Dipstick

Dipstick is an Autobot from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

"Skinner!"

Dipstick is one of the guys in charge of the reconstruction project at the Igue-Moor Fuel Depot. He hates trigger-happy soldiers.

Fiction

IDW Generation 1 continuity

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"Flintstone!"

Dipstick was not a happy bot when Ironfist's test run of the lightformer cannon resulted in extensive damage to the reconstruction project, and let him and his buddies Pyro and Guzzle know in blunt terms. Guzzle attempted to justify the incident by claiming that's what Wreckers do, while Pyro tried to simply apologize for it. Unfortunately, Pyro's apology was cut brief as Rotorstorm dropped a payload, narrowly missing poor Dipstick. Understandably, he was all too happy to be rid of this troublemaking quatuor as the pick-up signal from Ultra Magnus arrived. As the soon-to-be Wreckers boarded, Pyro told Dipstick they'd be seeing him, but he quipped back that as Wreckers, they probably won't live long enough for that to happen. Rotorstorm quietly expressed his dislike of the bot as he entered the ship. Last Stand of the Wreckers #1

After Cybertron was reborn in the wake of D-Void's attack, Dipstick watched on as a viewscreen showed Rodimus explaining his desire to gather a crew to find the Knights of Cybertron. How to Say Goodbye and Mean It He ended up joining, and at one point during the journey ended up losing an arm. While receiving medical attention from First Aid, he was temporarily frozen in place by one of Brainstorm's malfunctioning weapons. The Reluctant Specialist Some time later, he was part of a group that Rewind gathered to tell a true story. (This means Dipstick once had an adventure with Xaaron, Atomizer, Sprocket and Slapdash.) An Intimate Beheading

Dipstick took part in the liberation of Temptoria from Decepticon forces, and at one point elbowed Snapdragon in the face. Before & After Later, he was incarcerated in the Lost Light's brig by Ultra Magnus for his bad punctuation. Cybertronian Homesick Blues

Eighteen months from the Lost Light's launch, the Necrobot had listed Dipstick as deceased... Who's Afraid of the DJD?

Notes

• Wow, talk about your unfortunate names...
• At 46.40 of his Moonbase 2 interview, James Roberts said that originally Dipstick was going to let loose with "the rich variety of Transformers based insults and swearwords", but they had to be cut for reasons of "space and decency". Truly the most fantastic, revealed by the authors at Auto Assembly 2010, was "clutch-munching piston-lickers".
• Dipstick shares a character model (minus his head) with the later character Tappet.