Offroad (CW)
- Offroad is a Decepticon from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Offroad is a new recruit to the Stunticons, and his teammates are being slow to trust him. He's confident and charismatic, unnervingly at ease in his new role, and worse, he's started using the colors of his predecessor. What's up with that, man? Conveniently, his experience operating in extreme conditions gives him the opportunity to gain his new comrades' trust, by taking on all the treacherous missions that they steer well clear of.
Normally, this distrust between Offroad and his teammates could be considered a hindrance to the combination process, but where Menasor is concerned, that's probably just a drop in the ocean...
Fiction
IDW Generation 1 continuity
After a particularly humiliating defeat resulted in Wildrider leaving the Stunticons, Offroad was brought in to replace him. As the Stunticons were explaining to him how they operated, they were approached by Swindle, who piqued their interest by showing them that he had with him the Enigma of Combination.
After using the Enigma to upgrade Menasor, the Stunticons combined, and accompanied Swindle to the colony world of Caminus, preparing to bring destruction down upon its people. First Contact
Games
Transformers Legends
Offroad and the rest of the Stunticons were created in response to the failure of a Decepticon campaign to acquire Autobot superfuel. Realizing they needed a strong ground force, Offroad and his kin were created by modifying Earth vehicles with Cybertronian technology, and then bringing them before Vector Sigma to be imbued with the spark of life. The Autobots brought the Aerialbots to life at the same time, and the Decepticons found themselves on the losing side until the Stunticons merged into Menasor. The Decepticons lost nonetheless, though they acquired the key to Vector Sigma as a consolation prize. The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1 Later, Offroad participated in a fight on Earth as the Decepticons attempted to use the power of the key to transform Earth into a new Cybertron. Even though he and his fellow Stunticons merged into Menasor, the battle was still lost to the Autobots, and the Decepticons fled. Key to Vector Sigma, Part 2
Transformers: Battle Tactics
Offroad participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! Transformers: Battle Tactics
Toys
Generations
- Decepticon Offroad (Deluxe Class, 2015)
- Accessories: Axe, hand/foot/gun/engine
- Part of the second wave of Generations Combiner Wars Deluxe class toys, Offroad is a new-mold figure which transforms from a 4x4 double-cab pickup truck to robot and back! As a Combiner Wars Deluxe figure he can form a combined-mode limb for any Voyager Class toy from the same subline but is, of course, intended to be combined with Motormaster, Breakdown, Drag Strip, Dead End, and Blackjack to create Menasor. He includes a 5mm handle axe weapon, and a larger accessory that can form a hand or foot in limb mode, a gun for robot mode, and can be mounted on a tab in the vehicle mode's truck bed to form a giant engine block.
- In the US, Offroad is packed in with a copy of IDW's Robots in Disguise #14, labelled in its indicia as Combiner Wars #6. In other regions, he instead includes a collector card featuring his packaging art.
- Offroad's toy began life as an update of the Triggercon Ruckus,[1] and as such features a head and sculpted detail drawing inspiration from the character. The decision to make him a new character instead was reportedly due to a combination of name unavailability and Hasbro concluding that Ruckus didn't make that much sense as a Stunticon anyway.
- He was retooled to create First Aid.
