Razor-Sharp

Razor-Sharp is a Decepticon Action Master partner from the toyline portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Know that my name is not Razorclaw.

Banzai-Tron's Action Master partner is Razor-Sharp, a crab whose claws can tear through nearly any metallic substance. Razor-Sharp transforms into a semi-automatic rifle that fires exploding plasma-energy projectiles, and shares a devious mindset with Banzai-Tron.

Fiction

Beast Wars: Uprising

Razor-Sharp was the decapodian mascot of the Tidal Wave, captained by Banzai-Tron. She decapitated Starhook when he suggested surrender during the closing throes of the Grand Uprising. Shortly thereafter, she presumably perished when the Tidal Wave collided with the Broadside. Derailment

Toys

The Transformers

Elephantiasis of the sidearm is a real illness, you know.

• Banzai-Tron with Razor-Sharp (Action Master, 1990)

Part of the third assortment of "basic" carded Action Masters, Razor-Sharp was only available with his larger partner Banzai-Tron. Razor-Sharp's spring-loaded transformation converts him from a robotic crab into a giant "semi-automatic gun" that can be held by any Action Master figure. He can be combined with any "normal" Action Master hand-held weapon in either mode, extending his cannon-barrel.

• More information on Razor-Sharp at TFU.info

Merchandise

ULTIMATES!

• Banzai-Tron (ULTIMATES!, 2021)

Part of the first wave of Transformers ULTIMATES! from Super7, packed in with Banzai-Tron, Razor-Sharp is an upscaled version of his original toy, transforming from robot crab to "semi automatic gun". (It is currently unknown if, but highly unlikely that, his transformation involves spring-loaded action.) He can be held in gun mode by other ULTIMATES! figures with their optional "gripping hands".

Preorders for Banzai-Tron (and the rest of Wave 1) opened on January 29 2021, and closed on February 28, with the toys shipping in winter of that year.

Notes

Could be worse; he could have once transformed into a cassette.

• Early promotional catalogs use a redecoed Pretender Octopunch as a stand-in for Razor-Sharp, along with a slightly different color scheme on his pal Banzai-Tron. Could this be what Razor-Sharp looked like before nucleon? Sucks to be him.
• The figure can stand in a more upright "sand-crab like" posture which reveals a small robotic face; Hirofumi Ichikawa's Transformers Chronicles fan-comic depicts him this way. This transformation has not been shown as being correct in any official source, effectively making it a fan-mode... a Hirofumi Ichikawa fan-mode, mind you, but still a fan-mode.
• Razor-Sharp's color scheme is that of the "Halloween Crab" (Gecarcinus quadratus). Yes, there actually is a crab in nature with a black carapace, purple pincers, and orange legs.
• The Action Master partner robots were given the "Targetmaster" classification retroactively by Dreamwave's More than Meets the Eye profile series.
• Razor-Sharp was characterized as female in Beast Wars: Uprising, but male in her Transformers: More than Meets the Eye profile.