Triggerhappy (G1)
| This article is about the Decepticon Targetmaster. For the Marvel UK text story, see Trigger-Happy!. |
- Triggerhappy is a Decepticon Targetmaster from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Triggerhappy is a nutball. You get them in the Decepticons from time to time. He's generally found drooling and/or giggling wildly. He's been that way ever since an incident at Decepticon boot camp, in which he was firing while surfing on his hoverboard, but fell off and hit his head. He remained firing all the while and ended up disintegrating half a dozen other Decepticons. The camp commander was impressed and graduated Triggerhappy on the spot. Nobody is sure if it's an act or if he suffered processor damage in the fall. What is known is that he pays very little attention to where he's shooting but LOVES the sound his gun makes when fired. Good idea arming him there, Megatron.
Triggerhappy is binary-bonded with Blowpipe, the conniving, envious brother-in-law of Nebulan leader Zarak.
| “ | Have gun, have fun! | ” |
—Triggerhappy's motto | ||
Fiction
The Transformers cartoon
- Voice actor: Charles Adler (English), Ken Narita (Japanese)
Triggerhappy was one of several Decepticon jets serving under Scourge and Cyclonus when they attacked Autobot City as part of a division while the Decepticon Clones stole the Key to the Plasma Energy Chamber. After Scourge successfully activated the chamber on Cybertron (and inadvertently sent a shuttle full of Autobots and the key halfway across the galaxy), Triggerhappy, Misfire and Slugslinger were among the Decepticon unit sent to retrieve the key. Following the Autobots to Nebulos, Triggerhappy attacked the Autobums, welcoming them to the scrapyard that they would become should he succeed in destroying them. The Rebirth, Part 1
Though the Decepticons managed to capture several Autobots, they were soon overwhelmed by new Headmaster technology the Autobots developed with the Nebulan rebels. After making a deal with the Hive, the Decepticons underwent binary bonding as well, and Triggerhappy was given a new partner who blows hard and fast. Armed with this new skill, Triggerhappy and his Targetmaster companions successfully helped reacquire the Chamber's key. While waiting for Zarak to complete modifications to his city, Triggerhappy declared a possible gasket-blowing event was imminent should he be made to wait any longer. The Rebirth, Part 2
Triggerhappy and the other Targetmasters returned to Cybertron just in the nick of time to save Galvatron from the remainder of the Autobot forces. Galvatron was less than impressed by their new Hive partners, however, and addressed Triggerhappy directly when he berated them for letting organics inhabit their bodies, despite the fact Triggerhappy wasn't a Headmaster. The Rebirth, Part 3
Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity
The Headmasters cartoon
- Voice actor: Michihiro Ikemizu
Triggerhappy and his partners, Misfire and Slugslinger, were frequent opponents of the Autobot trio under Pointblank's command. When all of them were engaged in combat over several space-faring denizens of planet Master, a massive explosion caught everyone off-guard. Triggerhappy and his partners and foes alike were transformed into Targetmasters, somehow fused together in pairs with each of the smaller Master Transformers by the explosion. Miraculous Warriors, Targetmasters (Part 1)
The Headmasters manga
Triggerhappy and the Decepticon Targetmasters attempted to disrupt the Autobots' efforts to put out a blazing fire on Earth. The Autobots' split focus left them vulnerable, until the Battleship Maximus extinguished the entire fire in one sweep. Ricochet and Artfire then turned their full attention on Triggerhappy and his allies, driving them from the scene. The Headmasters #7
Marvel Comics continuity
Marvel The Transformers comics
For some reason, when Scorponok was choosing troops who might enjoy becoming binary-bonded Targetmasters with more powerful weapons, he thought of Triggerhappy. Brothers in Armor!! When he needed to capture one of the Autobot Headmasters to study the process further, Scorponok had Triggerhappy and the other Targetmasters lay in wait to ambush them at the Fortress of Despair with...mixed results. Worlds Apart! Shortly afterwards the Decepticons left Nebulos and pursued the Autobots aboard the Steelhaven to Earth. Brothers in Armor!!
During the war on Earth, Triggerhappy got sick of Scorponok's command, especially after he let that maniac Starscream back into the Decepticons. Triggerhappy couldn't stand working with Starscream, so he and Mindwipe left Scorponok's Decepticons and joined Shockwave's auxiliary army, which included Runamuck, Runabout, Ravage and Starscream. Eye of the Storm
Wait. What?
Their coup was interrupted when Primus summoned all the Transformers of Earth to Cybertron to do battle with Unicron. Out of Time! Triggerhappy and the other teleported Transformers witnessed Primus, speaking through the body of Emirate Xaaron, tell the history of their supernatural war with the Dark God. The Void!
Regeneration One
Transformers in 3-D
While Galvatron used his Nullification Cannon on Cybertron's energon suppliy, Triggerhappy was part of a team lead by Sixshot that carried out a diversionary attack. Triggerhappy was punched out by Optimus Prime. The War Against the Destructons, Chapter 1 of 3
Ladybird Books continuity
Triggerhappy was among the Decepticons who traveled to Nebulos in search of energy. When they discovered a wealth of cosmic energy at the pole, Triggerhappy reminded Slugslinger that if used it to kill all the Autobots, they wouldn't have anyone to fight. When their energy collection attempt required them to move Scorponok to the pole, the Autobots melted the ice under their base, causing it to sink. Decepticons at the Pole
Toy pack-in material
When Optimus became stranded on Cybertron's hemisphere of darkness with his memory damaged, Triggerhappy joined a small strike force of Decepticons called S.T.O.P. (Seek and Terminate Optimus Prime) to either destroy or recruit the amnesic Autobot leader. Optimus Prime Is Back
IDW Generation 1 continuity
Triggerhappy was part of the crew of the Thanatos, commanded by Razorclaw and the Predacons. He begrudgingly gave aid to Optimus Prime and the Wreckers while battling Thunderwing in order to preserve their home planet of Cybertron and show the Autobots how war was really done. Stormbringer #4
Much later, Triggerhappy appeared among the Decepticons imprisoned on Cybertron after the war with D-Void. The Autonomy Lesson Triggerhappy was part of an angry Decepticon crowd who demanded answers from the Autobots for Ratbat's death.Stick Together He joined up with Shockwave, who was trying to lead the Decepticons back into war, only to be killed by Arcee while guarding their base. The End of the Beginning of the World
United
A nano-virus that afflicted most Autobots save the Targetmasters and the Headmasters required Ricochet to lead a team to Nebulos for an anti-virus. However, the nano-virus was merely a ploy by the Decepticons to draw out the Targetmasters and Headmasters to abduct their Nebulan partners, so when the Autobots arrived on Nebulos, Triggerhappy and several other Decepticons were waiting for them! Triggerhappy and the others quickly fell into disarray, unfortunately, when their leader Straxus was singled out and defeated. The Fierce Fighting on Planet Nebulos
Games
The Transformers (PS2)
Transformers Legends
Triggerhappy was caught up in a Quintesson plot to disrupt the Galactic Games. The Galactic Games
Toys
Generation 1
- Triggerhappy with Blowpipe (Targetmaster, 1987)
- Japanese ID number: D-88
- Accessories: "Blowpipe" Targetmaster gun/Compressed Air Cannon
- Triggerhappy transforms into a blue Cybertronic fighter craft with large, dual off-white cannons on either side his body and four wing-mounted thrusters, making him look kinda-sorta-vaguely like an X-wing Fighter from Star Wars. His Targetmaster partner, Blowpipe, can be stored in a socket on the rear of the fighter, just in front of where his head is stored. Somewhat unusually, the entire cockpit nose is mounted on a bar that swings upward so the nose meets with the rear fuselage to form his upper torso. His large fighter cannons swing up to the sides of his arms in robot mode, but the hinges aren't strong enough to deal with their weight, so they have a tendency to flop down.
- Like the other Targetmasters, his Japanese release lacks a Rubsign.
Notes
- For some reason Triggerhappy's character model in the comics and cartoon differs from that of his toy and package art. He has a faceplate in his fictional appearances, and normal eyes, giving him a ninja-like face. His toy features a normal face with comic-Nightbeat-style "shades".
- The 1987 and 1988 North American catalogs featuring Triggerhappy depict him using a non-final toy - one whose head is blatantly a hand-painted copy of Blaster's!
Foreign names
- Japanese: Triggerhappy (トリガーハーピー Torigāhāpī)
- French: Déclic (Canada)
- Italian: Efestus
