Electrochemical laser

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Powered by chemical reactions, an electrochemical laser emits direct current electricity. Galvatron wields one in robot mode.

Notes

• The laser referred to in Galvatron's bio is often assumed to be the orange cannon on his arm, but it may be referring to the toy's hand-held rifle.

• While emitting DC electricity is a rather strange thing for a laser to do, it is a neat pun on Galvatron's name. A galvanic cell, named after Luigi Galvani, is a certain type of chemical voltage source. Though Galvatron's toy's batteries are not galvanic cells, they do produce DC electricity chemically, making his toy one of the more fiction-accurate in the Generation 1 line.

• In IDW's "Transformers: Robots In Disguise" Robots in Disguise #30The Mind Bomb, the cannon Galvatron has on his arm is an almost exact rendition of the rifle that the G1 toy comes with. Galvatron also appears in his G1 toy colors; this seems to indicate that in the IDW universe, the rifle was Galvatron's previous weapon before his current cannon. The cannon mounted on his arm was destroyed by Myskrion during the Battle of Aegiax.