Rad White

This article is about the human friend of the Autobots from Armada. For the Autobot Action Master from Generation 1, see Rad (G1).

Rad is a human character in the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.

...and I want to tell you about the Traaaaaaaaaaansformers!

Bradley "Rad" White is your typical kid who's the son of brilliant scientists. He likes to ride his bike, he likes to explore caves, he likes to grab excitedly at radioactive things-- wait, what?

Basically, Rad has a natural, insatiable curiosity about all things. Unfortunately, this curiosity goes unchecked when he's hanging out with his best friend Carlos, so it takes the watchful eye of the intelligent-but-much-more-reserved Alexis to keep them both out of trouble. His parents hope that some day Rad can channel this curiosity more productively.

Fiction

Animated continuity

Armada

Voice actor: Kirby Morrow (US), Masataka Nakai (Japan)

Rad once asked his parents to let him go into outer space with his giant alien robot friends. His dad gave him permission, presumably because he was fine with putting his only son's life in danger.

Energon

Voice actor: Kirby Morrow (US), Masataka Nakai (Japan)

By 2020, Rad had been shipped off to Cybertron and was working as an assistant to Dr Jones, presumably because he wouldn't shut up about the Transformers.

Associated characters

Their workplace is no Ruby Crystal Mines of Burma, but it'll do.

• In the Dreamwave comic, Rad's unnamed parents, Mr. and Mrs. White (Dr. and Dr.?), work at the Cosmoscope Research Center in Lincoln, Nebraska.
• In the animated series, they looked totally different.

Trivia

• Rad has the unfortunate penchant of saying '"Wicked Sweet!", usually when something impresses him greatly. It is quite possible that by 2010 this will be an acceptable form of slang.

• As stated in the first episode, Rad, Carlos, Alexis, Billy and Fred go to Lincoln Middle School. Exciting trivia!

From Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki, a Wikia wiki.