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Hammerstrike
Hammerstrike
Voiced by: David Kaye (English), Tomotaka Hachisuka (Japanese)
First Appearance: "Trust Exercises"
"My name is Hammerstrike— Cybertron's most feared pirate! And soon, the ruler of all this planet's seas!"
- Fantastic Racism: He harbours an intense hatred for all land-dwellers.
- Graceful in Their Element: While he's able to defeat Bumblebee on the surface, he claims that he's much stronger in the water.
- Hates Being Touched: Especially if it's by a land-dweller.
- Hostile Terraforming: He tries to cause massive oil spills in order to make the Earth's oceans more like Cybertron's.
- Pirate: He used to be one back on Cybertron.
- Submarine Pirates: His a pirate who transforms into a submarine.
- Tail Slap: He uses his tail as an offensive weapon against Bumblebee.
- Threatening Shark: A shark-like Decepticon that resembles a hammerhead when in its robot form (due to its eyestalks), appropriately named Hammerstrike.
- What the Hell Is That Accent?: There seems to be some debate over if his accent is Australian or British. While Australian might make more "sense" as sharks tend to be more associated with Australia rather than the UK, none of the other Decepticons shown so far any such link between their appearances and voices.
Chop Shop
Chop Shop
Voiced by: David Hunt (English), Youhei Tadano (Japanese)
Righty voiced by: Will Friedle (English), Akihiro Matsushima (Japanese)
First Appearance: "More Than Meets the Eye"
"You don't want us on this rock. And we don't wanna be here. So what's the glitch, coppers?!"
- Bare-Handed Blade Block: Uses Fixit in this manner to stop a sword blow from Sideswipe.
- Caper Crew: His claim to infamy on Cybertron. Thanks to his ability to split into five robotic ants, he is this all by himself.
- Combining Mecha: Though all of his components are simply extensions of him, rather than separate bots in their own right.
- Detachment Combat: Chop Shop's fighting style involving splitting himself into small ant robots and using numbers to overwhelm his opponents.
- Evil Brit: Speaks with a Cockney accent.
- Extra Eyes: He has four.
- Giant Spider: His alt-mode is five of them.
- Grand Theft Me: Somewhat. Chop Shop uses Fixit as his right arm when Strongarm subdued the ant that should comprise it. For a time, Fixit was completely under Chop Shop's control until he found the will to fight back, and stay the Decepticon's hand.
- Harmless Freezing: What happens to the majority of him after Bumblebee uppercuts him into a tanker truck filled with liquid oxygen.
- I Am Legion: Refers to himself in the plural, presumably due to his nature as the combined form of five robot ants.
- Meet My Good Friends Lefty and Righty: He calls the ant that forms one of his arms "Righty". Guess which arm. It's also the one that escapes when the rest of Chop Shop is frozen and recaptured.
- Out of Focus: In season 1 he was the most recurring Decepticon who wasn't part of the Five-Man Band. He isn't even mentioned in season 2.
- Pet the Dog: Bumblebee frees Righty when they are both cocooned by Nightstrike and asks him to help protect the humans. Initially, Righty blows him off and turns to leave on his own, but ultimately goes back and provides a distraction that allows the Autobots to prevail.
- He later actually protects Russell and Denny from Nightstrike simply because Bumblebee asked him to (though it probably helped that Bumblebee pointed out that the humans had never harmed Chop Shop), even giving Bumblebee a smile and a thumbs up as he goes.
- Shock and Awe: Chop Shop uses electrical "stings" to subdue his opponents.
- Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness: All four of his eyes are yellow, and when he splits apart, the ant's eyes are yellow as well.
Terrashock
Terrashock
Voiced by: Kevin Michael Richardson (English), Masafumi Kimura (Japanese)
First Appearance: "W.W.O.D.?"
"I am gettin' out of here...and I'll smash any bot who gets in my way!"
- Brutish Bulls: Although he's more based on an American bison. As it happens, he's one of the few Decepticons on the show whose animal characteristics carry over to his vehicle mode — his garbage truck mode's cab looks like an angry bull head, complete with a nose ring.
- Claustrophobia: Terrashock hates tiny places. When he awakens from stasis, he eagerly smashes his pod, then thinks the walls in the room he's in are closing in on him, causing him to smash through and run.
- Dumb Muscle: It's pointed out that Buffaloids like him are not very intelligent, and Terrashock himself served as a living blunt instrument for a Decepticon Seeker named Contrail back on Cybertron.
- Hard Head: He uses it as his main weapon.
- Humiliation Conga: He's defeated in W.W.O.D.? by the Autobots treating him like a bull being chased by cowboys, Grimlock smacks him in the rear with his tail, Bumblebee trips him over, making him tumble down the street, and finally Grimlock pins him down with his "Cannon Ball" move.
- Running on All Fours: In W.W.O.D.?. Not only does he act like a bull, he also runs like one.
- Undying Loyalty: To his master Contrail, to the point that upon waking up on Earth without him, his first instinct is to try and find him.
Filch
Filch
Voiced by: Constance Zimmer (English), Yuu Kobayashi (Japanese)
First Appearance: "Collect 'Em All"
"Shiny..."
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Any shiny object is sufficient to catch her attention— enough that she'll drop whatever she's doing and fly over to grab it.
- Giant Flyer: Her usual form is a huge mechanical bird that can carry off objects as heavy as RVs and steel girders. Unusually among the Decepticons of this show, however, it's actually her alternate mode; she has a "normal" humanoid mode that's only briefly seen.
- Hulk Speak: A variant, as her vocabulary is incredibly limited, being largely comprised of the words "Shiny" and "Mine", and her single-minded obsession with shiny objects means she's far from being the smartest Decepticon around.
- Thieving Magpie: Her entire schtick— she's a big bird who loves stealing and hoarding shiny objects, and is protective enough of her stash to kill over it.
Ped
Ped
Voiced by: Eddie Deezen (English), Daisuke Sakaguchi (Japanese)
First Appearance: "Can You Dig It?"
- All of the Other Reindeer: Is apparently a laughingstock among the other Decepticons for his bottom-feeding ways, and probably his bizarre appearance as well. And you'd think that voice doesn't help.
- Big Badass Rig: Transforms into a rigid tanker truck
- From Nobody to Nightmare: His goal was to become ruler of the Decepticons stranded on Earth and by extension entire planet by gathering a stockpile of energon. On Cybertron, he was just a petty crook.
- Nobody Calls Me "Chicken"!: Sideswipe goads him into attacking by mocking him and repeatedly calling him a "bot-worm"
- The Paralyzer: He uses his mandibles for this purpose.
- Sand Worm: He's a mechanical version of one, albeit with legs and mole-like claws.
- Shock and Awe: Can deal a paralyzing electric sting with his mandibles.
- Tunnel King: He leaves huge tunnels.
- Vocal Dissonance: With his size and those claws, he's pretty fearsome-looking, but he's got a high-pitched nerd voice.
- Who's Laughing Now?: Wanted this to be the case by hoarding all of Earth's Energon supplies and forcing all of his former tormentors to bow to him in order to get some, but Team Bee nipped this particular dream of his in the bud.
- Worm Sign: Creates huge sinkholes in his wake when traveling underground.
Malodor
Malodor
Voiced by: Daniel Roebuck (English), Kentaro Ito (Japanese)
First Appearance: "Out of Focus"
- Gangbangers: Back on Cybertron, he and his gang of Skunkticons were street thugs who used their toxins to keep law enforcement at bay while they robbed businesses.
- Hostage Situation: He and his gang kidnap Grimlock in order to force compliance from the Autobots.
- Mook Commander: He was imprisoned with, and leads three Skunkticons, who all look visually identical to him.
- Smelly Skunk: He and his gang of Skunkticons are based on this, complete with the ability to produce debilitating toxins.
Nightstrike
Nightstrike
Voiced by: Tom Kenny (English), Yutaka Aoyama (Japanese)
First Appearance: "Even Robots have Nightmares"
- Affably Evil: Nightstrike is described on the TFWiki.net as 'mild-mannered' and 'polite' with a beastly visage. However, it's also noted that Nightstrike is more than willing to "drain the life out of whomever he ends up trapping in their own nightmares."
- Anti-Villain: Can be considered one, Nightstrike's justification for kidnapping other Cybertronians and leeching out their energon is that doing so enables him to survive.Nightstrike: I realize it's an inconvenience, but one must do what one must to collect the energon one needs to survive.
- Bat Out of Hell: As he doesn't transform during his episode, it wasn't clear if it was his robot mode or alt-mode until merchandise
◊ revealed his robot mode. - Fangs Are Evil: Befitting a vampire bat, he's got two long, intimidating fangs in a mouth full of smaller but similarly sharp teeth.
- Fantastic Racism: Less so than usual especially for a Decepticon. Nightstrike writes Denny Clay not having energon for him to take as 'unfortunate', and when he encounters Russell, Nightstrike's reaction is to disbelievingly proclaim:'"What's this? This tiny creature is your rescue party?"'
- Icy Blue Eyes: Differing from the normal Decepticon Red Eyes, Take Warning.
- Life Drain: Capable of draining energon from other Transformers.
- Super-Scream: His sonic scream isn't physically harmful, but it paralyzes you and causes you to hallucinate your greatest fear. Since you have to actually hear it for this to happen, the Autobots work around it by turning off their audio receptors.
- Our Vampires Are Different: He's the Cybertronian equivalent. He disables bots with his scream and drains them of energon, though not by biting. It's suggested that he has to do this to survive, as though he can't take energon in normally.
Vertebreak
Vertebreak
Voiced by: Charlie Schlatter (English), Mitsuaki Madono (Japanese)
Fire Appearance: "Some Body, Any Body"
- Baddie Flattery: He compliments Sideswipe's agility and notes him to be an excellent specimen of Autobot. When the others save him from a train, he makes sure to thank them, before reengaging them.
- Cool Train: Transforms into a subway train. Vertebreak is the first reptilian Transformer to adopt a vehicle mode.
- Glass Cannon: With Sideswipe's body, Vertebreak is very swift, agile, and strong. He takes on the entire team at one point, but he's also not good at taking hits. Grimlock taking a cheap shot was enough to knock him out.
- Grand Theft Me: He attaches his head to Sideswipe's body, effectively pulling off this.
- Mad Scientist: A scientist from Crystal City who was imprisoned for illegal cyber grafting surgeries. That's attaching parts of other robots to his body.
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous: He has three on his own body, though they're rather small and spindly.
- Off with His Head!: What he does to Sideswipe.
- Snake People: Has a long, serpentine body, and a snake-like face.
- Who's Laughing Now?: Wants payback on those who stopped his research and put him in stasis.
Octopunch
Octopunch
Voiced by: Ted Biaselli (English), Chafurin (Japanese)
First Appearance: "Deep Trouble"
- Alter Kocker: Speaks in this manner of voice.
- Combat Tentacles: Goes without saying, being a robo-octopus and all. They also pick up motion and Energon readings from his surroundings, allowing him to track down ships and enemies.
- Graceful in Their Element: He manages to overwhelm the entire team underwater. On dry land, he's quickly defeated by Bumblebee and an injured Grimlock.
- Salvage Pirates: Arrested for illegally disabling and raiding spacecraft.
Headlock
Headlock
Voiced by: Eric Bauza (English), Jin Urayama (Japanese)
First Appearance: "The Champ"
- Cheaters Never Prosper: Sabotages Groundpounder's opponents when it seems that they're gaining the upper hand. It's suggested loosely that Groundpounder's in on this, since he doesn't react at all when he clearly sees Headlock interfering in the fight against Grimlock.
- Expy: Headlock is a broad homage to Michael "Mickey" Goldmill, the crusty old trainer from the Rocky movies.
- Miniature Senior Citizens: Though larger than humans and Fixit, he's very small compared to Groundpounder and seems pretty wizened.
- Shock and Awe: Can deliver electric shocks from the tips of his fingers that are strong enough to hurt Grimlock.
Kickback
Kickback
Voiced by: Liam O'Brien (English), Yuuki Tai (Japanese)
First Appearance: "Lockout"
- The Bait: Steeljaw's pack uses him to lure Bumblebee's team away from the scrapyard.
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: His robot mode is based on a grasshopper.
- Cool Car: Kickback is the one of the first insect-based Transformers ever to gain a vehicle mode. He transforms into a top fuel dragster.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: We don't see much of him in action and most of the leading Decepticons in the series(Steeljaw, Glowstrike, Scorponok, and Saberhorn) seem to hold him in very low esteem. However, he is capable of packing quite a punch and showed that he could send Steeljaw flying with a single kick.
- Dirty Coward: Scorponok straight up calls him this.
- Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: He's one of the lowliest Decepticons and is generally treated like garbage. Despite this, he's genuinely eager to help his fellow Cons and has yet to do anything truly villainous.
- Rejected Apology: He's less than pleased with Steeljaw previously using him as The Bait and blows the latter's apology off.
- Small Name, Big Ego: He thinks he plays an important role in Scorponok's group, and is respected for it. In truth, his duties are little more than scavenging, and his superiors have nothing but disdain for him.
- What Happened to the Mouse?:
- At the end of the first season, he is the only known Decepticon, other than Steeljaw, to still be at large.
- This may have happened again at the end of the second season. He disappears after "Metal Meltdown" and hasn't been seen since.
Scowl
Scowl
Voiced by: Mark Hildreth (English), Mitsuaki Kanuka (Japanese)
First Appearance: "Similarly Different"
- Affably Evil: Scowl just wants to have fun, even if said fun involves destruction of property and endangering innocents, and when he meets Grimlock they hit it off pretty well. Even at the end, when Grimlock pretends to agree with Scowl's destructive attitude, Scowl, despite the thrashing Grimlock gave him, is happy to accept him.
- The Brute: He formerly worked for Thunderhoof as hired muscle on Cybertron, destroying the homes of anyone who refused to vacate after Thunderhoof illicitly took over the land.
- Category Traitor: Believes that a Dinobot's first focus should be rampaging without regard for anyone or anything else. When Grimlock disagrees, he says he's gone soft.
- Fantastic Slur: He calls humans "screamers."
- Moral Myopia: He tells Grimlock he's "not a bad bot," despite the fact that he loves to destroy everything around him, and doesn't even care if innocents get caught in the middle of his rampages.
- Nonstandard Character Design: All those spikes look almost organic on him.
- Spikes of Villainy: Take a good look.
Scratch
Scratch
First Appearance: "The Buzz On Windblade"
- Beard of Evil: He possesses one, despite the fact that black panthers don't have beards.
- Hand Blast: Is capable of shooting red lasers from his fingertips.
- Offstage Villainy: Fixit doesn't get a chance to read off his rap sheet, so we have no idea of what he did to wind up on the Alchemor.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: His name goes unspoken in the episode, only being revealed on
Adam Beechen's blog after the fact. Windblade briefly refers to him as "Fancyclaws" after she defeats him, which is the closest he gets to a name in the show itself. - Panthera Awesome: His robot mode incorporates black panther-like characteristics.
- The Voiceless: He has no dialogue during his screentime.
Zizza
Zizza
Voiced by: Jackée Harry (English), Kikuko Inoue (Japanese)
First Appearance: "The Buzz On Windblade"
- Bee Afraid: She's a queen bee-like Decepticon who uses her toxins to enslave humans and Cybertronians for her own benefit, and her alt-mode is a giant mechanical bee.
- Hates Being Touched: Has this reaction when Sideswipe jumps on top of her to keep her from escaping.
- Icy Blue Eyes: Has this, along with a handful of other Decepticons with this.
- Hostage Situation: Creates one using the humans under her control, even threatening to kill them if the Autobots attempted to attack her.
- Insect Queen: Strongarm even noted the similarity between her and an earth queen bee (and used that to her advantage). Among other things, her alternate mode is a giant mechanical bee, she is reliant on warm temperatures to function at peak capability, and uses bee terminology to describe her brainwashed humans.
- Kill It with Ice: A non-lethal example, but Zizza is ultimately defeated when Windblade knocks her into a truck full of cold foam, crippling her ability to move and fly.
- Mind Manipulation: Can use her toxins to brainwash humans and Autobots alike.
Pseudo
Pseudo
Voiced by: Eric Bauza (English), Kouji Ochiai (Japanese)
First Appearance: "Ghosts and Impostors"
- Bluff the Impostor: Subverted when he assumes Grimlock's form, and the team go to the classic "ask them something only they would know" way to figure him out. Pseudo assumes the question was a trick, but it was sincere and it fails.
- Face Framed in Shadow: Subverted. At first, all we see is a silhouette of his face with his red eyes showing. Near the episode's end we see him in the daylight and learn that this really is his face, described as a flat black slab with only a pair of red eyes.
- Spot the Imposter: As a Shifter, this was bound to happen. When he assumes Drift's form, and the Bots have to tell the two apart the real Drift deploys his Minicons, which Pseudo can't do.
- Super Power Lottery: He can transform into anyone or anything, retaining the powers and properties of his disguise.
Polarclaw
Polarclaw
Voiced by: Steve Blum
First Appearance: "Overloaded (Part 1)"
- Adaptational Villainy: His original counterpart was depicted as a heroic Maximal.
- Awesome by Analysis: Possesses enhanced eyesight, to the point that the Autobots had to adopt winter camouflage to keep him from noticing them sneaking up on him from a mile away.
- Bears Are Bad News: Based on a polar bear and was appropriately enough, found in the Arctic Circle.
- The Don: Back on Cybertron, he was the infamous crime boss who terrorized the planet's northernmost region.
- Hair-Trigger Avalanche: He starts one to knock the Autobots pursuing him off the side of a mountain.
- Icy Blue Eyes: Like Nightstrike and Groundpounder, which would later apply to a small number of Decepticons later in the series.
- Logical Weakness: He is defeated after Optimus directs Windblade to force him into the ocean. This neutralizes his sonic scream, as sound can't travel through water, allowing Optimus to punch his lights out.
- Make Me Wanna Shout: He has a sonic scream.
- The Strategist: According to Fixit, he excels in this department, making plans to protect his interests for years in advance while he hibernates.
- Super-Strength: Capable of lifting and hurling giant blocks of rock and ice.
- The Voiceless: While he does not directly speak, his growls and roars can be heard during the entirety of his screentime.
Saberhorn
Saberhorn
Voiced by: Fred Tatasciore
First Appearance: "Metal Meltdown"
"Take solace in the fact that you were defeated by a true warrior. And a gentlecon."
- Baddie Flattery: Constantly complements Bumblebee for his swordplay during their fights.
- Bare-Handed Blade Block: Uses his forearm to deflect a blow from Bumblebee's Decepticon hunter.
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: His robot and alternate modes are based on rhinoceros beetles.
- The Dragon: He becomes this to Glowstrike after Scorponok is captured by the Autobots.
- Dual Wielding: Wields a Rapier-esque longsword and short sword in tandem.
- Even Evil Has Standards: He is disgusted by Steeljaw's betrayal.
- Flynning: His fighting style; he even calls and compliments his opponents' moves.
- Gentleman Adventurer: Fancies himself as this.
- Hostage Situation: He takes Russel hostage and threatens to kill him in order to complete his mission unhindered without Bumblebee's interference.
- Hypocrite: He (mostly joking) accuses the Autobots of "unsportsmanship" when they face him three-against-one; but isn't above such behavior himself.
- Kill It with Fire: He attempts to do this to Bumblebee by trapping him in a viaduct and filling it with molten metal.
- Mook Chivalry: After knocking down Bumblebee, he offers the Autobot a sporting chance by ordering the latter to get back on his feet.
- Pirate: Prior to his imprisonment on the Alchemor, he was a notorious pirate who led a crew in plundering cargo starships.
- Wicked Cultured: He has a genuine sense of style and taste which most Decepticons lack. And if his pained reaction to Steeljaw's betrayal says anything, it showed that he expected the same level of class and fair play from other Decepticons that he believed himself to possess. It also doesn't hurt that he's one of the better developed Decepticons in the second season.
- The Worf Effect: Despite his combat prowess, he is taken out in one hit by Steeljaw in the second season finale to both solidify the latter's status as the new leader of the Decepticon army and demonstrate just how strong he is once armed with two Decepticon hunters.
- Worthy Opponent: He comes to see Bumblebee as this.
Scorponok
Scorponok
Voiced by: Victor Brandt
First Appearance: "Metal Meltdown"
- Berserk Button: Nothing sets him off like cowardice and whining.
- The Brute: According to Cybertron's law enforcement database, he pillaged and destroyed several outlying communities on Cybertron For the Evulz, taking advantage of their lack of law enforcement presence.
- The Dragon: To Glowstrike.
- Klingon Promotion: Non-fatal example. While simply in stasis, he apparently became a victim of this, courtesy of Steeljaw's deception.
- Non-Standard Character Design: Meta example; his transformation scheme is different from all previous Scorponok incarnations. note
- Prehensile Tail: Can use his tail in this manner in robot mode.
- Scary Scorpions: It's even in his name.
- Tail Slap: One application of having a Prehensile Tail.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Despite being made out to be one of the main leaders of the new group of Decepticons, he lasts about a grand total of two episodes before being taken out and imprisoned.
Glowstrike
Glowstrike
Voiced by: Grey DeLisle
First Appearance: "Metal Meltdown"
- Bad Boss: To Kickback, whom she promptly shoots at with blasts of energy after he asks for a reward for the items he scrounged for her.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: She is introduced complaining about the quality of her minions and wishing for a reliable, competent Decepticon. Steeljaw introduces himself seconds later...
- Benevolent Boss: She can have her moments. She gives good promotions to ones she isn't disappointed with, such as with Steeljaw.
- Big Bad Wannabe: At first she looks to be the Big Bad, as she is The Leader of the Decepticons in half of the Alchemor. Towards the end, she gets overthrown by Steeljaw, who fully solidifies his position as Big Bad.
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: Is ostensibly based on a firefly.
- Hand Blast: Is capable of firing red blasts of heat energy from her palm.
- The Leader: Of a group of Decepticons that set up shop in the wreckage of the Alchemor, until Steeljaw obtains the Decepticon hunters stored aboard the ship and knocks her down from the leadership position.
- Pet the Dog: As she had a Decepticon hunter to re-take authority from Steeljaw, when Saberhorn is blasted by the latter, she shows a mild level of concern and horror. Her reaction gives enough time for Steeljaw to disarm and defeat her.
- Satellite Character: Pretty much every scene she has is to interact with Steeljaw and help show off his Manipulative Bastard tendencies.
- Surrounded by Idiots: Her general opinion towards the Decepticons she leads.
- Villainous Friendship: Beside her disappointment toward him in his debut episode, Glowstrike and Saberhorn seem to share one together. She is struck with horror when Steeljaw blasts him with his weapons
- We Hardly Knew Ye: For a Decepticon leader who was made out to be the main villain of the second season, Glowstrike doesn't get much development throughout her appearances. Her combat abilities were hardly ever displayed, save for a scene where we know she can shoot laser blasts from her hands, and she spends most of her time as a Satellite Character for Steeljaw who completely upstages her towards the end, with her barely being able to put up so much as a struggle against him.
Crazybolt
Crazybolt
Voiced by: James Arnold Taylor
First Appearance: "Suspended"
- Breath Weapon: Capable of spewing fire from his mouth.
- Catchphrase: "Illumination through acceleration!"
- Cool Car: He turns into a muscle car that is a cross between a 1960s Pontiac Firebird and a 1980s Chevrolet Monte Carlo.
- Detachment Combat: Like other Minicon deployers in the series, he is capable of doing this with his Minicon partner, Slicedice, who either rides on top of him or stores in his interior.
- Drives Like Crazy: In his attempt to evade Strongarm, he causes several other vehicles to veer off the road.
- Gameplay and Story Segregation: A variant of this, as in the series, he is partnered with the Minicon Slicedice, who transforms into a torpedo not unlike Airazor and Divebomb. His deployer toy, however, is incompatible with such Minicons, and instead can only launch Cyclones, one of which is Hammer, packaged with the toy.
- Grievous Harm with a Body: Given his small size, Slicedice is frequently picked up and tossed by the Autobots at Crazybolt to knock his master off-balance.
- Kill It with Fire: In their second encounter, he attempts to immolate Bumblebee. While he doesn't succeed, the Autobot is left with several visible scorch marks.
- Lizard Folk: The design basis for both himself and his partner, Slicedice.
- Outside Ride: If he isn't stored in Crazybolt's interior, Slicedice prefers to hitch a ride on his master's roof.
- Person of Mass Destruction: He was imprisoned on the Alchemor after destroying the majority of Steel City, claiming that the buildings there "impeded Cybertronians' natural velocity".
- Principles Zealot: He seeks to torch anything he perceives as an obstacle to unrestricted speed on the land, including buildings, machines, and forests, and doesn't care if his actions injure anyone else.
- Pyromaniac: His penchant for fire starting is what attracts the Autobots' attention.
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness:
- His first line upon encountering the Autobots practically reeks of this.
Strongarm: You're under arrest for arson and whatever else we can think of before we put you back in stasis.
Crazybolt: One 'Bot's arson is another 'Con's virtuous demolition of the impediments to forward progress in maximum velocity.- Strongarm later lampshades this herself.
Strongarm: I wish these 'Cons would come with a translator. - She's a Man in Japan: In the Hungarian dub of the series, Crazybolt is female.
- Smoke Out: Is capable of doing this by shooting fire out of his side vents. In particular, he uses it to deter Strongarm from pursuing him.
- Sticky Situation: Lays a trap in this vein to ensnare Strongarm.
- Sycophantic Servant: Slicedice plays this role to Crazybolt, with much of his characterization entailing praising what his master says.
- Undying Loyalty: Slicedice's devotion to Crazybolt has been described by Fixit to be "fanatical".
- Visionary Villain: Slicedice frames him as this for his "need for speed" ideology.
- Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: In defiance to what the Autobots think, he apparently views himself as the freedom fighter, as his line under Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness suggests.
Razorpaw
Razorpaw
Voiced by: Jonathan Adams
First Appearance: "Cover Me"
"Draining the sick and injured is so much easier than slaving to bring down the able."
- Bad Boss: He treats Swelter and Glacius terribly.
- Beard of Evil: Although cougars don't grow manes, Razorpaw has actually been given one in order to give him a more sinister look.
- Blasting It Out of Their Hands: Swelter shoots Optimus' sword out of his hands with a blast of fire to keep him from interfering after Razorpaw defeats Windblade and is about to drain her energon.
- Cool Car: His alt-mode is a brown muscle car based on a 1980s Ford Mustang.
- Detachment Combat: He stores his Minicons on his forearms, and just like any other Minicon deployer, is capable of launching them in combat.
- Evil Sounds Deep: Jonathan Adams at work.
- Life Drain: Like Nightstrike, he can drain other Transformers of their energon, siphoning it from them through his claws.
- Offstage Villainy: As he lacks an entry in the Alchemor's prison manifest, it is currently unknown how he wound up on Earth and what his previous criminal deeds were.
- Palette Swap: He is a recolored version of Scratch that lacks a tail, intended to more closely resemble a cougar compared to Scratch's puma inspiration.
- Panthera Awesome: His robot mode incorporates cougar-like characteristics.
- Undying Loyalty: Subverted. Given his behavior, he is the only Minicon deployer in the series (apart from Overload, who allied with nigh-uncontrollable Cyclones) whose Minicons do not feel this way towards him. See Ungrateful Bastard for more details.
- Ungrateful Bastard: Unlike the other Minicon deployers in the series, he shows no appreciation for the efforts of Swelter and Glacius in bringing him other Transformers to feed on, and it is implied that he may have threatened to kill them before.Swelter: Glacius and I maxed out our circuits for you! And the only reward you give us is...Razorpaw: The fact I let you continue to exist should be rewarding enough, you little...
- Villain Team-Up: According to Fixit, Swelter and Glacius have partnered with several other Decepticons over the years. Razorpaw is simply the latest one on that list.
Swelter and Glacius
Swelter Voiced by: Robbie Rist
Glacius Voiced by: Yuri Lowenthal
First Appearance: "Cover Me"
- An Ice Person: Glacius.
- Fire/Ice Duo
- Palette Swap: A modification of Divebomb's character model: flames for Swelter and ice for Glacius.
- Playing with Fire: Swelter.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Swelter's short-tempered Swelter Red Oni and Glacius' calmer and pragmatic Blue Oni.
Simacore
Simacore
Voiced by: Matthew Yang King
First Appearance: "Brainpower"
- The Bus Came Back: Simacore returns in The Fastest Bot Alive, but there is a explanation behind it. The stasis cell he was contained in somehow malfunctioned, and is now driven by Revenge.
- Clone Army: Simacore used Vertebreak's old Mad Scientist Laboratory back in Some Body, Any Body to produce clones of his Mini-Cons Axiom and Theorem.
- Detachment Combat: He stores his Minicons in his shoulders, and can launch them like any other Minicon deployer.
- Disintegrator Ray: He straps Bumblebee and Strongarm to a particle accelerator and threatened to use it to vaporize them into subatomic particles.
- Evil Genius: He prides himself on his intellect. Unlike most depictions of this trope, however, he has the muscle to match his immense brainpower.
- Genius Bruiser: He's both intelligent (and proud of it) and strong enough to take out Bumblebee and Strongarm with minimal difficulty.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: After the failure of his last experiment on Cybertron, he brutally beat his lab partners to a pulp, leading to his imprisonment on the Alchemor.
- Hostage Situation: As Grimlock stole the circuit board he wanted, he in turn uses Bumblebee and Strongarm in this manner against the Dinobot.
- Killer Gorilla: He shares a body-type with Groundpounder, which also makes him this, albeit in a more symmetrical manner. His features, however, lean more towards resembling an orangutan, compared to Groundpounder's gorilla.
- Maniac Monkeys: Being smaller than their master, his Mini-Cons, Axiom and Theorem, lean more towards this trope.
- Put Their Heads Together: He does this to Bumblebee and Strongarm to knock them out.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Axiom and Theorem frequently engage in Snark-to-Snark Combat with each other, but are nonetheless effective at fighting together as a unit.
Silverhound
Silverhound
First Appearance: "Impounded"
- Arm Cannon: Has one built into his wrist.
- The Brute: Like Scowl, he formerly worked for Thunderhoof as an enforcer.
- Bully Bulldog: Has the face and stance of one.
- Palette Swap: He uses a tweaked version of Terrashock's character model.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Once Grimlock comes on the scene to apprehend him, he beats a hasty retreat, only to be subdued by a few shots from Strongarm's Decepticon hunter.
- The Speechless: He is incapable of speaking due to a damaged audio receptor.
Stockade
Stockade
Voiced by: Gregg Berger
First Appearance: "Outstanding"
"Prepare to be defeated by your better, Optimus Prime!"
- All Your Base Are Belong to Us: He hijacks one of Windblade's weapon caches with the intent of stealing the arms inside for himself.
- Bad Ol' Badger: His design is evocative of badgers.
- Cigar Chomper: It suits his military motif.
- Four-Star Badass: According to Fixit, he was the most decorated general in the Decepticon army.
- General Ripper: Has both the rank and personality to match this trope.
- Intelligible Unintelligible: Despite his Cyclone Minicons being The Unintelligible, he can apparently understand everything they say.
- Military Coup: Trying and failing to start one was what landed him on the Alchemor.
- Mook Commander: He commands an army of Cyclone Minicons.
- Oh, Crap!: He has this reaction when Optimus destroys his gun.
- We Will Meet Again: Following his defeat, he swears this before losing consciousness.
Crustacion
Crustacion
Voiced by: Chris Edgerly
First Appearance: "Defrosted"
"Where is me Shanix? Where is it?!"
- Big Badass Rig: Like Ped, he transforms into a rigid tanker truck.
- Chekhov's Gun: In the episode "Out Of The Shadows," his Shanix were later discovered by humans and placed in storage. Jetstorm and Slipstream used this info to trick Shadow Raker and retrieve them before Cybertronians were discovered on Earth again.
- Eye Beams: Can shoot beams out his eyes.
- Giant Enemy Crab: Is described as a "shrimp-bot" and has a vaguely prawn-like head.
- Palette Swap: A completely recolored character model of Ped, with a newer head.
- Stupid Crooks: Smart enough to rob a fortune of Shanix from the Treasury Building in Kaon, but he has trouble remembering where he hid his loot from the robbery.
Ragebyte
Ragebyte
Voiced by: Christopher Swindle
First Appearance: "Blurred"
"Experimentation paused. New objective, dissection of Autobot."
- For Science!: His reason for his actions, are for the pursuit of glorious science.
- Mad Scientist: He is working on an experiment to create a bomb, and does not like unanticipated variables like Autobots.
- Palette Swap: His color scheme is slightly darker than Hammerstrike's.
Zorillor
Zorillor
Voiced by: Michael Yurchak
First Appearance: "Sphere Of Influence"
- Brainwashed and Crazy: The Sphere of Doradus in his possession was later revealed to have a corrupting influence that affected his mind, something that happened to the Autobots later in the episode.
- Cool Car: Transforms into a '60s muscle car.
- Leave Me Alone!: Subverted. He wants the Autobots to leave him and "his pal" in peace. The orb in which he called his "pal" he had in his possession was later revealed to be the Sphere of Doradus.
- The Mafia: Although he is more of a lone wolf. He even speaks like one.
- Palette Swap: A partly inverted variant of Malodor.
- Smelly Skunk
Boostwing, Jacknab, and Pilfer
Boostwing, Jacknab, and Pilfer
Voiced by: James Arnold Taylor (Boostwing), Robin Atkin Downes (Jacknab and Pilfer)
First Appearance: "Get A Clue"
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: They have a tendency for shining objects.
- Feathered Fiend: They transform into crows, just like Filch.
- Robo Family: It is later revealed that all three of them are brothers.
- Smarter Than You Look: Boostwing is mentioned to be the mastermind of numerous thefts, according to Fixit.
Shadow Raker
Shadow Raker
Voiced by: Ian James Corlett
First Appearance: "Out Of The Shadows"
- Evil Mentor: Was one towards Drift.
- Greed: His Fatal Flaw. At the beginning of the episode, Drift mentions that his pleasure in corrupting innocents is matched only by his greed. It's eventually used against him, when he hears Jetstorm mentioning the Shanix back in the episode Defrosted.
- Hypocrite: He has the audacity to tell Drift it was dishonorable to take away Slipstream and Jetstorm from his "care" (Drift implies that the Mini-Cons are not property), yet the way he fights clearly has nothing to do with honor.
- Knight of Cerebus: Shadow Raker has none of the comical qualities or quirks of most other Decepticons in the show and is easily one of the more serious villains of the series with both the personality and fighting abilities to show for it.
- Master Swordsman: He was the teacher of Drift after all.
- Mix And Match Creepy Crawlies: His alternate form is a cross between a spider with beetle wings.
- Palette Swap: His character model is a heavily tweaked variation of Saberhorn.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: He proclaims to Drift that they will see each other again, then flees, only to be defeated by his former student by launching Slipstream and Jetstorm from behind.
- Virtue Is Weakness: Discussed between Drift and himself, in which Shadow Raker tells his former student that concern for others is a weakness.
Flamesnort
Flamesnort
Voiced by: Robin Atkin Downes
First Appearance: "The Golden Knight"
- Breath Weapon: Like Crazybolt, he can spit fire from his mouth.
- Earth-Shattering Kaboom: Guards a Decepticon weapon capable of blowing up the planet.
- Good Is Bad And Bad Is Good: His belief that Autobots are villains and Decepticons are heroes.
- Lizard Folk: See Palette Swap for more details.
- Palette Swap: A modified type of Crazybolt's character model.
- The Remnant: A holdout from the Great War, he was stationed on Earth and assigned to guard a warhead capable of destroying the planet. Despite losing contact with Decepticon command, he stayed on the planet for untold eons and continued his mission, making numerous attempts to resume contact with them in the meantime.
- Undying Loyalty: Like Soundwave, he remains consistently loyal to Megatron, to the point that he remained on Earth for many eons and continued his mission, despite losing contact with Decepticon command.
Wingcode
Wingcode
Voiced by: Constance Zimmer
First Appearance: "Sick As A Bot"
- Our Vampires Are Different: Like Nightstrike, she is an Energon vampire.
- Palette Swap: A differently molded variation of Nightstrike.
- Poisonous Person: Infects everyone with a virus, with the exception for Denny & Russell (in which the virus does not affect humans whatsoever), Grimlock (who, according to Fixit, possesses a different Cybertronian physiology), and Bulkhead (who recently arrived after the infection occurred). The only antidote is her own poisonous Energon.
