Insecticon (G1)
The Insecticons are a Decepticon subgroup in the Generation 1 continuity.
The Insecticons are an individualistic, greedy, arrogant group of troublemakers that have an on again/off again affiliation with the Decepticons. The Insecticons also display a wide array of unique abilities including eating organic matter for energy, creating countless clones of themselves, weather control, and cerebro-shells.
Fiction
Animated continuity
The three Insecticons (Shrapnel, Kickback, and Bombshell) escaped from the Decepticon warship as it crashed after shooting down the Ark. Landing in a swamp, the three gained alternate modes based on local insects, and may have gained their strange abilities from a few millenia of independant evolution on a strange world.
Eventually reunited with their Decepticon comrades, the three warriors put their powers on full display, as well as their willingness to "eat and run". The Insecticons would frequently become a part of one scheme or another, and then would betray/be betrayed by Megatron resulting in fighting between the two factions.
After the Battle of Autobot City, the three Insecticons find themselves battered and broken, and on the wrong end of the "weight" jettisoned from Astrotrain. All three are reformatted by Unicron into new bodies with some debate over who became who. However, the Insecticons were often seen in the Decepticon army throughout 2006.
Marvel comics continuity
Dreamwave comics continuity
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