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. Kickback's Universe profile

Dreamwave Generation One continuity

Kickback wielded a sub-machine gun that fired 2,940 rounds per bream. Kickback's More than Meets the Eye profile

Toys

The Transformers

• 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.