Scavengers (G1)

The name or term "Scavenger" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Scavenger (disambiguation).

Imagine if you will, the cream of the Decepticon crop. The Scavengers are not those Decepticons — according to Tarn's analysis of Banzai-Tron's files, they are in fact the six worst Decepticons in history.

Still, they've survived when others like the Constructicons have all died. That's got to count for something.

The individual members of the team are:

• Krok, a leader who'll never find his squad
• Crankcase, who's missing a big chunk of his head
• Flywheels, who's found Primus and can't tell a lie without transforming
• Misfire, who got his name from an incident involving a "misunderstanding and a dozen dead Decepticons"
• Spinister, an idiot savant with an itchy trigger finger
• Fulcrum, a convicted coward

They travel the galaxy in the Weak Anthropic Principle.

Fiction

IDW comics continuity

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Krok was separated from his squad and gathered up the group to become his new squad. At some point, Crankcase joined after surviving a very disastrous attack and Spinister joined after leaving their homeworld.

After the Great War, the Scavengers were scavenging on the planet Clemency. Misfire was tasked in scavenging a Monstercon for its energon and circuit speeders which it had died from overdosing on. Later, they discovered a (they assumed) dead robot around a wasteland where a battle from the war took place. While they were scavenging the robot, Spinister found an explosive charge inside the dead bot and disabled it. To their surprise, the robot came to life and told them his name was Fulcrum. After a serious discussion on whether he was a zombie or not, the group decided to make him a member and Misfire introduced Fulcrum to the others. Later, they came across a P-6 Worldsweeper which housed some deformed protoforms, a ceiling covered with brain modules, and organic flesh that had been bled into the ship's fuel supply, polluting it. Krok was then contacted by the DJD through his communicube that one of them was being targeted and they were to hand over one of their seven party members for their own good. Confused since there were only six of them, the group found a stasis-locked Grimlock and assumed that the Dinobot was the one the DJD was looking for. Rules of Disengagement