Autorooper
| The name or term "Autotrooper" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Autotrooper (disambiguation). |
- Autoroopers are Earth Defense Command-aligned robots from the Kiss Players portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Autoroopers (オートルーパー Ōtorūpā) are a group of human-created artificial Transformers that serve the Earth Defense Command. 48 Autoroopers are known to exist in the Tokyo Autorooper Team, divided into 12 squads, each named after one of the signs of the Chinese zodiac.
Autoroopers are physically identical to one another apart from their squad markings. They are armed with rifles that fire Kremzeek bullets and can convert into the alternate mode of a police-style Mazda RX-8.
Each Autorooper is assigned a Kiss Player partner by the EDC. These young women serve a very important purpose. In times of crisis, a Kiss Player will kiss her Autorooper, activating a power that lets her merge with the much larger robot, bestowing upon it enhanced combat and regenerative abilities. If the merge's time limit expires, the Kiss Player is disgorged from her partner unconscious, naked and covered in viscous fluid. It is so far unknown what a voluntary separation entails.
Autoroopers are often dispatched to the scene of Transformers-related incidents. This usually brings them into conflict with Legion attackers, but they also sometimes find themselves battling or pursuing anti-EDC resistance fighters such as Optimus Prime, Hot Rodimus, and their human partners.
Autoroopers have an as-yet undisclosed connection to the same ParasiTech fusion process that Legion units use. One Autorooper partially fused with the corpse of Optimus Prime before Marissa Faireborn interceded. This fusion caused the resurrected Prime to suffer nightmares of his old enemy Megatron, suggesting a link between the Autoroopers and the Galvatron-derived Legion army. This link would eventually bear fruit as the Autoroopers went rogue and merged to reconstitute Galvatron's body.
Fiction
Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity
Kiss Players
- Voice actor: Keiji Hirai (Ne-04, Japanese)
One particular Autorooper is designated "Ne-04", the 4th Autorooper of Ne Squad. Ne-04 is initially partnered with Shaoshao Li, acclaimed as the most powerful Kiss Player in the EDC. Shao is said to be able to enhance her Autorooper to levels far beyond those of her fellow squad members.
During an encounter with a hostile Legion, the Ne-04 Autorooper was badly damaged. With Shao unconscious and unable to re-merge, the Autorooper turned to the nearby Atari Hitotonari and demanded that she kiss him. The frightened girl complied and the two together were able to defeat their opponent. During the battle, the merged Atari took on a more violent and bloodthirsty personality.
When it was discovered that Atari was an even more powerful Kiss Player than Shao, Ne-04 was reassigned to her, and Shao left the EDC to pursue resistance activities with her new partner, Hot Rod. Atari has noted that while the giant robot initially behaved in an intimidating manner toward her, she has since found it to have a warmer personality. The Ne-04 Autorooper's compassion for Atari extends to giving her backrubs when she becomes carsick riding in it, a frequent occurrence.
Atari's Autorooper appears to have a slightly mischievous personality, as when it was inexplicably shrunken to palm size following a kiss, it sneaked inside Atari's shirt while she was distracted thinking about desserts. Extremely passive on her best days, Atari exhaustedly capitulated to the tiny robot's advances.
But this would not be the Ne-04 Autorooper's only experience with shrinking...for soon, Atari would discover that she had a Legion inside her stomach! Instructing Atari to kiss it, the Autorooper shrunk to a diminutive size, promptly forcing itself into Atari's mouth and making her swallow. As it plunged into her wet passage, it noted how warm it was inside her, while Atari pleaded for it not to move around inside her too roughly.
Yeeeeah.
The Autorooper engaged, defeated and destroyed the Legion, but lacked the power to climb back out. Unfortunately, when it ran out of power entirely, it would return to normal size inside the panicked Atari. Claiming that it would escape via Transwarp, the Autorooper instead talked Atari into sticking her finger down her throat and vomiting it up. She proceeded to berate the robot for its trickery.Atari's Close Call?!
15 Go! Go!
Wings Universe
Autorooper (or at least one Autorooper) was one of the Autobots stationed at the Galadria Space Bridge Outpost in the Delta Prysmos Sector. He fared poorly when confronted by the Decepticon mercenary Flamewar. Hoist the Flag
Cloud
In the 15-OGSS Spacetime, Autoroopers were on patrol at the human/Autobot facility Space Bridge T.2. Transformers Cloud
TransTech
Autoroopers helped guard Axiom Nexus's Offworlder Maximum Security Prison along with Blastcharge Strika Drones. During a blackout, one of them attempted to stop a group of Cybertron's most wanted criminals already engaged in battle with one of the Strika drones. He was overpowered by the inmates, however. More Autoroopers continued to unsuccessfully stop the prisoners from escaping, but were trounced by the stronger (and craftier) 'bots. Cybertron's Most Wanted
Generations Selects comic
An Autorooper was a member of the White Order and present when Primus informed White Gallant Convoy to be on his guard, as the Blue Order had been destroyed by Ultra Megatron and the Straxuses. God Neptune comic 1
Toys
Kiss Players
- Atari X Autorooper (2006)
- The first Autorooper toy was a very small, simplified version of the Alternators Mazda RX-8 mold that comes with a large PVC figurine of Atari. Its arms will pop off if you so much as look at it, let alone attempt handling it.
- Autorooper X Atari (2006)
- Accessories:
- A 1/24th-scale Autorooper toy was released in December 2006. It is a retool and redeco of the Binaltech Meister Mazda RX-8 mold, with a new head, police lightbar, and police lights and an Imperial chrysanthemum emblem on the grill. The Autorooper features an opening hood with engine, opening "suicide" doors and trunk with a realistic interior. The set comes with small Atari and Kremzeek figurines along with a weapon formed from traffic cones (four are included), a sticker sheet (with options for different EDC unit designations or standard police markings) and an audio drama CD.
- Printed on the inside of the packaging is the "Transformers Kiss Players Chronological Table", a then comprehensive timeline for the Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity.
- This mold was also used to make Zoom-Zoom and Shockblast.
Notes
- "Autorooper" is a Japanese portmanteau of "auto" (オート ōto) and "trooper" (トルーパー torūpā). As such, it doesn't kindly Romanize into English.
