Squadron X

Squadron X is a team of Decepticons from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Out-fanwank this, Jim Sorenson. We dare you.

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:

• Macabre (probable leader)
• Tornado
• Fang
• Earthquake
• Triton
• Ferak
• Crosscut

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 just for the public. Last Stand of the Wreckers #4

In reality, the Autobots had signed a treaty with Pova that gave them no jurisdiction on the world, and to avoid a political incident Impactor was ordered to let the prisoners go. Rather than do this, he locked himself in cell with them and murdered them all while all the other Wreckers bar Springer did nothing. For this, Impactor was sent to Garrus-9 and condemned as "the Autobot who went too far". Last Stand of the Wreckers #5

Animated

During the Great War, Squadron X was defeated at Pova. It is unknown if the Wreckers were involved.Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac Volume 2

Notes

• In the Wreckers' comic series of origin, their opposing team was the Mayhem Attack Squad.
• Squadron X's roster is composed of many of the named minor Decepticon non-toy character from the original Marvel Comics run.
• 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.
• 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.