Scrounge (G1)
- Scrounge is an Autobot in the Generation 1 continuity.
Scrounge is the most awesome character ever. He transforms into a wheel.
Reletively small, weak, and over-eager to prove himself to the other Autobots, he's a passable spy thanks to the fact that he has a special arm (There is no other like it) specially designed for surveilance, but with his eagerness to please and general excitability he has a habit of imaginning any little bit of info he stumbles across into a huge and vital revalation that will change the course of the war.
The Autobots have heard him cry turbofox a few too many times, and so treat any info he uncovers with a good helping of doubt. Even his partner Blaster tends to treat him as a useless, tag-a-long loser.
Fiction
Marvel Comics continuity
Now there is not even ONE like it!
When Scrounge actually turns up a lead on really important infomation no one pays attention and so he winds up captured, disarmed, and thrown into the Smelting Pool. Slaster belatedly comes to save his little buddy, whose tragically nothing but a melting torso by that point. Scrounge dies a heroic death getting the Autobots the info, making them realize they misjudged him, and leaving Blaster with a whole lot of angst, anger, and guilt to work through by killing as many Decepticons as he's able.
