Slapper (RID)

This article is about the Robots in Disguise Predacon toad. For the Dinobots-series Autobot dinosaur, see Slapper (Dinobots).

Slapper is a Predacon from the Robots in Disguise continuity family.

Gene Simmons, eat your heart out.

Slapper is a dim-witted thug, even by Predacon standards. He's just about smart enough to have a cruel sense of humor, enjoying the failures and injuries inflicted on his own teammates. Slapper manages to combine stealth and stupidity; his prowess in amphibious assaults makes it easy for him to sneak up on foes, but he's so gullible that once he gets there, he can just about be talked out of fighting.

Japanese name: Guushar

Hasbro pre-release name: Wartoad

Fiction

Animated continuity

Robots in Disguise

Voice actor: Peter Lurie (English), Ryō Naitō (Japanese)

I slapp'a you good!

Slapper came to Earth along with Megatron and the Predacons to plunder its energy and do typical nasty things that evil aliens are known for. He was teamed with Gas Skunk and Dark Scream, but the Beast Trio proved to be rather ineffective. Their commander, Sky-Byte, soon joined them on the battlefield, but they still proved ineffective. Megatron then gained the additional forces of the Decepticons, but Slapper and friends still proved ineffective.

I AM NOT OPTIMUS PRIME, BUT I DID STAY AT A HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS LAST NIGHT!

After the defeat of Galvatron, all the Decepticons and Predacons were rounded up and incarcerated in a dimensional prison (not unlike the Phantom Zone from the Superman films) and carted off to Cybertron by Fortress Maximus. Trapped in the same dimensional jail cell as his Predacon teammates, Slapper pondered the fate of Sky-Byte, who had not been taken into custody. They soon realized that Sky-Byte had been stranded on Earth, a fate they considered worse than imprisonment.

Toys

Robots in Disguise

• Guushar (Basic, 2000)
  • Japanese ID number: D-004
  • Accessories: Tongue-mace

A redeco of the Beast Wars Transmetal 2 Predacon Spittor, Slapper transforms into a monstrous techno-organic toad. His beast mode tongue acts as a hand-held flail weapon for robot mode. He also has a flip-up claw on his toad back.

• Dark Scream / Gas Skunk / Slapper (Mega 3-pack, 2001)
  • Accessories: Tongue-mace

For his Hasbro release, Slapper was only available in a Mega-level 3-pack with his fellow stooges, Dark Scream and Gas Skunk. There are no noteworthy differences between the Hasbro and Takara versions.

Trivia

Amusingly enough, his Robots in Disguise fate was more dignified than what he would have had as a Wrecker.

• Early plans for the Wreckers comics called for Guushar to join their ranks. However, these plans pre-dated the importing of Car Robots to the US, and when those plans were made known, 3H replaced Guushar with the original version of the toy mold, Spittor. This also mandated a hasty change to the coloration of the promotional group-shot. Traces of the original coloration can still be seen in the final version, such as Spittor's hands being a lighter blue than the rest of his arms.

• Slapper's tongue is 42 feet, 3 inches long. He measured it himself!.

External links

• Slapper at TFU.info
  
  
  From Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki, a Wikia wiki.