Demolishor (Armada)
- Demolishor is a Decepticon from the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.
Demolishor is a military expert that serves Megatron through the Unicron Battles. A very trusted, but sometimes dim soldier that holds very true-to-heart values concerning loyalty and devotion to the Decepticon cause. These values sometimes collide with Megatron's ultimately-selfish goals, and Demiloshor finds himself struggling to reconcile the two.
Ultimately, though Demolishor never abandons his devotion to the Decepticons, his faith in its leader is shattered.
His Mini-Con partner is Blackout.
Japanese name: Ironhide (Armada), Irontread (Energon, dumptruck body)
Fiction
Animated continuity
Armada
- Voice actor: Alvin Sanders (English), Koji Yusa (Japanese)
Demolishor served as Megatron's right-hand military expert until the arrival of Thrust. He was often dense and simple-minded, but very devoted to his cause. Perhaps the most thoughtful action of Demolishor in this time was to tear through a door Megatron had sealed in order to stop Megatron from destroying Starscream, who Demolishor valued as a Decepticon ally. Demolishor was seriously damaged by Nemesis Prime, only to be reformatted into a red/white color scheme (as a homage to his Japanese namesake, Ironhide). He would go on to serve in the United Armada against Unicron.
Energon
- Voice actor: Alvin Sanders (English), Koji Yusa (Japanese)
Following the end of the Unicron Battles, Megatron's death saw the alliance between the Decepticons and Autobots persist. With the establishment of Cybertron Cities to mine energon on Earth, Demolishor was assigned to Ocean City, where he guarded the city's main gate. Despite his frequent complaints and arguments with the humans and Autobots that lived in the city, Demolishor developed something of a friendship with his new allies and grew into his role. Of particular note was his bickering relationship with the inexperienced Ironhide, who didn't trust him for being a Decepticon, and whom he ridiculed for being a greenhorn in return.
In the year 2020, when the alien being Alpha Quintesson created the Terrorcons to steal energon for him, he armed their leader Scorponok with a sword forged from Megatron's spark. During a battle at Plains City, the sword was knocked aside and landed in the ground in front of Demolishor, but he could not bring himself to take hold of the weapon - the chance to return to his Decepticon nature and his new role amongst the Autobots left him conflicted, unsure of what he truly wanted in life.
Demolishor's dillemma continued when Megatron returned to life and layed seige to Ocean City. When Megatron appeared before him, Demolishor trained his guns on him, struggling to make a decision as Megatron continually taunted him. Eventually, Demolishor caved, and rejoined the Decepticons, departing with Megatron for his headquarters within the inactive corpse of Unicron. Despite having made this decision, however, Demolishor's experiences had left him a changed 'bot, and he would be heard to caution Megatron on the frailties of humans.
Not longer thereafter, Demolishor participated in a Decepticon attack on the Autobot ship the Miranda II, which activated its personal energon grid defence system during the battle. Megatron was caught directly in the path of the grid, galvanizing Demolishor into making a final, fateful decision - he pushed his leader out of the way, and took the force of the grid's blast himself.
Demolishor's body was destroyed, but his spark was salvaged by Megatron, who implanted it within a new body. Megatron used his Unicron-derived powers to wipe Demolishor's memory, removing any trace of his conflicted nature and degenerating him into a simple-minded ape-like creature, easily excited and prone to grunting and jumping around. Demolishor retained his friendship with Cyclonus - now Snowcat - whose level of intelligence he was now much closer to, and they proceeded to do nothing important for thirty-five episodes, but were bright enough not to jump into the sun after Megatron.
Ah, Energon.
Cybertron
Toy bio
Demolishor was left behind on Cybertron during the evacuation, but has kept himself busy by fighting off the Scrapmetal Terrorcon hoard. Demolishor has heard rumors that Megatron has once again returned from the dead, but hopes it is not true, as he enjoys not being pushed around by his commander.
Dreamwave comics continuity
Toys
Armada
- Demolishor w/ Blackout (Deluxe, 2002/2003)
- Japanese ID number: MD-03
- Demolishor transforms into an anti-aircraft missile tank of made-up model. In vehicle mode, he has extra Mini-Con compatability; a seat behind his turret so he can be piloted, plus the space between his treads features a clip/launcher mechanism for his partner Blackout in vechicle mode. Attaching a Mini-Con to his left shoulder's Powerlinx plug in either mode pushes his twin-missile launcher mechanism forward, and allows his spring-loaded missiles to be fired.
- The Japanese release of Demolishor uses a different shade of tan, plus paints his face brown rather than black, among other smaller paint application changes.
- Ironhide w/ Search and Land Military Microns (Multi-pack, 2003)
- Japanese ID number: MS-03
- In Japan, Demolishor was available both separately, and in a multi-pack with the Land Military Mini-Con Team.
- Demolishor (Happy Meal toy, 2003)
- An extremely simplified version of the original Demolishor toy, he features a "battle damage" pop-off arm. He can combine with the other Happy Meal Decepticons to form a super vehicle. Kinda.
- Demolishor (Built to Rule, 2003)
- One of the smaller Built to Rule sets, Demolishor's vehicle mode is still and anti-aircraft missile tank, but with only one firing rocket per side. He also features full-rubber working treads. He comes with a block-version of Blackout.
- Powerlinx Demolishor w/ Powerlinx Blackout (Deluxe, 2003)
- Japanese ID number: MD-10
- A late-series redeco of the original Demolishor in red and off-white. Part of the final wave of Stateside Armada product, Demolishor's coloration was finalized after cardback photogrpahy was needed, so the card depicts a normal-colored Demolishor.
- Night Attack Demolishor (Built to Rule, 2003)
- Part of the final wave of Armada Built to Rule, the first Demolishor set was redecoed into colors very close to that of the Night Attack Mini-Con Team. Again, he comes with a smiliarly-colored version of Blackout.
- Night Attack Demolishor did not ship very prominently, but eventually could be found at Toys "R" Us stores for the heavly-discounted price of $2 or so.
Energon
- Demolishor w/ Blackout (Deluxe, 2004)
- Japanese ID number: SD-02
- Originally released as part of the regular Takara Super Link series, the original Demolishor toy was given a new color scheme of lime green and purple. This version was later released in the US late in the Energon line as a Kay-Bee stores exclusive alongside the Super Link redeco of Cyclonus.
- Demolishor (Deluxe, 2004)
- Japanese ID number: SD-11
- Demolishor's new body transforms into a large "earth-mover" dump truck. His truck bed contains four spring-loaded missiles, plus four "false" non-firing missiles. His center torso-block can rotate forward to brgin his launcher over his body for "Hyper Mode".
- Demolishor (Happy Meal, 2004)
- Available only in certain European nations, one of the two Energon McDonald's Happy Meal promos featured a simplified version of dump-truck Demolishor with a spring-loaded transformation.
Cybertron
- Demolishor (Deluxe-Class, 2006)
- A late addition to the line, the original tank mold was redecoed in a more military camo scheme. He does not come with his Mini-Con partner Blackout in this release; instead, he has a new-mold Cybertron-style Cyber Planet Key, without a molded faction sigil, plus a Mini-Con-style Powerlinx socket on the back so it could be used to activate his missile launcher. The key has a painted Decepticon sigil, a purple border, and the Key Code "dt67" printed on the back.
Trivia
- Reportedly, both of the original Demolishor toy's shoulders were to contain spring-loaded missile launchers, but one was removed for cost considerations.
- Powerlinx Demolishor was originally intended to be Sixshot-inspired, according to Aaron Archer, because Demolishor's gun-hands remind him of Sixshot (no, we don't know either). However, the red color scheme got decided on by We've and implemented first.
- Demolishor was originally planned to be in the Armada Playstation 2 game, as a long-running boss fight in the Antarctic. According to the original storyboards (unlocked in the game by finding the appropriate Data-Con on the Pacific Island base), he was the pilot of the crashed starship (instead of Starscream), and the player would have first fought him inside the control room of the ship. Megatron was to then fire on the ship when Demolishor was near-defeat, which would cause the ship to crash into the chasm below. The player would then have to chase Demolishor vertically through the downed hip and into an ice cavern, where he would try and drop stalactites on your head during your final confrontation. Why Demolishor was removed from the game is unknown, though he most likely explanation is time and budget concerns.
- Cybertron Demolishor's Key Code as printed on the key doesn't work properly, giving the information for the Deluxe-Class Optimus Prime. However, the Code "D56B" gives Demolishor's information.
