Ravage (SG)
| This article is about the heroic Decepticon mini-cassette. For his evil counterpart, see Ravage (G1). For a list of other meanings, see Ravage (disambiguation). |
- Ravage is a heroic Decepticon Recordicon from the Shattered Glass continuity family.
Hi, I'm Ravage![1] I'm a white jaguar! I'm the one that's waving! Can you see me?[2] I love micro-blogging, so I talk in less[3] than 140 charact
Fiction
Shattered Glass
When the Ark launched for a second time, Ravage accompanied Soundwave to Earth in the pursuit on the Nemesis, and his escape pod landed near Soundwave's after the ship was shot down by the humans. He then joined in on the search for the Nemesis. The Desert Heat!
When Soundwave, Heatwave, Ravage, and Frenzy finally located the Nemesis's crash site, they noticed a team of scientists snooping around. Ravage decided to have fun with two of them, Will and Rick, by chasing them around playfully, waving at them, quipping at them in LOLspeak, and text-messaging them so they'd notice he was sneaking up behind them. Eventually Soundwave and Heatwave transformed to deal with and calm down the panicked humans. When Frenzy arrived with the other two, Professor Arkeville and Sephie, he told Ravage things would have gone more smoothly if he hadn't acted like, well, himself. Ravage reacted indignantly to the chastisement.
Ravage ended up getting along famously with Sephie, who understood his odd Netspeak and internet obsessions (both of which merely baffled the other Decepticons), and happily purred at and snuggled up to her attentions. When the Decepticons made their attack to free Burpleson Air Force Base from the Autobots' control, Cliffjumper paired them together since Sephie was the only one who could "shut [Ravage] up".
The two were among the ones able to sneak into the base while riding in Soundwave, with the help of a cover story from Will and Rick. They then all split up, with Sephie and Ravage heading towards the control room. Before they could get there, however, they ran into Wheeljack, who Ravage cheerfully waved at from the middle of the hallway. However, when the crazy inventor started ranting and pounding the walls, he sensibly took off running with Sephie.
They eventually managed to lose Wheeljack, but by that point Heatwave had already managed to talk the base's transmitter into evacuating the base in preparation for destroying it with the Global Orbiting Defense Satellite, so Sephie and Ravage opted for getting out of there themselves. Eye in the Sky
When Soundwave was busy trying to find where Blitzwing had run off to, Ravage informed him that someone had posted on their Yatter account that there was a giant robot near their house, enabling Soundwave to arrive just in the nick of time to save the wayward Decepticon from Blaster. Blitzwing Bop
After Sephie augmented herself with Cybertronian tech, and Starscream confined her to base, Soundwave sent Ravage to have a talk to her. Unfortunately by the time Ravage got there, she'd left a note saying she was going to attack the Autobots. Transhuman
Recordicons
Ravage and Thundercracker were ambushed by a group of Autobots including Optimus Prime and Rodimus. The event would later become known (probably only by Ravage) as Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction. Recordicons #3
Steeljaw was resting on a hill when Ravage popped up with a cheerful greeting. He tried to wake Steeljaw up for some playtime, but not even a lengthy pouncing session would make the Autobot move. Ravage confessed that Steeljaw was his best friend, which finally got a reaction out of Steeljaw in the form of a threat of bodily harm. Recordicons #1 On Earth, Ravage wandered into a dark alley and encountered the celebrity philantropist Ratbat. As he asked the member of the frivolous elite for an autograph, the pair were surrounded by scary tough guys, and Ravage was knocked out. When he came to, Ratbat was nowhere to be found and the criminals were all tied up for law enforcement to take away. He was interviewed by the Autobot Slamdance regarding this incident, where he made sure to plug his Yatter feed. Recordicons #2
Ravage recounted the Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction tale to Buzzsaw, who pedantically pointed out several incorrect details about the title. Recordicons #3 Steeljaw wondered why Ravage thought they were friends, and Ravage reminded him of that time he ate Enemy's body. Recordicons #4 While they were hiding behind a Taco Horn, Soundwave banned Ravage from updating Yatter. He didn't say anything about Boxball though, and Ravage's first check-in from a Mexican restaurant was worth 3 points. Unfortunately Ravage had friended Blaster, who saw the update and found them. Soundwave was so disappointed. Recordicons #6
Ravage was startled when his future self stepped through a time warp to tell him not to waste his life on the Internet. He was too busy blogging this happening to take any notice, much to his future self's disgust. His future self tried to salvage the situation by warning Ravage about lending Rumble any money, but Ravage pointed out he was too late for that as Rumble had had met his end in the smelting pool. Recordicons #7
Ravage happened upon Laserbeak, who was listening to a song he claimed that Ravage probably hadn't heard of. Ravage promptly enlightened his avian friend—not only did he know Rosanna through Yatter, but she had used his Yatters as lyrics in the song Laserbeak was listening to! Recordicons #8
While on a parallel Earth, Ravage was tracked down by his positive universe counterpart who intended to end him. When Ravage's request to be allowed to update Yatter was denied, he flew into a rage and attacked the other Ravage. Recordicons #10 He was super happy to meet a Blaster who wasn't evil and find lots of new Recordicon buddies, though after Stripes told him that Blockrock turned into a bomb, he stayed a safe distance from that guy. Recordicons #12
When Steeljaw pointed out that there must be a positive-universe version of himself, Ravage came to the conclusion that the opposite of his friend Steeljaw would be his enemy. Consequently when he met the other Steeljaw, Ravage socked him and made plain to the startled Autobot that they were enemies. Recordicons #13 After crashing, Ravage was told by Glit that he shouldn't text while driving. Ravage demanded a second opinion, but positive-universe Glit told him the same thing, causing Ravage to interject that the second Glit was supposed to be evil. Recordicons #14
Ravage accidentally fell out of Soundwave while the latter was disguised as a light pylon, giving their position away to a couple of passing Autobots. As Soundwave complained, Ravage attempted to blame gravity for the mishap. Recordicons #17 Ravage used his new friend Solarbot to fast-charge Steeljaw, as Steeljaw had previously claimed he was too busy solar charging to be Ravage's friend. Recordicons #18 Ravage suggested Beastbox get an anti-virus after Squawktalk began randomly emitting Internet spam phrases. Recordicons #19
At some point in the future, Ravage was upgraded into a new body and went back in time to warn himself about wasting his time on the Internet. Recordicons #7
Toys
Beast Wars
- Tigatron (Deluxe, 2001)
- Accessories: Tail-whip, left & right pistol barrels
- Beast Wars Tigatron was officially repurposed as the future form of Shattered Glass Ravage. A BotCon 2001 exclusive, Transmetal Tigatron is a redeco of Beast Wars Metals Ravage, which is itself a retool of Transmetal Cheetor. He transforms into a mechanical cat with flip-out thruster-wings. His robot-mode arms have spring-loaded flip-out blaster grips, which also have barrel extensions that can be clipped to his legs in beast mode. His tail separates to become a whip weapon, but he doesn't hold it very well. His chest panels open up to reveal a decal; he also came with an extra decal sheet to display other options within his chest, plus Maximal and Wreckers faction symbol decals for extra customization. Both he and Arcee were limited to 1200 pieces.
- The original version of this mold was slightly retooled to make Armada Cheetor. It was also used as the model for the non-toy character Cataclysm.
Kiss Players
- Cassettron Set Kiss Players Position (Multi-pack, 2006)
- Accessories: Left & right "multifunctional medical tool boxes"
- Kiss Players Glit was officially repurposed as Shattered Glass Ravage. A redeco of the original Ravage mold, he transforms from a microcassette that can fit into the tape door of the Soundwave and Blaster toys to a robot jaguar. He was available only in an e-HOBBY exclusive set with Rosanna and Sundor, which also came with a bonus music CD. The Cassettron set was released during the second week of March 2007.
Timelines
- Double Punch and Turbomaster (BotCon 2010 souvenir set)
- An honest-to-god nonrepurposed Shattered Glass Ravage toy, a redeco of Universe Ravage, transforms into a "cassette", or "capture mode" according to the original version of the mold's instructions. This mode fits onto the back of his mold-partner "Turbomaster" via a pair of clips on the vehicle mode that fit into the tape spools. In this mode, Ravage is compatible with the original Soundwave and Blaster toys. In jaguar mode, the 5mm holes can accommodate Glit's weapons or those of the original Ravage (even though there are tiny versions of the weapons above his hips).
- He was sold in a BotCon 2010 souvenir set along with Double Punch and "Turbomaster". Unlike those two, Ravage didn't come with a bio card, probably because we know way too much about Ravage already! Timelines Ravage, like his set-mates, is limited to 1500 pieces.
Notes
- Shattered Glass Ravage was conceived as a humorous fan-character by David Willis, as a silly inversion of Generation 1 Ravage's role as a quiet, stealthy spy. The character gained a bit of a following when Willis set up Twitter and Facebook pages for him as part of the joke, leading to his being officialized with a profile in issue 26 of the Transformers Collectors' Club magazine.
- The blue-and-white jaguar whose corpse appears in Drift #2 was drawn into the issue by Alex Milne at the apparent urging of a friend, who envisioned it as Shattered Glass Ravage and sought to annoy David Willis (who was more amused than anything) by killing him.[4] Because we're a bunch of nerds who'd rather have a bit of fun with it, we've listed it as an appearance of Generation 1 Glit since Drift #2 is a Generation 1-based story and not a Shattered Glass one.
- He resembles a house cat more than a he does a panther.
- He's the one that's waving!
Footnotes
- ↑ I'm like a saboteur! Totally! I break stuff, srsly!
- ↑ Old crummy Steeljaw never sees me! I jump all around but he keeps sleeping. He is the worst best friend ever!!! #bffs
- ↑ Guys keep telling me that it's technically "fewer" and not "less" because whatevs, but that's what it says on the website!
- ↑ markerguru's post in "Transformers Drift #1: Reactions, Reviews, Spoilers" from the IDW Publishing Forums
