Hot Shot (G1)
| The name or term "Hot Shot" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Hot Shot (disambiguation). |
- Hot Shot is an Autobot originally from the Henkei! Henkei! portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Hot Shot is an honorable warrior deft in stylish battle. Despite his secret destiny for future leadership, he still requires much advice from his senior comrades.
His partner is Jolt.
Fiction
Henkei! Henkei! pack-in comic
Hot Rod was dug up from the ground, stuck in stasis lock, by the Mini Vehicles, just before the buried body of Dinobot was also discovered. As Hot Rod slowly gained consciousness, Dinobot began to attack the others, until finally Hot Rod (and his Mini-Con, Jolt) faced Dinobot in battle. As Hot Rod performed stylish moves, Dinobot suggested the two battle for leadership. However, Hot Rod declined Dinobot's offer and suggested instead they team up and make peace.
Hot Rod returned with Dinobot to Autobot headquarters, where Grimlock quickly ruined Hot Rod's plan by suggesting that Grimlock and Dinobot play at battle with each other. Henkei! Henkei! volume 11
IDW Generation 1 continuity
 Plot details for The Sum and Its Parts follow. |
Early in the war, a familiar yellow Autobot was destroyed by Drag Strip in the front lines of battle. Drift #2
But who cares about that guy, because an equally-familiar yellow robot named Hot Shot was living on the Transformers colony on Caminus, operating as a Cityspeaker for the planet's namesake, alongside Lightbright. The two attempted to translate Caminus's warnings as Menasor and Swindle arrived on their planet to loot it for spoils. The Sum and Its Parts
The Functionist Universe
Template:Notecmn In an altered timeline in which the war was averted, our familiar yellow robot persisted to the present day. He watched in confusion as his data slug companion was remotely executed by the Functionists. Don't tell him about that other guy walking around who also looks yellow and familiar in a different yet pertinently similar way. The Custom-Made Now
Seriously, there are a lot of Hot Shots, you guys.
Toys
Henkei! Henkei!
- Cybertron Hot Rod (Deluxe, 2009)
- Japanese ID number: C-17
- Accessories: 2 missile launchers, 2 flame missiles
- Henkei! Henkei! Hot Rod is a redeco and retool of Universe Hot Shot, using chrome for his exposed engine block. Unlike the Hasbro version which sticks relatively close to the original Hot Shot's toy color scheme, Takara's version switches the desaturated blue plastic used for the forearms and feet with gray plastic, matching the Armada cartoon colors more closely. Both the yellow and the red plastic are lighter shades than the Universe version (the red more so than the yellow), and the clear blue is darker. Almost every paint deco is a different color on the Henkei figure compared to the Universe, and the Henkei figure has some additional paint where the Universe lacks (and vice versa). Whereas the Hasbro release's license plate sported a "JAAM" nod, the Henkei version instead features the character's name, "Hot Rod".
- The Henkei version retains the missile launchers dropped from the Hasbro release, plus the rear bumper features a molded gap in it that allows it to accommodate the missile launchers as his exhaust. Both the missile launchers (minus the handles & triggers) and the exposed engine are chromed. The missile launchers can either be hand-held or mounted to his forearms. The missiles are sculpted to resemble fiery blasts, and they were originally intended by Hasbro to be tinted orange (to work with their idea of Hot Shot as a fire-type character). Instead, they are painted over clear blue on the exposed parts.
- Hot Rod's prototype featured transparent plastic on his side windows to match his windshield and rear window, but was replaced with painted opaque windows on the final toy.
Notes
- For a while this page was at Hot Rod (Henkei!), which may have seemed strange to English-speaking fans that this is "another Hot Rod" in the Henkei! Henkei! continuity, but it is consistent with previously established Japanese nomenclature: The character known in English-speaking markets as "Hot Rod" has always been known in Japan as "Hot Rodimus". And the Unicron Trilogy character Hot Shot's Japanese name is "Hot Rod". Henkei! Henkei! continues those two traditions, which do not conflict with each other.
- Ultimately, Hot Shot's inclusion in the Combiner Wars storyline finally got him an English name.[1]
- The possibility exists that the Henkei iteration is not a new character after all, since his "origin" consists of him being dug out of the ground. Could he be the Unicron Trilogy character, warped into the Henkei! Henkei! universe somehow? We'll never know... until the next Kiss Players.
- A Hot Shot showed up to die in Drift #2 because someone convinced artist Alex Milne to draw him as a casualty, noting that it would make David Willis mad. Milne drew him into the story based on his dislike of Armada and reasoning that the character would not be one used again in the continuity.[2] Because it was a Generation 1-based story, the incident is documented here, rather than on UT Hot Shot's page.
Foreign names
- Japanese: Hot Rod (ホットロッド Hotto Roddo)
