Nightstrike
- Nightstrike is a Decepticon from the Robots in Disguise portion of the Aligned continuity family.
If you met Nightstrike, you might be impressed by how polite and mild-mannered he is. Of course, that's offset by his monstrous, bat-like visage. Less obvious than either of these things are his ability to use his sonic scream in order to stimulate the fear processing centers of his victims' brains, and his vampiric ability to drain them of their energon. He may tell you he's simply doing what he needs to survive, but Nightstrike will still readily drain the life out of whomever he ends up trapping in their own nightmares.
Fiction
2015 Robots in Disguise cartoon
- Voice actor: Tom Kenny (English)
 Spoiler warning: Plot details for Even Robots Have Nightmares follow. |
Nightstrike was interred on the prison ship Alchemor, until it crashed and he was released from his stasis pod. Later, he would invade the Autobots' scrapyard, where he abducted one of Chop Shop's spiders, dragging them off to his cavernous layer. Though they quickly lost both his and his victim's signal, Bumblebee and his team did discover his location. However, he was able to capture them all in short order, including the Autobots' human ally, Denny Clay, who was both not affected by Nightstrike's powers and possessed no energon for Nightstrike to feed upon.
Denny managed to convince Nightstrike a rescue party was on its way, allowing his son Russell to free him while Nightstrike "prepared" for their arrival. However, the Decepticon returned in short order, causing both humans to run distractions while the other worked to free the Cybertronians. Ultimately, Nightstrike was defeated when the freed Autobots disabled their audio receptors, allowing Grimlock to dispatch him in short order.
