Stockade (Movie)
| This article is about the movie Decepticon SUV. For the Autobot tank from the Universe conflict, see Stockade (Universe). |
- Stockade is a Decepticon from the 2007 movie franchise in the live-action film continuity family.
If Stockade hadn't become embroiled in the war with the Autobots, he'd probably be breaking kneecaps and shaking down deadbeats for loan sharks. A simple bot at heart, Stockade's perfectly content to help Starscream rebuild his operations on Earth. After all, he's not too picky about whom he takes orders from, as long as those orders involve hurting people.
Fiction
IDW Transformers movie comics
Stockade was assigned by Starscream to oversee the construction of the new All Spark. After Starscream's triumphant return to Cybertron, he checked in with Stockade, who informed him that construction was proceeding according to schedule. The Reign of Starscream issue 3 He proved to be a cruel foreman as he worked Grindcore to the point of stasis lock, and beat down Warpath for slacking off. Clearly not a bot who cares for unions. The Reign of Starscream Issue Number Four
Stockade was present at the activation of the new cube, and appeared just as shocked as Thundercracker when Dreadwing pulled a coup on Starscream. He fought his way through the numerous drones alongside Thundercracker and beat on Payload, who had apparently sided with Dreadwing. It is unknown if Stockade made it out of the battle alive. The Reign of Starscream Issue Number Five
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Stockade believed Cybertron is the greatest world in existence. He and a handful of other Decepticons refused to abandon their homeworld. He loathed Megatron for his mad scheme to capture the All Spark, which has left Cybertron dead.
To remain online despite the lack of an All Spark or any other energy source, they drank Nucleon. Stockade became not only immensely strong (and addicted), he went all messiah, deciding to rebirth Cybertron. He and his "new Decepticons" pooled together the energy of their sparks and sent it into space as a sub-space carrier wave message, believing that any intelligence that detected it would be a relation of the All Spark and would arrive to re-energise Cybertron. Return to Cybertron: Part 1 Return to Cybertron: Part 2 He also explored the planet a great deal while preparing for this, discovering that its insides were a lot like those of a Transformer's - even including components that resembled gyro-joints. Return to Cybertron: Part 4
When a team of Autobots arrived, he calmly stated he wished to keep them functional and so challenged Ironhide (their leader) to hand-to-hand combat, deciding which team had won via leadership conflict rather than start a shooting match. He shrugged off Ironhide's hit and punched him out, and then started screaming in rapture at the sight of an energy-based spatial anomaly Return to Cybertron: Part 1 This, he informed Bumblebee, was the entity they'd invited to Cybertron—and now that the Autobots had seen it, they could not be allowed to leave.
The Autobots weren't quite sold on the idea of letting an unknown alien force invade their homeworld's core, so the team caused a distraction while Bumblebee turned off the Nucleon surge that was a key part of Stockade's plan. Stockade ended the distraction by bashing Ironhide into the ground (it never gets old) and was pleased to find the entity was still entering Cybertron without the Nucleon. He was visibly less pleased when the entity announced itself as Unicron, the Anti-Life Return to Cybertron: Part 2, and utterly freaked when the planet itelf began attacking them as it was reshaped, with him having to save Overcast at one point. He was left distraught at the idea he'd made the situation worse, and immediately ended all hostilities with the Autobots as he decided they needed to communicate with Unicron and convince the hostile scary Anti-Life creature to work with them for the betterment of Cybertron.
Shockingly, Unicron wasn't interested and Stockade got zapped. Return to Cybertron: Part 3 Stockade futilely sent his troops in to shoot at Unicron instead and was upset to see Divebomb buy it. However, at that point Optimus Prime turned up and convinced Stockade to help him stop the monster. Contributing the Decepticons to this effort, Stockade led the Autobots into the planet's depths and kicked off shooting around the innards to distract Unicron.
After the battle, he gave over the Nucleon to save Earth, not wanting two worlds to die because of him. Optimus offered him a place on Earth, but he said he was not yet ready to leave Cybertron; the offer remained open-ended. Return to Cybertron: Part 4
Toys
Transformers (2007)
- Stockade (Deluxe Class, 2008)
- Japanese ID number: MD-23
- Accessories: AllSpark cube (Takara release only)
- As part of the "AllSpark Power" portion of the movie line, Stockade transforms into a Sector Seven-outfitted Cadillac Escalade SUV. His main gimmick is not automorphing, but a gear-driven punch activated by pulling back on the luggage bar on either forearm.
- On some early samples, the windshield halves in front of both hands pop off easily. This is due partly to the unusually soft plastic, which does not grip at the joints very well. Another issue is the pin-hinged ankles, which only barely support the toy's weight. However, later versions don't display either of these problems.
- Like all Japanese "Allspark Power" toys, the Takara version of Stockade comes with a small AllSpark cube accessory that's not included with the Hasbro version. Stockade himself appears to be no different.
Trivia
- Although Stockade bears Sector 7 markings, his altmode does not match the SUVs used by Sector 7 itself. Rather, he is a Cadillac Escalade like the one that came to life during the battle in Mission City. There is a slight possibility they may be one and the same.
