Decepticon Miner
- Decepticon Miners are servant-class Decepticons from the Transformers: Prime portion of the Aligned continuity family.
Decepticon Miners are servant-class Decepticons, working on Megatron's various mining projects. As they are not warrior-class, the Autobots do not kill them indiscriminately like they do Vehicons. Despite this, Miners possess the same weapons as Vehicons and are capable of defending themselves and their work if necessary.
Fiction
Prime cartoon
- Voice actors: Kevin Michael Richardson (English)
In the three years Megatron was wandering around space, the Decepticon Miners were constantly at work mining energon on Earth. After Megatron used Dark Energon to raise Cliffjumper, the zombified Autobot trashed a couple of Miners. The Autobots detected Cliffjumper's life signal and invaded the mine, encountering heavy resistance from the Miners as they did so. Though some of the Miners even used drills as offensive weapons, the Autobots destroyed pretty much all of them in their search and the mine was destroyed by Starscream. Darkness Rising, Part 2
 Plot details for Stronger, Faster follow. |
A Decepticon Miner was working on a large drilling machine to help harvest energon on Earth, along with some Vehicons. However, a Synthetic Energon-enhanced Ratchet led an unexpected assault on the group, to which the Decepticon Miner responded by climbing up a cliff in front of his machine. Ratchet easily followed and incapacitated him with a large boulder, then proceeded to interrogate the miner. Despite trying to act tough with his "foul mouth", Ratchet simply used his blowtorch to torment the answers out of him. It worked. His cries for help, caused by Ratchet's aggressive act of burning the right side of his face, brought the attention of the other Autobots to his location and he was saved by Optimus Prime, whose proclamation of Ratchet going too far stopped the latter from impaling the poor miner with his blade. Stronger, Faster
Notes
- Decepticon Miners have a similar appearance to the Vehicons, but are a light shade of purple, have different kibble, and have dual optical bands on their faces, unlike the Vehicons' single triangular ones.
