Backbeat

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Backbeat is an Autobot from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

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Backbeat is a member of Hot Rod's unit to Ki-Aleta, and the team's explosives expert. His alternate mode is a hover-crane.

Fiction

IDW comics continuity

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Upon arriving at the Omega Bunker, Backbeat reported that the local weather conditions played havoc with his instrumentation. He, Gizmo and Dealer set up a diversion involving a holomatter generation and low-yield explosives to keep the ancient structure's Omega Guardians busy while Hot Rod and Download tunneled their way into the Magnificence's chamber. Spotlight: Hot Rod

Dealer's memory of the events revealed that he personally killed Backbeat by shooting him from behind. Spotlight: Doubledealer

Trivia

• Backbeat's fate was not shown in Spotlight: Hot Rod, but was revealed in Spotlight: Doubledealer, published almost two years later.