Metal fatigue

Metal fatigue is an ailment that affects old Transformers.

Fiction

Marvel Comics continuity

Marvel The Transformers comics

Scrounge refused to tell Straxus about his spying, claiming that Straxus would become deaf from metal fatigue before he would talk. The Smelting Pool!

Generation 1 toy bios

Flintlock turned into a stress pistol which caused steel to develop metal fatigue and stress fractures. Landfill's toy bio