Knock Out (Prime)
| The name or term "Knockout" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Knockout (disambiguation). |
- Knock Out is a Decepticon from the Prime portion of the Aligned continuity family.
Knock Out is a smooth, arrogant Decepticon "medic" with a nasty, narcissistic streak. He considers himself adept at breaking things and fixing them, but professes more skill with the breaking. For complicated jobs, like rehabilitating half-dead Decepticon commanders, he requires the aid of his burly assistant, Breakdown. On the battlefield, he prefers to wine and dine his prey first, before striking cruelly with his Energon prod, which can disable even some of the biggest Transformers around.
Knock Off isn't all sadism. He has a true aesthete's love of fine automobiles, particularly large trucks. They remind him of his partner.
Fiction
Prime cartoon
- Voice actor: Daran Norris (English)
 Plot details for Deus ex Machina follow. |
Starscream called Knock Out and Breakdown to the Nemesis to help fix Megatron. As they were on an energon trail at the time, only Knock Out initially turned up at the ship, and he was shocked at Megatron's condition. When Breakdown did join them, it was with news that he'd discovered an Energon Harvester was on Earth. As the Autobots had already surrounded the museum the device was in, Knock Out and Breakdown organised a diversion at the front of the building. During the fight, Knock Out attacked Optimus Prime with his prod, but was flattened by Bulkhead after the Autobot was punched by Breakdown. The two Decepticons sped off into the city after they saw that Soundwave had captured the Harvester. Knock Out subsequently accompanied Starscream and Breakdown to an energon seam in Greece. He and Breakdown got the opportunity to fight Bulkhead again, but came off decidedly second-best, and they both fled after the Harvester was destroyed and the other Autobots turned up. Deus ex Machina
Notes
- Knock Out's license plate reads "JOFY 892".
- Starscream expresses contempt for Knock Out's automotive alt-mode, which is strange considering that most of his army has been cars up to this point. But some fans have interpreted his "you're one of those" line in conjunction with Knock Out's wolf-whistling appraisal of Optimus's truck mode and Darran Norris's somewhat campy performance to be clues that Knock Out is gay. Moreover, the term "knockout" is commonly used to describe an attractive woman, and the character's vanity suggests that that correlation is intentional. Make of all this what you will; very little robotic sexuality of any kind has been evident in Prime so far, outside of a lightly-implied connection between Cliffjumper and Arcee.
- Knock Out is the first (and so far only) Prime Decepticon to debut after the pilot miniseries and survive the experience. Breakdown might be considered to share that distinction, but technically he debuted before the cartoon, as he appeared both in the War for Cybertron video games and the Prime comic first.
