Thunderblast (Decepticon)
| The name or term "Thunderblast" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Thunderblast (disambiguation). |
- Thunderblast is a Decepticon from the Cybertron portion of the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.
Thunderblast is obsessed with power. She craves it, but rather than directly attaining it herself, she instead seeks to gain power by latching onto a male Decepticon who has it. She forms an instant infatuation with the strongest Decepticon she can find... but as soon as the power structure shifts, so does the focus of her affections. She is usually seen clinging all lovey-dovey to Galvatron, ignoring the fact that he has no interest in her whatsoever beyond her ability to follow orders and destroy Autobots (and be used as a disposable pawn if necessary).
Though she's fickle and flighty (and greedy and selfish and opportunistic and vain and overconfident and...) she's not stupid. She knows how to use her wiles to get what she wants and is always looking for suckers to manipulate to her advantage. She knows Autobots are generally reluctant to shoot at a female (especially one as pretty as she thinks she is) and uses that to her advantage as long as she can... at least, long enough to give them a face full of missiles. She's an effective warrior as most are on land but when it comes to aquatic combat, few can match her skill.
She seems to have something resembling an actual friendship with her fellow "demon" Lugnutz, despite his mellow, unambitious nature. And while she's generally disappointed if guys aren't fawning over her, she's found that she wants nothing to do with the geeky Shortround, who is always head over wheels in love with her. On the other end of the spectrum, she has quickly gained the undying hatred of the human girl Lori.
Fiction
Cybertron cartoon
- Voice actor: Maryke Hendrikse (English), Natsuko Kuwatani (Japanese), Silvia Sarmentera (Spain-Spanish)
Thunderblast arrived on Earth in the colony ship Atlantis millions of years ago. While the Autobots watched over and guided human evolution, the Decepticons terrorized the humans, inspiring the myths and legends of old; Thunderblast was the inspiration for the myth of Lorelei and the Sirens. Thunderblast's Cyber Key Code text These "monsters" were rounded up by the "monster hunter" Crosswise, who locked up the criminals inside a prison located in the center of the Earth (called the "Earth's Navel") where they stayed until they were released by Starscream in the present day. Assault
Thunderblast and Lugnutz defended Starscream's volcano-island base from the Autobots and Decepticons... up to a point. Starscream While Lugnutz decided simply to wander away from the "heavy scene", Thunderblast found herself less than impressed with Starscream and took to following Megatron (whose power was just soooooo dreamy), joining his forces as they journeyed to Cybertron, which transformed into Primus's gargantuan robot mode. United
There, while admiring her looks in a mirrored satellite, she was interrupted by a super-sized Starscream who gave her the choice to steal the Omega Lock or get blasted to smithereens. She took the former option but managed to weasel her way out of it by lying to Starscream, luring him planetside, and then telling Megatron that she was ordered to attack him. Starscream arrived and the two bickered until they were interrupted by Optimus Prime and Wing Saber. All parties involved rocketed off to fight, leaving her free to wander off unperturbed. Escape Shortly afterwards, she tracked Jetfire and Wing Saber, leading Megatron to the missing Atlantis starship. Titans
When Megatron returned from the fire dimension, Thunderblast and the others continued to follow him all the way to Gigantion. There, when she teamed up with Scourge in a hunt for the planet's Cyber Planet Key, they ran across an Autobot party consisting of Override, Wing Saber and the human [[Lori] Jiménez|Lori]. Thunderblast and Lori very quickly got on each other's nerves, both browbeating Scourge. When Thunderblast took off, Lori scared Wing Saber into following, leaving Scourge and Override to duke it out.
Wing Saber chased Thunderblast through the lower levels, but it was a trap since the Decepticon was leading them to a harbor area and water combat was Thunderblast's element. Wing Saber took a fair pummeling, but Lori noticed a cluster of cranes and she set them up so Wing Saber could lure the overconfident "floozy" (in Lori's words). Thunderblast was crushed under half a dozen massive claws and Wing Saber took the chance to blast her while she was down, the explosion sending her flying away uncontrollably. Ambush
When Megatron (now Galvatron) and Starscream dueled over the Omega Lock and the four Cyber Planet Keys, Thunderblast briefly wondered if she was infatuated with the wrong 'bot. But when Galvatron emerged victorious, she happily followed him back to Cybertron. There, she and the few remaining Decepticons still loyal to Galvatron (Thundercracker, Ransack and Crumplezone) were given a boost of Omega Lock power, super-sizing them so they could take on the massed armies that had gathered from all of the colony worlds to oppose them. After being assaulted (and insulted) by Undermine and Brimstone, Thunderblast found herself going up against her old friend Lugnutz. Though she seemed shocked he'd side with the "good guys", she got over it pretty quickly and had no compunctions about trying to blow him away.
Ultimately, Galvatron's plot failed. Thunderblast realized that Galvatron was going to let her die in the cataclysm that his plan would have caused and she ran off along with the other now de-powered Decepticons. End When the rocket boosters built on the Jungle Planet to push the world back to its normal place in the cosmos began to fail from an attack by Galvatron, the four Decepticons arrived cackling...and helped with the efforts to keep the thrusters upright and functional, deciding to try being on the winning team for once. Unfinished
Afterwards, Thunderblast, Ransack and Crumplezone went to each world, trying to find a place to fit in and failing. Thunderblast in particular threw herself at about every strong male bot around but it seemed no one was even remotely interested. When the Autobots were ready to begin their space bridge initiative, the trio built a rickety rocket, shanghaied the reluctant Thundercracker (who was really enjoying being an Autobot) and took off for parts unknown as the New Decepticon Army.
They made it as far as Mars before the rocket crashed. Beginning
The AllSpark Almanac
Thunderblast interviewed Mini-Cons Beta Maxx and Caliburn for readers of Venus, a trans-dimensional magazine for Decepti-femmes. The AllSpark Almanac
Transformers Legends comic
In one of Tigatron's dreams, Thunderblast was among the evil female Transformers who sought to kidnap him and fought the heroic female Transformers who sought to protect him. During the battle, she jumped over Firestar to unleash a barrage at Tigatron and Chromia with her launcher... and then Tigatron woke up. Bonus Edition Vol. 11
Ask Vector Prime
The Mini-Con Thunderblast named himself after the Decepticon of the same name, under the belief that others would fear him based on the name's reputation. Surprisingly, it worked several times. Ask Vector Prime
Toys
Cybertron
- Thunderblast (Deluxe class, 2005)
- Japanese ID number: GD-11
- Accessories: Missile launcher, 2 torpedoes, Earth Cyber Key
- Cyber Key Code: dh62
- Thunderblast transforms into a speedboat of undetermined model via shellforming. She has a small, rotating (non-firing) machine gun and a large missile rack on a rotating and elevating base in this mode. Inserting a Cyber Key into the back of the missile rack opens it up to reveal a spring-loaded missile launcher which uses the torpedoes mounted under her hydrofoils as ammunition. The rack becomes a hand-held weapon for her robot mode. She comes with a silver-bordered Earth-style Key; the Hasbro version has the Key code dh62 stamped on its back.
- There are several small but significant differences between the Takara and Hasbro versions of the toy. The biggest is that the Takara release has a molding defect that gives her lopsided eyes, a defect that the Hasbro release fixes. There are several small paint operation changes between the two; the Hasbro version loses the silver on the boat mode torpedo racks, makes her silver upper chest armor a single application (the Takara version splits this in half, leaving her collar unpainted), and adds brighter lavender to the circular details on her chest and boat-mode.
- This mold was also used for BotCon 2009 Elita-1.
- Sideways, Brimstone, Thunderblast ("Value Pack", 2005)
- Accessories: Missile launcher, 2 torpedoes, Earth Cyber Key
- Cyber Key Code: dh62
- Thunderblast was also available in a ToysЯUs exclusive "Value Pack" alongside Sideways and Brimstone in late 2005; all three normally-carded toys were put in a large cardboard "sleeve" that let the bubbles stick out. This set retailed for $29.99... and since Deluxes were $9.99... not much of a "value" there.
- Chromia White Version (DVD pack-in, 2-22-2005)
- Accessories: Missile launcher, 2 missiles, Earth Force Chip
- Packaged with limited editions of the ninth disc in the Galaxy Force DVD series, Thunderblast's only toy was redecoed into a white and red color scheme, in an odd homage to the Super-God Masterforce Autobot Minerva. This release uses the Hasbro version of the mold, with the corrected face sculpt.
- Later releases of the DVD did not include the toy.
Notes
- Thunderblast's CG model has a pair of... well, bluntly, breasts under her chest armor, complete with protrusions that are pretty clearly meant to be nipples. While she isn't the first Transformer to have separate "breasts", the nipples are without question something no-one has had before or since. These are only visible in certain shots when the armor lifts up and the camera is looking up from below, most prominently in the episode "Memory". The animators at GONZO obviously weren't taking enough cold showers.
Foreign names
- Japanese: Chromia (クロミア Kuromia)
- Hungarian: Mennykő ("Thunderbolt")
- Russian: Molniya (Молния, "Lightning")
