Outlier (group)

Outliers are mutant Cybertronians from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

To Me, My O-Men!

Outliers are Transformers who possess abilities that have no apparent connection to their alternate mode. Persecuted in the Functionist era of Cybertron, some were hidden away within the Jhiaxian Academy of Advanced Technology, spending their time learning to control their extraordinary powers to protect the world that hated and feared them.

Known outliers include:

• Windcharger, whose arms act as magnets.
• Damus, better known by his alias "Glitch", an empurata victim with the ability to render non-sentient objects non-functional by touching them.
• Skids, who can quickly perfect any new skill he wants to.
• Trailbreaker, who can generate forcefields.
• Skywarp, who can teleport.
• Soundwave, who has hearing so strong he can pick up thoughts.
• Ragnarok, Can bud identical copies of himself.

Fiction

IDW Generation 1 continuity

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Senator Shockwave opened a school known as the Jhiaxian Academy of Advanced Technology, Shockwaves where Cybertronians could not only study science, but outliers could go to live safely and develop their abilities. Skids joined the academy as a trainee theoretician Patternism and Shockwave soon began to suspect he was also an outlier. An Intimate Beheading

Senator Shockwave and Captain Orion Pax would call on the aid of Windcharger, Glitch and Skids to help steal the explosive fake Matrix housed in Nominus Prime's corpse. While they succeeded, Shockwave's patronage of his "outlier army" would be discovered in the process, and he was subjected to empurata and mind-warping "shadowplay" as a result. An Intimate Beheading

Ask Vector Prime

It is reveal that Ragnarok is an Outlier whose body will sporadically undergo an involuntary budding event but unlike the normal process, his copies possess identical CNA and memories of the original Ragnarok.

Notes

• It is not confirmed but issue #22 of Robots in Disguise implies that Soundwave is an outlier. Nautica is named as a suspected outlier in issue #31 of More Than Meets The Eye.