Whip

Transformers sometimes use whips as melee weapons or as 'motivational tools'.

Fiction

Generation 1

• Cloudburst was packaged with a lightning whip, usable only by his Pretender shell and not by his inner robot.

Victory

• The electromagnetic nunchaku favored by the Breastforce could be used as whips.

Beast Wars

• Transmetal Cheetor is armed with a whip. In 2008, Cheetor was given a new toy in the universe line that was also armed with a whip.
• Transmetal Rattrap as well.
• Transmetal Packrat, being a repurposed version of a redecoed Tramsmetal Rattrap toy is also armed with a whip.
• Beast Wars Metals Ravage's Beast Wars toy, being a retool of Transmetal Cheetor, is armed with a whip too.
• Botcon exclusive Transmetal Tigatron is a redeco of Beast Wars Metals Ravage, so he is armed with a whip as well.
• Optimus Minor's beast mode tail becomes a whip similar in design to Rattrap's.
• Stinkbomb's beast mode tail becomes a head mounted whip-claw.
• Transmetal 2 Dinobot's beast mode tail, although never used in the show converts into a massive whip for his robot mode.
• Cataclysm's design is based on Transmetal Cheetor's body, so he is armed with a whip as well.
• Megatron's beast mode tail was initially designed to be a whip-claw weapon in robot mode.

Beast Wars II

• Lio Convoy's Universe 2008 toy is a retool and redeco of Cybertron Leobreaker. His Beast Wars II figure was never armed with a whip but this new mold gave him a handy melee weapon. Much needed since he lost all of his guns.

Beast Wars Neo

• Cohrada's tail becomes a whip in robot mode.
• Sling's beast mode tail also becomes a whip.

Beast Machines

Dinobots

• Rapticon, a redeco of Dinobot II, has the same tail whip.

Robots in Disguise

• Gas Skunk is a repaint of Stinkbomb and has the same whip-claw weapon on his head as the original mold.

Armada

Armada used several Beast Wars molds and added Minicon ports to them, which resulted in several characters being armed with whips.

• Predacon, being a retool of Beast Wars Transmetal Megatron is also armed with a whip/claw/arm cannon.
• Cheetor is still armed with a whip.

Cybertron

• Leobreaker's tail turns into a claw-whip in robot mode.

DreamMix TV World Fighters

• While not a Transformer himself, Simon Belmondo uses a special whip called the Vampire Killer to defeat his opponents, which happen to include Optimus Prime and Megatron.

Transformers Animated

• Optimus Prime can fire bola whips from his forearms to entangle his opponent's legs.
• On the show, Lockdown has been shown to use a lightning whip.

Revenge of the Fallen

• Jolt is armed with two Electro whips.