Cheetor (Animated)
| The name or term "Cheetor" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Cheetor (disambiguation). |
- Cheetor is an Autobot from the Animated continuity family
There's nothing Cheetor loves more than chasing down Decepticons at incredibly high speeds. However, when caught up in the thrill of the chase, he tends to ignore his surroundings; street signs, traffic, and any unfortunate Autobot who gets in his way are bound to be ran right over! Because of this, the precinct tends to keep rotating Cheetor from partner to partner; no 'bots in their right minds would want this turbo-revving young punk on their backs!
He's presumably popular at Maccadam's Old Oil House, since the bar has a picture of him on its menu.
Fiction
Animated
Cheetor chased Ransack and Crumplezone at high speed through the streets of Cybertron for a "moving violation," knocking over cans of black paint on his car mode, terrorizing civilians, and trashing two blocks in the process. Once Cheetor caught up to the duo, they had just one question—"What did we do?"
After Cheetor took the perps back to the station, he was subsequently chewed out by his superior, Depth Charge, who informed the impulsive cop that he was being demoted and transferred from Transtech to Iacon Central. Moving Violations
Timelines
- Voice actor: Gregg Berger
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Toys
Animated
- Cheetor (Deluxe, 2011)
- Accessories: Telescoping grill energy saw
- A Transformers Collectors' Club-exclusive retool of Blurr, Cheetor transforms into a sleek, futuristic race car. A button on his hood deploys an energy saw weapon which can double as a shield or clip onto his back in robot mode. Due to his leg design, the very middle of Cheetor's rear wheels are the only parts that roll, while the sides do not. These parts stick out a hair, though, so his mobility in vehicle mode is unhindered.
- Cheetor (and Ramjet) went up for preorder on April 27, 2011. He was available for sale at BotCon 2011, and pre-orders started arriving in mailboxes in mid-June.
Notes
- Cheetor is a veritable hoop of homages! Obviously, he's based on Transtech Cheetor, who was going to be an upgraded version of the original Cheetor. However, after Transtech was scrapped by Hasbro, Fun Publications utilized those designs for an otherwise-unrelated TransTech storyline featuring a different Cheetor. In the meantime, Transtech Cheetor's design was an inspiration for Animated Blurr, who Animated Cheetor is a retool of. Finally, his colors are based on the Beast Machines version of Cheetor. Phew!
- Not unlike Chromia, Cheetor first materialized in multiple different, unrelated sources almost simultaneously, by sheer coincidence. In the last week of June 2010, Fun Publications announced at BotCon 2010 their intention to release a Cheetor figure that would be a repaint of Animated Blurr. Mere days later, The AllSpark Almanac II was released, containing an illustration of Cheetor that Bill Forster had created independently of Fun Publications' figure, which was also based on Blurr. As Forster's illustration was merely of Cheetor's head, it is basically a "repaint" of Blurr's own noggin so the connection would be recognizable, with two "ear" protrusions instead of Blurr's central fin, cheetah spots, and cat-like "face paint" based on KISS drummer Peter Criss's stage make-up. Fun Publications's version of Cheetor, on the other hand, received an entirely new head designed by Derrick J. Wyatt.
- According to Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II, Cheetor likes pie.
