Deathbringer (Marvel)
- The Deathbringer is a mechanoid lifeform in the Generation 1 continuity family.
A Deathbringer is a Series Two sentient mechanoid designed to visit planets wracked by plague and terminate the dying painlessly (if they so choose to die then, of course).
Just who made the Deathbringers is unknown, but they maybe should have chosen a nicer-sounding name for them.
Fiction
Marvel Comics continuity
(Note: Events from the UK comics are in italics.) UK #235-6
Siren read a ancient Cybertronain legend about the "Deathbringer", which eerily prophecied the Deathbringer's encounter with the Matrix and subsequent rampage.
A dying Deathbringer mechanoid came into contact with the Matrix, which had been accidentally ejected into deep space along with Optimus Prime's body. (It is later revealed that the Deathbringer encountered the Matrix on the planet Vs'qz, where Optimus' body had landed.) The Matrix, curious for fresh experiences, re-created it. But in the process, its programming became warped, and where once it offered death as a respite, now it spread death indiscriminately...
The re-created Deathbringer found its way to Earth, where it rained destruction down upon a human city. Optimus Prime waffled about whether or not they could destroy their only clue to the location of the Matrix, eventually throwing a rock at it. (It was a big rock!)
Nightbeat, meanwhile, correctly identified the Deathbringer's origins, and convinced the Deathbringer that, since the Matrix's power was eating away at it, it should destroy itself.
Nightbeat: 2
Matrix-empowered bad guys: 0
IDW Comics continuity
Deathbringer commanded the Reapers, a group of robot "bogeymen" who seek to end all war in the Universe by eliminating everything worth warring over. Deathbringer extended an invitation to Sixshot to join their group, though Sixshot declined as he could not sever all sentimental attachments to the Decepticons. Deathbringer took the rejection in stride, declaring that Sixshot would cross paths with the Reapers again some day, and perhaps then, he would be ready to join. Spotlight: Sixshot
Trivia
- The events of the Marvel story are shown only in flashback in the US comic. Ratchet's presence places it shortly before Megatron's return in US#56.
