Squadron X
- Squadron X is a team of Decepticons from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
For a time, Squadron X was the Decepticons' answer to the Wreckers. While the Wreckers used their unique sense of bravado and brutality to right wrongs, Squadron X left a wake of indiscriminate corpses. As such, the Wreckers' leader, Impactor, was obsessed with tracking them down and ending them. Their personal battlecruiser is the Pale Fire.
Their roster included:
Fiction
IDW Generation 1 continuity
Squadron X became a crusade for Impactor, maybe because, deep down, he recognised something of the Wreckers in them. Zero Point
The final showdown between Squadron X and the Wreckers occurred on Pova. The Wreckers ingenuity on the field of battle bought them many small victories—Roadbuster brought down the Pale Fire with a single shot from his latest big gun, and Broadside made daring use of some psychic explosives.Bullets Both sides were evenly matched, in both the skies and the trenches, until Springer was trapped under rubble. As Macabre, Tornado, and Earthquake advanced, Impactor surprised Squadron X by firing through Springer's torso at them. This desperate gambit worked, the tide was turned, and Squadron X was rounded up for transport.
Unfortunately, Squadron X broke free of their inhibitor harnesses. Impactor, realizing that their rivalry with Squadron X could never end with them in containment, ordered the Wreckers to take them out permanently. Squadron X ceased to be, subsequently. Last Stand of the Wreckers #4
In reality, Squadron X had merely been refueling on Pova and it was the Wreckers who started the fightZero Point, and they'd only been transporting munitions and not anything violent.Ferak's Squadron X profile The bigger issue was that the Autobots had signed a treaty with Pova that gave them no jurisdiction on the world, and to avoid a political incident Impactor was ordered to let the prisoners go. Rather than do this, he locked himself in the cell with them and murdered them all while all the other Wreckers—bar Springer—did nothing. For this, Impactor was sent to Garrus-9 and condemned as "the Autobot who went too far". Last Stand of the Wreckers #5
All the other Wreckers were utterly horrified by what had happened, not realising Impactor had meant to murder them, and turned to Springer to take command so the Wreckers wouldn't be shut down. Or so they told Springer: actually, they'd been glad to watch Impactor do it, and wanted to avoid going on trial themselves. Zero Point
The AllSpark Almanac
During the Great War, Squadron X was defeated at Pova. The AllSpark Almanac II
Notes
- In the Wreckers' comic series of origin, their opposing team was the Mayhem Attack Squad.
- To further dirty up the Wreckers' murder of Squadron X, the character profiles in the second Last Stand hardcover told us that Ferak was going to retire after one last job and Earthquake was going to be murdered for pathologically hero-worshipping Optimus Prime.
- Squadron X's roster is composed of many of the named minor Decepticon non-toy characters from the original Marvel Comics run. This was to give the comic some characters it could easily kill off but who weren't generics, who were obscure enough that they could be as powerful as the script said without readers going "hang on...", and to give hardcore fans a big grin.
- Colorist Josh Burcham has admitted using the Obscure Transformers Website as a reference for the characters' color schemes... except for Crosscut, whose colors he made up since the character was never given a color scheme in his original Marvel appearance.
- This is the fanwankiest subgroup that there ever was or ever will be.
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