Stripes

Stripes is an Autobot Mini-Cassette from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Saved from the fires of "Category:Things that don't exist".

Stripes has trained the wildlife of Cybertron to aid him in battle. But even without an army of hellhounds, Stripes is feared by the Decepticons. He tears into the enemy with a ruthless ferocity, guided by his battle harness which is programmed to attack independently of him. More often than not, his foes will turn and run at the mere sight of him.

That's when he sends bolt-bats to dig out their eyes.

Toys

Encore

Probably a better name for a tiger than Tigatron.

• Twincast (2012)
  • ID number: 22
  • Accessories: Left & right cannons, cassette case

Transformers Encore "Cybertron Stripes" is an orange, silver, and black tiger-based redeco of Ravage, included with Encore Twincast and Nightstalker. He gets Steeljaw's weapons in gold chrome (rather than the orange color featured in promotional photos). As was the case with most of the other cassettes packed with Twincast's other releases, Stripes sports a different sticker in place of his cassette spool image; an image of Scorponok which reveals the city-bot's weak spots when viewed through Twincast's clear-red chest door (in the same way Tech Spec decoders work).

This toy was also used to make Howlback and Glit.

Notes

• Stripes originated in an early draft for The Transformers: The Movie, where he was released out of Blaster's chest to combat the Decepticon Mini-Cassettes during the Battle of Autobot City. Stripes would have snapped at Ratbat, scaring him. In the finished movie, Ramhorn replaced Stripes in battling Ratbat. Since he was written out of his only intended appearance before publication, we're pretty sure that makes him the single most obscure established character to ever be given a toy—and that's saying something when he's coming out alongside a one-shot prose-only UK character and a decapitated radio.
• His function is "Battle Beast."

Foreign names

• Japanese: Stripes (ストライプス Sutoraipusu)