Pharma (G1)
- Pharma is an Autobot from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Pharma is the chief medical officer at Delphi, an Autobot infirmary located on the planet Messatine. Despite being a haughty control freak, he is acknowledged as an excellent doctor. He hates Decepticons with a passion, but seems to be willing to take self-preservation a bit farther than any good Autobot would.
Fiction
IDW Generation 1 continuity
With Delphi serving as an obvious target, given its location within the territory of the Decepticon Justice Division, Pharma was forced to make a deal with the division, providing their transformation-obsessed leader with transformation cogs in exchange for the facility's safety. The arrangement worked for a time, as Pharma harvested cogs from parients that could not be saved, How Ratchet Got His Hands Back and business proceeded as usual at Delphi: though for Pharma, "as usual" included such incredible feats as performing a four-way fuel pump transplant while being one of the donors himself. Life After the Big Bang
On the night after the Surge, Pharma caught First Aid reading Wreckers: Declassified instead of working, and ordered him to check on Roulette. Bullets
Over time, the DJD's demand for transformation cogs began increasing, and Pharma found himself first euthanizing struggling patients, and then outright murdering others in order to meet his quota. Knowing he couldn't simply run away without facing repercussions, either from Autobot High Command or the DJD, Pharma saw the closure of Delphi as his only way out of the deal, and so developed a plague triggered by transformation that he could anonymously unleash to bring Delphi to its knees. Pharma hired Genericons Sonic and Boom to infiltrate Delphi and spread the plague; when they arrived, claiming to be seeking asylum, Pharma deliberately misidentified them as Monoformers in order to both lower his fellow Autobots' vigilance against them, and to ensure that there would be no issues with placing them in a cell together. Once ensconced in the same cell, the pair detonated a "soundbomb" laced with Pharma's virus, infecting all who heard it; Pharma had intended to protect himself by entering a CR chamber, but finding that they were all occupied, he was forced to take refuge in Delphi's quarantine chamber, which sealed shut automatically, locking him in. Thinking he could break out once everyone had died, Pharma soon had other problems to deal with: Ratchet, Drift, and Pipes arrived to investigate Delphi five days later, having received a message from First Aid, and freed Pharma from the room. Life After the Big Bang To avoid being found out, Pharma quickly freed Sonic and Boom and ordered them to kill everyone, only for the two Decepticons to be destroyed by an angry Fortress Maximus. Pharma tried to turn the blame on Ambulon, but Ratchet and First Aid quickly worked out the truth. His corruption detected, Pharma shot out a life support machine and escaped though a secret tunnel in a CR chamber in the ensuing chaos, but Ratchet pursued Pharma, and was able to infect him with the virus, prompting him to produce the vaccine he had developed. The two combatants' battle carried them to the building's roof, where Pharma wound up toppling over the edge, clinging on for dear life, unable to use his jet mode to fly to safety without activating the virus within him. Pharma attempted to shoot Ratchet in the back, but was foiled when Drift suddenly appeared and sliced Pharma's hands off, sending him falling to his presumed doom.
The Autobots did not look for Pharma's body; it remained unclear if he had fallen to his death, or risked transforming to grant himself a reprieve before the virus consumed him. Ratchet soon found a use for the two remaining fragments of the traitorous doctor: replacing his own worn-out hands. How Ratchet Got His Hands Back
Notes
- He turns into a jet. [1]
- He reminds me of Rodimus Prime
