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.