Roughstuff

Roughstuff is a Decepticon Micromaster from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Give him your purse, or he'll shoot you.

Roughstuff is the poster-child for "trigger-happy". (Actually, Triggerhappy is the poster-child for "trigger-happy", but Roughstuff can be the poster-nephew, or something.) At the slightest hint of a target, he'll fire. "Verifying the target" and "aiming" are for sissy-bots.

In a rare sign of wisdom, his superiors have transferred him very far from the front lines. This has just made him even more hungry for things to shoot at.

Fiction

Dreamwave Generation One continuity

Roughstuff, like most Micromasters, was created by the Autobots and Decepticons in a joint venture several million years ago to increase manpower. During the training period, he was one of several Micros who respected the hot shot named Runner, aka Barricade, and apparently joined up with the Decepticon cause after the Meltdown Riots. Victims of the Revolution Sometime later, he was acting as a bouncer in Little Iacon, checking Micros before they were allowed into the bar. The Gray Race

2019 IDW continuity

Roughstuff had the unenviable task of transporting the most unstable members of the Rise (which included Rage, Quake, Rumble, Frenzy, Fangry, and Triggerhappy) to a new remote base to keep them out of trouble. Then a groundquake opened up a fissure that he and his convoy fell into. Then Triggerhappy shot him for no reason. Sucks to be Roughstuff. Tremors

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Then he got sprung from the clink by Swindle and recruited as a henchman for the guy. Sucks less to be Roughstuff. Hunt

Toys

The Transformers

After the red stuff and the wet stuff, the little-known third element of cyber-roshambo.

• Roughstuff (Micromaster Transport, 1989)
  • Accessories: "Military transport" trailer, double missile turret, 2 missiles

The Transformers Roughstuff transforms into a green and blue military truck cab of undetermined, possibly made-up model. The truck tows the military transport trailer/jet which looks like... a folded up jet, rather than a trailer transporting some kind of missile launcher. Roughstuff's robot mode is unusual in that nearly his entire vehicle mode is on his back. He also has the distinction of being one of the few (If any!) Micromasters that can look down. The trailer turns into a weird jet thing. Roughstuff can sit in the rear area of the vehicle, behind a handle bar.

This toy was sold in Japan as the Autobot Missile Bull.

• More information on Roughstuff at TFU.info

Notes

Foreign names

• European: Tornado
• French: Convoi (France, "Convoy"), Brutus (Canada)
• Italian: Tornado