Blight (Prime)

The name or term "Blight" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Blight (disambiguation).

Blight is a Predacon from the Aligned continuity family.

Blight. Stupid. Destructive. Controllable. Leg.

Perfect.

Fiction

Full of Fire!

Blight joined five other Predacons in an attack on the Autobots. Unfortunately the Autobots had just built themselves new weapons, which proved to be more than effective against the Predacons. Blight and Hun-Gurr experienced Bulkhead's Rhino Blade, and that was enough to send them packing. The Predacons were beaten into a retreat, and withdrew back to the Nemesis. Full of Fire!

Games

"Hunt the Beasts" online game

While you investigated Shockwave's lab, Blight could be seen sneaking around unsupervised. Along with several Predacons, he broke free of Shockwave's lab, causing the Decepticon scientist to flee. Information on him could be found via the lab's numerous data terminals. Hunt the Beasts

Toys

Cyberverse

• Blight (Cyberverse Legion, 2013)
  • Series / Number: 3 / 010
  • Accessories: Affliction Hammer

Part of the third wave of Prime: Beast Hunters Series 3 Cyberverse Legion Class toys, Blight transforms into a bipedal dragon. His robot mode hands can hold the weapon via the latter's multiple 3mm posts, and he and the weapon feature numerous 3mm mounting points.

Though not called out in the instructions, Blight combines with Cyberverse Twinstrike, Hun-Gurrr, Windrazor, and Predacon Rippersnapper, to form Abominus, with Blight forming the left leg.

His hammer accessory was also used, in varying colors, by Twinstrike, Prowl, and Rot Gut. This toy was redecoed into Rot Gut and Go! Burara.

Beast Hunters

• Abominus (Giftset, 2013)
  • Accessories: Affliction Hammer

Part of the Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising subline imprint, Abominus is a giftset of Cyberverse Hun-Gurrr, Windrazor, Predacon Rippersnapper, Twinstrike, and Blight, slightly redecoed by way of translucent plastic replacing a main color of each character, as well as translucent purple weapons. In Blight's case, the metallic blue plastic is now translucent, although it's hard to notice due to its dark color; in addition, the lavender plastic has lost much of its saturation, having become almost gray in the process, and the tampographed Predacon insignia on the right side of his chest has been changed from yellow to purple.

This set was a Target exclusive in the United States and Canada, a Tesco exclusive in the United Kingdom, a Carrefour exclusive in France, a Ripley exclusive in Chile and a Toys"R"Us exclusive in Australia much later, in late 2014.

Despite consisting of nothing but redecos of Cyberverse figures, this set features no Cyberverse logo on its packaging.

• Bumblebee & Blight (Legion 2-pack, 2013)
  • Accessories: Affliction Hammer

For the Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising subline imprint, Blight was recolored in deep red with gray and turquoise accents. This version of Blight was only available in a two-pack with a somewhat-more show-accurate Bumblebee. Amusingly, he is packaged with his robot mode head very visibly sticking out of his beast-mode crotch.

The color palette, along with his troll-like beast mode, make this redeco a likely homage to Generation One Icepick.

He looks eerily similar to the aforementioned Go! Burara release of the sculpt, which only sports some very few color differences.

As a second wave Predacons Rising release, this set was only available as a Target exclusive in the US (and not in Canada, Australia or Europe), and on top of that was by far the rarest and hardest to find of all Predacons Rising products. For some reason, it was stocked by various Japan-based import stores, though, thus making this the easiest (though not cheapest) way to obtain the two-pack. Like the Abominus giftset, this two-pack features no Cyberverse logo on its packaging.

Notes

• Blight is, of course, an homage to Generation 1 Blot.