Saw

When a sword just doesn't provide the cutting power required for the task, Transformers may prefer using saws as their melee weapon(s) of choice. Saws offer great cutting power, cannot be blocked as easily as swords and are generally very intimidating. From time to time, saws may come in handy as a construction or medical tools, for gardening purposes, Cutting up tasty fish or as torture devices. Cereal Serial killers love these.

Fiction

Generation 1

• Hot Rod is armed with a circular saw is his left arm. This is the tool he used to free Kup from the Squid creature that was attacking him. It is also great for cutting up portions of fish.

Generation 2

• The Auto RollerRoadblock is armed with a circular saw.
• Hound is a redeco of Roadblock and is armed with the same circular saw.

Beast Wars

• Rhinox's 'Chain Guns of Doom' seem to have originally been conceived as a type of flail-circular saw weapon.
• Manterror's arms conceal Ion discs that can be fired. He is also known to use his weapons to pick apart his victims piece by piece.
• Scarem's scythes are joined to his arms with a circular saw on each limb, wether they are functional or not, they are pretty intimidating.
• Tarantulas' hand gun doubles as a circular saw.
• Dinobot's Cyber-slash weapon was once used to cut down wild bean vines.The Low Road

Beast Machines

• Tankor is armed with circular saws in both hands.
• Mol is armed with a buzzsaw shaped missile.

Beast Wars II

• Autocrasher is a redeco of Roadblock and is armed with the same circular saw. In addition, he has trained in Disksmastery
• Mantis, a Manterror Repaint (well, barely) is proficient a proficient Disksmaster.
• Hellscream's cyborg beast mode is armed with a saw blade for a nose.

Beast Wars Neo

• Sharp Edge's beast mode is a 'saw' shark!

Universe

• Overbite is a redeco of Hellscream and is armed with the same saw weapon.

Unicron Trilogy

Cybertron

• Landmine is armed with circular saws.
• Evac's helicopter mode propeller becomes a spinning blade saw thing.

2007 Movie

• In the final battle in Mission City, Ratchet uses what must have been conceived as a medical saw to amputate Brawl's arm.
• Blackout's helicopter mode tail becomes a saw weapon in robot mode. In the Movie game, the main vehicle rotor is used as a massive saw weapon to either knock enemies back (Plasystation 2 controller: L2 + Square) or slice them to bits (Playstation 2 controller: Square)
• Evac is a retool or the Blackout toy.

Animated

• Lockdown is known to use a chainsaw-type weapon in combat.
• Bulkhead's leader class toy is armed with a circular saw in his right hand.

Revenge of the Fallen

• Grindor is a repaint of Blackout and is armed with the same type of saw-propeller weapon.
• Whirl is a repaint of the 2007 Movie Evac and is armed with the same type of saw-propeller weapon.
• Blazemaster is armed with a propeller saw weapon than can be split to go on both arms at once.
• Sideways has a saw blade in his right hand.
• Evac is now a repaint of Blazemaster and has the same weapons.

Trivia

• Despite not being armed with a saw, it felt wrong not to have a link to Buzz Saw in this article.
• The Minicon Buzzsaw is not armed with a saw, only tiny buckets.