Stockade (Movie)
| The name or term "Stockade" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Stockade (disambiguation). |
- Stockade is a Decepticon from the 2007 movie franchise in the live-action film continuity family.
If Stockade hadn't become embroiled in the war with the Autobots, he'd probably be breaking kneecaps and shaking down deadbeats for loan sharks. A simple bot at heart, Stockade's perfectly content to help Starscream rebuild his operations on Earth. After all, he's not too picky about whom he takes orders from, as long as those orders involve hurting people.
Fiction
IDW Transformers movie comics
Many years ago, Stockade was a member of Cybertron's armed forces, and witnessed Megatron's declaration of (essentially) a military dictatorship to deal with the crisis created by an alien attack. Defiance issue 2 Stockade joined Megatron's new "Decepticon" faction when the planet collapsed into a civil war. Defiance issue 4
Thousands of years later, after the death of Megatron and the destruction of the All Spark on Earth, Stockade was assigned by Starscream to oversee the construction of the new All Spark. After Starscream's triumphant return to Cybertron, he checked in with Stockade, who informed him that construction was proceeding according to schedule. The Reign of Starscream Issue Number Three He proved to be a cruel foreman as he worked Grindcore to the point of stasis lock, and beat down Warpath for slacking off. Clearly not a bot who cares for unions. The Reign of Starscream Issue Number Four
Stockade was present at the activation of the new cube, and appeared just as shocked as Thundercracker when Dreadwing pulled a coup on Starscream. He fought his way through the numerous drones alongside Thundercracker and beat on Payload, who had apparently sided with Dreadwing. It is unknown if Stockade made it out of the battle alive. The Reign of Starscream Issue Number Five
Titan Magazines Transformers movie comics
| “ | I warned you... | ” |
—Stockade, Revolution Part 2 | ||
Stockade believed Cybertron was the greatest world in existence, and he and a handful of other Decepticons refused to abandon their homeworld. He loathed Megatron for his mad scheme to capture the All Spark, which had left Cybertron dead.
To remain online despite the lack of an All Spark or any other energy source, they drank Nucleon. Stockade became not only immensely strong (and addicted), he went all messiah, deciding to rebirth Cybertron. He and his "new Decepticons" pooled together the energy of their sparks and sent it into space as a sub-space carrier wave message, believing that any intelligence that detected it would be a relation of the All Spark and would arrive to re-energise Cybertron. Return to Cybertron: Part 1 Return to Cybertron: Part 2 He also explored the planet a great deal while preparing for this, discovering that its insides were a lot like those of a Transformer's—even including components that resembled gyro-joints. Return to Cybertron: Part 4
When a team of Autobots arrived, he calmly stated he wished to keep them functional and so challenged Ironhide (their leader) to hand-to-hand combat, deciding which team had won via leadership conflict rather than start a shooting match. He shrugged off Ironhide's hit and punched him out, and then started screaming in rapture at the sight of an energy-based spatial anomaly Return to Cybertron: Part 1 This, he informed Bumblebee, was the entity they'd invited to Cybertron—and now that the Autobots had seen it, they could not be allowed to leave.
The Autobots weren't quite sold on the idea of letting an unknown alien force invade their homeworld's core, so the team caused a distraction while Bumblebee turned off the Nucleon surge that was a key part of Stockade's plan. Stockade ended the distraction by bashing Ironhide into the ground (it never gets old) and was pleased to find the entity was still entering Cybertron without the Nucleon. He was visibly less pleased when the entity announced itself as Unicron, the Anti-Life Return to Cybertron: Part 2, and utterly freaked when the planet itelf began attacking them as it was reshaped, with him having to save Overcast at one point. He was left distraught at the idea he'd made the situation worse, and immediately ended all hostilities with the Autobots as he decided they needed to communicate with Unicron and convince the hostile scary Anti-Life creature to work with them for the betterment of Cybertron.
Shockingly, Unicron wasn't interested and Stockade got zapped. Return to Cybertron: Part 3 Stockade futilely sent his troops in to shoot at Unicron instead and was upset to see Divebomb buy it. However, at that point Optimus Prime turned up and convinced Stockade to help him stop the monster. Contributing the Decepticons to this effort, Stockade led the Autobots into the planet's depths and kicked off shooting around the innards to distract Unicron.
After the battle, he gave over the Nucleon to save Earth, not wanting two worlds to die because of him. Optimus offered him a place on Earth, but he said he was not yet ready to leave Cybertron; the offer remained open-ended. Return to Cybertron: Part 4
When the Autobots were facing being evicted from Earth by a Decepticon-controlled US President, Optimus entered into a deal with Stockade—a deal Optimus fully expected him to renege on. While the Autobots faked their deaths, Stockade and his Decepticons went to Earth to stand against Starscream's conquest of the United States. Determined to prevent the Transformers' war from destroying this world like it had Cybertron, Stockade gave Hardtop a chance to stand down... and, when it wasn't taken, shrugged off pointblank shots and led his troops in taking control of Hardtop's drones. Once that was done, he threatened to crush the guy's head with his bare hands, and so Hardtop very quickly defected.
Stockade took control of a third of Earth's drones, causing a Decepticon Civil War that undid Starscream's advance. Revolution Part 2 It wasn't long before the New Decepticons were marching into the Decepticon Heartland itself, with Stockade openly tempted to hold onto Earth after it was liberated. However, he'd done a little too well as Megatron had been raised from the dead to oppose him!
While the very sight of Megatron might have made him surrender before, the Nucleon-powered Stockade took the tyrant on one-on-one, raining down punch after punch while screaming defiance and sermons... only for Megatron to grab his punch and use the momentum to flip him, berating him for a lack of clear ambition. How the fight would've gone after is unknown, because the Autobots stepped in with their part of the plan—'tags' that would teleport Decepticons to Cybertron. To Stockade's horror, Strongarm tagged him, the Autobots having decided to get rid of him before he could break the deal himself.
He's now trapped on a dead Cybertron again, with no way out and no Nucleon left... Revolution Part 3
Toys
Transformers (2007)
- Stockade (Deluxe Class, 2008)
- Japanese ID number: MD-23
- Accessories: AllSpark cube (Takara release only)
- As part of the "AllSpark Power" portion of the movie line, Stockade transforms into a Sector Seven-outfitted Cadillac Escalade SUV. His main gimmick is not automorphing, but a gear-driven punch activated by pulling back on the luggage bar on either forearm.
- On some early samples, the windshield halves in front of both hands pop off easily. This is due partly to the unusually soft plastic, which does not grip at the joints very well. Another issue is the pin-hinged ankles, which only barely support the toy's weight. However, later versions don't display either of these problems.
- Like all Japanese "Allspark Power" toys, the Takara version of Stockade comes with a small AllSpark cube accessory that's not included with the Hasbro version. Stockade himself appears to be no different.
- Stockade was redecoed into Revenge of the Fallen Autobot Gears.
Notes
- Although Stockade bears Sector 7 markings, his altmode does not match the SUVs used by Sector 7 itself. Rather, he is a Cadillac Escalade like the one that came to life during the battle in Mission City. Due to his comic backstory presenting him as a Transformer who was born on Cybertron, it seems clear they are NOT the same robot.
- Obviously, he's slightly different in Titan to IDW and the bio. Er, chalk it up to alternate timelines...
