Trannis
- Trannis is a Decepticon from the Generation 1 continuity family.
This character has no official visual representation in any Transformers product or media... yet, at least.
Trannis is a Decepticon warlord.
Fiction
Marvel The Transformers comics
A young Trannis seized control of the Decepticon army after Megatron's crew became lost on Earth. He conquered most of Cybertron, but the Autobots held their fortified capital of Iacon for hundreds of thousands of years until Trannis decided it wasn't worth taking, so he razed it instead. At that point, all of the Council of Autobot Elders except Emirate Xaaron surrendered to him. Trannis immediately had them killed. Emirate Xaaron escaped to form an underground resistance.
Trannis eventually became complacent in his rule and fell out of favor among some of the Decepticons. The Decepticon high command made plans to get rid of him, but the Wreckers beat them to the punch when they assassinated him.
He was succeeded by Straxus. Cybertron: The Middle Years!
Wings Universe
Trannis was the leader of a Decepticon faction in the early days of the Great War. Under constant threat by the Cybertron Elite Guard, he and the other Warlords banded together to form a war council. In one meeting, they reviewed footage of some of Megatron's men being wiped out by the Elite Guard. Trannis didn't much care, because they were Megatron's men, but Straxus and Shockwave pointed out that the Elite Guard didn't care which faction those Decepticons belonged to. The Warlords began to cooperate. This didn't last long—Deathsaurus sent Falcon along to the next meeting with a bomb that killed Trannis and the other Warlords in attendance. A Team Effort
Notes
- Trannis's name was the inspiration for that of an abandoned OTFCC 2004-exclusive redeco of 2001 Robots in Disguise Rail Racer that would have been named "Dominus Trannis".
