Devastator (G1)/2005 IDW continuity
Awesome and terrifying, Devastator was the first successful Combiner created since the days of Nova Prime. Bombshell of the Insecticons finally made the procedure work after reverse engineering the notes of Shockwave and Jhiaxus. The Constructicons were chosen to keep a unified mind thanks to their common interest in destruction.
Even after the death of Scrapper, Devastator remained a viable Combiner thanks to the efforts of Bombshell and Shockwave. He was renovated into a modular gestalt, able to potentially bond with Megatron or others, but the second actual Devastator combination was made with the Autobot Prowl, who was being controlled by Bombshell's cerebro-shell at the time. After Prowl was freed, the Combiner mind-share kept a bond between him and the Constructicons, and they continued operating as a unit. Later on, Starscream would use the Enigma of Combination to bind his loyalist Scoop to the Constructicons, creating a new Devastator governed by Scoop's faith that Starscream was the Chosen One of the Primal Prophecies, giving Starscream a Combiner loyal to him and his rule of Cybertron.
- First Appearance: Transformers: All Hail Megatron #2; Transformers: Robots in Disguise #14 (with Prowl); Transformers vol. 2 #41 (with Scoop)
Fiction
After the death of Nexus Prime and the failure that was Monstructor, many dedicated themselves to rediscovering workable gestalt technology. The Crucible Shortly before the outbreak of the Great War, Shockwave—a student of Jhiaxus, Monstructor's creator—was brought into the Decepticon ranks for the express purpose of using his master's teachings to develop a combiner for the faction. He accepted with the caveat that the process was likely to take a very long time. Shockwaves Indeed, it would be millions of years before Megatron had his gestalt warrior; in the year that followed the thwarting of the Expansion, the scientifically-minded Insecticon Bombshell finished Shockwave's work, successfully granting the Constructicons the ability to combine into Devastator. Where previous experiments with combination had struggled to unite the minds involved in the process, the Constructicons' shared appetite for destruction allowed Devastator to remain relatively mentally stable, if angry. Before the Dawn Shockpoint
When the Decepticons initiated the Surge, striking at Autobot outposts across the galaxy simultaneously, Devastator was a key component of the squadron on Earth, where he made short work of the local Autobot unit, who were exiled back to Cybertron. All Hail Megatron #7 The Decepticons then began conquering the planet, starting with New York City; Devastator cut off the human population's means of escape by wading into the waters around the city and destroying the bridges and tunnels. All Hail Megatron #2
In time, the apparent lack of direction Megatron had for the Decepticons after their conquest of Earth caused a schism in their ranks, and Devastator sided with Starscream, attacking and attempting to kill Megatron. Their fight was soon interrupted by the arrival of jets from the European Union, which Devastator had to fight off. All Hail Megatron #10 A much greater opponent then appeared in the form of Omega Supreme, who arrived with all the exiled Autobots and engaged Devastator in battle. With buildings being shattered by their titanic clash, Optimus Prime ordered Omega to move the battle with Devastator to a safer area. All Hail Megatron #11 Omega responded by hauling the combiner out into the bay, where he slammed him against the Statue of Liberty and blasted him through the chest, taking him out and leaving to sink into the waters below. All Hail Megatron #12
Several years later, Spike Witwicky tracked Scrapper down and killed him to make sure Devastator could never be formed again. Scrapper This did not prove as permanent a solution as first appeared, however: after the Decepticons liberated Scrapper's body from Skywatch The Demolished Man they were summoned back to Cybertron for a battle with the Autobots, where the Constructicons proved capable of combining with Scrapper's corpse. The resultant Devastator suffered from a "dead leg" that he could not move properly, allowing the Autobots to outrun him, and his other leg was also soon taken out of the equation when Sunstreaker tricked the giant into stomping on his explosive-laden wheelchair. Just as the giant was about to crush him with his fists instead, he was mentally taken over by D-Void and forced to merge with all other Decepticons and Galvatron's Sweep army to form the "Deceptigod". Chaos Part Three: Kings
The defeat of D-Void was followed by the reversion of Cybertron into a primordial wilderness into which Megatron fled, leaving the leaderless Decepticons—the Constructicons among them—to live in the rebuilt Iacon, under the unstable governance of Bumblebee. Megatron soon discovered that the combination of Ore-13 and space bridge technology in his new body allowed him to tap the energies from within Cybertron that D-Void had used to create the Deceptigod, and in this force's ability to subjugate individual will and facilitate combination, he saw the means to finally perfect the combination process. Before the Dawn
Megatron tested his theories upon the Aerialbots, fusing them into "The Superion", and also secretly conspired with several of the Decepticons in Iacon, allowing Bombshell to experiment with the energies, with which he seized control of the mind of the Autobot police officer Prowl. Faking both his own death and those of the Constructicons, Devisive Bombshell withdrew them all to Prowl's Black Room, where the Constructicons' bodies were rebuilt to the specifications of a new, modular Devastator design that moved Hook to Scrapper's old position as right leg, and would allow others built with compatible forms to serve as the combiner's head. The intent was for Megatron himself to become Devastator's new head, but rather than risk his own mind and body in a test run, it was arranged for the mind-controlled Prowl to become part of Devastator first, to ensure the process worked.
When Megatron returned to Iacon and his plan went into action, the Constructicons and Prowl combined into the new and improved Devastator, under the complete control of Bombshell via Prowl. Under Megatron's orders, the revamped Devastator proceeded to destroy Autobot High Command with the sweep of a hand. Before the Dawn The giant then continued on to the Iacon med-centre, which he also devastated, before menacing the Autobots, NAILs, and disillusioned Decepticons trying to defend it. Superion arrived from Cybertron's wilderness and proceeded to engage Devastator in combat, and two giants' battle continued for some time until, elsewhere, Bombshell was stabbed through the head by Arcee. With his controlling influence gone, Devastator fell into a stupor, just as Prowl—his mind still partially aware within the combiner—turned his thoughts to the one thing he and the five Constructicons agreed on: a hatred of Spike Witwicky. This unifying idea caused Devastator to reawaken, now of one mind, and with just one goal: to never be controlled ever again. With that, Devastator grabbed Superion, tore the combined Autobot in half, Plan for Everything and proceeded to destroy everything he saw. However, the giant was surprised when Ironhide got a boost up onto his shoulders and began to call out to Prowl inside his mind. After some well-placed punches and a speech from the Autobot veteran on the topic of free will and personal change, Prowl wrestled enough control to cause Devastator to tear off his own head, spontaneously un-combining the gestalt. Shortly afterwards, Megatron attempted to reform the combiner, this time with himself as its head, but the well-timed activation of a stasis field secretly built into the Decepticon leader's spark casing by the thought-to-be dead Wheeljack stopped the process in its tracks. Heavy Is the Head
Impressed by certain nasty things they'd seen in Prowl's memories during their merging of minds, the Constructicons left the Decepticons to befriend their new idol. Second Exodus When Shockwave put into motion a plan to collapse the universe into Cybertron, the Constructicons convinced a reluctant Prowl they had to form Devastator again to keep Monstructor off of Metroplex. Black Planet Devastator grappled with his crazed forebear until the Lost Light joined the fight and rammed the original combiner into his component pieces. ...And the Damage Done Prowl would subsequently learn to see Devastator as a valuable resource, willingly combining with the Constructicons during a battle with the Decepticons on Earth six months later Detonation Boulevard as part of a plan to expose the reappearance of Cybertronians on Earth—specifically, to make things difficult for the Earth Defense Command and their Decepticon allies. In the ensuing fight, Devastator battled against Galvatron's Decepticons, and managed to gain the upper hand. The Mind Bomb They would merge again to finish off a Worldsweeper-class ship and to cover the escape of the Autobots from Bikini Atoll, Jazz (with the unexpected help of Prowl) having rescued Alpha Trion from human captivity. I Dream of Wires
Starscream later showed footage of Devastator on Earth to Wheeljack, so as to highlight the danger that combiners posed. The World of Tomorrow
On Earth, the Autobots turned their attention to searching for the lost Enigma of Combination. Prowl formed a temporary truce with Spike Witwicky to help infiltrate Garrison Blackrock's Onyx facility, and deployed Devastator to spearhead the attack. ONoffON Although Devastator proved effective at tearing the building apart and temporarily secured the Enigma, his loathing of Spike - the man who had killed him once before - ultimately drove the combiner berserk and ruined the mission. Arcee finally managed to talk Devastator down and force him to split apart. Prowl blamed the Constructicons for taking over their combined body, although they maintained that Devastator couldn't be controlled like that and that all of them were equally responsible for the outburst. The Onyx Interface Conclusion: The Obliterati On Cybertron, Starscream confronted Optimus over "his" personal combiner, using it as leverage so that he could accelerate Superion's own repairs. First Contact
After Prowl learned that Starscream was planning to absorb Caminus into the new "Council of Worlds", he and the Constructicons hijacked the Ark's new spacebridge to travel to Metroplex, intending to tear the spacebridge apart and cut Cybertron off from the rest of the galaxy. The Possible Light Combined once more, Devastator issued an ultimatum to the assembled Cybertronians and Camiens, but was interrupted by the new and improved Superion. Although Superion proved to be a nimble and clever fighter, Devastator was able to overpower him with brute force, and dragged his defeated foe back through the space bridge to Cybertron. He was briefly distraced by an Autobot-Decepticon alliance, allowing Starscream to use the Enigma on a group of bystanders and create Defensor. Defensor joined forces with Superion and the duo finally managed to overcome Devastator. Mistakes and Mayhem
Starscream sought to turn Devastator's power to his own end, and used the Enigma to rebuild Devastator once more. This new configuration incorporated Starscream's lackey Scoop as Devastator's new right leg, omitting Prowl and returning the other Constructicons to their original configurations. Scoop's religious fanaticism and devotion to his "Chosen One" allowed him to override the other members of the team and force Devastator to obey Starscream's commands. His first mission was to stop Menasor from going on yet another rampage on Caminus. Unfortunately, Defensor misread the situation and attacked Devastator, sparking a four-way brawl between all of the combiners. Metroplex's malfunctioning space bridge sent the quartet tumbling onto an alien world, and things only escalated when the newly-born Optimus Maximus, under the control of Prowl, stepped in to intervene. You, Me, and the Universe
Devastator was furious at Prowl for "abandoning" him, and this anger allowed Devastator to ignore Scoop's input and sock Optimus Maximus hard enough to knock him for a loop. Devastator, now completely out of control, teamed up with Menasor in a fight that spanned the colony worlds. Devastator had the upper hand as he pummeled him on Velocitron, but he was restrained by Superion and Defensor before he could deliver a finishing blow. Devastator retaliated by kicking Optimus clear through the space bridge and onto Carcer, but his enemy quickly got his act together and dove back through the portal. Optimus's counterattack threw the Constructicons off balance and allowed all three Autobot combiners to pile onto him, tearing him into his components. Although Scoop apologized for losing control, he and the Constructicons were arrested by the Badgeless and placed back into Starscream's custody. All That Remains The Will of the Few
In the aftermath, Starscream allowed Devastator to recombine so that Superion could safely extricate the Constructicons off of Cybertron. Optimus Prime's own time as a combiner allowed him to realize that the Constructicons needed to regularly combine to stay stable, and also noted that Devastator seemed apologetic for his actions. Now and On Earth Windblade was grateful that Devastator wasn't allowed to roam free. Windblade #4
Starscream proved willing to unleash Devastator in times of great need, such as the Decepticon riot at the Space Bridge chamber. Although Devastator was willing to follow the orders of the "Chosen One", his habit of defaulting to "devastate" to solve problems almost caused more chaos than it stopped. Once Upon a Time on Earth
On Earth, Scarlett and Joe Colton remembered Devastator's attack on New York as they discussed the threat that Cybertronians posed. Secret Raiders
Seeking a new edge against a recently arrived fleet of undead Titans, Starscream—hoping to seize control of the Titan Carcer—used Devastator to launch a full-on attack on the Titan-ship, a distraction while Windblade and a small insertion team made their way inside. Desperate Times Devastator came up against Strika, who managed to catch one of his punches and stop the combiner dead in his tracks. Desperate Measures When Windblade managed to puppeteer the Titan's motor functions, she grabbed Devastator and hurled him at an undead Titan. Devastator managed to reorient himself and land feetfirst upon his target, the impact taking it out of the fight. Rubicon
When a Bludgeon controlled Trypticon marched towards Iacon (an average day on Cybertron), Starscream deployed Devastator to slow the Titan's approach. Devastator fared rather poorly, being burned by the beast's atomic breath before stepped on and crunched in the monster's jaws. After that he called it quits for the day but his valiant effort in battle convinced Trypticon to spare the combiner's life. Salvation
When Onyx Prime returned to Cybertron and proved yet another tyrant, Scoop's faith in Starscream was rekindled and he managed to convince his fellow Construticons to form Devastator and free Starscream from prison. The Ground After Onyx threw Optimus into the Crystal City black hole, Devastator worried about whether or not they would have to fight Onyx next before he revealed to Starscream the epiphany he had: Though Starscream had betrayed Cybertron, he had remained true to himself meaning he was the reincarnation of The Fallen. As Starscream pondered how to spin that to his advantage, he ordered Devastator to destroy the Autobots within Metrotitan only for the combiner to be met by Victorion. In spite of the Camien's gravity powers, Devastator managed to breach her defense and engage her in melee combat. The Hallowing Endless Forever
Unknown to Devastator, his newfound strength to match the Camien was due to a sample of Ore-4 aboard Nemesis interfering with his foe's powers. Arcee soon managed to shatter the Ore-4 which restored Victorion to full strength. In a rage, the Torchbearer combiner unleashed her full power on Devastator who had only a second to mutter Starscream's name before he was ripped to atoms. Unforgivable
