Squadron X
- Squadron X is a team of Decepticons from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
 Plot details for Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4 follow. |
For a time, Squadron X was the Decepticons' answer to the Wreckers. While the Wreckers used their unique sense of bravado and brutality to right wrongs, Squadron X left a wake of indiscriminate corpses. As such, the Wreckers' leader, Impactor, was obsessed with tracking them down and ending them.
Their roster included:
Fiction
IDW Generation 1 continuity
As the story goes...
The final showdown between Squadron X and the Wreckers occurred on Pova. Both sides were evenly matched, in both the skies and the trenches, until Springer was trapped under rubble. As Macabre, Tornado, and Earthquake advanced, Impactor surprised Squadron X by firing through Springer's torso at them. This desperate gambit worked, the tide was turned, and Squadron X was rounded up for transport.
Unfortunately, Squadron X broke free of their inhibitor harnesses. Impactor, realizing that their rivalry with Squadron X could never end with them in containment, ordered the Wreckers to take them out permanently. Squadron X ceased to be, subsequently.
But that's not the real story. Impactor did something terrible that day which caused him to eventually end up imprisoned on Garrus-9. Last Stand of the Wreckers #4
Notes
- In the Wreckers' comic series of origin, their opposing team was the Mayhem Attack Squad.
- Squadron X's roster is composed of some of the earliest named minor Decepticon non-toy character from the original Marvel Comics run.
- This is the fanwankiest subgroup that there ever was or ever will be.
- Go on. Prove us wrong. We'd like to see you try.
- Colorist Josh Burcham has admitted using the Obscure Transformers Website as a reference for the characters' color schemes... except for Crosscut, whose colors he made up since the character was never given a color scheme in his original Marvel appearance.
