Decepticharge
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- Decepticharge is a Decepticon from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Decepticharge... is evil. Yeah. He apparently likes racing.
- (Note: There is fan speculation that Decepticharge is an evil version of Windcharger, due to his name and that his head was designed for an ultimately-scrapped Windcharger retool of the Ford Mustang Alternators toy. But without any form of official bio, there is nothing to really support or refute this idea.)
Fiction
Honda Binaltech Online Game
Despite not being part of the Binaltech line, Decepticharge appears as the enemy in Honda's online Flash-animated Binaltech fighting game, as a yellow recolor of Overdrive. He is not given a specific name in this game, only the title of yokozuna ("sumo champion").
He has a wide variety of very strange powers with which to really beat the snot out of his opponents. These include growing to giant size or shrinking his opponents to tinyness then jumping up and down on them, and any number of blaster-rifle effects.
Toys
Alternators
- Decepticharge (Alternator, 2005)
- Alternator ID number: 14
- Decepticharge is a retool of the Alternators Windcharger toy, transforming into a "street performance" Honda S2000. His hardtop roof can be removed for an open-top vehicle mode. He is covered in fake sponsor decals, advertising such products as "Dinotron Racing Fuel", "Dualor Exhaust" and "Hyperlinq Racing".
- Decepticharge is essentially a US-only toy, as it only saw "release" in Japan as a prize in a contest from Takara's Transformers: Binaltech & TF Collection Complete Guide book; 100 Decepticharges (in US packaging) were awarded to the winners.
Trivia
- The remold of Alternators Grimlock was originally planned to be Windcharger (presumably in red), but ultimately ended up as Wheeljack instead, with a new head sculpt. Meanwhile, the head sculpt originally intended for Ford-Windcharger ended up being used for the remold of Windcharger (the Honda S2000 mold) instead, which ultimately became Decepticharge.
- In 2005, the Decepticharge mold was presented as an upcoming release for the Japanese Binaltech line. Originally, Takara intended to name for their version of the toy "Wildrider", but they ultimately had to abandon that idea because they couldn't get the trademark. Instead, they decided to give the toy an entirely new deco, as the Hasbro toy's deco didn't appear to their ideal of "real-life accuracy". In robot mode, the toy was given a color scheme based on the Transmetal 2 incarnation of Beast Wars Blackarachnia, with the toy's name being changed to "Black Widow", Takara's name for the character. Ultimately, however, Takara decided to cancel the toy altogether, as they were fearing that another redeco (in addition to the upcoming Binaltech Asterisk toys) would be too repetitive. Plans to release the toy as part of a different line were never picked up again.
- The Decepticharge mold is also used as the basis for a Decepticon Legion from the first installment of the Kiss-Player manga in Dengeki Diaoh magazine.
