Electrothermic blast tube

Kickback is armed with a electrothermic blast tube.

Fiction

Marvel comics continuity

In robot mode, Kickback carried a 'sub-machine gun that could fire 300 rounds of titanium coated, armor piercing bullets. Template:Storyline

Dreamwave Generation One continuity

Kickback wielded a sub machine gun that fired 2,940 rounds. Template:Storyline

Toys

The Transformers

I'll transform into a giant mechanical grasshopper and no one will notice me.

• Kickback (Insecticon, 1985)

• Accessories: "Electrothermic Blast Tube"

The Transformers Kickback is armed with a silver blaster, identified as an electrothermic blast tube in his instructions.

Notes

• The instructions of Kickback's original toy is the only known source of the name "Electrothermic blast tube". His bios from Universe, More than Meets the Eye': and even on the packaging of said original toy all refer to it as a sub-machine gun.