Nightstick (Headmasters)
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- Nightstick is an Autobot Targetmaster from the Generation 1 continuity family.
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Nightstick is the Targetmaster partner of Artfire.
Fiction
The Headmasters manga
In an Earth, the Decepticon Targetmasters Slugslinger, Misfire and Triggerhappy set a blazing inferno. Chromedome and Daniel were having trouble controlling the fire when Artfire and Ricochet, accompanied by their partners Nightstick and, uh, Nightstick, showed up to help. Artfire quickly quenched the blaze while his Nightstick helped rescue the people trapped in burning buildings. With the fire under control, the Autobots then set their attentions on the Decepticons and send them into a retreat.
Toys
Generation 1
- Artfire (Targetmaster, 1987)
- Nightstick is identical to Fracas, Scourge's Targetmaster partner. Nightstick was released with Artfire, a retool of Inferno. At the time, the pair was exclusive to Japan.
- The other Japanese-exclusive Targetmaster, Stepper, came with a partner identical to Cyclonus's. Since Cyclonus and Scourge were never released as Targetmasters in Japan, it seems Takara just wanted to put their gun-partners in Autobot hands. They even had the same names: one was called "Nightstick," and the other was called "Nebulon" (which is how Scourge's on-package bio referred to Fracas). But those names were switched: the Nightstick-lookalike was called "Nebulon" and vice-versa. This could have been the extent of the confusion, but 16 years later, the North American Commemorative Series release of Stepper (as "Ricochet") gave his partner the "proper" name of Nightstick. Nguh.
