Hector Ramirez
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| This article is about the legendary reporter from Generation 1. For the legendary reporter from Animated, see Hector Ramirez (Animated). |
- Hector Ramirez is a human in the Generation 1 continuity family.
Hector Ramirez is a journalist... in a looser sense of the word. Vapid and easily bamboozled, he nevertheless marches on in his attempts at investigative reporting, full of a misguided bravado that frequently puts him into unnecessarily dangerous situations. Still, thanks to a combination of weaseling and dumb luck, he has managed both to stay on the air and not get himself killed—discounting the time he was turned into a fifteen-foot-tall living zombie, at any rate. He got better.
Fiction
Generation 1 cartoon
- Voice actor: Frank Welker, John Stephenson (English), ? (Japanese)
After the evil Lord Chumley stole a top secret Soviet jet, the blame was placed on the United States. Hector Ramirez appeared on TV, commenting on the new hostilities between the US and the Soviet Union erupting from this incident. Prime Target
Notes
- Hector Ramirez was writer Buzz Dixon's parody of the infamous "journalist" Geraldo Rivera. Ramirez was originally conceived as a returning character in G.I. Joe, but would go on to appear in other Hasbro- and Sunbow-created shows, including Jem and the Holograms and, most prominently, The Inhumanoids.
- Although the character is not named on screen—and indeed, does not actually look very much like Ramirez, colored as he is with brown hair instead of black—Buzz Dixon claimed in an interview to have included Ramirez in a Transformers script, and "Prime Target" is the only episode that fits the bill (given that Dixon's only other script was "Carnage in C-Minor"). Although the character is not used in the manner that Dixon describes, it was taken that this was intended to be Ramirez, and the fact booklet released with Pioneer's Transformers 2010 DVD box set (written by Hirofumi Ichikawa) identifies him as such.
- Ramirez's appearance in Transformers marks the only instance in which the character was not voiced by Neil Ross. In compensation, hey, two different guys voice him!
