Vortex (Movie)

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The name or term "Vortex" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Vortex (disambiguation).
Vortex is a Decepticon from the movie continuity family.
I could still form Bruticus. Only, Brawl and the boss are both dead. And Swindle's some other dude. But, yeah I could, I just don't want to.

Vortex is the resident interrogator of the Combaticons. As an aerial soldier, he is cruel, merciless, and unrelenting in his attacks. But it's when he gets his hands on captive Autobots that he really gets nasty. Once they're in his clutches, he takes a passionate, sadistic glee in brutally cutting them apart. Actually questioning them is a secondary concern.[1]

Sometimes, he merges with his fellow Combaticons into the mighty Bruticus Maximus.

Fiction

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IDW movie comics

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Look! Down there! It's Snitchotron!

Vortex was just standing around as Starscream went about creating his new AllSpark. When Arcee destroyed the newly built cube, Vortex leapt into action to draw his pals' attention to the sniper... just in time to get shot through the chest. The Reign of Starscream #5

Toys

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Revenge of the Fallen

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Guys, please, help me lift my gun!
  • Bruticus Maximus (Multi-pack, 2009)
  • Accessories: Quad blaster (hand/foot), Decepticon-type energon star
Revenge of the Fallen Vortex is a redeco of Energon Blackout and Stormcloud, transforming into an assault helicopter somewhat similar to an AH-1 Cobra. He can form an arm or leg to any Energon-style "Powerlinx Combiner" super robot, though his nominal placement is as the left arm to Bruticus Maximus. His quintuple-barreled cannon can form either a hand or footplate for his limb-modes.
He was only available packed with his fellow combiner-bots in the Revenge of the Fallen Bruticus Maximus gift set, exclusively available at Target stores in the USA and at Zellers stores in Canada.
This mold was also redecoed into Classics Topspin and Revenge of the Fallen Swindle. Revenge of the Fallen Vortex and Swindle were also sold in the Universe line as Generation 1 Vortex and Swindle. Another planned redeco, movie Reverb, was canceled.


Dark of the Moon

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♪Fly me to the Moon♪ wait no not like that AAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
  • Decepticon Vortex (MechTech Deluxe Class, 2011)
  • ID number: DD06
  • Release date: June 18, 2011
  • Accessories: MechTech Cannon/"Glue Machine Gun"
Available exclusively in the second wave of the TakaraTomy Darkside Moon toyline, Vortex is a new-head retool and redeco of Transformers Tomahawk, transforming into a slightly futuristic strike helicopter, sporting an amalgamation of features from both the Eurocopter Tiger and the ADH-02 Hellhound attack helicopter from Patlabor. In robot mode, he is armed with "snapping pincers" on his right forearm. He has numerous c joint compatible bars for attaching weapons to. Vortex also features a new 5 mm post-hole for his MechTech weapon on the swiveling "camera" underneath his vehicle mode cockpit. Like other TakaraTomy-only redecos, his paint details are heavily based off the original use of the mold.
Instead of the original toy's missile launchers, he comes with a retool of Roadbuster's MechTech weapon, replacing the saw blades with two halves of a "Glue Machine Gun" barrel.
The original version of this mold (but with Vortex's head) was also used to make Timelines Spinister, and was retooled to make Generations Springer.

Notes

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  • Vortex is not named in The Reign of Starscream; his name is given in the story commentary in the trade paperback edition of the series, where writer Chris Mowry explains that the character is called such in the script.
  • Like several characters in the live-action film continuity family, the various incarnations of Vortex recorded here were developed independently of each other, but share the same article for simplicity and because they all share the same origin in Generation 1 Vortex.
  • Vortex's head in Reign Of Starscream is heavily based on a piece of concept art made for Blackout.
  • In the earliest drafts of the first movie's script, Blackout is named "Vortex".[2][3]

Foreign names

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  • Japanese: Vortex (ボルテックス Borutekkusu)

References

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  1. ↑ TakaraTomy Dark of the Moon Deluxe Class Decepticon Vortex packaging bio
  2. ↑ Unformatted script sample from first draft naming the Decepticon helicopter "Vortex" posted by Roberto Orci on Don Murphy's message board
  3. ↑ "In our first draft, before we even brought Bay on board, he was named Vortex. Don't remember him going through many other names."—Roberto Orci, TFW2005, 2008/07/09
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