Hound (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity
Hound was the secondary kid-appeal character in the 1980s cartoon, but he had a much cooler jeep alt-mode!
The Transformers cartoon
- Voice actor: Ken Sansom (English), Kenyū Horiuchi (Japanese), Ken Narita (Japanese, "Attack of the Autobots" and "Day of the Machines"), Liu Qin (Chinese), Crock Krumbiegel (German, Generation 2 "More than Meets the Eye", "S.O.S. Dinobots", "Dinobot Island, Part 2"), Vladimiro Conti (Italian, second dub), Javier Pontón (Latin-American Spanish), Júlio César (Portuguese), Francisco José (Portuguese, "Heavy Metal War"), Márcio Seixas (Portuguese, "Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1"), Mauro Castro (Portuguese, DVD dub), Jacques Ferrière (European French), Georges Atlas (European French, "Roll for it" & "Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1"), Francis Lax (European French, "Attack of the Autobots"), François Leccia (European French, "Masquerade")
Hound was one of the original Autobots aboard the Ark when it crash-landed on Earth four million years ago. When awakened in 1984, he was reformatted to have a terrestrial alt-mode, that of a Mitsubishi military jeep.
As the Autobots got their bearings on this strange, new planet, Optimus Prime dispatched Hound on a recon mission to find the Decepticons. The impetuous Cliffjumper tagged along uninvited, itching to start a fight, and took a pot-shot at Megatron once Hound sniffed out the Decepticon base. Cliffjumper missed, and the Decepticons gave chase. Laserbeak pursued the two Autobot eavesdroppers, and Hound took the brunt of the assault, getting blasted by Laserbeak's cannons. Hound spun out of control on the winding mountain roads and crashed into a ravine.
Cliffjumper returned with help: the Autobot medic, Ratchet. Hound was too injured even to transform, so the crane truck Hauler had to lift him out of the gulch so he could be dragged back to the Ark for repairs. Despite the mishap, Hound bore no ill will against Cliffjumper. The scout had heard enough about Megatron's plans to plunder the Earth's resources that Optimus immediately launched a mission to stop the Decepticons. More than Meets the Eye, Part 1
Later, when the Autobots counter-attacked the Decepticon siege of Sherman Dam, Hound got into an underwater fight with Rumble. The pint-sized Decepticon managed to trap Hound under a pile of boulders so that he couldn't move. Then Spike Witwicky jumped in and removed the boulders, thus freeing Hound to resurface and rejoin his teammates. More than Meets the Eye, Part 2
After they came back from the ruby crystal mines of Burma, Hound and Mirage came up with a plan to fool the Decepticons: They would create a hologram of a rocket fuel base. The Decepticons would go there to use the resources to create energon cubes, at which point the trap could be sprung. Optimus Prime agreed, and the then-imprisoned Ravage was allowed to escape with the false information. However, Megatron outsmarted the Autobots, went to the real rocket fuel base and used its resources. More than Meets the Eye, Part 3
After Chip Chase was kidnapped by the Decepticons, who were after the antimatter formula, Hound and Mirage used their respective powers to sneak into the antimatter laboratory in order to mount a rescue. While Hound distracted Megatron with an army of holographic duplicates, Bumblebee and Spike swooped in to save the prisoner, and the Autobots beat a hasty retreat through a fourth-floor window. Megatron had already obtained the formula, and he attacked Autobot Headquarters. When Starscream unleashed the power of the antimatter gun in his direction, Hound ended up buried up to his waist in rubble. Roll for It
He again defended the base when Optimus Prime was incapacitated and required a new Cosmitron. Though the fight didn't got well for the Autobots, they held off the Decepticons long enough for Optimus to be repaired. Divide and Conquer After enjoying a snowball fight in mid-summer, the Autobot traced the source of the strange temperature drops to the Arctic. Hound was one of the Autobots who went there to investigate and immediately encountered a new Decepticon, Skyfire. When Spike and Sparkplug became trapped on the ice, Hound was unable to rescue them and watched helplessly as they were carried off by Skyfire. As the Autobots followed, Hound, Gears, Ratchet and Ironhide were separated from the others and subsequently captured by the Decepticons. Skyfire was ordered to eliminate the foursome as a test of loyalty, but refused and was blasted by Starscream. Hound employed his holograms to allow the four Autobots to avoid a similar fate. Once they'd repaired Skyfire, the jet happily defected, but ended up buried in ice following the defeat of Megatron's plan. The Autobots held a memorial for him. Fire in the Sky
After the Autobots discovered fossilized dinosaur bones inside a cavern in the Autobot volcano, Hound was accompanied Spike on a trip to the museum, a new Earth experience that excited him. He scanned three dinosaur skeletons with his hologram gun, and the resulting holographic simulation inspired Wheeljack and Ratchet to build the Dinobots. However, Grimlock severely damaged Teletraan I when the exceptionally dim-witted Dinobots went on a rampage, forcing Hound and Spike to scout for Decepticon activity while the Autobot base computer was being repaired. Hound didn't mind the extra work, as it allowed him to do sightseeing of the surrounding Earth landscape. He managed to detect Decepticon activity at the Great Falls hydroelectric power facility and relayed the information to Optimus Prime. Arriving at the falls, he was extremely impressed with the view. When no Decepticons were in immediate view, Bluestreak jokingly wondered about the occupancy of glitch mice in Hound's database, to the amusement of no one. Hound was among the Autobots subsequently captured by the Decepticons, but was freed when Wheeljack and the Dinobots arrived to save the day. S.O.S. Dinobots
Hound joined the Autobots on a mission to Peru to thwart Megatron's exploitation of the Crystal of Power. They won. Fire on the Mountain Next, Hound was on the Autobot squad, along with the Dinobots, which was on-hand when a meteor crashed to Earth in a ghost town. War of the Dinobots
After Sparkplug was abducted by Laserbeak, Hound took part in a diversionary attack on the Decepticon base while a small team went in and rescued Sparkplug. Later, he and the rest of the Autobots attempted to stop Megatron from activating a giant space bridge. They failed, and Cybertron was drawn into Earth's orbit. The Ultimate Doom, Part 1 During the retreat back to Headquarters, Hound and Bluestreak had to save Spike from Laserbeak. Hound used his sensors to locate Bumblebee, who'd fallen into a crevasse, so that Windcharger could haul the diminutive Autobot out. As he was out of gas, Bumblebee had to ride back to Headquarters in Hound. The Ultimate Doom, Part 2
Hound took part in the cleanup efforts after Cybertron was ejected from Earth's orbit. After the Decepticons were spotted on the move, the Autobots gave chase. After a brief stop in a quicksand trap, they caught up with the Decepticons outside Doctor Arkeville's secret laboratory and prevented the explosion of the Exponential Generator. Countdown to Extinction Hound turned out to cheer on Optimus Prime during the Autobot leader's one-on-one fight against Megatron. To the shock of all of the Autobots, Prime lost, and they were legally obligated to vacate the planet. Once they returned to base, they discovered that Megatron had cheated, and the results of the fight were void. Faced with the Decepticon's huge new warrior, Devastator, Hound projected an even bigger Autobot, distracting the combiner long enough for Optimus defeat him. The Autobots subsequently blasted the Decepticons into a crevasse filled with lava. Heavy Metal War
After Spike's mind was transferred into a robot body, the process affected the boy and Megatron turned him against the Autobots. Hound rolled out to bring Spike back to Autobot Headquarters and stood by his bedside as his mind was transferred back. Autobot Spike Hound was later on another mission to a gold mine. The mission didn't go well, resulting in the Autobots being battered by energised boulders, and Gears being kidnapped. When Megatron activated his Solar Needle, the Autobots were obliged to travel to Africa to shut down the operation and rescue Gears. They did briefly consider leaving him with his temporary affable personality, but were overruled by Gears himself. Changing Gears
The Autobots visited New York City when the Decepticons began replacing buildings with Cybertronian architecture. Optimus Prime was captured by the Decepticons, and Hound, along with Spike, Bumblebee, Ratchet and Mirage, entered the sewer system in an attempt to rescue their leader. After tangling with an Alligaticon, Hound became confused by the fact that his sensors detected Prime behind them. His sensors were correct—the Constructicons had built the Alligaticon out of Prime's parts. Hound, Mirage and Ratchet ended up wrangling it so Optimus could be rebuilt. During the battle for New York, Hound found himself battling Frenzy in a subway with Bluestreak, then consoling Wheeljack after the scientist's remote-controlled helicopters failed to stop Devastator. City of Steel
When Megatron used a personality destabilizer device on the Autobot recharging chamber, Hound was one of the Autobots turned to evil. He and Ratchet went after Doctor Harding, who had plans for a new solar satellite. When she escaped them at the lab by jumping out of a window, Hound pursued her into an alleyway, where she jumped into one of the dumpsters. As he picked up the dumpster she was in, Jazz arrived and distracted him long enough for Sparkplug to use an attitude exchanger to restore Hound's good nature. The Autobots set about finding the rest of their number, and Hound struck on the idea of firing the exchangers from their guns, enabling them to restore the rest of the Autobots. Attack of the Autobots
During a test of Wheeljack's latest invention, the Immobilizer, Hound projected a hologram of Laserbeak, only for Ironhide to mistake it for the real thing. The Autobots dove for cover as he fired, and the only casualty was the Immobilizer itself. The Immobilizer Hound took part in an Autobot charity event, during which the Decepticons took the opportunity to test out their new Transfixatron. Stuck in vehicle mode, the Autobots were taken to a ghost town, but Hound was able to use his holographic gun to send a message back to base. Though his gun was blasted by Soundwave, the message had been received, and the Autobots back at base came to the rescue with an anti-transfixation grenade. The Autobot Run
Hound bravely participated in a game of football against the Dinobots, resulting in him coming off second best when he ran into Slag while heading for a touchdown. Investigating strange energy readings, he and the other Autobots encountered the Sub-Atlanticans and Decepticons beneath the sea. The Autobots raced for Washington, which their combined enemies intended to conquer. Hound warned the other Autobots to be careful that they didn't damage any of the historical structures there as they fought, but all of the Autobots were overcome by Nergill's magnetic dysfunction ray. It wasn't until the Dinobots arrived and the weapon was destroyed that the Autobots were freed from its power. The Autobots assaulted Sub-Atlantica, and the city was destroyed by Nergill's own hand. Atlantis, Arise!
While the bulk of the Autobot forces went to investigate the reprogramming of TORQ III at Quantum Laboratories, Hound, Spike and Skyfire were left on their own to check out why the world's fleet of oil tankers were converging on a spot near the Decepticon base. They found the Decepticons had built an oil platform, and they used one of the tankers to sneak aboard, only to be almost immediately captured. Spike's deft use of an electromagnet broke the trio out, and Hound was able to destroy the shield generator protecting the platform. The main Autobot force stormed the base, and Prime helped the trio get clear before it was destroyed. Day of the Machines
After Nightbird, a human-invented robot, was reprogrammed by the Decepticons and stole the World Energy Chip from Autobot Headquarters, the Autobots gave chase. Hound used his infrared sensors to track her down, but it was only after a prolonged fight that they got the chip back and Nightbird was disabled. Enter the Nightbird On one strange occasion when the Autobots found that they had two Optimus Primes, Hound accompanied the Autobot forces to a crevasse from which strange energy readings were emanating, and he ended up fighting Starscream briefly. A Prime Problem
Hound, Beachcomber and Bumblebee investigated reports of chewed-up trees and quickly realised that the Insecticons were behind it. After tracking down their quarry, the three Autobots, along with Spike and Ranger Jeff, were chased off a cliff by a fallen tree trunk. They were able to take shelter on a small ledge, and Hound used a hologram to fool the Insecticons into thinking the Autobots had been destroyed. After radioing base to warn them that the Insecticons and their Decepticon allies intended to attack the Nova Power Plant, the trio headed to the target themselves, but were too late to prevent the Insecticons from devouring the Nova Power Core. Hound and Jazz ended up pulling Wheeljack out of the wreckage of a pylon. The Autobots tried to head off a subsequent attack on Iron Mountain, but the power-saturated Insecticons blasted them. Hound ended up under Inferno, who was under a ton of rock. He then ended up at ground zero as the Insecticons were about to explode, but swift work by the Autobots prevented too much of a disaster. The Insecticon Syndrome
Hound was witness to another of the Dinobots' rampages at headquarters, after which they were sent to the newly discovered Dinobot Island to work on their technique. Dinobot Island, Part 1 Responding to strange energy readings in the city, Hound used his sensors to locate Bumblebee and Spike under some rubble, before taking part in the effort to round up a bunch of barbarians on mammoths who'd wandered through a time warp. He and Sunstreaker kept the warp open long enough for the barbarians to be returned through it. Dinobot Island, Part 2
The Autobots were taking part in an Autobot Day parade to celebrate their accomplishments, when a tape was shown which incriminated them all for energy theft. Hound and the others were put on trial, swiftly found guilty, and ordered to leave the planet. With little other choice but to obey the law, they boarded a spacecraft supplied by Shawn Berger. Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1 When Cliffjumper proved unable to alter the ship's flight path, Hound pinpointed their destination: the Sun! Unable to prevent the ship's destruction, they used one of Trailbreaker's force fields to link to Cosmos and were able to return to Earth. There, Megatron's frame-up had already been exposed, and the Autobots brought the full might of their forces down on the enemy. Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2
Hound attended a demonstration of the Ultra Plane, only for the experimental drone craft to be destroyed by the Decepticons. He took part in the defense of the lab behind the Ultra Plane, using one of his holograms to trick Starscream and Soundwave into believing that Megatron had retreated. A short while later, he and the rest of the Autobots were afflicted by Cybertonium depletion and were unable to function. Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1 Luckily, Spike, Carly and the Dinobots were able to retrieve some more from Cybertron. Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 2 Hound rolled out to prevent the theft of the Voltronic Galaxer and again later to help the humans when Megatron used the device to block radio waves planet-wide. Blaster Blues
He was part of a second wave of Autobots who went up against electrum-coated Decepticons. They didn't have much better luck than the first wave. Once they found the pool of electrum that the Decepticons had been utilising, the Autobots were able to even the odds. The Golden Lagoon Hound rolled out to rescue Perceptor from a Decepticon trap, and he was presumably subsequently struck down by the same Cosmic Rust that afflicted the other Autobots. Cosmic Rust After the Autobots captured the Stunticons, who were out on a mission for Megatron, Hound probed their memory banks but only came up with a map to a crater. A number of the Autobots, including Optimus, disguised themselves as the Decepticon team, but after they'd gone to uncover Megatron's plan, the real Stunticons broke out of their cells. Hound came to see what all the noise was, and was blasted by Menasor as the combiner departed. The damaged Autobots recovered in time to provide much-needed reinforcement to Prime's team. Masquerade
In the year 2005, Hound was stationed at Autobot City on Earth. Shortly before the Decepticon attack, Hound was part of Kup's detail, placing a roadblock on the trail to Lookout Mountain. During the battle, he managed to get to the shuttle landing pad as Optimus Prime began his counterattack on the Decepticon forces. The Transformers: The Movie
Japanese cartoon continuity
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During a Decepticon attack on Autobot headquarters, Hound was concerned as to the whereabouts of Optimus Prime. He became even more concerned when Wheeljack informed him that their leader was taking on Megatron unarmed. Destron Leader Megatron Black Ver.
Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers story pages
Hound was a participant in a battle in New York City, early in the Autobot/Decepticon war taking place on Earth. The Autobots were victorious that day. Broadcasting on TV! Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers
One day, Hound decided to participate in a friendly race amongst the Autobots, though his Jeep mode wasn't expected to bring him a victory against the numerous race and sports cars he was up against. Little did anyone know, Soundwave was aware of the race and set a trap within a narrow canyon. Once inside, all the racecars became trapped and were unable to escape due to their poor traction over the rough terrain. Soundwave began firing upon them and his victory seemed assured. However, Hound's rough, tough and all-around manly Jeep mode proved the real victor, as it allowed the Autobot to traverse the rugged landscape, transform and punch Soundwave so hard it shattered his chest.
Eat it, you sissy racecars. Anime Theater 2: Sic 'em, Hound!
Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers manga
When Megatron attacked Autobot headquarters in Arizona with nearly the entire Decepticon army, Hound responded with the rest of the Autobots in defense. They eventually won the day, though the attack was little more than a diversion while Soundwave performed evil in Japan. Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #2
As leader of the Four-Wheel Drive Corps, Hound responded to a Decepticon threat within a crater in Kyushu. The threat turned out to be the Insecticons, who trapped the Corps within a smoking pit thanks to some well-placed landmines. Hound "combined" (er, formed a human pyramid) with the other members of the Corps, creating the "Four-Wheel Drive Robo Combination Scrumbuster" attack, which busted the Insecticons' scrum and sent them into retreat. Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #3
Later, Hound accompanied Kenji, Perceptor, and Seaspray on a mission to an island utopia so they could reconvene with another Autobot unit. Upon arriving, however, they found Blaster and his troops being held captive by the Constructicons! Turns out that Megatron had chosen the island utopia as the perfect place to complete the creation of Trypticon. With the giant transforming city standing before them, Perceptor and Hound concocted a clever scheme to defeat the villain. While Superion protected the local wildlife, Hound projected a hologram of Metroplex through Perceptor's lenses, enlarging it. Trypticon mistook the phony Metroplex for the real deal and rushed it, passing through the hologram and falling into the sea. Hound and the other Autobots then put the captive Constructicons to work, restoring the island utopia to its former beauty. Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #6
Full Throttle Scramble Power!
Hound was dispatched alongside human agents Tōru and Jenny to investigate the Decepticons' Omega Wave Cannon. They were almost immediately captured by Ratbat and Starscream and locked in a cage by Megatron. Hound was helpless to do anything, but his human companions figured out a means of escape and successfully sabotaged the Omega Wave Cannon. Full Throttle Scramble Power!
Legends comic
Hound battled Megatron when he was the only Decepticon remaining in the wake of a failed attack on the Autobot base. Slugslinger's Ambition
The Battle of the Star Gate
Hound was amongst the Autobots present at the ceremony the humans had prepared for the formal welcoming of the Autobots to Earth. He shared Bumblebee's opinion that the Autobots should relax and enjoy their moment in the spotlight as crowds of earthlings cheered them on. First Contact
Hound attended a lecture on Earth about the human's earthquake-prediction technology. After the conference, Hound met with Professor Ohnishi, and asked to be included in the next forum. Before any plans could be made, a small earthquake shook the ground beneath him, and Hound became suspicious that recent geological activity was not natural. Contacting Optimus Prime, he told his commanding officer that he suspected the Decepticons were behind the recent seismic activity, and was granted permission to stay in Japan for a while and investigate. Hound and a team of Autobots did discover Decepticon activity behind the earthquake, and Hound engaged Rumble and Frenzy, the cause of the artificial earthquakes, while the others dealt with Starscream, Megatron and Astrotrain. Hound managed to trounce the duo thanks to his holographic projections Activation
Story of Binaltech
Hound was one of many Autobots who suffered from the Cosmic Rust virus when Swindle unleashed it upon them. Working together with the humans, the Autobots created the Binaltech Project as a means of transferring the injured Autobots' sparks into super-powered new bodies created from human technology. Along with Smokescreen, Bluestreak, Sideswipe, and Tracks, Hound was part of the first wave of Binaltech warriors, who assembled on Earth under the command of Ultra Magnus. Story of Binaltech, Chapter 1
In 2008 of this timeline, Hound and Grimlock were on patrol on Earth when they crossed paths with Bluestreak—but not the Bluestreak of their world. This Bluestreak had traveled across the dimensions, from the mainstream timeline, to inform the Binaltech Autobots that the spark of their Prowl (previously lost in a subspace accident) had appeared in his home universe, and begun to destabilize. Unfinished Business, Part 1
The Headmasters cartoon
- Voice actor: Michitaka Kobayashi (Japanese), Simon Broad (English, Omni Productions dub), Roberto Alexander (Latin American)
In the year 2011, Hound was stationed at the Autobot base on Athenia. When Optimus Prime wondered how the Decepticons had managed to invade Cybertron so easily, Hound theorized that releasing the energy of the Matrix might have destabilized Vector Sigma. He was right. Four Warriors Come out of the Sky
Unite Warriors/Legends
Following the devastation of Cybertron in 2011, Hound joined a rescue team that searched the ruined planet for survivors, locating Vector Sigma. The supercomputer reformatted them into a new bodies with improved powers so that they could rebuild and defend Cybertron, granting Hound the ability to scan Transformers' minds and project holograms of their memories as well as combine with his teammates into the mighty Sky Reign. The team went on to restore Cybertron to a habitable state, and defended it from Grand Galvatron's attack in 2021. Though he found invading the memories of others distasteful, Hound nonetheless scanned Breakdown's mind and distracted him with a hologram of someone he wished to meet again, then joined with the others to form Sky Reign. Sky Reign Chapter After their combination was undone by Megaempress, Moonheart subdued Hound and the others with healing pheromones and amputated their combiner joints for the joint energon within. Megatronia Chapter
When Unicron showed up to make Cybertron his new body, Hound despaired that the planet they'd worked to restore was being taken over. Baldigus Chapter, Part One Vector Sigma then restored his and his teammates' combiner joints so that they could help expel Unicron in the form of Sky Reign. Baldigus Chapter, Part Two In the peaceful days that followed, the team set up their own stage musical, with Hound contributing holographic special effects. Invitation to the Dress Rehearsal!
The Disaster Relief Team was deployed to the Legends World to help rebuild Akihabara after it was wrecked by Trypticon. Bonus Edition Vol. 43 There, Spike asked Hound asked for his help in bringing Fastlane and Cloudraker, deemed criminals by the Galactic Peace Alliance, to justice. Cloudraker's claims that Spike was an impostor put some doubts into Hound's mind, however, and he realized it must be true when Spike ordered him to kill the fugitives on the spot. After Fastlane revealed the true identity of "Spike" to be that of Old Snake, Hound took care of the incriminating evidence and promised to hunt Old Snake down. Bonus Edition Vol. 58
Generations Selects Special Comic
In 2050, Hound identified a time warp opening on Earth, in the vicinity of Dinobot Island. Volcanicus comic 1
Notes
- Ken Sansom's voice for Hound sounds not unlike famous actor Jimmy Stewart.
