Salvage (Movie)

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

Salvage is an Autobot from the 2007 movie franchise in the live-action film continuity family.

Livin' the dream!

A creation of the All Spark, Salvage previously worked as a truck with Sparkplug & Son Salvage, and even though he was just an inanimate truck, he's certain he must have been happy. Lacking any further ambitions, he's decided to stay with them, and so long as he's hauling scrap, he remains happy with his life. It sure beats fighting Decepticons!

Fiction

IDW Transformers movie comics

IDW is the only continuity thus far in which he's an All Spark creation and not a pre-existing Autobot.

Following the destruction of Megatron and the All Spark in Mission City, Sector Seven took custody of the inactive Salvage and Longarm during cleanup operations. Alliance issue 1 They were taken to a secret base in the Nevada desert. The Reign of Starscream #3

The Veiled Threat prequel novel

The events of The Veiled Threat take place during IDW Publishing's Alliance comic.

Salvage was one of the Autobots who arrived on Earth shortly after the death of Megatron. After several battles against the Decepticons in Africa, Salvage, Optimus Prime, and Ironhide headed to Australia to investigate some Decepticon rampages, while the others headed to Brazil. Prime fought Kickback while Salvage and the others killed Tread and Trample. Salvage later fought the Decepticons in Rome with the rest of the Autobots. The Veiled Threat

Salvage's whereabouts during the events of Revenge of the Fallen are unknown.

Titan MagazinesTransformers movie comics

The following events occur in a splinter timeline where Megatron won the battle of Mission City.

What kind of pose is that?

Salvage works in Camshaft's specialist team, handling duties like capping raw energon gushers before they explode. He was optimistic that the four of them could handle anything. Then a gusher exploded. Return to Cybertron: Part 1

His team played a key role in saving Mikaela Banes, rapidly assembling a jammer array to free her from Decepticon mind-control. The Decepticon Who Haunted Himself

Power Core Combiners packaging bio

Since the AllSpark brought him to life from an inanimate truck, Salvage has come a long way. Not only is he now a more modern form of truck, but he's also become compatible with Power Core Combiner technology! Despite this new-found power, he'd still rather shirk his wartime duties and just hang out all day at the junkyard. Power Core Combiners

Toys

Transformers (2007)

He's comin', 'Lizbeth! This is the big one!

• Salvage (Deluxe, 2008)
  • Accessories: Flatbed cover/claw

Salvage is a redeco of Dropkick, transforming into a customized Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck (or a similar model just different enough to avoid paying a licensing fee). His flatbed cover conceals a giant claw/plier deployed from the tailgate by a sliding knob on top. This assembly becomes a hand-held weapon for his robot mode. He also has (non-firing) twin blasters on the underside of each forearm in robot mode.

His deco and the "Sparkplug & Son Salvage" markings may be a double homage, definitely to the red truck from Sanford and Son and possibly to the red pickup Sparkplug Witwicky owned in the Marvel Generation 1 comics.

This mold was also used to make Revenge of the Fallen Blowpipe.

• More information on Salvage at TFU.info

Power Core Combiners

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• Salvage with Bomb-Burst (Commander 2-pack, 2011)

Part of the fifth wave of Power Core Commander 2-Packs, Salvage is a redeco of Mudslinger, a Scout-sized monster truck of indeterminate model. He also has a "power-up" mode where he becomes the torso of a super robot, capable of using any auto-transforming Power Core Combiner drone-machines for limbs. This time the mold is paired with Bomb-Burst.

Notes

• Salvage's original toy's color scheme and those words "Sparkplug and Son Salvage" printed on his vehicle mode are in fact inspired by the pickup truck from the television show Sanford and Son, according to Hasbro at BotCon 2008.
• Salvage very much resembles the Autobot drone in Transformers: The Game.
• Salvage's Power Core Combiners bio, which solidly connects him to the 2007 live-action film Salvage, was revealed just one day after a Hasbro Q&A response established that Power Core Combiners are not strictly live-action movie characters. Whoops.
• Power core combiners Salvage is clearly an homage to G1 Uk comics Mudslinger