Headmaster (Animated)
- The Headmaster is a human in the Animated continuity family.
The Headmaster is the alternate identity of Henry Masterson, a disgruntled Sumdac employee with the ability to take control of robots by replacing their heads with robotic heads that he controls. He's a gigantic dork who plays too many video games and seems to have crossed the line between reality and fiction. His vocabulary sounds like it's been taken out of an Internet blog, using terms like "noobs" and "total ownage!"
Fiction
Animated
- Voice actor: Alexander Polinsky (English)
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Henry Masterson was a nerd with an emo hairstyle who came up with a machine that can replace the heads of war robots. However, Isaac Sumdac did not like the idea, since Sumdac does not make war robots. So, in a fit of Donald Trump-esque rage, he dismissed Henry.
Henry decided that he didn't need Sumdac to produce his headmaster units, and reasoned that having his own company would be "wicked sweet." However his main problem was that he made the Headmaster unit much larger than most robot bodies could support, causing their legs to buckle and break. Henry was hard-pressed to find a proper host for the unit until he saw Bulkhead on television. The emo jerk ambushed Bulkhead and decapitated him before going on a rampage in the Autobot's body.
Then, the lunatic decided to activate a solar nuclear reactor thing that would BLOW UP ALL OF DETROIT WITH HIM IN IT. The Autobots managed to remove him from Bulkhead's body, only for him to activate the Headmaster unit's rocket jets. Thinking fast, Optimus Prime tethered bulkhead's noggin to his grappling line and knocked the evil nerd from the sky. Unfortunately he still managed to elude capture by activating his invention's backup systems, demonstrating that it was a robot in its own right. Headmaster
Toys
Animated
- Bulkhead (Leader, 2008)
- The Headmaster appears as a second head that can be fitted over Bulkhead's head. This feature is available on all Leader class toys. Applying the head alters the sound gimmicks of said toys, causing them to play clips of the Headmaster.
Trivia
- The Headmaster is the first human supervillain in Transformers Animated who was not captured by the end of the episode. Guess he isn't a total loser.
- Like many villains in the series, his real name is a pun on his eventual supervillain name (H. Masterson, after all).
- The Headmaster unit DOES look alot like Galactus.


