the stinky stuff to the entire citizenry of Detroit. This mission became much more dangerous when he was approached by Lugnut, who was out to retrive the AllSpark shard from Wreck-Gar's body. But thanks to Wreck-Gar's habit of repeating everything said to him, Lugnut believed the newcomer was just as much a loyal Decepticon as himself. Wreck-Gar managed to befuddle and avoid both factions, and eventually settled upon hijacking another garbage scow so he could have a larger supply to distribute throughout the city. This particular scow was infested with highly destructive all-consuming nanobots designed by Sumdac Systems, and Wreck-Gar's attempt to deliver it was impeded by Ratchet. Once he finally realized how destructive the nanobots were, Wreck-Gar decided to be a hero, and jumped overboard with the nanobots just as they were about to overload. Much of his body was subsequently destroyed and its AllSpark energy dispersed, but Wreck-Gar's head remains alive, stuck in the muck at the bottom of the lake. As he asked passing fish to help dig him out, Wreck-Gar was confused but basically undisturbed by his fate. Garbage In, Garbage Out
Toys
Wreck-Gar (Voyager, 2008)
Wreck-Gar transforms into a garbage truck with articulated lifting arms. His robot mode has many visual callbacks to the original Junkion Wreck-Gar design, and some of the facial features resemble voice actor Yankovic as well.
Trivia
- Originally, the creators wanted Eric Idle to play Wreck-Gar. When they couldn't sign him on, Weird Al was selected instead.
Spoiler warning: Plot details for Mission Accomplished follow. of the next episode/issue in the series or 30 days after release, whichever is sooner |
- In Mission Accomplished, Starscream awoke in a garbage scow and later found an AllSpark shard inside a garbage truck of the same design as the one that would eventually become Wreck-Gar. It is not explicitly clear whether this is supposed to be Wreck-Gar or just a bit of coincidental foreshadowing.
