Clench (G1)
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- Clench is a Decepticon from the Generation 2 portion of the Generation 1 continuity family. He is also known as Colossus.
Utterly devoted to destroying the Autobots, Clench is fueled by anger, hatred and malevolence. He wades into battle blasting, smashing and running over anything in his path with no mercy, then shooting anything else with heavy firepower.
So naturally, he's a registered driver in Texas.
Fiction
Marvel UK Generation 2 comic
Clench was part of the Decepticon force led by Bludgeon, sent to Earth to smash stuff up and lure out Optimus Prime. Mostly he just drove over some parked cars.
IDW comics continuity
Long before the war, a group of ex-miners including Megatron, Frenzy, and Rumble took part in a violent uprising against leaders who had exploited them while pocketing the fruits of their labor. They found themselves on the lam in Kaon, which is where they apparently met Clench. Clench employed these same bitter ex-miners to work as gladiators in an underground bloodsport (in which he also occasionally partook), placing them at greater risk than they had ever known and conditioning them to give into their murderous impulses, all while hoarding the fruits of their labor for himself. Clearly, he had thought this through.
So Megatron eventually killed him during one of the fights and took over. Megatron Origin, Part 2
Toys
Generation 1 & 2
- Clench (Obliterator, 1993)
- Clench transforms into the front half of a long-nosed truck cab. The back half of his vehicle form, the truck bed and container, turns into a large, double-barreled, missile-launching artillery platform that uses “gravity feed” to load a new pair of missiles for rapid firing. In truck mode, the support strut for the artillery cannon becomes a rear-mounted, extending gripper-claw.
- He was first released as part of the “transitional” period of Transformers in the European market, bearing the new Generation 2 Decepticon sigil. Later on, he was re-released in Generation 2 proper under the name Colossus.
Trivia
- No, really, his toy's license plate says "Texas". It's also clearly some kind of European plate, so apparently this is the Texas in Europe.
