Enemy (G1)
| This article is about the evil Decepticon. For his heroic mirrorverse counterpart, see Enemy (SG). |
- Enemy is a Decepticon Mini-Cassette from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Enemy takes his name seriously. He defines himself by his opposition to others; he likes to say that the long list of people who hate him shows just how important he is. It doesn't make him a great teammate. In fact, Enemy goes out of his way to not cooperate with his fellow Decepticons, solely to ensure that they don't like him.
On the other hand, his unnatural ability to be despised comes in handy on the battlefield. Enemy is cunning enough to goad the most important of his opponents into focusing on him, drawing them away from their friends and objectives and seriously compromising their usefulness.
He'll make you sound like a robot if you don't watch it.
| “ | What? Who calls themselves Enemy? | ” |
Fiction
Legends comic
It's down to me
With Soundwave and the other Decepticon cassettes, Enemy was part of an attack on the Ark to steal the new Transform Super Cog in the late 1980s. Enemy attempted to finish off the Jumpstarters, but his attack was blocked in time by Nightstalker. Slugslinger's Ambition
2019 IDW continuity
An infiltration trooper, Enemy, who chose his name, fell in with the Rise in the era that followed the War of the Threefold Spark. He was eventually ordered to sneak into the Winged Moon where he installed an energon siphon. Unable to fly a shuttle on his own, Enemy hid himself aboard one, waiting to be shuttled off the moon when Vigilem brought the Tether down.
When the Titan did so, Enemy's shuttle was the only one left behind. When the Winged Moon drifted towards the Croaton Cloud, Lancer flew the shuttle above the debris field, noticing Enemy's anomalous alternate mode when she touched down and took the infiltration trooper prisoner. Chained up, Enemy was briefly interrogated before being put under Huffer's watch who told him that he would be left behind in the event of an evacuation. Wheeljack: Orbital Decay
After the engineers had saved the moon, it was attacked by Team Stream. Unable to properly hold him, the scientists dumped Enemy somewhere where he was found, by random chance, by Shadow Striker's team, joining in on their mission to steal the moon. Enemy was last seen alongside Blackjack and Sunstorm, trying to breach the moon's command centre before the engineers detonated a jury-rigged black hole that propelled the three back to the surface. When the Risers later retreated, they noted that Enemy had vanished. Moon
Origins
By virtue of the standard sorting order of fiction, toys, and merchandise established by TFWiki.net, Enemy's history with the Transformers brand comes across a little muddled on this page. Here's a quick chronological order:
The color scheme originally started out as one of the three alternate variants of the "MC-01 Micross" toy from Takara's Micro Change line. When Hasbro decided to release some of the Micro Change figures as part of their Transformers line in 1984, they picked the version colored in two different shades of blue to become Frenzy, while using the black and red color scheme of the version that came packaged with Cassette Man to become Rumble. (The cartoon then swapped the two characters' color schemes; see "FIRRIB" for that mess.)
The unused red and blue Micro Change color scheme would subsequently inspire two licensed toys released by Nasta, the non-transforming "AM Radio & Headset" Decepticon and then the "Electronic Voice Changer", both of which were identified simply by the somewhat odd designation "Enemy" on their packaging, in the same location where Hasbro's toys would have the character's name. This in turn resulted in many fans treating both toys as representations of an actual character named "Enemy", just like the Autobot-aligned "AM Radio" and "Mini Headset Radio" toys were both given the equally odd designation "Freedom Fighter". However, it's not entirely clear if it was actually Nasta's intention to have those toys represent a separate character named "Enemy"—after all, another Nasta product, the "AM Wireless Microphone", which was very unmistakably supposed to represent Megatron, was also identified as "Decepticon—Enemy", although in that case, that entire designation was treated as its faction (or faction/function, in the same manner Hasbro's own Megatron toy is labeled "Decepticon Leader"), whereas the "character" was simply called… "Microphone". Yeaaaaaah.
In any regard, being the only official name ever assigned to that particular color scheme, TakaraTomy, never shy of resorting to obscure inspirations as an excuse to release a redeco of an existing toy, used it for a reissue of the original toy in its unused Micro Change colors as part of the Encore line, and subsequently also for a redeco of the Masterpiece Rumble/Frenzy sculpt.
Toys
Encore
- Soundblaster (February 2012)
- ID number: 21
- Accessories: Left & right guns, cassette case
- Encore Enemy is a red and dark blue redeco of the Rumble/Frenzy mold, based on the red version of the Micro Change MC-01 Micross toy. He was included with Encore Soundblaster and Wingthing. As was the case with the other cassettes previously released with Soundblaster, Enemy sports a different sticker in place of his cassette spool image; an image of Fortress Maximus which reveals the city-bot's weak spots when viewed through Soundblaster's clear-red chest door (in the same way Tech Spec decoders work).
- As he uses the Encore tooling, he cannot hold his guns "normally", thanks to an added raised bump on the inner wing-side stabilizer (in addition to the bump on the minigun-side stabilizer present in the prior iterations of the mold). However, the raised bits do fit around the elbow joint, and make for an incredibly snug fit. But this also makes it effectively impossible for him to point his guns straight forward.
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Masterpiece
- Cassettbot VS Cassettron (December 23, 2017)
- ID number: MP-15/16E
- Accessories: Pink tape case, two piledrivers, piledriver mount, left & right "Thruster Guns".
- Issued in a limited edition Masterpiece "Encore" set available from TakaraTomy Mall, along with Stripes, Nightstalker, and Wingthing, Enemy is a redeco of the Masterpiece Frumble mold. Enemy is unique in the set in that his weapons are not integrated into his alt mode and transformation; he comes with a redeco of the Frumble piledrivers, as well as the silver guns, which can be held in his hands, mounted on his back, or stored inside the piledrivers.
- If purchased from a seller supplied by Hasbro Asia, the set includes a collector coin, featuring Enemy's face on one side and the Autobot logo and names of all the included characters on the opposite side. The coin is mounted in a card resembling a cassette, similar to the cards housing the coins for MP-15 and MP-16, but styled like Enemy's cassette mode on the "A" side, while the "B" side resembles Stripes's cassette mode.[1]
Merchandise
The Transformers
- AM Radio & Headset ("Enemy")
- Enemy first appeared in 1984 as part of a working AM radio & headset, a piece of merchandise made by Nasta under the "Power Tronic" imprimatur. Featuring a large wearable Decepticon symbol belt-clip, removing this item revealed Enemy, a solid red (with blue thighs and upper arms) simplification of the Rumble/Frenzy mold. Permanently attached to the radio, Enemy could not be removed without breakage, but could nevertheless transform in situ. The radio came in both red and purple.
- Electronic Voice Changer ("Enemy")
- Enemy was given life again the following year when Nasta released a voice-changer in 1985. A large disembodied head, Enemy again looked like a red Frenzy/Rumble, but this time with proper silver face detailing. If a kid talked into a headset that plugged into Enemy's noggin, their voice would be modified to sound robotic. Enemy came with a belt clip, power pack, and headset with a built-in microphone, and ran on a single 9-volt battery (not included).
Notes
- Enemy is awesome.
Foreign names
- Japanese: Enemy (エネミー Enemī)
- Italian: Nemico
