Ionic blaster
Blast Off shouldn't even bother shooting you with his ionic blaster. You're beneath him. Literally. Should he deign you worthy of notice, however, you'll find yourself bombarded with ions, disrupting all of your electrical systems—should you have any.
Mirage's electro-disrupter also shorts out his targets' electrical systems, only it uses electrical charges instead of ions, making it the perfect weapon whenever the ship needs to be a little less full.
Zigzag, one of the gnarly Needlenose's tubular Targetmaster partners, who totally fits in with the other Decepticon Targetmasters, turns into a wicked rad twin electrostatic overloader rifle. One wicked shot can overload and shutdown those lame-o Autobots' circuits. Or rather it would, if Zigzag could actually hit anything. See? Totally fits in.
Speaking of Decepticon Targetmasters, Misfire's Nebulan partner Aimless transforms into a double-barrelled ion particle blaster that fires up to 4,000 rounds of high-charged particles. Whether it works on the same principle as the afore-mentioned weapons remains a mystery even to Misfire, as he's yet to hit anyone with it.
Fiction
Marvel The Transformers comics
Blast Off carried an ionic blaster, which fired a beam of highly charged particles that disrupted electronic systems. Blast Off's Universe profile
Dreamwave Generation One continuity
In robot mode, Blastoff was armed with an ionic blaster and two leg-mounted cannons. Blastoff's More than Meets the Eye profile
Toys
The Transformers
- Blast Off (Combaticon, 1986/1987)
- Accessories: left & right dual sonic cannons, ionic blaster
- The Transformers Blast Off came with an ionic blaster, as identified in his instructions and packaging bio, that he can wield in robot mode.
- This toy was available as part of a Bruticus giftset and reissued many times, additionally its mold was used to make Shuttle Gunner and Movor.
Generation 2
- Blast Off (Combaticon, 1994)
- Accessories: left & right x-ray laser cannons, ionic blaster
- For Generation 2, Blast Off was redecoed along with his ionic blaster.
