Photon pistol
Photon pistols are small sidearms which fire photon blasts, capable of blinding their targets with flashes of lights equal to 5000-watt light bulbs. The Protectobots (except for Hot Spot) carry photon pistols as standard sidearms. Even pacifistic First Aid and Groove. Hmm.... Some other Transformers who also use photon pistols include Nightbeat (who goes so far as to carry two of them), and Quake (if and whenever Heater puts effort into transforming into one). One of Needlenose's pet Nebulans, Sunbeam, turns into a solar-powered light-burst discharger, which works on the same principle, so long as the airhead remembers to charge it up first.
The ever-loopy Weirdwolf, armed with a photon pistol, is he. However, blinds his target, it does not. Rather, high-frequency energy particles, it fires. Confusing, it is!
Fiction
Marvel The Transformers comics
On Cybertron before the war, Optimus Prime intervened in a bout of gladiatorial combat between Megatron and Sunstreaker. When Megatron turned his energy axe on him, Prime drew his photon pistol. State Games
While fighting the Combaticons inside the human video game Multi-World, Groove blinded Vortex and Blast Off with a light-burst from his photon-pistol, causing them to crash into each other. Afterdeath! In a subsequent battle between the Protectobots and Combaticons at Big Steve's used car lot, Vortex was once again blinded, this time by Streetwise's photon pistol. Used Autobots
Notes
Foreign names
- Japanese: Wolf Gun (Weirdwolf, ウルフガン Urufu Gan)
