Drench (G2)
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- Drench is an Autobot Color Changer from the Generation 2 portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Drench can drive very fast in vehicle mode, but his mind is quicker yet. He puts this flow of knowledge to work in the laboratory, staying up far past his recharging time on Kremzeek-fueled invention binges. At these times he is completely caught up in his research, like a youthful Perceptor, and from this research comes a steady stream of powerful tools for Autobot warfare, built by his own skilled manipulators.
To his army buddies, however, Drench is just a young bot who thrives on excitement, and a valuable companion in a firefight. They value him for his ironclad courage, but equally for his skill with the weapons he builds. Of these, his favorites are those which rely on high-pressure fluids.
Drench probably finds it irritating when fellow Transformers confuse him with Deluge.
Fiction
IDW comics continuity
Drench was killed by Nemesis Prime's death touch when the corrupted Prime attacked the Garrus-9 facility. Spotlight: Doubledealer
Toys
Generation 2
- Drench (Color Changer, 1993)
- Drench transforms into a Mazda 787B LeMans-style race car. In both vehicle and robot modes, he has a double-barreled water-cannon that uses a plastic bellows to store water. His hood/chest color changes from dark green to a milky-white with temperature changes, but faster in cold or warm water.
- There is a variation to Drench's water-cannon; one version has painted-gold gun-tips, while later releases have unpainted yellow tips and uses a larger bellows.
- Drench is almost identical to the European Aquaspeeder Deluge. The most immediately obvious difference is that Drench uses transparent-black plastics for his windows and visor, though the colors on the decals are different between the two versions as well.
- The non-toy Shattered Glass Drench shares this mold, but his red eyes have more in common with Deluge.
Notes
- Drench's car-mode color scheme was used in a proposed—but ultimately unreleased—Universe Battle in a Box set. The toy would have been a redeco of Armada Wheeljack. What the character originally would have been is unknown, but the design was used years later (with a few alterations) to create BotCon 2008's Shattered Glass Sideswipe.
- In the Wings of Honor story "Flames of Yesterday", the Decepticon Stormtrooper Drench defects to the Autobots and modifies his body and paintjob. This implies that he becomes this Drench, and that the two characters are the same in Wings of Honor continuity.
