Lockdown (ROTF)
| The name or term "Lockdown" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Lockdown (disambiguation). |
- Lockdown is an unaligned transformer mercenary, and is disgusted by, but sometimes aligned with the Decepticons, from the live-action movie continuity.
Fiction
How to Ride your Dinobot cartoon
Lockdown found himself cornered by the duo of Slug and Drift, but to the bounty hunter's luck, Drift was an inexperienced Dinobot rider indeed. Lockdown impatiently waited for Drift to get his act together and attack him already, but to Lockdown's amusement, Drift fried himself with Slug's weaponry. However, it turned out to be a bad day for all, since Lockdown got zapped too.
One must wonder why Lockdown didn't flee while Drift spent a long time trying to figure out Slug's weaponry...
Titan Comics Age of Extinction comics
Five years before the Battle of Chicago,[1] Lockdown was part of a three-Con team with Drift and Knucklehead on Cybertron. While Drift wanted to take an Autobot outpost with minimal bloodshed, Lockdown thought this was sissy hippy crap and they should just bomb everything (even though that would mean having no outpost to capture); when they sneaked instead, he disobeyed orders and decided to execute prisoners out of hand. Drift stopped him, giving a gleeful Lockdown the chance to claim the guy was a traitor and kill him off. Knucklehead and Drift sent him down into a molten moat, swearing revenge on them both. Of course, he couldn't actually kill them when Megatron was still in charge or the big boss would be unhappy.
As we saw further up the page, Lockdown had come to Earth and in 2011 he fell in with Megatron again. Soon after the big boss was killed at Chicago and Lockdown immediately murdered Knucklehead. Drift, now an Autobot, would find the corpse on the moon and knew the hunter had become more powerful than before. Adrift in Time and Space
Lockdown took control of the remaining Decepticon forces but kept himself out of the limelight. He oversaw an ambush in Indonesia: three Decepticons would kill a few hundred humans, getting the predictable Autobots to give chase and be ambushed at an old Dutch fort. He watched as Crosshairs didn’t rush in head on and wiped out his team, but the Autobots remained unaware he was around so he was alright! Thousand Island Flight
Age of Extinction film
- Voice actor: Mark Ryan (English), Tsutomu Isobe (Japanese), Carlos Segundo (Latin American Spanish)
Lockdown was tasked with hunting down Optimus Prime for the Creators, as they wanted the Autobot leader returned to them alive. To accomplish this goal, he travelled to Earth and began to help the human organization Cemetery Wind, who had already begun hunting and killing the surviving Autobots on Earth. In exchange for the safe apprehension of Prime, he promised Harold Attinger a Seed, a device that could cyberform a massive area of land, in exhange for their assistance in capturing Optimus.
At some point after the Battle of Chicago, Lockdown and Cemetery Wind managed to lay a trap for Optimus in Mexico City. Despite suffering grievous wounds, Prime managed to escape his pursuers.
Lockdown would eventually help bring down Ratchet. After the Autobot medic had been seriously wounded, he demanded Optimus' location in exchange for his life. When Ratchet refused, Lockdown ripped his spark from his chest, killing him and incidentally fulfilling an old contract. Lockdown later met Attinger on the hull of his ship to discuss their arrangements. When Prime eventually came out of hiding, Lockdown joined Cemetery Wind in the chase and battled Prime across the length of Paris, Texas. Lockdown lost the fight, but killed Cade Yeager's friend Lucas with one of his grenades in the process.
Later, after the Autobots had attacked KSI, Optimus was battling Galvatron when Lockdown ambushed him and took him and Tessa Yeager captive, explaining that he was working for the Creators and that they wanted Optimus back. He flew his ship over Chicago to meet Cemetery Wind and gave the humans the Seed as payment for their help, expressing his relief to be leaving Earth.
After explaining the origins of his ship and why the Creators wanted him, he locked Prime up with the Dinobots. Lockdown soon took off into space, unaware that the Autobots had rescued Optimus, as well as steal the part of the ship containing his trophies.
Eventually figuring it out, Lockdown angrily returned to Earth and utilized a magnetic weapon on his ship to pull vehicles into the air and drop them on the Autobots. After Optimus destroyed the weapon, Lockdown descended to Hong Kong to battle him in person. Optimus and Lockdown had a vicious fight, with Lockdown gaining the upper hand after Optimus was distracted due to the Prime killing Attinger to save Cade. Lockdown then impaled Optimus with his own sword, telling him what a shame it was about him defending the human instead of saving himself. But before he could finish him, Bumblebee, Cade , Tessa and Shane Dyson all teamed up against him. Optimus' allies' attack on him proved difficult for him to counter. After dispatching Bumblebee, he prepared to kill Cade, and didn't notice that Shane and Tessa had freed Optimus. Optimus then stabbed Lockdown through the spark with his sword and cut his head and upper body in half, brutally killing him. Before taking off with the humans, Optimus used one of Lockdown's grenades to finish the remaining KSI drones while the Hong Kong Air Force began to attack his inactive ship. Optimus Prime then took of into space to investigate who were the said creators Lockdown constantly mentioned. Age of Extinction
Games
Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark
Some time during his stay on Earth, Lockdown tracked down the Dark Spark as it made its way toward the planet. The Autobots realized the destruction the relic could cause and moved to retrieve it, only to be stopped by the bounty hunter. Intercepting the Autobots, Lockdown grabbed the Dark Spark first and took it for himself. Despite Optimus Prime's pleas, Lockdown was more interested in the profit he could make from its power. As Prime attempted to tackle Lockdown and take the artifact, Lockdown activated its power and froze the Autobots in place long enough to escape.
Later, the Autobots attempted to infiltrate Lockdown's base but were unsuccessful. Drift was captured while Bumblebee escaped, but only long enough to find an alternate path to retrieve his colleague. Lockdown sent a titan after them to prevent their escape, but the Autobots were able to slip out and regroup.
Finally breaking into Lockdown's base, they discovered he had been using the power of the Dark Spark to create a time bridge to go back in time and prevent the Autobot's victory at the Battle of Chicago. In doing so, he would revive the war and with it his main source of income. Optimus once again pleaded to rethink, citing the destruction that Earth would have to endure if the war were to continue, but as usual Lockdown didn't care. Optimus once again tried to tackle Lockdown, who activated the Dark Spark's power again to stop him in mid-air. In true super villain fashion, Lockdown monologued his plan rather than do something about Prime, who was able to break free of the Dark Spark's power. The two fought to a standstill until Drift was able to move in and cut the Dark Spark from Lockdown's chest. Fumbling to catch it, Lockdown instead knocked it into Drift's hand long enough for Optimus to activate the Matrix of Leadership and blast it into the time bridge. Lockdown took the opportunity to escape, swearing that "this isn't the end".
Toys
Age of Extinction
Generations
- Lockdown (Deluxe, 2014)
- Accessories: Face-gun
- Lockdown transforms into an officially licensed Lamborghini Aventador. Lockdown is decently articulated, with only the waist not having some articulation. Lockdown comes with a very long gun that can either attach on either of his hands or in his head (via a slot for the gun to snap in) to simulate his "face-gun". The gun can also peg onto the top of his vehicle mode. His transformation is extremely similar to Deluxe Roadbuster's transformation.
- The Takara Movie Advanced Series version of the figure replaces much of the robot mode's grey plastic with black.
Robots in Disguise
- Lockdown (Flip & Change, 2014)
- Lockdown (One Step Changers, 2014)
- Japanese ID number: LA09
- Similar to an Activators toy, Lockdown can transform into a robot by pressing a button on his vehicle mode. This version of him does not have a licensed Lamborghini Aventador car mode (No licensing information is printed on his packaging, nor does the car have a Lamborghini symbol).
- The Japanese release of Lockdown does away with the blue paint on his robot mode and car rear, and features black and metallic blue paint detail on his robot parts.
- Lockdown (Power Battlers, 2014)
- Lockdown with Wolf (Dino Sparkers, 2014)
- Lockdown (Titan Heroes, 2014)
- Titan Heroes Lockdown is an extremely simplified 12-inch tall action figures with a mere five points of articulation meant for younger audiences.
Kre-O
- See: Lockdown (Kre-O)
Construct-Bots
- See: Lockdown (CB)
Notes
- The head on Revenge of the Fallen Deluxe Lockdown's instruction lineart is actually that of his retool, Axor. The head can be seen in much clearer detail on page 8 of the San Diego Comic-Con Hasbro Design Sketchbook, volume 2.
- Much like his namesake, Lockdown goes from having a relatively Deluxe-sized vehicle mode to a towering, Leader-sized robot mode.
- In an even bigger reference to his Animated counterpart, Lockdown's AOE incarnation has the ability to transform his hands into various weapons, such as the famous hook, a blaster, a spark extractor device, and even his chainsaw-hand. He can also turn his head into a sniper rifle-esque cannon, lending credence to the fact that he's probably been building on himself like his original incarnation.
Foreign names
- Hungarian: Vesztegzár ("Quarantine")
References
- ↑ Dark of the Moon has no explicit date but as Sam has graduated, it's set in 2012 at the earliest
