Tap-Out (SG)

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The name or term "Tap-Out" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Tap-Out (disambiguation).
Tap-out is an evil Autobot from the IDW portion of the Shattered Glass continuity family.
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Tap-Out is an evil Autobot.

Fiction

IDW Shattered Glass comic

On guard duty with Freeway, Tap-Out was knocked unconscious by him when Freeway was put under the control of a cerebro-shell courtesy of Bombshell. Shattered Glass #4

Notes

  • Tap-Out was one of several characters not named in the comic's script, instead chosen by artist Dan Khanna and given a generic colour scheme by John-Paul Bove, who jokingly suggested the alternate name "Backdoor" for the character.[1][2][3]

References

  1. "Looks like Tapout and Freeway to me..."—Dan Khanna, Twitter, 2021/12/1
  2. "They are unnamed in the script and the artist didn't indicate who they were so I didn't have any particular characters in mind. They do resemble those characters though, so it will be up the the rampant speculations of the fandom to decide! Unless Hasbro make toys of them...?"—John-Paul Bove, Twitter, 2021/12/2
  3. "No need to apologize! I would assume it is those guys but I can't speak definitively to that. Though don't Backdoor and Flapflaps sound like excellent names for them? What's that? They sound terrible you say? HOW DARE YOU!"—John-Paul Bove, Twitter, 2021/12/2