Ruination (FOC)

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

Ruination is an Autobot combiner from the Aligned continuity family.

Ruination is the gestalt form of several of the Wreckers. Given the survival rate of Wreckers, this may not be the best of ideas.

Toys

Generations

One Ruination, under God, divisible.

• Part 1 of 5: Impactor (Deluxe, 2013)
• Part 2 of 5: Autobot Topspin (Deluxe, 2013)
• Part 3 of 5: Autobot Whirl (Deluxe, 2013)
• Part 4 of 5: Roadbuster (Deluxe, 2013)
• Part 5 of 5: Twintwist (Deluxe, 2013)

Ruination is created by combining the five Wreckers, which were only available separately as part of wave 4 of the 2012-onwards Generations Deluxe Class assortment. Since the Wreckers are redecos and retools of the Generations Combaticons, who combine into Bruticus, this makes Ruination himself a redeco and retool of Bruticus. While Impactor forms the torso, the remaining team members can serve as any of the four limbs, though the official configuration shown in the instructions and the official Hasbro stock photos has Twintwist as the left arm, Roadbuster as the right arm, Autobot Whirl as the left leg and Autobot Topspin as the right leg, thus setting him further apart from Bruticus.

Ruinations's head, which is permanently attached to Impactor's body, is an entirely new sculpt compared to Onslaught's Bruticus head and based on Emirate Xaaron (who was closely associated with the Wreckers in their debut story "Target: 2006"). The Wreckers' individual weapons they inherited from the Combaticons they were redecoed from can be combined into a larger weapon for Ruination to wield. Furthermore, the new weapons the Wreckers also come with can be attached to Ruination as well.

While it is not clear if it's by coincidence or design, the choice of colors for the individual Wreckers (a green SUV, a white spacecraft, a blue tank and a dark blue helicopter for the limbs, combined with the unifying use of orange across all the figures) results in an overall color scheme for Ruination that makes him fairly evocative of Robots in Disguise Ruination, who himself was a redeco of another Bruticus.

Notes

• Generation 1 Rotorstorm once joked about a Wreckers combiner.