Eject (G1)
- Eject is an Autobot from the Generation 1 continuity family.
The best way to describe Eject is that he is always ready for some football! A confirmed Earth-sports junkie, Eject constantly scans the airwaves for everything from basketball, football, soccer, hockey, anything, from professional to academic-level competition. This occasionally interferes with his job as a surveillance agent, should a game go into overtime when he should be monitoring Decepticon activity. Sports cliches and terms litter his speech;: "home runs", "touchdowns", "goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooal!!" and, of course, "Are you ready for some football?!".
For Eject, sports are more than a form of entertainment. To his mind, they are also the answer to the war. He feels that sports could replace the way Cybertrons traditionally settle disputes: with bloody arena combat or a millennia or two of killing each other in mass numbers. He tries to get the other Autobots in on the idea, and envisions one day a Cybertron free of the horrors of war, where arenas are filled with fans cheering a three-point shot rather than a decapitation, where all Transformers are united in being truly READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL!!!
- Italian name: Catapulta
- French-Canadian name: Ejecteur
Fiction
Animated continuity
- Voice actor: N/A (US), ? (Japan)
During the Battle of Autobot City, Eject sacked Frenzy in mid-air while defending Perceptor in the communications tower. They continued grappling with each other as the mini "Cassette War" raged on. The Transformers: The Movie
After the defeat of Unicron, Eject was first seen stationed inside Metroplex when Blaster was calling for help from Earth Defense Command on Mars. Five Faces of Darkness, Part 3 Sometime later, he joined Blaster and his fellow cassettes in traveling to Menonia, looking for the missing Grimlock and Daniel Witwicky. The strong silent type, Eject still helped overthrow Mara-Al-Utha and bring the Golden One back into power. Madman's Paradise
Marvel Comics continuity
Eject made a brief appearance in the UK-only alternate future of 2008, stationed on Cybertron. Space Pirates!
Super Robot Lifeform manga
When the Decepticons posed as Autobots to defame their enemies in the eyes of humanity, Eject and Rewind rode inside Prowl when the Autobots busted up a Decepticon-run anti-Autobot rally. Eject and Rewind fired their blasters at a pair of hooded-and-robed figures, who were revealed as the Decepticons Frenzy and Rumble.
The two small Autobots then beat the ever-loving snot out the two small Decepticons.
Dreamwave comics continuity
Eject was among the many Autobots who congregated in a secret base during the "Age of Internment", when the recently-returned Megatron's Aerospace Extermination Squadron covered the planet Cybertron, capturing countless Autobot heroes and sending the remnants of the army underground. The War Within: The Age of Wrath
It is unknown if his alternate mode at the time was still some form of data-storage device, or if he had a vehicular mode. It is also unknown just how prepared he was for some football, as the species that created it had yet to evolve. He did have all his rowdy friends over then, mind...
(Note: For some reason, Eject was not seen with Blaster's other cassettes as part of Hot Rod's splinter cell in the modern era. Whether there was a reason for his absence, or if it was just too hard to cram one more 'bot onto the page is unknown.)
Devil's Due G.I. Joe vs. Transformers comics continuity
Toys
Generation 1
- Eject & Ramhorn (Cassette 2-pack, 1986)
- Eject (Cassettebot, 1986)
- Japanese ID number: C-68, C-117
- Among the first new-mold cassettes in the line (rather than being pre-Transformers Microman toys), Eject shares the same mold as Rewind, transforming into a blue microcassette. In this mode, he can fit in the chest compartment of the Blaster or Soundwave toys. He was available only in a two-pack with Ramhorn in the Hasbro line, but was available as an individual for Takara's line, and was rereleased the next year in Headmasters.
- The initial Hasbro releases of Eject/Ramhorn had chromed-gold weapons, subsequent releases used chromed-silver. There are also variations of all new-mold cassettes from this series, in which the cassette back detailing is either a factory-applied foil decal, or painted-on detailing. It is unknown what (if any) correlation there is between the weapon and detailing variants.
- This mold was (much) later used to make Flip Sides and Rosanna.
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