Terrorcon (Prime)

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

The Terrorcons are Decepticon-created zombies from the Prime portion of the Aligned continuity family.

Night of the Living Generics.

Born from dead Transformers infused with Dark Energon, the Terrorcons are Megatron's greatest asset—an undead army under his thrall. Each is powerful and relentless in its own right; en masse, their persistence and Dark Energon they radiate can sap the strength of their Autobot prey until they can pull it down and tear it apart. Thankfully, they are not invulnerable. Energy blasts of sufficient force can deter them, though the best method is to use bladed weapons to slice them to pieces—the smaller the better—as the Dark Energon charge cannot sustain itself within the smaller, disparate components. Simply slicing them in half doesn't seem to be sufficient, though the method of irradiation may be a factor: The one case known to be prodigiously active despite total bisection was the product of a direct implantation of crystallized Dark Energon; all others to date have been created by absorbing energies emitted over a wide area by a shattered crystal.

That is no longer an Autobot, just a mindless beast. Its only instinct: to destroy anything in its path.Megatron, "Darkness Rising, Part 2"

Fiction

Prime cartoon

Voice actor: Frank Welker (English)

Hater-ade—is it in you?

After Cliffjumper was killed after a battle against the Vehicons, his body was saved by Starscream for use in experiments. When Megatron returned, he wished to test the then-theoretical property of Dark Energon to revive the dead. It worked, to an extent. Cliffjumper was reborn as a screaming beast, and he promptly destroyed two Vehicons before leaping at Megatron. Megatron commented that the creature before him was no longer an Autobot and sliced the Terrorcon Cliffjumper in half with his claw. The half with the head remained alive, and it attacked Arcee when she tried to rescue it. Darkness Rising, Part 2

Megatron realized the potential for brutal, undead warriors from the encounter with Cliffjumper and decided to use the Dark Energon more extensively. When Optimus Prime realized that the substance they were dealing with was Dark Energon, he and Ratchet put two and two together and realized Megatron was up to something, that something being raising the dead. Eons ago, there had been a war on Earth after the smuggling of Energon to the planet. Since Cybertronian bodies do not decompose, there were some still buried in the ground. Megatron appeared to Optimus Prime and Ratchet in a large canyon and threw a chunk of Dark Energon into the ground, which promptly began to glow bright purple, as did Megatron himself. The ground opened up, and undead robots crawled out from the cracks, brandishing the same deadly weapons they'd carried in the previous war. Darkness Rising, Part 3

"Processorssss. Processorssss!"

Despite being outnumbered, Optimus and Ratchet were able to dispose of the Terrorcon horde, only to be informed by Megatron that this was merely the prelude to his main event. That event, they soon discovered, was raising the countless dead on Cybertron itself. Darkness Rising, Part 4

Unfortunately for the Autobots, Megatron was already a step ahead of them in implementing his plan, since he already had a working space bridge and a ship to get to it. The Autobots used their GroundBridge to reach the space bridge, but failed to stop Megatron from throwing his supply of Dark Energon through, raising the entire deceased population of Cybertron. Before the Terrorcons could pass through the bridge, the Autobots managed to reverse the power flow, causing the bridge to explode, taking the zombies and Megatron with it. Darkness Rising, Part 5

Starscream later used a shard to attempt to revive the slain Skyquake. While he successfully raised the mighty Decepticon, due to a series of unexpected events the revenant Skyquake was left trapped in an alternate dimension. Shadowzone

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The addition of Dark Energon to Knock Out's Synthetic Energon formula turned Cylas into a new form of Terrorcon which craved energon. His bite passed on the infection, causing a brief plague that was swiftly quelled by the Decepticons. Airachnid, however, was sent to one of Cybertron's moons via space bridge after having been infected by Cylas, and presumably spread it to the Insecticons she fed upon. Thirst

Games

Vector Sigma Bot Builder

Under unknown circumstances, the process of creating a bot can be corrupted by Dark Energon resulting in a Terrorcon that must be destroyed. Vector Sigma Bot Builder

Toys

Prime

Not sure if he's a zombie or a ghoooooost.

• Terrorcon Cliffjumper (Deluxe, 4-28-2012)
  • ID number: AM-08
  • Accessories: "Jida" Arms Micron

This version of the undead Dark Energon infused Cliffjumper is available only in the Japanese Prime toyline, and was released in the second assortment. "Terrorcon" Cliffjumper is a translucent-purple and opaque-brown redeco and retooling of the "First Edition" Terrorcon Cliffjumper mold, with several added Mini-Con mounting points on his vehicle-mode trunk and hood. He features flip-out triple-barreled blasters in each of his arms that can be swung out to replace his hands. He does have wrist articulation, but the plastic panels on the outer sides of his arms tend to get in the way, meaning his wrists can only easily rotate up to 90 degrees.

As with the other toys in the Japanese Prime line, much of the toy is unpainted, and relies on decals to add color detail, including the windscreens, with a pair of unused Decepticon insignia stickers also being included. He comes with his Arms Micron partner, Jida.

Early stock photography showed Terrorcon Cliffjumper as being primarily opaque blue-purple plastic.

• Terrorcon Cliffjumper at Alfes's blog (part 1)
• Terrorcon Cliffjumper at Alfes's blog (part 2)

• Rust In Peace Terrorcon Cliffjumper (Deluxe, 2012)
  • Accessories: Dark Energon shard, "embedded" Dark Energon shard

A San Diego Comic-Con 2012 exclusive, "Rust In Peace" Terrorcon Cliffjumper is a much more extensively-decoed and premium-packaged version of the "Terrorcon Cliffjumper" retool of the "First Edition" Cliffjumper mold, which was originally canceled worldwide, but was eventually released as an Asian market and ToysЯUs exclusive. Whew! His paint operations have been expanded from the original retail plans to give him more battle damage deco. He comes with two Dark Energon accessories; a long shard of the stuff, and a shorter, more rubbery one ending in an "energy splash" that can grasp around the edges of his chest to represent, well, him being stabbed with Dark Energon to bring him back to "life."

He comes in a special case shaped like Cliffjumper's zombified head, which itself comes inside a box with Cliffjumper's chest printed on the front. Gruesome!

• Terrorcon Bumblebee (Deluxe, 8-10-2012)
  • Accessories: "Terrorcon Zori" Arms Micron

Meant to represent Bumblebee turned into a vicious monster after being infused with Dark Energon, "Terrorcon Bumblebee" is the Arms Micron Bee molding done in black, gray and clear-purple. Rather than his nominal Arms Micron partner, B.2, he instead comes with Terrorcon Zori, a clear-purple version of Soundwave's Micron partner. This set was available as an Ion stores exclusive in Japan.

• Team Decepticon (EZ Collection 6-pack, 11-24-2012)
  • ID number: ???
  • Accessories: ???

Exclusive to the TakaraTomy series, Terrorcon Cliffjumper is a zombie-like redeco of his Cyberverse toy.

Prime: First Edition

I thought I could bring the dead back, a broken shell rusted red with age. I gave him power, a new heart; it filled too quickly with his rage.

• Terrorcon Cliffjumper (Deluxe, 2012)
  • ID number: 005
  • Accessories: Stand

Part of the second wave of Prime: First Edition toys, Terrorcon Cliffjumper is a redeco and retooling of First Edition Cliffjumper, with purple translucent parts, a new, bashed-up head, and "Dark Energon" battle-damage paint operations.

His stock photography incorrectly depicts him with silver-painted wheel rims.

The second wave of First Edition toys was initially only released in the Asian market in mid-2012. Terrorcon Cliffjumper was noticeably absent in this particular release, and was believed to be canceled. (TakaraTomy would then do their own drastically different interpretation of the toy, see above.) In late 2012, Wave 2 was finally released in its entirety in Hasbro's Asian markets, and ToysЯUs picked up these toys, along with most of the First Edition line, as part of a huge block of US market exclusives for the holiday season.

• More information on First Edition Terrorcon Cliffjumper at TFU.info

Notes

Foreign names

• Japanese: Terrorcon (テラーコン Terākon)
• Mandarin: Xíng Shī Zǒu Ròu (行尸走肉, "Walking Dead")