Mayhem Attack Squad
- The Mayhem Attack Squad is a team of Decepticons in the Generation 1 continuity family.
The Mayhem Attack Squad is the Decepticon answer to the Wreckers. The team's lineup is ever-changing, with the most bloodthirty and deadly Decepticons recruited to swell the team's ranks when old members die or desert.
Unlike the Wreckers the Mayhems also have a SWEET ship. When Megatron isn't stealing it, that is.
The team's known members have included:
- 1st known lineup
- 2nd known lineup
- Bludgeon
- Needlenose
- Octopunch
- Snarler (Leader)
- Spinister
- Stranglehold
- 3rd known lineup
- Bludgeon (Leader)
- Octopunch
- Stranglehold
Fiction
Marvel Comics continuity
- Events from UK-only stories are italicized.
With Galvatron and Megatron teamed up on Earth and a rift in time and space threatenning to destroy all reality the Decepticons on Cybertron were getting desperate. The Mayhem Attack Squad were teamed with the Autobots' Wreckers and sent to earth in a Decepticon ship to bring down Galvatron and Megatron. Secretly the Mayhems were under orders to kill any surviving Wreckers once the threat of Galvatron and Megatron was over.
Once on Earth the two teams joined with the advance scouts Broadside, Inferno and Sandstorm, and moved to attack Galvatron in his lair.
The battle could have gone... better than it did.
Galvatron embedded his hand in Battletrap's chest, cannon-blasted Venom and by the time the first skirmish was over only Carnivac, Flywheels and Catilla remained alive.
As the battle was moved above ground Carnivac had a change of heart about killing Springer or letting him die when Springer saved his life.
The battle escalated, as more and more Autobots and Decepticons joined. Ultimately it was neither Wrecker nor Mayhem that would destroy Galvatron, but a rift in time and space.
With the Time Wars over the two surviving Mayhem Attack Squad members found themselves stranded on Earth because Megatron stole their ship to return to Cybertron!
The surviving Mayhems joined with the surviving Wreckers and the stray Autobots Inferno and Skids to form a new team called The Survivors.
Shortly after this Carnivac teamed with Snarler (with Catilla observing) on a mission for Scorponok. The three were given Pretender shells as a reward. Snarler, however, was not impressed when the two former Mayhems refused to rejoin the Decepticons.
Snarler returned to Cybertron and set about recruiting a new Mayhem Attack Squad to destroy Carnivac and Catilla.
While they succeeded in destroying Catilla, they were targeted for vengeance by Carnivac.
On Cybertron the Mayhem Attack Squad - Bludgeon, Stranglehold, and Octopunch - were assigned to assassinate the Autobot Pretenders Bumblebee, Jazz, and Grimlock. Yesterday's Heroes!
After initially failing to kill the Autobots, the Squad was accidentally sent deep inside Cybertron along with the Autobots. The two groups met inside a huge chamber containing a sleeping Primus, and promptly set about trying to kill each other.
After the Squad had been utterly crushed, Octopunch made one final attack against a distracted Grimlock, which was deflected by Grimlocks armor and ended up hitting Primus in the face. Consequently, Primus awoke, drawing Unicron to his ancient enemy's location.
Earthforce
Along with his allies the Survivors and Grimlock's Earthforce, Carnivac saw to it that all the members of the Mayhem Attack Squad were either killed or captured.
The three surviving members, Blugeon, Octopunch and Stranglehold, managed to escape from Earthforce by being quiet.
Trivia
- Flywheels and Battletrap are the only team members to have appeared prior to the Mayhem Attack Squad's debut in Time Wars, part 3. It is unknown whether they were part of the team at this time.
- Flywheels is not seen again after the Time Wars story arc. Though he is never seen to be killed, he may have been so "off-screen" at some point in the battle.
- Although Flywheels vanishes after Time Wars, Battletrap - who WAS seen to die - reappears later in both the post-Unicron US issues and in Generation 2, among Bludgeon's forces.
