Ratchet (SG)

This article is about the evil Autobot "medic". For his heroic Autobot medic counterpart, see Ratchet (G1). For a list of other meanings, see Ratchet (disambiguation).

Ratchet is an evil Autobot "medic" from the "Shattered Glass" continuity family.

It brings on many changes, and you can take or leave it if you please.

To say Ratchet is the Autobots' medic would be a falsehood. Ratchet is where Optimus Prime sends the wounded from battle, but not for repairs. No, they are sent there for punishment. Any Autobot ordered there has to be dragged kicking and screaming.

It's not that Ratchet wants to terrorize his patients. In fact, he honestly believes that he's doing them a great favor! Who wouldn't want some rusty old equipment replacing their head? That would look so cool! And he really doesn't understand why they get so upset after seeing the end result of his loving care. But Ratchet shrugs off their cries of protest and confusion. They'll come around eventually.

You don’t like it? But almost everyone has two hands! Five digits? Pffff. How boring! You, now... you're interesting now!Ratchet is hurt that Rodimus doesn't appreciate his work, "Dungeons & Dinobots"

Fiction

Shattered Glass

Mirage, a down-and-out bank robber volunteered for one of Ratchet's "upgrades" so he could gain permanent partial transparency. That was likely the last time anyone paid attention to Mirage. Around Cybertron #7

After a harrowing Dinobot Hunt, Rodimus woke up on Ratchet's operating table, having lost a hand in a battle with Grimlock and the Decepticons. Rodimus, in a panic, immediately tried to leave, and objected to Ratchet's offer to add a second vocoder. It was then that Rodimus noticed that his hand had been not repaired, but replaced with a jagged sawblade. Ratchet was momentarily saddened by Rodimus's dissatisfaction with his "upgrade," but his grin of psychotic amusement returned quickly enough.

Blurr was morbidly fascinated with speculating on what was likely to happen to Wheeljack after Prime ordered that Ratchet should oversee Wheeljack's Earth-mode refit. Dungeons & Dinobots

When the Autobots found themselves beset by Blitzwing's new uncontrollable broadcasting powers overwhelming their emergency channel, Rodimus looked to Ratchet for a solution. The miserable medic perked right up at his abilities being needed, and said all it would take was a micro-laser.

When he came up with a sonic jackhammer instead, and, when that was pointed out to him, asked if anyone really needed their personalities, Rodimus dropped the idea. Ratchet was too busy being enthralled by "Zydrate Anatomy" to care overmuch. Blitzwing Bop

Ratchet helped Wheeljack set up a work area when the Autobots captured Sephie Beller, who'd augmented herself with Cybertronian tech. As Wheeljack prepared for a vivisection, Ratchet handed him medical tools. The operation was suspended by the arrival of the Decepticons, whom the Autobots were able to take captive. Ratchet and Brawn were soon kept busy restraining Swoop from attacking the prisoners. The arrival of R.J. Blackrock in a giant mech delayed any executions. During the ensuing fight, Ratchet knocked Sephie out of the air with his crane boom, and she blindly retaliated by blasting him in the head, causing bits of his helmet to go flying. On seeing their medic was wounded, the Autobots retreated back to the Ark. Transhuman

At some unspecified point in time, Ratchet and a team of Autobots somehow under the command of both Rodimus Prime and Optimus Prime fought Thundercracker and Ravage in the Transformers' greatest battle on Earth, "Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction." According to Ravage, anyway. Recordicons #3

Notes

• Ratchet's body is based on Energon Roadblock's, but in white and scrubs green and with a new head.