Duobot
- The Duobots are an Autobot subgroup from the Generation 1 continuity family.
The Duobots, Shock and Ore, look pretty indistinguishable.
Fiction
IDW Generation 1 comics
The Duobots were Prowl's agents aboard the Lost Light, charged with planting a tracer on the ship's engines. How to Say Goodbye and Mean It Ore went down into the engine room to carry out the task as the ship was taking off from Cybertron, which unfortunately led him to be standing too close to the ship's quantum generators when they activated. The resultant suspension of the local laws of space-time caused Ore to be fused with the engine, killing him and causing an explosion that crippled the ship. Hurled to some bleak corner of the galaxy, the Lost Light was able to put down on a small planet, where what was left of Ore's body was found by Brainstorm who remarked that, on the bright side, at least now they'd know which Duobot was which. Hangers On
Ore's body was brought inside and his passing was observed by Shock, who then set about removing all incriminating evidence of their connection to Prowl, deleting the communication from him and heading down to the engine room to recover the discarded tracer. Unfortunately for Shock, he was set upon and killed by a Sparkeater that had been hidden in the bowels of the ship. The Chaos of Warm Things
Notes
- The Duobots were presumably created as an Autobot counterpart to the Duocons, though with wheels on their legs and treads on their upper backs they don't appear to share that team's "air vehicle upper body combines with ground vehicle lower body" design scheme. Indeed, Shock's lament in "The Chaos of Warm Things" that he is now a "walking misnomer" might even suggest that instead of being two vehicles who form one robot, the Duobots are two robots who form one vehicle. And, in the artist's version of "authorial intent" Milne has confirmed on DeviantArt that he has designed a combined alt mode for the two, but is keeping it private for possible later publication.
- As a product of the mind of British writer James Roberts, the fun double-meaning of Shock and Ore's names may not be immediately apparent to American readers. Try saying them out loud in a British accent.
