KSI Boss

KSI Bosses are Decepticons from the Age of Extinction portion of the live-action film series continuity family.

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KSI Bosses are man-made Transformers manufactured by (believe it or not) KSI. They are armed with machine guns embedded on their shoulders and extendable electric whips capable of emitting 10,000 volts.

Fiction

Age of Extinction film

Several KSI Bosses were built by KSI and were commandeered by Galvatron to capture the Seed in Hong Kong with the goal of cyberforming the Earth. In the battle that followed, Hound killed one of them with his grenade whilst another KSI Boss was taken out by Bumblebee. Soon afterward, another was set upon by Optimus Prime and the Dinobots, getting crushed by Scorn, and burned and bitten by Grimlock. The remaining KSI Bosses were killed when Optimus Prime set off Lockdown's grenade to destroy Galvatron's army. Age of Extinction

Toys

Generations

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• KSI Boss (Voyager Class, 2019)
  • Hasbro ID number: 43
  • TakaraTomy ID number: SS-35
  • TakaraTomy release date: July 27, 2019
  • Accessories: 2 rocket clusters, removable head, "Hong Kong Pursuit" backdrop

Studio Series KSI Boss is a redeco of The Last Knight Decepticon Nitro, and transforms into a non-specific fighter jet. It features a removable head compatible with Deluxe-or-larger Titans Return molds, and its jet mode similarly features an opening cockpit that can seat a Titan Master. The KSI Boss's head does not need to be removed for transformation.

The Boss's packaging art depicts him with Nitro's head; bizarrely, this art is a reworked version of Nitro's boxart...which had a KSI Boss head!

This mold was also retooled into Studio Series Thundercracker.

Notes

• The design that would become the KSI Boss was originally created by film series concept artist Josh Nizzi in 2009, for a character design tutorial DVD. Concept art for the KSI Boss retains the electric whips from the tutorial robot, but these are not present on the final on-screen model.
• The KSI Boss model was modified to create Nitro Zeus. While the finalized design in The Last Knight sports a modified Shockwave head, earlier concept art simply gave him an adjusted KSI Boss head with a new central eye and different "ears". It was this early head design that the Nitro toy possessed, which was retained for the KSI Boss toy.
• The name "KSI Boss" was first mentioned in the robots' concept art and promotional blueprints; they were eventually confirmed to be named as such by the Studio Series toy.