Caliburn (Universe)

This article is about the Universe Micromaster. For the Generation 1 Targetmaster gun, see Caliburst (G1).

Caliburn is a Decepticon Micromaster and Mini-Con from the Universe war.

Micro-menial at your service!

Caliburn hails from an alternate Cybertron, one where the Autobots are all but extinct. He is a personal attendant of Megazarak, gleefully tagging along, picking off anything that survives Megazarak's onslaught.

He peppers his acts of destruction and cruelty with quips and gallows humor; he enjoys twisting the knife before delivering the killing blow. He relishes the death and destruction, and follows Megazarak's commands happily. Megazarak tolerates Caliburn's gab since the tiny terror's "lightning blaster" mode has incredible power, unleashing blasts of 60-kilovolt bursts of electricity.

Fiction

Universe Comic (OTFCC 2004 Program)

Now you gonna die!

Caliburn accompanied Megazarak deep into the heart of Cybertron, in search of the Matrix, which had been hidden by the last Matrix-bearer. Megazarak sought the Oracle, which he believed would tell him where the Matrix was hidden. Caliburn used his lightning blaster mode to dissipate the null-shield that was the final barrier to the Oracle's chamber, tended by Ultra Trion. Shell Game

Animated cartoon

Events from IDW Publishing or Fun Publications books are in italics.

Thunderblast interviewed Caliburn and Beta Maxx for the readers of Venus, a trans-dimensional magazine for Decepti-femmes. Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac

Toys

Universe

Hi, I'm a Micromaster. Pay no attention to my Mini-Con faction symbol!

• Megazarak w/ Caliburn (Ultra, 2004)

Caliburn is a redeco of the Armada Mini-Con Leader-1, transforming into a moon buggy with twin overhead blasters. Aside from his standard armored buggy mode, he has multiple "gun" configurations that allow him to be mounted on Powerlinx plugs or held in the hands of most Unicron Trilogy toys. He was available only with Megazarak, one of the exclusive toys from OTFCC 2004.

This mold is also used by Armada Clench, and is the basis for the similar new mold Cybertron Mini-Con Drill Bit.

• More information on the Caliburn at TFU.info

Notes

• Caliburn went through many fictional changes before the final version was released. He was originally going to be a Nebulan Targetmaster contortionist, and had among his pre-production names "Vanquish" and "Destructicon".

• The word "Caliburn" is an ancient name for the legendary sword Excalibur. Whether this relates to his character at all is unknown.

• Caliburn is both a Micromaster and a Mini-Con; he is explicitly stated to be a Micromaster in the Universe comic in which he appears, and The AllSpark Almanac later dubs him a Mini-Con.