Merrick

Merrick is a human from the cartoon portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Time to dust off Grandpa!

Merrick is a field archeologist. He makes bets with his female colleague, Joan, on who'll uncover something first at a dig site, and is an expert on Mayan space technology.

Fiction

The Transformers cartoon

Voice actor: Jack Angel (English), Keiichi Nanba (Japanese), Serge Lhorca (European French)

On a dig to find Mayan artifacts, Merrick uncovered a thirteen-hundred-year-old vase. Though he claimed that he'd won his $10 bet with Joan, his discovery was promptly overshadowed by Joan uncovering the back end of a Decepticon space cruiser. His assertion that the Mayans didn't have spacecraft was promptly ignored.

Before the team could open the space craft, the Decepticons, alerted by a television news report, arrived to retrieve the Heart of Cybertron. The archeology team escaped in their jeeps. Microbots

Notes

• The Sunbow Productions cast list entry for "Microbots" notes that Merrick is fifty years old, and that Joan is his wife.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Kōkogakusha (考古学者, "archaeologist")