Lightning Strike Coalition

The Lightning Strike Coalition is an Autobot subgroup originally from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Calling all jerks!

The Lightning Strike Coalition is a brutal sub-faction of the Autobots.

“	That's terrible.	”
—Cliffjumper, upon hearing the name of Grimlock's team in Fall of Cybertron

Fiction

Dreamwave Generation 1 comics continuity

The Lightning Strike Coalition includes:

• Grimlock (leader)
• Kup
• Ironhide
• Wheeljack
• Smokescreen
• Inferno
• Slag
• Sludge
• Snarl
• Swoop

Following Optimus Prime and Megatron's disappearances at the beginning of "The Dark Ages", the Autobots and Decepticons soon split into several sub-factions. The Lightning Strike Coalition (LSC), was formed out of Grimlock's old unit when Optimus received the title of Prime and the Matrix of Leadership.

The LSC acted as a commando unit striking Predacon and Decepticon sites and convoys. War Within: The Dark Ages When Ultra Magnus stepped in charge, the LSC members largely disbanded, but Grimlock put together a new fighting force known as the Dynobots with several ex-LSC members. This new unit followed a Decepticon group to Earth, sometime after the Ark's crash landing on that planet, but millions of years before the Earth-bound Transformers reactivated in early 1980s. War Within: The Age of Wrath

This tale would have been told in a story entitled "Rules of Extinction", inserted in Dreamwave's "Generation One 2004 Datatracks Annual", which was never released due to Dreamwave's collapse in the same year.

Aligned continuity family

The Lightning Strike Coalition includes:

• Grimlock (leader)
• Slug
• Sludge
• Snarl
• Swoop

Hulking members of the Lightning Strike Coalition jostled for sightseeing space with Minicons in the High Council Chamber during Orion Pax and Megatron's hearing. Exodus Grimlock rose to become leader during the war. After being captured by Shockwave, they were reformatted into the Dinobots. Transformers Hall of Fame