Impactor (Prime)

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

Impactor is an Autobot and Wrecker from the Prime portion of the Aligned continuity family.

He's a Wrecker. He's orange for safety reasons.

Impactor is the commander of the Wreckers and is both the figurative and, as the center of the colossal Ruination, literal heart of the team. As such, he values every member of his handpicked group, and hates to see it when they fall in battle. Nevertheless, he has led his men into impossible situations time and time again, knowing that his unit is the best the Autobots have. If they can't get it done, no one can - after all, Wreckers don't call for backup, they call for clean-up.

Fiction

Rage of the Dinobots

Impactor commanded one of the last ships to break through the Decepticon blockade during the Autobots' evacuation of Cybertron. Rage of the Dinobots issue 1

Prime cartoon

Impactor died during the war. His death was later brought up by Wheeljack. Loose Cannons

Toys

Generations

• Impactor (Deluxe, 2013)
  • Series/number: 01/#014
  • PART 1 OF 5!
  • Accessories: dual cannon, harpoon gun

Impactor, released as part of wave 4 of the 2012-onwards Generations Deluxe Class assortment under the Fall of Cybertron banner, is a redeco and retool of Onslaught from wave 2. Cast in orange, gray and purple plastic, with purple and light blue paint operations, his alternate mode is a Cybertronian "Missile Carrier" truck. In robot mode, he sports a new head sculpt based on Nick Roche's rendition of Generation 1 Impactor in IDW's Last Stand of the Wreckers.

Impactor comes with Onslaught's twin-barreled cannon that can be attached to two small pegs on top of the vehicle mode, completing his "missile carrier" mode, and a brand new spring-loaded missile launcher accessory (with the missile shaped to resemble a harpoon) that can be attached on top of the twin-barreled cannon. In addition to a tampographed orange regular Autobot insignia on his lower chest, Impactor also sports a tampographed light blue version of the "Wreckers" insignia from 3H's Wreckers and Universe comics. Oddly, even though both the official Hasbro stock photos that depict a hand-painted prototype (which are also featured on the back of the packaging) and the ones that depict a (pre)-production sample show the Wreckers insignia, at least one specimen from Asia sports a light blue regular Autobot insignia instead.

In addition to his robot and vehicle modes, Impactor can also combine with his fellow Wreckers into Ruination, serving as the gestalt torso. Ruinations's head (an entirely new sculpt compared to Onslaught's Bruticus head, based on Emirate Xaaron) is permanently attached to Impactor's body. The most obtrusive indicators of Impactor's combiner capability are the two pegs for attaching the Wreckers that form the gestalt arms, which are placed on the outsides of the front wheels, making them stick out rather prominently in vehicle mode.