Sweep (ROTB)

Sweeps are Terrorcons from the Rise of the Beasts portion of the Movie continuity family.

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Sweeps are spine-chilling, insectoid-like Terrorcons under Scourge's command that sniff out their prey and function as weapons for the Terrorcons. His two primary Sweeps are Freezer and Novocaine, who can be deployed from his body as necessary.

Fiction

Rise of the Beasts film

Scourge deployed Freezer and Novocaine to retrieve the Transwarp Key and kill the two humans aware of its existence, Elena Wallace and Noah Diaz. They pursued them through the museum, having the brute strength to smash through doors, but also moving stealthily with their ability to cling to walls. When one of them was about to get to Elena, Noah momentarily stopped him by hitting his head with a relic, and the humans managed to run out the exit, where a heated battle between the Autobots and the Terrorcons was taking place. Both Freezer and Novocaine followed the humans outside, where they attacked and fought against Mirage until the battle was over.

Freezer was later dispatched alone in Peru, with the same mission of "Kill the humans, get the key". Crossing the rooftops and avoiding detection due to Mirage being distracted by 'groupies', he went underground into the buried city. Without the humans noticing, he snuck into the chamber with the empty coffin which had once contained the key, but before he could kill either of them, Noah saw him on the wall behind Elena. The pair ran for their lives, the Sweep giving relentless chase. After nearly killing them several times, he himself was killed when Noah accidentally shot him with his Cybertronian gauntlet, not having realized it had any weapons to fight back with.

Hundreds of Terrorcons were created at the Transwarp gateway, and engaged in battle with the combined Autobot and Maximal forces. Scourge dispatched Novocaine to hunt Elena through the access tunnel, and it cornered her over a pool of lava before she impaled it in the head and sent it falling into the magma. While the larger Sweep forces were individually weak, they had sheer numbers and the later accompanying Predacon Scorponoks on their side, only being fully defeated when Optimus Prime blew up the gateway construct, and all the remaining Sweeps and Scorponoks were likewise incinerated or sucked into the collapsing portal. Rise of the Beasts

The Sweeps' involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the books "Mission at the Museum" and "The Search Is On".

Toys

Studio Series

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• Terrorcon Freezer (Core Class, 2023)
  • Movie: Rise of the Beasts
  • TakaraTomy ID number: SS-105

• Known designers: Sam Smith (Hasbro), Takashi Kunihiro (TakaraTomy)

Part of the fifth wave of Studio Series Core Class, Terrorcon Freezer is based on the character's appearance in Rise of the Beasts, converting from a Frenzy-esque four-armed robot into three Cybertronian weapon modes: a handheld blaster, a free-standing gun emplacement, and a configuration designed to attach to Studio Series Scourge's truck bed.

Freezer and wavemate Arcee were first revealed via Amazon Australia listings, days before their official reveal by Hasbro on January 10, 2023.

• Designer commentary on Freezer from Sam Smith on Instagram

Notes

• The Sweeps are named in reference to the minions of the original Scourge.
• The initial reveal of Freezer's name, along with the Sweeps being *incredibly* difficult to tell apart, led to a small misconception that all generic Terrorcons were called Freezers instead. This was supported by a single character profile posted on social media, but was contradicted by the "Mission at the Museum" book and the "Villains" behind-the-scenes featurette, which call them Sweeps. Beyond the Studio Series toy confirming Freezer as one of the Sweeps at the museum, a set of Chinese trading cards revealed him and Novocaine to be the specific Sweeps that serve under Scourge, and the "The Search Is On" book confirmed Freezer to be the one that hunts down the humans in the Peruvian cave and ultimately dies there.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Freezer (フリーザー Furīzā)
• Mandarin: Jídòng Guài (急冻怪, "Freezing Monster")