| 1 | !![[center: [[Characters/TransformersGeneration1 G1 Character Index]]: [[Characters/TransformersGeneration1Autobots Autobots]] ([[Characters/TransformersGeneration1Autobots1984To1985 '84-'85]]) ([[Characters/TransformersGeneration1Autobots1986To1987 '86-'87]]) ([[Characters/TransformersGeneration1Autobots1988To1990 '88-'90]]) | [[Characters/TransformersGeneration1Decepticons Decepticons]] ([[Characters/TransformersGeneration1Decepticons1984To1985 '84-'85]]) ([[Characters/TransformersGeneration1Decepticons1986To1987 '86-'87]]) ('88-'90)]] |
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| 3 | This character sheet is for listing the tropes related to ''Franchise/TransformersGeneration1'' Decepticons introduced between 1988 and 1990. |
| 4 | |
| 5 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 6 | |
| 7 | !!1988 Decepticons |
| 8 | [[folder:Bomb-Burst (ボム・バースト ''bomu-bāsuto'')]] |
| 9 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bomb-burst_3091.jpg]] |
| 10 | !!!'''Function:''' Predator |
| 11 | !!!'''Alt Mode:''' VTOL Suborbital Fighter |
| 12 | ->''"The greater the foe, the sweeter his fuel."'' |
| 13 | |
| 14 | A twisted, vampire-like Decepticon Pretender whose bat-monster shell, while highly inefficient in its energy consumption, can corrode metal with its touch and leech the energy from other Cybertronians to strengthen Bomb-Burst. |
| 15 | ---- |
| 16 | * BatPeople: His Pretender shell is a monstrous-looking humanoid bat. |
| 17 | * BlindedByTheLight: His optics are over-sensitized to light, so he shuns brightly lit places and sunlight. |
| 18 | * CoolButInefficient: Bomb-Burst's Pretender shell is a vampiric weapon that can inflict rusting on contact, can drain Autobots of their fuel, and bolsters his strength the more victims he claims. However, said shell is not only energy-inefficient, but it risks draining Bomb-Burst himself, forcing him to drain a large number of victims to offset this. |
| 19 | * DeathByLookingUp: In the Marvel comics, Bomb-Burst is crushed under Unicron's foot alongside the Autobot Hardhead. |
| 20 | * TheDreaded: Bomb-Burst is regarded as a dark and terrifying legend among Autobots for his preferred methods of silently hunting them down and picking them off, one by one, leaving behind mangled corpses sucked dry of fuel that are only found in dawn's light. |
| 21 | * GodInHumanForm: His ''Power of the Primes'' toy is a disguised Megatronus. |
| 22 | * HarmfulToTouch: His Pretender shell is specially textured to give any robot that touches it a "rust rash". |
| 23 | * LandSeaSky: Of the first wave Decepticon Pretenders, Bomb-Burst has a jet alternate mode, in contrast to his wavemates' land and sea-based altmodes. |
| 24 | * OurVampiresAreDifferent: He's a giant alien robot who feeds on the energy of other robots because it both increases his strength and because his specialised armor will swiftly drain ''him'' of energy if he doesn't. |
| 25 | * SpacePlane: His altmode is a Cybertronian jet with VTOL rotors in the wings. |
| 26 | * VampiricDraining: With serrated fangs, Bomb-Burst's Pretender shell can pierce an enemy's armor and drain their fuel, using it to bolster Bomb-Burst's own strength. |
| 27 | * WeaponSpecialization: While in his Pretender shell, a battle axe is one of his weapons of choice. |
| 28 | [[/folder]] |
| 29 | |
| 30 | [[folder:Bugly]] |
| 31 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bugly_1384.jpg]] |
| 32 | !!!'''Function:''' Strategist |
| 33 | !!!'''Alt Mode:''' Cybertronian Hoverjet |
| 34 | ->''"The greatest power is the power to control."'' |
| 35 | A Decepticon warrior with pinpoint maneuverability in the air, and a practitioner of Circuit-Su, an ancient Cybertronian martial art. His Pretender shell resembles a giant insectoid creature, with powerful electric stingers in the helmet. |
| 36 | ---- |
| 37 | * BigCreepyCrawlies: His Pretender shell is a large insectoid monster, befitting his name. |
| 38 | * CoDragons: In ''The Dark Ages'', he's one of The Fallen's goons, alongside Bludgeon and Mindwipe. |
| 39 | * ControlFreak: He likes to have his fellow Decepticons follow his orders and strategies to the letter, relishing domination over others. |
| 40 | * FantasticFightingStyle: Practices a martial art called Circuit-Su. |
| 41 | * KilledOffForReal: In ''Dreamwave'''s Generation One comics he's killed alongside Mindwipe and Bludgeon. |
| 42 | * KilledOffscreen: In ''ComicBook/TheTransformersRegenerationOne'', an undead Bugly is seen among Megatron's zombie army on Earth, despite his death never being shown or alluded to in the original Marvel comic. |
| 43 | * LandSeaSky: Like the first wave of Decepticon Pretenders, the second wave continues the theme with their altmodes; Bugly represents "sky" by turning into a Cybertronian jet. |
| 44 | * TheParalyzer: His stingers are capable of subduing some 'bots. In extreme cases, it causes permanent paralysis. |
| 45 | * PowerPincers: Instead of a right hand, Bugly's Pretender shell has a large crablike claw. |
| 46 | * PunnyName: His pretender shell is a bug and rather ugly. |
| 47 | * ShockAndAwe: Uses Circuit-Su to channel his energy into electric blasts and can use the the stingers in his helmet to deliver electric shocks. |
| 48 | * TheStrategist: His primary function, as his Tech Specs helpfully point out, is to devise new strategies and tactics in battle. |
| 49 | [[/folder]] |
| 50 | |
| 51 | [[folder:Carnivac (カーニバック ''kānibakku'')]] |
| 52 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/carnivac_4790.jpg]] |
| 53 | !!!'''Function:''' Hunter/Tracker |
| 54 | !!!'''Alt Mode:''' Wolf |
| 55 | ->''"A cunning smile is more devastating than the fiercest weapon."'' |
| 56 | |
| 57 | A Pretender whose shell and alt mode are wolf-shaped. The original leader of the Mayhem Attack Squad, EvilCounterpart of the Wreckers. |
| 58 | ---- |
| 59 | * AdaptationalHeroism: While his toy bio solicits him as a crazy sadist, his main appearances in fiction (Marvel UK and IDW) cast him as a NobleDemon at worst and an AntiHero at best. Beyond that he's often just background filler and presumably no worse than the average Decepticon. |
| 60 | * AntiHero: Post-HeelFaceTurn in Marvel UK continuity. Somewhere between a Type II and a Type III (arguably a type IV in his revenge arc). |
| 61 | * AntiVillain: Before HeelFaceTurn in UK comic continuity. |
| 62 | * AxCrazy: His Dreamwave incarnation supposedly went nuts a long time ago, becoming a savage monster. |
| 63 | * BloodKnight: (Marvel UK) As he says to Springer: "I'm a Decepticon warrior! The need to fight is in my oil." However, he comes to value the fight for more than its own sake whilst defending humans from his former Decepticon comrades. |
| 64 | * CruelMercy: Stops Springer from killing Bludgeon, Stranglehold and Octopunch as he reasons "denying them their 'warrior's death' is the worst fate I could think of". |
| 65 | * DefectorFromDecadence: Marvel UK. Breaks away from the Mayhem Attack Squad with his Pretender comrade Catilla and joins up with the remnants of the Wreckers to form the Survivors. Later comes to admire and value human life. |
| 66 | * TheDragon: To Tarantulas in ''ComicBook/TheTransformersSinsOfTheWreckers''. |
| 67 | * EnemyMine: Teams up with the Wreckers to fight Megs and Galvy in ''Time Wars''. |
| 68 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: He's been shown to have a noble side that other Decepticons do not. |
| 69 | * FaceHeelTurn: In an inversion of his Marvel UK characterization, in the IDW continuity he was originally an Autobot before he joined the Decepticons. |
| 70 | * FireForgedFriends: With Springer and the Wreckers as a result of their ''Time Wars'' team-up. |
| 71 | * HeelFaceTurn: Again, in Marvel UK continuity. Joins the Autobots and comes to appreciate the value of human life; however, he still retains his Decepticon ruthlessness when fighting his former comrades. See Cruel Mercy and RoaringRampageOfRevenge. |
| 72 | * NobleDemon: In the Marvel UK continuity, he disobeys his orders to "kill any Wreckers left standing" after fighting with them against Galvatron and Megatron in ''Time Wars''. |
| 73 | * NobleWolf: While his toy bio and Dreamwave incarnation paints him as a [[SavageWolves savage wolf]], two of his most famous incarnations (Marvel UK and IDW) make him this. |
| 74 | * OutOfFocus: Carnivac has sadly never regained the focus he got in the Marvel UK days. |
| 75 | * PurpleIsPowerful: His robot mode is purple and he's one of the most capable members of the Mayhem Attack Squad. |
| 76 | * ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Marvel UK. |
| 77 | * RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Takes out most of the New Mayhem Attack Squad after they kill his comrade, and fellow DefectorFromDecadence, Catilla. However, he spares Bludgeon, Stranglehold and Octopunch in the spirit of CruelMercy. |
| 78 | * WeaponizedAnimal: Even in his pretender wolf shell, Carnivac has an "anti-thermal cannon" on his back. |
| 79 | [[/folder]] |
| 80 | |
| 81 | [[folder:Doubledealer (ダブルディーラー ''daburudīrā'')]] |
| 82 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/doubledealer_4687.jpg]] |
| 83 | !!!'''Function:''' Mercenary |
| 84 | !!!'''Alt Modes:''' Vulture, Missile Carrier Truck |
| 85 | ->''"The price of victory is never too high."'' |
| 86 | An amoral Double Powermaster who works both sides of the Autobot and Decepticon conflict to maximize profits for himself. |
| 87 | ---- |
| 88 | * AgentProvocateur: The IDW comics (alongside the toy's tendency to be marketed as a Decepticon) imply that he is at least nominally a Decepticon agent embedded into the Autobot ranks as a provocateur. However, he is still steering things toward the outcome that will give him the highest amount of credits, and there's nothing to keep him loyal to the Decepticons in the face of potentially better offers. |
| 89 | * AppropriatedAppellation: Originally called Dealer, the Decepticons nicknamed him Doubledealer because of his [[OpportunisticBastard duplicitous nature]]. |
| 90 | * TheArtifact: Doubledealer was an oddity in that he was a triple changer with only one vehicle mode and two robot modes. Originally his humanoid robot mode was the form he took when an Autobot and his condor robot mode was the form he took as a Decepticon. Nowadays this has been dropped and Doubledealer's humanoid robot form is considered his default appearance when dealing with both sides and his condor mode became just an alt-mode. The 2005 IDW comics omitted the condor mode entirely (with its redesign as an insect only appearing in concept art) and the 2020 toy made it so his robot mode could swap insignias (in contrast to his original toy, who's robot mode only had the Autobot logo and condor mode only had the Decepticon logo). |
| 91 | * AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: |
| 92 | ** It's very fitting that Doubledealer can turn into a vulture. Much like how the bird exploits dying animals for food, Doubledealer exploits both sides of the Autobot-Decepticon War for profit. |
| 93 | ** The kibble parts belonging to Doubledealer's robot and beast modes are hidden away quite nicely, depending on which forms he chooses. This helps distance the relation between his Autobot and Decepticon personas considerably. The most blatant kibble parts are his vulture-mode wings in his robot-mode, which are folded neatly against his back in plain sight. Even then, they can easily pass off as a cape. |
| 94 | * CapedMecha: In his robot mode, Doubledealer's vulture wings fold up against his back, making it seem like he's donned an understated, lavender cape. |
| 95 | * ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Doubledealer seems to have gotten some ideas from [[Film/{{Yojimbo}} Sanjuro]] and [[Film/AFistfulOfDollars The Man With No Name]], but they had a conscience... [[TheUnfettered he doesn't]]. |
| 96 | * DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent: Undercover as an Autobot AND as a Decepticon, so he can get benefits from both sides. He even uses two different robot modes (android as an Autobot, vulture as a Decepticon) to not be discovered. Fortunately for him, nobody seems to notice that the android and the bird seem to have the same vehicle mode. |
| 97 | -->'''Doubledealer:''' "Show one face to the world. Hide the other. Be an island. Let no one in." |
| 98 | * EvilCounterpart: To Punch/Counterpunch, another faction-changer who was released the year before him. Punch is really an Autobot posing as a Decepticon, while Doubledealer is a manipulative backstabber loyal only to himself, despite not officially being a Decepticon. |
| 99 | * FeatheredFiend: His Decepticon persona is a mechanical vulture, erroneously described as a falcon on his tech specs[[note]][[RuleOfSymbolism Vultures are scavengers, while falcons are predators]][[/note]]. |
| 100 | * GambitPileup: Falls victim to this in the IDW comics. |
| 101 | * GenreBlindness: Ironically, for someone who covets an all-knowing artifact that answers every question posed by its holder, he makes the classic mistake of assuming that everyone else is too stupid to use the very same device. Hot Rod doesn't hesitate to learn what ''really'' happened on Ki-Aleta... |
| 102 | -->'''Hot Rod:''' ...''Did Dealer betray us.''\ |
| 103 | '''Magnificence: [[BluntYes YES]].'''\ |
| 104 | ''*Hot Rod promptly shoots Doubledealer in the face.*'' |
| 105 | * GodhoodSeeker: In the IDW comics, Doubledealer ultimately proves his true loyalties when he sees how powerful the [[{{MacGuffin}} Magnificence]] is. |
| 106 | -->'''Doubledealer:''' "I imagine all it can do. The wonders and secrets it can unlock. And any lingering thoughts of surrendering it to the Decepticon Secret Service vanish. Why trade it when it can make me...omnipotent!" |
| 107 | * KilledOffForReal: IDW comics. Hot Rod shoots him square in the chest, he bursts into flames and plummets down a mountain, shattering to pieces on impact. |
| 108 | * LivingBattery: He has two Powermaster partners, Nok and Skarr. Nok allows him to take on his robot mode, while Skarr enables him to take on his beast mode. |
| 109 | * ObviouslyEvil: After killing him, Hot Rod admits that his treachery was staring him in the face. |
| 110 | * PlayingBothSides: In his only Marvel UK appearance, he uses his dual identities to manipulate Optimus and Scorponok. In the IDW run, he's scamming both the Autobots ''and'' Decepticons to steal an omniscient MacGuffin called The Magnificience. |
| 111 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: Which should be rather suspicious for an ''Autobot''. |
| 112 | * SmugSnake: This guy could give Starscream a run for his money at how smug he is about his scheming. Too bad for him that Hot Rod is much more impulsive than he's prepared for. |
| 113 | * UpliftedAnimal: Skarr is a Nebulan bat-like creature, modified to act as a Powermaster. |
| 114 | [[/folder]] |
| 115 | |
| 116 | [[folder:Dreadwing (ドレッドウイング ''doreddouingu'')]] |
| 117 | !!Darkwing (ブラックウイング ''durakkuuingu'') |
| 118 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/darkwingart_9706.jpg]] |
| 119 | !!!'''Function:''' Aerial Assault |
| 120 | !!!'''Alt Mode:''' Cybertronian Jet |
| 121 | ->''"Things are never as bad as they seem - usually they're worse."'' |
| 122 | !!Dreadwind (ドレッドウインド ''doreddouindo'') |
| 123 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dreadwind_6951.jpg]] |
| 124 | !!!'''Function:''' Air Defense |
| 125 | !!!'''Alt Mode:''' Cybertronian Jet |
| 126 | ->''"Fear is a friend whose presence is felt long after he's left."'' |
| 127 | |
| 128 | A grim Decepticon Powermaster duo who can combine their jet forms into the spacecruiser Dreadwing. Darkwing's partnered with the Nebulan thief Throttle while Dreadwind is paired with the rogue Nebulan scientist Hi-Test. |
| 129 | ---- |
| 130 | * CombiningMecha: Their jet modes can combine with each other to form the spacecruiser Dreadwing. Their ''Power of the Primes'' toys not only retain this functionality, but can also form a limbs for a combiner. |
| 131 | * CompositeCharacter: In the ''ComicBook/TransformersGeneration2'' comic, G2 Dreadwing[[note]]a singular Transformer unrelated to the combined form of Dreadwind and Darkwing[[/note]] is an upgraded form of Darkwing rather than his own separate character. |
| 132 | * TheEeyore: Dreadwind is in the running against Dead End for Most Depressing Outlook In The Decepticon Army. |
| 133 | * KilledOffForReal: Dreadwind is shot to death and cannibalized in ''ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW''. |
| 134 | * LivingBattery: Hi-Test and Throttle. |
| 135 | * {{Portmanteau}}: The name of their combined form. '''Dread'''wind + Dark'''wing'''. |
| 136 | * TheRival: The Marvel comics version of Hi-Test was the former lab partner of [=HiQ=], Optimus Prime's future Powermaster partner. Intent on proving himself superior, Hi-Test hired Throttle to steal [=HiQ=]'s notes, using them to make the pair Powermasters. |
| 137 | * StrawNihilist: Darkwing has a similarly depressing outlook on existence as Dreadwind, but he sees this as motivation to actively make the lives of others worse. |
| 138 | [[/folder]] |
| 139 | |
| 140 | [[folder:Fangry]] |
| 141 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fangry_2201.jpg]] |
| 142 | !!!'''Function:''' Tracker |
| 143 | !!!'''Alt Mode:''' Gargoyle |
| 144 | ->''"Leaders are for fools who need to follow."'' |
| 145 | |
| 146 | A hot-headed warrior with a tendency to rebel against authority, Fangry has complete faith in his judgment alone, no matter how flawed his reasoning may be. He is binary bonded to the Nebulan Brisko, who is smart enough to limit his influence to mild suggestions and reverse psychology. |
| 147 | ---- |
| 148 | * TheBerserker: Hot-headed, kinda crazy and very angry and he fights like the angriest 'con around. |
| 149 | * BerserkButton: Throws a fit if he's given orders. |
| 150 | * BlowYouAway: Carries a compressed air cannon in both modes. |
| 151 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: Hated by squadmates and commanders alike, Fangry often ends up holding the line against the Autobots all by himself. He wouldn't have it any other way, though - the implication that he needs help would be insulting to him. |
| 152 | * HateSink: Both his Bio and his canon appearances make it clear Fangry's just an asshole through and through. In the Marvel comics, he keeps picking fights with Grimlock over the new peace and eventually restarts the war. In the 2005 IDW comics, he pals around with Kaput for a bit before killing him and dozens of other civilians to take over. |
| 153 | * {{Jerkass}}: Fangry's bio and his fictional appearances consistently characterize him as an asshole. |
| 154 | * LosingYourHead: He's a Headmaster. |
| 155 | * ManipulativeBastard: Brisko subtly directs Fangry's rage, lightly nudging him toward the targets he thinks his partner should be attacking. |
| 156 | * MixAndMatchCritters: His beast form is depicted as a wolf with bat wings and a reptilian tail. |
| 157 | * NonStandardCharacterDesign: His beast mode's upper body has a far more organic-looking appearance (especially in the Marvel comics) than most G1 beastformers. |
| 158 | * PunnyName: His name is a combination of 'Fang' and 'Angry'. |
| 159 | * SecondaryColorNemesis: Fangry happens to have a green face and a mostly purple body. |
| 160 | * TooDumbToLive: In the Marvel comics, he repeatedly picks a fight with Grimlock. In the final issue, it finally comes back to bite him, when Grimlock punches straight through his chest. |
| 161 | [[/folder]] |
| 162 | |
| 163 | [[folder:Finback (フィンバック ''finbakku'')]] |
| 164 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/finback_1495.jpg]] |
| 165 | !!!'''Function:''' Naval Assault |
| 166 | !!!'''Alt Mode:''' Hovercraft |
| 167 | ->''"Ashes to ashes, rust to rust."'' |
| 168 | One of the earliest volunteers for the Pretender process, Finback is a grizzled veteran sporting numerous carbon scoring from previous battles. In a state of constant pain, his only remaining joy is in making Autobots suffer as much as he has. |
| 169 | ---- |
| 170 | * EvilCripple: Suffering from a corrosive disease which his Pretender shell is keeping in check. |
| 171 | * FishPeople: His Pretender shell. It even appears as if it was wearing a iron mask. |
| 172 | * KilledOffForReal: In ''ComicBook/{{The Transformers|Marvel}}'' he dies fighting Unicron, when the guns he's manning (meching?) overload and explode. |
| 173 | * ShadowArchetype: To the Autobot Pretender Splashdown. Both are aquatic-themed warriors, but while Splashdown is friendly and jovial, Finback is sour and constantly unhappy. |
| 174 | [[/folder]] |
| 175 | |
| 176 | [[folder:The Firecons (ファイヤーコン ''faiyākon'')]] |
| 177 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cindersaur_4285.jpg]] |
| 178 | [[caption-width-right:205:Cindersaur]] |
| 179 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/flamefeather_1189.jpg]] |
| 180 | [[caption-width-right:205:Flamefeather]] |
| 181 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sparkstalker_2891.jpg]] |
| 182 | [[caption-width-right:205:Sparkstalker]] |
| 183 | !!!'''Function:''' Firestorm Trooper (Cindersaur), Warrior (Flamefeather), Cryptologist (Sparkstalker) |
| 184 | !!!'''Alt Modes:''' Mutant Lizard (Cindersaur), Harpy (Flamefeather), {{Kaiju}} (Sparkstalker) |
| 185 | ->'''Cindersaur:''' ''"Crash and burn... and burn... and burn."'' |
| 186 | ->'''Flamefeather:''' ''"The only good Autobot is a deactivated Autobot."'' |
| 187 | ->'''Sparkstalker:''' ''"The smallest details reveal the largest secrets."'' |
| 188 | |
| 189 | The {{pyromaniac}} Cindersaur, the violent Flamefeather and the intelligent Sparkstalker, who can transform into a trio of fire-breathing beasts. |
| 190 | ---- |
| 191 | * AdaptationalBadass: In the 2019 IDW comics, where they are stated to have ignited an entire planet's atmosphere, killing all life on it in moments. |
| 192 | * AscendedExtra: Sparkstalker got upgraded to a supporting character late in the IDW continuity and got some developement on his own away from Cindersaur and Flamefeather. He even got a HeelFaceTurn and a love interest. |
| 193 | * AxCrazy: Cindersaur ''and'' Flamefeather, much to Sparkstalker's chagrin. |
| 194 | * BackFromTheDead: Despite his reported death in the Marvel comics, Sparkstalker returns alive and well in the Regeneration One comics. |
| 195 | * TheBerserker: Cindersaur ''and'' Flamefeather, again, the former because of his unbelievable idiocy and the latter because he's so violent that even the Decepticon military academies didn't want him. |
| 196 | * TheCracker: Sparkstalker, a brilliant cryptologist and extremely stealthy, subtle hacker. Instead of using those talents, he's stuck babysitting a driveling idiot and a rage fueled hate machine. |
| 197 | * BreathWeapon: [[KillItWithFire Take a wild guess.]] |
| 198 | * DinosaursAreDragons: Though whatever Cindersaur transforms into doesn't look like any real species of dinosaur, the fact that it's reptilian, breathes fire, and his name is Cinder''saur'' alludes to this trope. Newer Cindersaur toys straight up redeco/retool him from characters who transform into actual dinosaurs, changing his alt-mode to a ''Tyrannosaurus Rex'' (''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' Megatron) or a ''Velociraptor'' (Dinobot Slash). |
| 199 | * TheDividual: While their bios all display subtle differences between Cindersaur and Flamefeather and major differences with Sparkstalker, most fiction depicts them as a trio of like minded minions with flame powers. |
| 200 | * DumbMuscle: Sweet Primus yes. Cindersaur and Flamefreather are dumb as a pair of smoldering stumps. Flamefeather is the brighter of the two, but only just. They're both stronger than their leader, Sparkstalker, but because they're such dim bulbs the only use they have is to be pointed vaguely in the direction of an enemy. |
| 201 | * EvilCounterpart: To the Sparkabots, Autobots with flame-throwing vehicle modes. |
| 202 | * EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: Cindersaur. "Hey guys, watch Fizzle ''sizzle''!" |
| 203 | * FeatheredFiend: Flamefeather looks like a mechanical harpy and is probably the most violent of the three. |
| 204 | * {{Gonk}}: They are drawn with a very high degree of toy accuracy in robot mode in the Marvel comics. Unfortunately, this makes them all stumpy, chubby-looking dwarfs compared to more the proportionally humanoid designs of, say, the Seekers. |
| 205 | * HairTriggerTemper: It's said that Flamefeather's greatest achievement in life was talking to someone for a full minute without going into a frothing rage. |
| 206 | * KilledOffForReal: Sparkstalker was accidentally incinerated by the idiotic Cindersaur in a FriendOrFoe incident. |
| 207 | * OnlySaneMan: Sparkstalker, who is the only functional adult of the three. He's able to make plans, hold conversations, and not burn everything down either by accident or intent. He even manages to find a Conjunx Endura. By comparison, Cindersaur could probably be outwitted by a mundane blowtorch and Flamefeather is homicidally furious beyond all reason or sense. |
| 208 | * PyroManiac: By definition, but Cindersaur in particular. |
| 209 | * SecondaryColorNemesis: Cindersaur's face is green, while his body is orange and magenta. |
| 210 | * UnexplainedRecovery: Though incinerated in the Marvel comics, Sparkstalker shows up fine in the sequel ''Regeneration One''. |
| 211 | * WrongLineOfWork: Sparkstalker is one of the Decepticons' most skilled hackers and could arguably give Soundwave a run for his money as a military intelligence asset. No one has yet offered a good explanation for why they instead decided to modify him into a Firecon and forced him to babysit a pair of barely-competent walking fire safety violations. |
| 212 | [[/folder]] |
| 213 | |
| 214 | [[folder:Horri-Bull (ホリブル ''horiburu'')]] |
| 215 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/horri-bull_7476.jpg]] |
| 216 | !!!'''Function:''' Ground Trooper |
| 217 | !!!'''Alt Mode:''' Bull |
| 218 | ->''"Smash all that stands and trample the rest."'' |
| 219 | A brutish thug with a HairTriggerTemper, Horri-Bull is a [[TheUnfettered Card-Carrying Barbarian]] who constantly reeks of oil, grease, and smog. He is binary bonded to Kreb, who is nearly as slovenly as he is. |
| 220 | ---- |
| 221 | * BrutishBulls: Horri-Bull is a brutish Decepticon with a HairTriggerTemper who transforms into a bull. |
| 222 | * TheBully: He's an asshole who picks on other people, even other Decepticons. Also a pun. |
| 223 | * KillItWithFire: Flamethrower tail-gun for robot mode, burning smoky breath for beast mode. |
| 224 | * LosingYourHead: He's a Headmaster. He later got his head blown off his shoulders, which was decidedly more fatal. |
| 225 | * NoAccountingForTaste: Why was Needlenose dating this guy again? |
| 226 | * ShockJock: Kreb was once a radio personality, who delighted in being as verbally repulsive as Horri-Bull is physically. |
| 227 | * ShoutOut: While called a bull, his beast mode design owes a fair bit to the 'terror dogs' of ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}'' (which predated his release by two years). |
| 228 | * UncleanlinessIsNextToUngodliness: Not just gross but ''deliberately'' repulsive. He's proud about the fact that he can't remember his last bath. He's also extremely bad-tempered and abusive. |
| 229 | * YourHeadAsplode: In the IDW comics thanks to an Autobot inhibitor/deterrence chip [[spoiler:that was actually Soundwave's doing]]. |
| 230 | [[/folder]] |
| 231 | |
| 232 | [[folder:Iguanus (イグアナス ''iguanasu'')]] |
| 233 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/iguanus_9676.jpg]] |
| 234 | !!!'''Function:''' Terror Trooper |
| 235 | !!!'''Alt Mode:''' Cybertronian Motorcycle |
| 236 | ->''"Sow the seeds of fear and victory is yours."'' |
| 237 | A Pretender whose polydermal shell resembles a lizard like creature, Iguanus has developed an obsession with reptiles, and secretly aspires toward the perfect synthesis of scales and steel, if such a thing is possible. |
| 238 | ---- |
| 239 | * AnArmAndALeg: IDW comics. When he goes to Bludgeon about the Autobots having infiltrated the base, Bludegon's merged with his pretender shell, and the psychic shock causes him to go crazy and slice off one of Iguanus's arms and legs. He bleeds to death from the injury. |
| 240 | * BecomingTheMask: Ever since he gained a reptilian Pretender shell, he's been obsessed with them. His bio calls it 'misguided camaraderie.' |
| 241 | * CoolBike: He transforms into a bike that is a dead-ringer for a ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer'' recon bike. |
| 242 | * EldritchAbomination: In ''Regeneration One''. The Autobots have no idea what the shadow-leeches are until they isolate one, analyze it, and discover to their horror that it used to be Iguanus...meaning that the other leeches used to be ''everyone else.'' |
| 243 | * HypnoticEyes: According to his Dreamwave profile, his shell comes equipped with a pair. |
| 244 | * KilledOffForReal: |
| 245 | ** Fatally dismembered in ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformersMegaseries Stormbringer]]'' by Bludgeon. |
| 246 | ** In Regeneration One he's one of many absorbed by the Shadow Leeches, with his death in particular confirmed by the protagonists via scanning one. |
| 247 | * {{Narcissist}}: Swoons over his own freaky reptilian Pretender shell. |
| 248 | * ReptilesAreAbhorrent: A big creep in more ways than one. Even his bio calls him hideous, loathsome, and a monster. |
| 249 | [[/folder]] |
| 250 | |
| 251 | [[folder:Needlenose (ニードルノーズ ''nīdorunōzu'')]] |
| 252 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/needlenose_6079.jpg]] |
| 253 | !!!'''Function:''' Aerial Warrior |
| 254 | !!!'''Alt Mode:''' F-16XL Falcon Fighter Jet |
| 255 | ->''"Get hip or get hit!"'' |
| 256 | A former Microchip designer before the war, Needlenose joined the Decepticons because he blamed the Autobots for the failure of his business. A Double Targetmaster, Needlenose is partnered with Zigzag and Sunbeam, who can combine to form a high-powered rifle. |
| 257 | ---- |
| 258 | * AlienArtsAreAppreciated: Finds Earth's fads and trends fascinating. So far, that means being a video game nerd. |
| 259 | * ButtMonkey: Zigzag was once an incompetent mechanic who faced regular mockery over his "repairs" usually making things worse. His lot in life hasn't really improved since then, as Needlenose and Sunbeam often pick on him. |
| 260 | * CainAndAbel: With his brother Tracks, as one is an Autobot and the other joined the Decepticons. |
| 261 | * CombiningMecha: Needlenose becomes a component of Thunder Mayhem in ''Of Masters and Mayhem''. |
| 262 | * CryingWolf: Does this in the appropriately named Marvel UK strip ''Cry Wolf''; his comrades don't take it well; Carnivac ({{HeelFaceTurn}}ed Decepticon with ''wolf'' Pretender shell and alt mode) uses Needlenose's fear and paranoia to his advantage, making the paranoid Decepticon the first target of his RoaringRampageOfRevenge. |
| 263 | * {{Empathic Weapon}}s: Sunbeam and Zigzag. |
| 264 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: During the Marvel Comics' storyline "Matrix Quest", he was disgusted over Thunderwing using Windsweeper as bait in his plan to take the Matrix. |
| 265 | * EvilCounterpart: Needlenose's interest on Earth culture makes him very similar to Jazz. |
| 266 | * FireBreathingWeapon: He has a flamethrower in the IDW comics. |
| 267 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In ''ComicBook/TheTransformersRobotsInDisguise'' where he's in love with Horri-Bull and tries to avoid fighting his brother Tracks. |
| 268 | * MauveShirt: ''ComicBook/TheTransformersRobotsInDisguise'', he keeps showing up doing odd jobs for the Decepticons or for himself, from enforcing the peace, to hiding Dirge, to beating up civilians, to advocating that the Autobots not kill Megatron. |
| 269 | * TheMourningAfter: Needlenose never got over Horri-Bull's death and blamed the Autobots for it [[spoiler:because he never learned that it had actually been detonated by Soundwave]]. |
| 270 | * NoAccountingForTaste: Why the chic, would-be trendsetter was dating the abrasive, phenomenally gross bully is anyone's guess. |
| 271 | * PowerOfTheSun: Sunbeam turns into a solar-powered rifle. |
| 272 | * RelatedInTheAdaptation: He is depicted as Track's brother in the IDW comics. |
| 273 | * RoboFamily: His brother is the Autobot Tracks. Amusingly it's the Autobot who's the elitist snob. Unlike other siblings in the franchise there's no clear indication of what makes the two of them related. |
| 274 | * ShockAndAwe: Zigzag becomes an electrostatic disruptor. |
| 275 | * SurferDude: Sunbeam is a former surfer who conquered the most dangerous waves on Nebulos. He joined up with the Decepticons so he could [[ChallengeSeeker face new challenges]] on other worlds. |
| 276 | [[/folder]] |
| 277 | |
| 278 | [[folder:Quake (クェイク ''kweiku'')]] |
| 279 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/quake_9552.jpg]] |
| 280 | !!!'''Function:''' Ground Assault |
| 281 | !!!'''Alt Mode:''' Leopard 2 Main Battle Tank |
| 282 | ->''"Nothing lasts forever... so why not destroy it now?"'' |
| 283 | A berserker with unconventional battle tactics, Quake's squadmates often fear that his aggressiveness in battle will leave them CollateralDamage. As a Double Targetmaster, he is paired with Tiptop and Heater, who can transform into Heavy Pistols, or combine into a massive plasma shotgun. |
| 284 | ---- |
| 285 | * TheBerserker: Violent to a fault. Other Decepticons have to dive for cover because he shoots everywhere and lets his hit count do the talking. |
| 286 | * TheBrute: There isn't much to Quake other than he's violent, a bully and not very smart, making him this by default. |
| 287 | * TheBully: Basically a big ol' jerk that tries to pick on anyone he thinks is weaker than him, which usually comes back to bite him in the aft. |
| 288 | * ConArtist: Tiptop was once a [[TheStrongman circus strongman]] who turned his diet and exercise routine into a worldwide phenomenon. Then it was discovered that he had actually gained his strength from illegal muscle-enhancing chemicals, and the diet he promoted was not only ineffective, but dangerously unhealthy. |
| 289 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: His battle tactics can sometimes be quite inventive, but he never considers how they might affect his fellow Decepticons. |
| 290 | * DrivingUpAWall: His tank treads can exude an adhesive that allows him to scale even vertical surfaces. |
| 291 | * DumbMuscle: His Strength, Endurance, Courage, and Firepower levels are quite high. His intelligence is only slightly better than Sludge, widely considered the dimmest bulb among the Dinobots. |
| 292 | * {{Empathic Weapon}}s: Tiptop and Heater. |
| 293 | * LazyBum: Heater, a former street thug and chemical dealer who can't stand doing any real work. |
| 294 | * MuggingTheMonster: Quake tends to underestimate people, and then tends to get his butt kicked. Most notably, he mocked the relatively diminutive [[WesternAnimation/BeastWars Tigatron]] during the 3H comic era, and got his face vaporized off for his effort. |
| 295 | * PurpleIsPowerful: A powerful brute who turns into a magenta-purple tank. |
| 296 | * TheSociopath: Described as one in the 2019 IDW continuity. Quake is unempathetic and relates more to stimulation from violence than anything else. |
| 297 | * ShotgunsAreJustBetter: The turret in his tank mode can become a shotgun in robot mode. Also, Tiptop and Heater can combine to form a shotgun. |
| 298 | * TankGoodness: Transforms into a tank, fitting for a strong and formidable Decepticon. |
| 299 | * TheyKilledKennyAgain: Quake has a bad habit of dying a lot. |
| 300 | ** ''Generation 2'': Blown up by Cybertronian forces. |
| 301 | ** ''3H comics'': Destroyed by a Vok-empowered Tigatron. |
| 302 | ** 2005 IDW comics: Died due to a cerebro-shell planted by Bombshell after Starscream told him to die. |
| 303 | ** ''ComicBook/Transformers2019'': Killed by Bumblebee in revenge for the murder of his protegé Rubble. |
| 304 | [[/folder]] |
| 305 | |
| 306 | [[folder:Roadgrabber (ロードグラバー ''rōdogurabā'')]] |
| 307 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/roadgrabber_8669.jpg]] |
| 308 | !!!'''Function:''' Gunner |
| 309 | !!!'''Alt Mode:''' Cybertronian Jet, Cybertronian Car, Attack Chariot |
| 310 | ->''"Destruction has a beauty all its own."'' |
| 311 | A Decepticon Pretender with a mechanical shell that transforms into an armored vehicle. Enjoying inflicting pain but fearful of being injured himself, Roadgrabber specializes in hit and run attacks, taking advantage of his outer vehicle's speed and firepower. |
| 312 | ---- |
| 313 | * DirtyCoward: He prefers to remain in his Pretender shell for the bulk of a battle, only coming out when there's nothing left but wounded Autobots who are too weak to fight back. |
| 314 | * ForTheEvulz: He's been known to blast the kneecaps out of a fleeing Autobot, just so he can enjoy the sight of them flailing around in agony. |
| 315 | * IneffectualSympatheticVillain: ''ComicBook/TransformersWingsOfHonor'' he's not that effective or smart. When chased down a hallway, he emptied several clips into the wall behind him, reasoning that the pursuers have to come around the same corner and get shot (his companion said it was stupid, as they wouldn't run into a hallway riddled with gunfire). |
| 316 | * RedShirt: In IDW comics he's killed when fighting Thunderwing. Adding insult to injury, almost everyone else in that fight turned up alive again later. Roadgrabber didn't. |
| 317 | * TheSociopath: Enjoys shooting Autobots and watching them die a slow death. |
| 318 | [[/folder]] |
| 319 | |
| 320 | [[folder:The Seacons]] |
| 321 | A team of six Decepticons who transform into sea creatures. They are Snaptrap (leader, a turtle), Nautilator (a lobster), Overbite (a shark), Seawing (a manta ray), Skalor (a coelacanth) and Tentakil (a squid). |
| 322 | ---- |
| 323 | * AnimalMecha: All of them transform into sea animals. |
| 324 | * CombiningMecha: They form Piranacon. |
| 325 | * CompositeCharacter: With the ''Beast Wars II'' Seacons in the Classics continuity. |
| 326 | * {{Determinator}}: Every Seacon (even Nautilator) shares a common trait -- extreme determination in pursuing the target they want to hunt down, which results in Piranacon becoming endlessly relentless. |
| 327 | * TheDividual: As is usual with Combiner teams, but also given their lack of appearances, the team has never managed to stand out much from one another. Taken to its logical extreme in the ''[[Anime/TransformersSuperGodMasterforce Super-God Masterforce]]'' anime, where they're an army of mass produced drones except for Snaptrap (or [[DubNameChange Turtler]]), who even then is mostly just a grunting brute. |
| 328 | * EgomaniacHunter: All of them are obsessed with hunting, which is taken to such an extreme in Piranacon that Snaptrap had to install an automatic timer to ensure they'd separate after a certain amount of time, to prevent Piranacon from hunting forever. |
| 329 | * FiendishFish: Seawing transforms into a manta ray and Skalor transforms into a Coelacanth. |
| 330 | * GracefulInTheirElement: With the exception of Nautilator, they are generally far more capable and dangerous in deep water. On land, their creature modes are for the most part ungainly and slow. |
| 331 | * KilledOffForReal: |
| 332 | ** In ''ComicBook/{{The Transformers|Marvel}}'', the entire team is frazzled during the Underbase saga. Adding insult to injury, in the US comics, this was but a few issues after they'd been introduced. In an issue of the UK Marvel series, Megatron attempted to go back in time and save them to add to his army but he was foiled and the Seacons remained dead. However, they were revived later in the ''Classics'' timeline. |
| 333 | ** In the ''Classics'' timeline, the stories homaged ''Anime/BeastWarsII'' and the Seacons had some change-ups to reflect that. Megatron, Dirge, and the Seacons crash on an irradiated planet, and when Nautilator and Tentakil go outside the radiation immobilizes them and they're trampled to death by a herd of buffalo. This was done to make the team more in line with their BWII counterparts who lacked a Nautilator and Tentakil was replaced by Scylla (who debuts in that ''Classics'' storyline). With the loss of two components, Piranacon seems to have died as well as the combination of the remaining four Seacons and Scylla identifies as a new separate being, God Neptune. |
| 334 | ** IDW's 2005 continuity gives a number of ambiguous fates to the Seacons in ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye''. Seawing is gunned down and Snaptrap is dismembered, neither is confirmed dead (Snaptrap previously surviving being stabbed through the head). Nautilator wasn't so lucky with Whirl blowing his head apart effectively killing him. Overbite was not affiliated with the group in this continuity but he would later be killed by Overlord. |
| 335 | * MightyGlacier: |
| 336 | ** Piranacon is one of the slowest combiners both inside and outside the water. |
| 337 | ** Snaptrap is also as slow as the turtle he gets his alt mode from, but he is a NighInvulnerable WalkingArmory. |
| 338 | * UndyingLoyalty: In the ''Classics'' timeline, they are, first and foremost, loyal to Megatron. Though they were initially serving Bludgeon after the end of the war, when Megatron came to seize the Decepticon leadership back, they immediately sided with him, initially serving as his {{Deep Cover Agent}}s, and then killing Bludgeon when the time came right. |
| 339 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: In the Marvel US comics, they were killed ''three'' issues since their debut. |
| 340 | |
| 341 | !!Snaptrap |
| 342 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/snaptrap_7907.jpg]] |
| 343 | !!!'''Function:''' Seacon Team Leader |
| 344 | !!!'''Alt Mode:''' Mutant Turtle |
| 345 | ->''"Broken Autobots never mend."'' |
| 346 | * BloodKnight: Snaptrap's favorite part of the hunt is the kill. |
| 347 | * LeaderFormsTheHead: Snaptrap is the leader and he always makes the head and torso of Piranacon. |
| 348 | * LoudOfWar: The cannons on Snaptrap's back fire sonic shells. |
| 349 | * RedBaron: Snaptrap is known as "The Butcher of the Bogs", after an incident when he ambushed and killed a group of Autobots in the Toxic Sludge Swamps on his own. |
| 350 | * SturdyAndSteadyTurtles: Snaptrap transforms into a tortoise with NighInvulnerable shell, but with extremely low speed (marked as 2 out of 10 in Tech Specs). |
| 351 | * WalkingArmory: Snaptrap's tech specs give him enough firepower to equip the rest of the Seacons on his own. |
| 352 | |
| 353 | !!Nautilator |
| 354 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nautilator_4952.jpg]] |
| 355 | !!!'''Function:''' Underwater Excavations |
| 356 | !!!'''Alt Mode:''' Mutant Lobster |
| 357 | ->''"Blame someone else before they blame you."'' |
| 358 | * ButtMonkey: Nautilator has a particularly bad luck. He's a very poor swimmer and is very suspectible to rusting (in spite of the fact that he is a part of ''the team suited for underwater warfare''), has NoSenseOfDirection, frequently gets lost, and is loathed by his fellow Seacons due to his uselessness. If not for the fact that he occasionally brings something useful during his scavenging (and the team discovers it only because they constantly have to drag his aft out of the latest place he gets stuck in), he would've been left behind to drown and rust away. |
| 359 | ** Also a meta example: Nautilator was excluded the first time the team was sold as a multi-pack. Later multi-pack releases ''do'' include him. |
| 360 | * GiantEnemyCrab: Nautilator transforms into a giant lobster. |
| 361 | * TheKlutz: Described as a "stumbling, bumbling amphibious foul-up" in his tech specs, Nautilator is exceptionally poor swimmer who frequently gets lost during the underwater missions, much to his teammates' irritation. |
| 362 | * LeeroyJenkins: Nautilator. His physical abilities are certainly impressive...but he's such a moron that the rest of the Seacons end up {{Face Palm}}ing every time he gets himself in trouble and they have to rescue him. |
| 363 | * TheLoad: The rest of the Seacons see Nautilator as a good-for-nothing millstone, since they've repeatedly had to fish his chassis out of the depths whenever he gets himself lost. Whenever they form Piranacon, the Seacons always make Nautilator serve as their weapon, rather than let him form a body part, so that they don't have to mentally merge with him. When Nautilator ''is'' allowed to form one of Piranacon's limbs, the gestalt's performance is noticeably impaired. As Snaptrap says, if Nautilator didn't occasionally find something useful when he got lost, they would have left him to rust a long time ago. |
| 364 | * NeverMyFault: Nautilator is, according to his tech specs, a "stumbling, bumbling amphibious foul-up". Of course, whenever he's called out for his screw-ups, he always tries to shift the blame to someone else. |
| 365 | * SuperDrowningSkills: Nautilator tends to rust easily, he can't navigate to save his spark, and he has trouble swimming. And he's a member of the Decepticons' ''underwater strike force''. |
| 366 | * WrongLineOfWork: Nautilator was assigned to the Seacons without receiving any aquatic combat training. While he loves the ocean, he is a poor swimmer, and can't navigate to save his life. His teammates are deeply irritated at having to constantly rescue him from the depths. |
| 367 | |
| 368 | !!Overbite |
| 369 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/overbite_6661.jpg]] |
| 370 | !!!'''Function:''' Undersea Terminator |
| 371 | !!!'''Alt Mode:''' Mutant Shark |
| 372 | ->''"There are two kinds of creatures: predator and prey."'' |
| 373 | * AdaptationNameChange: The Marvel UK comics called him "Jawbreaker". |
| 374 | * AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: Overbite's color scheme bears a purple not seen anywhere else on the Seacons. This distinction helps highlight Overbite's default placement as Piranacon's Targetmaster -- contemporarily released Targetmasters in 1988 commonly have distinct colors from their handlers. |
| 375 | * ForTheEvulz: On his free time Overbite enjoys sinking oil tankers and picking off the drowning humans for sport. |
| 376 | * LandShark: Overbite turns into a mutant shark with limbs, allowing him to fight on land too. |
| 377 | * ThreateningShark: Overbite transforms into a shark, and he greatly enjoys hunting his prey, even attacking human ships in his spare time when he's not busy attacking the Autobots. |
| 378 | |
| 379 | !!Seawing |
| 380 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/seawing_2330.jpg]] |
| 381 | !!!'''Function:''' Undersea Reconnaissance |
| 382 | !!!'''Alt Mode:''' Mutant Manta Ray |
| 383 | ->''"The darkest depths reveal the darkest secrets."'' |
| 384 | * BlindedByTheLight: Due to his optics being specifically tuned for the dark sea depths, Seawing is vulnerable to bright lights. |
| 385 | * TheParalyzer: Seawing has [[EyeBeams eye rays]] which can temporarily freeze up a Cybertronian's body. They even work on Galvatron. |
| 386 | * SinisterStingrays: Seawing, who uses his manta ray form to ominously glide through the water. |
| 387 | * TheStarscream: Seawing, inside the team. |
| 388 | |
| 389 | !!Skalor |
| 390 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/skalor_8216.jpg]] |
| 391 | !!!'''Function:''' Amphibious Assault |
| 392 | !!!'''Alt Mode:''' Mutant Coelacanth |
| 393 | ->''"I stink, therefore I am."'' |
| 394 | * AcidAttack: Skalor's weapon mode is a double-barreled corrosive slime shooter. |
| 395 | * LazyBum: Unlike Blot, who is simply unable to keep up with his maintenance problems, Skalor could easily get his personal hygiene issues under control. He just can't be bothered to do so. |
| 396 | * ThePigPen: Skalor DOES NOT CARE about what other Decepticons think about his lack of personal hygiene. |
| 397 | * StickySituation: Skalor carries two "crustation rifles"; one fires a powerful glue, while the other fires shrapnel shards. When used in concert, they cover a target in tough, sticky particles until they're completely immobilized. |
| 398 | * UncleanlinessIsNextToUngodliness: Skalor, a disgusting slob who is as unkind as he is unsanitary. |
| 399 | |
| 400 | !!Tentakil |
| 401 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tentakil_8235.jpg]] |
| 402 | !!!'''Function:''' Underwater Demolitions |
| 403 | !!!'''Alt Mode:''' Mutant Cephalopod |
| 404 | ->''"Embrace your enemies... until they're terminated."'' |
| 405 | * DyingToBeReplaced: Gets killed off in ''Classics'' and is replaced by Scylla. |
| 406 | * FalseFriend: Tentakil is known to befriend people only to kill them once they get to trust him enough to let their defenses down. |
| 407 | * FauxAffablyEvil: Tentakil is mentioned to be the cruelest Seacon of them all, which he masks by very friendly facade. |
| 408 | * GiantSquid: Tentakil transforms into a gigantic squid. |
| 409 | * NonStandardCharacterDesign: Tentakill's beast mode has a far more organic-looking appearance compared to the others. |
| 410 | * PsychoPink: He has more pink than the other Seacons and he's the cruelest of them. |
| 411 | * SerialKiller: Tentakil operates like a serial killer, luring his victims into a false sense of security by getting along with them and knowing them better so that they'd lower their guard, and once they do, he kills them in a cold blood and then moves on to the next victim. |
| 412 | * ShockAndAwe: Tentakil's weapon mode is a powerful lightning bolt rifle. |
| 413 | * WoundedGazelleGambit: Tentakil has been known to lure in Autobots by claiming that his fellow Decepticons are [[TrappedInVillainy forcing him to fight]]… then quickly proves otherwise by crushing them. |
| 414 | |
| 415 | !!Piranacon |
| 416 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/piranacon_2506.jpg]] |
| 417 | !!!'''Function:''' Undersea Warrior |
| 418 | ->''"Underwater, no one can hear you scream."'' |
| 419 | |
| 420 | * {{BFS}}: Piranacon wields an incendiary sword, formed from Snaptrap's. |
| 421 | * DumbMuscle: [[DownplayedTrope While Piranacon is reasonably intelligent for a combiner]], he eschews his component's inhibitions in favor of a single-minded obsession with hunting. It's so strong that Piranacon generally refuses to ''stop'' if left unchecked, even when running low on fuel or covered in scars. Thus, Snaptrap had to install an automatic timer to force him and his partners to separate, thereby allowing them to regroup. |
| 422 | * EmpathicWeapon: Piranacon's a "Scramble City" Combiner with special hands. So any one of his limbs can become his gun. |
| 423 | * GoneHorriblyRight: The Seacons' mutual interest in hunting means they synergize very well when they combine. The result, however, perverts this interest into something too strong for his own health. To wit, Piranacon strongly neglects self-care, causing him to accumulate tons of battle-damage and forget to refuel. Without Snaptrap's combiner timer, the gestalt would surely kill himself. |
| 424 | * HourOfPower: Forcibly separates himself eventually thanks to an automatic timer. |
| 425 | * ProngsOfPoseidon: Appropriately for the aquatic combiner team, Snaptrap/Piranacon wields a three-pronged incendiary sword, which appears to be a cross between a sword and a trident. |
| 426 | * TheWorfEffect: Piranacon is claimed to be a nigh-unstoppable, terrifying murder machine. Galvatron once defeated him handily. |
| 427 | -->'''Galvatron:''' What is this? Shockwave sends '''''fish''''' against me? Does he expect me to laugh myself to death? |
| 428 | [[/folder]] |
| 429 | |
| 430 | [[folder:Skullgrin (スカルグリン ''sukarugurin'')]] |
| 431 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/skullgrin_5124.jpg]] |
| 432 | !!!'''Function:''' Siege Warrior |
| 433 | !!!'''Alt Mode:''' Cybertronian Tank |
| 434 | ->''"Those who stand against me shall soon fall before me!"'' |
| 435 | A Decepticon Pretender whose shell is a monstrous, horned, skull-headed humanoid. |
| 436 | ---- |
| 437 | * AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Tends to favour his own interests more than the Decepticon cause and get distracted from his missions. |
| 438 | * TheBerserker: What he becomes if he spends too much time in his shell, which was designed to bring out his base instincts. |
| 439 | * DependingOnTheWriter: Thanks to "Monstercon From Mars", writers are torn between having Skullgrin be a mindless brute obsessed with destruction and violence (per his tech specs) and his Marvel comic portrayal, who was smart, obsessed with fame and [[AlienArtsAreAppreciated immersing himself in human culture]] (including becoming an actor), and showing kindness to humans. Dreamwave's profile books went with the notion that he's normally the latter, which annoyed his bosses, who programmed his Pretender shell to make him the former. |
| 440 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: Transformers #46 (Monstercon From Mars), which has Skullgrin embrace Earth and become a movie star, showing him as someone who was far more than a bruiser and who was interested in fame as an actor and capable of kindness towards humans. |
| 441 | * GodInHumanForm: His ''Power of the Primes'' toy is a disguised Liege Maximo. |
| 442 | * KilledOffForReal: G2 has him killed when his spaceship blew up in orbit. |
| 443 | * PeopleInRubberSuits: In-Universe example. He used his Pretender shell to become a star in monster films. |
| 444 | * PetTheDog: Forms an actual friendship with an actress when he was taken to become an actor, and saves her later on. His teammates make fun of him for it. |
| 445 | [[/folder]] |
| 446 | |
| 447 | [[folder:Snarler (スナーラー ''sunārā'')]] |
| 448 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/snarler_2732.jpg]] |
| 449 | !!!'''Function:''' Assault Warrior |
| 450 | !!!'''Alt Mode:''' Wild Pig |
| 451 | ->''"Stealing isn't a crime, getting caught is."'' |
| 452 | A Pretender whose shell and alt mode resemble a wild pig. A member of the Mayhem Attack Squad alongside fellow Pretender beast Carnivac, Snarler is not above throwing his fellow soldiers into the line-of-fire ahead of him, if that's what it takes to survive. |
| 453 | ---- |
| 454 | * AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: His boar Pretender shell is colored blue. |
| 455 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: He's not quite smart enough to pull off his scams as skillfully as he'd like. |
| 456 | * FullBoarAction: His pretender shell and regular alt-mode are both boars. |
| 457 | * ItsAllAboutMe: He possesses a short-sighted selfishness, even being unwilling to follow orders unless he's sure he can benefit from them (the fact that his superiors are perfectly happy to scrap him otherwise usually does the trick). |
| 458 | * {{Jerkass}}: Snarler is utterly unwilling to lift so much as a finger to help allies unless he's absolutely certain it'll benefit him. |
| 459 | * MightyGlacier: Snarler's strong and durable, but his speed isn't much to write home about. |
| 460 | * SinisterSwine: An utterly selfish, obnoxious, and boorish Decepticon boar. |
| 461 | * ThisIsADrill: His regular beast mode has a drill-snout. |
| 462 | [[/folder]] |
| 463 | |
| 464 | [[folder:Spinister (スピニスター ''supinisutā'')]] |
| 465 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/spinister_1149.jpg]] |
| 466 | !!!'''Function:''' Aerial Assault |
| 467 | !!!'''Alt Mode:''' AH-64 Apache Attack Helicopter |
| 468 | ->''"Respect your foes' abilities as you would your own."'' |
| 469 | |
| 470 | A Double Targetmaster who has few friends in the Decepticon ranks, but is highly respected for his combat prowess and uncanny ability to turn the tide of battle whenever he enters the fray. He is partnered with Hairsplitter and Singe. |
| 471 | ---- |
| 472 | * BellBottomLimbedBots: His lower legs being formed from his helicopter cockpit(s) gives them a bell-bottomed look, especially thanks to the way they're curved. |
| 473 | * TheCameo: He appears in the Dreamwave ''Anime/TransformersArmada'' comic, where he is the sole survivor of a dead Cybertron in another Universe. |
| 474 | * CombatPragmatist: In the Marvel comics. When Carnivac comes for them, Spinister snipes him instead of fighting him hand to hand. When the Mayhems resolve to go down fighting, he opts to run. |
| 475 | * CombiningMecha: ''Of Masters and Mayhem'' makes him the right arm of the combiner Thunder Mayhem. |
| 476 | * TheDitz: In the 2005-2018 IDW comics. |
| 477 | -->'''Misfire:''' If he seems distracted by his own fingers, it's because - [[NotHyperbole and I present this as an empirical truth]] - he is truly the stupidest person in the universe. |
| 478 | * {{Empathic Weapon}}s: Hairsplitter (heavy blaster) and Singe (flamethrower), who can also merge to form a sniper rifle. |
| 479 | * EnigmaticMinion: That's his bio in a nutshell, he's a mystery to all those around him, no one knows his motives. In the Regeneration 1 comics, all the Decepticons opt to work for Scorponok after he kills Misfire, while leaving, Spinister relays the information to Soundwave, for his own reasons. |
| 480 | * FireBreathingWeapon: Singe transforms into a nuclear-powered, twin-barreled flamethrower. |
| 481 | * GeniusDitz: In the IDW continuity he's an expert surgeon despite being too dumb to count to three. |
| 482 | * GreenEyedMonster: Singe joined the Decepticons solely so he could kill Fortress Maximus' partner Galen, whom Lord Zarak's daughter, Llyra chose over him. |
| 483 | * KilledOffForReal: Carnivac killed him in the Marvel comics (the comics in question had questionable continuity, and all future appearances in that continuity keep him alive), and in the Dreamwave ''Anime/TransformersArmada'' comic, he was killed by Unicron. |
| 484 | * MythologyGag: His IDW personality, being a bit crazy in the head and all, hearkens back to the Dreamwave ''Anime/TransformersArmada'' comic, where Optimus Prime meets an insane Spinister on a dead Cybertron. |
| 485 | * ObstructiveBureaucrat: Hairsplitter was once an efficiency expert, and took great pleasure in writing up his co-workers over the tiniest mistakes. |
| 486 | * PunchClockVillain: Has no real animus toward his Autobot opponents, views his fellow Decepticons primarily as co-workers, and does not gloat about his own abilities. |
| 487 | * PunnyName: His name; spin (like a helicopter) + sinister (like a Decepticon). |
| 488 | * PurpleIsPowerful: Spinister's color scheme is purple and violet and he's a pretty capable Decepticon, no matter the incarnation. |
| 489 | * TheQuietOne: Rarely speaks, and when he does it's only about something relevant to the task at hand. |
| 490 | * SpacePirates: In the 2019 IDW continuity, he leads a crew of [[OrganTheft splicers]], essentially the Cybertronian equivalent of the Harvesters from ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution''. |
| 491 | * SuddenNameChange: Due to problems copyrighting his name, later versions of Hairsplitter were given the moniker [[Series/TheOfficeUS "Shrute"]]. |
| 492 | * WeakButSkilled: He has some impressive moves, but is seriously lacking in physical strength. |
| 493 | * YourSizeMayVary: He's always been a tall bot, but it ranges from being a bit taller than average to being the largest of the Scavengers in the 2005 IDW continuity, rivaling Grimlock in stature. |
| 494 | [[/folder]] |
| 495 | |
| 496 | [[folder:Squawkbox (スクォークボックス ''sukwōkubokkusu'')]] |
| 497 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/beastbox_7863.jpg]] |
| 498 | [[caption-width-right:205:Beastbox]] |
| 499 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/squawktalk_48.jpg]] |
| 500 | [[caption-width-right:205:Squawktalk]] |
| 501 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/squawkbox_8043.jpg]] |
| 502 | [[caption-width-right:205:Squawkbox]] |
| 503 | !!!'''Function:''' Interrogator (Beastbox), Translator (Squawktalk), Battlefield Dissonance (Squawkbox) |
| 504 | !!!'''Alt Modes:''' Micro-Cassette (both) |
| 505 | ->'''Beastbox:''' ''"Speak now if you intend to ever speak at all."'' |
| 506 | ->'''Squawktalk:''' ''"If you have nothing interesting to say, say it anyway."'' |
| 507 | ->'''Squawkbox:''' ''"One being's noise is another's music."'' |
| 508 | |
| 509 | The combined form of two of Soundwave's micro-cassettes, the chatty Squawktalk and the brutish Beastbox, Squawkbox is a scientist specializing in weaponizing sound. Viewing his creations as being akin to musical works of art, Squawkbox uses his "compositions" to disorient Autobots on the battlefield. |
| 510 | ---- |
| 511 | * AreaOfEffect: If he's not careful, Squawkbox's sound-based attacks can affect any of his fellow Decepticons within the vicinity. |
| 512 | * TheBrute: Beastbox. And someone thought he was a good choice for interrogation. His bad temper usually means he beats his prisoners to death, without even taking down what they're trying to say. |
| 513 | * CombiningMecha: With Beastbox forming the torso and Squawktalk forming the legs. |
| 514 | * KillerGorilla: Beastbox, hands down. |
| 515 | * FeatheredFiend: Squawktalk, though he is nowhere near as violent as Beastbox. |
| 516 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: Squawktalk couldn't stop talking if his life depended on it. This habit doesn't exactly endear him to his comrades. |
| 517 | -->'''Dirge:''' Not only does his constant ranting have the potential to alert the Autobots, it puts everyone around him on edge. If he doesn't shut up, I'm going to kill him myself. |
| 518 | * GaleForceSound: Squawkbox can produce a disorienting and physically damaging sound show. |
| 519 | * InnocentlyInsensitive: Squawktalk doesn't mean to annoy his teammates. He just loves the sound of foreign languages, and finds it pleasant and relaxing to listen to - even if he's the one speaking them. |
| 520 | * {{Omniglot}}: Squawktalk can request a cracker in trillions of languages. |
| 521 | * {{Portmanteau}}: Another case of a combined form merging the names of its two components; '''Squawk'''talk + Beast'''box'''. |
| 522 | * RememberTheNewGuy: In the IDW comics, Soundwaves cassettes all are shown a little backstory, Ravage, Laserbeak and Buzzsaw found and befriended him, Rumble and Frenzy get retooled to work with him, and he forces Ratbat into a cassette body, but Squawkbox just shows up out of nowhere helping to deliver weapons to the newly formed Decepticon army. |
| 523 | * SoMuchForStealth: Squawktalk's constant talking makes it impossible for him to follow through on any missions requiring some level of stealth. |
| 524 | * WrongLineOfWork: Beastbox is poorly suited to his role as an interrogator, due to losing his temper and beating his prisoners to a pulp with little provocation. |
| 525 | [[/folder]] |
| 526 | |
| 527 | [[folder:Squeezeplay (スクイーズプレイ ''sukuīzupurei'')]] |
| 528 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/squeezeplay_1538.jpg]] |
| 529 | !!!'''Function:''' Saboteur |
| 530 | !!!'''Alt Modes:''' Alien Crab |
| 531 | ->''"Place brawn before brains and victory is yours."'' |
| 532 | |
| 533 | A self-described engine of destruction, Squeezeplay has harnessed the tactical advantages of brute force and intimidation, using his aggression and ferocity to throw his opponents off balance. He is binary bonded to the [[RuthlessModernPirates pirate]] Lokos, whose craftiness counterbalances Squeezeplay's brutality. |
| 534 | ---- |
| 535 | * TheBrute: While not unintelligent (the [[GeniusBruiser opposite]], in fact), he prefers to rely on sheer force to win. The results are effective enough that Lokos usually lets him have his fun. |
| 536 | * GiantEnemyCrab: His alternate form is a huge crab beast. Most people confused it for a bipedal cobra with pincers, but that's not the case. |
| 537 | * LosingYourHead: He's a Headmaster. |
| 538 | [[/folder]] |
| 539 | |
| 540 | [[folder:Submarauder (サブマローダー ''sabumarōda'')]] |
| 541 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/submarauder_4269.jpg]] |
| 542 | !!!'''Function:''' Undersea Warfare |
| 543 | !!!'''Alt Mode:''' Alien Submersible |
| 544 | ->''"Conquer the seas and the rest will fall!"'' |
| 545 | An aquatic Decepticon Pretender whose Pretender shell is a vaguely humanoid aquatic lifeform, something like the Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon in Roman Legionary armour. |
| 546 | ---- |
| 547 | * BecomingTheMask: His Pretender shell has engendered a very real respect and care for sea life. |
| 548 | * BerserkButton: Submarauder ''hates'' company in general, but people -- human, Autobot, even Decepticon -- interfering with the creatures he is so fascinated with ''really'' stirs him up. |
| 549 | * ForgetsToEat: Submarauder apparently can get so caught up in his studies and meditations that he forgets to return to base for refuelling. |
| 550 | * GeniusBruiser: The savage, raging berserker is actually, at heart, a reclusive and scholarly intellectual who finds great satisfaction in observing sea life and pondering the ocean's mysteries. |
| 551 | * GodInHumanForm: His ''Power of the Primes'' toy is a disguised Alchemist Prime. |
| 552 | * HiddenDepths: Let's face it, "easily-angered Decepticon warrior" and "scholar with a genuine love for sea creatures and the ocean" don't exactly go together at first glance. |
| 553 | [[/folder]] |
| 554 | |
| 555 | [[folder:The Triggercons (トリガーコン ''torigākon'')]] |
| 556 | |
| 557 | Composed of the whiny Crankcase, the loud Ruckus and the neat freak Windsweeper. They are part of the Mayhem Attack Squad. |
| 558 | ---- |
| 559 | * CombiningMecha: Ruckus and Windsweeper become components of Thunder Mayhem in ''Of Masters and Mayhem''. |
| 560 | * EvilCounterpart: To the Autobot Triggerbots, though both groups were introduced at exactly the same time. |
| 561 | * HiddenWeapons: Their gimmick, shared with the Triggerbots. They can all flip out guns hidden inside their bodies. |
| 562 | |
| 563 | !!Crankcase (クランクケース ''kurankukēsu'') |
| 564 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/crankcase_6312.jpg]] |
| 565 | !!!'''Function:''' Data Collector |
| 566 | !!!'''Alt Mode:''' High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle |
| 567 | -> ''"Things are never as good as they seem."'' |
| 568 | A grumpy, cynical Decepticon who enjoys being in a bad mood. |
| 569 | ---- |
| 570 | * AscendedExtra: Crankcase was given a major role in the 2005 IDW series as a member of "The Scavengers" an ineffective team of Decepticons that the ''MTMTE'' comics would follow. Crankcase was their pilot and often played TheStraightMan to whatever antics they got up to. |
| 571 | * TheCynic: Crankcase is always in a bad mood. |
| 572 | %%* GiverOfLameNames: Crankcase in the IDW comics. |
| 573 | * MadeOfIron: In the IDW comics, Crankcase been pummeled, electrocuted, and previously had a chunk of his head blown off. His original appearance had him survive an encounter with Thunderwing, a being who killed most of his squad (including Ruckus) and leveled at least two planets. |
| 574 | * NotQuiteDead: Crankcase and Ruckus both got smashed by Thunderwing. Crankcase was shown to have survived years later. |
| 575 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: Crankcase was originally a scrawny, nerdy, constantly picked-on fuel spill janitor before getting an upgraded body complete with shoulder cannons. |
| 576 | * OnlySaneMan: Shares this role with [[TheLeader Krok]] as part of the Scavengers in ''MMTE''. |
| 577 | |
| 578 | !!Ruckus |
| 579 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ruckus_7156.jpg]] |
| 580 | !!!'''Function:''' Combat Assault |
| 581 | !!!'''Alt Mode:''' HPI Baja Dune Buggy |
| 582 | ->''"I take a licking and keep on kicking."'' |
| 583 | A brash and boisterous Decepticon warrior. |
| 584 | ---- |
| 585 | * {{Determinator}}: In the Marvel comics, he supposedly once got reduced to nothing more than his ''voicebox'', and still did what he could to get a message to Megatron. |
| 586 | * KilledOffForReal: |
| 587 | ** While Crankcase is shown to have survived Thunderwing's assault in ''Stormbringer'', Ruckus wasn't so lucky. |
| 588 | ** He doesn't survive being possessed by Exarchon during ''ComicBook/Transformers2019''. |
| 589 | %%* LoudOfWar: Ruckus |
| 590 | * MeaningfulName: He's loud and can cause quite a ruckus. |
| 591 | * NoIndoorVoice: Ruckus' signature character trait. |
| 592 | * ShoulderCannon: His Triggercon guns rest on his shoulders in robot mode. |
| 593 | * YellowPurpleContrast: He's easily identified by his bright purple and yellow color scheme. |
| 594 | |
| 595 | !!Windsweeper |
| 596 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/windsweeper_4193.jpg]] |
| 597 | !!!'''Function:''' Air Defense |
| 598 | !!!'''Alt Modes:''' Modified B-1B Lancer Bomber |
| 599 | ->''"Uninvited guests soon become smoldering wrecks."'' |
| 600 | A neurotic neat freak who seeks to clean the skies of germs and any other impurities. |
| 601 | ---- |
| 602 | * NeatFreak: Windsweeper, along with a bit of TerrifiedOfGerms, to the point of shooting anything else in the air: planes, birds, insects, leaves, even clouds. He can be defeated by throwing garbage at him, as being dirty causes him to become irrational enough to literally blow a fuse. |
| 603 | * SkewedPriorities: In ''Spotlight Megatron'', Windsweeper wonders if they should stop Starscream and Megatron from killing each other because they were making a mess. Skywarp threatens to TeleFrag him if he tries. |
| 604 | * TokenFlyer: He's the only flyer among the Triggercons. |
| 605 | * TriggerHappy: Not in the sense that he is overly affectionate towards his guns, but in the sense that he shoots anything at the slightest provocation if it is considered unclean by his (admittedly extreme and monomanaical) standards. This includes taking potshots at things that theoretically can't be harmed by his lasers, such as trying to shoot down passing clouds. |
| 606 | [[/folder]] |
| 607 | |
| 608 | !!1989 Decepticons |
| 609 | [[folder:The Air Strike Patrol]] |
| 610 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/whisper_8200.jpg]] |
| 611 | [[caption-width-right:205:Whisper]] |
| 612 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/storm_cloud_6303.jpg]] |
| 613 | [[caption-width-right:205:Storm Cloud]] |
| 614 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nightflight_3065.jpg]] |
| 615 | [[caption-width-right:205:Nightflight]] |
| 616 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tailwind_2605.jpg]] |
| 617 | [[caption-width-right:205:Tailwind]] |
| 618 | !!!'''Function:''' Surveillance (Whisper), Electronic Warfare (Storm Cloud), Espionage (Nightflight), Reconnsaisance (Tailwind) |
| 619 | !!!'''Alt Modes:''' Stealth Fighter (Whisper), Dassault Rafale Fighter Jet (Storm Cloud), [=F14D=] Tomcat Fighter Jet (Nightflight), A-10 Thunderbolt Fighter Jet (Tailwind) |
| 620 | ->'''Whisper:''' ''"Undetected in flight; undefeated in fight."'' |
| 621 | ->'''Storm Cloud:''' ''"The air is my playground."'' |
| 622 | ->'''Nightflight:''' ''"I prey like a vulture in the night."'' |
| 623 | ->'''Tailwind:''' ''"Revenge is sweet, victory is sweeter."'' |
| 624 | One of the first Decepticon Micromaster units, the Air Strike patrol specialize in surveillance, electronic warfare, and hit and run tactics. Consists of Whisper, Storm Cloud, Nightflight, and Tailwind, who are [[TeethClenchedTeamwork constantly fighting amongst themselves]]. |
| 625 | ---- |
| 626 | * TheChessmaster: Tailwind, the only one of the group who stands a chance of success in scheming to take control of the team because he's both subtle and manipulative. |
| 627 | * TheCracker: Storm Cloud, in his team role as a combination virus writer and ECM specialist. |
| 628 | * DeckOfWildCards: Arguably one of the best examples out there. Whisper is a strong and competent leader, who is unfortunately saddled with an entire squad of disloyal pains-in-the-aft. He gets his pick of Starscream pastiches too, including an incompetent egotist who couldn't plot his way out of a paper bag (Storm Cloud), a cowardly butt-kisser trying to suck up to senior officers (Nighflight), and an overly smug and annoying schemer who refuses to divulge his thoughts (Tailwind). It is probably no surprise that with this kind of team composition, Whisper's main complaint is that he can't solve this loyalty problem the way ''he'' wants... which is to say, to have the rest of the Patrol ShotAtDawn and request new squadmates. |
| 629 | * DirtyCoward: Nightflight, though he'll argue he's actually a CombatPragmatist. In truth, Nightflight is too spineless for direct confrontation and would rather collect the scraps of other people's work. |
| 630 | * KilledOffForReal: In the first run of the Marvel Comics, #68 ''The Human Factor''. |
| 631 | * TheMole: In an EvilVersusEvil scenario. They faked loyalty to Scorponok, but actually worked for Megatron. |
| 632 | * MuggingTheMonster: They attack an oil refinery and run into Hector Dialonzo. They think he's just another flesh creature. [[spoiler: They don't survive, as it turns out he's the superhero Dynamo.]] |
| 633 | * OnlySaneMan: Whisper, who lacks any real flaws aside from being a Decepticon squad leader. |
| 634 | * OpportunisticBastard: Nightflight again. He's the sort of person who would prefer to steal pocket change rather than put in the effort to rob a bank because the change was easier to take. This is also his only real plan for usurping power from Whisper: kiss every available ass at every available opportunity until someone with authority promotes him to command of the Air Strike Patrol. |
| 635 | * ProfessionalButtKisser: Nightflight ''again''. His career plan involves attaching himself in remora-like fashion to the aft-end of the strongest senior commanding officer he can find and currying enough favor to be promoted to command of the Air Strike Patrol. |
| 636 | * TheStarscream: ''Everyone'' to Whisper. That's right, his entire team is trying to usurp his command. Fortunately for Whisper, Tailwind is the only one who could actually pull it off... if he ever decides the time is right to strike. |
| 637 | * TheStoic: Tailwind. He says the least of anyone in the team, but that just means he's more likely to get away with his plots. |
| 638 | * TeethClenchedTeamwork: The only way this bunch of backstabbing, squabbling rowdies get anything done. Tailwind, Nightflight, and Storm Cloud ''all'' want to overthrow Whisper ''and'' ensure their rivals do not succeed in taking over. Meanwhile, Whisper would rather save himself the headaches and simply shoot his disloyal subordinates. Decepticon High Command has not granted ''any'' of their requests, so the four of them are stuck with each other and forced to work as a team despite the fact they really don't like each other. |
| 639 | * TooDumbToLive: Storm Cloud. Usually, attempting to stage a coup in a villain's army requires a degree of subtlety, restraint, or skill. Storm Cloud has none of these and will loudly announce plans to overthrow Whisper in public. In front of Whisper. |
| 640 | [[/folder]] |
| 641 | |
| 642 | [[folder:Airwave]] |
| 643 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/airwave_6915.jpg]] |
| 644 | !!!'''Function:''' Aerial Defense |
| 645 | !!!'''Alt Mode:''' [=F14D=] Tomcat Fighter Jet |
| 646 | ->''"My price is too high and you're going to pay."'' |
| 647 | |
| 648 | A former airbase inspector with a reputation for taking bribes, Airwave joined the Decepticons under the stipulation that he continue his black marketeering operations. Eventually, he was put in charge of a Decepticon airbase, where he proved to be a capable commander with a sadistic streak. |
| 649 | ---- |
| 650 | * CombatPragmatist: Not good at close quarter combat, but has used artillery to rack up an impressive body count. |
| 651 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: To Airwave, ''everything'' is an extortion racket. He is so greedy and corrupt that even Swindle hates him. Megatron grudgingly tolerates Airwave's illicit activities because he's a capable soldier, but is prepared to kill him the moment he becomes a liability. |
| 652 | * GeniusLoci: The ''Earthrise'' toyline makes Airwave a Modulator, combining the character with his Airport Base, which he now turns into. |
| 653 | * RedOnesGoFaster: A red fighter jet with a top speed of 800 miles per hour. |
| 654 | * WeakButSkilled: His physical strength is fairly low, so he fights smarter, not harder. |
| 655 | [[/folder]] |
| 656 | |
| 657 | [[folder:Bludgeon (ブラジオン ''burajion'')]] |
| 658 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bludgeon_7319.jpg]] |
| 659 | !!!'''Function:''' Electric Warrior |
| 660 | !!!'''Alt Modes:''' Tank |
| 661 | ->''"To know your own limits, you must first know your foe's limits."'' |
| 662 | |
| 663 | A Decepticon martial artist whose Pretender shell is a samurai skeleton. |
| 664 | ---- |
| 665 | * AlwaysABiggerFish: How he died in the ''Generation 2'' comics. After Megatron tore off the head of his Pretender shell, Bludgeon transformed into tank mode and continued his attack. Megatron, barely damaged from Bludgeon's cannon blast, transformed into his own tank mode and annihilated Bludgeon with a single shot. |
| 666 | * ArrogantKungFuGuy: A master of the Cybertronian martial art of Metallikato, and prone to preceeding his sentences with a heartfelt '''"Fools!"''' |
| 667 | * BigBad: He becomes the Decepticon leader following the battle with Unicron in [[Comicbook/TheTransformersMarvel the Marvel comics]], and keeps the title for the remainder of the series. In continuations of the book (such as ''[[ComicBook/TransformersGeneration2 Generation 2]]'' and ''Regeneration One'') he continues to be Decepticon leader, if only at first. |
| 668 | * BreakoutVillain: Bludgeon is easily the most popular of the Pretender toyline. His memorable skeleton samurai look as well as his major role in the Marvel comics ended up making him a fan favorite and since then he's received a number of new toys and he's been adapted into other continuities. |
| 669 | * ClothesMakeTheLegend: Whenever he appears in fiction or as a toy, you're far more likely to see Bludgeon with his Pretender shell on than the inner robot inside it. [[PragmaticAdaptation Some toys have even made it the primary robot mode]]. |
| 670 | * CruelMercy: In ''Regeneration One'', Bludgeon begs Rodimus to finish him off. Rodimus instead chooses to spare him so he can live to suffer the humiliation of defeat. |
| 671 | * DeathSeeker: On some level he seeks to meet his end in glorious battle. And his master plan in ''Regeneration One'' was intended to end with his own death. |
| 672 | -->'''Bludgeon:''' Kill me. Finish what you started.\ |
| 673 | '''Rodimus Prime:''' No. [[CruelMercy I can think of no more fitting punishment than to deny you whatever "glorious" death you coveted.]] |
| 674 | * DragonAscendant: In [[Comicbook/TheTransformersMarvel the Marvel comics]], he becomes Captain of the Mayhem Attack Squad after Carnivac's HeelFaceTurn, and later becomes Decepticon leader following the battle with Unicron and Scorponok's death. |
| 675 | * EvilSoundsDeep: The IDW version is implied to sound this way, as John Barber [[PaintingTheMedium tended to give him black speech bubbles]]. |
| 676 | * FantasticFightingStyle: Metallikato. In at least some continuities, it's meant to be outlawed. |
| 677 | * {{Gashadokuro}}: His Pretender shell is based on a Gashadokuro, and he's a huge robot with a skull face in a samurai armor. |
| 678 | * GodInHumanForm: His ''Power of the Primes'' toy is a disguised Quintus Prime. |
| 679 | * KatanasAreJustBetter: He wields a katana in most fiction appearances, despite his original toy lacking such a weapon entirely. |
| 680 | * KilledOffForReal: Bludgeon's position as a significant Decepticon usually gives his death a kind of story importance. |
| 681 | ** ''ComicBook/TransformersGeneration2'': Bludgeon is killed fairly early on. Megatron is rebuilt and returns to wrestle control of the faction back from him. They battle it out and Megatron emerges victorious, killing Bludgeon. Though later, Megatron would lament killing off such a useful soldier. |
| 682 | ** ''ComicBook/TransformersGenerationOne'': The Decepticons and Autobots team up to defeat the Chaos Trinity (Bludgeon, Bugly, and Mindwipe). Bludgeon is the last to die, gunned down by Skywarp. |
| 683 | ** ''Anime/TransformersArmada'': In the comic adaptation Bludgeon debuts as one of Unicron's interdimensional heralds. He's killed when the base he occupied was blown up. |
| 684 | ** ''Classics'': The story ''At Fight's End'' has Megatron take leadership back from Bludgeon after the Marvel series. Bludgeon is betrayed by the Seacons and destroyed by Piranacon using Tentakil's mass compression cannon mode. |
| 685 | ** ''ComicBook/TheTransformersUnicron'': After surviving a lot of punishment in the 2005 IDW comics, Bludgeon finally meets his end battling Slug. The ship they're battling on crashes killing both. |
| 686 | * LaserBlade: In the IDW comics, the katana is upgraded to a [[Franchise/StarWars lightsaber]]. |
| 687 | * NinjaPirateZombieRobot: He's a Ninja Samurai Skeleton Robot thanks to his Pretender shell. |
| 688 | * AMillionIsAStatistic: His plans tend to involve a lot of collateral damage: |
| 689 | -->'''Thundercracker:''' [[EvenEvilHasStandards You're going to kill civilians with this stunt, Bludgeon. I thought we were supposed to be fighting on their behalf.]]\ |
| 690 | '''Bludgeon:''' Every civilian is a Decepticon at heart. Those that die today are martyrs. [[DeathSeeker I envy them]]. |
| 691 | * NonIndicativeName: A bludgeon is a blunt object, something that doesn't really mesh with the samurai-like aesthetics of his Pretender shell, or even his inner robot's tank mode. |
| 692 | * ProudWarriorRaceGuy: After becoming [[BigBad Decepticon leader]], Bludgeon gives a RousingSpeech to the Decepticons, saying that they're warriors and shouldn't fight what's in their oil. |
| 693 | * SecondaryColorNemesis: His inner robot mode is green and orange, while his samurai look other than his skeletal face is an orange armor with a purple helmet and arm guards. |
| 694 | * SkeleBot9000: Since most post-G1 incarnations of the character turn his Pretender shell into his robot mode, he usually has the appearance of a robotic skeleton in samurai armor. |
| 695 | * TankGoodness: Outside of his pretender shell, Bludgeon turns into a simple tank. |
| 696 | [[/folder]] |
| 697 | |
| 698 | [[folder:Flattop]] |
| 699 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/flattop_8809.jpg]] |
| 700 | !!!'''Function:''' Naval Warfare |
| 701 | !!!'''Alt Modes:''' F4 Phantom Fighter Jet |
| 702 | ->''"Terror is the ultimate weapon."'' |
| 703 | A self-described "scourge of the seven seas", Flattop patrols the oceans looking for targets he can destroy. Captaining the aircraft carrier Platonix, Flattop can merge with the ship, transforming it into an interstellar warship that can terrorize targets in space. |
| 704 | ---- |
| 705 | * AceCustom: Platonix, a space ship which he can pilot manually or attach to his jet mode. |
| 706 | * SmugSnake: Flattop thinks he's better than every other Decepticon, and often refuses to admit he needs help. |
| 707 | [[/folder]] |
| 708 | |
| 709 | [[folder:Greasepit]] |
| 710 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/greasepit_1125.jpg]] |
| 711 | !!!'''Function:''' Fuel Depot |
| 712 | !!!'''Alt Modes:''' Monster Truck |
| 713 | ->''"An engine is only as powerful as the fuel that runs it."'' |
| 714 | A Micromaster Base Commander, Greasepit runs a fuel depot that can transform into an anti-aircraft battery. Greedy and opportunistic, he takes full advantage of the goodwill inherent in his position to gain advancement. |
| 715 | ---- |
| 716 | * ConArtist: Greasepit operates a fake gas station, which he uses to siphon fuel. |
| 717 | * GeniusLoci: ''Earthrise'' makes Greasepit a Modulator, meaning he now turns into his refuelling facility. |
| 718 | * SmugSnake: The other Decepticons would like Greasepit a little more if he just stopped going on about how he's doing them a favour. |
| 719 | [[/folder]] |
| 720 | |
| 721 | [[folder:Octopunch (オクトパンチ ''okutopanchi'')]] |
| 722 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/octopunch_3116.jpg]] |
| 723 | !!!'''Function:''' Salvage |
| 724 | !!!'''Alt Mode:''' Crab |
| 725 | ->''"Anything that can sink is worth sinking."'' |
| 726 | |
| 727 | A Pretender whose shell resembles a humanoid squid monster, Octopunch is a pirate who frequently serves on the Mayhem Attack Squad when he isn't plundering treasures on [[SingleBiomePlanet aquatic worlds]]. |
| 728 | ---- |
| 729 | * CreepyOldFashionedDivingSuit: His pretender shell wears an old-fashioned diving helmet that barely conceals his horrifying visage. |
| 730 | * {{Expy}}: [[ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} Black Manta]] as a Decepticon, [[DependingOnTheWriter sort of]]. |
| 731 | * GiantEnemyCrab: His alt mode is a crab. |
| 732 | * GodInHumanForm: His ''Power of the Primes'' toy is a disguised Solus Prime. |
| 733 | * MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: He's no more dangerous than your average Decepticon, but, to quote [[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Octopunch_(G1) TFWiki]], get back to us on this after [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace he shoots God in the face]]. |
| 734 | * MirrorMatch: Ends up fighting against his heroic ''Shattered Glass'' counterpart in ''Classics''. |
| 735 | * RuthlessModernPirates: The Decepticon [[RecycledInSpace equivalent]] of one. If he's not stealing sunken treasure or ancient artifacts, he amuses himself by smashing holes in submarines and cruise ships. |
| 736 | * SecondaryColorNemesis: The octopus parts of his shell are colored magenta and his lower half is green. Meanwhile his inner robot shell is purple and light orange. |
| 737 | * TentacledTerror: His Pretender shell is a horrifically ugly octopus-like monster wearing a diving suit. |
| 738 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: In "[[Comicbook/TheTransformersMarvel The Primal Scream]]", he shoots Grimlock, the shot bounces off him and hits Primus, awakening the dormant creator with a scream... which warns Unicron about his presence, so he courses towards Cybertron. [[SarcasmMode Thanks a lot, Octopunch]]. Later fiction states that this action was heard ''multiversally'', awakening Unicron from his own dormancy. |
| 739 | [[/folder]] |
| 740 | |
| 741 | [[folder:The Pretender Monsters]] |
| 742 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bristleback_8031.jpg]] |
| 743 | [[caption-width-right:205:Bristleback]] |
| 744 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/icepick_9862.jpg]] |
| 745 | [[caption-width-right:205:Icepick]] |
| 746 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/scowl_5018.jpg]] |
| 747 | [[caption-width-right:205:Scowl]] |
| 748 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/slog_6480.jpg]] |
| 749 | [[caption-width-right:205:Slog]] |
| 750 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wildfly_4527.jpg]] |
| 751 | [[caption-width-right:205:Wildfly]] |
| 752 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/birdbrain_8586.jpg]] |
| 753 | [[caption-width-right:205:Birdbrain]] |
| 754 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/monstructor_5057.jpg]] |
| 755 | [[caption-width-right:205:Monstructor]] |
| 756 | !!!'''Function:''' Aerial Attack Trooper (Birdbrain), Ground Assault (Bristleback), Demolitions (Icepick), Sonic Saboteur (Scowl), Combat Artist (Slog), Aerial Assault (Wildfly), Super Warrior (Monstructor) |
| 757 | !!!'''Alt Modes:''' Gryphon (Birdbrain), [[LandShark Bulette]] (Bristleback), Kaiju (Icepick), Werewolf (Scowl), Demon (Slog), Harpy (Wildfly) |
| 758 | ->'''Birdbrain:''' ''"Anyone who is not a predator is considered prey."'' |
| 759 | ->'''Bristlebck:''' ''"You can't tell a Decepticon by its cover."'' |
| 760 | ->'''Icepick:''' ''"From today's rubble-strewn fields shall emerge a new Decepticon world!"'' |
| 761 | ->'''Scowl:''' ''"Control sound, and the faintest whisper can be the fiercest weapon."'' |
| 762 | ->'''Slog:''' ''"Destruction is the highest form of art."'' |
| 763 | ->'''Wildfly:''' ''"Strike fear into your enemy, and you've won half the battle."'' |
| 764 | ->'''Monstructor:''' ''"My touch is death."'' |
| 765 | |
| 766 | Six pretenders whose shells and alt modes are monster-shaped. They are Birdbrain, Bristleback, Icepick, Scowl, Slog and Wildfly. |
| 767 | ---- |
| 768 | * BigCreepyCrawlies: Slog's pretender shell looks like a monstrous-looking bug. |
| 769 | * CombiningMecha: They form Monstructor. |
| 770 | * TheDividual: Like other combiner teams, the Pretender Monsters rarely receive characterization beyond serving as extensions of Monstructor. |
| 771 | * TheDreaded: Monstructor actually projects a field of terror, to help the pants-darkening sight of his just appearing. |
| 772 | * EldritchAbomination: The Dreamwave profiles paint Monstructor as some horrific thing that just ''happens'' to come in the form of a violent robot, channelling evil there isn't a name for. |
| 773 | * FeatheredFiend: Wildfly's alt mode is a bird-like monster, while his Pretender shell is also vaguely bird-like. While Birdbrain's shell is also a monster that looks like a bird, his alt mode is not truly bird-ish. |
| 774 | * HairTriggerTemper: Bristleback is filled with hate for everything and everyone. |
| 775 | * HatesBeingCalledCute: Scowl hates his werewolf altmode because its squat, chubby proportions make people find it cute; he loves his pretender shell, meanwhile, because it's as gruesome and monstrous as he feels. |
| 776 | * HiddenDepths: Underneath his mad exterior, Slog laments the loss of life the war causes on both sides. His superiors aren't happy with that. |
| 777 | * KilledOffForReal: |
| 778 | ** Monstructor gets killed in ''ComicBook/TheTransformersUnicron'' when Superion blasts a hole through his chest while Victorion punches his head into oblivion, killing the mad combiner and all of his components. |
| 779 | ** Monstructor is also annhilated by Omega Supreme in ''Regeneration One''. |
| 780 | * MadArtist: Slog turns his enemies into alleged masterpieces. |
| 781 | * NoIndoorVoice: Scowl, with his already loud voice amplified by his shell. |
| 782 | * OurMonstersAreWeird: Both Bristleback's shell and alt mode are supposed to be a [[LandShark Bulette]], but it doesn't look at all like any other monster seen in the toyline. |
| 783 | * PoisonousPerson: [[EldritchAbomination Monstructor]] [[OmnicidalManiac literally kills]] [[TouchOfDeath anything he touches]]. |
| 784 | * SmallNameBigEgo: Wildfly thinks he's some daring prankster. His fellow Decepticons think he's a moron. |
| 785 | * TheStarscream: Icepick, in "Rythms of Darkness", thought maybe getting rid of Galvatron was a good plan. He didn't get anywhere before a large building collapsed upon him. |
| 786 | * SuperScream: Scowl's power. |
| 787 | * TooDumbToLive: Wildfly thought it was a good idea to bad-mouth ''Galvatron'' in earshot. |
| 788 | * VerbalTic: Talks strangely, Slog does. |
| 789 | * WalkingWasteland: Monstructor drains the life out of everything nearby, and his solar rifle draws in every bit of sunlight nearby. He longs for the day when he just roam the galaxy killing everyone and everything he can find. |
| 790 | * WeaksauceWeakness: Bristleback has to stay in his shell most of the time, otherwise he'll start rusting up like mad. |
| 791 | [[/folder]] |
| 792 | |
| 793 | [[folder:Roadblock]] |
| 794 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/roadblock_8864.jpg]] |
| 795 | !!!'''Function:''' Ground Forces Commander |
| 796 | !!!'''Alt Modes:''' Cybertronian Tank, Hoverbike |
| 797 | ->''"To show fear is to admit defeat."'' |
| 798 | A Pretender equipped with a mechanical transforming shell, Roadblock is a former member of the Mayhem Attack Squad who has since moved up to become something of a boogeyman of the Decepticon Army. Though equally capable of direct frontal assault or stealth-based reconnaissance missions, Roadblock generally favors the former, showing no fear in battle and demanding the same confidence from the soldiers under his command. |
| 799 | ---- |
| 800 | * AceCustom: In addition to his two vehicle modes, he also has a Film/MadMax style battering ram siege tank that he drives. |
| 801 | * BadBoss: His troops tend to be the first Decepticons to charge at the Autobots... because they are running away from ''him''. It eventually got so bad that Megatron started using Roadblock's command as a PunishmentDetail. |
| 802 | * BloodKnight: A self-described "locomotive of destruction" that crushes everything in his path with his iron-studded wheels. |
| 803 | * TheDragon: To Carnivac in ''Regeneration One''. |
| 804 | * DroneDeployer: To survey a battle site before attacking, or to provide air support for himself when he goes into battle. |
| 805 | * HollywoodAcid: Equipped with corrosive grenades that eat through enemy armor. |
| 806 | * MightyGlacier: Tech specs give him Level 8 Strength and Firepower, but only a 3 for Speed. |
| 807 | * NoSympathy: Utterly contemptuous of those who show even the slightest weakness. |
| 808 | * OneManArmy: He's armed to the teeth, and since his inner robot and outer shell can both transform, he can essentially split himself into two vehicles (hovercraft and tank). |
| 809 | * PurpleIsPowerful: His Pretender shell. |
| 810 | * SecondaryColorNemesis: His vehicular shell is green while his transformable shell is purple. |
| 811 | * TankGoodness: His inner robot transforms into a tank. |
| 812 | * VillainousValor: Roadblock knows no fear whatsoever. He'll charge into battle alone, if he must. |
| 813 | [[/folder]] |
| 814 | |
| 815 | [[folder:Roughstuff]] |
| 816 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/roughstuff_4327.jpg]] |
| 817 | !!!'''Function:''' Aerial Defense |
| 818 | !!!'''Alt Mode:''' Missile Truck |
| 819 | ->''"Shoot first, aim later."'' |
| 820 | Originally part of a neutral faction that oversaw the everyday maintenance of Cybertron, Roughstuff became a Decepticon due to his eagerness to fight. When his trigger happy nature proved poorly suited to the front lines, Roughstuff found himself assigned to remote outposts, which makes him even more eager for something to shoot at. |
| 821 | ---- |
| 822 | * GreenAndMean: His upper body is green and he's a trigger happy thug. |
| 823 | * {{Irony}}: In the 2019 IDW continuity, it's Roughstuff that gets shot by a fellow Decepticon eager for something to shoot at. |
| 824 | -->'''Triggerhappy:''' We probably shouldn't have shot him. I mean me. I shouldn't have shot him. Maybe. Right? Hard to say. |
| 825 | * LeeroyJenkins: Has a habit of firing upon anything that enters his airspace without checking to see who it is beforehand. He's been known to have accidentally blasted his fellow Decepticons due to this. |
| 826 | * ReassignedToAntarctica: Deemed too incompetent for the front lines. |
| 827 | * WeaksauceWeakness: The hitch of his alt mode is defective, causing his armed half to detach at inopportune times. |
| 828 | [[/folder]] |
| 829 | |
| 830 | [[folder:Skyhopper]] |
| 831 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/skyhopper_2102.jpg]] |
| 832 | !!!'''Function:''' Aerial Assault Commander |
| 833 | !!!'''Alt Mode:''' Dassault Rafale Fighter Jet |
| 834 | ->''"The bigger the boom, the better I like it!"'' |
| 835 | |
| 836 | An unusually dedicated air warrior, Skyhopper gets a special kick out of [[StuffBlowingUP watching things explode]]. When not terrorizing targets in the air, he operates a mobile defense base equipped with a disruptor cannon that damages electronics by [[ReversePolarity reversing their polarity]]. |
| 837 | ---- |
| 838 | * TheDragon: In the Dreamwave comics, he serves as Skystalker's head goon. |
| 839 | * LoudOfWar: One of his weapons is a sonic cannon. |
| 840 | * PyroManiac: He loves seeing things blow up. Sometimes, a little ''too'' much. He's willing to get as close as he can just to see the pretty booms. Good thing he's pretty durable, then. |
| 841 | [[/folder]] |
| 842 | |
| 843 | [[folder:Skystalker]] |
| 844 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/skystalker_7376.jpg]] |
| 845 | !!!'''Function:''' Interstellar Assault |
| 846 | !!!'''Alt Mode:''' Porsche 959 Sportscar |
| 847 | ->''"Terror reigns from the skies, the hapless rule on the ground."'' |
| 848 | |
| 849 | TheCaptain of the ''Thunder Arrow'', an interstellar warship capable of transforming into an assault base, Skystalker began plundering other worlds once Cybertron began running low on resources. Harboring a serious Napoleon complex, he has high ambitions of a Galactic Empire with himself as absolute ruler. |
| 850 | ---- |
| 851 | * AdaptationalBadass: The 2019 IDW continuity makes him a Cityspeaker, capable of talking to Vigilem. |
| 852 | * ArchEnemy: Countdown in the Dreamwave comics. |
| 853 | * CoolCar: He turns into a Porsche 959. |
| 854 | * EvilCounterpart: To Countdown, a heroic space explorer who commands the Autobot Rocket Base. |
| 855 | * FreudianExcuse: His MTMTE profile suggests that it's precisely because he's so weak and puny that he's so driven to be in charge. |
| 856 | * IronicName: His alternate form is a car. |
| 857 | * SpacePirates: Leads a crew of them. |
| 858 | * TheStarscream: His Dreamwave version tried overthrowing Shockwave and luring all the larger Decepticons into a trap to be killed. And it almost worked, too. |
| 859 | * WeakButSkilled: Extremely weak (even for a Micromaster), but highly intelligent and cunning. |
| 860 | [[/folder]] |
| 861 | |
| 862 | [[folder:The Sports Car Patrol]] |
| 863 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/blackjack_1985.jpg]] |
| 864 | [[caption-width-right:205:Blackjack]] |
| 865 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/detour_2225.jpg]] |
| 866 | [[caption-width-right:205:Detour]] |
| 867 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/road_hugger_8954.jpg]] |
| 868 | [[caption-width-right:205:Road Hugger]] |
| 869 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hyperdrive_6477.jpg]] |
| 870 | [[caption-width-right:205:Hyperdrive]] |
| 871 | !!!'''Function:''' Advance Assault |
| 872 | !!!'''Alt Modes:''' Ford Probe GT Turbo Sportscar (Blackjack), Chevrolet Corvette Indy Sportscar (Detour), Ferrari 408 Integrale Concept Car (Road Hugger), Mitsubishi [=X2S=] Concept Car (Hyperdrive) |
| 873 | ->'''Blackjack:''' ''"It takes force to push back the enemy, but speed clears the way."'' |
| 874 | ->'''Detour:''' ''"To flee before overwhelming odds is no vice; to stay and be smashed is no virtue!"'' |
| 875 | ->'''Road Hugger:''' ''"[[SuicidalOverconfidence Only cowards stop at red lights!]]"'' |
| 876 | ->'''Hyperdrive:''' ''"[[DrivesLikeCrazy Whenever I drive, the highway becomes a demolition derby!]]"'' |
| 877 | |
| 878 | A quartet of Decepticon car soldiers that function as a road clearance unit, speeding ahead of the main ground forces to clear a path for the heavier fireteams. Led by the calculating Blackjack, the team is respected for its speed and efficiency. |
| 879 | ---- |
| 880 | * AscendedExtra: Blackjack's Combiner Wars toy is able to become Menasor's chest piece, making him something of an [[SixthRanger unofficial Stunticon]]. |
| 881 | * ClosestThingWeGot: Road Hugger is more courageous than Detour and less psychotic than Hyperdrive, making him Blackjack's default choice for second-in-command. |
| 882 | * DumbMuscle: Hyperdrive is bad-tempered, loud and easily bored. |
| 883 | -->'''Detour:''' Brain in neutral, mouth in drive. You never change, Hyperdrive. |
| 884 | * EvilCounterpart: To the Autobot Race Car Patrol. |
| 885 | * TheFriendNoOneLikes: Even the other Decepticons can't stand Hyperdrive's violence and brutality. |
| 886 | * KilledOffForReal: Detour got killed by Arcee in the 2005 IDW comics. |
| 887 | * KnowWhenToFoldEm: Blackjack has a particular skill at analyzing a situation, and knowing when's a good time to strike or not. He also likes using this skill to ''actually'' know when to fold. |
| 888 | * MeaningfulName: Blackjack likes to gamble. |
| 889 | * OnlySaneMan: Detour is usually the team voice of reason. If he's starting to voice objections, Blackjack takes that as a sign to get out of dodge. |
| 890 | [[/folder]] |
| 891 | |
| 892 | [[folder:Stranglehold (ストラングルホールド ''sutoranguruhōrudo'')]] |
| 893 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/stranglehold_2779.jpg]] |
| 894 | !!!'''Function:''' Enforcer |
| 895 | !!!'''Alt Mode:''' Rhinoceros |
| 896 | ->''"Rule one is: There are no rules!"'' |
| 897 | |
| 898 | A Pretender whose shell resembles a human in gladiator armor, Stranglehold is a former [[WrestlerInAllOfUs Cybertronic Wrestling Federation Champion]] who has joined the Mayhem Attack Squad. |
| 899 | ---- |
| 900 | * CombatPragmatist: Will do ''anything'' to win when he's in a fight. His rifle is actually an apparatus that [[LifeDrain saps his opponents' HP]], and he uses sucker punches, low blows, and other varieties of "cheap" attacks when fighting hand to hand. |
| 901 | * TheBrute: A glorified thug. |
| 902 | * DumbMuscle: Not very bright but still rather capable of going head to head with Autobots. |
| 903 | * NonStandardCharacterDesign: One of two Decepticon Pretenders to have a human shell (the other being Starscream), a trademark of Autobot Pretenders. |
| 904 | * {{Pornstache}}: His Pretender shell has this type of mustache. |
| 905 | * RhinoRampage: Transforms into a rhino. |
| 906 | * SecondaryColorNemesis: The gladiator's armor of his shell is purple and part of his robot mode is green. |
| 907 | * WalkingShirtlessScene: His Pretender shell comes in the form of a shirtless wrestler. |
| 908 | [[/folder]] |
| 909 | |
| 910 | [[folder:Thunderwing (サンダーウイング ''sandāuingu'')]] |
| 911 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thunderwing_8934.jpg]] |
| 912 | !!!'''Function:''' Aerial Espionage |
| 913 | !!!'''Alt Modes:''' Space Shuttle, Interstellar Jet |
| 914 | ->''"Cover yourself with lies and no one will find you."'' |
| 915 | A Pretender outfitted with a prototype transformable shell, Thunderwing is an ambitious Decepticon warlord who uses trickery and deceit to accomplish his goals. Though he values those who serve him loyally, his troops become fearful of him whenever he locks into a particularly obsessive mission or quest. |
| 916 | ---- |
| 917 | * AdaptationalBadass: His original tech specs indicate that he's a mid-level officer specializing primarily in aerial espionage, but the comics generally put him in a high-ranking position. IDW ramps him all the way up to TheJuggernaut. |
| 918 | * AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: In the Marvel UK comics, unlike pretty much ''every'' leader before him he didn't seize power, rather he was ''given'' it, after proving he had the chops. He technically failed the assignment to prove himself, but in the process impressed the Decepticon High Council enough for them to give him the job anyway. |
| 919 | * BadBoss: He seems to be this, risking his troops' lives to get the Matrix, but when he finally gets it and uses it to attack Spinister, he notices the corrupted Matrix is influencing him, since [[EvenEvilHasStandards he wouldn't harm a fellow Decepticon]]. (Well, except Ruckus.) |
| 920 | * TheBerserker: Normally relatively composed for a Decepticon, but once something pisses him off, he tends to lash out at anyone and anything in sight, other Decepticons included. |
| 921 | * BigBad: Of ''Matrix Quest'' and ''Stormbringer''. |
| 922 | * BreakoutVillain: While not quite to Bludgeon's level, Thunderwing's famous Marvel depiction won him a lot of popularity and secured him major roles in TF fiction. He was even reimagined for the ''Prime'' continuity as the BigBad of ''VideoGame/TransformersPrimeTheGame''. |
| 923 | * TheChosenMany: Thunderwing is one of the vanishingly rare Decepticons capable of reacting to the Matrix. Of course, by the time he got his mitts on it, the Matrix had... ''changed''. |
| 924 | * ClothesMakeTheLegend: Like Bludgeon, his Pretender shell has become far more recognizable than his inner robot. |
| 925 | * DemonicPossession: His Marvel Comics self ended up being taken over completely by the Dark Matrix Creature. |
| 926 | * DependingOnTheWriter: Despotic warlord in the Marvel continuity, herald of Unicron in the Dreamwave Armada continuity, and MadScientist in the IDW continuity. |
| 927 | * DetrimentalDetermination: Once Thunderwing sets his mind on something, ''nothing'' will sway him from his course. While this does give him a charisma that makes Decepticons follow him, it's also a problem because he's strong and smart enough to keep on going into disaster. |
| 928 | * TheDreaded: His IDW incarnation is so ridiculously dangerous Megatron is totally willing to obliterate Cybertron just to stop him going on another rampage. |
| 929 | * FauxAffablyEvil: Simon Furman tended to write him this way in the Marvel comic. |
| 930 | * FlawedPrototype: In the IDW continuity, he's the first Pretender, driven insane and unstoppable by the process. When the Autobots get their hands on him, they're able to refine the process so they ''don't'' go completely nuts. |
| 931 | * FromNobodyToNightmare: In the IDW comics, his experiments with [[strike:Pretender]] [[NotUsingTheZWord polydermal grafting]] technology made him unfathomably powerful and nigh-indestructible, at the cost of obliterating his sanity and turning him into a mindless engine of destruction. The Autobot and Decepticon armies took on Thunderwing, combined and in their entirety, and even then they ''still'' couldn't kill the monster he had become. |
| 932 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Nightbeat used Thunderwing's brief moment of clarity to harpoon him out of the Ark. |
| 933 | * IWarnedYou: In the IDW comics he's the only scientist to figure out the Energon crisis before it was too late, and warn the others (Shockwave didn't care to tell anyone). His warnings go unheeded, and he takes matters into his own hands. |
| 934 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He notices he's losing it after he turns the Matrix power against Spinister. |
| 935 | * PersonOfMassDestruction: IDW continuity. While he wasn't the only factor contributing to Cybertron's decline, he was definitely the one to push things over the edge and leave the planet a barren, radiation-choked wasteland utterly inhospitable to Transformer life. |
| 936 | * SealedEvilInACan: In the IDW continuity, by virtue of having run out of energy and being locked within his own Pretender shell. That is, until Bludgeon and his insane Pretender cult roused the beast from its slumber... |
| 937 | * ThrownOutTheAirlock: See ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice above. |
| 938 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: In the IDW comics, he figured out that the planet would die out because the war would exhaust resources (and in many continuities, that's exactly what happened), so he created his polydermal technology to survive the depletion (nobody else wanted to partake in it because they thought it was disgusting). Ultimately, his mind was destroyed and he became the very thing which ravaged the planet and made it uninhabitable. His last words were screaming at his computer to cancel the procedure. |
| 939 | [[/folder]] |
| 940 | |
| 941 | !!1990 Decepticons |
| 942 | [[folder:Axer (アクサー ''akusā'')]] |
| 943 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/axer.jpg]] |
| 944 | !!!'''Function:''' Bounty Hunter |
| 945 | !!!'''Alt Modes:''' Sportscar, Motorcyle |
| 946 | ->''"No prey is too large, no fee is too small."'' |
| 947 | At one time a neutral interstellar peacekeeping agent, Axer's career in law enforcement ended when it became apparent that he [[BloodKnight enjoyed the thrill of the hunt a little too much]]. He subsequently started working for the Decepticon Secret Service as their de facto executioner, seeing the freedom to indulge his murderous sadism without consequence as a fair trade for the reduction in pay. |
| 948 | ---- |
| 949 | * BladeBelowTheShoulder: To go with his name, Axer's reimagined movie depiction is a retool of Lockdown but with an axe instead of a hook for a right hand. This design eventually was incorporated into the G1 continuity as part of the ''Wings of Honor'' universe. |
| 950 | * BountyHunter: He works exclusively for the Decepticons because he prefers killing his targets slightly more than getting paid. |
| 951 | * CoolBike: His original toy came with the Turbo Cycle. His [=RiD=] body turns into a Harley Davison. |
| 952 | * DivergentCharacterEvolution: More recent fiction has depicted him as a spy or assassin to differentiate himself from Lockdown. |
| 953 | * LawmanGoneBad: Went from interstellar cop to interstellar hitman. |
| 954 | * TheMole: In the (2005-2018) IDW comics, he went undercover as an Autobot and tried to assassinate Optimus Prime. |
| 955 | * NonIndicativeName: Despite the name, he's never actually come with an axe. |
| 956 | * PaletteSwap: His third toy made him one to Lockdown. |
| 957 | * ScarilyCompetentTracker: He eschews using tech and equipment in favor of his brains and detective skills. |
| 958 | [[/folder]] |
| 959 | |
| 960 | [[folder:The Battle Squad]] |
| 961 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/direct-hit_8161.jpg]] |
| 962 | [[caption-width-right:205:Direct-Hit]] |
| 963 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/power_punch_1680.jpg]] |
| 964 | [[caption-width-right:205:Power Punch]] |
| 965 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fireshot_4438.jpg]] |
| 966 | [[caption-width-right:205:Fireshot]] |
| 967 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vanquish_7551.jpg]] |
| 968 | [[caption-width-right:205:Vanquish]] |
| 969 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/meltdown_6818.jpg]] |
| 970 | [[caption-width-right:205:Meltdown]] |
| 971 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/half-track_3386.jpg]] |
| 972 | [[caption-width-right:205:Half-Track]] |
| 973 | !!!'''Function:''' Aerial Counterattack |
| 974 | !!!'''Alt Modes:''' Armored Van (Direct-Hit), Transport Cannon (Power Punch), SR-71 Blackbird Stealth Jet (Fireshot and Vanquish), Armored Truck (Meltdown), Anti-Aircraft Tank (Half-Track) |
| 975 | ->'''Direct-Hit:''' ''"Keep your sights locked on target until there is no more target."'' |
| 976 | ->'''Power Punch:''' ''"Strike hard and fear no one!"'' |
| 977 | ->'''Fireshot:''' ''"It is my duty to expect the unknown."'' |
| 978 | ->'''Vanquish:''' ''"I strike when you least expect."'' |
| 979 | ->'''Meltdown:''' ''"Ramming speed is the only way to travel!"'' |
| 980 | ->'''Half-Track:''' ''"The higher they fly, the faster they'll fall!"'' |
| 981 | |
| 982 | Composed of Direct-Hit, Power Punch, Fireshot, Vanquish, Meltdown and Half-Track. |
| 983 | ---- |
| 984 | * AttackAttackAttack: Meltdown's chosen method of attack is to rush at the enemy and try to beat them to death. |
| 985 | * AscendedExtra: Fireshot and Vanquish play a supporting role in ''ComicBook/TheTransformersWindblade'' as representatives of the colony planet Devisiun. They're also among the few survivors of the planet when Unicron destroys it. |
| 986 | * TheCreon: Power Punch is the team's greatest military asset, but he's perfectly content staying as second in command. |
| 987 | * ADoormatToHisMen: Before being promoted to the squad's leader, Direct-Hit was a skilled, tenacious warrior who inspired his comrades by example. He is unfortunately a poor leader because of this, as he treats his subordinates more like equals, rarely ever utilizing actual command or discipline. Aside from the [[UndyingLoyalty faultlessly loyal]] Power Punch, the rest of the squad don't respect him at all. |
| 988 | * HotBlooded: Meltdown. His Dreamwave bio states he even has the equivalent of aneurysms because of it. |
| 989 | * LeeroyJenkins: Meltdown's usual approach to a fight is ignore Direct-Hit and shoot at the enemy in a frothing rage, which doesn't exactly help the team's over-all performance. |
| 990 | * TheParanoiac: Fireshot. His teammates know it, and laugh behind his back about it. |
| 991 | * ThePeterPrinciple: Direct-Hit got to be in charge because of his skills on the battlefield, but after that it turned out he wasn't much good at actually ''being'' in charge. |
| 992 | * PetTheDog: Vanquish has developed sympathy for Fireshot due to their partnership, and often backs him up whenever he makes a decision. |
| 993 | * TheQuietOne: Vanquish is both a master of stealth, and the non-talkative type, to the point where Fireshot ''actually forgets he's combined with him''. |
| 994 | * StrategyVersusTactics: Direct-Hit's problem. He's good at short-term tactical planning, but strategic planning is beyond him. |
| 995 | * UndyingLoyalty: Power Punch, to Direct-Hit. This is a problem, because he refuses to realize much of the team's problems come from Direct-Hit's poor leadership, instead blaming it on everyone else. |
| 996 | * TheUnintelligible: Half-Track gets a bit ''too'' excited about combat, causing his statements to come out garbled, much to his teammates amusement. |
| 997 | [[/folder]] |
| 998 | |
| 999 | [[folder:Banzai-Tron (バンザイトロン ''banzaitoron'')]] |
| 1000 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/200px_tf2010_banzaitron_boxart.jpg]] |
| 1001 | !!!'''Function:''' Martial Arts Warrior |
| 1002 | !!!'''Alt Mode:''' Japanese Type 90 Tank, Cybertronian Hovercraft |
| 1003 | ->''"To the victor go the profits!"'' |
| 1004 | |
| 1005 | An entrepreneurial martial artist who can use pressure point techniques to dismantle weaker opponents in seconds. As the director of the Decepticon Secret Service, Banzai-Tron has a great deal of autonomy from the senior leadership. He routinely abuses this position of power for his own benefit. |
| 1006 | ---- |
| 1007 | * ArrogantKungFuGuy: Played with. He respects Bludgeon, but hopes to defeat him someday. |
| 1008 | * BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: Keeps extensive files on his fellow Decepticons. |
| 1009 | * EnemyMine: Arcee finds him, Gutcruncher and Axer beaten up, and most of their unit killed, and he offers an allegiance with the remaining to hunt down their mutual enemies. |
| 1010 | * FantasticFightingStyle: Crystalocution. Think "[[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra Chi-blocking, but with giant robots]]". |
| 1011 | * PragmaticVillainy: Banzai-tron heavily believes in this, hoping to take people apart with his Crystalocution and sell their parts. He even disregarded the spiritual side of his training because he didn't believe in it. In the IDW verse, he has a retrieval mission, and he doesn't turn it into a slaughter because it would take too much time and resources, that and the cons they were retrieving could give them combiner tech. |
| 1012 | * SecondaryColorNemesis: Banzai-Tron's color scheme is violet, orange and green. |
| 1013 | * TheSpymaster: A high-ranking intelligence officer. |
| 1014 | [[/folder]] |
| 1015 | |
| 1016 | [[folder:Blackout and Spaceshot]] |
| 1017 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anti-aircraft_base_8640.jpg]] |
| 1018 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anti-aircraft_base-1_3638.jpg]] |
| 1019 | !!!'''Function:''' Ground Infantry |
| 1020 | !!!'''Alt Mode:''' B-1 bomber jet |
| 1021 | ->''"Persistence is the cornerstone of victory."'' |
| 1022 | |
| 1023 | A combiner duo that can merge to form a powerful Anti-Aircraft Base. |
| 1024 | ---- |
| 1025 | * AdaptationalHeroism: In ''Beast Wars: Uprising'', they're among the few Builders who are not total wads. |
| 1026 | * DirtyCoward: Blackout will flee the minute he thinks the battle's going poorly. Only his fear of Spaceshot keeps him from getting out of dodge. |
| 1027 | * GenderFlip: Their one staring role, in ''ComicBook/BeastWarsUprising'' had them as female. |
| 1028 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Spaceshot is under the delusion that Blackout is as brave and dedicated as he is. |
| 1029 | * TheStoic: Spaceshot. [[BerserkButton Unless someone questions Blackout's dedication to the cause, at which point he'll verbally tear into them.]] |
| 1030 | [[/folder]] |
| 1031 | |
| 1032 | [[folder:The Constructor Squad]] |
| 1033 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hammer_6813.jpg]] |
| 1034 | [[caption-width-right:205:Hammer]] |
| 1035 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sledge_9371.jpg]] |
| 1036 | [[caption-width-right:205:Sledge]] |
| 1037 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/grit_7302.jpg]] |
| 1038 | [[caption-width-right:205:Grit]] |
| 1039 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/knockout_1510.jpg]] |
| 1040 | [[caption-width-right:205:Knockout]] |
| 1041 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/stonecruncher_805.jpg]] |
| 1042 | [[caption-width-right:205:Stonecruncher]] |
| 1043 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/excavator_1282.jpg]] |
| 1044 | [[caption-width-right:205:Excavator]] |
| 1045 | !!!'''Function:''' Battlefield Fortification |
| 1046 | !!!'''Alt Modes:''' Crane-truck (Stonecruncher and Excavator), Backhoe Truck (Grit and Knockout), Dump Truck (Sledge and Hammer) |
| 1047 | ->''"There's nothing like the feel of cold steel."'' |
| 1048 | |
| 1049 | Composed of Grit, Knockout, Sledge, Hammer, Stonecruncher and Excavator. Micromasters who form only half a vehicle and need to combine with their partner to form the full one. |
| 1050 | ---- |
| 1051 | * AscendedExtra: Grit had a major role in ''ComicBook/TheTransformersDrift Empire of Stone'' with Knockout as a supporting player. This would be the only appearance of the Constructor Squad in the 2005 IDW continuity. |
| 1052 | * BerserkButton: Mess with Excavator in Stonecruncher's presence. Do it. |
| 1053 | * BlessedWithSuck: Hammer can't move around in ''his own alt-mode'' unless he's attached to Sledge (or any other front-end micromaster). |
| 1054 | * BoringButPractical: Sledge values function over aesthetics and doesn't even ''try'' to combine the two. This is because he's a "soldier first, builder second" and honestly doesn't care about construction beyond what it takes to get the job done. This ends up being a StealthPun: because of his focus on violent combat and basic utilitarian functionality over any kind of form or aesthetic, you could say he is a ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalist_architecture brutalist]]''. |
| 1055 | * TheFatalist: [[NietzscheWannabe Grit]] is a strangely optimistic version of this, in that he figures that, okay, yeah, they're all going to die and everything they know and value is going to crumble to dust at some point or another because time is kind of a dick like that, but hey: He's certain that at least the Decepticon empire will continue to thrive. |
| 1056 | * HatesBeingTouched: Hammer will kill you. |
| 1057 | * HazyFeelTurn: At the end of ''ComicBook/TheTransformersDrift: Empire of Stone'', Grit fights alongside Drift and Ratchet and survives the events of the comic. He departs the Decepticons and heads out on his own, with his morality ambiguous though left on a more positive path. |
| 1058 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: |
| 1059 | ** Sledge. He may seem gruff and antisocial, but if he sees his teammates struggling with anything then he's always the first to rush in to help. |
| 1060 | ** Stonecruncher. He's loud and aggressive, but he honestly means well. So long as you're a Constructor, that is. |
| 1061 | * TheQuietOne: Excavator prefers being off by himself until there's something to build, at which point he suddenly comes to life. |
| 1062 | * TheRival: Hammer views the Constructors as being this toward the better-known Constructicons. And he's ''sure'' that his team is better. |
| 1063 | * SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Excavator (quiet, introverted, withdrawn until there's a project to work on) and Stonecruncher (frat boy personality, loud and aggressive) |
| 1064 | * SleepyHead: ''Knockout''. To the point of narcolepsy, though it really only happens whenever he gets excited about something. Sometimes he does this while in alt-mode and poor Grit has to haul him around until he wakes up. |
| 1065 | [[/folder]] |
| 1066 | |
| 1067 | [[folder:Gutcruncher (ガットクランチャー ''gattokuranchā'')]] |
| 1068 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gutcruncher.jpg]] |
| 1069 | !!!'''Function:''' Air-to-Ground support |
| 1070 | ->''"Conquest of the Autobots begins with control of the sky!"'' |
| 1071 | |
| 1072 | A cold, calculating warrior who sees the trappings of war as an opportunity to acquire more wealth and power. Autobots fear him because he's a ruthless force of nature on the battlefield. Decepticons fear him because he may have already calculated their net worth on the black market. |
| 1073 | ---- |
| 1074 | * AdaptationalDumbass: The 2019 IDW version is a [[DumbMuscle dim-witted thug]] who tends to [[BullyingADragon pick fights with individuals he probably shouldn't be pissing off]]; a stark contrast to his earlier depictions as an opportunistic war profiteer. |
| 1075 | * TheBartender: Briefly worked as one in the 2005 IDW continuity. |
| 1076 | * CoolPlane: The Stratotronic Jet, which he either flies or turns into, DependingOnTheWriter. |
| 1077 | * GreenAndMean: His main color scheme is green and he's never been a pleasant bot. |
| 1078 | * KlingonPromotion: He's risen up the Decepticon ranks by fragging his immediate supervisors and selling their remains for scrap. |
| 1079 | * KilledOffForReal: |
| 1080 | ** A version of him appeared in the Timelines comics as one stranded on Axiom Nexus and was assassinated. |
| 1081 | ** His 2005 IDW incarnation was burned to death in ''ComicBook/TheTransformersPunishment'' by Sandstorm. |
| 1082 | * ShapeshifterModeLock: ''Wings of Honor'' shows that Gutcruncher, alongside Take-Off and Charger, were exposed to a crystal monolith whose energies left them unable to transform. |
| 1083 | [[/folder]] |
| 1084 | |
| 1085 | [[folder:Krok (クロック ''kurokku'')]] |
| 1086 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/krok.jpg]] |
| 1087 | !!!'''Function:''' Foot Soldier |
| 1088 | !!!'''Alt Modes:''' Flying Wing Stealth Fighter, Crocodile |
| 1089 | ->''"The road to conquest is best traveled one step at a time."'' |
| 1090 | |
| 1091 | A powerfully built mechanoid whose feet can trigger a planetquake... or [[Website/ChuckNorrisFacts send an opponent into orbit with a patented roundhouse kick to the face]]. A [[RobotAthlete champion mech-soccer player]] prior to the start of the Autobot-Decepticon conflict, his experience as team captain has made him a fairly effective squad leader. Occasionally leads the Scavengers, a pirate crew comprised of other [[CListFodder grade-C Decepticons.]] |
| 1092 | ---- |
| 1093 | * AscendedExtra: In the 2010s he was plucked from obscurity and featured as both the captain of the Scavengers in the IDW comics, as well as getting a new toy and a starring role in issue 9 of the Timelines comic. |
| 1094 | * TheCaptain: In the IDW comics, he's the Captain of the ''Weak Anthropic Principle'', on top of being team captain for the Scavengers. |
| 1095 | * TheDragon: In the G1 comics, briefly served as Bludgeon's chief underling. Not that he did much. |
| 1096 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: He is not a fan of gladiatorial combat, considering it cruel and barbaric. |
| 1097 | * TheFundamentalist: In a likely ShoutOut to his original toy's Action Master roots, the 2005 IDW Krok is part of the Militant Monoform Movement, a religious sect whose beliefs prohibit adopting alternate modes. |
| 1098 | * LosingYourHead: ''Titans Return'' Krok is a Titan Master. |
| 1099 | * NeverSmileAtACrocodile: His ''Titans Return'' figure depicts him as a... well... crocodile. Justified as his toy is a retool of Skullcruncher (under the name Skullsmasher). |
| 1100 | * OnlySaneMan: Of the Scavengers, he's able to think up the plans, and his personality doesn't inhibit him. |
| 1101 | * TheParalyzer: His Titan Master given superpower lets him freeze 'bots with a glare. Then he eats them. |
| 1102 | * PunnyName: His Action Master partner is called "Gatoraider". Krok used to be a sports star. Sports start, Gatorade? |
| 1103 | * ShockwaveStomp: Can cause Level 7 planetquakes with a stomp of his foot. |
| 1104 | * WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Discussed with his relationship with Gatoraider. While Krok treats him as an equal, Gatoraider's sentience is barely above an animal and he behaves as such. He's not a sentient Transformer in an animalistic form (like Laserbeak or Ravage) but rather a [[UpliftedAnimal modified mecha-fauna]], and Krok speaking to him is more akin to someone talking to their dog rather than a fellow being. |
| 1105 | [[/folder]] |
| 1106 | |
| 1107 | [[folder:Metrotitan (メトロタイタン ''metorotaitan'')]] |
| 1108 | [[quoteright:305:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/evilmetro.png]] |
| 1109 | !!!'''Function:''' Warlord |
| 1110 | !!!'''Alt Modes:''' Fortress, Starship |
| 1111 | |
| 1112 | A Decepticon version of Metroplex, released in Japan as part of the ''Zone'' toyline. |
| 1113 | ---- |
| 1114 | * AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: As a City-bot like Metroplex. |
| 1115 | * EvilCounterpart: To Metroplex. |
| 1116 | * FacialHorror: His fight with Metroplex ends with a chunk of his face getting blown off. |
| 1117 | * FaceHeelTurn: He started out as an Autobot, who willingly turned to the Decepticons. |
| 1118 | * FreezeRay: His guns are freeze-rays, capable of freezing entire moons. |
| 1119 | * HeroKiller: In the ''Zone'' story pages, he killed Galaxy Shuttle, and came very close to getting Dai Atlas. |
| 1120 | * {{Retcon}}: His original origin was that the Autobots built him on Titan, Saturn's moon, with the implication that it was some time just before ''Zone''. The ''Legends'' story establishes him as being much older, having inspired the Titan religion. |
| 1121 | [[/folder]] |
| 1122 | |
| 1123 | [[folder:The Military Patrol]] |
| 1124 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bombshock_1870.jpg]] |
| 1125 | [[caption-width-right:205:Bomshock]] |
| 1126 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dropshot_6509.jpg]] |
| 1127 | [[caption-width-right:205:Dropshot]] |
| 1128 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/growl_5317.jpg]] |
| 1129 | [[caption-width-right:205:Growl]] |
| 1130 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tracer_6541.jpg]] |
| 1131 | [[caption-width-right:205:Tracer]] |
| 1132 | !!!'''Function:''' Front Line Assault |
| 1133 | !!!'''Alt Modes:''' Leopard 2 Battle Tank (Bombshock), Armored Personnel Carrier (Dropshot), FMC [=XR311=] Combat Support Vehicle (Growl), AH-64 Apache Attack Helicopter (Tracer) |
| 1134 | ->'''Bombshock:''' ''"The ultimate force is the force of destruction."'' |
| 1135 | ->'''Dropshot:''' ''"Hit it until it hurts, then hit it again."'' |
| 1136 | ->'''Growl:''' ''"If it moves, crush it."'' |
| 1137 | ->'''Tracer:''' ''"Pummel the enemy, and victory is yours."'' |
| 1138 | |
| 1139 | Composed of Bombshock (leader), Dropshot, Growl and Tracer. |
| 1140 | ---- |
| 1141 | * BarbaricBully: Growl, who wound up joining the Decepticons after picking the wrong fight. |
| 1142 | * {{Determinator}}: Dropshot absolutely refuses to let himself be defeated by anything, an approach that becomes outright masochistic at times. So far, Dropshot's won against pretty much everything (except Bombshock). |
| 1143 | * HelicopterBlender: Tracer can use the rotary fan of his helicopter mode on either hand as a weapon. In ''Transformers (2019)'' he graphically demonstrates its use by bisecting an unnamed Autobot guard in half, vertically. |
| 1144 | * LeeroyJenkins: Tracer is always eager to be the first of the team of the battlefield, which often results in him finding himself alone and outnumbered. |
| 1145 | * OldSoldier: Bombshock wasn't born a Micromaster. He was one of the volunteers to downsize for fuel economy. |
| 1146 | * OneSteveLimit: Tracer has the same name as one of the Targetmaster partners of Scoop. |
| 1147 | * TheStarscream: Dropshot and Tracer think they'd be better at leading than Bombshock, something he knows, and welcomes. In Dropshot's case, Bombshock usually re-establishes the pecking order physically. Tracer actually respects Bombshock's abilities, he just thinks he should be in charge. Growl just does it to go with the flow, when he actually likes being told what to do. |
| 1148 | * TankGoodness: Bombshock turns into a Leopard 2. |
| 1149 | * TokenFlyer: Unusually for a Decepticon team, Tracer is the only member of the group who can fly. |
| 1150 | * TradingBarsForStripes: Growl got offered a choice between prison or joining the army. Since that army was the Decepticons, it worked out pretty okay for him. |
| 1151 | * UsedToBeASweetKid: Bombshock, long ago. |
| 1152 | [[/folder]] |
| 1153 | |
| 1154 | [[folder:The Race Track Patrol (Race Car Patrol Team (レースカーパトロールチーム ''rēsu Kā patorōru chīmu'')]] |
| 1155 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/barricade_6828.jpg]] |
| 1156 | [[caption-width-right:205:Barricade]] |
| 1157 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ground_hog_6926.jpg]] |
| 1158 | [[caption-width-right:205:Ground Hog]] |
| 1159 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/motorheadart_604.jpg]] |
| 1160 | [[caption-width-right:205:Motorhead]] |
| 1161 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/roller_force_6216.jpg]] |
| 1162 | [[caption-width-right:205:Roller Force]] |
| 1163 | !!!'''Function:''' Mobile Assault |
| 1164 | !!!'''Alt Modes:''' Ligier [=JS31=] Formula-1 Racecar (Barricade), Dodge Shelby Charger Muscle Car (Ground Hog), Callaway Chevrolet Corvette Sportscar (Motorhead), Baja Off-Road Buggy (Roller Force) |
| 1165 | ->'''Barricade:''' ''"There are two kinds of fighters, Decepticons and losers."'' |
| 1166 | ->'''Ground Hog:''' ''"The roar of an engine is music to my ears."'' |
| 1167 | ->'''Motorhead:''' ''"Burning rubber smells like victory!"'' |
| 1168 | ->'''Roller Force:''' ''"Unless you're behind me, you're in my way!"'' |
| 1169 | |
| 1170 | Composed of Barricade (leader), Ground Hog, Motorhead and Roller Force. |
| 1171 | ---- |
| 1172 | * AscendedExtra: Became the main Decepticons of the Dreamwave-era Micromaster miniseries, [[AdaptationalHeroism albeit more in a deuteragonist role rather than an antagonistic one]]. |
| 1173 | * CarFu: Barricade got his name from his fondness from ramming. |
| 1174 | * DrillSergeantNasty: Barricade acts as a nagging coach to boost his team's efficiency, but it just makes things worse because Motorhead gets distracted from battle to check if Barricade notices how well is he doing. |
| 1175 | * HumanResources: Among Ground Hog's supplies are parts "generously donated" by Autobots. |
| 1176 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Roller Force is obsessed with being number one. |
| 1177 | * LoudOfWar: Ground Hog loves making noise. |
| 1178 | * MrFixit: Ground Hog serves as the team mechanic, helping to find ways to make the team faster (and louder). |
| 1179 | * OneSteveLimit: Barricade is not to be confused with the CanonImmigrant Barricade from the live action film series. To avert this situation in the ''Earthrise'' line, where both characters received figures, this character was renamed Runner instead. |
| 1180 | * SuddenNameChange: Barricade got his name changed to Runner in ''Earthrise'' which according to ''Website/TFWikiDotNet'' is due to him being supplanted by the [[Film/TransformersFilmSeries live-action version of the character]] as ''the'' definitive version. Hasbro wanted to keep the two separate. This is notable for being one of the few instances where a character received a name change that was not due to Hasbro WritingAroundTrademarks. |
| 1181 | * ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld: In Barricade's mind, it's either Decepticons, or losers. |
| 1182 | [[/folder]] |
| 1183 | |
| 1184 | [[folder:Terror-Tread and Cement-Head]] |
| 1185 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cannon_transport_4916.jpg]] |
| 1186 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cannon_transport-1_528.jpg]] |
| 1187 | !!!'''Function:''' Demolitions |
| 1188 | !!!'''Alt Mode:''' Dump Truck |
| 1189 | ->'''Terror-Tread:''' ''"We aim for nothing less than total victory!"'' |
| 1190 | ->'''Cement-Head:''' ''"Only the best can win, and we're the best."'' |
| 1191 | A combiner duo that can merge to form a Cannon Transport, a truck that can transport into a mobile battle base. |
| 1192 | ---- |
| 1193 | * BrainsAndBrawn: Terror-Tread is the strategist, calmly planning out the duo's method of attack. Cement-Head prefers to go all-out, attacking anyone in their path. |
| 1194 | * LeeroyJenkins: Cement-Head loves rushing fist-first into fights, screaming, bellowing and threatening as he goes. Terror-Tread usually comes up with the strategies that allow him to come back. |
| 1195 | * PaletteSwap: Cement-Head is a redeco of Sledge while Terror-Tread is a redeco of Hammer. |
| 1196 | * TheQuietOne: Terror-Tread doesn't say much. |
| 1197 | [[/folder]] |
| 1198 | |
| 1199 | [[folder:Treadshot (トレッドショット ''toreddoshotto'')]] |
| 1200 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/g1treadshot_boxart.jpg]] |
| 1201 | !!!'''Function:''' Gunslinger |
| 1202 | !!!'''Alt Mode:''' Cybertronian H-Tread Tank |
| 1203 | ->''"A gun is only as good as the one who holds it!"'' |
| 1204 | A Decepticon sniper whose speed, accuracy, and ruthlessness have given him a fearsome reputation in the Autobot ranks. Partnered with '''Catgut''', a [[CallARabbitASmeerp Prysmosian cheetah]] who can transform into a particle cannon. |
| 1205 | ---- |
| 1206 | * CatsAreMean: Catgut, who uses his razor-sharp claws and fangs to finish off any target who survives his particle blasts. |
| 1207 | * ColdSniper: Feels he was literally built to shoot things and cares for little else. |
| 1208 | * CripplingOverspecialization: He often relies on his gunslinging abilities to solve a problem, even when some other method would be more effective. |
| 1209 | * DependingOnTheWriter: Whether he has an alt-mode (like his ''Timelines'' toy) or not (like his original Action Master figure). And if the latter, whether or not [[ShapeshifterModeLock he lost the ability to transform due to injuries or illness]], or never could to begin with. |
| 1210 | * EquippableAlly: Catgut turns into a gun for Treadshot to use. Later canon would say he was a Targetmaster. |
| 1211 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: IDW comics, ''Revelation'', his body could be seen impaled on a piece of shrapnel after Monstructor cleans his team out, he survived. |
| 1212 | * ImprobableAimingSkills: Known as the best marksman among the Transformers, capable of performing complex trick shots in addition to long-range sniping. |
| 1213 | * KilledOffForReal: Impactor fatally shot him in the chest with a harpoon in ''ComicBook/TheTransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers''. |
| 1214 | * PaletteSwap: His second toy is one of Warpath. |
| 1215 | * ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Treadshot only agreed to join the Decepticons on the caveat that he be given autonomy and wealth. |
| 1216 | * UpliftedAnimal: Catgut started out as a mecha-fauna who was later modified to be able to transform. |
| 1217 | [[/folder]] |
| 1218 | |
| 1219 | [[folder:Wingthing (ウィングシング ''wingushingu'')]] |
| 1220 | !!!'''Function:''' Manipulator |
| 1221 | !!!'''Alt Modes:''' Blaster, Micro-Cassette |
| 1222 | |
| 1223 | A bat-like creature that works under Soundwave. |
| 1224 | ---- |
| 1225 | * EquippableAlly: Wingthing's original toy turned into a blaster for Soundwave to use (canon later referring to him as a Targetmaster). Wingthing's Siege toy can function as a shield for Soundwave. |
| 1226 | * KilledOffForReal: Namedropped as one of the many killed by the Shadow-Leeches in ''Regeneration One''. |
| 1227 | * PaletteSwap: Wingthing debuted with a unique alt-mode and bat mode, but was turned into a repaint of Ratbat for ease of production and to allow him to better interact with the Soundwave figure of the time. His encore, Masterpiece, and Siege toys are all recolors of Ratbat. |
| 1228 | [[/folder]] |
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