Nitro (IDW)

Nitro is a Transformer from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Look at him! He's just a little guy! I hope nothing bad happens to him.

Nitro is a Transformer, and also a visitor to the planet of Donnokt, located somewhere at the end of time and space. Little is known about the poor guy, apart from the fact that he's looking for his kin and a new home. From a distance he also sports a rather familiar silhouette.

Fiction

Last Bot Standing

Oh sweet god! Look what they've done to my boy!

In the far future, long after the end of the Great War between the Autobots and Decepticons, Nitro's space pod crash landed the planet Donnokt. Leaking a green liquid, Nitro stumbled out of the pod and made his way across the planet's deserts.

Nitro eventually made his way to the town of Fembrance, his arrival startling the barely steam-age natives. As he impassively scanned the area, one of the local carts revealed itself to be another Cybertronian, Rodimus.

Shocked to see one of his kin, Nitro asked Rodimus to identify himself only to be attacked. He managed to throw off his attacker, though he quickly began begging his kinsman to wake up, asking for his name and thanking him for finding a new home for their kind. Enraged at the words, Rodimus flipped Nitro, declaring Donnokt was not for them, and began beating him to death despite his pleas for mercy. After a grim warning that the visitor could not be here, Rodimus tore the unfortunate Cybertronian's head off, declaring that he had no kin.

After inspecting the leaking remains, Rodimus took his leave, telling the people of Fembrance not to follow him, tossing Nitro's severed head over his shoulder. Last Bot Standing #1

Notes

• In the notes to the character sheet found at the end of Last Bot Standing #1, writer Nick Roche made it clear that "the Visitor" "[had] to have a Rodimus' silhouette".