Circuit speeder

Circuit speeders are Cybertronian stimulants that can be fatal in large doses.

Fiction

2005 IDW continuity

Orion Pax's friend Roller took the circuit speeder C32, as he claimed, because he needed it to keep up with the outliers on Pax's anti-Senate team. All Our Parlous Yesterdays

Scavenging energon and spare parts from the Decepticon corpses on Clemency after the Great War, Misfire sampled some fuel from a Monstercon that had apparently overdosed on circuit speeders. This left him noticeably wired. Rules of Disengagement Later, the Scavengers used more of the Monstercon's circuit speeder-laced energon to spike Grimlock and leave him as a trap for the Decepticon Justice Division. Who's Afraid of the DJD?

Notes

• Circuit speeders presumably work in a similar way to circuit boosters, though they differ in their effects on the user.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Circuit speeder (サーキットスピーダー Sākitto Supīdā)