Hapless trooper
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- The hapless trooper is a Decepticon in the Marvel UK comics portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
The Hapless trooper is a fiercely loyal Decepticon who volunteered for Project Re-Birth in order that... oh who are we kidding? He didn't volunteer. Straxus strapped him to a table, screaming, while techs disected and rebuilt his body in the image of Megatron; all part of a too-elaborate-by-half scheme by Straxus to regain control of the Decepticon army.
Pray that madness claimed him early in the process, because what followed you would not wish on your most hated enemy. *shudder*
Prior to his grizzly fate, the Hapless trooper probably served under Octane as part of Straxus's forces.
Fiction
Marvel UK comics
On Cybertron, Megatron is tormented by strange memories of medical torture and disassembly amid flashbacks to Straxus's attempts to possess his body. Mind Games
Later another Megatron and relates his discovery of a hidden lab in Straxus's base where a hapless trooper was surgically reconstructed into a replica of Megatron's own body, which was then possessed by Straxus... who had in turn been overwhelmed by a copy of Megatron's own memories and believed himself to be the original to form a sort of Double Decker Taco of mind-control and body horror.
Realizing the truth the clone Megatron—who was barely clinging to sanity—chose to take his own life "rather than let Straxus win."Two Megatrons!
Trivia
- Several troopers sharing the same general design as the Hapless trooper (all displaying slight differences) appear at Transference Station Two in "Resurrection!" around the time Straxus was implementing Project Re-Birth, though it it highly unlikely that the Hapless trooper was among them; Straxus's plans were already well underway by that point. These troopers have the same yellow-red-and-white color scheme used by Darkmount technicians.
