Quickslinger (Cybertron)
- Quickslinger is an Autobot in the Cybertron portion of the Unicron Trilogy continuity.
Yes, Quickslinger is a girl. She hates the way girls are stereotyped so much that she forces herself to act as non-girly as possible. You could probably say she's a self-hating girl, but without the self-awareness that term usually implies.
Of course, she secretly wishes she could act girly, but she apparently can't be an empowered female if she actually acts like a female. That's some self-defeating logic, there. Somebody never made it through gender studies.
Fiction
Fun Publications Cybertron comics
Balancing Act, Part 5 Quickslinger was walking alone on the abandoned surface of Cybertron when she noticed she had a splinter in her finger. She wondered, being a robot, how that was even possible. Before she could contemplate further, she was knocked aside as the battle between Vector Prime and Ramjet exploded out of the ground beneath her.
(Note: In her only appearance, she is miscolored and unnamed. She was only identified as Quickslinger after-the-fact, mentioned as part of the how-to-make-Quickslinger article in the following issue.)
Toys
Quickslinger has no official toy. She began as a kitbashed fan character published in the Fun Publications fan club magazine. Basically, she's Cybertron Ransack with the opaque red plastic painted lavender. Also, she has a profile that makes the blue states cringe.
Trivia
- The Fan Club magazine mentioned that there was to be a Quickslinger-based contest at BotCon 2006, in which people could submit their Quickslinger kitbashes and the judges would pick the best one. Come BotCon 2006, there were apparently a grand total of no entries.
- Not a sausage.
- Bugger all.
- While a number of Transfomers share their names with GI Joe characters/vehicles/etc, but Quickslinger is the only transformer as of yet to reuse a Xevoz name.
