Prowl (Energon)
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- Prowl is an Autobot from the Energon portion of the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.
Prowl is a rookie Autobot serving under Rodimus.
Prowl became one of the first Autobots (possibly only one of two) to join the new Autobot S.W.A.T. Team specially formed to take the fight for energon directly to the Decepticons. He also sometimes works with the Mini-Con Longarm.
Fiction
Toy pack-in comics
Prowl, with Inferno and Ironhide, built an energon tower.
Later, Prowl, Landmine, and Inferno surveyed a hill as a possible site for an energon tower. Landmine asked Optimus Prime for permission to construct the energon tower, but the Autobot leader denied the request, citing Decepticon activity in the area. Such "activity" soon involved the Autobots when a flock of Divebombs attacked them. Faced with insurmountable odds, Inferno was forced to Powerlinx with Prowl. Megatron soon joined the attack, but Powerlinx Inferno was able to shoot down the Decepticon leader. The Divebomb attack was revealed to be a distraction when Insecticons, having absorbed all of the energon underground, erupted from the ground. Unable to handle all of the Terrorcons, the three Autobots were forced to flee. Energon Volume 2
Energon cartoon
- Voice actor: Alistair Abell (English), Makoto Yasumura (Japanese), Christian Jernbro (Swedish), Luis Miguel Perez (Latin American)
Prowl was a young, inexperienced security officer on Rodimus' exploration ship. During their first encounter with the Autobots under Optimus Prime's command on Mars, he used an energon lasso to wrap energy beams around Ironhide's bullbar and fling the latter Autobot and Kicker into the air. He then powerlinked with his leader so that Rodimus could become his powerful Powerlinx Rodimus form, who quickly defeated Ironhide.
A close friend and pupil of Landmine, Prowl aided his Transformer allies during the Energon War and the Powerlinx Battles.
Energon comic
Prowl was first seen among the Autobots on Cybertron, ten years after the battle with Unicron. This Evil Reborn Later, when the Terrorcon invasion of Earth began, Prowl stepped up to command the Autobot detachment for Tokyo, Japan. He held the line against a horde of Cruellock drones until being saved by Megatron of all people. Multiplicity
Force of Habit
During the crisis caused by the Unicron Singularity, Prowl was operating onboard the Iron Hope. Under Ultra Magnus's command, the Iron Hope coordinated the various Autobot exploration ships looking for Cyber Planet Keys throughout the known universe. Force of Habit
Toys
Energon
- Prowl (Deluxe, 2004)
- Japanese ID number: SC-11
- Accessories: Missile launcher, missile
- The Energon version of Prowl combines elements from the various earlier versions of vehicle-mode Prowls; he transforms into a Cybertronic (Armada Prowl) police vehicle (durhey) styled after an F-1 racer (Machine Wars Prowl), plus he has kanji found on Japanese police cars (Robots in Disguise Prowl). He is armed with a transparent blue spring-loaded missile launcher that is mounted on the side of his vehicle for storage.
- As a Deluxe-class Autobot, he can also form the top or bottom half of a Powerlinx combination with any other compatible Energon Autobot.
- Prowl with Longarm & Starscream with Zapmaster (Multi-pack, 2004)
- Accessories: Disc, 2 hand-attachments, missile launcher, missile
- Available only at Sam's Club wholesale shopping club outlets, this version of Prowl is a redeco of the Armada Red Alert mold, transforming into a Nissan Patrol rescue SUV. When a Mini-Con is attached to his hood-mounted Mini-Con port, the fenders open. Pulling back on the attached Mini-Con launches a rescue disk/missile and activates electronic lights and sounds. Similarly, when a Mini-Con is used on his emergency lights port and is pushed forward, the sirens flash and a voice chip proclaims "RED-ALERT! WOO-WOO-WOO-WOO!" (in a higher pitch than the original toy's). In robot mode, pulling back on the Mini-Con unlocks a shoulder-mounted missile/rescue grappling claw launcher, which can also be detached and held in his hand. His right leg guard contains several tools that can be attached onto his left wrist socket, while his left leg guard can be unfolded to become a Mini-Con repair bay. He comes with the Mini-Con Longarm, as well as Starscream and Zapmaster.
- This mold was also used to make live-action movie Inferno.
- Autobot S.W.A.T. Team (Mega-class set, 2004)
- Accessories: Missile launcher, missile
- Part of a K-Mart exclusive set with Checkpoint, Prowl was redecoed into a black vehicle with white detailing, a kind of reversal of the more "traditional" Prowl colors, which makes his combination with Checkpoint look real nice.
Notes
- Prowl's instructions feature a head that is almost entirely different from the final sculpt, except for the tailpipes. It bears a striking resemblance to Armada Blurr. This same head design was shown in a magazine preview for the Japanese version of the Energon cartoon.
- Prowl was incorrectly labelled as a Decepticon on a promotional poster released in 2004 in conjunction with the UK premier of the Energon cartoon in London's Odeon cinema.
Foreign names
- Japanese: Red Alert (レッドアラート Reddo Arāto)
- Hungarian: Portyázó ("Prowl")
