Six Shot (Energon)
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- Six Shot is a Decepticon from the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.
Six Shot is the younger brother of Shockblast. But where his brother is a berserker, Six Shot is more of a shifty weasel who prefers to lie, connive, and back-stab rather than confront foes directly. Despite their differences, the two brothers appear to be loyal to each other. A mechanical engineer by trade, he is mainly out for himself, and enjoys causing chaos.
In his off time, Six Shot enjoys reading comic books about catgirls.
Fiction
Energon cartoon
- Voice actor: Terry Klassen (English), Nobutoshi Canna (Japanese), Daniel Bergfalk (Swedish)
Six Shot was incarcerated between the Unicron Battles and arrival of the Terrorcons for his continued attempts at prolonging the civil conflicts between the Autobots and Decepticons even after the two sides reached a truce. He happened to share a cell block with Megatron's flunkies who were captured after the destruction of Unicron. Eager for news on the outside, Six Shot asked Snow Cat about his brother, Shockblast, who had escaped months earlier. Snowcat told him that Shockblast was killed in battle fighting against Optimus Prime. (Whether Snow Cat deliberately misled Six Shot or just wasn't paying attention during the final battle was unclear.) Swearing eternal vengeance on Prime for his brother's death, Six Shot buddied up to Snow Cat when sounds of a jailbreak reached their cells. Ambition
Six Shot designed many weapons systems on Cybertron, including the large particle cannons that he and his brother Shockblast used so effectively. With leave from Starscream, Six Shot and Demolishor broke into the Autobot command center in order to take control of the energon towers. During a battle with the Autobots, Six Shot spotted Optimus Prime and planned to strike him down from a distance, but a falling tower blocked his aim and gave Prime time to unwittingly escape his attacker. Wishes
Six Shot tried to demonstrate his usefulness to Galvatron, and initially seemed successful in winning favor in the eyes of his new leader. Six Shot quickly learned, however, that Galvatron doesn't tolerate free-thinking and initiative among his troops, and suffered a beating for trying to act without Galvatron's express command. Despite this warning, Six Shot's desire for vengeance against Optimus Prime led him to intervene in a Decepticon attack on the Miranda II. Taking advantage of the planet's surface-to-air weapon systems, Six Shot shot the Autobot ship out of the sky, ruining Galvatron's plans to defeat Optimus Prime in single combat. Galvatron!
Six Shot was actually able to hack into the Autobots' training program and allow some of his Decepticon allies to insert themselves into the simulation, as well as grant himself a sort of "God Mode" over the program code and create a simulation of his own brother to fight alongside him. Distribution
After many attempts to destroy Optimus Prime in defiance of Galvatron's orders, Six Shot rebelled and tried to race Galvatron to the Super Energon chamber. Nearly destroying Galvatron, Scorponok intervened and fought Six Shot to a standstill, just long enough for a repowered Galvatron, now several stories tall, to emerge and stomp Six Shot to bits for his treason. Before he died, Six Shot told Scorponok that he was finally free, but Scorponok felt that the price for his freedom was too high. Galvatron Terror
Toys
Energon
- Six Shot (Mega, 2005)
- Accessories: Missile
- Six Shot is a redeco of the Energon Shockblast toy, transforming into a Cybertronic laser-tank, as well as a satellite-cannon. His cannon-arm contains a spring-loaded missile launcher and an electronic sound gimmick (which refuses to shut up most of the time).
- Many specimens of this toy have the same problem: In satellite mode, a peg on one of his legs will not fit into the corresponding slot to hold the mode together. Also, his torso connects to his legs via a very small hinge, which is quite susceptible to breaking.
- This mold was also used as the basis for the non-toy pre-beast version of Cryotek as seen in "Theft of the Golden Disk".
Notes
- Even though initially announced as "Six Shot", an early version of his bio card posted at Hasbro's official Transformers website listed his name as "Scattorshot" instead, previously a working name for Blight. The name was soon changed back to "Six Shot", however, and the toy was only ever sold under that name. The name "Scattorshot" was ultimately used on a character from the follow-up series, Cybertron.
- And speaking of the bio card: While it described Six Shot (or "Scattorshot") as a "cunning Decepticon warrior", the Tech Spec stats only gave him a "4" in "intelligence". This was just one of many examples with the poorly thought out Energon bios at that time. (Things got vastly better with Cybertron.)
- Despite his prominent role in the Japanese-made cartoon, Six Shot was not made available as part of the Japanese Super Link toyline.
- In the Hungarian dub of Energon, Six Shot is voiced by an old man (two, to be exact; one in his introduction episode, the other in the rest of the series), which kind of messes up his "younger brother" issue.
- Several times in the English dub, Six Shot is mistaken for his brother.
Foreign names
- Japanese: Six Shot (シックスショット Shikkusu Shotto)
- Arabic: Shock Shot (شوك شوت Shwk Shwt)
- Hungarian: Hatlövetű ("Sixshot")
- Russian: Revolver (Револьвер Revol'ver)
