Brainmaster

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The Brainmasters are an Autobot subgroup from the Victory era of the Generation 1 continuity family.
And when ya need a fightin' bot ya'd trust to watch yer...uh, legs...

The Brainmasters (ブレインマスター Bureinmasutā) are the elite members of the Universal Defense Force Sector One troops. Though outwardly similar in practise to Headmasters, Brainmasters are actually the inverse: where Headmaster technology allows the diminutive Cyberdroids of Master to bond with large Transtector bodies, Brainmaster technology was created as a means of transferring the consciousness of a full-size Cybertronian to a Micromaster-scale Transtector.<ref>This was the original concept for Brainmasters, which was not included in any Victory fiction, but was later canonized via Ask Vector Prime.</ref> These tiny Transtectors, each known as a "Brain" or a "Brain Robo", link to their larger bodies by entering a chest cockpit, then moving up to take their place within the body's pre-existing helmet, forming the face and interior cerebral circuits of their large robot forms.

As an unexpected side-effect of the brainwave-duplication process, Brainmasters gained "Brain Power" (Burein Kinō): an incredible boost to their courage, strength, intelligence and skill that makes them "one of the most powerful warriors in the universe".<ref>According to Holi. Attack! Leozack</ref> Each of the four Brainmasters exemplifies one of these talents, represented by the name of their Brain. The four Brainmasters are:

Fiction

Ask Vector Prime

The Brainmaster upgrade was developed as a way to bring Cybertron and its allies Master and Micro closer together. The process was discovered to amplify its users' mental faculties, and the Universal Defense Force soldiers who utilized it became the galaxy's mightiest soldiers. When the Decepticons learnt of the process, they tried to take it for their own, forcing the Autobots to destroy the labs that spawned the process. No-one proved able to duplicate the process afterwards. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/06/23

Super-God Masterforce cartoon

Clips of the Brainmasters were seen when Shūta Gō and Grand Maximus were talking about the new Supreme Commander Star Saber. Shūta and Grand's Masterforce Super-Secrets!

Victory cartoon

Their brains is TINY.

The car Brainmasters served in the Universal Defense Forces Sector One Unit overseeing Earth while Star Saber served as Supreme Commander over all of the GDF from Planet V. Shortly after an attack by Deathsaurus on Earth, Star Saber joined the other Brainmasters there, replacing God Ginrai in command.

The Brainmasters served as the front line unit against the Decepticons while training the junior Autobots of the Multiforce and Rescue Patrol Team. For a long time they were the undisputed masters, defeating the talents of the Breastforce and laughing over the ease of defeating the Dinoforce. However, with the appearance of Liokaiser the Brainmasters were finally overmatched as the Decepticon Gestalt proved stronger than both Star Saber and the combined form of Road Caesar. However that wouldn't deter the elite warriors and all four Brainmasters strove to become stronger until they finally defeated their Decepticon foes.

Toys

Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers

Blacker
The three standard Brainmasters were sold both individually and as a giftset. The toys are united by their gimmick; placing the "Brain" robot figure into a Brainmaster's chest cavity then closing the plate pushes the inner core of the small robot up, forming the larger robot's face. The small robot figures can fit in the larger robots' cockpits in vehicle mode. Owing to this gimmick, they possess unusually simplistic transformations roughly the same as most contemporary Micromaster cars, despite being some of the largest Autobot car toys of their generation. Laster and Braver have large portions of diecast metal in their legs, likely to balance the combined mode, while Blacker features large portions of chromed plastic. All three feature surprisingly robust rubber tires. The chest gimmick "doors" on all three also have a hidden joint that exists solely to breakaway and reattach if too much pressure is applied while inserting the Brainmaster.
They were redecoed, without most of their combiner kibble, into the Motorvators.


You're smaller than I expected.
Star Saber's mid-size "Saber" robot retains the Brainmaster gimmick of the standard Brainmasters, and can combine with the V-Star ship in robot and jet modes to form Star Saber.


Victory Saber
  • Godmaster Supreme Commander (1989)
    • Victory Saber giftset (includes Star Saber & Victory Leo)
Star Saber is included in the Victory Saber giftset along with Victory Leo.


Masterpiece

Yet another disheartening victory of articulation over fun.
Star Saber's Masterpiece toy manages to incorporate all of his original gimmicks, including the Brainmaster... except instead of the smaller robot forming the face, the face is instead hidden in Saber's body until the small robot is inserted. Oh well.


Legacy

  • Victory Saber (2022)
The second HasLab crowdfunded figure for Transformers and the first version of the character produced by Hasbro, "Autobot Star Saber"<ref name="Pulse">Official titles given by Hasbro in a promotional video and on the crowdfunding webpage</ref> is an incredibly cartoon-accurate figure composed of a Deluxe-sized "Autobot Saber"<ref name="Pulse"/> spacecraft and the larger V-Star jet, which can combine to form a spaceship. The figure retains most—if not—all of the original features of the original toy, including the Brainmaster function, though the face is now deployed manually from the back of the Brain Robo rather than being deployed automatically when the chest door is closed.
The project required a minimum of 11,000 backers for Hasbro to produce, which was reached on September 29, 2021. If the figure reached 14,000 backers, the gigantic V-Lock Cannon and 6 Fire Blast effects would be additionally included. The project's deadline occurred on October 10, 2021 to coincide with New York Comic Con—a much shorter deadline than the one provided for Unicron.

Notes

  • For years, Transformers fans have referred (and continue to refer) to the Brainmaster components of Star Saber, Blacker, Braver and Laster as "Yūki", "Riki", "Chie" and "Waza", as if they were proper names. These are, in fact, simply the Japanese words meaning "courage", "strength", "intelligence" and "skill"; the Brains do not have proper names, and are simply known as "Brain of Courage", etc.
  • Additionally, the Brains are also popularly but mistakenly known by a set of names that are the result of mangled versions of the Japanese word above: "Yukio", "Sala" (from "chikara", another Japanese word for "strength"), "Siet" and "Razou".
  • They are the only "Masters" to have never appeared in the US as well as having no Decepticons.
  • Following the trend in later Japanese Generation 1 series, the three combining Brainmasters have pretty uniform tech spec numbers. Like their opposites in Victory, Breastforce, they essentially have straight 8's, with a couple numbers slightly higher or lower to indicate their specialties, and all have totals in the neighborhood of 64.

Foreign names

  • English: Super-robot (Omni Productions dub)
  • Mandarin: Tóunǎo Zhànshì (Taiwan, 頭腦戰士, "Brain Warrior"), Zhìzhě Zhànshì (China, 智者战士, "Sage Warrior")

See also

References

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