Garnak

Garnak is an alien from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Garnak is a big dumb lug, only good for taking orders yet just barely qualified to be a janitor. Still, he's friendly enough, especially if you're willing to rescue him from being shipwrecked.

Fiction

IDW comics continuity

Garnak and his boss Codder were both from a "collective", from which they were sold to an Ilxian ship where Garnak worked as a custodian. At some point, the ship crashed on planet LV-118, killing everyone on board other than him, Codder, and an Ilxian scientist. The Ilxian developed quite an ego, calling himself "Admiral" and ordering Garnak and Codder around during his attempts to repair the ship, but since he was earnestly trying to get them off the planet, the two listened to him.

After being stuck on the planet for a long time, Garnak and Codder discovered the Autobot Rodimus when he too crashed in the vicinity, and found him similar to the weird "Jangle Man" who lived on LV-118. Though Garnak wanted to show him to the Jangle Man, Codder thought it better to take him to the Admiral. The Admiral tried to use Rodimus's Matrix to power the ship, but he resisted and fled, prompting Garnak and Codder to try to recapture him. Garnak followed him to the Jangle Man's wrecked ship, where he was knocked out by the Jangle Man himself and interrogated by Rodimus. After telling Rodimus about how he got there and what he knew about Wheelie, Garnak agreed to be a part of his plan to steal the Admiral's ship. Returning to the Admiral with Rodimus, Garnak tricked him and Codder into coming outside, where Wheelie called on a Chaosteros to attack them. While his old companions were fighting off the beast, Garnak boarded their ship with the two Autobots and left the planet. Space Opera Part 1: The Stars My Destination

Wheelie steered the ship to Cybertron, where after greeting a newly awoken and confused Rodimus, Garnak noted that the Matrix had stopped powering their ship. When the ship was then suddenly broken into, Rodimus sent him to get weapons, and he soon returned and attacked the intruder... who turned out to be Ironhide, another Autobot. They were then attacked by Galvatron's Sweeps and forced to go back into space, now with some additional crew members. Space Opera Act 2: Out of the Silent Planet

The crew's next destination was Earth, where the Autobots reunited with Optimus Prime's troops. Garnak was seen sheepishly greeting two tiny humans, Spike Witwicky and Joe Henderson, and presumably continued to follow Rodimus when he and the other Autobots returned to Cybertron to defeat Galvatron. Space Opera—Final Tableaux: Orphans of the Helix