Riptide (G1)
| This article is about the Generation 1 Autobot. For the Armada Autobot, see Riptide (Armada). |
- Riptide is an Autobot Hydrobot from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
One of the second wave of Cold Constructed 'Bots, Riptide has never really been particularly smart. Preferring to enjoy the simpler things in life (such as drinking at Swerve's and pulling pranks on his fellow 'bots) Riptide fits perfectly into the Lost Light's already dysfunctional crew. He's also a bit of a chatterbox, especially when worried or scared.
Fiction
IDW Generation 1 continuity
Riptide was Cold Constructed as a Made to Order Soldier in response to the Simanzi Massacre, he was constructed as a Hydrobot to combat the Forced Flood.
Riptide was present when Drift and Pipes purchased the Lost Light from a pair of NAILs in Iacon's religious quarter. Suspicious of the original owners, Riptide offered to go back to get a receipt of sale but found the NAILs laughing about how they had sold a ship that contained a Sparkeater. In response Riptide attacked them but was instead knocked out for two days, preventing him from joining the original Lost Light crew. Twenty Plus One
He finally got a second chance to join up a few years later when the Lost Light briefly returned to Cybertron. As the ship prepared to get back to its mission, a disinterested Riptide was roped into helping Swerve and Crosscut with his fake new crewmember interviews. Towards Peace
Reading the Lost Light Insider at Swerve's, Riptide managed to convince Trailcutter to break into the Medbay and steal Megatron's "super fuel". When communications with the Forcefield Specialist broke down, Riptide brushed off Skids' concerns. Words Hang in the Air Not long afterwards when it became apparent that the Lost Light was disappearing around them, Riptide abandoned the ship along with twenty other 'bots aboard the Rodpod, though his fellow escapees continued to vanish. After Nightbeat worked out that those left behind were not part of the Lost Light's crew at launch, the Rodpod arrived at Ofsted XVII to find their ship, apparently broken in half. Twenty Plus One
 Spoiler warning: Plot details for slaughterhouse follow. |
Upon boarding the shattered remains, the Lost Lighters were stunned to recognise their landing zone as Swerve's bar. Megatron enlisted the aid of stowaway Ravage to help look for survivors, and in response Riptide took to mocking the Decepticon feline, getting a few digs in when Ravage claimed to smell Ultra Magnus but instead turned up Minimus Ambus instead. Megatron chastized him for being so flippant in front of a dead body and Riptide felt sufficiently ashamed enough to apologise. He was later teamed with Skids and Getaway as they searched for clues, and was the first to discover a room full of dead Lost Lighters, all in their altmodes and missing their transformation cogs. When both Skids and Megatron reached the conclusion the Lost Light they were aboard had been attacked by the Decepticon Justice Division, Riptide helped explain the group to Nautica, and hurriedly informed the team he'd repaired the Rodpod as the Lost Light shook. slaughterhouse
Notes
- Riptide's robot and vehicle modes were revealed by Alex Milne on Twitter on March 29, 2014.
- Milne partially based Riptide's color scheme on the Water Tribe from television series Avatar: The Last Airbender.
