Clench (G1)

The name or term "Clench" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Clench (disambiguation).

Clench is a Decepticon Obliterator from the Generation 1 and Generation 2 (as "Colossus") portions of the Generation 1 continuity family.

You were supposed to be this colossus! You were this great legendary thing!

Utterly devoted to destroying the Autobots, the Decepticon leader Clench is fueled by anger, hatred and malevolence. He wades into battle blasting, smashing and running over anything in his path with no mercy, then shooting anything else with heavy firepower.

So naturally, he's a registered driver in Texas.

Fiction

Marvel Comics continuity

Generation 2 UK

C'mon, at least shout your name and powers or something.

Clench was part of the Decepticon force led by Bludgeon, sent to Earth to smash stuff up and lure out Optimus Prime. Mostly, he just drove over some parked cars. War Without End

IDW comics continuity

Insert crappy "Let me give you a hand" joke here.

Long before the war, a group of ex-miners including Megatron, Frenzy, and Rumble took part in a violent uprising against leaders who had exploited them while pocketing the fruits of their labor. They found themselves on the lam in Kaon, which is where they apparently met Clench. Clench employed these same bitter ex-miners to work as gladiators in an underground bloodsport (in which he also occasionally partook), placing them at greater risk than they had ever known and conditioning them to give into their murderous impulses, all while hoarding the fruits of their labor for himself. Clearly, he had thought this through.

So Megatron eventually killed him during one of the fights and took over. Megatron Origin issue 2

Timelines: Generation 2: Redux

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Generation 2: Redux

Toys

Generation 1

MEGAWEAPON!

• Clench (Obliterator, 1993)
  • Accessories: 6 missiles

Clench transforms into the front half of a long-nosed truck cab of undetermined model. The back half of his vehicle form, the truck bed and container, turns into a large, double-barreled, missile-launching artillery platform that uses "gravity feed" to load a new pair of missiles for rapid firing. Pressing a button between the barrels pops up a spring-loaded targeting reticule. Both gimmicks are available in truck mode as well. In truck mode, the support strut for the artillery cannon becomes a rear-mounted, extending gripper-claw.

He was first released as part of the "transitional" period of Transformers in the European market, in Generation 1 style packaging, yet bearing the new Generation 2 Decepticon sigil.

Despite what his tiny fictional appearance and his boxart would suggest, Clench is actually a very dark blue-green in colour. With neat little sparkles! Yay. Sparkles.

• More information on Clench at TFU.info

Generation 2

• Colossus (Obliterator, 1994)
  • Accessories: 6 missiles

Clench was re-released in Europe without changes in Generation 2 proper under the name "Colossus."

Timelines

His name is "Clench" because that's what your fist is doing right now around your-- oh, hey, kids!

• Generation 2: Redux (BotCon 2010 box set)
  • Accessories: Shield

A retool of of Universe Ultra-class Onslaught, Clench transforms into a six-wheeled SWAT assault truck with positionable mine-scoops and a rotating double-barreled turret on top. His right arm has a spring-loaded flip-out (non-firing) blaster cannon that can actually be deployed in vehicle mode as well. his blast shield can be mounted on his left arm, and placed on his turret in vehicle mode. It is unknown if the toy comes with Onslaught's electronics.

Clench is part of the BotCon 2010 boxed set, alongside Breakdown, Spark, Streetwise and Sky-Byte.

The original version of this toy was redecoed into Hardhead.

Trivia

• No, really, his toy's license plate says "Texas." It's also clearly some kind of European plate, so apparently this is the Texas in Europe.

THIS TOY REVEAL MAKES US SO ANGRY!!! BOTCON IS RUINED FOREVER!!!

• Speaking of Clench's stickers, those on his truck hood are oddly involved by Transformers standards: jagged lightning bolts that at their center feature a gunsight-target view of a red wolf in crosshairs. Exactly what this is supposed to symbolize is unclear.

• His Function is "Leader." This supposedly means he's the main baddie of 1993's line, though Hasbro Europe was pretty liberal with the "Leader" label during that time. But most of the other "Leaders" were members of multi-bot groups, and since Clench is a Decepticon sub-group of one, then it follows he's likely the head honcho of them all.

• After some crafty fans found images of BotCon 2010 Streetwise in BotCon.com's directory structure, a (fake) photoshopped image of Universe Tankor was found also soon thereafter, and reported as real news by Seibertron.com. About half an hour later, the BotCon 2010 site went live, revealing Clench's true mold. Oh, those Fun Publications guys, such pranksters.