Pharma (G1)
- Pharma is an Autobot from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Pharma is the chief medical officer at Delphi, an Autobot infirmary located on the planet Messatine. Despite being a haughty control freak, he is acknowledged as an excellent doctor. He hates Decepticons with a passion, but seems to be willing to take self-preservation a bit farther than any good Autobot would.
Fiction
IDW Generation 1 comics
 Spoiler warning: Plot details for How Ratchet Got His Hands Back follow. |
Pharma was forced to make a deal with the Decepticon Justice Division to kill patients in order to give their transformation cogs to the Division's transformation obsessed leader in return for Delphi's safety. How Ratchet Got His Hands Back
Pharma once performed a 4-way fuel pump transplant while being one of the donors himself. Life After the Big Bang
Pharma caught First Aid reading Wreckers: Declassified instead of working. He ordered him to check on Roulette. Bullets
As the quota for T-cog kept increasing, Pharma decided to escape the deal by forcing high command to close the facility without getting suspicion on himself. He developed the Red Rust virus, paid the two Genericons, Sonic and Boom, to infiltrate Delphi and spread the virus. How Ratchet Got His Hands Back
When Sonic and Boom showed up at Delphi begging for shelter, pretending to be monoformer, Pharma scanned them and ensured the others that Genericons have no transformation cogs. He was working in the quarantine room when Genericons spreaded the virus, and the room automatically sealed itself by the exoplosion with him still inside, never to open again until the pathogens were gone.
But his plan didn't go well: Ratchet, Drift, and Pipes came to investigate Delphi, receiving a message from First Aid and freed Pharma from the room. To avoid exposing them his plan, Pharma quickly went to release the Genericons to kill everyone. Life After the Big Bang This might have been the end for the others, but the Genericons were destroyed by an angry Fortress Maximus.
Pharma tried to turn the blame on Ambulon, but Ratchet and First Aid quickly worked out the truth: Pharma had freed the Cons and set off the Red Rust virus outbreak to escape a deal he had made with the Decepticon Justice Division. He then paid the two Genericons, Sonic and Boom, to get captured and claim to be Monoformers. Once locked up together, they had transformed into their joint audio equipment alternate form and created a sound that was the source of the disease, and would corrode those who heard it starting the first time they transformed.
Detected his corruption, Pharma shoot life support machine and ran through CR chamber. Ratchet pursued Pharma and fighted for the cure on the roof of facility. Clung onto the edge, Pharma tried to shoot Ratchet, but Drift suddenly came and sliced Pharma's hands off, sending him fall dawn.
Ratchet found use for the two remaining fragments of the traitorous doctor: replacing his own worn-out hands. How Ratchet Got His Hands Back
Notes
- He turns into a jet. [1]
