Devastator (G1)

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

Devastator is a Decepticon combiner from the Generation 1 continuity family.

He devastates things. Devastates them right in the mouth.

Devastator is an immensely powerful warrior, and in that sense the combination of the Constructicons into a merged being is a huge success. Mentally, on the other hand, he's very much less than the sum of his parts. Devastator's primitive psyche is limited to only the thoughts and actions on which all his components can agree, which results in raging bouts of destructive fury. Given the sheer power Devastator brings to these rages, Megatron has no complaints.

As an Action Master, he is partnered with Scorpulator.

Normally he is composed of the six robots...

• Scrapper (leader) — right leg
• Hook — upper body
• Bonecrusher — left arm
• Long Haul — lower body
• Mixmaster — left leg
• Scavenger — right arm

However, in at least one reality, he goes from being a six-robot combiner to a five-bot one, Hook and Mixmaster being replaced by Hightower. In another, Hook replaces Scrapper as the right leg, with Hook's original spot taken by Prowl.

“	Nothing defeats the Devastator, nothing!	”
—Devastator, "Heavy Metal War"

Fiction

Generation 1 cartoon continuity

The Transformers cartoon

Voice actor: Arthur Burghardt (English), Seizō Katō (Japanese), Guillermo Romano (Latin American), Mário Monjardim (Brazilian Portuguese), Bernd Simon (German, Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1), Holger Schwiers (German, The Burden Hardest to Bear), Werner Abrolat (German, The Movie TV Dub), Gerd Rigauer (German, Generation 2 Dub of The Core & The Master Builders), Klaus Kessler (German, Generation 2 Dub of Triple Takeover), Willy Schäfer (German, Generation 2 Dub of Starscreams Brigade)

The ability to merge into Devastator was given to the Constructicons by Megatron around nine million years ago, not long after he brainwashed them into his loyal servants using the Robo-Smasher. Their former friend Omega Supreme learned of this new ability first-hand when the Constructicons combined in order to hold Omega fast, so that the Robo-Smasher could be turned loose on his mind. Omega overpowered Devastator, however, and tore himself free of the Robo-Smasher, left not subservient to Megatron, but with a burning desire for vengeance against the Constructicons. The Secret of Omega Supreme

Millions of years later, in 1984, having joined Megatron on Earth, the Constructicons were charged with tunnelling under Autobot Headmasters in order to destroy Teletraan I. Confronted by the Dinobots and forced back outside the volcano base, the Constructicons realized they were no match for their new opponents, and combined into Devastator to fight back—the first of several battles between the giant and the Dinobots that wound rage throught the Transformers' time on Earth. The Dinobots fared poorly in their first meeting with Devastator, but before they fell, their fellow Autobots returned to lend them a hand. Hound distracted Devastator with a hologram of a giant Autobot, allowing Optimus Prime to blast him dead center, causing him to disengage into the separate Constructicons. Heavy Metal War

"Puny Autobot stole Devastator's sunglasses!"

Devastator was next called into action when the Decepticons were attempting to conquer and recreate New York City, his height and power being required to stop a group of Autobots scaling the Empire State Building, which had been seized by the Decepticons. With Optimus Prime playing Fay Wray to his King Kong, Devastator climbed to the top of the building, fighting off attacks by remote controlled drone helicopters courtesy of Wheeljack along the way. Once Devastator reached the peak, however, Optimus was able to gain remote control of his own dismembered gun-wielding arm, which had been mounted on top of the building as an artillery unit, and blasted Devastator off the building. Plummeting back to street-level, the combiner split apart on impact. City of Steel

After Megatron's Transfixatron scheme failed, Devastator was unleashed upon the Autobots, and began to mop the floor with them using finger lasers, optical tractor beams, and really heavy fists. The tide turned when Wheeljack and Cliffjumper used the Transfixatron against Devastator, successfully cancelling out the Constructicons' combined form. The Autobot Run

When Megatron attempted to tap the Earth's core to give the Decepticons a limitless supply of geothermal energy, Devastator defended the project from Autobot attack. To get around the giant combiner, Chip Chase and Wheeljack created dominator discs which forced the Constructicons, and thus Devastator, into serving the Autobots. Unfortunately, Megatron had anticipated this plan and built a device to override the dominator discs. When he turned Devastator against the Autobots, Wheeljack turned up the power on the dominator discs, which only served to fry Devastator's logic circuits and sent him berserk, damaging the controls for Megatron's drill just as it was about to pierce the Earth's core. Working together, both factions restored Devastator to Megatron's control and sent him into the ground to take out the drill before it could destroy the Earth. Devastator was surprised by Megatron's cowardly absence after he returned surface, but merely believed Megatron left to plan their next attack. The Core

Allying with Autobots Grapple and Hoist to construct a Solar Power Tower of Grapple's design that they could then steal for the Decepticons, the Constructicons formed Devastator to install the sun-harnessing sphere component on top of the tower. After the villains took control of the tower, the other Autobots arrived to stop their plan and were confronted by Devastator once again, but managed to fell him by tricking him into collapsing the tower right on top of himself. The Master Builders

Devastator got his first rematch with the Dinobots when the prehistoric anti-heroes attacked the Constructicons as they were unloading a supply of Cybertonium from the space bridge. Scavenger was caught off-guard by the Dinobots before he could join his team-mates in forming Devastator, and the one-armed giant was unable to prevent the Dinobots from transporting themselves to Cybertron. Devastator had pulled himself together by the time Spike and Carly arrived, hot on the Dinobots' trail, but Carly's superior driving skills allowed her to navigate around his stomping feet and make it into the bridge as well. Not one of Devastator's better days. Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1

Another rematch of a different kind was soon to come when the Constructicons crossed paths with Omega Supreme, but the Autobot titan's rage allowed him to quickly overcome Devastator, burying him beneath an avalanche. The Secret of Omega Supreme

After the Triple Changers temporarily disposed of Megatron and Starscream, the Constructicons threw in with Blitzwing as the new Decepticon leader, building a maze around his base of operations. Unsurprisingly, Blitzwing refused to uphold his part of the bargain and make the Constructicons his leadership partners, so the enraged team formed Devastator to improve their bargaining posture. Megatron soon returned and put Blitzwing and Astrotrain in their place, but Devastator did not fall in line so easily, and continued his attack against them all, forcing all the in-fighting Decepticons to team up to eventually take him down. Triple Takeover Betrayals remained the order of the day when Devastator next saw combat, called up by Megatron to deal with another plot by Starscream and his new troops, the Combaticons. Starscream had forseen Devastator's involvement, however, and had given his Combaticons the power to combine into Bruticus, who soundly defeated the Constructicons' combined form. Starscream's Brigade

Come on boy, fetch!

Devastator played a key role in the battle of Autobot City in the year 2005, smashing the artillery that lined the city and, after an all-night seige, successully breaching its walls with his prodigious strength. Before he could progress inside the city itself, though, his old foes the Dinobots arrived to halt his progress, dropping on him from an incoming shuttle. Devastator kicked Grimlock out of the air, slammed Sludge and hurled him aside, but was brought low by Slag, who pushed him through a wall. Even from this position, though, Devastator managed to take out Swoop immediately after, as he dodged an attack from the flying Dinobot and caused some rubble to collapse on him. The battle was brought to an end when Megatron was defeated and the Decepticons retreated from Earth aboard Astrotrain, arguing amongst themselves who would lead them now. Scrapper argued for the Constructicons, since they formed Devastator, "the most powerful robot", and the team proceeded to merge to prove their point, but were shaken apart mid-transformation by Rumble and Frenzy. The Transformers: The Movie

Following the battle with Unicron, the defeated Decepticons were exiled to the burnt-out world of Chaar, where they scraped by on diminishing amounst of energon. When Astrotrain returned from an energy run, the Constructicons fought over the few scraps of energon he brought back, but banded together to form Devastator to make sure Astrotrain couldn't take any for himself (though Bonecrusher lacked the energy to hold on to his teammates). Just as Devastator was about to tuck into his hard-won energon cube, Menasor hacked him apart with his sword and drove the Constructicons off. Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1

In 2006, the Constructicons formed Devastator when fighting the Autobots on an asteroid Galvatron was trying to turn into a mobile weapon, but he was flattened when a cunning Broadside transformed to aircraft carrier mode in mid-air and landed directly on top of him. The battle carried to the planet Eurythma, where Devastator was formed again, but he was quickly blasted apart into his component robots by a precise shot from Perceptor. Carnage in C-Minor Devastator got a little revenge on Broadside later in the year when he teamed up with Predaking to confront him in the seas of Japan, though the huge waves the Autobot kicked up when he fell under their laser fire forced the team to separate and withdraw. The Burden Hardest to Bear

Japanese cartoon continuity

Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers story pages

Devastator once faced his old nemesis Omega Supreme during the midst of another, larger battle on Cybertron. Story page # unknown At a presumably later date, Devastator clashed with Optimus Prime, Wheeljack, Ironhide and Trailbreaker in... space, or something? Well, Cybertron was in the background, so it was probably space. The battle was so great that Prime even needed to call in the extra firepower of his Combat Deck, which flew through space (or whatever) to join the fight. It was kind of a weird day. Story page #6

Later, Devastator and Menasor were making trouble for the Autobots, but were dealt with by the Autobots' newest combiner warrior, Defensor. The Protectobot gestalt took Devastator out by launching his right arm—Streetwise—at him, who transformed to robot mode mid-flight and shattered the Decepticon giant's chestplate with his mighty right hand. Devastator seemed suitably horrified. Story page #12 Not nearly as horrified, though, as anyone who gazed upon his and the other Decepticon combiners' deformed bodies when they later gathered for another major battle. Story page #16

Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers comic

In the late 1980s, in search of a location that could serve as a base for their new battle station Trypticon, Megatron brought the Constructicons to a utopian island to begin deforestation and construction. When Superion arrived to stop the Decepticons, the Constructicons merged into Devastator and announced that he and Trypticon would take on the Autobot combiner (overkill much?). Trypticon did not approve of sharing his prey, however, and he picked up Devastator and threw him into a nearby rockface, shattering him back into his individual components. Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #6

Scramble City cartoon

Voice actor: Seizō Katō (Japanese)

Discovering the location of the secret factory in which the Autobots were constructing their mobile fortress Scramble City, Megatron dispatched the Constructicons to destroy it. Confronted by a team of Autobots led by Optimus Prime, they formed Devastator, who quickly took the upper hand in the battle by hurling giant boulders and opening fire with his cannon. Observing Devastator's attack from within Scramble City, Ultra Magnus ordered the Aerialbots into the fray, and a speedy hail of laser fire from above courtesy of the airborne Autobots soon cut Devastator down to size and had the Constructicons retreated. Scramble City: Mobilization

The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers comic

In the year 2010, Devastator participated in a Decepticon attack on the planet Feminia, battling alongside Bruticus and Menasor against their Autobot counterparts Superion, Defensor and Omega Supreme. The fight was fairly evenly matched until Galvatron called up his ace-in-the-hole, Predaking, whose power was unmatched by any of the Autobots... except for the Omnibots, who essentially tied Predaking's shoelaces together until he fell over, straight into Devastator and his chums, sending them all toppling to the ground and knocking them to bits.The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers #5

The Headmasters cartoon

Voice actor: Seizō Katō (Japanese)

SHORYUKEN!

In 2011, Devastator was among the Decepticons who attacked Cybertron in an attempt to seize the planet by taking control of Vector Sigma. While Abominus had Superion engaged, Devastator tried to shoot the Autobot combiner in the back, but evil plan was foiled by Optimus Prime, who struck Devastator with a flying jump kick and knocked his blast off-course so that it hit Abominus instead. Four Warriors Come out of the Sky As the battle progressed, Devastator joined forces with Bruticus, Menasor and Abominus to drive back the Autobot combiner robots, but where then felled themselves by the power of Battleship Maximus. The Mystery of Planet Master

Later, during another major battle on Cybertron, this time over cybertonuron, Devastator was presented with another chance to shoot Superion in the back as he battled Abominus, but yet again shot Abominus instead as the pair broke their grapple at the last moment. Cybertron Is in Grave Danger, Part 2 This affair concluded with the destruction of Cybertron, so it was on Earth that Devastator next fought, battling Defensor as part of a Decepticon effort to hijack an Autobot energy shipment to the planet Sandra. SOS from Planet Sandra

Devastator disappeared from view following this; in truth, he and many other Decepticons had secretly withdrawn to the hidden, sub-oceanic continent of Lemuria, where Devastator oversaw the processing of crysmagnetal for Scorponok's Death Towers. Once the towers were deployed around the world, Devastator joined the entire Decepticon army in battling the Autobots at the North Pole, and fled into space alongside them upon their defeat. The Final Showdown on Earth (Part 2)

Super-God Masterforce manga

Years later, the image of Devastator was among a group of holograms of older Decepticons projected by King Poseidon to deceive and confuse the Autobots under Ginrai's command. Burn, Super Soul! The New Commander Super Ginrai!

Zone catalog

At some point after the year 2025, Devastator joined several other powerful Decepticons in an assault on planet Zone, led by the reborn Dark Emperor Deathsaurus. Attempting to steal their Energon Z, the Decepticons proved no match for the Micromasters and were driven away. Zone Project Story

Zone manga and story pages

Hot soup!

Devastator was among the Nine Great Demon Generals recruited by the Decepticons' newest Emperor of Destruction, Violen Jiger. Outfited with new armor and weaponry—incluing a large arm-mounted drill—Devastator was christened the "Technology General" of the group, and sent forth to conquer planets in pursuit of Violen Jiger's goal of creating a Decepticon Zone. Zone Part 1

One element required for Violen Jiger's plan was the mysterious life-giving Zodiac, hidden somewhere on Earth. Devastator accompanied King Poseidon, Trypticon and Predaking to the planet, cutting a swathe of destruction through the cities of Earth as they converged on Mount Fuji, where the Zodiac was believed to rest. Arriving at the mountain, the four generals were confronted by a small army of Autobot Micromasters, which prompted nothing but laughter from the villains... until a rock clonked Devastator on the head, hurled by the newly-arrived Autobot Powered Masters Dai Atlas and Sonic Bomber. As battle erupted, Devastator broke away, using his drill to burrow into the Earth in hopes of locating the subterranean hiding place of the Zodiac, but Dai Atlas pursued him into the planet's depths. There, Dai Atlas used his "awareness of the flow of nature" to summon up a torrent of magma that took Devastator out of the fight. Zone

The Generals later schooled Metrotitan and the Metrosquad in the ways of evil, making them more than formidable foes for the Powered Masters. Zone Part 7

Zone cartoon

PHALLIC!

Voice actor: Hirohiko Kakegawa

The Zone cartoon tells a slightly different, expanded version of Devastator and the other Generals' first battle with Dai Atlas.

Dispatched to Earth with Trypticon, Predaking and King Poseidon by Violen Jiger to acquire the Zodiac, Devastator destroyed the World Trade Center while searching the planet for the mysterious energy source. By the time Devastator arrived in Japan, Trypticon and Predaking were already embroiled in battle with Dai Atlas and Sonic Bomber; he burst up out of the ground while Dai Atlas was grappling with Predaking and attempted to run him through with his drill, but was stopped by a barrage of missiles from the acting Autobot leader. Predaking ordered him away to seek the Zodiac, and Devastator obeyed, drilling down into the Earth, but Dai Atlas pursued, following Devastator into the subterranean cavern in which the Zodiac rested. Devastator snatched the enigmatic orb and fled, handing it off to King Poseidon before turning back to resume his battle with Dai Atlas, whom the Seacon combiner had restrained with a chain. Before Devastator could drill a hole through him, though, Dai Atlas shifted to drill tank mode and dragged the Decepticon into a vein of molten magma, which swept him away. Enter the New Supreme Commander, Dai Atlas!

Wings Universe

Wings Universe is based on the Generation 1 cartoon, but deviates from it in cosmetic ways and continuity points.

After being Robo-Smashed into loyal Decepticons, the Constructicons were upgraded by Soundwave, at Megatron's orders, using the combiner technology stolen from the conquered warlord Deathsaurus. The newborn Devastator joined the Decepticons in an attack on Iacon one week later. Battle Lines, Part 5 The Autobots attempted to stop him by shooting down a live energy conduit which stuck his right arm, but it barely phased the Decepticon. When they followed that up by shooting him in the knees, however, Devastator toppled over backwards. Battle Lines, Part 6

Nine million years later, during the Battle of Autobot City in 2005, after breaching the city walls, Devastator was confronted by Ultra Magnus and a small group of Autobots. He invited them to surrender, but they responded by blasting him into his component parts. A Flash Forward

Marvel Comics continuity

Events from the UK-only comic stories are in italics.

No sooner had the Constructicons been created—by Shockwave, on Earth, using the power of the Creation Matrix and the facilities of Blackrock Aerospace Assembly Plant Number One—than they were dispatched on their first mission to construct a massive communications dish that would allow Soundwave to broadcast a message to long-lost Cybertron. When the dish came under attack by a squad of Autobots, the Constructicons merged to form Devastator for the first time, much to the surprise of the attacking Autobots. The titan shrugged off the Autobots' attacks, even including Ironhide's liquid nitrogen blasts, but things took a turn for the worse when Soundwave, wired into the dish and unable to defend himself, made the mistake of calling on Devastator to destroy a specific Autobot—Huffer, who had slipped close to the dish in the chaos. The dull-witted Devastator struggled to process this precise instruction, taking out each Autobot one after the other until he found the one that Soundwave had been talking about; fortunately for the Decepticons, Huffer's own indecision gave Soundwave time to successfully transmit his message. The dish was subsequently destroyed by Huffer's human ally Bomber Bill, and Soundwave ordered retreat, grading Devastator's performance as "notably deficient." The Next Best Thing to Being There!

Concept art for Capcom's upcoming Street Fighter vs Transformers

Following this poor initial outing, Devastator was subsequently put through training and tests that managed to improve his operation and co-ordination. With the Constructicons now operating better together, Shockwave charged them with attacking a demolition derby that the Autobots' human friend Buster Witwicky was attending in order to kidnap him for use as leverage. Faced with Buster's Autobot protectors, the Constructicons formed Devastator to deal with them, but the very sight of the combiner sent Buster catatonic. While Devastator battled the Autobots—during which he was toppled by Smokescreen and blinded by Tracks's black beam gun—Soundwave scanned Buster's mind to discover what had happened to the human, and immediately ordered the Constructicons to separate and retreat unpon discovering that the Matrix had implanted a vision for the future of combiner technology in Buster's brain. Devastation Derby!

Seeking to make a reality out of the information the Matrix had planted in Buster's mind, the Autobots staged an attack on the Decepticon's Wyoming base in order to draw out Devastator so they could observe his technology in action. When Shockwave ordered Devastator into action, Bumblebee, watching from afar, monitored and recorded the Constructicons' transformation pattern. He reported his success to Optimus Prime, who ordered a retreat, and the Autobots subsequently used the information derived from Devastator to create their own team of combiners, the Aerialbots. Command Performances!

Devastator next appeared to defend the Decepticons' base in the Florida Keys from a joint attack by G.I. Joe, Cobra, and the Autobots. He brawled with Superion until a blast from Superion's rifle caused a malfunction in his coupling links and he broke up into his components. ...All Fall Down!

Given that Devastator never reappeared in the "main" US or UK Marvel continuity, and that when he did turn up next in the Earthforce stories (see below), he was being rebuilt as a separate robot, perhaps Superion's attack permanently destroyed the Constructicons' ability to combine.

Earthforce

Did they forget he'd need two legs or what?

These stories do not fit into the normal Marvel continuity. See Earthforce for details.

For reasons unknown, the Constructicons were rendered incapable of combining at one point. Unwilling to lose Devastator's raw power, they attempted to construct a new and separate version of him in the Bahamas, surrounding the construction side with an Automated defence ring. Ironhide and Bumblebee were able to master the ring's challenges, and wrecked the project before the new Devastator could be completed. Desert Island Risks!

Classics

Classics is a splinter timeline that takes place after Marvel US continuity, but disregards Generation 2 and Marvel UK material.

Mixmaster was voted off the combiner.

The Constructicons were among the Decepticon warriors assembled by Megatron as he re-established his power base on Earth 15 years after the fall of Unicron. For some unexplained reason, Hook and Mixmaster were no longer part of the group, replaced by a new Constructicon named Hightower. As a result, Devastator's combination was significantly altered.

The giant Decepticon warrior was assembled to battle the Autobots in the Southern Hemisphere, when both groups were seeking out the source of a new set of energy readings. Devastator confronted the Dinobot Grimlock, and the force of their battle was enough to cause the landscape to cave in, revealing the caverns below. The Constructicons were disassembled by the impact, however, and were force to fight Grimlock individually. Crossing Over: Part 3

Dreamwave comics continuity

Events from The Transformers Trilogy novels are in italics.

Cybertronian-mode Devastator.

Devastator was the first combiner, the end result of the Constructicons' research into mass intellect. However, he suffered a huge drawback in that he would only do what his components agreed on, which was usually smash stuff. More than Meets the Eye #8 Although the process would later be refined, leaving the method by which Devastator was formed considered primitive by comparison, the sheer destructive power of the combiner was so great that the Constructicons were actually forbidden from trying to modifying their own combination for fear that Devastator's effectiveness would be compromised. More than Meets the Eye #2

During the Dark Ages, between 7.4 and 6.5 million years ago, when the Decepticons and Autobots fractured into several smaller factions, the Crisis Intervention Accord was signed, ruling the Special Teams non-aligned. However, Ratbat managed to convince the Constructicons to side with the Ultracons, and they accompanied him when he made his push to take the Tagan Heights, forming Devastator to battle the Wreckers. Hopelessly outmatched by the giant, the Wreckers were bailed out when the Protectobots chose to disobey the accord and aid them, merging into Defensor to give Devastator a run for his money. Escalation The resultant clash of titans destabilized the surrounding area, but in the end, Defensor realized he couldn't beat Devastator with strength. While the Wreckers stepped into distract the Decepticon, Defensor split back up into the individual Protectobots, and plugged Devastator into the local power grid, hitting him with a massive electrical shock that overloaded his combination system and forced him to to separate. Devastation

In 2002, when the Decepticons returned to menace Earth after a period of inactivity courtesy of the schemes of Robert Hallo and Adam Rook, Devastator played the central role in the grand display of destruction a furious Megatron unleashed upon humanity. At Megatron's command, Devastator disembarked the Decepticons' temporary base in the Northwest Territories, walking along the seabed down the west coast of North America, heading for San Francisco, destroying a US Navy submarine along the way.

Bursting from the waters of San Francisco Bay, the absolutely gigantic Devastator immediately set to work putting the city to ruin, until confronted by Superion. Devastator speedily triumphed in the battle that followed, reducing the Autobot combiner to his component Aerialbots, Prime Directive #4 then turned on the other Autobots who had arrived, stomping Trailbreaker flat despite his force field and slamming Sunstreaker and Sideswipe between his monolithic palms. To no-one's surprise, it was Optimus Prime who was finally able to take the giant down, ramp-jumping to his head-height in vehicle mode so that he could shot him point-blank in the face, blowing much of his head and shoulders to bits and sending him toppling into the waters below. Prime Directive #5

Over the following months, Starscream had the Insecticons secretly rebuild Devastator and the Constructicons without Megatron's knowledge. When Megatron vanished off the face of the Earth, Starscream took the opportunity to bring his secret weapon back into the light. Devastator made his return debut in the canyons of Nevada, where Starscream led the unwitting Autobot named Sideswipe right into a blast from Devastator's solar energy rifle. He was a major force in Starscream's control of Las Vegas as well, and battled Grimlock when the Dinobot commander attempted to free the city from Decepticon domination. Hardwired

When Megatron returned from deep space, Devastator unhesitatingly remained at Starscream's side, and was prepared to tear his former leader limb from limb at Starscream's command. When the Decepticons split into two factions between Megatron and Starscream, the Constructicons were steadfastly loyal to Starscream. They were captured, along with the rest of Starscream's men, when the Keepers settled in Las Vegas. Trapped inside an energy net, Devastator tried to bludgeon his way out at first, until Skywarp convinced the Constructicons to separate so they could dig their way out from underneath the field. Once they were freed, the Constructicons reformed Devastator as the Autobots and Decepticons united in an attempt to destroy the Keepers before the American government carried out the final solution and nuked Las Vegas off the map. Didn't work—the xenophobic President jumped the gun and fired off the nuclear missile early in the hopes of eliminating the Transformers as well as the Keepers. Still, the impending nuclear holocaust wasn't enough to deter Devastator's one-track mind, and he continued to hunt down the Keeper-possessed Bluestreak (since that was the one Autobot mommy and daddy would let him destroy at the moment). During the fight, the Keepers managed to trap Devastator and his massive comrade Omega Sentinel outside a protective field, while they engaged the smaller Transformers inside. This eventually meant that Devastator was too far away to be protected by Optimus Prime's Matrix-constructed shields when the nuclear missiles finally struck. The combined Constructicons suffered massive damage as a result. Annihilation

In the aftermath of the nuclear assault on Las Vegas, the Constructicons were trapped permanently in their Devastator form as a result of their injuries. Devastator was present in the Nevada desert when the American military forces ambushed the Autobots and Decepticons. After that, Megatron sent him and Omega Sentinel to keep watch on the Void gateway being built on Allister Greaves' property to allow the Keepers back into normal space. Optimus Prime and Megatron soon joined them there, and began the final battle against the Keepers' pawn, Franklin Townsend, and his puppets Bluestreak and Starscream. Devastator attempted to swat Starscream out of the sky, but eventually stopped when the Keepers' power faded and Starscream returned to his ever-so-likeable self. Instead, he was forced to contend with the far more formidable Omega Sentinel, who had broken free from Megatron's control and returned to his original Guardian programming. Ultimately, the Omega Sentinel sacrificed himself to stop the Keepers by plunging into the Void, and pulled Devastator with him. When the Keepers' control crystal was shattered, the Void was destroyed and Devastator fell back out into real space. He floated in the vacuum between Mars and Jupiter, in deep stasis lock. A secret American space venture, the starship Bounty, happened across the gigantic Decepticon on their mission, and made plans to bring him back to Earth. Fusion

Devastator eventually fell into the hands of Earth Defense Command, and was being studied at their secret bunker. Generation 1 #0

Devil's Due G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers comics

No Bumblebee... 'twas beauty killed the beast.

The Constructicons formed Devastator to defend the SPS Satellite control center on Cobra Island from the attacking Autobots and G.I. Joes. After telling the Cobra troops that he'd help them since he hated Autobots just as much as he hated humans, Devastator killed Hound with a single shot from his gun. Unfortunately, this angered the Autobot's friends, Bumblebee and Wheeljack, who attacked Devastator along with a squad of human tanks. The combiner was overrun by their numbers and was defeated after having his left arm blown off. G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #5

For the remainder of the battle, Devastator's body was used as cover by human troops as they continued the fight against Cobra and the Decepticons. G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #6

IDW Generation 1 continuity

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"Has anyone seen my chestplate?"

Not long after the outbreak of the Great War, Shockwave—student of the creator of gestalt technology, Jhiaxus—became obsessed with perfecting his mentor's work. Omega's Conundrum He began work on the Constructicons that would eventually be finished millions of years later by the scientifically-minded Insecticon Bombshell in the year that followed the thwarting of the Expansion, which successfully granted the team the ability to combine into Devastator. Where previous experiments with combination had struggled to unite the minds involved in the process, the Constructicons' shared appetite for destruction allowed Devastator to remain relatively mentally stable, if angry. Before the Dawn

When the Decepticons initiated the Surge, striking at Autobot outposts across the galaxy simultaneously, Devastator was a key component of the squadron Megatron himself led to Earth, where he made short work of the local Autobot unit, who were exiled back to Cybertron. All Hail Megatron #7 The Decepticons then began conquering the planet, starting with New York City; Devastator cut off the human population's means of escape by wading into the waters around the city and destroying the bridges and tunnels. All Hail Megatron #2

In time, the apparent lack of direction Megatron had for the Decepticons after their conquest of Earth caused a schism in their ranks, and Devastator sided with Starscream, attacking and attempting to kill Megatron. Their fight was soon interrupted by the arrival of jets from the European Union, which Devastator had to fight off. All Hail Megatron #10 A much greater opponent then appeared in the form of Omega Supreme, who arrived with all the exiled Autobots and engaged Devastator in battle. With buildings being shattered by their titantic clash, Optimus Prime ordered Omega to move the battle with Devastator to a safer area. All Hail Megatron #11 Omega responded by hauling the combiner out into the bay, where he slammed him against the Statue of Liberty and blasted him through the chest, taking him out and leaving to sink into the waters below. All Hail Megatron #12

Several years later, Spike Witwicky tracked Scrapper down and killed him to make sure Devastator could never be formed again. Scrapper This did not prove as permanent a solution as first appeared, however: after the Decepticons liberated Scrapper's body from Skywatch The Demolished Man they were summoned back to Cybertron for a battle with the Autobots, where the Constructicons proved capable of combining with Scrapper's corpse. The resultant Devastator suffered from a "dead leg" that he could not move properly, allowing the Autobots to outrun him, and his other leg was also soon taken out of the equation when Sunstreaker tricked the giant into stomping on his explosive-laden wheelchair. Just as the giant was about to crush him with his fists instead, he was mentally taken over by the D-Void and forced to merge with all other Decepticons and Galvatron's Sweep army to form the "Deceptigod". Chaos Part Three: Kings

The defeat of the D-Void was followed by the reversion of Cybertron into a primordial wilderness into which Megatron fled, leaving the leaderless Decepticons—the Constructicons among them—to live in the rebuilt Iacon, under the unstable governance of Bumblebee. Megatron soon discovered that the combination of Ore-13 and space bridge technology in his new body allowed him to tap the energies from within Cybertron that the D-Void had used to create the Deceptigod, and in this force's ability to subjugate individual will and facilitate combination, he saw the means to finally perfect the combination process. Before the Dawn

"Nothing is more of a prick than Devastator, nothing!"

Megatron tested his theories upon the Aerialbots, fusing them into "The Superion", and also secretly conspired with several of the Decepticons in Iacon, allowing Bombshell to experiment with the energies, with which he seized control of the mind of the Autobot police officer Prowl. Faking both his own death and those of the Constructicons, Devisive Bombshell withdrew them all to Prowl's Black Room, where the Constructicons' bodies were rebuilt to the specifications of a new, modular Devastator design that moved Hook to Scrapper's old position as right leg, and would allow others built with compatible forms to serve as the combiner's head. The intent was for Megatron himself to become Devastator's new head, but rather than risk his own mind and body in a test run, it was arranged for the mind-controlled Prowl to become part of Devastator first, to ensure the process worked.

When Megatron returned to Iacon and his plan went into action, the Constructicons and Prowl combined into the new and improved Devastator, under the complete control of Bombshell via Prowl. Under Megatron's orders, the revamped Devastator proceeded to destroy Autobot High Command with the sweep of a hand. Before the Dawn The giant then continued on to the Iacon med-centre, which he also devastated, before menacing the Autobots, NAILs, and disillusioned Decepticons trying to defend it. Superion arrived from Cybertron's wilderness and proceeded to engage Devastator in combat, and two giants' battle continued for some time until, elsewhere, Bombshell was stabbed through the head by Arcee. With his controlling influence gone, Devastator fell into a stupor, just as Prowl—his mind still partially aware within the combiner—turned his thoughts to the one thing he and the five Constructicons agreed on: a hatred of Spike Witwicky. This unifying idea caused Devastator to reawaken, now of one mind, and with just one goal: to never be controlled ever again. With that, Devastator grabbed Superion, tore the combined Autobot in half, Plan for Everything and proceeded to destroy everything he saw. However, the giant was surprised when Ironhide got a boost up onto his shoulders and began to call out to Prowl inside his mind. After some well-placed punches and a speech from the Autobot veteran on the topic of free will and personal change, Prowl wrestled enough control to cause Devastator to tear off his own head, spontaneously un-combining the gestalt. Shortly afterwards, Megatron attempted to reform the combiner, this time with himself as its head, but the well-timed activation of a stasis field secretly built into the Decepticon leader's spark casing by the late Wheeljack stopped the process in its tracks. Heavy Is the Head

Commercial appearances

• Masquerading as construction vehicles, the Constructicons horrified their human operators by revealing their true nature. As their human drivers bailed out and fled, the team combined into Devastator, who crashed his fists together, creating a surge of energy that crackled all the way through his gigantic body. Constructicons commercial
• Causing chaos at a construction site, the Constructicons merged into Devastator, who created a huge fissure by stabbing a girder into the ground. The Dinobots emerged from the crevasse, and Grimlock seized Devastator's leg with his jaws and threw the combiner aside. G2 Constructicons & Dinobots commercial

Games

DreamMix TV World Fighters

Devastator was an onlooker in one of the arenas where the combatants of the DreamMix TV World Fighters program did battle. DreamMix TV World Fighters

Sector Seven ARG

User jayeljay posted a photograph of a Non-Biological Extraterrestrial to the Stop Sector Seven website, noting its similarity to Devastator as he appeared in the 1980s cartoon series Sector Seven had developed as part of their Hungry Dragon initiative. Sector Seven ARG

Toys

Generation 1

Devastator was here first, Scramble-boys!

• Devastator (Giftset, 1985/1986)
  • Japanese ID number: 37
  • Accessories: Robot head, head laser, 2 forearms/launchers, 2 fists, 2 drills, "super wing" chest plate, "missile mount" hip connector, "wing" pelvis armor, "magna laser"/"solar energy rifle", individual robot guns, Mixmaster's 2 missiles

The first combiner toy in the Transformers toyline, Devastator originated in Takara's pre-Transformers Diaclone toyline, where he was the unnamed combined form of the "Construction Vehicle Robo" team. He is created by assembling all six Constructicons, who, unlike the later Scramble City-style combiners, cannot be rearranged into other configurations. The large pieces of vehicle-mode weaponry the Constructicons came with form important connector pieces for the giant robot—in particular, his forearms are the missile launchers that came with Scavenger and Bonecrusher. These launchers can be equipped with silver-chrome drill attachments instead of his fists, but their spring-loaded firing mechanism was severely weakened by Hasbro for safety reasons. He is armed with Mixmaster's magna laser, though his own bio identifies his weapon as a solar energy rifle.

In the United States, Canada and Japan, the Constructicons were originally available both sold separately on individual blister cards (with the additional Devastator parts split up between them) and as a boxed gift set of all six. On the European continent, the individual Constructicons were first released individually by Hasbro subsidiary Milton Bradley in 1985 (with a giftset rumored to exist, but with no proof as of yet), then re-released in 1986 by Hasbro proper, this time in a yellow coloration manufactured by Joustra. These figures are not to be confused with the yellow European Constructicons released in 1992, who featured grey parts and could not combine into Devstator, nor with the yellow Generation 2 Constructicons (see below), who lacked the rubsigns and forearm-launcher tabs that this version featured.

• More information on Devastator at TFU.info

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Scorpulator, alligator.

• Devastator with Scorpulator (Action Master, 1990)
  • Accessories: "Magnifier Blaster"

A non-transforming action figure compatible with any other Action Master vehicle or accessory, Devastator's sculpt is based largely on his original animation model, but with a great many toy-based elements added for extra detail. Most notably, his head is based on the toy instead of the very different animation model. Released in the second wave of carded Action Master figures, Devastator came with his small animal partner, Scorpulator, who transformed into an acid spray gun that Devastator could wield and a "Gripper Backpack" that plugged into Devastator's back.

As an Action Master, Devastator received a set of Power Plans, viewable here. Not surprisingly, none of his listed parts line up with those found in the STARS manual (see notes). A prototype of Action Master Devastator features a different head coloration.

• More information on Action Master Devastator at TFU.info

Generation 2

So neon and Playskoolish, even though real construction vehicles are yellow.

• Devastator (1993)
  • Accessories: Robot head, head laser, 2 forearms/launchers, 2 fists, 2 drills, "super wing" chest plate, "missile mount" hip connector, "wing" pelvis armor, "magna laser"/"solar energy rifle", individual robot guns, Mixmaster's 2 missiles

Redecos of all six Constructicons were released individually as part of the first assortments of Generation 2 products, now colored yellow like the European version from 1986. They were not identical to that earlier version, however: they featured a lighter purple plastic, lacked rubsigns, had all their spring-loaded accessories (such as Devastator's forearms) retooled to remove the firing gimmick completely, and both Hook and Bonecrusher featured a Generation 2-style Decepticon logo and the word "DECEPTICON" tampographed on them. Aside from that, Generation 2 Devastator was functionally identical to his Generation 1 predecessor.

Famously, a later—and seemingly less common—run of the figures changed the yellow plastics to rich orange. Unverified rumors claim that this version of the team was exclusive to KB Toys stores. Whatever the case, neither color version was available as a gift set.

• More information on Generation 2 Devastator at TFU.info

Classics

And then there were five.

• Constructicon Devastator (Multi-pack, 2007)
  • Accessories: Two claw energon weapons, two pincer energon weapons

Classics Devastator is a redeco of the Energon combiner Constructicon Maximus. As this mold is a five-bot combiner in the "Scramble City" style, rather than Devastator's traditional six, the team now consists only of Scavenger (redecoed from Steamhammer), Scrapper, Bonecrusher (both redecoed from the Sledge/Bonecrusher mold), Long Haul and enigmatic new member Hightower (redecoed from the Duststorm/Wideload mold). Hightower replaces Mixmaster and Hook, but his bio combines elements of both the missing members', leading to some interesting speculation.

Scavenger forms Devastator's main body, while the other four robots attach via universal connectors to form any of his limbs, using their energon weapon accessories to form clawed hands and feet for their combined form. Being a redeco, this of course means Devastator's components can also connect with any of the other combiner robots from the Energon series. Devastator was only available in a full five-pack, exclusive to Wal-Mart stores.

• More information on Classics Devastator at TFU.info

Encore

• Devastor (Gift Set, 2011)
  • Japanese ID number: 20
  • Accessories: Robot head, head laser, 2 forearms/launchers, 2 fists, 2 drills, "super wing" chest plate, "missile mount" hip connector, "wing" pelvis armor, "magna laser"/"solar energy rifle", individual robot guns, Mixmaster's 2 missiles

The Devastator Gift Set was made available once more as part of TakaraTomy's Transformers Encore series of reissues. Apparently cast from a newly created set of molds, (given the presence of a Tomy copyright stamp rather than the original Hasbro/Takara one) the team feature numerous small difference from the original toys, though none that serve to change Devastator's appearance in any significant way.

Shown here without consumer-applied stickers, for maximum cartoon-accurate effect!

• Devastor (Anime Color Ver.) (Gift Set, 2013)
  • Japanese ID number: 20A
  • Accessories: Robot head, head laser, 2 forearms/launchers, 2 fists, 2 drills, "super wing" chest plate, "missile mount" hip connector, "wing" pelvis armor, "magna laser"/"solar energy rifle", individual robot guns, Mixmaster's 2 missiles

Initially solicited as a "yellow version", this second Encore release of Devastator instead proved to be a redeco and retool based upon the character's appearance in the original Generation 1 cartoon. All six figures feature assorted different paint details, most notably a brighter, more yellowish-green plastic color and a purple mixing drum for Mixmaster; Devastator now comes with black forearms, and most significantly, a new headsculpt based on the cartoon's visored look. His package art is modified to reflect these changes, and an additional window is added to the box to showcase his new noggin in-package.

Merchandise

Decoy

• Destron Hero Collection 22 (multi-pack, 1986)

Devastator was among the many characters rendered by Takara as part of their series of 1.5" soft rubber keshigomu figurines. Like all the figures in the series, Devastator featured a number sculpted into his back that was the sum total of his Tech Specs, for use in the various games that could be played with the figurines. He was available in purple as part of a 22-piece box set of Decepticon figures, in peach as part of various other randomly-packed box sets released by Takara subsidiary Seven, and in a wide variety of different colors in "gachapon" capsule machines.

• Devastator (1987)
  • Decoy number: 48

The Devastator figurine was later brought over to Hasbro markets as part of the Decoy promotion, largely identical to the Japanese release except for the fact that the number on his back was replaced with a simple "checklist" number. Like all Decepticon Decoys, he was a randomly-chosen pack-in available with the carded Throttlebots, Stunticons, Combaticons and Terrorcons.

• More information on Decoy Devastator at TFU.info

Hard Hero

"Duh, gee Devastator, how you gonna get through these bars? I dunno, moron, suppose I devastate them? Duh, ok!"

• Devastator (Bust, 2003)

This bust of Devastator was released by Hard Hero, and was based on his G1 cartoon appearance. The eighth release in their main bust series, Devastator was limited to 3500 pieces, with an additional 100 specially signed by the sculptor.

Super Collection Figure

DEVASTATOR... JUST WANT TO... SIIIIIIIIIIIIING!

• Devastor (Super Collection Figure, 2001)
  • Accessories: Display stand

A three-inch tall PVC figure based on the cartoon rendition of Devastator was part of the fifth wave of TakaraTomy's Super Collection Figure line. Like the other figures in the wave, Devastator was available in both full-color and metallic silver "pewter" versions, at a ratio of one each per case of twelve blindpacked figures. In eight out of every ten cases, the pewter version of the figure came packed with the waist and tail for the wave's collectable BlackZarak "build-a-figure".

• More information on pewter Devastor at TFU.info

Heroes of Cybertron

• Constructicon Devastator (Heroes of Cybertron, 2003)

This Hasbro-released version of the SCF Devastator figure uses the same sculpt, but is molded in red translucent plastic and painted over to allow for a light-piping gimmick in its eyes. The figure was sold on an individual blister card rather than blindpacked, and came with a collector card and the left arm for the Metroplex build-a-figure.

• More information on Heroes of Cybertron Devastator at TFU.info

Generation 1 Figure-Collection

• Devastor (2003)
  • Japanese ID number: D-4
  • Accessories: Display base

At only one inch in height, this Devastator "bottlecap" figurine (so named because its display base is the size of a bottlecap) was one of fourteen blindpacked figures available in Kabaya's Transformers Generation 1 Figure-Collection. The figure was rendered in a "retro" black and white color scheme, and came with a leaflet, personalized with cartoon screen captures.

• More information on the Generation 1 collection at Autobase Aichi

KT Figure Collection

He looks so happy!

• Devastator (KT Figure Collection, 2004)

Devastator features as part of Kaiyodo and Takara's KT Figure Collection, appearing in a small diorama figure that recreates the scene from The Transformers: The Movie of him ripping through the walls of Autobot City, with Hot Rod and Arcee added into the mix. Designed by Yūki Ōshima, the figure was available in an individually-sold blindpacked box, or as part of a complete box set of all five figures from the series and came with a card featuring some artwork of Devastator from Dreamwave's Prime Directive #5.

Palisades

Brother, won't you spare a dime?

• Devastator (Statue, 2006)

Standing at over a foot tall, Palisades Toys' statue of Devatator was one of the final products released by the company before it folded. It was limited to only 421 pieces, and in a cute touch, came disassembled in box, requiring the buyer to "combine" the limbs and arms with the torso to ready Devastator for display on his large Decepticon insignia base.

Notes

This is why "revisions" exist.

• The Generation 1 cartoon series bible contains two descriptions of each Constructicon, and half of them were typed referring to their combined form as "The Destructoid". This was then crossed out by hand, with "Devastator" written above.
• Devastator's (or rather, his Diaclone counterpart's) concept design was decidedly less imposing than the final. Interestingly, it is only composed of five components, the core being a long-nosed truck cab.
• Devastator had two different character models in the original Transformers cartoon; at the least, he had two different head designs, one with a visor and one without. Sometimes his head would change designs within a single episode—the "visorless" look is how he appeared for the majority of "Heavy Metal War", but he appears with his visor on in a few shots. While both head designs would continue to be used (almost at random) in subsequent episodes, the visored design was used for his dramatic scene in The Transformers: The Movie, and thus seems to have "won out"; it appears on all modern Devastator merchandise.
• As it was most commonly flanged and synthesized in the Generation 1 cartoon, Devastator's voice carries one or more slightly-offset repeats of itself, presumably intended to convey the idea that he's made up of several individuals.

Shades optional.

• Devastator received a Power Plans-esque diagram in the S.T.A.R.S. Tech-Spec Manual, which named various components of his body in... somewhat unusual ways. Notably, Scrapper's shovel (and thus Devastator's foot) is listed as a "rotational angle adjuster", while Bonecrusher's shovel (part of Devastator's shoulder) is listed as "coolant".

His crotch is a "shock absorber". Make of that what you will.

• In later years, toys sporting the name "Devastator" required an additional "Constructicon" prefix for trademark reasons, hence making the official name "Constructicon Devastator".

Foreign names

• Japanese: Devastor (デバスター Debasutā)
• French: Dévastateur (Canada)
• German: Vernichter (Generation 2)
• Hebrew: Mash'midán (משמידן, "Annihilator")
• Hungarian: Pusztító (Marvel Comics, second The Movie dub) Mega-robot (second The Movie dub)
• Italian: Uragan (Action Master)
• Mandarin: Hǔei-mìeh Chě (Taiwan, 毀滅者, "Devastator"), Róu-lìn Chě (Taiwan, 蹂躪者, "Devastator"), Da Li Shen (China, 大力神, "Titan")
• Portuguese: Devastador
• Russian: Rasroushitel (Разрушитель, "Devastator")

External links

• Devastator's Universe profile at NTFA.net