Greatshot

Greatshot is an Autobot Six Changer from the Victory era of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Ironically, his aim is terrible.

A loner, the ninja-like Greatshot took a while to become an Autobot team player. Of course, even after he did, he still prefers to do things his own way.

Greatshot's six modes, ranging from robot to rhino, make him one of the most lethal warriors the Autobots have. Plus he ruffles Gaihawk's feathers quite a bit.

English-Malay/Latin American dub name: Sixshot

Fiction

Victory cartoon

Voice actor: Michihiro Ikemizu (Japan)

Greatshot hasn't always kept the best of company. His former friends include the criminal mercenaries Blue Bacchus and Black Shadow as well as the sociopathic Gaihawk. Greatshot trailed the pair of mercenaries to planet Micro, intent on stopping them as his first step in "putting an end to conflict." He managed to destroy the powerful Crossformer shells of the two mercenaries, though he failed to defeat either core opponent. Planet Micro - The Mysterious Warrior

Greatshot later traveled with Holi to the prison facility of Micro, though it was in the hopes of converting his former friend Gaihawk to the Autobot cause. Gaihawk gave his refusal in a spray of blaster rounds that almost wiped out the two Autobots. While Greatshot lost his old friend, he did gain a new one in the diminutive police-bot. And still the only person he has managed to shoot is Hellbat. Rescue! Gaihawk

Toys

Victory

• Greatshot (1989)
  • Japanese ID number: C-325
  • Accessories: 2 guns

Greatshot is a retool of Sixshot that transforms into a robot, a tank, a spaceship, a gun, an off-road vehicle, and a winged rhinoceros.

Trivia

The ninja storm is growing! Shadowmaru is on the left.

• For a while, there was much fandom speculation that Greatshot was an upgraded version of Sixshot. However, according the supplemental character bio included with Greatshot's toy, he is in fact a former compatriot of both Sixshot and Sixknight, who in turn were all members of the "Six Clan" that "secretly rules over the galaxy". Uh... okay then! [1] Still, there is at least one notable similarity between Sixshot and Greatshot, beyond them sharing the same base mold: they both had the same actor, who voiced them both with a stereotypical "samurai movie" dialect.

• The supplementary bio further states that Greatshot frequently carries out secret ninja missions, further tying him in with the "Ninja Staff Officer" Sixshot and the "Ninja Knight" Sixknight.

• The Greatshot mold was later retooled to make the heroic "Ninja Detective" Shadowmaru for Takara's Brave Police J-Decker toyline. Amusingly, while the other 5 forms are of standard size for the series (assuming 5 meters in robot mode), his size for gun mode was increased to the point that, in Transformers terms, Omega Supreme could use him for an oversized rifle. Shadowmaru also had a prototype "brother", Kagerō, who could only change into three forms. He was not produced as a toy.

External links

• Great Shot at TFU.info