Ground Shaker

This article is about the Ultra Pretender from the Condor Verlag portion of Generation 1. For the Micromaster , see Groundshaker.

Groundshaker is an Autobot from the Generation 1 continuity family.

You can't see me!

_{This character has no official visual representation in any Transformers product or media... yet, at least.}

Groundshaker is an Autobot Ultra Pretender. Not much else about him is known.

Fiction

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When the Autobots in the Ark were contacted by future leader Rodimus Prime to inform them that Optimus Prime had been kidnapped, Groundshaker mobilised the Autobots to search for their missing leader.

Groundshaker and his comrades were ambushed by Decepticon Action Masters during their search, which scared Groundshaker quite a bit. He, along with the other Pretenders and the Micromaster Combiners, stormed the Decepticon base and rescued Prime. Transforming Robots in Action: The Case of Optimus Prime

Notes

• Groundshaker's only apperance is in the above text story. He is said to be an Ultra-Pretender. Is this Groundshaker the Micromaster having gained a Pretender shell (unlikely, Micromasters have never been individually named in the text stories), Skyhammer misnamed (though Skyhammer had appeared as 'Skyhammer' in previous stories), Groundbreaker (very unlikely since he was not on sale in Germany and the writer would not have been aware of him), or a new character? For the purposes of the wiki, and for the reasons given, he will be classed as a new character until Condor Verlag publish more Transformers fiction to clear up this conundrum!

• As an Ultra Pretender, Groundshaker would have had a (presumably) humanoid Pretender shell that could transform, and a larger vehicle shell that it would fit into. We don't know what he would have turned into, though one can expect that at least one of these vehicle modes would shake the ground. Given the Autobot's dislike of flight modes in this continuity, it is unlikely he would fly like his fellow Ultra Pretender Skyhammer.

• In issue 12, Groundshaker is mentioned as the Autobot Ultra Pretender, whilst Skyhammer is the Decepticon one! While this could be an error, Groundshaker is running about in issue 16 doing a lot of Autobot things, and we saw Skyhammer as an Autobot in issue 9. Did Skyhammer later defect due to the Autobot's disapproval of flying alternate-modes? Does this also mean that Groundshaker is a redeco of Roadblock?