Horri-Bull
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- Horri-Bull is a Decepticon Headmaster from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Horri-Bull is indeed horrible, as well as Aw-Ful, Dis-Gusting, and Gnaw-C-8-Ing, but at least he's not a slob like Blot or Snapdragon or Landfill. Oh, he's a slob, all right, but he's a different sort; neither an ignorant, involuntary slob like the Terrorcon, nor an oblivious slob like Landfill, not even a lazy slob like Snapdragon. Never! He's a proud, oil-spitting, grease-oozing, smoke-belching filthmaster. Horri-Bull boasts, with real pride, that he can't remember his last bath. He believes this makes him unique among the Decepticons. If one were to object that it was not a specialty to take pride in, it would only bring pain and perhaps death by flamethrower, because Horri-Bull is also a horrible bully (ha ha), with a nasty temper and a mean streak wider than the oily trails he leaves.
It is only fitting that this uniquely repulsive Decepticon is paired with such a vile specimen of Nebulan ooze with legs—the vulgar talk shock-jock known as Kreb. Together, they make a team to be avoided.
Fiction
Marvel Comics continuity
Generation 1
Horri-Bull's partner Kreb served as frontman for the Z Foundation, organizing a team of human bounty hunters called the Roadjammers to hunt Autobots for his leader, Scorponok. Unfortunately, the Roadjammers discovered Horri-Bull and his fellow Headmasters "behind the curtain" and tried to take them out as well. Lord Zarak was forced to sacrifice his "jammer"ed control over captured Autobots in order to revive his soldiers. Ca$h and Car-nage!
When Scorponok and his greeting party were attacked while meeting with Ratbat's crew, Horri-Bull led the remaining army into battle against their fellow Decepticons. However, he was quickly sliced in two by Blitzwing, Cold War! and carried back in pieces to the Decepticon base. Dark Star He was up and about by the time Optimus Prime surrendered to Scorponok and made sure that Blurr did nothing funny. Surrender! He was caught in the collapse of the New Jersey base caused by Shockwave's Decepticon faction. He was helped up on his feet by Soundwave. ...All This and Civil War 2 During the battle that followed, the Transformers on Earth, including Horri-Bull, were suddenly teleported to Cybertron by Primus. There, they were forced to listen to Primus's warning about Unicron. The Void!
Following Unicron's attack and Scorponok's death, Horri-Bull fell under Bludgeon's leadership and was part of his invasion force on Klo. The Last Autobot? When the Neo-Knights came to Klo, Horri-Bull was about to crush them when the reborn Optimus Prime landed in front of the Decepticons, shocking Horri-Bull. Horri-Bull and a few others fought the Autobot leader, but the battle turned against the Decepticons and Bludgeon forced the Decepticons into exile. End of the Road!
Marvel UK future timelines
In 1995, Horri-Bull joined Shockwave, Fangry, and Squeezeplay in attacking the Autobots at a football stadium in California. While his partners disabled Jazz, Horri-Bull roasted Hot Rod with his flamethrower breath. They then turned their attention on Optimus Prime, but were interrupted by the newly-created Autobot, Arcee. She kept the Decepticons occupied long enough for the other Autobots to recover, and so they fled. Prime's Rib!
Classics
Twenty years after the battle of Klo, Horri-Bull had joined Gigatron's Decepticons on Earth, and was present when Gigatron's team attacked the Autobots' Ironworks headquarters for their hidden Rarified Energon reserves. Invasion Prologue
They were plotting a second assault when invaders from another dimension complicated the plans. The Decepticons found themselves allied with the forces of good, defending their hunting ground on Earth from Evil Autobots who wanted to destroy the entire world. Invasion
Regeneration One
Twenty-one years after the battle of Klo, Horri-Bull was still at Bludgeon's side aboard the Warworld as the Decepticon leader unleashed his Blitz Engines on Cybertron's Autobots and fired the Warworld's weapons at Ultra Magnus and Galvatron. Destiny, Part Four At Fangry's suggestion, Krok, Weirdwolf, Skullcruncher, Octopunch, Stranglehold and Horri-Bull went down to the planet's surface to join the battle, but as the Blitz Engines, Soundwave's Neo-Decepticons and finally Bludgeon himself were all defeated in turn, Ultra Magnus's Autobots rallied and claimed victory. Destiny, Part Five
After the battle, any Decepticons not killed in the fighting were taken into Autobot custody and were then most likely converted into shadow-leeches by the Dark Matrix creature, along with (almost) the entire population of Cybertron, while Rodimus Prime and his Autobots were off-planet fighting Jhiaxus at the Hub Network.
Ladybird Books
Horri-Bull, Fangry, and Squeezeplay operated a secret underground base on Nebulos within the "Nebulos Triangle". They maintained this secrecy by shorting out electronics and disappearing whoever wandered into the area... at least until Optimus Prime decided that these phenomena were probably caused by a secret Decepticon base. The Autobots stormed in, and Quickmix poured Nebulite-enriched concrete all over the fleeing Decepticons, leaving Horri-Bull and the others trapped in a living tomb. Decepticons Underground
Dreamwave Generation One continuity
Horri-Bull was a member of Starscream's Predacons during the Dark Ages, and was present when the Lightning Strike Coalition stole one of their energon shipments. Fragmentation
IDW Generation 1 comcs
Horri-Bull was a member of Turmoil's detachment of Decepticon soldiers. He fought against Sunstreaker's Autobot forces under the leadership of Turmoil's lieutenant, Deadlock. Drift #1
Much later, Horri-Bull was among the Decepticons captured and affixed with inhibitor/deterrence chips in the wake of Galvatron's defeat on Cybertron. When they were released to take down the NAILs protesting against the Autobots' presence on the planet, Horri-Bull strangled one unlucky rioter. The Death of Optimus Prime
Horri-Bull enjoyed his new position as "enforcer" and joined Needlenose in harassing NAILs, including Tappet. When they were caught in the act by the Autobots, they were turned over to Ratbat, then the appointed leader of the Decepticons and who chewed them out for blindly serving the Autobot government. Nevertheless, the two were at it again, this time beating up Zetca. When Horri-Bull refused to back off, Bumblebee detonated the I/D chip in Horri-Bull, blowing his head off. The Autonomy Lesson
Commercial appearances
Fangry, Horri-Bull, and Squeezeplay burst through a wall, and the three engaged the new Headmaster Autobots. Galvatron noted that their new Headmasters would give the Decepticons "more brainpower than ever." Small Headmasters Commercial Given that it's Galvatron who said it, the utterly ludicrous nature of this comment can just be explained as him being particularly crazy that day.
Toys
Generation 1
- Horri-Bull (Headmaster, 1988)
- Accessories: Concussion blaster, double-barreled "flamethrower"-tail
- Horri-Bull transforms into a robotic bull (though he more closely resembles the "terror dogs" from the Ghostbusters movie). His beast-mode back opens up to contain his Nebulan partner Kreb, who forms the robot mode's head. Plugging Kreb (or any other Headmaster) into the neck socket activates the Tech Spec meter in Horri-Bull's chest; as a smaller Headmaster, the stats are part of a single plate rather than individual rollers. His twin-barreled tail-blaster becomes a hand-held weapon in robot mode.
- His beast-mode forelegs feature articulated claws, but what purpose this serves is unknown, since they only fold down, useless in beast mode and actually covering up his fist-holes in robot. Making matters worse, he can't hold his double-barreled tail gun without partially untransforming his fist away from the claws to clear room for the weapon. Like most larger toys of the era, he features 5mm pegholes for holding weapons.
- This mold was released in Japan without changes as the Super-God Masterforce human villain Bullhorn.
Notes
- Horri-Bull's yellow color in "The Autonomy Lesson" stems from the image TFWiki used to have for Horri-Bull's toy and TFU.info's screencap of Horri-Bull. Josh Perez chose to use the yellow to "help him stick out a lot more".[1]
Foreign names
- French: Taureu (Canada)
- Hungarian: Szörny-bika ("Monstrous-bull")
- Italian: Thorror
