Signal Flare (Energon)
- Signal Flare is an Autobot-allied Omnicon in the Energon portion of the Unicron Trilogy.
Signal Flare is a craftsman; he loves spending his time carefully sculpting raw Energon into powerful weapons. He's considerably less interested in applying them to combat, though he's certainly no slouch in that department. Still, he'd rather leave the slice-annd-dice to his feistier brother Offshoot.
He is very intelligent, and his ability to to both detect and manipulate Energon in its various forms, be it solid, energy or gaseous, make him an invaluable member of the Autobot forces.
Sometimes there are lots of him.
Fiction
Energon Cartoon
Voice actor: Michael Dobson (US) Nobuo Tobita (Japan)
The Signal Flares are a type of Omnicon, a group of identical individuals all presumably sharing the same name. Like Marklars.
A team of Signal Flares was vital in the proces of building Energon Towers. A Signal Flare also scanned and replicated the Megatron Sword, while another one (well, presumably another one) discovered that Alpha Quintesson's sun produces Energon radiation.
Dreamwave Energon Comic
Toys
Energon
- Signal Flare (Omnicon, 2004)
- Japanese ID number: SC-12
- Signal Flare transforms into a Cybertronic half-track MASER tank. (A MASER tank is a vehicle created in the Japanese Godzilla movie series. This would make his Terrorcon counterpart Cruellock, who is patterned on the 1998 American Godzilla.) Moving the MASER arm causes the dish on the end to spin. The dish can be combined with a pair of shields to form his Energy Cutter. The Japanese version of the toy uses a very different shade of tan.
- The mold is also used by his brother Offshoot. The Signal Flare/Offshoot body design is used as the model for the Attacktix Omnicon.
- Signal Flare USA Edition (Omnicon, 2004)
- In Japan, the Offshoot toy was made available as a store exclusive, sold as a new incarnation of the Signal Flare "character".
