Gears (G1)
| This article is about the Generation 1 Autobot Gears. For the seasoning, grated gears, see Grated Gears. |
Gears is an Autobot from Generation 1 continuity.
Gears hates Earth, a lush, green planet practically as unlike his cozy, gray, metallic homeworld as possible. He grumbles and complains about being shipwrecked on it -- complains and grumbles to a ridiculous extent, until he becomes a source of amusement, rather than negativity. This is usually his intent -- unlike his fellow Minibot Huffer, Gears has a desire to help his fellow Autobots see good in a bad situation. Still, he does get depressed from time to time.
Gears is strong and tough, not so much in lifting but in endurance, and carrying heavy loads with little effort, be they energon cubes, disabled Autobots, or potatoes for the farmers' market. He is fitted with infrared vision sensors.
In robot mode, Gears can release controlled bursts of compressed air from his feet, launching himself to altitudes over 100,000 feet, and floating back down. In doing so, he must be careful not to lose air pressure before coming close enough to the ground for a safe landing.
Fiction
Generation 1 Cartoon
Marvel Generation 1 Comics
Gears' most prominent appearance in the Marvel Comic book is when he teamed up with Spider-Man, and used his ability to launch himself upward using compressed air and fly alongside the superhero to attempt to reach the Decepticon fortress, which was atop a mountain. When Gears ran low on power, he began to fall before Spidey caught him in webbing. Although Spider-Man's webbing is extremely strong, the Autobot's weight threatened to break it, and Gears completed the ascent using the webbing for assistance to climb the rest of the way. Later, Megatron caused Gears (and human Sparkplug Witwicky) to fall through a hole in the fortress. Although Spidey was able to rescue Sparkplug, and attempted to catch Gears as he had done before, the added momentum of the fall proved too much strain on the webbing, and Gears crashed to the ground. Gears was patched up again that same issue, enough to tell the Autobots that Megatron had gotten what he wanted (a fuel conversion process) from Sparkplug. Gears did not seem to be present for the accusations that followed.
Marvel Generation 2 Comics
Dreamwave Comics
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