Nickel
- Nickel is a Decepticon from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Nickel is a medic and maintenance 'bot, serving the Decepticon Justice Division, aboard the Peaceful Tyranny. The DJD may be a ruthless, merciless, death squad, and Nickel may be the size of an energon cube, but she won't hesitate to put a single one of them in their places if they skip out on their upkeep and maintenance. Besides being a effective medic, she is also very skilled in the art of hand gestures and nonverbal communication.
Fiction
IDW Generation 1 continuity
 Plot details for The Permanent Revolution follow. |
Nickel was born from a hotspot in Prion, one of the Titans who left Cybertron in its ancient past, searching for planets to colonize. Sometime in the recent past, the Black Block Consortia came to Prion and wiped out the entire population of mechanical beings....or so they thought. Nickel was the lone survivor of the genocide, and when the Decepticon Justice Division came across the scene, and Nickel, they recruited her to their cause. She came to work for the DJD as a medic and something of a surrogate "mother", telling them off for neglecting their hygiene and maintenance, and endearing herself to the crew.The Permanent Revolution
Notes
- With her introduction, Nickel became the first female Decepticon to appear in the IDW G1 universe.
- Nickel's appearance as a female transformer from a colony other than Caminus follows on from several hints in other issues that gender was present on ancient Cybertron, explaining its continued existence in the colonies and suggesting modern Cybertron is the exception rather than the norm.
- Nickel is the first female Transformer in the IDW-verse to have chosen to join the Decepticons.
