Salvage (Movie)
| The name or term "Salvage" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Salvage (disambiguation). |
- Salvage is an Autobot from the live-action film series continuity family.
A creation of the AllSpark, Salvage previously worked as a truck with Sparkplug & Son Salvage, and even though he was just an inanimate truck, he's certain he must have been happy. Lacking any further ambitions, he's decided to stay with them, and so long as he's hauling scrap, he remains happy with his life. Although he is strong and hardy, he prefers to spend his time in the junk yard over hunting and fighting Decepticons.
Fiction
IDW movie comics
Following the destruction of Megatron and the AllSpark in Mission City, Sector Seven took custody of the inactive Salvage and Longarm during cleanup operations. Alliance #1 They were taken to a secret base in the Nevada desert. The Reign of Starscream #3
Salvage and Longarm, both now sapient Transformers, were on a covert NEST patrol in China and broke cover to save lives... only to get killed by the arriving Shockwave. Rising Storm #1
Titan movie comics
In an alternate timeline where the Decepticons won against the Autobots on Earth, Salvage was a member of Camshaft's specialist team, handling duties like capping raw energon gushers before they explode. He was optimistic that the four of them could handle anything. Then a gusher exploded. Return to Cybertron: Part 1
Salvage continued to aid Camshaft and Grindcore in dealing with the energon gushers on Earth even as the situation continued to worsen. The group next dealt with a a volcano's worth of Energon bursting forth from the ground. Return to Cybertron: Part 2
Salvage and his teammates played a key role in saving Mikaela Banes, rapidly assembling a jammer array to free her from Decepticon mind-control. The Decepticon Who Haunted Himself
The Veiled Threat
Salvage was one of the Autobots who arrived on Earth shortly after the death of Megatron. At the NEST base at Diego Garcia, Optimus Prime told the new arrivals about the new world they were on, and Salvage asked questions about the humans, confused about how they should cooperate with the smaller, fleshier life forms. He was impressed with the noise Knockout's motorcycle alt-mode made. When Decepticon activity was detected in Zambia, Salvage was chosen to be on the NEST team that went there to investigate, and carried the much-smaller Autobot Beachbreak on his back. They eventually found a Decepticon trio at the Zambezi River, and Salvage and Beachbreak got into position as backup in case Optimus, Ironhide, and Ratchet had any difficulties. When Optimus went over the Victoria Falls, Salvage, Ironhide and Ratchet used Beachbreak's tow cable to haul him back up.
The Autobots tracked the three Decepticons downstream to Kariba dam. Salvage and Ratchet stayed at a safe distance with Kaminari Ishihara while the others moved in, however Ishihara realized that Payload was going to rupture the dam. Ratchet had Salvage physically throw him at the base of the dam so he could to protect and repair it, ultimately saving the dam. Salvage congratulated Ishihara on a well placed hit, when she shot the retreating Dropkick with her EMP gun. After returning to Diego Garcia, Salvage headed to Australia with Optimus, Ironhide, Lennox, and Ishihara to investigate more Decepticon rampages. They eventually ran into Kickback, Tread, and Trample in the Outback. While Optimus fought Kickback, Ironhide and Salvage tackled the other two. Salvage kept Trample busy by throwing anything he could grab at the Decepticon while also shooting, and eventually managed to kill his opponent. With the other Decepticons destroyed as well, the NEST team retired to Diego Garcia. The Veiled Threat
Power Core Combiners packaging bio
Since the AllSpark brought him to life from an inanimate truck, Salvage has come a long way. Not only is he now a more modern form of truck, but he's also become compatible with Power Core Combiner technology! Despite this new-found power, he'd still rather shirk his wartime duties and just hang out all day at the junkyard. Power Core Combiners
Games
Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (3DS)
Toys
Transformers (2007)
- Salvage (Deluxe, 2008)
- Accessories: Flatbed cover/claw
- Salvage is a redeco of Dropkick, transforming into a customized Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck (or a similar model just different enough to avoid paying a licensing fee). His flatbed cover conceals a giant claw/plier deployed from the tailgate by a sliding knob on top. This assembly becomes a hand-held weapon for his robot mode. He also has (non-firing) twin blasters on the underside of each forearm in robot mode.
- This mold was also used to make Revenge of the Fallen Blowpipe.
Power Core Combiners
- Salvage with Bomb-Burst (Commander 2-pack, 2011)
- Part of the fifth wave of Power Core Commander 2-Packs, Salvage is a redeco of Mudslinger, a Scout-sized monster truck of indeterminate model. He also has a "power-up" mode where he becomes the torso of a super robot, capable of using any auto-transforming Power Core Combiner drone-machines for limbs. This time the mold is paired with Bomb-Burst.
- Wave five of Power Core Combiners barely made out it to larger retail in its original run, making them incredibly hard to obtain outside of online sources.
- This mold was also used to make Roadmaster.
- Power Core Combiners Value Pack (2011)
- Salvage and Bomb-Burst were made more readily available at retail as part of a Walmart-exclusive Black Friday "Value Pack", combining a 5-pack team with a Commander 2-pack via packaging tape and a couple of stickers.
- Salvage has been found attached to the Grimstone/Dinobots, Steamhammer/Constructions, and Over-Run/Stunticons sets.
Notes
- Salvage's original toy's color scheme and those words "Sparkplug and Son Salvage" printed on his vehicle mode are in fact inspired by the pickup truck from the television show Sanford and Son, according to Hasbro at BotCon 2008.
- Salvage resembles the tow-truck Sparkplug Witwicky used in most isses of the Marvel Generation 1 Transformers comic quite a lot.
- Salvage very much resembles the Autobot drone in Transformers The Game.
- Salvage's Power Core Combiners bio, which solidly connects him to the 2007 live-action film Salvage, was revealed just one day after a Hasbro Q&A response established that Power Core Combiners are not strictly live-action movie characters. Whoops.
- At BotCon 2010, Hasbro referred to Huffer as "the only heritage character in Power Core Combiners." Salvage, then, is evidently not cool enough to qualify as a "heritage character." Sorry about that.
