Scorpulator matches his partner Devastator perfectly. Both are near-mindless engines of destruction who wade into the thick of battle, attacking without reason or any strategy more complicated than "destroy everything". Be it with claws, lasers or acid, Scorpulator lives to fight.
Increases the user's base DPS. A shrapnel shell is fired every 10 seconds that splits into fragments damaging nearby targets upon impact, the damage of this shell is scaled off the user's DPS. Targets hit by it are also inflicted with the Glass Gas effect causing targets to take increased damage for 5 seconds.
Scorpulator's in-game appearance is taken directly from his original G1 toy. Despite story dialogue and his in-game bio referring to his weapon mode as an acid spray gun, his ability is the exact same as Tyrannitron's due to faction symmetry and the fact that the acid effect has already been used for another C.O.M.B.A.T. of the same class.
Part of the second assortment of individually-carded Action Masters, released in the seventh and final year of The Transformers in the US (sixth and not-final in Europe), Scorpulator is a robotic scorpion with a partially-spring-loaded transformation into an acid spray gun mode that can be held by any Action Master figure. His gun barrel can be extended by attaching the handgun from any carded Action Master. His tail also features a peg-hole that allows any normal Action Master gun to be mounted there, though the tail tends to droop even without the extra weight of another gun.
Scorpulator's legs are a completely separate sinlge "block" piece held onto his main body only by a plastic peg. This peg is roughly 5 mm thick, the size of the Action Master figures' "backpack" hole, letting his legs act in that capacity while he's in cannon mode.
He was only available packed in with his larger partner Devastator.
In Dreamwave's More than Meets the Eye profile series, every Action Master partner robot profiled was retroactively given the "Targetmaster" classification, though the partners to characters who had previous, non-Action Master toys (like Devastator) were omitted from the books' lineup. However, the across-the-board application of the Targetmaster term for those that did appear makes a pretty clear inference that all of the Action Master partner-bots are Targetmasters... at least, as far as the Dreamwave universe is concerned.
