Nudge gun

The nudge gun is Institute tech, designed to make the target Transformer think differently. It carries two charges: the first sends a foreign thought into someone's head, and the second is a blank that erases incriminating knowledge from your head.

Fiction

IDW Generation 1 comics

The nudge guns are a tool used by Autobot Special Operations. Skids tried to use one to make Tyrest resign but the mad robot picked up on the foreign thought. To avoid interrogation, Skids used the blank charge on himself. Arm the Lonely

Their existence is a secret: Brainstorm, an ex-Institute 'bot, had no idea what the gun was and named it the "binary gun". Rules of Disengagement

Toys

Generations

• Autobot Skids (Deluxe, 2014)

Part of the seventh wave of Deluxe Class toys in the 2012-onwards Generations line, Skids includes a weapon accessory based on the nudge gun. It can be held via 5mm post, or mounted on Skids's vehicle mode using another post on the side of the weapon. The nudge gun's barrel can also slot into the second weapon accessory, based on Skids's original liquid nitrogen rifle, to form a single, larger weapon.