Fistfight (G1)

This article is about the evil Decepticon. For the good mirrorverse Decepticon, see Fistfight (SG).

Fistfight is a Decepticon Action Master partner from the toyline portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

He's called Fistfight, but he usually just clamps people in the groin.

Fistfight is the Targetmaster "droid" partner to Shockwave. A sadistic little bugger, when he's not serving as a heavy-artillery "lightning rifle" for Shockwave, he's carefully dissecting late-model cars.

Toys

The Transformers

• Shockwave with Fistfight (Action Master, 1990)

Fistfight is a black and purple "droid" unit that was only available with Action Master Shockwave. Pressing a trigger on his top flips up a spring-loaded (non-firing) cannon from his main body. Fistfight can bend backwards at the spine to form a large "lightning cannon" mode. He can be held by any Action Master figure, and his barrel can attach any carded Action Master's hand-held weapon as an extension.

Like the similarly-designed Glitch, Fistfight's robot arms come off fairly easily, though the fit is tight enough to keep them in place normally. (This may be a deliberately designed feature: the pegs that connect his arms to his body also allow the arms to be held in any Action Master's fists.) Nonetheless, this can lead to them being easily lost.

• More information on Fistfight at TFU.info

Notes

• The Action Master partner robots were given the "Targetmaster" classification retroactively by Dreamwave's More than Meets the Eye profile series; however, Fistfight was among the Action Master partner robots not profiled at all, on account of being partnered with a pre-existing Transformer who already received a profile in non-Action Master form.