Dead End (ROTF)
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| The name or term "Dead End" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Dead End (disambiguation). |
- Dead End is a Decepticon from the Revenge of the Fallen franchise in the live-action film continuity family.
Dead End is not very popular among his fellow Decepticons. This is hardly surprising since he has been known to siphon their energy off if they aren't careful. Dead End is as creepy as they come. He crawls on all fours and keeps to the shadows. He isn't really capable of carrying on an ordinary conversation. When he has something to say at all, it is something strange or gloomy.
- Alternate European market name: Detour
Fiction
Toy bios
If Dead End and Cliffjumper weren't on opposite sides, they would get along swimmingly — because they're both dysfunctional jerks. Dead End and Cliffjumper
Games
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - The Game
Sony PSP
Dead End is one of serval Decepticons that can be played with during the campaign mode of the game, and thus has no real storry of his own apart from the events mentioned below.
Decepticon campaign
Toys
Revenge of the Fallen
Scout Class Toys
- Dead End or Detour (Scout Class, 2009)
- Japanese ID number: RD-07
- Dead End converts from a modified red and black Peugeot 9009 concept car to a robot with a bird-like head vaguely resembling Hawkman's mask/helmet. Interestingly, while Dead End has no neck articulation, he does have a movable jaw; the entire top of his head hinges backward, revealing a lower jaw and teeth. However, added plastic (most likely for safety reasons) makes his chest-plate unable to fold down all the way. As a result, many owners don't even see Dead End's lower jaw, and assume the upper jaw to be the entire head. It is possible to hinge the full head upwards by pulling on the lower jaw's cheek detailing.
- This mold was also used to make Revenge of the Fallen Nightbeat.
Deluxe Class Toys
- Dead End (Deluxe, 2009)
- Deluxe class Dead End is a retool and redeco of Revenge of the Fallen Sideways with a color scheme resembling Generation 1 Wildrider.
- Dead End features Automorph action during the conversion from car to robot mode. When the front bumper is pressed, his front pair of wheels automatically flip underneath the hood. There is also some Mech Alive: you can see internal gears moving in his fore-arms when moving his arms, as well as a turning disk on each of his elbow. On his right arm is a spinning "saw" blade.
- He's also wearing Generation 1 Dead End's vehicle mode hood as a hat!
Titanium Series
- Cliffjumper & Dead End (2009)
- A black and red redeco of Jazz, Titanium Series Dead End is a non-transforming plastic figurine made of plastic and die-cast metal. He is sculpted holding a small handgun, and has articulation in his shoulders, neck and waist. Oh, and he comes with a Movie-style Decepticon logo base to stand on.
- He was only available in a Toys"R"Us-exclusive two-pack with Cliffjumper.
Notes
- Before solid information regarding the name of the Revenge of the Fallen Scout Class toy became available, sellers of stolen prototypes alternatively referred to him as "Detour" and "Dead End". Eventually the latter name won out... but ultimately it turned out the name "Detour" hadn't come out of thin air either: Early shipments of the European release of the toy feature the name "Detour" on the cardboard insert on the packaging's front (the cardback and the instruction sheet still call him "Dead End", however), with later shipments featuring the correct "Dead End" insert. At least one sample has even been found at US retail, with a misapplied European insert.[1]
- From what can be gathered on the Scout and Deluxe toys' bios, it seems Dead End is some sort of vampire that feeds on other Transformers. That is awesome.
- He is also the only transformer to have three distinctly different looking toys... in the same toyline. Maybe he's a ghost-vampire that likes to switch bodies. That is also awesome.
- Concept artist Ken Christiansen worked on the Dead End art featured at the top of this article using some very poor supplied images of Dead End some considerable time before the toy was released, so it is missing some details seen on the toy, such as Dead End's scary-ass lower jaw. For more information, see the external links below.
External links
- Dead End Revenge of the Fallen PSP game art concept, greyscale and final rendering, by artist Ken Christiansen.
