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FACT: Triggerbots are robots.

The Triggerbots are a trio of Autobot soldiers, all of whom sport rather massive concealed guns that they can flip out when needed.

The Triggerbots are...

The Decepticon sub-group utilizing this technology is known as the Triggercons.

Fiction

Marvel Comics continuity

Marvel The Transformers comics

Events from the UK-only comic stories are in italics.
FACT: The purpose of the Triggerbot is to flip out guns and shoot people.

The trio accompanied a junior Optimus Prime on his mission to visit High Circuit Master Boltax, and were each instrumental in getting the group past a series of booby traps. They didn't think much of Prime's decision to visit the place, however, and Prime left them behind as he entered Boltax's Temple of Knowledge. The Flames of Boltax!

Millions of years later, the team was captured by the Decepticons, along with their Sparkabot compatriots. Backstreet was sent to Earth, along with two of the Sparkabots, so that the Z Foundation could test out their new Transformer-scrambling jammer devices. Backstreet's heat rays were unable to prevent a human bounty hunter from immobilizing him with a jammer. They were eventually freed, and made their way back to Cybertron. Ca$h and Car-nage!

The Triggerbots were sent in an Autobot shuttle to track Dreadwind and Darkwing on their mission to Earth. Unfortunately they were spotted and ended up battling Dreadwing near the Moon. Instead of deploying the shuttle's nuclo-deatomiser cannon, they opted instead to let the Decepticons detonate the shuttle's energon stores, faking their deaths so that they could discreetly follow down to the planet's surface.

The Decepticons had been sent to retrieve the body of Starscream which, as it turned out, was still partially powered by the Underbase, resulting in the Triggerbots having to face off against the murderous zombie while also protecting the archaeologist Susan Hoffman and her assistants from the predations of the local tribespeople. Ultimately Dreadwind and Darkwing were able to get back to Cybertron with their prize, while the Triggerbots commiserated with their new-found human friends. Race with the Devil

The Triggerbots were later sent by Emirate Xaaron as a search team during the Matrix Quest, to the planet of Cheyne. Instead of the Matrix, they found a family of psychic vampires who ensnared their minds, to feed off of their hopes and dreams. Dogfight finally managed to break free of their control with help from the locals; he then rescued his two comrades. Kings of the Wild Frontier.

Transformers Comic-Magazin

Triggerbots are high-speed, agile Autobots who transform on just a single electrical impulse. They have had tough training from Prime himself and have chosen fantasy vehicle forms. The team comprised the heroic Autobots Ruckus, Crankcase, Windsweeper, and Backstreet.Transformers in Action: He Who Laughs Last ... Transformers in Action: "By their Blasters you shall know them ...!"

The Triggerbots were first seen as part of a large army during the twin crises of a sinking oil tanker and the multiverse snapping.The Transformers' Grand Hour: Headmaster of the Dimensions

During a planet-wide Decepticon attack on oil refineries, the Triggercons were spread throughout several cities and holding off the slower Powermasters. Luckily the Triggerbots arrived! The team masterfully exploited their strengths and the enemy's weakness by drawing the Triggercons into built-up urban areas (....uh....) where they could manouver faster. During this, they weathered friendly fire from humans (maybe cos you took the fight into a damn city). He Who Laughs Last ... After this, that bastard Crankcase clearly defected to join the evil Triggercons Dogfight and Override!Transformers in Action: "By their Blasters you shall know them ...!"

During a major threat to the Earth, Backstreet was in charge of the Rocket Base and its joint Triggerbot-Micromaster crew. When the Decepticons seemed likely to use Super Blasters, Backstreet did a bad thing for the greater good: he started ceasefire negotiations, then had his crew gun down the unprepared Decepticons. Earth was saved The Energon Trap but at what moral cost?!

Marvel Generation 2 comic

FACT: Triggerbots die ALL THE TIME.

Override was part of a team sent to stop a revitalized Megatron on Earth. He attacked Megatron solo, to distract the Decepticon leader while other Autobots snuck aboard the Ark. Megatron ripped him to shreds, presumably killing him. Final Transformations

2005 IDW continuity

Dogfight, apparently a neophyte, helped out Optimus Prime during the second coming of Thunderwing. Stormbringer issue 2

Toys

Generation 1

Backstreet's guns are cool, and by cool, I mean totally sweet.
The Triggerbots were sold individually carded at the $3 price point. The Triggerbots feature flip-out guns in both vehicle and robot modes, with very limited posability. Like most sub-groups at the time, they had Decepticon counterparts: the Triggercons. Along with the Sparkabots and Firecons, they replaced 1987's Throttlebots as the line's lowest-cost offerings for 1988.
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