Headmaster (technology)

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This probably hurts.

Headmasters are a type of symbiotic variation on the Transformer lifeform in which a smaller being, frequently but not exclusively organic, transforms into the head of a larger robot. Headmaster bonding typically occurs between two sentient beings, but there have been cases in which the head or the body (such as the Transtectors or the Sunstreaker clones created by the Machination) is a non-sentient construct controlled entirely by the other partner.

When it occurs between two sentient beings, the benefits of the Headmaster procedure are many: The partner gains control of a larger, more powerful body, and the Transformer gains an extra perspective on the battlefield, the psychic binary bonding involved allowing them to draw on both their own ideas, tactics, and instincts as well as those of their partner, as quickly as if they were coming from their own head (since they are). Agility, reaction speed, and targeting accuracy are often enhanced by the process.

The Headmaster process leaves its subject Transformers with one glaring disadvantage: when separated from their partners, they have no head. Most can continue to function as vehicles without their partners, but can do little in robot mode besides stand around.

In conversation, the term "Headmaster" can apply to both the small partner (the head) and the significant other (the body).

Sometimes a duo of Headmaster partners can jointly pilot a larger city-sized body. The resulting Titan is known as a double-Headmaster.

Fiction

Generation 1 continuity family

Marvel Comics continuity

Next step: Pez dispenser.

The Headmaster technology was primarily the invention of the Nebulan scientist Arcana and was designed originally to let Nebulans utilize the bodies of Autobots to defend their world, something they did not trust the Autobots enough to let them do on their own.

The organic Nebulans of the Headmaster pairings were able to transform by use of a special suit of "intra-restruction armor" and a "cybernetic mindlink helmet" All or Nothing! that interfaced with bio-cybernetic augmentation in the surgically altered humanoid. As described by Arcana, the process as originally enacted allowed the Autobots (still separate, disembodied heads at that point) to radio control their old bodies, while the Nebulan partners observed and planned strategy. This joint cooperation of two minds allowed greatly increased agility and superior aim.

The technology was implemented under dire circumstances, as the Nebulan capital city of Koraja was under siege by Scorponok's Decepticons, who sought the surrender of five Autobots held in Nebulan custody. Five volunteer Nebulans underwent radical reconstructive surgery to allow them to bond with the five Autobots, including Fortress Maximus, Brainstorm, Hardhead, Chromedome and Highbrow. Now under Nebulan control, the Headmaster Autobots easily repulsed the Decepticon attack, despite being outnumbered two to one. Broken Glass!

The Decepticons reluctantly accepted the possible benefits of this cooperation with organics, and six of them underwent the Headmaster process, with Scorponok bonding to the Nebulan Lord Zarak. Luring Fortress Maximus's team into an ambush, Scorponok and his fellow Headmasters Mindwipe, Skullcruncher, Weirdwolf, Apeface and Snapdragon soon defeated their foes, blasting them unconscious, which caused their heads to disconnect and return to humanoid form. Love and Steel! The Autobot-allied Nebulans were taken captive and strung up in a suspended animation prison, while Scorponok's Headmasters rampaged across Nebulos, leaving Nebulan ruins and Autobot corpses in their wake. Realizing that his mind was being re-written by Scorponok, Zarak used the last shreds of his sanity to free the Autobot Headmasters. Fortress Maximus and his band soon left Nebulos for Earth, with the Decepticons in pursuit. Brothers in Armor!!

YOU CAN'T BUY ME, HOT DOG MAN!

En route to Earth, Fortress Maximus was rebuilt into a larger form, with two Headmaster components: a small robot that transformed into his head, and his partner Galen, who now became the small robot's head.

The two squads of Headmasters soon faced off again on Earth, in a battle inside the cave that had previously held the Ark. During the battle, Fortress Maximus and Scorponok both used their smaller Headmaster components to travel through an increasingly tight series of tunnels. Doing so, however, exposed Fortress Maximus's partner Galen to attack, and he died saving the Earthling, Spike. With Galen killed while separated from Fortress Maximus, Spike demonstrated that it was possible for an organic to control/communicate with the larger robot's form with only the control helmet, as he took control of Fortress Maximus with nothing more than Galen's control helmet. Rejuvenated by their leader's attack, the Autobots soon drove off the Decepticon Headmasters. Trial by Fire!

The Headmasters largely stayed in the background during most of the Autobots' subsequent adventures, though Fortress Maximus remained a major player in the events leading up to the Underbase catastrophe.

Later, a weakness of the ad hoc nature of the Headmaster partnership became apparent. As the partnerships continued, two minds could meld into one, or conflict on nearly every level. For example, Spike and Fortress Maximus were two separate minds sharing one body, with each dominant in his own form and able to converse with the other; while Lord Zarak and Scorponok seemed to reach some sort of fusion where he was both beings merged into one, with Scorponok to all intents and purposes becoming entirely subsumed by Zarak's personality (to the extent that, during the battle with Unicron, "Scorponok"'s interior monologue identifies himself as being Zarak merely filling the role of Scorponok, implying that the original Scorponok psyche was essentially gone). A similar situation developed between Powermaster Optimus Prime and Hi-Q, except in the reverse.

Classics

Classics continues from the Marvel US series, and does not include the UK stories or any subsequently published stories.

The Headmaster process is reversible. Cheap Shots

Regeneration One

Regeneration One continues from the Marvel US series, and does not include the UK stories or any subsequently published stories.

After the deaths of most of the Headmasters by Unicron, the original heads still on Nebulos were given new bodies. Loose Ends, Part 2 Natural Selection, Part Two Chromedome and Stylor were able to have the process completely reversed. The War to End All Wars, Part 1

Generation 1 cartoon continuity

The Transformers cartoon

*gasp* I promise you! You shall be avenged!

In this continuity, the Headmaster process was the brainchild of Brainstorm, who had advocated that using an organic partner would be a good strategy in combat with the Decepticons. It also seems much less invasive for the organic humanoid involved. No surgical alteration is apparently needed on their part, and the process seems to consist mainly of altering the Transformer's head to 1) have a control center for a partner to sit at inside and 2) transform around the partner into a fancy exosuit. While some who have undergone it have commented at feeling a closer bond with their respective partners, there is no reason to believe there is any true psychic connection between them as in the binary bonding of other continuities. Before detaching his head, the Transformer downloads his memory and personality into his auxiliary memory circuits in his chest. The Rebirth, Part 1 Far from being automatically on the same page, at one point the "good" Nebulans disagreed with the Autobots on strategy so much that they abandoned them and ran off, forcibly stranding the Autobots in their vehicle modes.The Rebirth, Part 3

Wings Universe

Wings Universe is based on the Generation 1 cartoon, but deviates from it in cosmetic ways and continuity points.

After Mo Zarak died, his son Olin Zarak inherited Scorponok, becoming Scorponok's Headmaster controller. Tornado claimed to have always said that there was something not right with Headmaster technology. Tornado - Decepticon Saboteur, 2014/06/03

Japanese cartoon continuity

Attempting to escape the wars on Cybertron, a group of diminutive Cybertronians (most of them only a little larger than human beings) fled the planet, only to have their ship crash on the hazardous, inhospitable planet Master. The need for survival fostered several technological advances (helped in part by technology derived from a time-traveling spaceship that crashed on the planet sometime later). Chief among them was the creation of "Transtectors": large, lifeless robot bodies which the smaller robots could connect to and control. The small Cybertronians had not yet actually mastered the art of transformation, however, and had to undergo rigorous mental and physical training in order to become "Headmasters" (their name, obviously enough, derived from the planet itself).

The Headmasters subsequently migrated from Master and joined the Autobot and Decepticon forces on Cybertron and Earth, leading to a lengthy conflict that ultimately resulted in both factions departing the Earth for a prolonged period of time. With easy access to Earth cut off, leaving its safety in doubt should it be attacked by Decepticons in the future, the Autobots on Master created Master-Braces, technology that harnessed the mysterious Chōkon Power to transform humans and allow them to connect to Transtectors and become Headmasters themselves. A set of six Master-Braces and Transtectors were dispatched to Earth, but half the shipment was stolen by Decepticons, and both factions subsequently used the technology to turn three young human children into Headmasters in defense of Earth.

Cybertronian Headmasters possess numerous energy-manipulating superpowers. They are able to exchange Transtectors freely with their fellow Headmasters to increase their power levels and can link up with each other in the Head Formation for various destructive results. In contrast, human Headmasters do not possess any of these powers, but have their own natural physical strength and reflexes enhanced many times over by the energies filling their bodies. Their cellular structures undergo some form of ill-defined holistic transformation which allows them somehow to transform their actual, physical bodies into heads. However, unlike organic Headmasters in other continuities, they do not have to undergo any permanent alteration; they are capable of "turning off" their powers and becoming normal human beings with ease, the only drawback being that they are unable to remove the Master-Braces that give them their powers.

3H comics

Devcon commented that he preferred Arcee when she had "that kid" in her head. Betrayal

Dreamwave Generation One continuity

Did they include a bathroom in this thing?

Headmaster technology was originally developed on Cybertron, to be used in conjunction with Micromaster technology. It would have allowed a normal-sized robot to transform its head into a small body to conserve Energon. The process was perfected on Nebulon to allow organic beings to act as the head of a Cybertronian body, using aspects of combiner technology.

The process was designed to put the Nebulon in control of the body, but the actual process as perfected by Brainstorm and Arcana resulted in a mental bonding and partnership, with the robot generally maintaining control. Modified organic beings are able to contort during transformation, though appear normal when not wearing the Headmaster armor. Out of their armor, they are indistinguishable from unmodified beings, though they possess improved strength and endurance.

Profile art depicted the Headmaster heads as larger "mecha" that the human partners pilot. More than Meets the Eye

2005 IDW continuity

How would you like to have to give your head a flea bath every night?

In the years preceding the unification of the Thirteen, Megatronus led his Darklanders in the "War of the Headmasters," though what exactly this campaign entailed is unclear. The First Who Was Named

The first known Headmasters were an ancient Cybertronian faction that fought in the First Cybertronian Civil War ten million years ago under the command of Nexus Prime. Their enemy, the Darklander Galvatron, saw the combination of "beastly" and "pure-born" Cybertronians as an abomination, implying all ancient Headmasters had animal-form heads. The Mind Bomb Galvatron vanquished the Headmasters during the war, paving the way for the unification of the Cybertronian race. Shockpoint Known ancient Headmasters include Myskrion, killed by Galvatron, The Mind Bomb and Thinkbox, later retrieved by Galvatron from the Murkdipper on the planet Spindrift. Heart of Darkness #3 Another possible Headmaster was Scalp, who was allegedly friends with Tailgate. The Reluctant Specialist Titan Masters existed alongside these ancient Headmasters, though what, if any, connection they have to the Headmasters is unknown. White Heat

In the modern period, Headmaster technology was reinvented by the shadowy human organization known as the Machination, using technology developed by Scorponok on the planet Nebulos. Following a tip offered to him by Swindle, Ultra Magnus found schematics for enhancing a biological entity with Cybertronian technology, in effect producing a "transformable man". Magnus was able to determine that Nebulan businessman Mo Zarak had been subjected to this process shortly before Scorponok fled the premises. Spotlight: Ultra Magnus

Approximately 18 years later, the Machination captured Sunstreaker and Hunter O'Nion. They dismantled Sunstreaker and subjected Hunter to an extensive regimen of surgery and implants. Subsequently, they attempted to brainwash him into one of their soldiers. Escalation Hunter resisted and was able to contact Sunstreaker, allowing him to become a Headmaster to fight for the Autobots. Devastation

Initially, all Headmasters created by the Machination were non-sentient, guided by their human pilots. As well, all of these models were replicas of Sunstreaker, wired into the Autobot's actual head to help coordinate their movements. However, the success of these initial forays into the technology allowed for the first true binary-bond, enabling Abraham Dante to combine with his Decepticon master Scorponok to facilitate his rebirth. Devastation Scorponok was eventually defeated after his connection to his original head was severed. Following this, the remaining Headmasters were gathered up by Ultra Magnus, who purged the Machination of its technology. Maximum Dinobots #5

Beast Wars: Uprising

When the war spread to Nebulos, the Decepticons allied with the Hive Nations and began a series of horrific biomechanical experiments on their Autobot and World Watcher prisoners of war. The result was the game-changing binary-bonding process, a fusion of Decepticon and Nebulan technology. It wasn't long until the Autobots reverse-engineered the process and deployed Headmasters of their own, then improved on the process to create Targetmasters. The Decepticons upped the ante by introducing the colossal double-Headmaster MegaZarak, forcing the Autobots to deploy the equally gargantuan Fortress Maximus. The result was the Scouring of Nebulos. A Brush With Infamy–Prologue Head Games

When the Cyberdroids of Master got involved in the conflict years later, many of them chose to become Headmasters, replacing the ailing Nebulans. Both Optimus Prime and Galvatron adopted Headmaster partners when they became Triple-Threat Masters. A Brush With Infamy–Prologue

Three hundred years later, most Headmasters had died with their partners or were left bodiless. Some remained active, such as Cerebros, who had had his consciousness transferred into three Cyberdroid attendants who oversaw the maintenance of his old body. Head Games

Unicron Trilogy continuity family

Armada continuity

Rollout's combination with Overload utilizes Headmaster technology. More than Meets the Eye: Transformers: Armada Armada Fleer card series<ref>MediaWiki's entry for Overload.</ref>

Sideways is a double-Headmaster, combining with either Rook or Crosswise. Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter

Linkage

In order to save the dying Rollout and Overload, the Nebulan scientists Hi-Q and Arcana used an ancient technique they found in their archives known as the Headmaster process. The procedure worked in saving the two Cybertronians, but after a time it turned out their new form was unable to handle two Sparks in one body, and their identities began to blur together. The Nebulans called on the Autobot Rhinox for help, but he disappeared during the war with Unicron. It wasn't until after the war that Overload was able to rebuild himself in his original, pre-Headmaster form. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/18

Energon continuity

Omega Supreme and the other Omega Sentinels were Headmasters.

The Last Knight film

Cogman was a sociopathic Headmaster, who was in service to the Burton family, including Edmund Burton, who he deemed the coolest. The Last Knight

Games

Transformers Roleplaying Game

The Headmaster process was invented by Brainstorm and Arcana at some point after the Autobot-Decepticon war spilled over to the planet Nebulos. It didn't take long before the Decepticons, who had allied with the Hive, stole and reverse-engineered the technology to create Headmasters of their own.

The Headmaster process is sometimes known as the “Titanmaster” process. Transformers who became Headmasters could unlock a wide variety of unusual abilities, including teleportation, invisibility, or super-speed. The Enigma of Combination

Toys

The Transformers

Brainstorm

• Autobot Headmasters (1987)
  • Brainstorm with Arcana
  • Chromedome with Stylor
  • Hardhead with Duros
  • Highbrow with Gort

The four large Autobot Headmasters were sold boxed. They transform into futuristic/Cybertronian vehicles. Each has a vehicle mode compartment that the smaller Nebulan figure can ride in. Plugging in the transformed Nebulan in robot mode activates tumblers in the robot's chest, displaying three Tech Spec readouts.

Fortress Maximus, the once and future king—for a while.

• Headmaster Autobot Base (1987)
  • Fortress Maximus with Cerebros and Spike

He's big. Yeah yeah yeah.

Skullcruncher

• Decepticon Headmasters (1987)
  • Skullcruncher with Grax
  • Mindwipe with Vorath
  • Weirdwolf with Monzo

The three Decepticon Headmasters were sold boxed, and transform into mechanical creatures. Each has a beast mode compartment that the Nebulan can ride in. Like their Autobot counterparts, their chests contain tumblers activated by plugging in a head mode Nebulan, which reveal three Tech Spec graph readouts.

Apeface

• Headmaster Horrorcons (1987)
  • Apeface with Spasma
  • Snapdragon with Krunk

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The Horrorcons change from jets to beasts to robots. The Nebulan partners become the head of both the robot and beast modes.

• Headmaster Decepticon Base (1987)
  • Scorponok with Zarak

He's not small. No no no.

The Autobot Master Warriors

• Autobot Master Warrior (1987)
  • Kirk
  • Rodney
  • Loafer
  • Lione
  • Toraizer
  • Shuffler

These exclusive Autobot Master Warriors represent Japanese-style Headmasters who have yet to receive Transtectors, though they are compatible with any of the other 1987 Headmasters' toys. They are extremely rare.

The DRIVER of the car becomes the HEAD of the robot! ...well, a reasonably substantial portion thereof, anyway. (picture: Nightbeat)

• Autobot Headmasters (1988)
  • Hosehead with Lug
  • Nightbeat with Muzzle
  • Siren with Quig

The three 1988 Autobot Headmasters transform into Earthly land vehicles. Siren and Hosehead share a fire rescue theme, occasionally causing inattentive fans to mistake Nightbeat for a police car, though he at least gets sweet flames to tenuously keep the theme running. The Nebulan companions are considerably smaller and simpler than those of the 1987 Headmasters, although they are backwards compatible with the previous year's figures. In fact, when plugged into 1987 Headmaster bodies, the 1988 Nebulan figures display the Tech Spec readouts for their 1988 robot counterparts, suggesting the simplification of the tumbler system on the Tech Spec readouts into a simple fixed display to have been a late design decision. Each comes with a "helmet" to complete the robot's head; the helmet doubles as a vehicle mode "seat" for the figure to sit in. Two small pistols attach to the "helmet" in robot mode to complete the head. In the instructions, the head guns for all three are always pointed forward, but the box art aims them up and treats them as antennae. Media followed suit.

Fangry

• Decepticon Headmasters (1988)
  • Fangry with Brisko
  • Horri-Bull with Kreb
  • Squeezeplay with Lokos

The three small Decepticon Headmasters transform into fictional monsters. Like their Autobot counterparts, they feature smaller and simpler Nebulan figures than their 1987 predecessors, and are similarly backwards compatible with their larger forerunners, despite their smaller size. Unlike the Autobots, they do not sport additional "helmets" and pistols/antennae. While Squeezeplay and Horri-Bull both have with a tail weapon in addition to their regular gun, Fangry does not even though his Tech Specs bio mentions one, suggesting that it was planned but dropped before final production.

• Headmaster Juniors (1988)
  • Cab
  • Goshooter
  • Minerva
  • Bullhorn
  • Cancer
  • Wilder

The 1988 Headmaster molds were released in Japan as the Headmaster Juniors, representing totally different characters though only Goshooter and Minerva were significantly redecoed from the US versions.

• Headmaster Autobot Base (1988)
  • Grand Maximus with Grand and Gran

A redeco of Fortress Maximus with an additional Pretender shell. This Japanese exclusive represented Fortress Maximus's younger brother in Super-God Masterforce.

Black Zarak - meaner, and uglier.

• Headmaster Decepticon Base (1988)
  • BlackZarak with Scorponok Headmaster Unit

A redeco and retool of the Scorponok mold, this was another Japanese exclusive representing the same character, but meaner.

Timelines

Scorponok

• Pirates vs Knights (2014)
  • Scorponok with Olin Zarak

A retool of Energon Scorponok, the new tooling that his head with a new mechanism for his Headmaster head to plug into. The Headmaster figure itself is a retooled Encore Spike Witwicky figure with a new face based on Scorponok's original model sheet head.

Generations

Guess who's back...back again...

• Brainstorm (2014)

Part of the eighth wave of 2012-onwards Generations Voyager Class toys, Thrilling 30 Brainstorm transforms into a turquoise Cybertronian aircraft, and is notable for being the first Headmaster-style figure in the Generations line. He comes with two pistols which can attach via 5 mm post to his hands and the nosecone of the jet. His head transforms into an unnamed robot that is most certainly Arcana, and can be inserted inside the cockpit to be used as a pilot. Putting the head robot into the neck socket will reveal Tech Specs like the G1 toy. The Tech Specs are based off the original figure, not the Tech Specs on the box.

Be warned, the head robot suffers a design flaw, wherein it is possible for it to get stuck in the main robot's socket, and too much force could separate its own head from its body.

Titans Return

Perceptor

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Legends

Chromedome

The Takara Legends Headmaster figures are redecos or retools of Hasbro's Titans Return figures, which like all Takara products prior to the brand merger, were changed to match the source material. Some figures were even new molds created specifically for the line. Brainstorm's Thrilling 30 Voyager figure also saw release.

War for Cybertron: Siege

Apeface

• Apeface (2019)

War for Cybertron: Earthrise

Snapdragon

• Snapdragon (2020)
• Scorponok (2020)

The Last Knight

Cogman

• Premier Edition (2017)
  • Cogman (Deluxe Class)

Cogman's head is capable of transforming into his diminutive "true" robot mode.

Studio Series

• Cogman (2019)

A redeco of the Premier Edition figure.

Legacy

Omega Prime with Cerebros

• Series: Robots in Disguise 2001

First shown off at San Diego Comic-Con 2024, Legacy Omega Prime includes a Titan Master-styled version of Cerebros that can interact with box-mate Optimus Prime.

Age Of The Primes

Carnivac with Survivor

• Topspin (2025)
• Horri-Bull (2025)
• Carnivac (2025)

Merchandise

Super-God Masterforce

• Headmaster-Braces—Goshooter (1988)

Japanese exclusive roleplay toys that represent the Master-Braces used by the Headmaster Junior Shūta. They are packaged with a role-play communications device.

Fiction-only Headmasters

• Autobots
  • Fortress Maximus/Galen Kord Broken Glass!
  • Playback The Big Shutdown!
  • Sunstreaker/Hunter O'Nion Devastation #4
• Decepticons
  • Scorponok/Abraham Dante Devastation #6
• Others
  • Sunstreaker clones/Machination humans, like Reese Devastation #2
  • Myskrion The Mind Bomb
  • Thinkbox Heart of Darkness #3

Notes

Welcome to the dumb side.

• Generation 1 TakaraTomy designer Kōjin Ōno cites the Japanese super robot franchise [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Steel Jeeg|{{#if:||Steel Jeeg}}]] as his original inspiration for the Headmaster gimmick.<ref>Interview in Diaclone Combat Chronicle Vol. 2</ref>
• Early promotional materials, including catalogs and toy commercials, advertised the Decepticon Nebulan partners as "trainers" for their beastly companions, rather than equal partners. One commercial took this so far as to have the "trainers" holding whips and ordering Weirdwolf, et al. to jump through hoops of fire.

Homages

• The Unicron Trilogy featured a few examples of smaller robots (Mini-Cons) becoming the heads of larger ones.
  • Armada Sideways had two Mini-Con drivers, Rook and Crosswise, for his motorcycle form that could become individual heads, or combine into a larger robot/driver. This functionality was retained for his Energon redeco Rapid Run and his drivers Nightscream and Nightcruz (and their combined form Nightcreeper).
  • Armada Overload's Mini-Con partner Rollout became the head (and part of the chest) of the larger robot, who could in turn become armor for Optimus Prime.
  • Energon Omega Supreme also had a Headmaster partner, Omega, which combined with two vehicles to form a large robot.
• The Transformers Animated series features a supervillain named Headmaster who can use a flying robotic head that aggressively removes another robot's head and replaces it with itself. The head itself can also transform into a small robot mode.
• Rescue Bots' High Tide can combine with his Rescue Rig as the head of a larger robot, in an apparent Headmaster homage.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Headmaster (ヘッドマスター Heddomasutā)
• Hungarian: Fejmester ("Headmaster")
• Italian: Leaderbot
• Mandarin: Tóulǐng Zhànshì (头领战士, "Headman Fighter")
• Russian: Vlastogolov (Властоголов, "Headpower")
• Finnish: Päällikkö

See also

• Titan Master
• Targetmaster
• Powermaster
• Headmaster Junior
• Godmaster
• Triple-Threat Master

References

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