Devcon (G1)
- Devcon is an Autobot in the Generation 1 continuity family.
Devcon is a self-proclaimed bounty hunter, although who he works for or if he's ever been paid for his work has never come up.
Sometimes he's friendly, sometimes he's not.
Fiction
Animated continuity
Devcon was a nice guy, dedicated to his job, but lonely. Then he helped Smokescreen out of a jam, and got a friend named Slizardo in the process.
Universe: The Wreckers
Devcon was a jerk.
Dreamwave comics
Devcon posed as one of the hopeless empties to keep vigil over the Resistance's secret route through the Old Slave Trails.
Toys
Expanded Universe (unreleased)
At BotCon 2001, a hand-painted Vehicon Mirage, representing Devcon as seen in the Wreckers comics, was one of several future exclusives that attendees could vote to have produced for BotCon 2002. He evidently lost the vote, as the ultra-sized Jetstorm as G1 Cyclonus was produced the following year.
Among the submitted proposals for 3H Enterprises' BotCon 2005 exclusives was Energon Slugslinger (with a new head) as Devcon. Whether it actually would have been produced had 3H kept the convention license is unknown.
Trivia
- Devcon's name is a play on the word "DEFCON", an acronym related to military alertness. Although unconfirmed, it is thought that, along with the embargo on the word "nuclear", the writers of the Generation 1 cartoon were not allowed to use the actual word DEFCON in light of heightened Cold War tensions at the time, thus requiring a made-up soundalike word.
