Six Shot (Energon)
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- Six Shot is a Decepticon from the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.
Six Shot is the younger brother of Shockblast. But where his brother is a berserker, Six Shot is more of a shifty weasel who prefers to lie, connive, and back-stab rather than confront foes directly. Despite their differences, the two brothers appear to be loyal to each other. A mechanical engineer by trade, he is mainly out for himself, and enjoys causing chaos.
In his off time, Six Shot enjoys reading comic books about catgirls.
Fiction
Energon cartoon
- Voice actor: Terry Klassen (English), Nobutoshi Canna (Japanese), Daniel Bergfalk (Swedish)
Six Shot was incarcerated between the Unicron Battles and arrival of the Terrorcons for his continued attempts at prolonging the civil conflicts between the Autobots and Decepticons even after the two sides reached a truce. He happened to share a cell block with Megatron's flunkies who were captured after the destruction of Unicron. Eager for news on the outside, Six Shot asked Snow Cat about his brother, Shockblast, who had escaped months earlier. Snow Cat told him that Shockblast was killed in battle fighting against Optimus Prime. (Whether Snow Cat deliberately misled Six Shot or just wasn't paying attention during the final battle was unclear.) Swearing eternal vengeance on Prime for his brother's death, Six Shot buddied up to Snow Cat when sounds of a jailbreak reached their cells. Ambition
Six Shot designed many weapons systems on Cybertron, including the large particle cannons that he and his brother Shockblast used so effectively. With leave from Starscream, Six Shot and Demolishor broke into the Autobot command center in order to take control of the energon towers. During a battle with the Autobots, Six Shot spotted Optimus Prime and planned to strike him down from a distance, but a falling tower blocked his aim and gave Prime time to unwittingly escape his attacker. Wishes
Six Shot tried to demonstrate his usefulness to Galvatron, and initially seemed successful in winning favor in the eyes of his new leader. Six Shot quickly learned, however, that Galvatron doesn't tolerate free-thinking and initiative among his troops, and suffered a beating for trying to act without Galvatron's express command. Despite this warning, Six Shot's desire for vengeance against Optimus Prime led him to intervene in a Decepticon attack on the Miranda II. Taking advantage of the planet's surface-to-air weapon systems, Six Shot shot the Autobot ship out of the sky, ruining Galvatron's plans to defeat Optimus Prime in single combat. Galvatron!
At the command center, Six Shot detected the Autobot efforts to create a blockage in the energon gas pipeline, and Galvatron dispatched his Decepticons to interrupt them. Seeing an opportunity to wipe out all his rivals and take over, Six Shot remotely opened the valves on the pipeline, releasing a cloud of deadly energon gas over the battle field.Break Through Galvatron grew tired of Six Shot's insubordination, and gave up the personal joy of hunting Optimus Prime in order to make sure Six Shot followed instructions and guided Cybertron through the Space Bridge. Six Shot continued to disobey Galvatron to search for Optimus Prime, however, despite Galvatron literally standing over his shoulder and throttling him every time. The Omega Train
As Six Shot continued to take pot shots at Optimus Prime with the energon towers and disrupted Galvatron's personal vendetta, the Decepticon leader wailed on his subordinate yet again. Sick of being constantly mistreated, Six Shot decided to do exactly what Galvatron authorized him to do: nothing. He shut down the energon tower defenses and refused to answer Galvatron's call when he needed the gas strategically deployed against the Autobots. Decepticon Army Although he suffered another beating at Galvatron's hands back at the command center, Six Shot continued to laugh because he knew he had the upper hand. As Starscream discovered, the energon towers were code-locked so that no one but Six Shot could access their systems. Begrudgingly forced to allow Six Shot to continue functioning, Galvatron allowed him to return to his consoles. Ironhide Team
During the battle with the Autobots, Six Shot continued to monitor Galvatron's progress. He moaned loudly over the radio about how he had this great plan for destroying the Autobots, but was restricted from doing anything without his mighty leader's permission. After making the Decepticons beg a little, he agreed to unleash his plan, and warned them to get a safe distance. By manipulating the build up of pressure in the energon gas, he arranged for a blockage right underneath the Autobots to erupt, creating a country-sized blast visible from space that knocked the Autobots into orbit. Despite his success, Six Shot nearly killed Galvatron and the Decepticons in the process, and was once again banned from taking any action. Formidable
Under guard by Snowcat, Demolishor and Mirage, Six Shot essentially distracted them with something shiny and tried to race Galvatron to the Super Energon chamber. By sniping with his particle beam cannon, Six Shot caused Galvatron severe injuries and nearly destroyed him. Scorponok intervened and fought Six Shot to a standstill, just long enough for Galvatron to repower himself in the Super Energon pool. Six Shot was furious at Scorponok for delaying him, and remarked on how Scorponok was a brainwashed stooge with no freedom, and he didn't even know it. Now several stories tall, Galvatron emerged and forced Six Shot to face up to his treason. Six Shot tried to lie, beg, and plead his way out, but Galvatron was sick of his treachery and stomped the Decepticon flat. Before he died, Six Shot told Scorponok that he was finally free, but Scorponok felt that the price for his freedom was too high.
Six Shot died at the hands (feet?) of his brother's betrayer and murderer, never learning that Galvatron, not Optimus Prime, was truly responsible for Shockblast's demise. Galvatron Terror
At some point, (a digital?) Six Shot participated in the Autobots' training program along with a digital copy of his deceased brother, Shockblast. They won several rounds thanks to Shockblast's power and Six Shot hacking the game's code to disable his opponents. When they started to lose a battle against Hot Shot and Rodimus, though, Six Shot grew tired of his boorish brother and eliminated him from the program as revenge for a small slight. Distribution
Toys
Energon
- Six Shot (Mega, 2005)
- Accessories: Missile
- Six Shot is a redeco of the Energon Shockblast toy, transforming into a Cybertronic laser-tank, as well as a satellite-cannon. His cannon-arm contains a spring-loaded missile launcher and an electronic sound gimmick (which refuses to shut up most of the time).
- Many specimens of this toy have the same problem: In satellite mode, a peg on one of his legs will not fit into the corresponding slot to hold the mode together. Also, his torso connects to his legs via a very small hinge, which is quite susceptible to breaking.
- This mold was also used as the basis for the non-toy pre-beast version of Cryotek as seen in "Theft of the Golden Disk".
Notes
- Even though initially announced as "Six Shot", an early version of his bio card posted at Hasbro's official Transformers website listed his name as "Scattorshot" instead, previously a working name for Blight. The name was soon changed back to "Six Shot", however, and the toy was only ever sold under that name. The name "Scattorshot" was ultimately used on a character from the follow-up series, Cybertron.
- And speaking of the bio card: While it described Six Shot (or "Scattorshot") as a "cunning Decepticon warrior", the Tech Spec stats only gave him a "4" in "intelligence". This was just one of many examples with the poorly thought out Energon bios at that time. (Things got vastly better with Cybertron.)
- Despite his prominent role in the Japanese-made cartoon, Six Shot was not made available as part of the Japanese Super Link toyline.
- In the first Hungarian dub of Energon, Six Shot was voiced by an actor in his late sixties – discounting his introduction episode, where he was dubbed by another actor who was nearing fifty. Both used their regular talking voices, which kind of messed up his "younger brother" issue.
- Several times in the English dub, Six Shot is mistaken for his brother.
Foreign names
- Japanese: Six Shot (シックスショット Shikkusu Shotto)
- Arabic: Shock Shot (شوك شوت Shwk Shwt)
- Hungarian: Hatlövetű ("Sixshot")
- Russian: Revolver (Револьвер Revol'ver)
