Hot Shot (G1)

The name or term "Hot Shot" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Hot Shot (disambiguation).

Hot Shot is an Autobot or Camien from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Why aren't I Velocitronian?

Hot Shot is an honorable warrior deft in stylish battle. Despite his secret destiny for future leadership, he still requires much advice from his senior comrades.

His partner is Jolt.

Fiction

They buried me with the rest of Armada, but I'm back anyway!

Henkei! Henkei! pack-in manga

Hot Shot was dug up from the ground, stuck in stasis lock, by the Mini Vehicles, just before the buried body of Dinobot was also discovered. As Hot Shot slowly gained consciousness, Dinobot began to attack the others, until finally Hot Shot (and his Mini-Con, Jolt) faced Dinobot in battle. As Hot Shot performed stylish moves, Dinobot suggested the two battle for leadership. However, Hot Shot declined Dinobot's offer and suggested instead they team up and make peace.

Hot Shot returned with Dinobot to Autobot headquarters, where Grimlock quickly ruined Hot Shot's plan by suggesting that Grimlock and Dinobot play at battle with each other. Henkei! Henkei! volume 11

2005 IDW continuity

Early in the war, a familiar yellow Autobot was destroyed by Drag Strip in the front lines of battle. Drift #2

He's alive and he's in charge of important stuff. Uh oh.

But who cares about that guy, because an equally-familiar yellow robot named Hot Shot was living on the Transformers colony on Caminus, operating as a Cityspeaker for the planet's namesake, alongside Lightbright. First Contact The two attempted to translate Caminus's warnings as Menasor and Swindle arrived on their planet to loot it for spoils. Though Caminus was helpless against Menasor, Windblade returned to Cybertron to tell Hot Shot and the other members of the Council of Voices that Superion was on his way and he was on their side. Once Menasor was defeated, the Mistress of Flame led Hot Shot and his peers to meet Optimus Prime, the last living Prime, and they all bowed before him. The Sum and Its Parts

As the two societies mingled, Hot Shot and Lightbright were interviewed by Circuit and Longtooth, and as they happily introduced themselves, they wondered if any of the Cybertronians they were meeting were also Cityspeakers. The Possible Light

But who cares about THAT guy, because yet another Hot Shot was on Velocitron when it was devoured by Unicron, and his body littered Unicron's surface next to Override and Cliffjumper's. Our Darkest

The Functionist Universe

An alternate, dystopian timeline in which everyone is Hot Shot!

In an altered timeline in which the war was averted, our familiar yellow robot persisted to the present day. He watched in confusion as his data slug companion was remotely executed by the Functionists. Don't tell him about that other guy walking around who also looks yellow and familiar in a different yet pertinently similar way. The Custom-Made Now

Seriously, there are a lot of Hot Shots, folks.

Toys

Henkei! Henkei!

I spawned years of wiki in-fighting!

• Cybertron Hot Rod (March 12, 2009)
  • Japanese ID number: C-17
  • Accessories: 2 missile launchers, 2 flame missiles

Henkei! Henkei! Hot Rod is a redeco and retool of Universe Deluxe Class Hot Shot, using chrome for his exposed engine block. Unlike the Hasbro version which sticks relatively close to the original Hot Shot's toy color scheme, Takara's version switches the desaturated blue plastic used for the forearms and feet with gray plastic, matching the Armada cartoon colors more closely. Both the yellow and the red plastic are lighter shades than the Universe version (the red more so than the yellow), and the clear blue is darker. Almost every paint deco is a different color on the Henkei figure compared to the Universe version, and the Henkei figure has some additional paint where the Universe lacks (and vice versa). Whereas the Hasbro release's license plate sported a "JAAM" nod, the Henkei version instead features the character's name, "Hot Rod".

The Henkei version retains the missile launchers dropped from the Hasbro release, plus the rear bumper features a molded gap in it that allows it to accommodate the missile launchers as his exhaust. Both the missile launchers (minus the handles and triggers) and the exposed engine are chromed. The missile launchers can either be hand-held or mounted to his forearms. The missiles are sculpted to resemble fiery blasts, and they were originally intended by Hasbro to be tinted orange (to work with their idea of Hot Shot as a fire-type character). Instead, they are painted over clear blue on the exposed parts.

Hot Rod's prototype featured transparent plastic on his side windows to match his windshield and rear window, but was replaced with painted opaque windows on the final toy.

This version of the Hot Shot mold was also used to make Timelines Dion.

Generations

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• Hot Shot (Deluxe Class, 2019)
  • ID number: WFC-GS09
  • Accessories: "W-5 Holo-Beam Refraction Blaster," "RT-10 IR Electro-Scope Launcher," ammo clip (combine to form "HD Vector-Beam Mega-Blaster")

A Generations Selects special release in Siege, Hot Shot is a new head retool of Deluxe Class Autobot Hound with a paintjob homaging his Cybertron counterpart's Cybertron Defense Deluxe figure, and transforms from robot to Cybertronian jeep and back. He includes the "W-5 Holo-Beam Refraction Blaster" and "RT-10 IR Electro-Scope Launcher," which are compatible with the C.O.M.B.A.T. System, and can combine to form the "HD Vector-Beam Mega-Blaster," or can be mounted onto his shoulder. The Refraction Blaster comes with a detachable ammo clip, which can be stored in the bed of the jeep. Unlike most Selects redecoes, Hot Shot features "battle damage" paint applications on his bullbar and shins. He also has multiple hardpoints all over himself and his weapons to accommodate "Fire Blasts" from the Battle Masters assortment, which can be used to simulate blaster fire or explosions.

His vehicle mode has a sculpted winch, in the center of which is a hole. If some thread is fed through, this makes his winch somewhat functional.

Hot Shot debuted from Entertainment Earth at New York Comic Con 2019, also sold online by Hasbro Pulse in the USA and Canada. In the latter country, he was also available at EB Games stores.

Hound's package art, first seen at Summer Wonder Festival 2018, depicts Hound with a head resembling that of his Cybertron Defense Figure, foreshadowing the retool.

Notes

• For a good long time, this page was at Hot Rod (Henkei!), because he had never made any named Generation 1 continuity appearances in English-language fiction, and it is TFWiki's policy to use any official alternate names until that happens. "Hot Rod" is the character's Japanese name, as it was the Armada character's Japanese name, and if you were curious, that didn't conflict with the Generation 1 character Hasbro audiences know as Hot Rod because his name in Japan is "Hot Rodimus". Though it took years, Hot Shot's inclusion in the Combiner Wars storyline finally got him an English name.
• The possibility exists that the Henkei iteration is not a new character after all, since his "origin" consists of him being dug out of the ground. Could he be the Unicron Trilogy character, warped into the Henkei! Henkei! universe somehow? We'll never know... until the next Kiss Players.
• A Hot Shot showed up to die in Drift #2 because someone convinced artist Alex Milne to draw him as a casualty, noting that it would make David Willis mad. Milne drew him into the story based on his dislike of Armada and reasoning that the character would not be one used again in the continuity. Because it was a Generation 1-based story, the incident is documented here, rather than on Armada Hot Shot's page.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Hot Rod (ホットロッド Hotto Roddo), Hot Shot (ホットショット Hotto Shotto)
• Mandarin: Jīshè (Taiwan, 激射, "Passionate Shot")