Characters / Transformers: Generation One - Decepticons

G1 Character Index: Autobots ('84-'85) ('86-'87) ('88-'90) | Decepticons ('84-'85) ('86-'87) ('88-'90)

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This character sheet is for listing the tropes related to Decepticons in the various Transformers: Generation 1 continuities. Due to the page having been split over the years, this page mainly covers tropes for characters introduced from 1991 onwards (which includes some G2 characters^note Which by definition, would mean they aren't "G1", except for the fact in Europe, they are) and canon immigrants/foreigners.

For the 'Cons introduced between 1984 and 1985, click here.

For the 'Cons' troops joining between 1986 and 1987, click here.

For the 'Cons' troops joining between 1988 and 1990, click here.

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In General

• Adaptation Origin Connection: The G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers continuity establishes their civil war with the Autobots indirectly leading to the rise of Cobra and the birth of G.I. Joe in addition to the Joes becoming allies to the Autobots, the first miniseries having Cobra rise to power by enslaving both factions of Cybertronians to use as weapons after they arrived on Earth as well as G.I. Joe being formed to fight back against Cobra and the Decepticons and turning the tide by helping Optimus Prime free his fellow Autobots from Cobra's control.
• Adaptational Heroism: The Decepticons are portrayed in a more sympathetic light in the 2005 IDW continuity: they were originally a group of freedom fighters formed by Megatron to topple the corrupt Autobot government before they end up becoming no better than them. Some of them even got this treatment to varying degrees and pulled a Heel–Face Turn in the end.
• Adaptational Villainy: At the same time, later iterations of the Decepticons (such as Shockwave, Bludgeon, Galvatron's Decepticons, the DJD, etc.) are way worse than Megatron's Decepticons or even Cyclonus in the first IDW continuity.
• Aliens Are Bastards: Pretty much, considering the fact that they're a bunch of warmongering brutes from another planet led by a fanatical tyrant and that they all have a rather low opinion of organic beings. A few however are less evil than others.
• Depending on the Writer: Aside from the individual Decepticons, the faction itself has been portrayed differently across G1 media. They've been intrinsically evil machines out for universal conquest, as well as Well Intentioned Extremists who fought a corrupt government, but ended up becoming no better/even worse than them.
• Fantastic Racism: They tend to have disdain for organic races, like Humans.
• For the Evulz: Both cartoon and comic Decepticons got started basically because they were bored and wanted a fight.
• Galactic Conquerer: They typically want to spread Cybertronian rule across multiple planets.
• Gladiator Games: In some continuities, the Decepticons were formed through these by Megatron.
• Meaningful Name: The IDW comics explains that the name "Decepticon" is taken from one of Megatron's rallying lines: "You are being deceived".
• Multiple-Choice Past: How the Decepticons formed varies among depictions: the Sunbow cartoon had them as the descendents of Quintesson military hardware, and the Generation 2 comic as descendents of the Leige Maximo (both times making them inherently evil), while the IDW and Dreamwave comics have them as normal Cybertronians swayed by Megatron for a single cause (IDW makes them out to be more noble... well, initially, anyway).
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The Decepticons often have threatening-sounding names like Ravage and Bonecrusher, making it all the more obvious that they are the bad guys.
• Not Always Evil: Even though majority of the Decepticons are power-hungry and violent conquerors, there are some who are not fully committed to the cause or outright question it, sometimes even abandoning their faction and/or defecting to the Autobots. Notable examples are Jetfire and Deadlock (or Drift, as he's known now).
• Planet Looters: More often than not in the G1 mythos, they're on Earth to steal its numerous resources of energy for their own ends.
• Proud Warrior Race: The Decepticons' origins are often rooted in combat, being built as military robots in the Sunbow cartoon or being formed in Cyberton's gladiatorial arenas in various other continuities. As such, they tend to value strength and view their physical superiority over smaller races as a right to conquer them. Megatron himself even calls the Decepticons a "proud warrior race" in the UK comic story "The Fall and Rise of the Decepticon Empire".
• Purple Is Powerful: The Decepticon insignia is purple and many Decepticons are also colored purple, and they over all tend to outclass the Autobots in terms of raw strength and power.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Majority of the 'cons have red eyes, another sign of their villainy.
• Robot Soldier: In the cartoon, they were created as military robots by the Quintessons with the explicit purpose of warfare.
• Secondary Color Nemesis: While it's not a universal rule, many of the evil Decepticons are colored purple, green, or orange.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: In the IDW continuity, the Decepticons were originally a protest group made up of lowly blue-collared workers who opposed the corrupt Pre-War government, only to end up being disillusioned with the whole "peace through tyranny" thing.

1991 Decepticons

Charger (チャージャー chājā)

Function: Flamethrower

"I have no need for friends, even less for enemies."

A Decepticon flame-thrower with a short temper and a lack of social skills. His Action Master partner is Fire Beast. Like Take-Off, Charger was only available in European markets.

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• Equippable Ally: Fire Beast can become a helmet for Charger.
• Evil Counterpart: He's essentially Slag/Slug as a Decepticon but without the Dinobot's redeeming qualities.
• Fire-Breathing Weapon: Other than charging head on, his weapon is also a flamethrower.
• Green and Mean: His color scheme is green and he's both unpleasant and anti-social, while Fire Beast is the same. Even Bumblebee compares them unfavorably to Treadshot and Catgut.
• Jerkass: Charger is hot-headed, anti-social and generally unpleasant, while Fire Beast is not much better. Charger even burns off Barricade's hand just because he was in his way.
• Meaningful Name: Charger always charges forth into battle.
• Rhino Rampage: Fire Beast looks like a mechanical rhino, and when equipped to Charger he packs quite the punch.
• Talking Animal: The 2019 continuity shows Fire Beast can talk like other beast Cybertronians.
• Use Your Head: Charger can do this when equipped with Fire Beast, easily breaking through reinforced walls.

Double Punch (ダブルパンチ daburu panchi)

Function: Desert Vanguard

Alt Mode: Scorpion

"Double the power means double the destruction!"

Desert combat specialist with a love for chaos and destruction.

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• For the Evulz: Double Punch seemingly watched matches of the human sport soccer simply as an excuse to cause chaos and destruction.
• Palette Swap: Timelines Double Punch is a redeco of Energon Ultra-sized Scorponok.
• Scary Scorpions: Being an Expy of Scorponok means he turns into a scorpion.
• Secondary Color Nemesis: He's bright lavender with orange and some teal.

Overlord (オーバーロード ōbārōdo)

Function: Self Contained Nomadic Assault Machine

Alt Modes: Interstellar Warship, Stealth Fighter, Tank, Mobile Defense Battery

"I stand my ground... I accept any challenge... I am hungry for conflict."

Voiced by: Keiichi Noda (Masterforce) (JP); Patrick Seitz (Prime Wars) (EN)

A Double Powermaster whose robot mode can split into two vehicles (or one huge spaceship), Overlord is one of the Decepticon's "Warriors Elite", legendary "super warriors" capable of singlehandedly laying waste to entire worlds.

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• Adaptational Villainy: Noble Demon in his debut in the Japanese series ^note though that was more his Mega and Giga pilots than him, a completely Ax-Crazy, sociopathic, depraved lunatic in the IDW comics, and a regular Decepticon conqueror who won't be upstaged in the Classicsverse.
• Ambition Is Evil: Averted and Lampshaded in the IDW. Overlord has no ambitions, he doesn't seek power, and will never become The Starscream, all he wants to do is upgrade his kills from homicide to genocide. He wants to bring pain and suffering and death, and getting in the way of that goal angers him.
• Arch-Enemy: Ginrai in the Japanese continuity. When he was being controlled by Lady Mega and Lord Giga, they saw Ginrai as a Worthy Opponent, and they died regretful that they were not able to end their feud honorably. This rivalry continued after he regained sentience, with Overlord launching several campaigns against Ginrai from space. In the IDW comics he is obsessed with destroying Megatron but gains an emmity with Springer and Impactor in the process.
• Battle Couple: Lord Giga and Lady Mega in Masterforce. She flies the jet, he drives the tank.
• Big Bad: Of The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers and select arcs of The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye.
• Blood Knight: Became a soldier so he could take the glorious excesses of gladiatorial combat beyond the arena.
• Boom, Headshot!: IDW comics, he kills Wingblazer, his partner, and Rotorstorm this way.
• The Caligula: The comics give him a Greco-Roman bust design to hammer this point across.
• Canon Foreigner: He originates from Transformers: Super-God Masterforce, a Japanese series out of continuity with the American cartoon.
• Dangerous Deserter: Probably the most dangerous one to originate from Decepticon ranks.
• Depending on the Writer: Almost everything, including whether he's a Transformer at all! In the West, he is. In Japan, he's actually a "Godmaster," which is a human in armor emulating one. In Overlord's case, he's actually two armored humans working together, one of whom is a woman.
  • Technically, he IS a Transformer in both. In Japan, he was a "transtector," a Transformer body that did not have its own spark (lifeforce), hence the need for human operators. Most of the transtectors were protoforms stolen by Devil Z before they could be imbued with sparks. Devil Z found Overlord in the G Nebula centuries before the start of Masterforce proper.
• The Dragon:
  • For Devil Z in Masterforce. Arguably more of a Co-Dragon after Black Zarak shows up.
  • To the Fallen in The Transformers: Power of the Primes.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • His original Masterforce incarnation (or rather, his pilots) did not want to exterminate the human race, so when Devil Z revealed his plans, they went against him, but were killed in process.
  • In Classics continuity, he wants to conquer the Earth, not to destroy it. So when the evil Shattered Glass version of Ultra Magnus appears to destroy it, he agreed to team up with the Autobots and heroic Decepticons to stop him. And much like them, he was horrified to discover that his home universe was destroyed.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Courtesy of Patrick Seitz in the Prime Wars trilogy.
• Evil Versus Oblivion: In Classics continuity, he teams up with Metalhawk's Autobots and heroic Shattered Glass Decepticons to stop the evil Ultra Magnus from destroying the Earth. They succeeded… but the rest of the universe was destroyed, which was SG!Ultra Magnus' true plan.
• Expy: The comics version is essentially The Master (particularly the John Simm incarnation) as a Decepticon.
  Overlord: Please attend carefully…
• Eye Scream: In The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers he rips off Springer's face, blinding both eyes, and tearing one out.
• A Father And Mother To Their Men: See Unholy Matrimony, below.
• Faux Affably Evil: IDW comics, polite, eloquent, and completely crazy. Case in point, when an Elite Autobot Task Force crash down in front of him, one of them, Rotorstorm, cracks a joke. No one laughs, except Overlord, who thought it was funny. He immediately points a gun at Rotorstorm's head and splatters his companions with cranial fluid.
• Gender Bender: In addition to the above Masterforce example; in the IDW comic he disguises himself as a human woman named Megan Guglione.
• The Heavy: To Big Bad Devil Z in Masterforce.
• I Have Many Names: Was originally going to be named Leviathan according to Masterforce showrunner Masumi Kaneda. Has occasionally been packaged as Gigatron.
• Killed Off for Real:
  • The Japanese version dies under unknown circumstances at some point between Masterforce and Zone, as the latter involves him coming Back from the Dead. Then, at the end of Zone he dies again.
  • The IDW version (2005-2018 continuity) is put down in Requiem for the Wreckers. The Wreckers place half of his body in the Prehistoric era, and the other half in the far future, just to ensure there's no funny business.
  • In Power of the Primes he is disintegrated when Megatron shoots him point blank with the Requiem Blaster.
• Large Ham: In the IDW comics and the Prime Wars trilogy.
• Noble Demon: Mega and Giga had no problem leading the Decepticons at first, bombing cities with asteroids or murdering Ginrai's friends to find him, but they start to balk at Devil Z's psychotic actions as Masterforce goes on, until they eventually turn on him.
• Off with His Head!: Overlord's Titan Returns toy is a Titan-master. The Japanese version comes with swappable Mega and Giga Headmasters.
• One-Man Army: All versions.
  Prowl: Some Cybertronians are markedly more powerful than others: Optimus, Grimlock, Megatron. Fort Max on a good day. I think those are your "once-in-a-generation" bots. But they pale in comparison - all of them - they pale when compared with Overlord and Sixshot and Tarn.
• Psycho for Hire: Subverted in IDW Comics. He's always in it to cause suffering, but he's his own bot, and he won't be hired or working for anyone.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: All versions of him have him wielding some form of power over a subgroup of Decepticons and having the strength to prove it.
• Red Baron: "The Ambassador of Destruction."
• Resurrected for a Job: In Transformers: Zone, he's one of nine Warriors Elite resurrected by alien megalomaniac Violenjiger to aid in his campaign to conquer the galaxy.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: At the end of Masterforce, after Devil Z, Mega, and Giga are all killed, he makes a run for it.
• Slasher Smile: Common in IDW comics like here.
• The Sociopath: IDW Comics
  Overlord: A good strategist is half psychologist and half sadist. And I was the best.
• Walking Armory: Has laser cannons and missile launchers on his torso in robot mode, in addition to the blaster rifle he carries into battle. He also has an electronic attack that sabotages the self-repair protocols of his opponents.
• Unholy Matrimony: Giga and Mega (the male and female part of Overlord, respectively). They see the Decepticons (especially the Junior Headmasters, but the way older Pretenders too) as their sons.

Slicer

Function: Massive Assault Specialist

Alt Mode: Sports Car

"Annihilation equals victory!"

A Decepticon who looks strangely similar to Autobot Wheeljack, Slicer possesses a 4WD Assault Vehicle that can transform into an armored exo-suit. He is very rude and cruel even to other Decepticons, possesses an extremely short temper, and his favorite tactic is attacking a target until it's down.

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• Adaptational Heroism: He's one of several Decepticons reimagined as a peaceful neutral in the 2005 IDW continuity, where he's an Earthborn Transformer created after the war.
• Attack! Attack! Attack!: His only definition of "strategy" is attacking the target until it's dead.
• Ax-Crazy: Very psychotic and obsessed with violence.
• Aliens of London: In Wings Universe, he speaks with a thick French accent due to Neuro-Centre Control Unit burning out after landing in Toulon, France.
• French Jerk: Speaks with a French accent and is very rude and cruel.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Has a very short temper, making him very hard to deal with for other Decepticons.
• Jerkass: Rude, cruel and unjust even to his own Decepticon peers.
• Palette Swap: Looks like a blue and gold Wheeljack.
• Powered Armor: His exo-suit, which also transforms into his buggy.
• Shout-Out: His bio quote from his Timelines toy is paraphrased nearly verbatim from the French taunter from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
• Unwitting Pawn: In Transformers: Wings of Honor, he gets deceived by completely identically-looking Shattered Glass incarnation of Wheeljack, who taped over his Autobot insignia with the Decepticon one and managed to barter for the forestonite in exchange of the "Autobot plans in the future" (which were actually just some videogames). By the time he realized the deceit, it was too late.
• You Don't Look Like You: For his appearance in Magic: The Gathering, he is given a color palette reminiscent of Armada Wheeljack, while his Shattered Glass incarnation uses his regular color scheme.

Take-Off (テイクオフ teiku ofu)

Function: Aerial Recon

"There's nothing like dive-bombing Autobots from 60,000 feet!"

An Action Master specialized in aerial superiority, his toy was available only in European markets, his partner is Screech.

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• Ambiguous Situation: Take-Off has both thrusters in his abdomen and wheels on his shoulders and legs, making it ambiguous if he turned into a car or a flying vehicle.
• Equippable Ally: Screech can turn into a bird-like helmet for Take-Off to wear.
• Mauve Shirt: He plays a supporting role in Wings of Honor as one of Gutcruncher's goons alongside Charger.
• Shapeshifter Mode Lock: Being an Action Master means he's unable to transform. Wings of Honor shows he was exposed alongside other Action Masters to the energies of a monolith that locked them in robot mode.

Turbo Master (ターボマスター tābo masutā)

Function: Aerial Marauder

Alt Mode: Dual propeller vertical take-off plane

"To control the sky is to control the ground!"

• Bit Character: His only appearance in any media since his debut is during IDW's More than Meets the Eye, getting shot in the chest by Ultra Magnus.
• Secondary Color Nemesis: Magenta, purple, orange and some green are the colors of Turbo Master.

1992 Decepticons

The Predators (プレデター puredatā)

Skyquake

Falcon

Skydive

Snare

Talon

Stalker

Function: Air Commandant (Skyquake), Leader (Falcon), Scientific Advisor (Skydive), Surveillance (Snare), Advance Fighter (Talon), Communications Expert (Stalker)

Alt Modes: Northrop YF-23 fighter jet (Skydive), ICBM launcher tank (Stalker), SR-71 Blackbird recon plane (Skyquake), Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk (Falcon), Grumman X-29 (Snare), McDonnell-Douglas F-15 Eagle (Talon)

Skyquake: "Break them, crush them - grind them to dust!"
Falcon: "I despise weakness and spit on compassion."
Skydive: "True cruelty is the highest form of art."
Snare: "Fear? What's fear? It's all fun to me."
Talon: "Don't get me mad... when I get mad, I get even."
Stalker: "Hate till it hurts and then hate some more."

Composed of Skyquake, Falcon, Skydive, Snare, Talon, and Stalker

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• Card-Carrying Villain: Their quotes lend the impression that they're like this.
• C-List Fodder: The team's late G1 debut and relative obscurity leads to most of them dying whenever they appear.
  • In IDW:
    • The team formed the supporting cast of The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers and most ended up dying. Overlord shot and killed Skyquake to take leadership from him. Stalker was impaled through the head with his torture device. Snare was fatally wounded by Stalker and then mercy killed by Impactor crushing his brain module.
    • Skydive had a minor role in The Transformers: Robots in Disguise wherein Bombshell experimented with the Cerebro Shells on him. When the experiments proved unsuccessful, Bombshell killed him.
  • Transformers: Wings of Honor: Falcon acted as the Mouth of Sauron for Deathsaurus and conferred with the other Decepticon warlords. During one such meeting, Falcon was given what he thought was a holographic message but in actuality was a bomb that killed him and the remaining warlords.
• Out of Focus: Talon hasn't gotten much individual focus when compared to the other Predators.
• One-Steve Limit: Skydive has the same name as the Aerialbot who was introduced a few years earlier. In the IDW comics Prowl even confused them, twice.
• The Starscream: In the IDW comics, Calcar discusses this about Skyquake. Skyquake took over a space sector, and made it his own (Calcar calls it going native), installing his own government, and ruling the sector by himself. However, despite the power, he's still loyal to the Decepticons, and leaves his post to attack a heavily fortified Autobot prison when Megatron orders it. Defying the trope.
• Torture Technician: Stalker.

1993 Decepticons

Skyscorchers (スカイスコーチャー sukaisukōchā)

Tornado/Windrazor

Snipe/Afterburner

Eagle Eye/Hawk

Terradive

Function: Leader (Tornado/Windrazor), Technicians Master (Snipe/Afterburner), Infiltrator (Eagle Eye/Hawk), Advance Fighter (Terradive)

Alt Modes: F-16 Fighting Falcon (Tornado/Windrazor), F-104G Starfighter (Snipe/Afterburner), Eurofighter Typhoon (Eagle Eye/Hawk), A-7E Corsair II (Terradive)

Eagle Eye/Hawk: "Destruction! Beautiful glorious destruction!"
Snipe/Afterburner: "Brute force is not my way. My technology can devise infinitely more successful, subtle, and unpleasant methods..."
Terradive: "Why waste good fighting time thinking? Just BLAST your way in!"
Tornado/Windrazor: "Show me an Autobot and I'll show you a hole in the ground!"

A group of four jets consisting of Eagle Eye/Hawk, Snipe/Afterburner, Terradive and their leader Tornado/Windrazor.

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• Bad Boss: Tornado/Windrazor would willingly sacrifice the lives of his underlings in the name of victory.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Deconstructed with Snipe/Afterburner; his lazy nature means he's rarely able to effectively apply his intellect.
• The Brute: Terradive is super strong, not especially intelligent, and only cares about destroying Autobots.
• Killed Off for Real: All four of them are killed by the Insecticons in Regeneration One.
• One-Steve Limit: Afterburner and Eagle Eye both have the same name as Autobots introduced before them.

Stormtroopers

Rage

Aquablast

Drench

Hydradread

Function: Leader (Rage), Engineer (Aquablast), Coordinator (Drench), Scientific Advisor (Hydradread)

Alt Modes: Jaguar XJ220 sports car (Rage), Mitsubishi HSR (Aquablast), Chevrolet Corvette Indy concept car (Drench), Pontiac Sunfire Concept Car (Hydradread)

Rage: "If you're not living in the thick of the action - you're not living."
Aquablast: "Listen! That's the music of one of my super-tuned, ultra-hot engines! And think what terror it must strike in the hearts of those Autobot cowards..."
Drench: "A well run campaign is my greatest pleasure."
Hydradread: "Let me study the battle plans. I'll think up something really unpleasent - and then make it even nastier."

The Stormtroopers are a squad of Decepticons who use high-pressure fluid weapons. They consist of Rage, Hydradread, Drench and Aquablast.

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• Affably Evil: At least in Transformers (2019), Hydradread is this, being very chipper and excited about designing new and deadly weapons for his faction.
• C-List Fodder: Drench ends up getting accidentally killed by Turmoil when Deadlock/Drift kicks his cannon out of the way.
• The Engineer: Aquablast is a very good engineer.
• Evil Counterpart: Of the Aquaspeeders.
• Mad Scientist: Hydradread's role, with a specialty in fluid-like weapons.
• One-Steve Limit: Drench has the same name as an Autobot.
• Only Sane by Comparison: In Transformers (2019), Rage ends up playing the straight man of a team consisting of himself, Triggerhappy, Roughstuff and Fangry.
• Unstoppable Rage: Rage is perpetually angry.

Trakkons

Fearswoop

Calcar

Function: Attack Specialist (Fearswoop), Battle Analyst (Calcar)

Alt Modes: Lockheed-Martin Y-22 fighter jet (Fearswoop), Cabriolet buggy (Calcar)

Fearswoop: "Let terror and evil reign in the skies - and show no Autobot mercy."
Calcar: "It doesn't matter who suffers, it only matters that evil wins the day."

The Trakkons are a duo of Fearswoop and Calcar.

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• Bit Character: As a whole, Fearswoop and Calcar haven't played any major roles, which is not an uncommon fate for Generation 2 characters.
• BFG: Their gimmick, shared with their heroic Lightformer counterparts, is the use of large manned artillery turrets that can attach to their vehicle modes.
• The Shrink: Calcar's first IDW incarnation serves as a shrink to some Decepticons including Skyquake.
• Stealth Expert: Fearswoop loves using stealth to get the drop on enemies.

Clench (クレンチ kurenchi)

Function: Leader

Alt Mode: Long-nosed truck cab

"I will not rest until the last Autobot is crushed to nothing and Decepticons rule."

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• Ascended Extra: He plays a major supporting role in the Wings Universe.
• Big Badass Rig: His alt mode, which turns into a battle station.
• C-List Fodder: As a G2 character, he is prone to becoming a casualty.
  • He was killed by Megatron in the IDW comics during a gladiatorial fight.
  • He wound up being blown to bits in Transformers (2019) when Sunrunner marked his position and Sidetrack and Flak bombarded him with homing missiles.
• Evil Counterpart: Of the Autobots' Pyro.
• Gravity Master: Gains gravitational powers in the Generation 2 Redux after being exposed to a Magical Particle Accelerator.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: In Wings of Honor Clench is based on Jack Palance.

Other Decepticons

1994 Decepticons

Archforce

Function: Warrior Leader

Alt Mode: Armoured Tank

"My time is now - Autobots beware!"

Archforce is a powerful Decepticon who destroys everything before him. In some universes he is rebuilt into the image of Megatron to serve as Straxus's vessel. His toy is a slightly modified version of the Hero Megatron.

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• Clone by Conversion: An unnamed Decepticon Trooper in the Marvel UK comics (which ended its run three years before Archforce existed) that is converted into a clone of Megatron body and mind was retroactively stated to be an incarnation of Archforce.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: In the Marvel UK comics he went from a generic trooper to first a clone of Megatron, then Unicron transforms the Megatron clone into the UK version of Galvatron.
• Killed Off for Real: He killed himself to stop Straxus taking over his body.
• Retcon: Initially, his appearance as a trooper that was rebuilt into the image of Megatron to become Straxus's vessel was not actually his, and it was merely a generic. Come "Ask Vector Prime" in 2015, and he was retconned into being Archforce.

The Laser Rods (レーザーロッド rēzā roddo)

Jolt

Sizzle/Fireball

Function: Sneak Attack Specialist (Jolt), Warfare Strategist (Sizzle)

Alt Mode: Ford "Deuce Coupe" (Jolt), Ford Panel Wagon (Sizzle)

Jolt: "Live fast, ride hard, and leave a great looking chassis!"
Sizzle: "If you're in front of me, you're in my way!"

The Decepticon Laser Rods are Sizzle and Jolt, and they both wield glowing swords.

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• Cool Sword: They both wield curved swords, hence their team name as Laser Rods.
• Dirty Coward: Jolt will run as soon as he no longer has the advantage. He also specializes in sneak attacks.
• Evil Counterpart: Of the Autobot Laser Rods Volt and Electrons.
• Hot Paint Job: Jolt has a blue flame paintjob.
• Oddly Shaped Sword: Sizzle's sword is shaped like a lightning bolt.
• One-Steve Limit: Sizzle has the same name as the Sparkabot, which is why he's also known as Fireball.

The Rotor Force (ローターフォース rōtā fōsu)

Powerdive

Ransack

Function: Air Attack Specialist (Powerdive), Reconnaissance Fighter (Ransack)

Alt Mode: Boeing-McDonnell-Douglas AH-64 Apache assault helicopter (Powerdive), Chance Vought F4U Corsair (Ransack)

Powerdive: "Getting rid of Autobots is a blast!"
Ransack: "If there's a chance for destruction, I take it!"

The Decepticon Rotor Force consists of Powerdive and Ransack, each with a handheld fan as a weapon.

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• Cool Plane: Ransack turns into a WWII fighter plane.
• One-Steve Limit: Ransack has the same name as the Insecticon, while his name in the UK/European package is Blitz.
• Secondary Color Nemesis: Powerdive is mostly colored green with purple highlights, while Ransack is the inverse.
• Turbine Blender: Due to his Rotor Force gimmick, Ransack can launch his spinning biplane propeller to do this from a distance.

1995 Decepticons

Auto Rollers

Dirtbag

Roadblock

Function: Materials Transport (Dirtbag), Front-Line Defense (Roadblock)

Alt Modes: Mining dumper/haul truck (Dirtbag), Mining Loader (Roadblock)

Dirtbag: "Move it or lose it!"
Roadblock "Get out of my way... now!"

The Decepticon Auto Rollers consist of Dirtbag and Road Block.

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• Bit Character: Dirtbag and Roadblock have only made minor appearances in media so far.
• One-Steve Limit: Road Block, or Roadblock, has the same name as the Pretender introduced a few years earlier.
• Secondary Color Nemesis: Their color scheme is green with purple highlights.

Cyberjets (サイバージェット saibājetto)

Hooligan

Skyjack

Space Case

Function: Hit and Run (Hooligan), Spy (Skyjack), Air Recon (Space Case)

Alt Modes: Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor (Hooligan), Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk (Skyjack), Hybrid Fighter Jet (Space Case)

Hooligan: "I'll break your funny bone!"
Skyjack: "Trust me if you dare!"
Space Case: "My mind may be slow, but I move like greased lightning!"

The Decepticon Cyberjets consist of Skyjack, Hooligan and Space Case.

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• Bullying a Dragon: Hooligan will go as far as to pull pranks on Megatron.
• C-List Fodder:
  • All three of them got killed in the G-2 Comic Bom Bom.
  • Hooligan and Space Case also get killed off in Transformers (2019) on different incidents.
• Cool Plane: All three of them.
• Evil Counterpart: Of the Autobots' Cyberjets.
• Highly-Visible Ninja: Skyjack's stealth bomber mode, while mostly black, has a bit of a Hot Paint Job on its rear.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: Hooligan's paintjob is bright orange with tiger stripes.
• The Prankster: Hooligan calls himself a cruel practical joker.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Skyjack has a mostly black body with red forelimbs and a red flame deco in vehicle mode.
• Stealth Expert: Skyjack is a master spy with cloaking technology, and transforms into a stealth bomber.
• Super-Speed: Space Case's greatest asset is his speed (and definitely not his intelligence), thanks to his plasma-powered engines.
• Too Dumb to Live: Space Case is so dumb that he only lives thanks to sheer luck.

Dreadwing (ドレッドウイング doreddouingu)

Function: Sneak Attack Specialist

Alt Mode: Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit

"When you least expect it, expect me!"

• Big Guy, Little Guy: Is the big guy in his partnership with Smokescreen.
• Combining Mecha: His stealth bomber mode can only be assumed with Smokescreen attached.
• Gatling Good: Has an "illin'" gatling gun that fires missiles.
• The Mentor: Apparently mentors fellow stealth bomber Skyjack. His "teachings" involve using human cars for firing practice.
• One-Steve Limit: Has the same name as the combined form of Darkwing and Dreadwind.
• Reluctant Warrior: He was very unwilling to fight and only did so due to the manipulations of Smokescreen.

Nightracer

Function: Gunner

Alt Mode: Concept car

"A good shot is worth more than a big mouth."

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• Cloning Gambit: In the Wings Universe she was cloned by Jhiaxus from an already deceased Nightracer as part of his Generation 2 of Transformers.
• Dark Action Girl: She's a Decepticon gunslinger and the only female among the Go-Bots.
• Depending on the Artist: Her coloring was originally purple and yellow, but her Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club design is blue and black.
• Palette Swap: Her original BotCon exclusive is a redeco of fellow G2 Gobot High Beam. Her Timelines figure is a redeco of Tailgate instead, with her Micron partner Shakar being a redeco of Groundbuster.
• Self-Insert Fic: She is assumed to be one of infamous former fan Raksha, who avidly supported the Decepticons during the era of the original cartoon.

Power Masters

Bulletbike

Function: Highway Destruction (Staxx), Combat Destruction (Bulletbike)

Alt Modes: Racing truck cab (Staxx), Motorcycle with sidecar (Bulletbike)

Staxx: "I was born to be wild, born to be bad!"
Bulletbike: "This renegade rebel is ready to rock!"

The Decepticons Power Masters are Bulletbike and Staxx. Their toys were only available in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, making them quite rare.

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• Big Badass Rig: Staxx turns into a truck cab.
• Bit Character: Like other Generation 2 characters, both of them have only been featured very briefly in media.
• Cool Bike: Bulletbike turns into motorcycle with a sidecar.
• Evil Counterpart: Of the Autobot Power Masters Ironhide and Meanstreak.

Road Pig (ロードピッグ rōdo piggu/Road Big (ロードビッグ rōdo biggu))

Function: Autobot Harrasser

Alt Mode: Harley-Davidson Electra Glide

"Light my fuse and I'll race like a rocket!"

A street thug with a reputation for instigating trouble.

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• Cool Bike: A Harley-Davidson.
• Depending on the Artist: If his helmet is colored red or black.
• Dumb Muscle: Despite his ninja training he's described as brutish and moronic.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Other Decepticons can barely tolerate him.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Easily identified by his red head and black body, the reverse of Road Rocket's colors.
• The Rival: Of Road Rocket.

Canon Foreigners/Immigrants

Acid Storm (アシッドストーム ashido sutōmu)

Function: Warrior

Alt Modes: Suborbital Fighter, F-15 Eagle Fighter Jet

"It is better to be well fought than well known."

A Seeker specializing in aerial and suborbital chemical warfare. Intelligent and utterly devoted to the Decepticon cause, Acid Storm prefers to operate as the backbone of the Rainmaker squad, and is known as an individual only to his teammates and commanders.

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• Ascended Extra: Not to the extent of Sunstorm, but Acid Storm has had more appearances since his one episode.
• Cool Plane: Transforms into a Cybertronian pyramid-jet in his brief one-episode appearance. IDW and toys would give him the standard F-15 Eagle mode.
• Mauve Shirt: In the 2005 IDW continuity, Acid Storm was a recurring easy to identify grunt who was often forefront in major Decepticon gatherings. Since the main trio of Seekers had all moved onto major roles and the Coneheads were either dead (Thrust, Ramjet) or done with the faction (Dirge), Acid Storm was usually the one present when the Decepticons needed to mobilize. He even got to become a combiner and was cast in a movie until conflicts with the director caused him to leave.
• Meaningful Name: He makes acid rain along with his fellow Rainmakers (though their since-elaborated-on powers seem to imply making acid rain is something only he can do).
• Mythology Gag: His quiet nature and preference to wallow in anonymity is likely a reference to his appearance in "Divide and Conquer", where he was a generic Seeker who didn't speak.
  Acid Storm: I'm a green guy—that's like literally my whole thing.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: When Shrapnel blows Ultra-Magnus's ship out of the sky, Acid Storm yells at him as his rash actions have now sent debris heading towards their outpost. It gets destroyed.
• Palette Swap: Like all Seekers, he's a Starscream recolor. His design did change from his initial monochrome bright green color to a more appealing jungle camouflage paint job.
• The Quiet One: He rarely speaks and prefers to silently serve under his superiors.
• Shut Up, Kirk!: Gives one to Starscream when he tries to give a speech about letting go of the Decepticon cause for peace.
  Starscream: We must leave behind our destructive past. Violence is the old way—Megatron is the old way. I am the new—when I'm elected leader, this will be a victory for us, and for all Cybertronians—because we'll prove we were right. Not through the superiority of our firepower... but through the superiority of our ideas. A validation not for the methods that long tarnished the Decepticon dream, but for the dream itself. Victory is at hand—and it is ours to lose. Will you stand with me?
  Acid Storm: Blow it out your sprocket, "Chosen One".
• Who Writes This Crap?!: His reaction to the script of Starscream: The Movie.
  Thundercracker: Here's your new lines.
  Acid Storm: What? I was up all night memorizing the old ones.
  Thundercracker: These are better. Give 'em a read.
  Acid Storm: "You're what made me what I am, Megatron. All this time I was a Seeker, what I was really seeking was your love." People don't talk like that.

Axlegrease (アクセルグリース akuserugurīsu)

Function: Artillery

Alt Mode: Muscle car

A rogue Junkion who works for the Decepticons, with a habit of taking parts from her enemies.

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• Good Colors, Evil Colors: Unlike most other Junkions, she's in purple and blue, and is aligned with the Decepticons.
• Mythology Gag: Her head is designed after Nancy, Wreck-Gar's consort from the cartoon, while her coloration is taken from the Shattered Glass Junkions.
• Palette Swap: A redeco and retool of fellow Junkion Scraphook.
• The Smurfette Principle: Stands as being the first Junkion gal to get a toy.

Barricade (バリケード barikēdo)

Function: Police Officer

Alt Mode: Police Car

"You have the right to scream for mercy."

A Decepticon Police officer. Aggressive, violent, and corrupt, Barricade nevertheless has a certain sense of honor and pride in his role as a peacekeeper, even if he interprets his responsibilities somewhat loosely.

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• Adaptational Heroism: His first IDW incarnation was a Noble Demon who tried to be a genuine police officer and preserve peace on the post-war Cybertron.
  Starscream: Raze the Decepticon ghetto. I've been letting things get worse—maybe knocking down some buildings will loosen some vocal processors.
  Barricade: No way, Starscream. I'm a cop. I sided with a united Cybertron because I believe in it. But there's a reason I still wear the Decepticon sigil—and I'm sick of people saying I've sold out or I'm just an—an Autobot. I do what I do in the name of equality, and that's always been the Decepticon cause.
• Canon Immigrant: From the live-action movie series.
• Depending on the Writer: Just how villainous he is depends on the continuity, since his original movie self was a typical Decepticon brute, while he's a Noble Demon in the first IDW comics and in the second one he's a more typical Dirty Cop.
• Dirty Cop: Though he believes in the Decepticon cause, he has no problem with making a little extra cash on the side.
• Jerkass: Very aggressive, violent, and unpleasant.
• One-Steve Limit: Averted; He shares the name with Micromaster Barricade of the Race Track Patrol, but they are not the same character. Both characters received figures in the Earthrise line, but while this character retained the name Barricade, the other character received a Sudden Name Change to "Runner".
• Palette Swap: The War for Cybertron toyline makes him a black and purple redeco of Prowl, which actually references how in the original 2007 movie they wanted a Decepticon who turned into a police car and how Prowl was considered for the role before the character became Barricade.

Bitstream

Function: Information Engineer

Alt Mode: F-15 Eagle Fighter Jet

"Fighting in the sky or on the web makes no difference to me."

A technical prodigy skilled in data hacking and cyber-warfare.

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• Ascended Extra: Like Sunstorm, he was a generic Seeker that appeared in the first episode.
• The Cracker: He specializes in hacking and cyber-warfare.
• Palette Swap: Of Starscream, though he more accurately resembles Thundercracker with extra bits of red and white.

Black Shadow (ブラックシャドー burakku shadō)

Function: Space Gangster

Alt Mode: Cybertronian Jet

"I'll make you cry before I kill you."

Voiced by: Yūji Mikimoto (JP)

One of two elite Decepticon warriors chosen for Megatron's Phase Six Initiative, a project designed to create super warriors capable of single-handedly conquering entire planets — Black Shadow is brought onto battlefields where Autobot resistance is firmly entrenched and Decepticon morale is low. However, despite his reputation as one of Megatron's best soldiers, he is essentially a gangster looking for his next big hustle.

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• Adaptational Villainy: While his tendency to favor credits over the Decepticon cause is consistent throughout, the Japanese version never even pretended to be a real soldier.
• Evil Duo: With Blue Bacchus in Transformers Victory.
• Guns Akimbo: Wields twin particle cannons in combat.
• Killed Off for Real: Executed by the Decepticon Justice Division in The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye for taking a bribe and destroying Decepticon War Worlds.
• One-Man Army: Killed three of the Wreckers, including their field commander at the time, slaughtered the Autobots' 113th Battalion (which was 3000 strong), and bested Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus in hand to hand combat.
• Palette Swap: His original toy was a retool of Thunderwing.
• Undying Loyalty: Subverted. While the IDW version appears to be fanatically loyal to Megatron, like his Victory counterpart, he ultimately turns out to be more loyal to quick cash.
• The Worf Effect: After centuries of being one of the most feared warriors in the Decepticon ranks, he is curbstomped by the DJD.

Blast (ブラスト burasuto)

Function: Warrior

Alt Mode: Modified F-15 Eagle Fighter Jet

• Bit Character: Even by Seeker standards, Blast's appearances are incredibly brief and minor.
• Palette Swap: He's a black recolor of Thrust.
• Toyless Toyline Character: Blast's appearances have been so minor he hasn't warranted a toy yet.

Blazewake

Function: Warrior

Alt Mode: Jet bomber

• The Bully: Described as a bully who enjoys hurting his foes.
• Palette Swap: Being a Seeker means he's a recolor of Starscream.
• Toyless Toyline Character: He originates in the Transformers Roleplaying Game, as such he doesn't have a toy yet.

Blue Bacchus (ブルーバッカス burū bakkasu)

Function: Space Gunman

Alt Mode: Cybertronian Racecar

Voiced by: Ryōichi Tanaka (JP)

Black Shadow's villainous partner in crime. Utterly cold-hearted and without mercy, he is an expert gunman with unerring aim and fantastic fast-draw abilities, but he still comes in a distinct second to Black Shadow in fighting ability.

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• Always Second Best: He's never been able to beat Black Shadow at gunslinging.
• Palette Swap: He's a redeco of Crossblades.

Bug Bite (バグバイト bagu baito)

Function: Operations Commander

Alt Mode: Volkswagen Beetle

"Your mind is mine for the taking."

A Canon Immigrant in more than one sense, since he comes from the Challenge of the GoBots reality.

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• Adaptational Dye-Job: Bug Bite was originally yellow. However, in the Transformers media, his color was changed to white or off-white with purple paint.
• Adaptation Species Change: His appearance in Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy omits his nature as a dimension-traveling GoBot and lists him as a regular Cybertronian. This means he's not a Cyborg here and is 100% robot.
• Cyborg: Just like other GoBots and unlike other Transformers, he has an organic brain in a robotic body.
• Inconsistent Spelling: Sometimes, his name is rendered "Bugbite", without a space.
• Mad Scientist: He is the science officer of the GoBots team, and he's very cruel.
• Misplaced Retribution: He blames the Cybertronian race as a whole for the Cataclysm that threatens their reality, and wants to kill them all, despite the fact that it wasn't their doing at all; the Cataclysm happened on its own.
• Off with His Head!: Classics Megatron blows his head off. Fortunately, Bug Bite thought ahead (heh) and made sure to keep his brain behind his windshield, which allowed him to survive decapitation.
• Palette Swap: Of Bumblebee, after changing his body to blend better among the Transformers.
• Related in the Adaptation: Tom Scioli's GoBots comic book miniseries hints at the end that Bumblebee is his son.
• Sadist: He takes great pleasure in torturing others for information.
• The Starscream: He was part of a team of GoBots sent out to try and rescue their reality, only he decided to strike out on his own the first chance he got.

Cloudcover

Function: Toxic crusader

Alt Mode: Delta Wing F-15 Eagle Fighter Jet

• Mythology Gag: He's based on a planned G2 recolor for Ramjet that was cancelled.
• Palette Swap: He's a redeco of Ramjet.
• Toyline-Exclusive Character: Hasn't appeared in any media except for Toxitron's marketing material.

Crasher

Function: Gladiator

Alt Mode: Formula 1-style car

• Canon Immigrant: She stands out for having originated in Challenge of the GoBots, albeit as a regular Cybertronian and not an inhabitant from another universe.
• Depending on the Artist: While her Gobots counterpart had a more humanized face, her design in the IDW comics feature her with a mouthplate and visor so that she resembles her original GoBots toy. Her Legacy toy would instead have her face uncovered.
• Palette Swap: She's a redeco of Mirage.
• Undying Loyalty: She's been loyal to Megatron from the very beginning.

Deathsaurus (デスザラス desuzarasu)

Function: Warlord

Alt Mode: Mechanical Dragon

"Glory of death for my enemies, glory of victory for me!"

Voiced by: Takeshi Aono (JP)

Deathsaurus was once one of Megatron's greatest generals, with a particularly successful career at cyberforming planets. Losing patience with Megatron's apparent apathy for his troops, Deathsaurus and his unit broke away from Decepticon ranks, terrorizing worlds as galactic outlaws.

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• Arch-Enemy: Star Saber in the Japanese continuity.
• "Ass" in Ambassador: In the 2019 IDW continuity where he fakes being polite to mask his hate for Probat's inhabitants.
• Bad Boss: Depending on the Writer. Deathsaurus has been written as both A Father to His Men and a cruel tyrant who will kill you for your failure. His Victory anime incarnation kept his unruly troops in line through violence, his Wings of Honor incarnation used his loyal aide as an unwitting suicide bomber, and his 2019 IDW incarnation was a major prick to his assistant.
• Benevolent Boss: Works that humanize Deathsaurus tend to push him as this. His Victory manga incarnation had an adopted son and was much more tolerant of Leozack's betrayal routine. His 2005 IDW incarnation was characterized by his devotion to his underlings to the point that his alliance with the DJD was built on the promise that they'd all be pardoned for their crimes against the faction.
• Big Bad: Of Transformers Victory.
• Defeat Equals Friendship: When the Decepticon Justice Division arrive to make him an offer he can't refuse, Deathsaurus gets the drop on them. But when he sees that Tarn is not as callous with the lives of his soldiers as Megatron, Deathsaurus ultimately agrees to join forces with them.
• A Father to His Men: The 2005 IDW version. In the Japanese continuity, he was sometimes like this in the manga, but not so much in the anime.
• Inconsistent Spelling: His name has been spelled a lot of ways, mainly Deszaras or Deathsaurus.
• Kaiju: His alt-mode, and his name sounds vaguely like a Godzilla or Ultra Series villain.
• Renegade Splinter Faction: He has been leading one ever since he broke away from Megatron. Though in the Japanese continuity, by the time Victory starts they are essentially the only Decepticon faction left.
• Unholy Matrimony: His manga version has a wife named Esmeral.
• Wicked Cultured: His Wings of Honor incarnation was an Energon version of a wine connoisseur. As he conquered he took time to add rare aged fuels to his collection.

Decepticon Justice Division

When Decepticons disobey orders or go rogue, It's the DJD's job to hunt them down. Debut in The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye.

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• Torture Technician: A whole team dedicated to it.
• Toyless Toyline Character: With the exception of Tarn, no member of the DJD has received a toy.

Tarn (ターン tān)

Function: Field Commander

Alt Mode: Cybertronian Tank

"You can't take anything from someone who has nothing to lose."

The Captain of the DJD, Tarn is an eloquent Decepticon who hides his sociopathic tendencies behind a veneer of sophistication. He has demonstrated his loyalty to Decepticon cause by welding the Decepticon insignia to his face as a ballistic mask, and has made it is his life mission to punish anyone who abandons the Decepticon cause.

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• Arm Cannon: He has two Fusion cannons on his arm, showing his loyalty to the cause.
• Big Bad: The closest The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye has to one, as he is the most persistent nemesis of the main heroes.
• Break Them by Talking: Is capable of literally talking some of his targets to death.
• Broken Pedestal: Does not take Megatron's Heel–Face Turn very well.
• The Cameo: His original identity of Damus briefly appears in the 2019 IDW continuity as a civilian who is arrested for his Decepticon sympathies.
• Dark and Troubled Past: He was forged under the name Damus, possessed the ability to render non-sentient machinery inoperative by touching it. Seen as a freak by Cyberton's ruling class, he was forced to undergo empurata to mark him as an outcast, and rechristened Glitch. At some point he joined the Decepticons and renamed himself Tarn, after the city where Megatron was forged.
• Do Not Call Me "Paul": Does not react well to being addressed by either of his former identities.
• Captain Patriotic: Inverted. Tarn is loyal to Megatron above all others, and his ideals about how Cybertron should be run. Tarn has the Decepticon Symbol grafted to his face.
• Fantastic Drug: Addicted to transforming, if one looks at his scenes in issue 8, he transforms a lot.
• Faux Affably Evil: Talks politely, quotes poetry and philosophy, all as you die. His actual words go at a frequency so that the spark of the victim gives out.
  Tarn: If you want to break someone — mentally, physically, emotionally — wait until they're happy. Let them live and love and thrive. Once they recognize the value of a life well-lived... THAT'S when you move in for the kill.
• Torture Technician: The leader of a team who does this and he himself tortures any defectors, being sociopathic and easily provoked. Also, he does this by speaking his actual words which go at a frequency which cause his victims' sparks to give out.
• Wicked Cultured: A fondness for art, poetry, and classical music.

Kaon (ケイオン keion)

Turns into an electric chair and organizes the list of people the DJD hunt down, he owns the Pet.

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• Black Eyes of Evil: His optics are black and gives the appearance that he has only eye-sockets. While not intentional, James Roberts admits to liking the idea Kaon's blind.
• Electric Torture: Employed via his chair.
• Psycho Electro: He shoots electricity from his chair mode and his hands for combat.
• Torture Technician: Via Electric Torture.

Vos (ヴォス vosu)

A "linguist-purist" who transforms in a sniper rifle.

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• Eye Scream: Inverted. He's got all sorts of spikes and drills under his face, and they're all over, except his eyes, as he needs to see, and presumably the victim can still see when his face get's put over them.
• No Name Given: Vos's real name isn't ever stated in canon nor by the author. In the story, Megatron calls him Forestock but the writer confirmed that this was only the name Megatron knew him by, not his real name.
• Nightmare Face: Behind his face is a number of torture utensils, and he puts his face over victims.
• Torture Technician: Removes his face, the insides lined with hooks, spikes and other painful devices and forces his victims to wear it.
• The Unintelligible: No one understands his Primal Vernacular speech.

Tesarus (テサルス tesarusu)

An intelligent, violent murderer whose chest can shred victims.

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• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: He has two extra crane like arms.
• Torture Technician: His chest is a shredding device, which he can put most or all of an enemy into.

Helex (へレックス herekkusu)

A member of the team with four arms and the ability to transform into a smelting pool.

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• Immune to Bullets: Somewhat, he shoots him a bunch of times, but it seems to have no effect.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: He has two pairs of arms and he's a very vicious member of a Torture Technician team.
• Torture Technician: Transforms into a mobile smelting pool.

The Pet

Kaon's pet Sparkeater/Turbofox.

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• Killer Rabbit: A very feral beast who looks rather cool.
• Team Pet: The team's personal animal who can also torture victims just like they do.

Nickel

The DJD's resident physician.

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• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's abrasive and insulting to the DJD, but dedicates herself to fixing them up. The DJD fully acknowledge that she's only the way she is because she cares about them.
• Last of Her Kind: Sole survivor of a genocide on her homeworld of Prion.
• The Medic: To the DJD
• The Smurfette Principle: The only female Decepticon seen among the DJD.
• Team Mom: Constantly telling off the DJD for their lack of hygiene and maintenance.
• Villainous Friendship: Has this with the DJD.

Demolisher

Function: Military Expert

Alt Mode: Cybertronian Tank

A Decepticon military expert and one of the most loyal followers of the Decepticon cause.

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• Adaptational Intelligence: Contrary to the Unicron Trilogy, where Demolisher was shown to be clumsy and mentally slow to contrast with his strength, this incarnation is described to be a competent tactician and one of Megatron's most trusted military advisors.
• Canon Immigrant: Demolisher hails from the Unicron Trilogy and made his first appearance in Transformers: Armada.
• Composite Character: This version mixes Demolisher's brute strength with Armada Thrust's tactical prowess.
• Inconsistent Spelling: Demolisher is typically spelled Demolishor.
• Reused Character Design: In the trading card games, Demolisher uses his design from the Transformers: War for Cybertron video game, which in turn was based on his Armada design.
• Shoulder Cannon: He still has his iconic dual shoulder cannons that transform into his tank cannon.
• Tank Goodness: Like most versions, Demolisher transforms into a tank.
• Undying Loyalty: Demolisher is incredibly loyal to the Decepticons and will question any leadership decisions that may be rooted in selfishness. In the Collectible Card Game, Demolisher is known as "Devoted Decepticon."

Detritus (デトライタス detoraitasu)

Function: Junkion Mercenary

Alt Mode: Mitsubishi J59 off-road vehicle

A rogue Junkion who works as a mercenary.

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• Beard of Evil: His original toy differs from Hound in that he's got a little beard. A goatee, in case his moral alignment was in doubt.
• Cultural Rebel: Most Junkions are odd but friendly traders, allied with the Autobots. Detritus isn't.
• Palette Swap: A redeco of Hound in sand brown.
• The Starscream: His goal is to make enough money to buy an army of his own, go back to Junk and become caliph instead of the caliph... err, that is, overthrow Wreck-Gar.
• Wild Card: The original toy came with Autobot and Decepticon decals. The card game makes him a Mercenary. According to his bio, Detritus is a case of I Fight for the Strongest Side!, not getting involved in a fight until he's absolutely sure which one's going to win. His Legacy: Evolutions toy makes this even more explicit by giving him both Autobot and Decepticon insignias. Unlike other figures with changing insignias however, Detritus sports both simultaneously, with only one being visible in either mode.

Enemy (エネミー enemī)

Function: Infiltrator

Alt Mode: Micro-Cassette

"I must be very important to have so many enemies."

The Black Sheep of Soundwave's micro-cassettes, Enemy is a rather unpleasant individual with few (if any) friends even among his fellow Decepticons. He has managed to use his abrasive personality to his advantage, however. On the battlefield, he goads the Autobots into focusing on him, drawing their fire away from higher-value Decepticon targets. But he is most effective when he is deployed alone as a saboteur or advance agent, striking from the shadows.

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• Ascended Extra: First appeared in one panel of Dreamave's War Within miniseries, and it's not entirely clear if he's a miscolored Rumble or Frenzy, or a deliberate Shout-Out to an obscure variant of the Japanese MC-01 Micross figure that ultimately provided the Rumble/Frenzy template. He subsequently got his own toy in Japan, and was introduced to Western audiences via IDW.
• Appropriated Appellation: In the 2019 IDW continuity, he chose the name himself.
  Lancer: Who calls themselves Enemy? Oh, wait... you didn't choose it, right? Someone else came up with your name?
  Enemy: No, I chose it.
  Huffer: Wow. I mean, to each their own, but... wow. Issues, much?
• Boisterous Weakling: Not particularly strong, and frequently bites off more than he can chew.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Who else would call themselves Enemy?
• Combat Pragmatist: Given his low strength, he generally sticks to the shadows and sneaks up on opponents.
• Enemies Equals Greatness: The main reason why he chose his name and constantly picks fights with bots bigger than him.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: His fellow Decepticons can't stand to be around him for long periods of time.
• Guns Akimbo: Wields twin ion heavy pistols for ranged combat.
• Leeroy Jenkins: Frequently throws himself into fights he is unlikely to win on his own, which frustrates his fellow Decepticons to no end.
• Palette Swap: Of Rumble and Frenzy.
• Troll: Defines himself by his opposition to others.
• We Need a Distraction: Is very good at this, and it's probably the only reason Soundwave keeps him around.

Exhaust (エグゾースト eguzōsuto)

Function: Industrial Espionage Soldier

Alt Mode: Lancia Statos

"You can't catch smoke with bare hands."

A Decepticon who works for the Marlboor, stealing secrets on their behalf.

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• Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: The stress of his job has given Exhaust a cygarette habit.
• Head Swap: He's a new-head retool of Wheeljack in homage to the original Diaclone toy used to make him.
• Shout-Out: His employers, name, and bad habit are in reference to said Diaclone toy, which had decals representing Marlboro (but changed to avoid copyright issues).
• Sinister Shades: The main difference between him and Wheeljack is his red and black visor.
• Super Smoke: Malboor's research department gifted him the power to "quantize", or become living smoke.
• Under New Management: In the Japanese cartoon continuity, Exhaust was a Decepticon spy, until Soundwave got himself killed, and suddenly Exhaust was out of a job.

Ferak (フェラク feraku)

Function: Engineer

Alt Mode: Hunter-seeker skyship

"It is not a matter of what is the most efficient tool to use, but that which provides me the most pleasure."

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• Adaptational Job Change: Original Ferak was a Decepticon Hunter-seeker. IDW turns him into a member of Squadron X, with the supplemental materials making him a Gadgeteer Genius.
• Ascended Extra: He started out as a nameless Toyless Toyline Character who got a name, some toys, and a couple appearances in fiction.
• Gadgeteer Genius: With a penchant for Unusual Weapons of Mass Destruction.
• Kick the Dog: Ferak's favorite pastime in the Marvel comics was hunting the Empties on Cybertron for sport.
• Palette Swap: His Funpub toy makes him one of Cyclonus. His Legacy figure, while also basing him off the latest Cyclonus, downplays this by retooling a few parts.
• White and Red and Eerie All Over: He's mostly white with a red face and other red highlights, and is as cruel and sadistic as they come.

Flamewar (フレイムウォー fureimuwō)

Function: Tripredacus Agent/Mercenary

Alt Mode: Motorcycle

"To forget the past is to doom the future."

Voiced by: Brandie Tarvin (Intimidation Game script reading)

A female Decepticon warrior who is zealously devoted to Megatron.

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• Adaptational Wimp: In the second IDW-verse, she is much more incompetent and unlucky than her previous incarnations.
• Ax-Crazy: Her Wings Universe incarnation is a murderous psychopath who revels in chaos and enjoys taunting her enemies with corpses of her victims.
• Butt-Monkey: Her second IDW-verse incarnation is an unlucky Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain who continuously fails to successfully assassinate her target, ends up in various misfortunes, and constantly gets berated by her superiors.
• Cool Bike: Transforms into a motorcycle.
• Dark Action Girl: She's an elite, competent and very skilled female Decepticon. Not necessarily sane, though.
• Dead Person Impersonation: In "The Razor's Edge", she disguises herself as the long-gone original Megatron to revive the Decepticon movement.
• Hot Paint Job: Features flames on her paint job.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Her main colors are black and red, and she is an extreme Megatron loyalist.
• Renaissance Woman: Her original incarnation is skilled in many functions, from warrior to scientist.
• The Starscream: Her Wings universe version seizes control of the Star Seekers, taking the name of Cannonball for herself, with a little help from the Trope Namer himself.
• Undying Loyalty: Absolutely and zealously devoted to the Decepticon cause, and especially Megatron, to the point that she considers the Decepticon Generals like Deathsaurus to be merely his pale imitations, and in Wings Universe, when Megatron died, she refused to acknowledge his death, believing that the Death itself is his ally and wouldn't dare to take him away.
• You Have Failed Me: When Bumblebee reveals to her and the Tripredacus Council that the Autobots now have the means of tracking her down, the Council declares her to be a liability and remotely blows up her ship with her onboard. She survives.

The Four (4) Guards (4ガード fō gādo)

Megaempress with the 4 Guards^note From left to right: Trickdiamond, Flowspade, Moonheart, and Lunaclub.

Function: Bodyguards

Alt Modes: Sports car (Flowspade and Trickdiamond), Helicopter (Lunaclub and Moonheart)

The 4 Guards are a group of female Decepticons that act as Megaempress's personal bodyguards. Each possesses their own unique power over the four elements, and their weapons help bring forth their elemental strengths. They consist of Flowspade, Trickdiamond, Moonheart and Lunaclub.

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• Amazon Brigade: They're a group of female bodyguards who work directly under Megaempress.
• Canon Immigrant: While originally created for the Unite Warriors Japanese line, they have made sporadic appearances in other continuities, with Trickdiamond appearing in Transformers (2019), while Lunaclub shows up in Transformers: Last Bot Standing.
• Color-Coded Characters: In contrast to the Rust Renegades, Trickdiamond is colored yellow, Flowspade purple, Moonheart blue and Lunaclub dark pink.
• Combining Mecha: They can combine with Megaempress to create the gestalt Megatronia.
• Elemental Powers: They all have a Classical Elements Ensemble; Trickdiamond is Earth, Lunaclub is Fire, Moonheart is Water and Flowspade is Wind.
• Evil Counterpart: Since Megaempress can be seen as an evil counterpart of Pyra Magna, the 4 guards can be seen as counterparts of the other Rust Renegades.
• Fire/Ice Duo: Lunaclub and Moonheart with their respective weapons and personalities.
• Palette Swap: They're all recolors of the Autobot Rust Renegades: Trickdiamond is a redeco of Jumpstream, Moonheart of Skyburst, Lunaclub of Stormclash and Flowspade of Dust Up.
• Playing Card Motifs: They're named after the four suits of cards in poker: Lunaclub, Flowspade, Moonheart and Trickdiamond.
• Polar Opposite Twins: Moonheart is calm and collected while Lunaclub is selfish and immature.
• Robo Family: Moonheart and Lunaclub are twins.
• Stalker with a Crush: Lunaclub deeply admires Starscream and would stalk him during the Great War.
• Twin Theme Naming: Moonheart and Lunaclub.

Fulcrum (フルクラム furukuramu)

Function: K-class trooper

Alt Mode: Bomb

A Decepticon soldier in The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye.

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• Heroic Sacrifice: As a living Bomb he attempts to do this to the DJD to save his new friends. He turns out to be a dud, and the DJD leave because they think he's dead. He survived, and it's revealed that Spinister cut out his explody part so he wouldn't blow up when they were trying to salvage him.
• Lovable Coward: He's more amiable and approachable for a Decepticon but...well, let's just say his courage is far less than his friendliness since he's only a fan of trying to survive.
• Suicide Attack: He's a K-class Decepticon. Guess what the K stands for.
• Toyless Toyline Character: Unlike his comrades, he is completely original to the comics and doesn't have an actual toy.

Garboil (ガーボイル gāboiru)

Function: Information Control

Alt Mode: Micro-Cassette

A member of the Cobalt Sentries, the public safety arm of the Decepticon Secret Police, Garboil is familiar with the personal information of countless Decepticon soldiers, and observes in detail each one's ulterior motives, plots being executed, or treasonous conduct.

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• Brutal Bird of Prey: He's a mechanical condor.
• Palette Swap: Like Howlback, he's a blue redeco of Laserbeak/Buzzsaw and he's part of the Cobalt Sentries.
• The Spymaster: As information controller for the Cobalt Sentries, who are the Decepticons Secret Police.

Glit (グリット guritto)

Function: Doctor

Alt Mode: Micro-Cassette

Voiced by: Yui Kano (JP)

Kind but stubborn, he is the best surgeon the Decepticons have. Unusually for his allegiance, he's compassionate enough to treat any wounded robot he comes across, regardless of their faction.

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• Affably Evil: For a Decepticon, Glit can be surprisingly caring and will even help an enemy on the battlefield.
• Combat Medic: He's well armed like most casettes and he's a field medic.
• In Vino Veritas: While he claims to hate singing, give him some energon wine and he'll start singing.
• Light Is Good: A white and blue paintjob and he's rather friendly for a Decepticon.
• Palette Swap: Called a Couga-raider, he's a white and blue redeco of Ravage.
• Token Good Teammate: He's one of the few genuinely nice Decepticons.

Hotlink (ホットリンク hottorinku)

Function: Combat Engineer

Alt Mode: F-15 Eagle Fighter Jet

"Give me a spanner and I'll turn it into a gun."

Voiced by: Masashi Ebara (JP)

The resident gadget fiend of the Seekers, Hotlink is prepared to turn any material he has on hand into an instrument of destruction. He views each of his creations as a work of art.

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• Ascended Extra: Appeared as a no-name generic in the first episode, alongside Bitstream and Sunstorm, attacking Wheeljack and Bumblebee, memorable mainly because he's wielding a flamethrower. Nineteen years later, he got a name and a convention exclusive toy. Then he got a mainstream release for the War for Cybertron trilogy. Then he became a notable member of "Team Stream" in the 2019 IDW comics.
• Calling Your Attacks: While he was silent in the original cartoon, the Japanese dub has him cry out "Fire Attack!" when he creates a ring of fire around Wheeljack and Bumblebee.
• The Engineer: With a fondness and knack for guns. Especially ones of a fire related nature.
• Equippable Ally: His War for Cybertron comes with the Battle Masters Heatstroke and Heartburn, who transform into his flamethrowers.
• Fire-Breathing Weapon: His favorite creation is his pyropathic flamethrower.
• Palette Swap: He's a purple Starscream, or more precisely, a Skywarp with more some of the gray parts colored purple and vice versa.

Howlback (ハウルバック haurubakku)

Function: Enforcer

Alt Mode: Micro-Cassette

• Dark Action Girl: She's just as vicious as her male counterparts.
• Ice Queen: Described as an ice-cold killer at the core of her spark.
• Palette Swap: She's a blue redeco of Ravage.
• Panthera Awesome: Like Ravage she's a mechanical cougar.

Ion Storm (イオンストーム ion sutōmu)

Function: Warrior

Alt Modes: Suborbital Fighter, F-15 Eagle Fighter Jet

"War is hell. Let me take you there."

A Seeker who serves as the Electronic Warfare expert for the Rainmaker squad.

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• Ascended Extra: Yet another background Seeker from the cartoon.
• Cool Plane: Like the other Rainmakers, he turned into a Cybertronian jet in his one appearance in "Divide and Conquer".
• Divergent Character Evolution: Like with Nova Storm, he was redesigned◊ in the same "Ask Vector Prime" update that named him.
• Meaningful Name: Ion Storm has control over electricity.
• Palette Swap: Like any other Seeker.
• Shock and Awe: Ion Storm is electrokinetic, and can create EMPs.

Kaskade

Function: Sniper

Alt Mode: Cybertronian car

A member of The Rise, a cybertronian organization that would become part of the Decepticons in Transformers (2019).

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• Ascended Extra: She actually only appeared in a handful of panels in the comics before being left comatose by Soundwave.
• Canon Immigrant: She's one of the few characters introduced in the 2019 continuity that would actually get a toy as part of the Legacy toyline.
• Cold Sniper: She's a sniper who's cautious and detached.
• Goggles Do Something Unusual: She wears a visor over her right eye that resembles a monocle and serves as a sniper's scope.
• Palette Swap: She's a retool and redeco of Siege Chromia.

Lockdown (ロックダウン rokkudaun)

Function: Bounty Hunter

Alt Mode: V8 Interceptor Muscle Car

"Run all you want. It'll make the chase more fun."

A bounty hunter whose primary motivations are credits and upgrades, Lockdown wears the Decepticon standard because they offer the most lucrative contracts. First appeared in IDW's Drift miniseries, now leader of a band of Decepticons in The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye.

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• Bounty Hunter: Like his namesake.
• Canon Immigrant: An interesting case. The character himself comes from Transformers: Animated, while his design is based on the Lockdown figure from the Revenge of the Fallen movie toyline.
• Cool Car: Transforms into a muscle car.
• Evil Pays Better: The reason for being a de facto Decepticon.
• Green and Mean: Keeps his green and black paintjob and is a ruthless bounty hunter.
• Hook Hand: Has a large hook in place of his right hand.
• Lighter and Softer: As with every other version of Lockdown from Animated onward, he lacks the original's ghoulish habit of taking parts from his victims to upgrade himself.
• Spikes of Villainy: He's got many spikes along his body, referencing the Mad Max franchise.
• Team Member in the Adaptation:
  • The original Lockdown was unaffiliated with either faction and would pull jobs for both with later episodes heavily implying he was a former Autobot. G1 Lockdown is a Decepticon from the get go.
  • The 2024 toy for Lockdown is solicited as a member of the Star Raiders (the new version of the Star Seekers) a team Lockdown was never affiliated with beforehand.

Loudpedal (ラウドペダル raudopedaru)

Function: Ultrasonic Engineer

Alt Mode: 1980-1982 Chevrolet Corvette "C3"

"If you overcome suffering, you will reach joy."

• Flying Car: Like Tracks and Road Rage, Loudpedal's alt mode is a car with wings.
• Hot Paint Job: Has the same flaming symbol as Tracks on his alt mode.
• Mythology Gag: He's inspired on a Diaclone black redeco of Tracks known as "Black Tracks".
• Palette Swap: He's a black and purple version of Tracks.

Lugnut (ラグナッツ ragunattsu)

Function: Enforcer

Alt Mode: B-17 Flying Fortress

"Face the wrath of my Talosian Triple Crusher cannon!"

A massive Decepticon bruiser that blindly follows Megatron. Originating in Transformers: Animated he has been ported over to several G1 continuities and even received a G1/Movie style toy in the Reveal the Shield line.

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• The Brute: Lugnut's a massive Decepticon whose main contribution to the Decepticon cause is his strength.
• Canon Immigrant: This one's from Transformers: Animated.
• Cool Plane: His toy transforms into a bomber plane.
• Cyber Cyclops: Unlike Shockwave, he has a mouth.
• Purple Is Powerful: His depiction in Earth Wars is largely purple.
• Rocket Punch: The Punch of Kill Everything.
• Secondary Color Nemesis: His signature green and purple paintjob.
• Sycophantic Servant: Extremely loyal to Megatron despite being on the receiving end of his Bad Boss attitude.
• Undying Loyalty: Carried over from his Animated namesake. If the grand and GLORIOUS Megatron commands it, Lugnut will obey without question.

Lyzack (ライザック raizakku)

Function: Airborne Assault

Alt Mode: Modified F-22 Raptor Fighter Jet

"By your will, it is done. By my own, it is done right."

Leozack's sister.

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• Adaptational Badass: Went from a weepy sister in her debut to a full-fledged, though still kinda depressed, Decepticon warrior in the Transformers: Wings of Honor comic.
• Animal Motif: Same as her brother, she's stylized to look like a lion.
• Calling Your Attacks: Guess it runs in the family.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: The Wings of Honor comic mentions that she isn't taken very seriously, reduced to a servant by Deathsaurus and talked down to by Starscream.
• Glass Cannon: Takes on Magnum and cuts him down, but before she can kill him, she's beaten by a single punch.
• Shrinking Violet: Manga and Wings of Honor. In the Wings verse her bio does mention her isolation, but this trope causes many to underestimate her.
• Undying Loyalty: The Wings comics has Deathsaurus offer her an opportunity to save her brother, but at the cost of working for him which she tirelessly does so. During the battle against the Elite Guard, she tends to him after the latter is shot.

Magnificus (マグニフィカス magunifikasu)

Function: Outcast

Alt Modes: Microscope, Laser Cannon

• Badass Bookworm: Just as smart as Perceptor and is a former pit fighter.
• Divergent Character Evolution: Newer versions of him maintain the original toy-based head with a faceplate instead of adopting the cartoon-inspired maskless version of Perceptor's head that most versions of the Autobot scientist use.
• Paint It Black: He's a black redeco of Perceptor.
• Palette Swap: Of Perceptor. Dreamwave actually makes him a clone of Perceptor created by Shockwave in the same way Soundblaster became his own separate character.
• Shrink Ray: His main weapon and biggest achievement is a matter shrinking scope, which he once used to shrink Oilmaster to microscopic size before reenlarging him in battle.

Megaempress (メガエンプレス megaenpuresu)

Function: Leader

Alt Mode: Modified Panther 6x6 Fire Truck

Created out of spare parts from Megatron's construction, Megaempress leads the Female Decepticons as the self-proclaimed "Empress of Destructicon". She has a special team of vassals, the 4 Guards, to serve as her ever-present bodyguards. She's still a force to be reckoned with, though, as her power is comparable to Megatron's own and she can use her rail fusion cannon and Judge Pickel weapons to wreak destruction across the land. She has the "special ability" to seduce any male Transformer to do her bidding.

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• Arm Cannon: Averted. The ladder for her vehicle form acts as a weapon of her choice, however.
• Big Bad: She and the 4 guards were this for the Megatronia chapter but were replace with Baldigus and later Unicron.
• Combining Mecha: She can combine with her four guards to create Megatronia.
• Distaff Counterpart: Of Megatron, only she doesn't transform into a gun.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Tries to use her power to make Optimus Prime her slave, but is shocked when he used her Judge Pickel to pierce himself to break her control as he states Elita One's name.
• Evil Overlord: Leads the Female Decepticons as the self-proclaimed "Empress of Destructicon". You do the math.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Tries to take over the entire Decepticon faction.
• Large Ham: Owing to her ambitions and status, she goes loud and dramatic to make sure everyone knows it.
• Palette Swap: She's a redeco of Pyra Magna.
• Powerful Pick: Her Judge Pickel is this.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Shockwave put her and Flowspade in stasis after her failed coup. She would be freed millennia later in 2021 when her remaining followers realized the devastation of Cybertron broke the seal and rushed Shockwave's facility to wake their empress.
• Villainous Friendship: Seems to have one with Flowspade.

Megaplex (メガプレックス megapurekkusu)

Function: Proxy

Alt Modes: F-22 Raptor Fighter Jet; Walther P-38

"The skies belong to me!"

Megatron's body-double, a clone made in his image who often leads battles in Megatron's stead.

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• Actually a Doombot: His purpose. And since Megatron didn't trust a duplicate of himself, Megaplex is nowhere near as dangerous as Megatron, meaning it's easy to spot that he's a fake quickish.
• Clone Angst: He understandably has a chip on his shoulder due to being Megatron's clone, yet considered inferior to the original by his creators.
  Megaplex: Megatron haunts me, and yet my very existence honors him.
• Kill It with Ice: Megaplex's preferred artillery is freeze shells.
• Palette Swap:
  • His Collectors Edition toy is just Megatron's toy with the original Japanese release colouration (so, blue where Megatron's got red).
  • His Timelines toy is instead a redeco of Prime Dreadwing with a silver and teal paintjob.

Nacelle

Function: Aero Engineer

Alt Mode: Suborbital Fighter, F-15 Eagle Fighter Jet

"Blasting you is as cathartic as streamlining one's fuselage."

• Ascended Extra: He's literally the Extra of an Extra, with his first official appearance being behind Hotlink's leg.
• Composite Character: Physically, he uses Starscream's head while bearing Thrust's VTOL wings.
• The Engineer: Nacelle's function is "Aero Engineer" and he's credited with designing the Coneheads' modified wings, including Thrust's, using that design to modify himself with.
• Palette Swap: His appearance in the 2019 IDW-verse and by extension Legacy is a straight redeco of the Siege tetrajet Starscream design.
• Underestimating Badassery: In Transformers (2019) he and Hooligan made the mistake of underestimating Windcharger's Magnetism Manipulation powers despite Red Wing's warning and he got heavily injured.

Nightbird (ナイトバード naitobādo)

Function: Infiltration

Alt Mode: Modified Sportscar

"With darkness comes death."

Originally a human-created drone based on Cybertronian technology. Seeing potential in her stealth configuration, Megatron reformatted her into a Decepticon.

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• Adaptational Species Change: The original Nightbird is a human-made robot. Other versions of her make her a native Cybertronian, and at least one version of her is a Camien-born mechanoid.
• Breakout Character: She was a simple one-episode character who only showed up in "Enter the Nightbird" and never appeared again, but her distinct ninja-like design made her stand out to fans. Since then, she's gained a higher profile as an active Decepticon in some continuities and a Terrorcon in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts.
• Canon Immigrant: Started off as a one-off character in the original cartoon. She later reappeared in a few other continuities.
• Cyber Ninja: A Japanese-built robot ninja that's incredibly stealthy and armed with high-tech variants of Stock Ninja Weaponry, including a Laser Blade.
• For Science!: The original version's origin. Doctor Fujiyama (the famous scientist!) built a large, combat-ready ninja robot to "help mankind". How exactly she was supposed to help is one of life's great mysteries.
• Instant A.I.: Just Add Water!: Her Earth Wars version became fully sentient thanks to Bombshell putting a cerebro-shell in her.
• Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja: Repeat, ninja robot.
• Palette Swap: Her first toy was a retool of the 30th anniversary Arcee toy. Her only other toy is likewise one of Siege Chromia, though only the head is a different piece, compared to the first toy.
• Purple Is Powerful: Her main color scheme is purple and she's an incredibly capable fighter regardless of continuity.
• Sliding Scale of Robot Intelligence: In her initial appearance, where she's human-built, it isn't really clear whether she's self-aware or not (the fact that she can't speak exacerbates the problem). Megatron snarks at Starscream that he might replace him with her, but he was probably kidding. Probably. She's hinted to have gained sentience at the very end through her angry expression while she's being put back in storage, implying a desire for revenge, but she never appears again afterwards.
• The Smurfette Principle: In a way. Despite being human-made, she was the only female Decepticon in the original cartoon.
• The Speechless: Mute in the G1 cartoon.

Nova Storm (ノヴァストーム nova sutōmu)

Function: Warrior

Alt Modes: Suborbital Fighter, F-15 Eagle Fighter Jet

"Fight with fire and enjoy watching it burn."

The third member of the Rainmaker trio, Nova Storm is a Seeker specializing in Hostile Environment warfare. His armor has been modified to make him more resistant to intense heat and radiation.

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• Ascended Extra: Like the rest of his squad, Nova Storm was originally a generic Seeker painted in bright yellow (though he wasn't Sunstorm, who was given a golden hue to better differentiate the two).
• Cool Plane: Turns into a Cybertronian tetrajet in his one appearance.
• Divergent Character Evolution: In the same "Ask Vector Prime" update that gave him his name, he got a snazzy new look◊.
• Gender Flip: In "Transformers: Trading Card Game", Nova Storm becomes female, much like her Transformers: Cyberverse counterpart. She's also female in the 2019 IDW continuity.
• Immune to Fire: His armor allows him to survive volcanic or other extremely hot environments.
• Meaningful Name: Nova Storm is able to survive volcanic or otherwise extremely hot environments (such as a star's corona) for small periods of time.
• Palette Swap: He's a Seeker, so of course.

Octus

Function: Triumvirate member

Alt Mode: Dalek motor casing

• Bullying a Dragon: Trying to enslave someone who looks like Megatron (but isn't - long story) is pretty stupid, but Octus took it further by taunting him.
• The Cameo: Got a couple of minor cameos in the IDW comics.
• Evil Power Vacuum: He and his two cohorts; Legonis and Seizer, rose to power after the second death of Straxus.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: He has six arms.
• Non-Standard Character Design: He's pretty unusual by Transformers standards with his six-armed humanoid figure and alt mode, which according to Word of God, is based on the Daleks from Doctor Who.
• Off with His Head!: The Triumvirate gets executed by the Triggercons, with Octus getting his head blown up from behind by Crankcase.
• Toyless Toyline Character: Originating in the Marvel comics means he and his two cohorts have never received toys, never mind the licensing rights if someone tried to give him a completely accurate alt-mode.

Offroad (オフロード ofurōdo)

Function: Extreme Conditions Warfare

Alt Mode: Pickup truck

Offroad is a new recruit to the Stunticons, and his teammates are being slow to trust him.

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• Odd Friendship: In Of Masters and Mayhem Offroad established a pretty strong friendship with fellow Sixth Ranger Alpha Bravo.
• Only Sane Man: Unlike the many issues the other Stunticons have, Offroad is quite confident and charismatic, which ironically makes his teammates distrust him.
• Sixth Ranger: He was brought to the Stunticons to fill the role Wildrider had left.
• Weapon Specialization: His toy comes with a battle axe and he wields it in the comics.

Oilmaster (オイルマスター oirumasutā)

Function: Bounty Hunter

Alt Modes: Pickup truck, Drone Jet

"You can't run and you can't hide."

Oilmaster is one of the Decepticons' most feared bounty hunters.

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• Dumb Muscle: Despite his complex mental arrangement, he's a none-too-bright thug at heart, and prone to rage whenever his shell is damaged.
• Fastball Special: Shrunk to microscopic size by Magnificus and then reenlarged when thrown into battle.
• Killer Gorilla: His Pretender shell is a cyborg gorilla.
• Mind Hive: Oilmaster has two robots within his body who can separate but are controlled by a single mind.
• Palette Swap: His inner robot modes are redecos of Swerve and Flanker.

Redwing

Function: Warrior

Alt Mode: Suborbital Fighter, F-15 Eagle Fighter Jet

"Once you're in my crosshairs, there is no escape!"

A Seeker specializing in hit-and-run attacks. Armed with powerful repulsor cannons and missile launchers, Redwing enters the battlefield guns blazing with a "devil may care" attitude. More often than not, that's all he needs.

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• Ascended Extra: First appeared as background filler in the Wings Universe. Many fans found the color scheme impressive, guaranteeing him a few more crowd scenes in the 2005 IDW series. The Transformers Legends mobile game provided his name and first bits of individual characterization, paving the way for him to get his own Siege Voyager Class toy. The 2019 IDW comic gave him a speaking role.
• Combat Pragmatist: His defensive stats aren't all that great, so he focuses on hitting power; he'll strafe enemies from the air then touch down to finish off anyone who is still standing. And in the 2019 IDW comic, he seems to have a fairly realistic assessment of what he can handle and doesn't take chances with Autobots outside his weight class.
• Cool Plane: Transforms into a Cybertronian tetrajet like the other space-based Seekers.
• Palette Swap: He's essentially Starscream with a retextured head and Thrust's color scheme (albeit a brighter shade of red).
• Red Ones Go Faster: He's red, and he specializes in hit and run attacks.
• Shout-Out: Named after the Detroit Red Wings.

Riggorus (リゴラス rigorasu)

Function: Combat surgeon

Alt Mode: Toyota 4WD Hi-Lux Camper Truck

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• Mythology Gag: He's based on the yellow variant of the Toyota Hi-Lux Diaclone toy, which was repainted in black to make Trailbreaker.

Sandstorm

Alt Mode: Delta Wing F-15 Eagle Fighter Jet

• Mythology Gag: He began as a scrapped concept for the Generation 2 as a redeco of Ramjet before debuting as a his own character for the Generation Selects toyline.
• One-Steve Limit: Has nothing to do with the Autobot Triple Changer or the scorpion Predacon of the same name.
• Palette Swap: He's a sand brown recolor of Ramjet.

Sentius Malus (センティウスマルス sentiusu marusu)

Function: Guardian of Darkness

Alt Mode: Spider-tank

• Canon Foreigner: He originates in the Earth Wars videogame and hasn't received a physical toy.
• Energy Bow: Specifically, an Energon bow, which he can use for ranged attacks just like his brother.
• Katanas Are Just Better: He wields his half of the Sword of Balance as a katana.
• Literal Split Personality: He was originally the honorable guardian Sentius Nobilius, who guarded over the relics of the Primes until one of said Primes betrayed him, splitting him in two using the Sword of Balance.
• Palette Swap: Of Magnus, which is fitting since they're twins who originated from the same spark.
• The Sacred Darkness: As the Guardian of Darkness, he technically represents this.
• Spider Tank: His alt mode is one of these.
• Yellow/Purple Contrast: He's colored purple and yellow as a foil of Magnus' white and gold color scheme.

Shadow Striker

Function: Reconnaisance

Alt Mode: Dodge Viper Sportscar

"I have ventured into the abyss — and survived."

Once an Autobot, Shadow Striker lost her sister in an attack by marauders years ago. Now a Decepticon, she fights against her other sister, Roulette.

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• The Bus Came Back: After Universe, she got a brief reappearance in the video game Legends, as part of a band of female Decepticons.
• Canon Immigrant: Originally a minor character in the short-lived Universe storyline, she was homaged with a toy in the Revenge of the Fallen toyline, and then gained another version in the Cyberverse storyline. Not bad for a convention exclusive.
• Cool Car: She turns into a black Dodge Viper.
• The Corruptible: In Universe, she proved susceptible to Unicron's evil, which is why she joined him.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite being a Decepticon and/or servant of Unicron, she still cares about Roulette. Threatening her is a good way to get Shadow Striker to cooperate.
• Head Swap: A new-head retool of Side Burn.
• Palette Swap: A repaint of her sister Roulette.
• Uncertain Doom: Her Universe incarnation's fate is unclear, but at last sight Roulette was escaping from the collapsing Unicron looking unhappy about something. Not looking good for her sister…

Sideways (Double Face (ダブルフェイス daburu feisu))

Function: Spy

Alt Mode: Harley Davidson Motorcycle

"Why do I meddle with you, you ask? It's because I enjoy it."

A mysterious spy for the Decepticons. First appears in the Robotmasters toyline.

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• Continuity Snarl: Averted. Despite Sideways being a legendary headache inducer, this Sideways is not connected to all the other Sidewayses out there. ... yet.
• Cool Bike: He turns into a Harley Davison.
• Yellow/Purple Contrast: His signature paintjob, which signifies his shifting allegiances.

Slipstream (スリップストリーム surippusutorīmu)

Function: Aerial Espionage

Alt Mode: VTOL Jet

"The truth is well hidden. To find it, you have to lose yourself in a sea of lies."

A female Seeker with a big sass. Sometimes, she's a clone of Starscream, sometimes her past is unknown, sometimes she's just a normal female Seeker.

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• Canon Immigrant: She came from Transformers: Animated. Her second IDW-verse incarnation, however, is closer to her Transformers: Cyberverse counterpart.
• Dark Action Girl: One of the few female Seekers, and she is both competent and deadly.
• Deadpan Snarker: She's got a very sharp tongue.
• Multiple-Choice Past: What's her origin? It's all Depending on the Writer. In Legends, she's the Opposite-Sex Clone of Starscream, just like her Animated counterpart. In Earth Wars, her past is known to no one but Slipstream herself. In second IDW run, she's just a normal Cybertronian.
• Purple Is Powerful: Has purple coloration, and is one of the more competent Seekers.
• Smurfette Principle: The only female Seeker to be featured in media (excluding Nova Storm, who, in "Transformers: Trading Card Game", undergoes a Gender Flip).

Soundblaster (サウンドブラスター saundoburasutā)

Function: Communications

Alt Mode: Micro-Cassette Recorder

"He who controls the flow of information controls the flow of battle."

A clone of Soundwave.

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• Cloning Gambit: Created as an attempt to clone Soundwave. The Siege version was considered a failure, for whatever reason, and struck out on his own.
• Decomposite Character: The original version of Soundblaster was just Soundwave brought back from the dead in a new paint job, nothing more. Dreamwave's comics made him a clone, something the Siege cartoon ran with.
• Genius Bruiser: Every bit as strong as Soundwave, and according to his Legacy bio he's slightly smarter than his progenitor, who is no intellectual slouch himself.
• Palette Swap: He's Soundwave, but in black, rather than Soundwave's blue.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: He's colored black and his chest-plate and visor are all colored red.
• Shock and Awe: Where Soundwave has his concussion blaster, Soundblaster has a gun that fires beams of electricity at folk.
• Space Pirate: In the 2019 IDW continuity.

Spikestrip

Function: Commando

Alt Mode: Buzzard vehicle

• Black Eyes of Evil: She's one of the few transformers who exposes her completely empty eyesocket.
• Palette Swap: Her robot mode is based on those of Roulette and Shadow Striker.
• Red Right Hand: Her left optic is missing, leaving her empty eyesocket exposed to all.
• Spikes of Villainy: Her name is Spikestrip and she's covered in spikes and thorns.
• Toyless Toyline Character: Originating in the Transformers Roleplaying Game means she doesn't have a toy.
• Whip of Dominance: She wields a spiked wire as a whip and she has a sadistic personality.

Static

Function: Technician

• Dark Action Girl: She's a female Decepticon who wields an Energon knife.
• Toyless Toyline Character: Originating in the Transformers Roleplaying Game means she doesn't have a toy.

Straxus (ストラクサス sutorakusasu)

Function: Warlord

Alt Mode: Anti-Aircraft Cannon

"Mercy is not dispensed here, fools... only death!"

A Decepticon warlord who took command on Cybertron after Megatron and company disappeared.

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• Antagonistic Governor: Rules the city-state of Polyhex with an iron fist.
• Ax-Crazy: Complete with an actual (pick) axe. He's quite mad, prone to murdering people for no good reason. If you're very lucky, he'll kill you on the spot. If not, he'll have people thrown into the smelting pools.
• Bad Boss: He was prone to bullying and threatening his underlings, particularly Shrapnel. At one point, one of his troops was killed by a malfunctioning spacebridge. Rather than caring much, Straxus just send another guy in to see what had happened. They died too.
• Black Eyes of Evil: His eyes are completely dark in the original comics. Most other depictions tend to ignore this, but Japanese media and toys are pretty consistent on it.
• Breakout Villain: Straxus was originally a fairly minor Arc Villain and Toyless Toyline Character in the Marvel comics. He was brought back as a major player in the UK Marvel stories and from then on different continuities used him for different roles. Sometimes he'd have a cameo other times he'd play the role of a major villain; ultimately he would go on to receive a few toys as well.
• The Caligula: Even by Decepticon standards. Which is really saying something.
• Combining Mecha: Appeared in the Japanese exclusive United EX storyline as one.
• Grand Theft Me: With a copy of Megatron's body in the Marvel UK comics. Sort of. It's complicated.
• Kick the Dog: He rips off Scrounge's unique arm and destroys it right in front of him.
  Scrounge: My arm! My special arm! There is no other like it!
  Straxus: (crushes the arm) Now there is not even one like it!
• Inconsistent Spelling: In the 2019 IDW continuity, his named is spelled Straxxus.
• Large Ham: That quote up there? That's pretty much how he was all the time in his first appearance. Angry and shouting.
• Lightning Bruiser: You'd think a guy who turns into a tank would be slow. Wrong. His 2010 toy gives him a speed rating of "10".
• Losing Your Head: In the Marvel UK continuity, his encounter with the Space Bridge has him reduced to just a head.
• Multiple-Choice Past: While his Marvel comics self was depicted as a Decepticon, the Generation 2 comic implies that Straxus was a member of Jhiaxus' Cybertronian faction, left on Cybertron to serve as a "token presence" (due to Jhiaxus considering him to be a small-minded tyrant unworthy of their grand plans).
• Sorting Algorithm of Evil: In the Marvel UK continuity, the Autobots had spent the last four million years dealing with the brutally efficient Trannis, who'd conquered pretty much all of Cybertron except Iacon, until he'd finally gotten fed up and decided just to level the place. Xaaron had the Wreckers assassinate Trannis, and Straxus took his place, proving far more evil and depraved than Trannis was by a wide margin. Oops.
• The Starscream: Often found trying to overthrow Megatron, or brainwash him into being a puppet.
• Toyless Toyline Character: During the original toyline run. He ultimately got a figure in 2010 as part of the Generations toyline.
• Weapon Specialization: His primary weapon is an Energon-powered pickaxe.

Sundor (サンドル sandoru)

Function: Spy

Alt Mode: Micro-Cassette

"The universe revolves around me. That's because I'm the sun!"

Voiced by: Satomi Akesaka (JP)

• Brutal Bird of Prey: He's a mechanical condor and a dangerous Decepticon.
• Fake Defector: Pretends to have defected from the Decepticons when in fact his loyalty to Megatron remains.
• Meaningful Name: His name is a combination of Sun and Condor.
• Palette Swap: He's an orange and gold recolor of Laserbeak/Buzzsaw.
• Power of the Sun: His impenetrable skin and firepower diminish at sunset.
• Token Evil Teammate: While Glit is rather nice for a Decepticon and Rosanna wants to be an idol, Sundor is only pretending to have had a change of heart, and he's still arrogant and narcissistic.
• Token Flyer: Blaster was actually quite pleased to finally have a flyer on his Micro-Cassette team.

Sunstorm (サンストーム sansutōmu)

Function: Aerospace Warrior

Alt Mode: F-15 Eagle Fighter Jet

"Unchecked power is the true path to divinity."

A member of the Seeker class, Sunstorm is a product of Shockwave's experiments with fusion reactor technology. In order to prevent his Transtector from overheating due to the stresses caused by the reactor, he has been upgraded with experimental shielding and a polarized electrum hull, giving him an ornate, golden appearance. His radioactive aura causes injury or death to those he touches, leading Sunstorm to believe he actually is the Cybertronian equivalent of the Grim Reaper.

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• Ascended Extra: He first appeared as an unnamed background character in the first animated episode, but became important in the Dreamwave comics.
• A God Am I: His lethal radioactivity has caused him to believe that he is a god. In fact, his Masterpiece toy comes with a redeco of Starscream's crown, cape and shoulder pads (though this may or may not be a coincidence).
  Sunstorm: I am the presence anointed to carry forth the light. The original light, that which has no beginning and no end. Its searing heat shall purify the earth... purging this world of all flaws, and preparing it for what lies ahead.
• Killed Off for Real:
  • His reactor overheats and explodes in Transformers: Generation One.
  • Impaled through the head by Arcee in The Transformers: Robots in Disguise.
• Large Ham: Due to being completely off his rocker.
  Sunstorm: You!! This is all your doing! Despite my offering of redemption, you were unable to resist temptation, sacrificing me for the slightest taste of power!
• Named by the Adaptation: He was a background character in the cartoon who only showed up once, so he naturally lacked a name until the Dreamwave comic dubbed him Sunstorm.
• Palette Swap: Just like most Seekers, he's one for Starscream.
• Walking Wasteland: Sunstorm is so named because he is dangerously radioactive; his mere presence causes other Transformers to melt, corrode and die. This, combined with his physically and mentally unstable nature, has resulted in Sunstorm developing a massive god complex.

Tarantulas

Function: Scientist

Alt Mode: Spider

"The secrets of the universe are coded in every Cybertronian's spark... and I won't stop cutting until I find them!"

Introduced in Beast Wars, the IDW comic imports him to G1. The scientist once known as Mesothulas worked alongside Prowl in the early years of the war. After numerous early accomplishments that assisted the Autobots in the war effort, Mesothulas came to believe the war itself was a living organism that could be manipulated with the proper tools. When the Autobots deemed him unstable, Mesothulas fled to Earth. Developing a fascination with spiders, Mesothulas altered his body into an arachnoid configuration. Now calling himself Tarantulas, he eventually resurfaced, seeking revenge.

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• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Created Aequitas, the computer that gave the Wreckers so much trouble in Last Stand of the Wreckers
• Big Bad: Of Sins of The Wreckers.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He viewed his artifically created "son", Ostaros, as his greatest creation, and is driven into a grief fueled rage when he believes Ostaros is dead.
• Lack of Empathy: In a dodgy attempt to bolster Autobot ranks, Mesothulas faked a Decepticon terrorist attack by bombing the neutral city of Carpessa, killing 1438 citizens. While Autobot leadership is outraged by the loss of innocent life, Mesothulas is more concerned with how well the bomb worked.
• Lotus-Eater Machine: Created one in the form of the Positive Reinforcement Prison; designed to keep prisoners docile by giving them a fantasy based on their greatest wishes.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: Given that Springer is a reformatted Ostaros, Tarantulas is technically his father.
• Mad Scientist: A particularly dark variation: Mesothulas was a wetwork operative who used his mad inventions to commit war crimes in order to aid the Autobots from behind the scenes.
• Sizeshifter: He can go from the size of a regular cybertronian to the size of an actual spider.
• Stalker with a Crush: Tarantulas is completely obsessed with Prowl, going so far as to kidnap Prowl and threaten to destroy him if Prowl refused to join his side.
  Prowl: What more do you want?!
  Tarantulas: I want you. I want us.
• That Man Is Dead: Tarantulas asserts that the name Mesothulas no longer has any meaning to him.
• Token Evil Teammate: For the Autobots before they kicked him out for going too far.

Toxitron

Function: Failed Experiment

Alt Mode: Toxic Waste Tanker Truck

He was 9.8 tons of solid scrap until he became... The Toxic Transformer!

A failed experiment that turned an ordinary Decepticon into a Walking Wasteland.

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• Canon Immigrant: Toxitron was originally conceived as a redeco of Generation 2 Optimus Prime for the 2003 Universe line, specifically as a Wal Mart exclusive. After the line's premature cancellation, his release cancelled with it, Toxitron would end up getting some recognition via a character based on him appearing in the 2011 BotCon Animated special: "The Stunt-icon Job", before being fully immigrated into G1 with the 2016 Timelines story Of Masters and Mayhem, as well as both a Transformers Collectors Club exclusive figure of him, and an actually released Wal Mart exclusive with his own subline: the "Toxitron Collection".
• Corrupted Character Copy: Twofold.
  • His design basis is a reference to the cult classic movie The Toxic Avenger, being a formerly weak Decepticon turned into a powerful brute via toxic chemicals. Unlike Melvin however, who was a Nice Guy and only punished the guilty for the sake of protecting Tromaville, Toxitron is an Anti-Villain at best filled with righteous anger at his existence and taking it out on whoever he's pointed at. The cover of his debut for the Of Masters and Mayhem story even has him parodying the iconic poster of the first film.
  • In-Universe, he was visually made to resemble Optimus Prime, specifically for the cruel irony it would bring.
• Healing Factor: The cocktail of chemicals used in creating him have given him one, making him nigh-invulnerable due to being able to heal himself from even the most grievous of wounds.
• Heel–Face Turn: "Of Masters and Mayhem" would see him be recruited by Impactor into joining the Wreckers for the sake of defeating Thunder Mayhem, with Toxitron becoming the torso of their own Combining Mecha: Wreckage. While he is still extremely violent and murderous, even being tricked into aiding Alpha Bravo's Heroic Suicide meant to make sure Wreckage could never be formed again, as Impactor points out, he's now at least found a new home in the Wreckers.
• I Am a Monster: Toxitron is fully aware he's a failed experiment, and sees himself as a monster as a result. This fills him with a lot of anger, which he directs towards his foes while feeling envious of their more natural appearances. Once Impactor recruited him to the Wreckers, he was reassured that even if he was a monster, he's among other monsters as part of the Wreckers.
• Secondary Color Nemesis: A Decepticon with a green-and-purple color scheme, which serves as a sign that he's not a good guy despite looking a lot like Optimus Prime. Zigzagged in "Of Masters and Mayhem", where he undergoes a Heel–Face Turn and becomes an Anti-Hero.
• Touch of Death: His body constantly secretes the very toxic waste used in his creation, said waste capable of melting apart any bot he touches. In his debut story for Of Masters and Mayhem, "The Toxic Transformer", he does so to Jetfire, Brawn, Mainframe, and Red Alert.
• Turned Against Their Masters: The Decepticons created him as a living weapon, figuring he didn't know about the restraining device they'd installed in him. Then they realized he did know about it, and had just been waiting for the right moment. The only thing that stopped his rampage was the fact he didn't know about the back-up device.

Trasher

Function: Warrior

Alt Mode: Garbage truck

• Mad Bomber: Trasher's favorite tactic involves using his garbage truck alternate mode and its cargo of trash to cobble together improvised "junkbombs" of explosive debris.
• Secondary Color Nemesis: He's green with purple tattoos and a purple visor.
• Slasher Smile: His mouthplate comes with one, fitting an anti-social bomber.
• Tattooed Crook: He has Cybertronian graffiti painted on his arms and one of his legs.
• Toyless Toyline Character: Originates in the Transformers Roleplaying Game, meaning he never received a toy.

Turmoil (ターモイル tāmoiru)

Function: Battle Commander

Alt Mode: Assault Tank

"Actions speak louder than words."

Decepticon soldier and former commander of Deadlock (aka Drift).

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• Arm Cannon: Wields a huge shock blast cannon on his right arm which also becomes his tank cannon in vehicle mode.
• Bad Boss: Kills the aliens he used to build his ship, not very pleasant to the Decepticons under him either.
• Eyepatch of Power: After Optimus punched out one of his Optics.
• Killed Off for Real: Being a character original from the comics means he' been killed off in both IDW continuities.
  • In the 2005 IDW he dismissed Starscream's skill as a warrior and got himself impaled by Metalhawk's severed blade hand by the former Seeker commander.
  • In the 2019 continuity he was killed during a space battle against Pyra Magna, who went against orders to pursuit him.
• Proud Warrior Race Guy: Has little patience for pacifists or opportunists.
• Toyless Toyline Character: He still doesn't have a toy due to his status as a comic original character.

Twirl (トゥワール tuwāru)

Function: Guerilla Tactics

Alt Mode: Stealth Bomber

• Adaptational Villainy: In the Linkage comics she was part of the neutral at worst Sonic Assault Team, but in the IDW continuity she's a Decepticon, albeit a rather cheery and friendly one.
• The Baby of the Bunch: She's the youngest member of the Sonic Assault Team.
• Canon Immigrant: She originates in the Armada toyline before appearing in Beast Wars: Uprising and Transformers (2019).
• Cheery Pink: Bright pink and lavender and very much energetic.
• Palette Swap: She's a redeco of Armada's Thunderwing.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: She's lavender and bright pink, meaning she stands out like a sore thumb.
• Pink Means Feminine: Her bright color scheme is a good reminder she's female.

Viper (バイパー baipā)

Alt Mode: Cobra Rattler

• Combining Mecha: He's been one of the components of Galvatronus.
• Head Swap: He's a new-head retool of Combiner Wars Powerglide, with the new head lacking the gun that the original had.

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