Prowl (SG)
| This article is about the evil Autobot. For his heroic counterpart, see Prowl (G1). For a list of other meanings, see Prowl (disambiguation). |
| The name or term "Checkpoint" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Checkpoint (disambiguation). |
- Prowl is an evil Autobot from the Shattered Glass continuity family.
Prowl was a skilled detective, proficient at solving mysteries and spotting things the untrained eye would miss, like booby traps. However, he was also compulsive when it came to mysteries, and often got caught snooping around places leaving his own clues for mysteries to be solved.
He later got reformatted by Unicron into the heroic Checkpoint.
Fiction
Shattered Glass
Prowl was one of the Autobots active on Earth under Rodimus Prime's command. When the Autobots learned Side Burn was hiding things from them, Prowl was part of a search team that uncovered a hidden laboratory Side Burn had been working from. Jetfire lumbered ahead and caught himself in some booby traps, so Rodimus instructed Prowl to clear the path for them. Prowl meticulously proceeded forward into the lab, catching, disabling or otherwise identifying the traps Side Burn had left as he did so. With Jetfire deactivated, Prowl seemingly moved up in the Autobot hierarchy as well. Coalescence
Following their bad defeat at Decepticon City on Earth at the hands of the Decepticons, Prowl was among the injured Autobots who boarded Sky Lynx to head for Cybertron. Restoration When their ride announced they'd have to lighten their load, Prowl, being among the most severely wounded of the Autobots, was dumped out of the airlock along with Optimus Prime and a number of others. They subsequently found themselves in the presence of Unicron. Familiar Reflections Unicron reformatted Prowl, turning him into Checkpoint, while Inferno and Ratchet became his troops, the Autotroopers. Collectively as the Knights of Unicron, they returned to Cybertron to help Nova Prime overthrow Rodimus. Out of the One, Many
As the Autotroopers took the Decepticons into custody, the dark Primus revealed his robot mode and prepared to do battle with the invaders, especially his multiversal sister Gaea, hidden inside positive-Earth. Nova Prime deployed the Knights to Primus's shoulders, where they blasted the insane god in the eye, blinding him long enough for Gaea to finish the fight. As a joint governing council of Autobots and Decepticons was established on the new, peaceful Cybertron, Checkpoint and the Knights of Unicron acted as their guardians. The Future Buried...
Notes
- Prowl's design is based on the 2008 Universe Prowl toy, with a color scheme taken from the Mexican release of the Generation 1 Prowl toy. As Checkpoint, his design is based on Combiner Wars Offroad, with Combiner Wars Trailbreaker's head and Energon Checkpoint's color scheme. An earlier concept had him based on the Thrilling 30 Trailbreaker mold.[1]
- Checkpoint commanding the Autotroopers mirrors normalverse Scourge and his Sweeps but with a much cooler color scheme.
- At one point, Checkpoint almost became the BotCon 2016 Customization Class figure. According to Shawn D. Tessmann, the Combiner Wars First Aid mold was chosen over a year prior, with Hasbro offering the unused Ratchet head. As the months rolled on, Ratchet was changed to Checkpoint when the Trailbreaker head was offered in its place (along with the Autotroopers as the year's troop-builder set). After a series of production issues, the figure was switched back to Ratchet. As a result, the figure still retains Checkpoint's base color scheme, allowing fans to repurpose their toy, should they be so inclined.
