Dead End (WFC)

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

Dead End is a Decepticon from the Aligned continuity family.

I Have a Gaping Hole for a Mouth, and I Can Only Scream

Dark Energon can do strange and horrific things. Once a chatty hired thug, long-term exposure to the substance has left Dead End a silent, brooding shell of a bot with an insatiable hunger for power. While the Autobots have always thought of him as rather freaky, his recent change in personality and behavior has made even his fellow Decepticons rather unnerved, with Dead End hiding in the darkness, eyeing his comrades and their power cores as rich sources of energy, and waiting.

Fiction

Prime cartoon continuity

During the war for Cybertron, Dead End was critically injured and admitted to the Skyquake Pre-Memorial Hospital. Shockwave would later request him as a test subject for a laser core procedure that would see his spark transplanted into a new shell form, cloned from the Wrecker Wheeljack. Unreliable Narratives

Games

Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3)

The chassis for Dead End, the Tracker Scout, was made available as a part of DLC #2 on September 7, 2010. He was available for the XBox 360 and PS3 versions of the game, but not for the PC version. In addition, he can be played as himself in Escalation mode.

Transformers: Fall of Cybertron

Once again, Dead End does not appear in the campaign of Fall of Cybertron, however he is available in multiplayer.

Transformers: Fall of Cybertron

Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (Xbox 360/PS3/Xbox One)

Dead End appears as an Escalation only character. His default ability is the Repair Drone, and his default weapon is the Scatter Blaster.

Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark

Toys

Prime

Trick or treat, smell my feet
Give me something good to eat
If you don't, I don't care
I'll jump you and rend and tear!

• Dead End (Deluxe, 2012)
  • Series/Number: 1 / 010
  • Accessories: 2 laser swords

Prime: Robots in Disguise Dead End is a retool and redeco of Wheeljack. He sports a new head, which has light-piping not only for his eyes, but also his huge, screaming mouth. He transforms into a modified 2011 Lancia New Stratos Concept, and comes with two swords which can stow underneath the vehicle or attach under the front bumper to create an attack mode. In robot mode, Dead End can either hold the swords, mount them on his shoulders using 5mm posts, or they can be inserted into slots near his wings.

This mold was differently retooled into Prime Wildrider and Timelines Chromedome.

Dead End's head would be used in fiction by Geckobot with Beast Hunters Wheeljack's body in the Beast Wars: Uprising universe.

• More information on Dead End at TFU.info

Notes

• As noted above, Dead End's model is usable in War for Cybertron multiplayer as the Tracker-type chassis for Scout-class characters. His parts are also available in Fall of Cybertron, now classified as Assassin-type components for the Infiltrator class (although his wheels can also be used by Destroyers).

Foreign names

• Russian: Tupik (Тупик, "Dead End")