Siren (G1)

This article is about the Headmaster fire chief car. For the Sixturbo ambulance, see Sireen.

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Siren is an <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Autobot" title="Autobot">Autobot</a> from the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Generation_1_%28franchise%29" title="Generation 1 (franchise)">Generation 1</a> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Continuity_family" title="Continuity family">continuity family</a>.

[[Image:|right|290px|thumb|Known for his "thumbs-aside" attitude.]] Siren's voice modulator goes to eleven—and stays there. Thanks to his ear-splitting upbringing in the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Sonic_Canyons" title="Sonic Canyons">Sonic Canyons</a>, he operates at full volume all the time. While this may annoy his pals <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Nightbeat_%28G1%29" title="Nightbeat (G1)">Nightbeat</a> and <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hosehead" title="Hosehead">Hosehead</a>, it drives his partner <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Quig" title="Quig">Quig</a> nuts. Eventually, Quig's efforts to teach Siren about the concept of an "indoor voice" may succeed, but for now Siren doesn't really listen to him, either because he can't hear him or because he doesn't want to.

<table style="border-style: none; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: transparent;" class="cquote" align="center"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding: 9px 10px 0pt; color: rgb(178, 183, 242); font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;" valign="top" width="20"> “ </td><td style="padding: 4px 10px 5px; font-family: 'lucida console',arial,sans-serif;" valign="top"> Loud, brash... and totally brain dead! </td><td style="padding: 10px 10px 0px; color: rgb(178, 183, 242); font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: right;" valign="bottom" width="20"> ” </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" style="padding-top: 0pt;"> <p style="font-size: smaller; line-height: 1em; text-align: right;"><cite style="font-style: normal;">—Nightbeat, regarding Siren, "<a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/On_the_Edge_of_Extinction%21" title="On the Edge of Extinction!">On the Edge of Extinction!</a>" Marvel US #75</cite>

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French-Canadian name: Sirène

<a name="Fiction"></a><h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Siren&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Fiction">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Fiction</span></h2> <a name="Marvel_Comics_continuity"></a><h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Siren&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Marvel Comics continuity">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Marvel Comics continuity</span></h3> <a name="Generation_1"></a><h4><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Siren&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Generation 1">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Generation 1</span></h4> <div style="border: 2px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); margin: 0pt auto 0.2em; padding: 2px; width: 90%; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); text-align: left;">Note: Events from the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Transformers_%28Marvel_Comics%29#Marvel_UK" title="The Transformers (Marvel Comics)">UK-only</a> comic stories are in italics.</div> [[Image:|left|250px|thumb|Siren, you hypocrite, your motto is "Act first, ask questions later."]]<i>Shortly after being made a <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Headmaster_%28technology%29" title="Headmaster (technology)">Headmaster</a> and joining <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Optimus_Prime_%28G1%29" title="Optimus Prime (G1)">Optimus Prime</a>'s crew on Earth, Siren accompanied Nightbeat to Earth to investigate a mysterious robot corpse which had seemingly washed up on the California shoreline. At the scene of the crime, they found a pair of Transformers hovering over <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Playback" title="Playback">the body</a>, and who quickly burned rubber once they spotted the Autobots. Siren was sent to chase them down, and after he had cornered the two in an alley, he learned that the two were actually Autobots! Though <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hosehead" title="Hosehead">Hosehead</a> and <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Horsepower" title="Horsepower">Horsepower</a> made their introductions, the latter exploded in gunfire as the real culprit, the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Decepticon" title="Decepticon">Decepticon</a> leader-in-training <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Thunderwing_%28G1%29" title="Thunderwing (G1)">Thunderwing</a> announced his presence. The two barely managed to escape, and Hosehead explained that the well-armed Decepticon was hunting down purposefully-released Autobot prisoners. Nightbeat and his partner <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Muzzle" title="Muzzle">Muzzle</a> were able to detonate the inspected corpse's fuel core at close enough range to send Thunderwing packing into the waves to dose the flames. Hosehead then returned to the Ark with Nightbeat and Siren.</i> <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Big_Shutdown%21" title="The Big Shutdown!">The Big Shutdown!</a></span> <i>When the Autobots received a distress call from Earth's surface, Nightbeat assembled a combat team that included Siren, <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Landmine_%28G1%29" title="Landmine (G1)">Landmine</a>, Hosehead, <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Getaway" title="Getaway">Getaway</a>, and himself. Under Optimus Prime's command, they rushed to Earth to help their fallen comrades, but there they found the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Deathbringer" title="Deathbringer">Deathbringer</a>, who had come to cleanse the planet of life. Ironically, Deathbringer was powered by the energies of the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Matrix_of_Leadership" title="Matrix of Leadership">Creation Matrix</a>, the very thing Prime had desired earlier to restore his fallen warriors! And it must be destroyed to save Earth! Siren and the others fought valiantly, but were getting slaughtered. Nightbeat used its own programming against it, and the Deathbringer destroyed itself, removing Siren and the others from danger. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Deathbringer_%28comic_issue%29" title="Deathbringer (comic issue)">Deathbringer</a></span></i>

[[Image:|right|250px|thumb|Siren: Worst Green Lantern ever.]] In search of the Creation Matrix, Siren, Nightbeat, and Hosehead took a journey to the planet <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Pz-Zazz" title="Pz-Zazz">Pz-Zazz</a>. Nightbeat's zeal quickly got them in trouble with both local mobs, and in the midst of a skirmish, Siren found himself in possession of the artifact both mobs desired -- the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Bird_of_Prey&action=edit" class="new" title="Bird of Prey">Bird of Prey</a>. Though with the help of <a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Miss_Fatale&action=edit" class="new" title="Miss Fatale">Miss Fatale</a>, Siren, Hosehead, and Nightbeat were able to use the artifact to restore the decrepit planet, they failed to find the Matrix. However, they did manage to get shot in the back and captured by Thunderwing and the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Mayhem_Attack_Squad" title="Mayhem Attack Squad">Mayhem Attack Squad</a>. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Bird_of_Prey%21" title="Bird of Prey!">Bird of Prey!</a></span> Siren demonstrated remarkable self-control in not revealing information to Thunderwing while being tortured by his <a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Mind_Leech&action=edit" class="new" title="Mind Leech">Mind Leech</a>, despite the incredible pain. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Kings_of_the_Wild_Frontier" title="Kings of the Wild Frontier">Kings of the Wild Frontier</a></span>

Due to a short caused when Thunderwing harshly disciplined <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Ruckus_%28G1%29" title="Ruckus (G1)">Ruckus</a> <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Deadly_Obsession" title="Deadly Obsession">Deadly Obsession</a></span>, he and his comrades were able to break free. Finding themselves on the Ark in the middle of a fierce battle against Thunderwing, who had become possessed by the Matrix, Nightbeat quickly hatched a plan. After Nightbeat harpooned Thunderwing to a shuttle, Hosehead released the artificial gravity, and after Thunderwing and the shuttle had been sucked out, Siren pulled Nightbeat back into the Ark's ship bay. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/All_Fall_Down" title="All Fall Down">All Fall Down</a></span>

[[Image:|left|125px|thumb|Do you not understand? It's Over! Finished!]] After the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Matrix_Quest" title="Matrix Quest">Matrix Quest</a> ended, the Autobots enjoyed some much-needed downtime. Siren and Hosehead spent time watching mystery films on one of the Ark's monitors; Siren was even able to guess that the servo-droid was the culprit. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Eye_of_the_Storm%21" title="Eye of the Storm!">Eye of the Storm!</a></span> This holiday was interrupted when the gruesomely-combined <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Ratchet_%28G1%29" title="Ratchet (G1)">Ratchet</a>/<a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron_%28G1%29" title="Megatron (G1)">Megatron</a> went on a rampage through the Ark, and Siren expressed displeasure when Optimus Prime made the unpopular decision to spare the creature. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Price_of_Life%21" title="The Price of Life!">The Price of Life!</a></span>

After the second Decepticon Civil War, Siren and the rest of the Earthbound Transformers were teleported to Cybertron to battle <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Unicron" title="Unicron">Unicron</a>. During this costly battle, despite the incredible foe he and his race faced, he raced recklessly on his <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hoverscooter" title="Hoverscooter">hoverscooter</a> for his personal amusement. Despite Nightbeat's warnings, this resulted in him colliding with Jazz. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/On_the_Edge_of_Extinction%21" title="On the Edge of Extinction!">On the Edge of Extinction!</a></span>

With Unicron defeated, the Autobots secretly followed the Decepticons to <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Klo" title="Klo">Klo</a>, but their presence became known, and they were ambushed upon arrival. Siren managed to survive the first round of the massacre, desperately grabbing for his weapon under the feet of <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Bludgeon_%28G1%29" title="Bludgeon (G1)">Bludgeon</a>, but he was noticed and put out of his misery. The <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Last_Autobot" title="Last Autobot">Last Autobot</a> arrived to revive all the Autobot casualties magically, and Siren was presumably revived as well. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/End_of_the_Road%21_%28US%29" title="End of the Road! (US)">End of the Road!</a></span>

<a name="Marvel_UK_future_timelines"></a><h5><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Siren&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Marvel UK future timelines">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Marvel UK future timelines</span></h5> <i>In an alternate 2009, Siren was one of the Autobots who had to abandon Cybertron to <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Galvatron_%28G1%29" title="Galvatron (G1)">Galvatron</a> and the Decepticons after the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Time_Wars" title="Time Wars">Time Wars</a> rebooted history. To make matters worse, their ship crashed on Earth after their leader, <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Rodimus_Prime_%28G1%29" class="mw-redirect" title="Rodimus Prime (G1)">Rodimus Prime</a>, was possessed by Unicron's corrupting influence. Siren was seen being blasted around the landscape by his fearless leader after impact. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Shadow_of_Evil" title="Shadow of Evil">Shadow of Evil</a></span></i>

<a name="Classics"></a><h4><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Siren&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Classics">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Classics</span></h4> <div style="border: 2px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); margin: 0pt auto 0.2em; padding: 2px; width: 90%; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); text-align: left;">Note: The Classics stories take place after the end of the original Marvel Comic, but in a <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Splinter_timeline" title="Splinter timeline">splinter timeline</a> that does not include the events of the Marvel UK-exclusive stories or Generation 2.</div> [[Image:|left|250px|thumb|Yet to discover the fine art of whispering.]] When the war ended with the Decepticons' defeat on Klo, Nightbeat and <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Muzzle" title="Muzzle">Muzzle</a> formed their own team. They, Siren (and his partner <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Quig" title="Quig">Quig</a>), <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Lug" title="Lug">Lug</a>, <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Sludge_%28G1%29" title="Sludge (G1)">Sludge</a>, <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Slag_%28G1%29" title="Slag (G1)">Slag</a>, and a new <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Human" title="Human">human</a> recruit, <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Minerva" title="Minerva">Minerva</a>, scoured the galaxy for mysteries to solve.

Nightbeat's crew once had to set their ship down on the planet <a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Azure&action=edit" class="new" title="Azure">Azure</a> for repairs, and they were stranded there for the interim. After a barroom brawl initiated by Nightbeat's crew (and aggravated by Siren), Nightbeat found that he was a person of interest to a potential client, a sentient ship named <a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Amory&action=edit" class="new" title="Amory">Amory</a>. Amory required the services of Nightbeat and his team in finding her pilot, <a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Phyrion&action=edit" class="new" title="Phyrion">Phyrion</a>. However, the entire arrangement was a setup put together by the Decepticons <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Ruckus_%28G1%29" title="Ruckus (G1)">Ruckus</a> and <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Needlenose" title="Needlenose">Needlenose</a>, who had assembled an alleged "new <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Mayhem_Attack_Squad" title="Mayhem Attack Squad">Mayhem Attack Squad</a>" by promising payment to <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Octopunch" title="Octopunch">Octopunch</a> and <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Stranglehold" title="Stranglehold">Stranglehold</a> for their assistance. Ruckus wasn't very smart, however, and had brought his hostage with him. Soon after Siren disoriented Ruckus with his <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Sonic-screamer_pistol" title="Sonic-screamer pistol">sonic-screamer pistols</a> and Slag separated Ruckus from the hostage by chopping off his arm, the Decepticons were defeated and Phyrion was returned to Amory. Regretting her involvement, Amory paid the Autobots for their services.

Despite their short run-in with good luck, Siren and the rest of the crew were still stranded on Azure without a working ship. In the meantime, surely someone was in need of a detective... <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cheap_Shots" title="Cheap Shots">Cheap Shots</a></span>

<a name="Dreamwave_comics_continuity"></a><h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Siren&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Dreamwave comics continuity">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Dreamwave comics continuity</span></h3> [[Image:|right|200px|thumb|We'd tilt back too if we were carrying those things around.]] Siren was part of <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Perceptor_%28G1%29" title="Perceptor (G1)">Perceptor</a> and <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Blaster_%28G1%29" title="Blaster (G1)">Blaster</a>'s organized resistance to Decepticon rule during the Age of Internment. Along with <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Nightbeat_%28G1%29" title="Nightbeat (G1)">Nightbeat</a>, <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hosehead" title="Hosehead">Hosehead</a>, <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Slapdash" title="Slapdash">Slapdash</a>, <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Getaway" title="Getaway">Getaway</a>, and <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Joyride" class="mw-redirect" title="Joyride">Joyride</a>, he participated in a bait-and-capture mission to disable one of the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Aerospace_Extermination_Squadron" class="mw-redirect" title="Aerospace Extermination Squadron">Aerospace Extermination Squadron</a> and bring it in for study. Curiously, they engaged a group of three of the Air Warriors, disabled the first two, and the third just shut down. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Age_of_Wrath_issue_2" title="The Age of Wrath issue 2">The Age of Wrath issue 2</a></span> However, when Nightbeat tried to apply an <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Inhibitor_claw" title="Inhibitor claw">inhibitor claw</a>, the Air Warrior automatically upgraded into enhanced attack mode and began to attack them again. The ensuing onslaught was overwhelming, and despite Siren ended up being blinded by one of the Air Warrior's blasts, he and Joyride latched their <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Altmode" class="mw-redirect" title="Altmode">altmodes</a> together, rammed their opponent into a spike on the wall, and finally attached the inhibitor claw. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Age_of_Wrath_issue_3" title="The Age of Wrath issue 3">The Age of Wrath issue 3</a></span>

<div style="border: 2px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); margin: 0pt auto 0.2em; padding: 2px; width: 90%; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); text-align: left;">Note: <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Dreamwave" class="mw-redirect" title="Dreamwave">Dreamwave</a> declared bankruptcy before the final result of their mission could be told.</div> <a name="IDW_comics_continuity"></a><h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Siren&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: IDW comics continuity">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">IDW comics continuity</span></h3> [[Image:|left|150px|thumb|It seems somebody better be careful.]] Siren was stationed on the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Autobot_Orbital_Command_Hub" title="Autobot Orbital Command Hub">Autobot Orbital Command Hub</a>. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Stormbringer_issue_1" title="Stormbringer issue 1">Stormbringer issue 1</a></span> He was requisitioned into action on-board the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Ark-17" title="Ark-17">Ark-17</a> for a mission to rescue <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Kup" class="mw-redirect" title="Kup">Kup</a> from a mysterious planet. Unfortunately, Kup had been driven mad by the planet's radiation and, believing his rescuers to be zombies, attacked them. Siren was the only one to escape alive (minus an arm), and loudly berated both <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Perceptor_%28G1%29" title="Perceptor (G1)">Perceptor</a> and <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Springer_%28G1%29" title="Springer (G1)">Springer</a> on the foolhardy rescue mission, which had cost loyal Autobots their lives. Though Springer reminded Siren of how valuable Kup's training had been to all the Autobot soldiers, the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Wrecker" title="Wrecker">Wreckers</a> commander was silenced when Siren stated that no Autobots deserved to die at the hands of their comrades, especially by the hand of somebody as revered as Kup. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Spotlight:_Kup" title="Spotlight: Kup">Spotlight: Kup</a></span>

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Siren (Headmaster, 1988)
Accessories: "Quig" Headmaster pilot, helmet/seat, "C02 Shotgun", left & right "<a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Sonic-screamer_pistol" title="Sonic-screamer pistol">Sonic-Screamer Pistols</a>"

Siren transforms into a grey <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Popular_Earth_vehicle_alternate_modes#Mazda_RX" title="Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes">Mazda RX-7</a>

with "Fire chief" decorations. The roof is hinged and can be opened to reveal an interior in which his Headmaster unit, Quig, can sit, with the helmet portion of the head forming a seat of sorts. His head guns can be stored on the hood while his rifle can be plugged onto the roof.

In robot mode, like all Headmaster toys, Siren has a flip-down panel on his chest which covers a spring-loaded mini-<a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Tech_Spec" title="Tech Spec">Tech-Spec</a>-meter

which gives reads for Speed, Strength and Intelligence. The tumblers are activated when Quig (or any other Headmaster unit) is plugged into his neck socket. Quig has Siren's face plainly visible on his back because, as a smaller Headmaster toy, he lacks the flip-down panel featured on larger Headmasters.

The same mold was <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Redeco" title="Redeco">redecoed</a> into Japanese <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Headmaster_Junior" title="Headmaster Junior">Headmaster Junior</a> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Sh%C5%ABta_G%C5%8D" title="Shūta Gō">Shūta Gō</a>. A Siren-colored version of Shūta was also offered in Japan via <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Robot_Point" title="Robot Point">robot point</a> offer.

<a name="Trivia"></a><h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Siren&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Trivia">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Trivia</span></h2> [[Image:|right|200px|thumb|Clockwise from top left: Toy Nightbeat, toy Siren, comic Nightbeat, comic Siren.]]

Siren was originally conceived as either an upgrade or homage to <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Red_Alert_%28G1%29" title="Red Alert (G1)">Red Alert</a><sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-0" title="">[1]</a></sup>.

While the robot mode was largely blue unlike Red Alert, it featured a similar head to the early Autobot. The car mode featured a near carbon copy of Red Alert's paint scheme. The Red Alert references were dropped early in the design process.

For the animation/comic book models, the face/Nebulan and helmet/seat pieces of <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Nightbeat_%28G1%29" title="Nightbeat (G1)">Nightbeat</a>

and Siren were inexplicably switched. (It is difficult to tell for sure, but they may have kept the correct antennae/guns judging by the basic shapes involved.) This switch gave comic book Nightbeat the "shades" he's remembered for, as well as the crest on his forehead, while comic book Siren ended up with his trademark combined brow/nosepiece. How or why this switch happened, and in what stage of development it occurred, is unknown.

Siren appeared in a <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Commercial" title="Commercial">commercial</a> which advertised the 1988 Autobot and Decepticon Headmasters, though he was only animated in <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Altmode" class="mw-redirect" title="Altmode">vehicle mode</a>. In the commercial, he, Nightbeat, and Hosehead were seen racing across the surface of an unknown planet.

<a name="Footnotes"></a><h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Siren&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Footnotes">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Footnotes</span></h2> <ol class="references"><li id="cite_note-0"><a href="#cite_ref-0" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers_Generations_Deluxe" class="mw-redirect" title="Transformers Generations Deluxe">Transformers Generations Deluxe</a>, p108</ol>

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Siren at TFU.info

Siren (G1)

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