This article shows a list of characters from The Transformers television series[1] that aired during the debut of the American and Japanese Transformers media franchise from 1984 to 1991.
The leader of the Autobots. Optimus Prime is the strongest and most courageous of all Autobots.[3] Feels his role is the protection of all life, including Earth-life. Fights unceasingly to defeat the Decepticons. Splits into three autonomous modules: 1) Optimus Prime... the brain center known as the Commander 2) Roller, the Autobot scout car... a spy who operates up to 1200 miles away; and 3) Autobot Headquarters... the combat deck equipped with a versatile mechanic/artillery robot. Injury to one module is felt by the other two. He has been killed and revived numerous times throughout the franchise.
He was rebuilt and turned into from Goldbug in "The Return of Optimus Prime" Part 2, and last appeared in "The Rebirth" Part 3 (as an animation error.)
Small, eager, and brave, Bumblebee acts as a messenger, scout, and spy. Due to his small size, he dares to go where others cannot and will not. He idolizes the bigger Autobots, especially Optimus Prime and Prowl, and strives to be accepted. He is the most energy efficient and has the best vision of all the Autobots. He can go underwater for reconnaissance and salvage missions. Although he is physically the weakest Autobot,[6] his stealth more than compensates for this inadequacy. This battle-tested robot was the first Autobot to forge an alliance with the humans. He is a very close ally to human Spike Witwicky, Often seen as an underdog and not the biggest bot he has more courage than any soldier from Cybertron. As the most trusted lieutenant of Optimus Prime, he will do whatever it takes to protect earth and its people. In, “The Return of Optimus Prime" Part 2, Bumblebee was rebuilt and renamed Goldbug after being severely damaged in battle.
"Let me at 'em" is Cliffjumper's motto.[7] His eagerness and daring have no equal. He is driven by a desire to win the battle against the Decepticons. Finds Earth terrain a hindrance. One of the fastest Autobots, and often uses his speed to draw fire away from others. Shoots "glass gas" which makes metal as brittle as glass. His recklessness often leads to actual blow-outs and situations too dangerous for him to handle.
Wheeljack is the mad scientist of the Autobots. Always inventing new weapons and gadgets. Most adept at driving while in car mode. Likes to show off his stunts. Flying range of 800 miles using solid-fuel rockets in arms. Shoots magnetic inducer, shrapnel-needle and gyro-inhibitor shells from his shoulder cannons. He is his own worst enemy. Often injured while experimenting with new weapons.[8]
Prowl is the Autobot military strategist[9] and will keep at a task for as long as it takes. Strives to find reason and logic in everything. A listener, not a talker. Has most sophisticated logic center of all Autobots. Able to analyze and advise on complex combat situations almost instantaneously. Fires wire-guided incendiary missiles and high-corrosive acid pellets. The unexpected can often scramble his circuits.
Jazz loves Earth culture and every kind of music.[10] Always looking to learn more. His knowledge of Earth makes him the indispensable right-hand man to Optimus Prime. Takes most dangerous missions. Very cool, very stylish, very competent. Equipped with photon rifle, flamethrower, full-spectrum beacon, 180db stereo speakers. Creates dazzling, disorienting sound and light shows. Versatile, clever, daring, but prone to be distracted.
Sideswipe is nearly the equal of his twin brother, Sunstreaker,[11] in the combat arts, but less cold-blooded. Acts somewhat like a jock. Relishes a fight to the finish with an opponent. Uses underhanded tactics when absolutely necessary. Arms act as powerful pile drivers. Flies for up to two minutes with rocket backpack. Fires flares visible for 18 miles. Rash actions often lead to injuries to himself. Takes them all in stride.
Killed by Megatron in gun mode, held by Starscream, in "The Transformers: The Movie".
Don Messick, Wally Burr ("Masquerade" episode only)
Dead
Ratchet was the best tool-and-die man on Cybertron, and is the Autobots' Chief Medical Officer.[12] In his workbay on Earth he can make anything from a pin to a missile. Repairs injured Autobots, given the right parts. Likes to party, give backtalk, but does any job as well as anyone. Has laser scalpels, arc-welders, electron microscopes, circuit sensors, fluid dispensers at his disposal. Sometimes his having a good time interferes with his effectiveness.
The Transformers: The Movie (Killed by Megatron offscreen with a point-blank blast to the head from his fusion cannon)
Peter Cullen
Dead
"Go chew on a microchip," is Ironhide's slogan. Prefers action to words. Oldest, toughest,[13] most battle-tested Autobot. Bodyguard to Optimus Prime. In charge of guarding anything of importance. Gruff, but kind. Trithyllium-steel skin makes him nearly invulnerable to attack. Shoots a variety of liquids from supercooled nitrogen to superheated lead. Has sonar, radar, radiowave detector. Slowest and most resilient of the group.
Last appeared as Rodimus Prime in The Return of Optimus Prime (Part 2) and last appeared as Hot Rod in The Rebirth (Part 3)
Dick Gautier (TV series), Judd Nelson (movie) and Ted Schwartz (Rodimus Prime in "Five Faces of Darkness")
Alive (Becomes Rodimus Prime in Headmasters)
Hot Rod who is now known as Rodimus Prime[14] is an all-American-boy Autobot. He is a typical adolescent who dreams of being heroic and important. He tends to follow rules too closely. Although he means well, Hot Rod's impulsive actions often get him into trouble. He carries two photon lasers that temporarily electromagnetize an enemy robot's microcircuits. Speed: 120mph. Range: 4 miles. He can be hotheaded, but he is always a well meaning, admirable lad and a brave and honorable fighter. As Rodimus Prime, he is the vanguard for the Autobot ranks. Possesses acute military prowess. Speaks with the savvy of seasoned veteran. Expert tactician with exceptional maneuverability in battle. Has a tendency to act first and ask questions later. In robot mode, carries a photon eliminator that shoots high voltage electricity. Range: 500 miles. Speed: 200mph. Sole purpose is to protect all life. His only weakness is his compassion for other living creatures. As a Targetmaster, Hot Rod often goes off on his own adventure with Firebolt, his electrostatic discharger rifle, who led a quiet scholarly life as Nebulan's top atomic physics scientist until he became the thrill-seeking Hot Rod's partner, Firebolt is excited, but nervous, about the prospect. In, “Transformers Headmasters”, Hot Rod became Rodimus Prime again. After Cybertron was destroyed, Rodimus left with Kup and Blurr to find a new home for the Autobots, making Fortress Maximus the new supreme commander of the Autobots.
A wise-cracking, sharp witted adventurer, and is a triple changer.[15] Powerful Autobot fighter with a massive physique and an easy-going manner. Possesses incredible "springing" power in his legs. Travels long distances with pogo-like motion. In robot mode, carries a laser that produces giant wind tunnels. Helicopter blade transforms into a light saber that can cut through concrete. Optimistic and good humored.
Kup is an old veteran warhorse with a thousand tall tales from his ten thousand adventures.[16] He has a motto or word of advice for any situation and he is as brave and loyal as they come. In robot mode, he carries an old-style musket laser that shoots short bursts of metal-corrosive hydrochloric acid. Range: 5 miles. Speed: 100mph. Kup sees himself as a seasoned campaigner with more knowledge and experience to share. Other Autobots are not always receptive to his advice. As a Targetmaster, he is binary-bonded to Recoil, an old style musket laser and former all-world prismaball player. In, “Transformers: The Headmasters”, Kup and Blurr left with Rodimus Prime to find a new home for the Autobots after Cybertron was destroyed.
Ultra Magnus is all soldier.[17] Most comfortable when carrying out Optimus Prime's orders. Possesses magnificent fighting skills, courage, and a gift for battlefield improvisation. Uncomfortable in the mantle of leadership, but presents strong profile as a commander. Carries missile launchers capable of hitting a target 30 miles away. Resolute, fair, and courageous beyond reproach. Ever ready to sacrifice himself for the good of men and mission. Ultra Magnus was chosen to lead the Autobots by Optimus Prime. In the third season, Ultra Magnus became second-in-command of the Autobots, and an advisor for Rodimus Prime. In the "Headmasters" series, Ultra Magnus was killed by Sixshot.[18]
Blurr is the fastest Autobot[19] on land. He is a close descendant to a thoroughbred Cybertronic race horse, and a superior messenger. He can quickly whisk information from one place to another. In robot mode, he carries an electro-laser that reverses the polarity of an enemy robot's microcircuits and leaves them motionless. Range: 10 miles. In vehicular mode, he can travel faster than the speed of sound, leaving a blurred image in his trail. As a Targetmaster, he is paired with Haywire, excitable Nebulan teenager whose impulsiveness makes him a chancy electro-laser cannon, at best. In, Transformers: The Headmasters”, Blurr and Kup left with Rodimus Prime to find a new home for the Autobot's after Cybertron was destroyed.
Arcee is the only female Autobot to appear on a regular basis, not one of the few female Autobots who only appeared in just four various episodes. She was created in an effort by the film's producers to expand the market audience to include girls as well as to appear less sexist. Some have criticized the character for being overly stereotypically female due mainly to her need to protect Daniel Witwicky and act as a surrogate mother, but she is still shown to be a tough female warrior (i.e.: The Dweller in the Depths). She eventually becomes a Headmaster with Daniel[20] (in an Exo-suit) forming her head. Although she has been paired with Springer (for most of Season 3), Chromedome (2 episodes of the second half of Headmasters) and Brainstorm (most of the second half of Headmasters), she seems to be more attached to Hot Rod/Rodimus Prime (in the Movie and Dark Awakening and the first half of Headmasters).
Wheelie is the sole survivor from a party of intergalactic colonists who crash landed on Earth. He is a barbaric little savage who managed to stay alive by cunning, stealth, and fearlessness. Speaks in odd rhyming sentences[21] and despises the Decepticons. Fights only when he is under attack and has to defend himself. Is a staunch friend to the Dinobots and a reliable ally for Hot Rod and Kup.
Hound loves the natural wonders of Earth, prefers it to Cybertron. Brave, fearless, loyal. Secretly desires to be human.[22] Uses turret gun as radar scope, infrared radiation collector. Tracks machines as well as humans. Hologram gun projects 3-dimensional grid laser-light topographical maps. Use of his holograms often fool the Decepticons, which helps the Autobot cause. Vulnerable to thermal and electromagnetic interference.
Mirage is not thrilled about being an Autobot freedom fighter. Prefers hunting turbofoxes on Cybertron with his high-priced friends. Effective fighter, more effective intelligence gatherer. Electro-disrupter can cast illusions altering his physical placement and appearance for up to 6 minutes. Can become invisible[23] so he can trick the Decepticons, so he can achieve what he need to so. Expert marksman with armor-piercing rocket-dart hunting rifle. Unsure of Autobot cause... cannot be fully trusted.
Cosmic Rust. Early script for The Transformers:The Movie shows his dead body as the Decepticons retreated from Autobot City, but this did not make the final cut.
Frank Welker
Unknown
Trailbreaker makes light of any situation, no matter how serious. Practical joker and cheerleader, but considers himself a liability to Autobots, since he consumes the most fuel. Lacks self-esteem and often asks to be left behind. Projects nearly impenetrable invisible energy force-field.[24] Can jam radio transmissions. Very slow. Often mopes about his handicaps, but his bravery and defensive prowess is unquestioned. The use of his energy force-fields often helps the Autobots, when they are in danger.
The complete egotist,[25] Sunstreaker thinks that he is the most beautiful thing on Earth. Loves his sleek styling, contemptuous of other Autobot race cars. Fires laser-guided ground-to-air rockets and high energy electron pulses at 300 bursts/sec. Tough polymer-steel skin resists artillery. Not a team player. Can be baited into dangerous situations, but is a very calm, competent and ruthless war machine.
He was last seen helping Kup put up the barricades in "The Transformers: The Movie". It's unknown whether or not he made it back to Autobot City in time.
Bluestreak often talks incessantly and inanely.[26] Lightens the situation for all Autobots with his good-natured manner. Despite formidable weaponry and blazing speed, he hates war. Haunted by memory of Decepticons destroying his home-city. Fires bombs up to 8.3 miles and lightning-like 80,000 volt beam up to 12 miles of limited accuracy. Often inhibited by his disdain for combat. Bluestreak takes the form of a modified 1980 Nissan 280ZX, the year can be identified by the use of a T-bar roof and he is Naturally Aspirated because of the design of his wheels.[27]
"Scramble City". Survived the battle of Autobot City in "The Transformers: The Movie", but it did not make final cut. Later appeared in Transformers: Headmasters.
Called "lousy Earth-lover" by some fellow Autobots because he prefers sleek Earth car form to original robot form. Thinks they're jealous of his good looks,[28] but they feel struggle against Decepticons should be his top concern. As car goes 280mph... uses wings under rear fenders for sub-sonic flight. As car or robot uses launcher to fire heat-seeking incendiary missiles 60 miles. Has blinding black beam gun.
On Cybertron his buildings are considered works of art... On Earth his ideas limited by war.[29] Takes pride in his work, prone to severe depression if they're destroyed in battle. As crane can lift up to 35-ton object and position it with precision and grace. As robot has high-temperature arc-welder rifle... can launch rockets 4.5 miles from wrist sockets. Prone to breakdown in vehicle mode.
Paranoia makes him good at his job... nothing escapes his notice, no matter how small.[30] When his sensors are activated, thinks trouble is coming. Edgy... unpopular with comrades, but appreciated. Can trigger alarms in other Autobots. Excellent sensory perception. Fast in vehicular mode. Carries 25-mile range rocket launcher and particle beam rifle. Prone to rash judgements which can lead to injury to himself and comrades.
Appears in Dinobot Island (Part 1). First speaks in The Master Builder.
Scramble City, In the original storyboards for The Transformers: The Movie, it was Smokescreen who laid dead, rather than Wheeljack (Though Wheeljack's corpse is painted with Smokescreen's color scheme when Springer enters the room before the shot changes to focus on Arcee moving Windcharger's body). Later seen in the Japanese series Transformers: Headmasters and Transformers: Victory.
Whether engaged in raging battle or friendly conversation, an ulterior purpose usually exists. Job is to lead enemy astray.[31] Sneaky, but charming and affable... considered most devious yet most trusted of Autobots. In car mode, emits thick smoke from tailpipe... attracts to metal. In robot mode, shoots missiles which wreak havoc on enemy aircraft radar and guidance systems... electro-disrupter rifle shorts out electrical targets.
"No exceptions!" – All Autobots must submit to his maintenance schedule... knows they must operate at peak efficiency in battle.[32] Jovial, enjoys job and is good at it – will find any problem, from engine overhaul to smallest leaky gasket. As tow truck, hauls 40,000lbs. As robot, very strong... launches heat-seeking missiles from wrist sockets. Full spectrum multi-sensor behind his head determines an object's composition, density, tensile strength, energy properties.
"The hotter things get, the better I like it!"... not only fires, but battle too.[33] Often distracted from performing his job to engage in combat. Can do anything Earth fire trucks can in vehicular mode. Great strength ... ceramic-plated armored skin can take up to 8000 degrees Celsius. Extinguisher rifle shoots flame-suppressing foam and an energy damping beam to counter other beams. Forearms shoot missiles. Does not follow orders well, not very mobile as robot.
Michael Chain (in "Quest for Survival"), Dan Gilvezan (in "Triple Takeover")
Unknown
A daydreamer...[34] often bumps into things at 60mph while pondering Earth life instead of a Decepticon attack. Considers Earth one vast lab for his research. His findings are often invaluable to fellow Autobots. Enormous memory storage capacity. Carries a liquid nitrogen rifle with 600 foot range. Twin electron blaster of 20,000 volts can short-circuit almost anything. At 560mph can stop within 25 feet. Not very fast... often in danger due to daydreaming.
Windcharger is the fastest Autobot over short distances.[35] Good in situations requiring fast, decisive action. Enthusiastic, but impatient. Short attention span. Casts powerful magnetic fields which can attract or repel large metal objects. Smashes them at closer distances. These abilities use up tremendous energy. Often burns himself out due to carelessness.
To Brawn, Earth is essentially a hostile environment – and he loves it. Strong, rugged, agile – the most macho of all Autobots.[36] Delights in challenges. Sorry for those not as tough as himself. Second strongest Autobot – can lift 190,000 pounds and knock down a small building with one punch. High resistance to artillery fire. Vulnerable to attack by electromagnetic waves.
Appears in More Than Meets the Eye (Part 1). First speaks in More Than Meets the Eye (Part 2).
The Transformers: The Movie. He was last seen helping Kup put up barricades in the film. He received offscreen damage and was mentioned dead by Daniel Witwicky in Dark Awakening.
John Stephenson
Dead
Huffer is cynical, hard-boiled and pessimistic.[37] "He looks at the world through sludge-colored windshields." Will complain it cannot be built, then builds it anyway. Not too sociable, but absolutely reliable. Arm sensors can test materials for strength, heat resistance, elasticity, etc. Extremely strong. Superior mathematical and geometrical abilities. Often unhappy and homesick for Cybertron.
Gears is anti-social, a self-proclaimed misfit.[38] Finds fault in everything and everyone. Acts this way to help cheer others up as they try to cheer him up. Tremendous strength and endurance. Totes heavy loads long distances. Launches to height of 20 miles, floats down on compressed air. Becomes an easy target due to limited maneuverability. Can detect infrared.
Thinks he is more impressive than his comrades do... likes to show off his sharpshooting.[39] Boisterous, loud-mouthed... raucous sense of humor makes him welcome company. Vain – upset by even the smallest scratch to his gun barrel. Can go 30mph over roughest terrain, hit a hex-nut 1.5 miles away. Shoots explosives, thermal, cryogenic, acid, sonic shells. Great strength, but helpless if upended.
Displays a zest for his job unmatched by fellow Autobots.[40] Loves the ocean and its creatures... unhappy when he returns to land and reverts to robot form. Loves the thrill of naval battle. Can go 120 knots, 4000-mile range. Has sonar radar and underwater and surface-to-air lasers, also used in robot mode. Wheels allow limited land travel. Not too strong or mobile as robot.
A show off... proud that he is one of the few Autobots who can fly.[41] Incredible maneuverability... delights in displaying his dazzling aerial virtuosity, to friends or foes... just wants their appreciation of his talent. Cruises at 500mph... can increase power output and speed to 3200mph for short periods. Carries small concussion bombs... shoots thermal beam as plane and robot. Gets into more troubles with enemy planes than he can handle.
No interest in warfare; prefers long, lone trips into deserts and along coasts... only places he feels he can escape to and relax. Cool-headed, low-key, personable – what Earthlings call "laid-back".[42] Fights when called upon despite anti-war feelings. Range of 800 miles... can go over very rugged terrain. Sensors can determine chemical composition of land and find needed resources. Susceptible to mental stress.
Lonely in outer space... relieves boredom by scaring humans by hovering over their backyards at night or zig-zagging through meteor showers. Can achieve Earth orbit,[43] even go to Moon and back with enough fuel. Acts as communications satellite... optical sensors can see bicycle at 600 miles. Has pinpoint accuracy, high-powered particle beam. Not well-suited to function on ground as robot.
Thinks going by the book is going the long way.[44] Does not follow plans – or roads! Cuts across parking lots, sidewalks, backyards to get where he is going. Travels at 110mph, range 800 miles, his four-wheel drive handles roughest terrain, climbs grades up to 50 degrees. Carries turret-mounted mortar cannon that shoots armour-piercing shells.
Fascinated by seemingly worthless Earthen gadgetry[45] – carrot juicers, musical wrist-watches, electrical hair combers, etc.. Collects them in unused corner of Ark, creating a mini museum of American consumerism. Travels at 100mph, range 400 miles, hauls up to 60 tons. Twin exhaust pipes emit corrosive gases that can dissolve 2" thick steel slab in 10 minutes.
If Autobots had drivers licenses, his would have been revoked. A menace on highways. Does not pay attention to where he is going or the orders he is being given – easily distracted by anything. Hands' sensors can determine physical and chemical properties of metals. Goes 120mph, range 500 miles in car mode. Gets into many accidents.[46]
He sometimes has his mind stuck in low gear, believes 55mph speed limit is infringement on rights of cars. Garages are prisons to him ... does not understand Earth machines are not alive. Goes 180mph, range 600 miles. Uses ferrocobalt magnet under his hood to be pulled by and within a few feet of other vehicles, reducing his fuel use to near zero. Prone to overheating.[47]
Swiftest Autobot. Daring in battle. Believes victory will come via technological advancement. Uses twin scramjet modules and liquid hydrogen fuel tanks to escape Earth's gravity. Flies halfway around the world in 30 minutes. Carries four particle-beam cannons and heat-seeking photon missiles. Prone to mechanical failures due to advanced technology. He and Starscream were scientists who had left Cybertron to explore a prehistoric earth, where he got lost during a wind storm and became separated from Starscream and crashed into the earth's icy surface, where he remains frozen for four million years. He was discovered frozen in the ice by Decepticon Rumble and Strarscream four millions years later and was re-activated by the Decepticons. He originally joined the Decepticons, but soon became an Autobot after he discovered that the Decepticons were indeed evil.[48]
Finds all Earth music interesting, but favors rock 'n' rolls. He can found in the forefront of any situation he is involved in. As AM/FM stereo cassette player,[49] he can perform as deck plus receive radio signals of all frequencies with power outputs as low as 1/1,000,000 watt. Acts as Autobot communications center... can transmit up to 4,000 miles. Carries electro-scrambler gun that disrupts electrical devices. Rebuilt as Twin Cast after being destroyed in a fight with Soundwave in Transformers Headmasters.
He has an unquenchable thirst for knowledge[50] that he seeks to exclusion of all else. His main role is to study the best ways the Autobots can adapt to Earth. Extremely smart. His scientific specialties are metallurgy, molecular chemistry, electrical engineering. As a microscope, he is capable of powerful magnification. His lens barrel converts to powerful light cannon. He carries a concussion rifle in robot mode. Absent minded. His lenses are his weakest part.
He possesses great strength. Brave, serious, and even grim. He is the last line of Autobot defense.[51] He protects the Ark and all else vital to his cause. As a robot, can shatter a mountainside, lift 300,000 tons with his clawed arm, and destroy a 12" steel cube with his plasma blaster arm. He has a head-mounted laser cannon. He can transform to laser cannon tank and launching pad with rocket. His rocket form can achieve planetary orbit. Omega Supreme has a history with the Constructicons before Megatron had corrupted them. He can also be involved in fighting the combiners on the Decepticons' side.
Devcon is a bounty hunter who helped Smokescreen save the Autobots from certain death.[52] After that he is not seen again in the series, and it is not known what became of him.
The oldest Autobot.[53] One of the original creations of the Cybertronian super-computer Vector Sigma. Was once known as A3 in his earliest days. Was the guardian of the Matrix of Leadership when it had no bearer and was the one who created Optimus Prime. He sacrificed himself so that the newly created Aerialbots could be given life. His body is lifeless, but his spirit remains in Vector Sigma as well as in the Autobot Matrix of Leadership and was later seen as a ghost in Transformers Headmasters.
Does not like transforming into carrier or jet – gets seasick on water, fears heights, and is a triple changer.[54] Effective, valiant warrior, but other Autobots wish he would not gripe so much. Expands to 1200ft. length as carrier, capable of landing jets and carrying other Autobots. 15,000 mile range, 40 knots maximum speed. Projects 80,000 volt electric field around himself in jet mode. Has high-energy plasma-pulse gun and shattering vibro-ax in robot mode.
Bud Davis, Ron Feinberg (in "Five Faces of Darkness" Part 5)
Alive
Startlingly versatile, staggeringly strong,[55] the Autobots last line of defense... a mighty instrument of titanic destructive force. Extremely modest about his achievements... berates himself for not doing more. In robot mode, he can lift 70,000 tons, has shoulder-mounted twin high-energy maser cannons and omni-directional receiving and transmitting antenna. In city mode, has helipad and fully equipped repair bays that can handle four vehicles at once. Left rear tower transforms into tank, Slammer, who has rocket-propelled mortar cannon. Scamper is sports car with side mounted electro-blasters; transforms into robot, uses high-energy particle beam pistol. Six-gun is small robot, has ion-pulse rifles for arms, twin surface-to-air guided missile launchers on back, acetylene pistol. In battle station mode, uses all these weapons and twin disrupter rays, laser lances, powerful anti-matter projectors.
A powerful fighter. Self-centered and boastful.[56] Fearless, daring, believes himself to be superior to many of his fellow Autobots. Shell-resistant and steel-reinforced hull can withstand enemy bombardment and extreme temperature variations. Possesses solar powered auxiliary engines. Acetylene blaster inside cockpit shoots 3000 degree flames. As space shuttle, has interplanetary travel capabilities – maximum speed 30,000mph, range 40,000,000 miles. Possesses great rivalry with the Decepticon combiner Predaking.
Punch, the Autobot, transforms into Counterpunch,[57] the Decepticon, to infiltrate enemy installations. Cool-headed, a robot of few words, reveals little of his true self to either side. Maximum car mode speed: 160mph. Uses twin mortar launcher in Autobot mode, photon cannon in Decepticon mode.
Always takes death-defying risks. Anything less than dangerous is boring to him. Is a triple changer, and in battle gets close enough to count the bolts in Decepticon armor plates. As helicopter and buggy,[58] he is adept at using rotors and exhaust to whip up blinding clouds of dust and sand. Extremely maneuverable. Carries sandblaster gun that shoots streams of silicate particles that can erode anything.
Dinobots
"Dinobot" redirects here. For the Beast Wars character, see Dinobot (Beast Wars).
The Dinobots are a faction of Autobots who have dinosaur alternate modes.[59] The first three were created in "S.O.S. Dinobots", while the latter two were created in "War of the Dinobots". In the Transformers cartoon series Power of the Primes, they merge into the combiner Volcanicus.[60][61]
The leader of the Dinobots,[62] the only Dinobot whose name does not start with the letter S. Of all the Dinobots, he is the most fearsome and powerful. Although dedicated to the Autobot cause, he resents authority. Cold, merciless, but a valiant warrior. Has contempt for the weak, including all humans. Great strength, uses jaws to break almost anything in two. Carries energon sword and galaxial rocket launcher in robot mode. Other than arrogance and lack of speed, has no real weakness.
Enjoys melting enemies into pools of liquid metal. Like his fellow Dinobots, resents authority.[63] Does not take any orders that do not come from Grimlock. Disruptive – often brawls with comrades. Shoots 3000 degrees Celsius flame up to 80 feet from mouth. Enormous strength – can shatter a brick building with head. Uses electron blaster in robot mode. Rash, not too bright. Nasty, mean-spirited; often the other Autobots will not help when he is in trouble.
Likes to make presence known – a footstep can be heard and felt in a 3-mile radius. Gentle and shy, but terrifying and unstoppable in battle. Like other Dinobots, dislikes authority.[64] Can exert 40,000 psi via feet – enough to shatter a bridge. Immense strength and endurance. Adept at fighting in water, swamp, and jungle. Slow, not too clever – often victim of the calamities he causes.
An unhappy loner of few words and fewer opinions. Finds joy only in battle.[65] Hates his Dinobot form, longs to return to Cybertron. Large golden plates on spinal assembly are solar collectors... strength increases tenfold in sunlight. Tail can shatter 20 foot concrete cube. Armored hide resists most missiles. Vulnerable to nighttime attacks due to his weaker state. Slow... uncooperative nature hinders others from helping him.
Trivia: Mysteriously absent from The TF Movie, despite Hal Rayle being present during production to voice Shrapnel.
Is friendliest of all the Dinobots.[66] Enjoys watching enemies scatter before him as he dives down from sky... considers spreading fear his greatest weapon. This Dinobot's kind, good-natured side disguised by his horrifying form... even his comrades shy away. Flies at 250mph... air-to-air missile launcher under each wing fires missiles equivalent of 5000lbs. TNT, eight mile range. As robot, uses launchers and 4000 degrees Celsius thermal sword. Fragile wings vulnerable to enemy firepower.
Aerialbots
The Aerialbots are a faction of Autobots who were created from Earth-style aircraft by Vector Sigma[67] following Alpha Trion's sacrifice.[68] They are the Autobots' first combiners faction. The combine to form Superion.[69]
The leader of The Aerialbots. Scared of heights.[70] Brave, grimly determined warrior, but he struggles to maintain that image to hide his phobia. Was selected by Optimus Prime to command so he'd be too busy worrying about others to worry about himself. In jet mode, speed of Mach 1.9, range 4500 miles. Carries electrostatic battery that releases bolt of up to 150,000 volts through his nose cone. Uses electrostatic discharger rifle in robot mode. Appeared back in his robot mode leading his fellow Aerialbots in Headmasters after he was temporarily rebuilt into Cybertron engines in The Rebirth (Part 1).
Prefers streaking into a cluster of Decepticons to shooting at them from long range... says, "that always sparks their wires a bit." Tactically, most fearless Aerialbot... just wants to have fun.[71] Flies at Mach 2.5, range 1500 miles. Carries air-to-air heat-seeking missiles, uses torque rifle whose beam applies 80,000 psi of rotational force. Appeared fully restored to his robot form fighting alongside his fellow Aerialbots in Headmasters after he was temporary rebuilt into Cybertron engines in The Rebirth (Part 1).
Created by the Autobots in The Key to Vector Sigma (Part 2)
Was wounded by Sixshot in The Rebirth (Part 1) and temporarily rebuilt into engines to move Cybertron in The Rebirth (Part 2)
Rob Paulsen
Alive
He will not ever win a Mr. Popularity contest – incessant braggart,[72] takes credit for exploits of other Autobots. Optimus Prime is supportive since he is hard-working and loyal, but he secretly lacks self-confidence. Vertical-take-off-and-landing aircraft, flies at Mach 1.6, range 800 miles, extremely maneuverable. Sharpshooter – has twin mortar cannons as jet, neutron rifle as robot. Appeared once again completely back in robot mode with the other Aerialbots in Headmasters.
Created by the Autobots in The Key to Vector Sigma (Part 2)
Was wounded by Sixshot in The Rebirth (Part 1) and temporarily rebuilt into engines to move Cybertron in The Rebirth (Part 2)
Laurie Faso
Alive
Would rather read about jet fighters than be one... fascinated by the science of aerial warfare.[73] Can, within the limits of his design, duplicate the flying motion of anything he sees... maybe most skilled flyer of all Transformers. Flies at Mach 2.6, range 1400 miles. Carries laser guided missiles and uses nega-gun that crumbles objects by breaking molecular bonds. Prone to mid-air stalls. He was seen intact again alongside his fellow Aerialbots in Headmasters.
If Aerialbots needed pilots' licenses, he'd never have gotten his... a hazard in the skies.[74] Does not pay attention to where he is going since he is too busy marveling at scenery. Flies at Mach 2.0, range 1000 miles. Carries flammable "fire-fog" missiles, uses photon displacer gun that affects sight by distorting light waves. The other Aerialbots as well as him appeared completely rebuilt to the robot modes in Headmasters.
A fierce and frightful fighting machine. Suppresses thought of the five Aerialbots who comprise him,[75] directs his thinking to one purpose: destruction of Decepticons. Cold, aloof. Flies at 800mph, range 5800 miles. Can demolish a battleship with one blow. Uses electrostatic discharger rifle. Difficult for him to adapt to new situations or be innovative due to limited mental functions. The five fully restored Aerialbots once again merged to form him in Headmasters.
Protectobots
The Protectobots are an Autobot faction and the second of their combiner faction who are charged with protecting the humans, rescuing them, and enforcing the law. They combine to form Defensor.[76]
The leader of the Protectobots[77] who likes to be where the action is. Charismatic, inspiring... other Protectobots have difficulty keeping up with his non-stop pace. Believes in being maximally operational every moment of one's life. His fire truck hose shoots high-pressure water 1200 feet. As robot, can press 60,000 pounds, uses fireball cannons that shoot bursts of 2000 degrees F. blue flame 1.5 miles.
Also known as "Streetstar" and "Streetsmart".[78] Nothing escapes his notice... amazing capacity to adapt to understand his environment. Clever and determined – nothing deters him from seeking his prey – except an empty fuel tank. As car, has powerful double-mounted air-compressor cannon with 50 mile range; as robot uses blinding photon pistol. Sometimes overheats as car.
A full tank, clear skies, open road – that's all he wants out of life.[79] Relaxed, easy going, happy wherever he is. Pacifist – difficult for him to accept his role as part of the Protectobot team. Speed: 140mph, range: 800 miles. Uses twin vaporators, which shoot mists of oxidizing, freezing, and corrosive liquids; and photon pistol.
Hates seeing any machine in pain – even those who do not know it,[80] like a broken street lamp or an overheated car. Compassionate, cautious – will restrict an Autobot to repair bay for faulty directional signal. Carries dual-barrelled decrystallizer cannon – weakens metal by disrupting crystal-line structure – and photon pistol. Fists shoot laser beams used for welding in surgery.
Basically a street fighter – prefers using rotor blades for slashing Decepticons rather than for flying.[81] Considers long-range air attacks unsporting, cowardly. Maximum speed: 400mph; range: 1200 miles. Twin launchers fire "smart" rockets that seek targets based on encoded computer images. Uses photon pistol.
Views humans as if they were his own children – will expend his last drop of fuel to protect them.[82] Seeks human friendship, but humans fear his hulking, mechanical form. Can lift 300,000 pounds with one hand. Impervious to most artillery, can surround himself with force field for brief periods. Carries fireball cannon... shoots 2000 degree bursts of blue fire 1.5 miles.
Female Autobots
There are some Female Autobots in the group,[83] who had never left the planet cybertron.
The leader of the female Autobots. Formerly known as Ariel,[84] the only human named Autobot. Now known as Elita One after being rebuilt by Alpha Trion after being damaged by Megatron during the golden age of cybertron. Elita is a devoted Autobot and powerful warrior, fearless in the face of the enemy, but compassionate to those who need her help. She is eternally in love with the heroic Autobot leader Optimus Prime.
Chromia is a soldier under the command of Elita One[85] and seems to function as a second-in-command for her, leading the rest of the team when Elita's not around. She is brave, hard as nails and, not surprisingly, in a relationship with Ironhide. She has also taken over from Firestar as Flareup's mentor when the latter turned out to be better suited to more offense-oriented tasks.
Firestar
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Firestar is one of the members of Elita One's Autobot resistance and specialized in rescue missions.[86] Practical and unprepossessing, she is nonetheless particularly useful during thefts of Decepticon Energon cubes, as her vehicle mode is capable of transporting large numbers of them, Firestar is a close friend of Inferno and Chromia, and entrusted the safety of her protégé Flareup[87] to the latter.
Greenlight
Cybertronian truck
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Unknown
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Greenlight is one of the female Autobots who were first seen among female leader Elita One who had gone into hiding from the Decepticons of Cybertron.[88] Four million years earlier she and her fellow female Autobots tried to board the Ark with the male Autobots who were leaving their home planet in search for energon, but were unable to do so.
Lancer
Cybertronian truck
The Search for Alpha Trion
Unknown
Unknown
Lancer is a member of the Elita One's Autobot resistance.[89] She was holding a clipboard within the team's secret underground headquarters when Chromia and her team returned from their energy-stealing mission. Later, when their headquarters was located and destroyed, she and Greenlight freed Moonracer from the debris. Sticking with the rest of the team, she did her share in the fight against the Decepticons and could again later be seen manning a series of monitors in the team's new base.
Moonracer
Cybertronian car
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Morgan Lofting
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Amongst her colleagues, Moonracer is the joy and the laughter. The bubbly little sister, Moonracer has much naïve optimism in it and, to the dismay of her partners-in-guerrilla warfare, pratfalls. She worries that others, either friends or enemies, do not take her seriously and dismiss her as simply being cute. But she will show them. She will show them she too can be hardcore, according to Powerglide, Moonracer is the best sharpshooter in the galaxy, according to herself, she is the best in the Universe.[27]
The paradron medic is of the exact same design as Autobot Arcee except having a pattern of different colours.[90] She is dedicated to helping those who are hurt.
Beta is one of the earliest known female Autobots,[91] though the last to appear in the cartoon. She used to work with Alpha Trion back on Cybertron during the time of the Autobot's Rebellion against the Quintessons.
Technobots
The Technobots are an Autobot faction and the third combiner group. They were created by Grimlock at the time he had an intelligence boost and they act like scientists. They combine to form Computron.[92]
The leader of the Technobots.[93] A brawling, bragging berserker... he wades into a Decepticon patrol with all barrels blazing, does not stop until he is out of ammo. Calls those who disapprove of his methods 'tinplated bucketheads.' Rude, gruff, and direct. In vehicle and battle station modes, has electron pulse cannon in nosecone; array of sonic, thermal and artillery shell guns. In robot mode, has 500 rounds-per-minute automatic acid-pellet gun.
He makes enemy fortifications look like walls of Swiss cheese by the time he is finished with them. Slow and methodical – weathers artillery fire with the same calm he endures criticism of his apparent laziness. In vehicle mode, durabyllium – steel alloy drill can pierce almost any material; 2 rocket-propelled missiles use vidicon cameras to lock onto targets. In robot mode, has X-ray laser pistol.[94]
He longs to be reconstructed into an interstellar spacecraft so he can explore the vast gulfs of space, feels he is a prisoner of gravity in his present form. In jet car mode, goes from 0 to 500mph in eight seconds. Cruising speed: 300mph. Has twin infra-red scope missile launchers. In robot mode has blinding light-burst gun.[95]
He never looks at his targets before he shoots since he never aims—he just sprays artillery in all directions as soon as he arrives. High-strung, unnerved by quiet, expert marksman. Lightning fast reflexes. In vehicle mode, maximum ground speed: 250mph; maximum air speed: 580mph. Carries twin automatic light-pulse blasters. In robot mode, uses heat-ray rifle.[96]
Quick to anger, even quicker to attack. Defiant, uncooperative, nasty tempered. Hates authority. In vehicle mode, uses solid rocket fuel packs to boost speed to 450mph. Tires secrete adhesive that enables him to drive up most walls. Carries two laser-guided incendiary missiles, rapid-fire plasma pulse cannon. In robot mode, uses semi-automatic sonic blaster pistol.[97]
He always makes the right choice... but takes several minutes to make it, since he first completely analyzes input from the 5 Technobots who comprise him.[98] They sometimes merge to figure out great tasks. Has great strength, equipped with data processing, communications, radar equipment. Uses Scattershot's automatic acid-pellet gun. Chooses his words with great care and precision—when Computron talks, everyone listens.
Throttlebots
The Throttlebots are an Autobot faction who are known for their speed and agility.[99]
The leader of the Throttlebots. After Bumblebee was badly damaged while fighting a hate-plague infected Superion, he was completely rebuilt as a Throttlebot[100] by a Quintesson who was aiding the Autobots at the time. The newly brought back to life Optimus Prime gave Bumblebee his new name Goldbug, due to his new look after Bumblebee claimed that's what he felt he had become. As Goldbug, he still has the mind of the Autobot Bumblebee, but with a new, improved body. More serious, assertive, mature than he was. Realizes what others think of him is not nearly as important as what he thinks of himself. Excellent fuel efficiency; 2 1/2 times better than the next best Throttlebot. Adaptable to underwater, cold and hot environments. Can withstand temperatures from -150 to 180 degrees Fahrenheit.
Impatient, overeager, usually ten miles down the road before other Throttlebots have shifted into gear. Likes to brag about past exploits and future conquests. Very popular. In car mode, can cruise at 240mph. Excellent vision—can see long distances in three directions at the same time. Possesses an array of radar dishes positioned under roof in car mode. Prone to drive shaft and transmission problems.[101]
The Throttlebot's self-appointed comedian.[102] Specializes in insulting others, but gets angry when others make fun of him. His car radio intercepts and decodes enemy radio broadcasts, transmits erroneous ones instead. Uses sonic land mines, magnetic homing grenades, rusting agents, etc. for sabotage. At times he laughs so hard at his jokes he blows internal circuits and disables himself.
Impulsive, loves to take chances, put his life on the line.[103] Speaks in corny, macho cliches, which unintentionally elicits laughter from the other Throttlebots. Extremely agile in jeep mode; can go into flips and rolls with very little loss in speed. Has built-in chemical sensors, radiation detectors, audio and video recorders to assist his tracking.
A creature of the night.[104] Cruises the Earth with the curiosity of a cat. Nothing is too insignificant or irrelevant to escape his notice. Quiet, serious; a loner. Top row of headlights equipped with stereoscopic digital video cameras, spectroscopic chemical analyzer, and radiation detector. Bottom lights can produce strobe effect, full color spectrum with blinding 10,000 watt brightness.
Usually he is so dirty you'd think he sweated grease, but he is a neatness fanatic.[105] Vain and superficial—judges others on appearances. Uses spare time to work on his polish. Can haul up to 1,000,000 pounds. Uses hands and tires' sensors to find new sources of raw materials. Unusually susceptible to rust, an embarrassment given his pride in his appearance.
Autobot Targetmasters
The Targetmasters are Transformers who can transform into Weapons. The ones on the Autobots' side were created by the Nebulans who they befriended.[106]
His confidence borders on arrogance—can hit targets blindfolded, from memory. Resents his twin laser cannon, Spoilsport, since he needs no help from Sureshot to shoot, and never asks for any. Spoilsport likes to shoot and show off on his own.[107] The two only cooperate when their lives depend on it. In vehicle mode, Sureshot's maximum speed: 290mph, range: 1200 miles.
He is a somber, no-nonsense sort, weary from millions of years of war on Cybertron.[108] Believes words can do more harm than weapons, so he has few to offer. Understands the reason for the Autobot-Nebulan alliance, but disapproves of it. Peacemaker, his stereophonic sonic blaster, is a Nebulan law enforcement official who's trying, but failing, to persuade Pointblank to be more accommodating.
Meticulous, cautious,[109] some would say overcautious—will not take a shot unless he is sure he cannot miss... will not waste ammo. Pinpointer, his dual rocket-propelled grenade launcher, can lock on target in less than .0003 seconds, but usually trusts Crosshairs to decide when to shoot. In vehicle mode, maximum speed: 160mph, range: 750 miles; built for traversing rough terrain.
Autobot Headmasters
The Headmasters are transformers who are partnered with Nebulons in special robot suits that enable them to transform into the head of the Autobot.[110]
The only way to get him to follow advice is to persuade him to come up with the idea himself. Stubborn, does not talk much.[111] Binary-bonded to Duros, a Nebulan who loves a battle as much as he does. In tank mode, maximum speed: 155mph. Range: 450 miles. Has 120MM laser-guided gun that shoots incendiary, sonic and explosive shells. In robot mode, has two shatter blasters that shoot diamond-hard shards.
Spent several thousand years crunching numbers at Cybertron's Institute for Higher Programming before a Decepticon attack reduces it to a pile of smoking microchips. Binary-bonded to Stylor,[112] an egotistical Nebulan is more concerned with personal appearance than warfare. In car mode, maximum speed: 478mph. Range: 630 miles. Hood-mounted infra-red range finder automatically targets roof-mounted dual lasers.
So full of ideas he often begins disclosing a new one before he finishes explaining the one at hand. Works with the mysterious Nebulan medical doctor, Arcana,[113] to whom he is binary-bonded, to devise new technology that creates the Headmasters. In jet mode, maximum speed: 5200mph. Range: 8000 miles. In robot mode, carries high-energy photon pulse cannons. Sometimes overheats and shorts out sections of his cerebro-circuitry.
To him, warfare is barbaric, worthy of only the most primitive... thinks differences need to be discussed, which he does endlessly. Uses big words no one else understands. A self-righteous snob. Binary-bonded to Gort,[114] a cheerful, courageous young Nebulan. In helicopter mode, maximum speed: 1200mph; equipped with radioactive jammers, target-indicating radar, magnetic, infra-red, and audio sensors. In robot mode, uses two corrosive acid rainmaker rifles.
Valiant, courageous, a warrior without peer, but peace is his most fervent wish.[116] Fights only out of necessity; believes all violence is ultimately pointless and counterproductive. Transforms to battle station and city modes. Armed with twin laser-guided mortars on legs, heat-seeking dual laser blasters, and fusion-powered photon rifle. Has communications, detection, and repair equipment. Controls two armored vehicles, Gasket and Grommet, which combine to form Cog. Head transforms to semi-autonomous Cerebros, who is binary-bonded to the Nebulan leader, Spike. In "Transformers: Super-God Masterforce", he has a Pretender brother named Grand Maximus.
Clonebots
The Clonebots are the Autobot's version[117] of the Clonecons.
Cloudraker is often frustrated, cannot reach escape velocity and achieve orbit. Extreme claustrophobia – feels the sky is not big enough for him.[118] Usually flies as high as he can. Terrified of being on the ground. In vehicle mode, uses two gravity-rod rifles to cause objects to float away or crash to the ground. Fastlane is a bit immature, sometimes acts like a thrill-seeking show-off, enjoys looking for new ways to get his kicks.[119] Usually makes reckless driving a way of life. In vehicle mode, reaches maximum speed of 220mph; maximum speed with booster jets: 550mph. Range: 350 miles. In robot mode, carries two sonic boom rifles; one blast can shatter foot-thick steel.
Junkions
The Junkions are an Autobot tribe race of scrap metal robots who come from the planet of the same name.[120]
The leader of the Junkions, who live on the planet that is also named Junkion.[121] He is the most well known Junkion. He is made of rusted scraps, chassis bits, manifold parts, and dented odd and ends. A little scatterbrained, he speaks in odd-rhyming, pieced together sentences. His words are a junkyard collection of broadcast fragments from TV commercials and radio jingles. In robot mode he carries an armor axe, and a decelerator laser that inhibits an enemy robot's flow of cerebral impulses. When blasted he transforms from motorcycle to robot mode back and forth, so fast continuously that it repairs himself. Wreck-Gar and his fellow Junkions have allied themselves with the Autobots.
Junkyard also known as Junkheap is the public face of the Junkion commerce, and often sells used and refurbished components and items to other civilizations. Unlike most Junkions who are always quoting TV and media, and can be very hard to understand if you are not a Junkion, Junkyard usually speaks in plain English. Junkyard is also very good at identifying the needs of his customers, and is very good in business, and is a skilled technician, and does not like to fight in battle.[122]
Scrapheap is a youthful and rebellious Junkion, whose average day consists of non-stop television marathons, rummaging through trash, and the occasional knock-down dragout motorcycle rally-slash slugfest. He often finds hidden treasures picking through the trash piles of refuse of his homeworld, but that's not what he wants to spend his life doing. He sees a career on his homeworld as an inventor as his ticket off his planet, and he is not above lying, stealing, and cheating to get what he needs to make it happen.[123]
Re-Cycle
Motorcycle
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Re-Cycle enjoys making and watching documentaries.[124] He can transform into motorcycle mode and back to robot mode continuously in battle, so that his "ruins" become his transformed mode and back again any time he takes a direct hit. In robot mode, he carries an armor ax and a decelerator laser that inhibits an enemy robot's flow of cerebral impulses. In motorcycle mode he can attain a speed of 160mph for a distance of 100 miles. After the Autobots and Junkions became friends, Re-Cycle gave Grimlock a kiss on the nose, which Grimlock did not like and objected to.
Rubbish
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Rubbish is a Junkion who likes British television, particularly sitcoms. When the Junkions attacked the Autobots stranded on their planet, Rubbish worked with Re-Cycle to capture Autobots and helped to throw a net on Blurr. After the Autobots and Junkions became allies, Rubbish took part in the reconstruction of Ultra Magnus.[125]
Hamzat
Motorcycle
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Alive
Hazmat prefers steampunk and zombie movies and TV and has the same abilities and functions of his fellow Junkions. He was among the Junkions who attacked the Autobots stranded on their planet, until the arrival of Hot Rod's party. The young Autobot's offering of the universal greeting and an energon goodie was well received by Hamzat and his fellow Junkions, who enthusiastically repeated the greeting.[126]
Ashtray
Motorcycle
The Transformers: The Movie
Keiichi Nanba
Alive
Ashtray is one of the Junkions who attacked the Autobots who crash landed on the planet Junkion. After he and the other Junkions befriended the Autobots, he went aboard the Minnow spaceship that attacked Unicron. After Unicron damaged the Minnow, Ashtray took part in its reconstruction.[127]
Greasestain
Motorcycle
The Transformers: The Movie
Keiichi Nanba
Alive
Greasestain is one of the Junkions who was first seen on the planet Junkion among the other Junkions. He is very good at fixing things and meeting the needs of his fellow Junkions and the Autobots. He was among the Junkions who boarded and took part in the reconstruction of the Minnow after the severe damage done to it that was caused by Unicron.[128]
Wasteoid Gamma
Motorcycle
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Keiichi Nanba
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Wasteoid Gamma was among the Junkions who attacked the Autobots after they were stranded on their planet. Wastoid Gamma rode Junkion Scrapheap into battle, while swinging his chain whip. Many other Junkions while passing ending up being yanked apart while trying to lassoSpringer. The arrival of the Autobot's shuttle interrupted the battle, and as Hot Rod's party emptied their ship, Wasteoid Gamma walked up next to Wreck-Gar in case the new arrivals would be hostile and his leader would need help. This would not be the case, as Hot Rod offered the universal greeting and an energon goodie to the Junkions, which convinced them that the Autobots were not their enemies. The two groups then spontaneously began to celebrate their newly formed alliance.[129]
Trashbin
Motorcycle
The Transformers: The Movie
N/A
Alive
Trashbin was among the Junkions who attacked the Autobots after they were stranded on their planet. Trashbin went after Arcee, and while he was riding another Junkion up next to her, he smashed his axe against her side over and over. Arcee retaliated by driving a spike into the Junkion who he was riding causing Trashbin to fall of the Junkion. Like everything else the Autobots threw at the Junkions, it did not stop one or the other. Fortunately, Hot Rod's party found its way to the battle. Hot Rod offered the universal greeting as well as an energon goodie to the Junkions, which convinced them that the Autobots were not their foes. The two groups then ceased fighting and spontaneously began to celebrate the alliance that was newly formed.[130]
Nancy/Rum-Maj
Motorcycle
The Big Broadcast of 2006
Joy Grdnic
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Nancy is a Junkion who appears to be the consort of the Junkion leader Wreck-Gar, and is the only known female Junkion. Nancy also seems to have some sort of relationship with Wreck-Gar as well, perhaps a romantic one. The only current transformer with a human name, she spends countless hours watching TV, and like all Junkions, she can be blasted to pieces without taking any noticeable permanent damage, and is capable of repairing herself within seconds.[131]
Short Junkion is, as the name would suggest, a small Junkion. Under the influence of the Quintessons' subliminal message, Short Junkion began tidying up the planet, finding the journal that the Quintessons had secretly been after in the process. He then took it to Wreck-Gar and was told to put the journal in the tube pile. Short Junkion and Wreck-Gar bantered for a bit before resuming their respective tasks.[132]
Other Junkions
Motorcycles
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When AutobotsKup, Hot Rod, and The Dinobots who were flying the Quintessons' spaceship flew down towards the surface of the planet Junkion, they were able to see hundreds of Junkions below through the spaceship's windows who were very eager to investigate the spaceship after it had landed. An alliance was soon formed between the Autobots and Junkions after Hot Rod offered an energon goodie to Wreck-Gar and cited the universal greeting. It is unknown what the names of each individual Junkion is, but they all known to be similar with the fact that they all like earth television, are made of the same material that their leader Wreck-Gar is made of, which is what their homeworld planet of junk is made of,[133] and all transform into motorcycles.
Decepticons
The Decepticons (known as Destrons or on occasion Deathtrons in Japan) are the enemies of the Autobots, and the villains in the fictional universe of the movie and cartoon Transformers toyline and related spin-off comics and cartoons. Their best known leader is Megatron.[134]
Other terms for the Decepticons are Décepticans (in France), Distructor (in Italy), Bedragarna (in Sweden), Bedragoner (in Denmark), Shakranikim (in Israel) and Álca (in Hungary).
The evil leader of the Decepticons.[135] Combines brute strength, military cunning, ruthlessness and terror. Aches to return to Cybertron to complete the Decepticon conquest, but only after destroying all Autobots on Earth. Plans to possess all of Earth's resources. Incredibly powerful and intelligent. Fires particle beam fusion cannon. Can link up interdimensionally to a black hole and draw anti-matter from it for use as a weapon. Megatron has no known weakness. He is known as "Galvatron" after being injured in his fight with Optimus Prime after being re-created by Unicron. In later versions, Megatron and Galvatron appear as separate entities.
Starscream is second in command of the Decepticons and seeks to replace Megatron as leader.[136] Ruthless, cold-blooded, and treacherous. Considers himself the most sophisticated and handsome of Decepticons. Believes Decepticons should rely more on guile and speed rather than brute force to defeat Autobots. Fastest flyer of the group, can reach Mach 2.8 and an altitude of 52 miles. Shoots cluster bombs and null-rays which disrupts the flow of electricity. Very good at what he does, but sometimes overrates himself.
Soundwave is Megatron's most loyal soldier.[137] It is said Soundwave can hear an Autobot leak. Uses anything he hears for blackmail to advance his status. Opportunist. Despised by all other Decepticons. Sensors can detect even lowest energy radio transmissions. Able to read minds by monitoring electrical brain impulses. Acts as radio link for others. Locates and identifies Autobots, then informs Decepticons. Carries a concussion blaster gun. Often target of retaliation by his comrades. In Headmasters he is rebuilt and reformed as Soundblaster after being damaged in a fight with Autobot Blaster.
The Transformers: The Movie, Early scripts for the movie say he was killed during Unicron's attack on Cybertron, but the scene did not make the final cut.
Cold, brutal, scientific approach to war. Loyal to Megatron, he was left in charge of Cybertron when Megatron left.[138] As laser gun, can emit lethal beams of energy from anywhere on the electromagnetic spectrum: gamma rays, x-rays, light, infrared rays, radio waves, etc. Flies in laser gun or robot mode. High fuel use, but can be powered by nuclear sources. Often confounded by initiative, emotional thinking.
Turned into Cyclonus Cyclonus type space jet by Unicron in The Transformers: The Movie. Was seen in Starscream's coronation due to an animation error; most likely one of several scene mispaints by the cel colorists.
Alongside Soundwave and Shockwave, Skywarp is one of Megatron's loyal and most favored troops. He is also the first Transformer to awaken on Earth, and he is the sneakiest of all Decepticons.[139] Enjoys playing cruel pranks on fellow Decepticons and appearing out of nowhere to attack Autobots. Not too smart. Would be useless without Megatron's supervision. Top speed of 1500mph. Can instantly teleport up to 2.5 miles. Carries heat-seeking missiles and variable-calibre machine guns.
Turned into Scourge in The Transformers: The Movie. Was seen in Starscream's coronation due to an animation error; most likely one of several scene mispaints by the cel colorists.
Reformed as Scourge. Later versions portray Thundercracker and Scourge as separate entities.
Thundercracker is contemptuous of anything that cannot fly.[140] Not totally convinced of the Decepticons' cause, but they've persuaded him to continue battling the Autobots. Flies at speeds up to 1500mph... produces controlled, deafening sonic booms – can be heard for 200 miles. Equipped with powerful drone rockets and incendiary guns. Doubts about his cause sometimes impedes his effectiveness. Known as "Scourge", after being injured and recreated with a new form during the battle of Autobot City. Later versions portray Thundercracker and Scourge as separate entities.
A strange one, he is basically a 3-in-1 warrior-spy; 3 small Decepticons with a "hive-mind" and all talk at the same time.[141] Loves to observe things: vegetation, architecture, Earthen topography, and particularly his comrades' mistakes. Likes to blackmail his associates and is impressed with his own ability. Has highly developed infra-red vision that can record images in darkness, through camouflage and at great distances. In camera mode, can emit powerful flash explosion that leaves enemy blind and disorientated for up to 15 minutes.
Insecticons
The Insecticons are a race of Cybertronians who can turn into insects.[142] They possess the ability to eat any matter to power themselves, create clones, sport weather-controlling abilities, and make use of cerebro-shells. They are often in a rocky alliance with the Decepticons.
The leader of the Insecticons.[143] The noise of war and the screams of his foes are music to this loathsome Insecticon's audio-modules... has piercing battle cry... can be heard eight miles away. In insect mode can use antennae to control almost any electrical device. In robot mode can attract lightning bolts to antennae and shoot them out hands. Grenade launcher shoots 30 pound steel balls that splinter into razor-sharp spikes. Insulation can stop his electrical blasts.
Reformed as either Cyclonus or the matching "Armada" jet
While not generally considered the leader of the three, he is highly intelligent.[144] Can turn foes into helpless accomplices by injecting cerebro-shells into their heads (robot or human) with his stinger... gives him control of their minds... has a cruel sense of humor... arms himself by having his victims debase themselves. In insect mode this Insecticon can fly 5.7 miles. In robot mode wears head-mounted mortar... throws 50 pound explosive shell eight miles. Cerebro-shells can be used against him if removed from victims head.
Charming, but cruelly clever... makes friends so he can influence them to do his bidding by digging up facts he can hold against them.[145] Humans particularly susceptible to this Insecticon. In insect mode can jump 40ft. for a distance of .1 mile... kick a hole in 1/4" steel. In robot mode can fly 30mph up to 100 miles. Sub-machine gun fires 300 rounds per minute. Very vulnerable as insect and flying in high winds.
Constructicons
The Constructicons are a race of Cybertronians who became construction vehicles and are the first combiners to appear in the show. They used to be friends with Omega Supreme before they were corrupted into serving Megatron. They combine to form Devastator.[146]
(Usually) the leader of the Constructicons.[147] A wizard at designing fortresses and energy plants, but modest. Shows his true malevolent genius by incorporating dead Autobots into his buildings' structures. Shovel can slice through 12 in. thick carbon-steel, and can lift 30 tons.
With precision of a fine jeweler, performs his job with skill unequalled among The Transformers, whether reconnecting a damaged microchip or setting a two-ton girder into place.[148] Snobbish, supercilious, unpopular perfectionist. Lifts 20 tons.
Rubble-strewn wasteland is his idea of beautiful landscape.[149] His wild ways create fear and terror. As vehicle, at 30mph exerts 800,000 psi... has short-range concussion bomb launcher. As robot, carries laser pistol.
Unhappy with unglamorous role, but understands its importance... helps build Decepticons' massive energy-recovery installations.[150] As vehicle, can carry 90 tons for 1200 miles, use a dual heat-seeking missile mount. Can be goaded into fight in which he is overmatched.
Desperately tries to prove his worth to comrades by trying to find things of value – whether by digging up hillside or a backyard.[151] Only tolerated by Megatron because of ability to use shovel's magnetic, ionic, electrical, gas sensors to detect presence of fuels, metals, etc.
Trivia: Don Messick had a 2-word spoken line in The TF Movie as Scavenger, where he calls Daniel a "human germ", but was not credited for it.
Nothing is safe from him... will use anything from unliving rock to living robot in making new materials.[152] Uses acids and bonding agents to reduce and recombine almost anything inside mixing drum... a chemistry lab on wheels.
Awesome and terrifying, this Decepticon is a bizarre combination of six Constructicons: Scrapper, Scavenger, Bonecrusher, Hook, Long Haul and Mixmaster.[153] Pure brutality – sole purpose is to crush all in his path. His mind is a melding together of his six parts, but limited by their competing thoughts. Enormous height, incredible strength – can knock down a bridge with one punch. Has 10,000 degrees Celsius solar energy beam rifle. Slow, awkward, not too bright.
Coneheads
The Coneheads are a Decepticon group who are mostly jet fighters, and whose heads are in the shape of the tip of a nose cone.[154]
He rattles the air with the roar of his jets... believes half the battle is won if the opponent is "psyched out" by his mere arrival, so he makes no attempt to be sneaky.[155] Pompous, loud-mouthed braggart and not too brave. Sudden, powerful accelerations can topple nearby buildings. Flies at mach 2.5, can double speed in 20 seconds for up to two minutes. Carries four air-to-air missiles and two automatic missile launchers in robot mode.
Mid-air collisions are his specialty.[156] Makes little difference if target is opponent or not, he will crash into it just for fun. A terror without equal in the skies. "The skies are my castle and I like to live alone." His nose module can withstand impact of three-foot thick concrete at 1500mph. Flies as fast as mach 2.8. Carries cluster bombs. Too many crashes can injure him, particularly internal mechanics.
Dirge
Jet Fighter
Appears in Dinobot Island (Part 2). First speaks in Auto Berserk.
Ghost in the Machine, Originally was killed by Unicron in The Transformers: The Movie, yet popped up in later episodes.
Bud Davis
Alive (but killed by Unicron in the film)
The sound of his engines causes petrifying fear in those who hear them. He is a master at handling fear.[157] Other Decepticons put off by his mournful, silent ways. "He gives me the creeps," says Ramjet. He carries two concussion missiles. Needs to control a situation otherwise, he, too falls victim to fear – making him useless as a warrior!
Trypticon was created by the Constructicons out of a city.[158] Does not stop blasting until he is hip-deep in smoking rubble. Completely without mercy. Though dim-witted, he is the most lethal fighting machine devised by the Decepticons. In dinosaur mode, where he physically resembles Toho's Mecha-Godzilla, jumps 20 miles with rocket backpack. Shoots heat-seeking plasma bombs from mouth and mind-controlling hypno-beam from optical sensor. As city, has landing and repair bays, communications center and rotating scanners. In mobile station mode, has laser cannon, rotating blasters, destructo-beams and dual photon launchers. Due to his size and inefficient use of energy, he is highly energy-consumptive, and is often left inoperable. Ever since the episode Five Faces Of Darkness (Part 5), he and Metroplex became mortal enemies.
Stunticons
The Stunticons are a Decepticon faction and their second combiner group who was created by the Decepticons through Vector Sigma. The Decepticons stole five earth vehicles to create them. They combine to form Menasor.[159]
The leader of the Stunticons.[160] No one on the road is colder and crueler. Shows no mercy to Autobots who happen to be on the highway with him. Seeks to destroy Optimus Prime so he can claim to be "King of the Road." Can survive a collision with anyone, except Optimus Prime. No real weaknesses, except for a high fuel consumption rate. The other Stunticons resent and despise him, but fear him to the point of never disobeying his orders. Reaches a top speed of 140mph and can shatter a 20-foot concrete block. Uses a 400mph, wind producing cyclone gun.
Nasty, underhanded, loves to gloat over his victories.[161] Would rather be scrapped than lose. Prone to overheating. Megatron would sooner melt him than talk to him, but knows he is even worse company for the Autobots. In car mode, has a plasma-energy blaster. Carries a gravity-enhancing gravito-gun.
Sullen, fatalistic, sees little reason to continue Transformers' war. Motivating him to fight is always a problem. Vain – spends most of his time shining himself. In car mode, goes 220mph. Radar scan covers 200 mile radius. In robot mode, has a compressor-air gun that shoots a 40,000 psi blast of air.[162]
Thinks everyone is staring at him, even Earth cars and stoplights. His self-consciousness hurts his performance.[163] Finds heavy traffic nerve-wracking. Would prefer to be human so he could fit in better. In car mode, engine emits vibrations that cause mechanical failures in other vehicles; prone to leaky fuel pump. In robot mode, carries a concussion rifle which also causes mechanical failures.
Look out motorists – he exults in the accidents he causes! Driving recklessly, screaming and laughing.[164] Some comrades think it's an act, others really know he is really as nuts as he appears. Fears quiet, prone to tire blow-outs. In car mode goes up to 250mph with amazing maneuverability. In robot mode, his scattershot gun sprays laser beams over wide areas.
Regis Cordic, Roger C. Carmel (in "The Key to Vector Sigma")
Alive
A clanking, crushing terror that destroys all in his path – the ultimate Decepticon weapon[165] if he was not so confused by the opposing thoughts of the 5 Stunticons who comprise him. Tremendous strength, his punch has the force of 140 tons. Impervious to most artillery. Uses Motormaster's cyclone gun and carries an ionizer sword with a 50,000 volt charge. Ever since The Key To Vector Sigma (Part 2), he and Superion became mortal enemies.
Combaticons
The Combaticons are a Decepticon faction and their third Combiner group. When Megatron banished Starscream to the island of Guadalcanal, he found old military vehicles from World War II and used stolen personality components which he placed into the vehicles to create the Combaticons. They combine into Bruticus.[166]
The leader of the Combaticons.[167] Believes the key to a mission's success lies in the perfection of its planning. Prefers devising sinister schemes to actual combat, but a relentless, furious fighter when stirred into action. As a missile trailer, Onslaught is capable of launching 6500-mile range photon missiles, each equivalent to 3000 tons of TNT. Accuracy of missiles is hampered by electromagnetic interference. Uses powerful sonic stun gun in robot mode.
Noisy, irritates all nearby.[168] Hair-trigger temper, blusteringly belligerent... a terrifyingly effective warrior. Enormously strong, resistant to most conventional artillery. As tank, goes 45mph, range 600 miles. Turret-mounted gun shoots 200lbs. TNT-equivalent shells, twin sonic cannon shoots powerful, ear-splitting 300-decibel bursts of concentrated sound energy in stereo. In robot mode, has 10-Megawatt electron gun.
Easy-going and good natured, but within him beats the fuel pump of the most greed-driven street hustler.[169] Thrives on wheeling and dealing, works for his own personal material advancement. A one-robot "black market." Uses a scatter blaster that sprays explosive pellets, gyro gun that disrupts Transformers' balance center. Prone to overturning on sharp turns.
Feels literally and figuratively above the other Transformers as he soars through outer space.[170] Aristocratic, aloof – disguises his long distance loneliness. Cruelly efficient at raining destruction on Earth. Flies at 26,000mph, stays in orbit for eight months. Shoots powerful X-ray laser to hit target 12,000 miles away. In robot mode, uses ionic blaster.
Gives a ride to remember – in your nightmares! Takes Autobots on dizzying, death-defying flights to scare information out of them. As a helicopter,[171] he goes 300mph with a range of 1200 miles. Whirls rotor blades to create 200-300mph wind funnels. Uses semi-automatic glue gun.
The 5 Combaticons merge to become Bruticus.[172] Can destroy his enemies with ultrasonic waves and smash metal bridges with a single chop of his hand. Cold blooded, likes nothing more than destroying Autobots. Once he starts running wild he is unstoppable. Has small brain circuits, making him simple-minded. Carries a sonic stun gun and a missile cannon. He is mortal enemies with Defensor.
Heralds of Unicron
Unicron used some Decepticons to create his heralds.[173]
The later evil leader of the Decepticons.[174] Galvatron is a cold-hearted robotic supervillain. Revealed to be Megatron reformatted by Unicron because his body was badly damaged during his last fight with Optimus Prime at Autobot City. Determined to lead the Decepticons and destroy Cybertron since the Autobots took it back from the Decepticons, forcing them to abandon their Earth base and retreat to the planet Charr, which would result in disposing of Megatron's dream of reviving Cybertron. Possesses enough strength to pulverize an Autobot into scrap metal. Unconquerable. Arrogant and compassionless. Plots against his allies, thus weakening his position. In robot mode, he carries a fission laser cannon that emits chemically produced, direct-current electricity. In later media Galvatron was made into a separate entity.
Cyclonus is Galvatron's most loyal soldier[175] and is a huge and emotionless air warrior created by Unicron from the remains of either Bombshell or Skywarp. He is followed by his Armada, which includes at least one similar to him, created from the remains of arguably Bombshell and/or Skywarp. Cyclonus has vast resources of power and can draw strength in direct proportion to his need. Cyclonus is equipped with nuclear-powered turbine engines which enable him to reach speeds greater than Mach 2. In robot mode, he carries an oxidating laser that fuses an enemy robot's internal mechanisms. Cyclonus is a true loyal Decepticon and an honourable second-in-command. He considers the Autobot second-in-command Ultra Magnus as his arch-rival, has no weaknesses and no interests other than conquest. As a Targetmaster, he is paired with Nightstick, a Nebulan master criminal who doubles as a blinding, corroding black-beam gun. In later media he was depicted as a separate entity from Bombshell and Skywarp.
Scourge is fearsome, merciless and an implacable hunter. Created from the remains of Thundercracker,[176] he leads "The Sweeps", a wolf pack of tracker-terminators designed to hunt down and eradicate Autobots. Scourge possesses powerful high-tech scanning equipment and a disintegrator ray that can cut through solid rock. In robot mode, he carries a laser blaster that shoots short bursts of intense heat. Scourge's only weakness is his arrogance. As a Targetmaster, he is paired with Fracas, a high-temperature incendiary cannon with a volatile temper to match. Later media depicts Scoruge as a separate entity from Thundercracker.
Sweeps
Cybertronian Hovercraft
The Transformers: The Movie
The Return of Optimus Prime Part 2 & The Transformers: The Movie Destroyed by Grimlock and Sludge when attacking Autobot City they breathe fire at them destroying 1.
Formed by Unicron from the remains of the Insecticons Kickback, and Shrapnel, the Sweeps are identical to their leader Scourge.[177] They do not talk much, but when they do, the voices are different. They are often pushed around and shot at by Galvatron.
Multi Changers
The Multi Changers are Decepticons who have more than one alternative mode.[178]
Temporarily goes into exile after last being seen in The Ultimate Weapon. In Starscream's Ghost, he becomes an Autobot briefly, but rejoins the Decepticons.
A greedy, mean-spirited bully.[179] Enjoys watching fellow Decepticons become painfully inoperative from lack of fuel. Forces Autobots off roads and Aerialbots to abort landings just for fun. Crashes make him laugh. In jet mode: range 700 miles, maximum speed 750mph. In tanker mode: range 65,000 miles, maximum speed 90mph, carries 10,000 gallons of fuel. Carries fuel-powered flamethrower and deflecto-shield. Last known position held is commander of Tryticon (Decepticon City).
Ability as a Triple Changer[180] to rapidly transform makes him one of the most dangerous Decepticons. Cruel sense of humor; but formerly loud-mouthed, belligerent, and brash until after the five-part mini-series "The Five Faces of Darkness", when he became a partial pacifist yet still loyal to his team. As jet, he flies at mach 2.7, range 1500 miles, has heat-seeking concussion missiles. As tank, has track-mounted cannon that fires explosive shells 3.5 miles. As robot has electron-scimitar and gyro-blaster rifle. Often gets stuck in mid-transformation. Can alter his body mass to a larger size for transporting troops/cargo.
Creating confusion is his specialty. Believes the poor should be exploited, the weak oppressed, and the noble corrupted. As a Triple Changer,[181] can switch from space shuttle to locomotive to robot almost instantaneously. Thrives on foes' panic and fear. As shuttle, travels at 20,000mph in orbit, up to 50,000mph out of orbit... can launch weapons and satellites. Carries cargo. As a train, top speed is 400mph, range 1700 miles. As robot has great strength, carries powerful ionic displacer rifle. Can also alter his mass for transport; usually used as a main space transport.
A giant (the TV show does not do his size justice; see the comic) six-changer Decepticon[182] with a vile, nasty, murderous disposition. He carries out his job with ferocious intensity. Only redeeming quality is he speaks well of those he has sent to "the great junkyard in the sky," his phrase for destruction. Has six forms: robot, armored carrier, ramming-tank, jet-propelled laser pistol, star fighter, and wolf-creature modes. Only the wolf creature has no need for Sixshot's two hypersonic concussion blasters, the wolf mode prefers to rip apart enemy Autobots with his razor fangs. This mold was later used to make the Brave Police J-Decker ninja Shadowmaru and his prototype, Kagero, who only had 3 modes.
Predacons
The Predacons are a Decepticon faction and their fourth combiner group. They can turn into animals and combine to form Predaking.[183]
The Return of Optimus Prime (Part 2) and Call of the Primitives
Joe Leahy
Alive
As the leader of the Predacons,[184] he is all business. Hates waste in any form... will not burn an extra drop of fuel unless he is certain the results will be worth the effort. Long stretches of inactivity often mistaken for laziness. Explodes into furious, ferocious action when it's time to strike. As lion, can leap distances as long as a football field. Claws can rip through foot-thick steel. Has twin concussion blasters and sonic sword.
Prefers brute force over reason and will never back down from a challenge.[185] Steam comes from his nasal ducts when he is enraged. Smashes head-first into highway trestles and small buildings to relieve his aggression. Always feels better afterwards. Carries 4 exterior fuel tanks, capacity 1600 gallons, as a reserve for himself and his comrades. His horns shoot bolts of 20,000 volt electricity. Carries a catalytic carbine that shoots destructive chemicals, and an electro-sword.
Barrels through life with an uncontrolled fury. Has difficulty talking coherently for more than a few seconds before violently lashing out at anything near him,[186] friend or foe. TV calms him... stares at rock music videos for hours. As tiger, can leap 300ft. in height, 500ft. in length. A kick from his foreleg can crumble a cinder block wall. As robot, carries 60,000 volt lightning rifle, 5000 degree thermo-sword.
Does not listen to anyone, particularly his friends. Smug, arrogant. Puts up a stubborn front to hide deep-rooted insecurities. More vulnerable to psychological rather than physical attacks. In rhinoceros mode, his horn can puncture 3-foot thick steel,[187] release corrosive acid. Uses plasma-sphere shooter that emits explosive energy balls; has light distorting diffraction sword.
The Return of Optimus Prime (Part 2) and Call of the Primitives
Laurie Faso
Alive
He is like a kid at a candy store – always delighted by all the targets he has to choose from.[188] Builds mecha-nests atop tall buildings and mountains; composed of late model sports cars, wings of jets, theater marquees. Back-mounted rocket thrusters allows speeds of 300mph, 2000 mile range. Can see a dime from 10,000 feet. Has particle-beam rifle with infra-red sight, and laser-guided sword. Magnetism inhibits flying ability.
Predaking
The 5 Predacons
Five Faces of Darkness (Part 5)
The Return of Optimus Prime (Part 2)
Bud Davis
Alive
The closest thing to a perfect fighting machine that the Decepticons have. As a warrior he has no equal; as a weapon he has no restraints.[189] His actions result from seemingly savage, animal instinct. Can lift 500 tons; reacts to any movement he sees within .002 seconds. Can generate protective electric field. Wields powerful x-ray laser cannon. Each foot houses twin mortar shell launchers. Wields a large plasma sword. No known weaknesses. Has deep-rooted animosity against Sky Lynx whom he sees as his rival.
Battlechargers
The Battlechargers are a duo of Decepticon dragsters.[190]
Likes to watch things blow up – the bigger the explosion the better. Uses parked cars and gas station fuel pumps for target practice.[191] Usually stays busy as a Battlecharger, but terrified of boredom. Maximum speed: 185mph. Range: 550 miles. Has high-energy particle beam rifle. Easily distracted by a beautiful car – because he wants to destroy it, not admire it.
Cackling like a mechanical wildman, this Battlecharger is a twirling, tumbling two-lane terror. Spreading fear is his favorite pastime.[192] Admires junkyards like humans admire art museums. Maximum speed: 180mph. Range: 600 miles. Uses friction rifle that increases kinetic energy of its target's molecules for five minutes. Even the slightest movements result in tremendous friction, causing flames and melting. Afraid of heights.
Terrorcons
The Terrorcons are a Decepticon faction and their fifth combiner group. They can turn into various monsters and combine to form Abominus.[193]
The leader of the Terrorcons.[194] Hun-Gurrr has the desire to devour the Autobots. He transformers into a two-headed white dragon. He is very greedy and very often fills his stomach with as much energy and whatever other materials that he is able to acquire. He is very aggressive in nature and forms the torso of the combiner Abominus.
Rippersnapper
Land Shark (referred as "lizard" on its toy version's instructions)[195]
Rippersnapper is a nasty land shark[196] who has two legs and his inferiority complex is massive. Because of this he takes his frustration out on anything that he is able to. He just cannot stand the odor of lifeforms that are carbon-based either.
Blot
Blue Ogre (referred as a non-specified "monster" on its toy version's instructions)
Appears in Grimlock's New Brain
The Rebirth (Part 3)
Tony St. James
Alive
Blot is a very fierce looking blue brutish monster who looks very much like an Ogre.[197] He is clearly the most vile of all Decepticons as he oozes liquids that cannot be described from different parts of his body, and has an odor that smells so horrible that is often keeps both his enemies and friends alike to stay away from him. He is almost never seen in his robot form as he would rather stay in his alternate mode.
Sinnertwin who is also known as "Twinstrike" is a fierce, powerful, and brutish monster who had two heads.[198] His two heads often argue with each other. Anything that comes into his presence is very unfortunate as they may have little chance of surviving his attack.
Appears in Grimlock's New Brain. First speaks in Money Is Everything.
The Rebirth (Part 3)
Tony St. James
Alive
Cutthroat is mission-focused, and the only winged member of the Terrorcons.[199] He enjoy trashing Autobots perhaps more than any other Decepticon. He will destroy things to their very last form. He does not really like to merge to become Abominus as he fells that Abominus is not as aggressive as he is.
Even more so than the other Decepticon combiners, Abominus is a being of mindless fury. He's not truly a warrior—he's an animal, the destructive rages of the Terrorcons who compose him personified. His commanders cannot give him orders simplistic enough for him to understand, so they just point him in the direction of objects that need to be smashed, and turn him loose. The only thing that distinguishes him from a wild beast is the enjoyment he derives from his terrible rampages. The Terrorcons who form him[200] were working for the Quintessons as an offensive/defense team in one episode, but are now otherwise Decepticon agents, as they were taken by Galvatron.
Decepticon Targetmasters
These Targemasters were created by the Nebulons on Lord Zarak's side.[201]
A brawling, swaggering braggart, claims he will challenge anyone to a duel, but prefers sneaking up and shooting enemies in the back. When his ammunition runs out, so does his courage. Paired with Caliburst, one-time Nebulan leading actor who only does this for the money. As an automatic machine gun, Caliburst can shoot armor-piercing shells at 1200 rounds per minute. In jet mode, maximum speed: 2400mph.
Usually too busy laughing uncontrollably and drooling out oil to look where he is shooting. Loves the sound of his guns blasting away. Wild and unpredictable. Paired with Blowpipe, a powerful compressed-air cannon who is also the conniving, envious brother-in-law of Lord Zarak, the Nebulan leader of the Decepticon Headmasters. In jet mode, has side-mounted, rapid-fire photon-pulse guns. Maximum speed: 1,980mph.
When Misfire shoots, his fellow Decepticons run for cover. Has terrible aim, but he says he is improving. No one else shares his confidence. Paired with the cowardly Nebulan, Aimless, a former construction engineer who had one too many buildings collapse due to poor design; now he does not care enough about anything to even bother aiming when he shoots as an ion particle blaster. Maximum speed: 1600mph.
Decepticon Headmasters
These Headmasters were created by the Decepticons on Lord Zarak's side.[202] Most of them were made from the heads of the Decepticons who have animal forms.
Despair and isolation are all that remain in his wake. Like Astrotrain, he believes the poor should be exploited, the weak oppressed, and the noble corrupted. Others' pain is his sole pleasure. In scorpion mode, tail shoots 100,000 volt electric bursts, has twin pulse blasters, claws can crush mountains. In defense base mode, has over-the-horizon radar, communications center, anti-aircraft sonic cannon, repair bay, construction bay; semi-autonomous armored interceptor with dual photon cannons that patrol the base perimeter. In robot mode, has fusion-powered anti-gravity gun. Binary-bonded to Lord Zarak, leader of the evil Nebulans.
Cruel, vicious, but apparently built with a few wires crossed. Talks to himself in a song-song backward way: "Destroy the Autobots I shall. Tear them to scrap I will." Binary-bonded to Monzo, a brutish, professional hyperwrestler- turned underworld nightclub owner. In robot mode, uses photon pistol and thermal sword. In wolf mode, nose module is equipped with various tracking scanners. Can leap 0.8 miles (1.3km).
Has a habit of grinding his teeth before he strikes—annoying his friends and tipping off his enemies. Binary-bonded to Grax, a Nebulan industrialist who's joined up to eliminate his competition. In robot mode, uses softening ray run—gives metal the consistency of rubber, making his enemies easier to chew when he reverts to alligator mode.
A mystic with a vampire-like personality; spends most of his time trying to contact the electromagnetic essences of long-dead Decepticons than talking to live ones. Binary-bonded to Vorath, former Nebulan Minister of Science, expelled from office as a result of an illegal experiments scandal. In bat mode, has hypnotic stare, flies at 700mph. In robot mode, uses "viper pistol"—shoots streams of neuro-circuitry paralyzing liquid.
Horrorcons
The Horrorcons are the triple-changers of the Decepticon Headmasters.[203]
Thoroughly obnoxious—pounds loudly on his chest plates, insults everyone he talks to, knocks over anyone in his way, never changes his lubricant so he smells like a grease-encrusted turboworm, and spits fuel in public. Binary-bonded to the nervous, insecure Spasma. In jet mode, maximum speed: 3250mph, emits powerful jamming frequencies. In ape mode, he has super-agility.[204] In robot mode, carries electro-shield and semi-automatic sonic boomer gun.
Wading up to his neck in grease is his idea of a good time. Lazy,[205] difficult to motivate, but has a hair-trigger temper. Binary-bonded to Krunk, the vicious, vile bodyguard to the Nebulan leader, Lord Zarak. In jet mode, maximum speed 8800mph... has two independent booster fins. In reptile mode, carbon-steel claws and teeth can cut through almost anything. Has two balance destroying gyro-guns in robot mode.
Clonecons
The Clonecons are the Decepticon's version of the Clonebots.[117]
Pounce is sly, silent, and savage. The right machine for the right job. Often ignores his victims' pleas for mercy. In puma mode, can leap .7 miles. Possesses superior eyesight and sense of smell. In robot mode, laser range finder in optical sensors provides 99.4% accuracy with twin anti-personnel missile launching bayonets. Wingspan is always poking his beak where it does not belong. Nosey. Voracious appetite for new data to analyze. Looks in windows as readily as he spies on enemy troops. In hawk mode – has superb vision. Chemical and infra-red sensors collect and analyze geographical data – locate resources. In robot mode – has two electro-burst rifles.
Human mechanic, father of Spike Witwicky, father-in law of Carly Witwicky, and grandfather of Daniel Witwicky. Befriends and aids the Autobots after being rescued from the Decepticons by Optimus Prime.
Spike Witwicky is the son of Sparkplug Witwicky. He spends his whole life helping the Autobots fight the Decepticons. He is the father of Daniel Witwicky and boyfriend later husband of Carly Witwicky. Spike is the Headmaster component of Cerebros, who in turn, is the Headmaster of Fortress Maximus.
Oil Rig workers
More Than Meets the Eye (Part 1)
Unknown
When the Decepticons invade an oil rig, that is the middle of the ocean, we see the first appearances of Spike and Sparkplug Witwicky and their co-Oil Rig workers. When the Decepticons show up to steal energon, The Oil Rig workers try to fight of the Decepticons, but are unsuccessful. The Autobots then show up to save the day.
Joe is a power plant worker. Joe and his coworker were on their way to work at the power plant when their truck was mistaken for a possible Autobot by Thundercracker and Reflector. Thundercracker radioed this information back to Megatron, who sent Ravage to investigate. Joe and his coworker arrived at the power plant to find it in shambles. Suddenly, Ravage attacked, tackling each of them to the ground. They somehow managed to escape in their truck, but were in such a hurry that they left their hard hats behind.[206]
Frank is a power plant worker. Frank and his coworker were on their way to work at the power plant when their truck was mistaken for a possible Autobot by Thundercracker and Reflector. Thundercracker radioed this information back to Megatron, who sent Ravage to investigate. Frank and his coworker arrived at the power plant to find it in shambles. Suddenly, Ravage attacked, tackling each of them to the ground. They somehow managed to escape in their truck, but were in such a hurry that they left their hard hats behind.[207]
A Power plant is invaded twice by The Decepticons, who are after its energon. In the plant there are male workers, who are wearing hardhats, who include a black person and man with a Moustache and a man named Ed, as he is called by in two different episodes, by his co-worker, who is first told that the river is rising, and later is asked to turn down his tape deck, which is playing music very loud, not knowing that it is Deception Soundwave.
When the Decepticons approach a rocket base they are told by captain Cape Carlson to identify themselves, who is inside alongside four of his workers who are dressed in green outfits. After they Decepticons land outside, they are then shot at by the Rocket Base workers, which has no effect at all on them. The Autobots do not show up this time and the Decepticons collect the energon there to take back to their spaceship.
Hydroelectric facility workers begin to hear incoming jets approaching their place of work. After a worker tells his co-worker that they sound like they are going to land inside, which they do, he then calls the police for help.
Upon being called by the Hydroelectric facility workers, Police officers show up and point their guns at the invading Decepticons and an officer calls them overgrown buckets of bolts and says that has them covered. Starscream jokes that he is scared and shoots his lasers at them, causing the Police to flee. While the Decepticons collect the energon there, the Autobots then show up to save they day. The energon that Starscream collected gets destroyed, and the Decepticons retreat.
The weapons factory workers construct weapons for use against the Decepticons. When the Decepticons invaded the facility, the guards both inside and outside the factory were powerless to stop them. The Autobots were summoned to the scene and prevented the Decepticons from causing any additional damage, though Optimus Prime was severely wounded in the struggle.
Daniel Witwicky is the son of Spike Witwicky and Carly Witwicky, and grandson of Sparkplug Witwicky. He befriends Hot Rod and is very close to Wheelie, Grimlock and Arcee.
Friend of Spike Witwicky. Often expresses skillful knowledge of science and computers and works closely with Wheeljack and Perceptor. Chip uses a wheelchair. In later Transformers fiction Chip's intelligence would be used for the second Autobot/Maximal named Prowl.
Men in light brown uniforms with Rifles who are on the outside of the Power Plant and are protecting from danger encounter Skywarp and Thundercracker who are flying in their robots modes and while they are shooting at the men say "Do you want to fight us you jerms?" The men then reply "No way, lets get out of here, I'm history!" While Skywarp and Thundercracker land, the inside of the power plant is seen where there are men wearing white shirts with ties. One of the men who is seated says "They're shutting down the generators, we need help in a big way!", "Calling Teletraan I, Teletraan I?", "No response", come in Teletraan, please!", But is unable to get through as Ratchet is currently repairing it, after the newly created Grimlock had wrecked it.
The Indian maharaja is a kind and generous member of Indian royalty. Even though he lives off the Malabar Coast in India, he is Caucasian, not Indian. He rebuilt the palace that he owned into a solar power station as a gift to his people. He was attacked by the Decepticons and Thundercracker wanted to play catch with him, by throwing him, until Optimus Prime showed up and put a stop to this.
Dr. Arkeville is a mad scientist who assisted Megatron in one of his schemes. He used hypno-chips to control the minds of humans to provide slave labor and a human shield for the Decepticons. An attempted doublecross with Starscream ended up with him being wounded and rebuilt into a "mechanical freak" by Starscream's medic droids.[208] Starcream later returned to earth, leaving Arkeville on Cybertron, what became of him after that is unknown. In Binaltech, Doctor Arkeville is a member of the Concurrence.
Several construction workers were hard at work placing energy disks to start tapping power from the Earth's magnetic field for heat and electricity when they were suddenly attacked by what appeared to driverless construction vehicles. The vehicles revealed themselves to be Constructicons before collecting the energy disks and transforming. One of the Constructicons then threatened the construction workers, warning them that if they attempted to intefrere, they would be terminated. All of the Constructicons then returned to the Decepticons.
The first human slave, who Doctor Arkeville had controlled with a hypno-chip was Sparkplug Witwicky, who Laserbeak had captured. Arkeville later captured many more human slaves, who did the Decepticons' bidding by collecting energon for the Decepticons and Sparkplug was among the slaves, when they attacked the Autobots. After Wheeljack went to Cybertron, he built a device that was able to counter the hypno-chip mind control, which freed Sparkpug, who had been taken to Cybertron and the other humans slaves, when he had returned to earth.
While three adult men are canoeing in a water jungle area of the coast of Bali known as Demon Swamp, they then notice that something is in the water. One of them sticks a pole in the water, which pokes one of the Insecticons. The three Insecticons emerge from the swamp and tip over and destroy the canoes. The men after being joined by another man who was on land radio for help and then flee the area.
The farmers from Bali are a group of both adult male and females who are in a field collecting wheat when The Insecticons show up. One of the farmers cries out "We have monsters in the field!". The Insecticons then eat the wheat and destroy the tractor of a man who says "I know we should of sprayed the grass!"
Doctor Frankestein is a fictional character who conducts unholy experiments in a castle. While Spike recovered from a serious operation that left his mind in the body of Autobot X, he watched a movie on Teletraan I, which featured Doctor Frankenstein's attempt to create life. Though a hunched creature warned him that he was creating a monster who would destroy them all, Doctor Frankenstein chose to proceed with his attempt.[209]
The New Airforce Rocket Base Military and people crowd
Autobot Spike
Unknown
The New Airforce Rocket Base Military are led by a man in a blue Military uniform and has troops who are dressed in green soldiers outfits. People who are listening to him give a speech include reporters who are filming and taking pictures of him, as well as two women with long blond and long golden hair. When The Decepticons attack the base The military base leader says "We can't let those evil robots sabotage this lodge!" Megatron then claims that he is after the rocket fuel. The Decepticons then trash the base, which injures Spike. The military base leader is later shown giving a countdown to a Rocket that is being launched.
Frankestein's assistant is a fictional hunchback who works as a laboratory assistant in Doctor Frankenstein's castle. Spike Witwicky, his mind temporarily in the shell of the jury-rigged Autobot X, watched a movie via a television signal routed through Teletraan I. The movie featured Doctor Frankenstein trying to create life from dead tissue in defiance of the sage advice from his lab assistant, whom he clearly held in contempt. Upon the creature's animation and subsequent fit of rage, Frankenstein's assistant indicated to the doctor that his own earlier warnings had been appropriate and the results of the experiment were unsatisfactory. This character is based on the hunchbacked lab assistant in the 1931 Frankenstein film.[210]
Frankestein's monster is a monster brought to life by Doctor Frankenstein. While Spike recovered from a serious operation, one that left his mind in the body of Autobot X, he watched a movie on Teletraan I. The movie featured an inanimate being made of mis-matching parts and an evil brain. Doctor Frankenstein's assistant begged him not to reanimate the grotesque parody of life. The doctor, however, believed that the creature would be grateful for the giant and powerful body given to him and vivified the monster. This was one of the creatures conjured up by Daniel Witwicky's dreams, and used by the Quintessons to menace Rodimus, Ultra Magnus, Springer, and the Predacons.[211]
Spike's Doctor
Autobot Spike
Unknown
Spike's Doctor is a doctor who suggested separating Spike's mind from his body after he was wounded in a Decepticon attack. Sparkplug agreed to the operation, which involved implanting Spike's mind into Autobot X's body, inadvertently causing him to go on a rampage. Spike's Doctor was also successful into transferring Spike's mind back into his body after separating it from Autobot X after Spike's body had healed.
Professor Haley is an elderly astronomer. Like all scientists, he wears a white lab coat. He created the Voltronic Galaxer in an attempt to contact alien life forms, having forgotten that some already dwelt on Earth. Presumably he also founded the Haley Observatory. While demonstrating the Voltronic Galaxer before a crowd of scientists and reporters at the Haley Observatory, Haley send out a signal to try to contact alien life. The signal was swiftly answered—by Megatron, who was standing on the roof of the observatory. Haley attempted to contact the Autobots for assistance, but the signal was inadvertently jammed by a rock concert which Blaster was illegally rebroadcasting. Haley tried to stop Megatron taking the Voltronic Galaxer, but was unable to prevent the Decepticon from departing with his device. By the time the Autobots turned up, the Decepticons were long gone with their prize. Haley explained that the device could be used to intercept and unscramble signals. Optimus Prime promised that they would get the Voltronic Galaxer back. The Professor's invention was later destroyed by Blaster and Cosmos, while being used to block Earth's radio transmissions.[212]
Lord Chumley is a big time big-game hunter who has capture many unusual creatures and military weapons. He tried to get the ultimate trophy, the head of Optimus Prime. In Binaltech, Lord Chumley is a member of the Concurrence. A version of the character also appears in Transformers: Rescue Bots.
The Football coach is a man who dresses in yellow matching clothes, who was coaching a football game until Decepticon Blitzwing rode in the field and captured him. Blitzwing captured the coach and put him in a locker and asked to coach for information to use to his advantage, after he misinterprets the coach's advice for football.
Football players
Triple takeover
N/A
The Football teams were competing in a game, until the invasion of Blitzwing. After a player asked the coach what to do and was told to give the ball to Blitzwing, after Blitzwing had it thrown to him, Blitzwing then shot it out at the electronic scoreboard, scoring him two points.
Train conductor
Triple takeover
Unknown
The Train conductor is a man dressed in matching blue clothes with a grey white beard. While the train conductor was working he sees Decepticon Astrotrain arrive at the station. The train conductor claims that no train was set to arrive at that time and then runs out to see what was going on. After Astrotrain transformers the train conductor then panics and says that he is going to retire from his job.
While Autobot Ironside was trying to find a short circuited and injured Autobot Red Alert, he sees a car that he thinks is Red Alert, since it looks very much like him. After he picks up the car as says transformer to it, a male firefighter who owns it says "Hey that's my car", Ironhide says sorry and said that "it looked like a friend of his" The firefighter then says that "Theirs no doubt that he need to take a vaction".
An officer and pilot in the Earth Defense Space Forces. She appears in a handful of episodes early in the third season. She is the daughter of Dashiell Faireborn and Alison Hart-Burnett, codenamed Flint and Lady Jaye respectively, former members of the United States Special Missions Force, G.I. Joe.
The Peruvians are a small group of both adult male and females who live in the Andes. After they witness the explosion in the sky cause by the blast fired by Megatron that destroyed the satellite one of them says "Look what is it, a storm?" and that "The power that destroyed it came from the ancient ruins".
In the Andes, a Peruvian girl (Not named in episode) helps Spike Witwicky and Bumblebee to destroy the "Crystal of Power" that the Decepticons want to convert in a devastating weapon of destruction.
Luisa's grandmother
Fire on the Mountain
Unknown
After Megatron blew up a satellite with their "Crystal of Power" charged cannon and the explosion is seen over the mountain in the Andes, Luisa's grandmother says that "the ancient gods have returned to punish us". Luisa tell his grandmother that the "ancient gods are history, but if the crystal of power has been rediscovered then we have much to fear".
The daughter of Dr. Mark Morgan and partner of Gregory Swafford who rescued Optimus Prime from his ship and discovered space spores that makes any living thing filled with rage. Morgan wanted revenge by using the spores on the Autobots after they fixed Jessica's paralyzed legs, so he told Jessica to get an Autobot and tell them they have Optimus, but she was against it. She told Rodimus Prime and he got every Autobot to surround Morgan's laboratory, but this was all a trap and the virus spread on Ultra Magnus and the Aerialbots, which then spread to all Autobots, Decepticons and Humans. After Optimus was brought back to life, Jessica went with him, Sky Lynx, Kup, Blurr, Goldbug and Blaster to Charr to find Galvatron and get the metal she, her father and Swafford were working on so that Optimus can be covered with it and retrieve the Matrix of Leadership from within Rodimus.
Auggie is a snobbish driver who strives for winning the trans-European race from Paris to Istanbul. The Autobots are his rivals, and he does his best to overtake them at any price. But after the Stunticons rob him of his race car, he had to ask the Autobot Bluestreak for help to retrieve it. Some time later he sacrifices his car to defeat Menasor and to save Bluestreak, Tracks and Bumblebee's lives.
Doctor Fujiyama, who reportedly is a man of some renown in the scientific world, built a ninja robot. Her name was Nightbird, and her purpose was to benefit mankind. However, the Decepticons stole her and reprogrammed her to be evil, so he locked her away for humanity's protection.
Shawn Berger is a very rich, grandiloquent man who owns a helicopter, a TV network, a personal army (with tanks), and at least one private spacecraft. But what he really wants is to be Mayor of Central City. And he will sell humanity out to Megatron for it where he helped in discrediting the Autobots. After being double-crossed by Megatron, Berger started helping Spike and the other friends of the Autobots. But they all were enslaved nonetheless, and he found himself hated at every turn. When the Autobots eventually returned and chased the Decepticons off, Berger begged forgiveness. He promised he would disband his personal army, but Sparkplug pointed out that his soldiers had already quit when they realized he was a traitor to humanity. "You are going to face justice", Prime told him, "and may it be kinder to you than it was to us." Shawn Berger's fate is unknown. In Binaltech, a "Shawn Berger Jr." is a member of the Concurrence where he helped fund the creation of the Decepticon Binaltechs. It was not confirmed if he was the son of Shawn Berger or is the full name of Shawn Berger.
The produce thrower is a citizen of Central City who throws fruit when agitated. He threw tomatoes at Optimus Prime immediately after watching Shawn Berger's supposedly damning evidence of the Autobots' duplicity, demanding that the Autobots "go home!" It is unknown whether he had already purchased the produce prior to the Autobot Day parade, or if he purchased them after watching Berger's footage specifically for the purpose of throwing the tomatoes in indignant anger. As Spike, Sparkplug and Chip Chase left with the Autobots, he accused them of being "lousy Autobot-lovers" and led a mob.[213]
Justin is a young child who is interested in the Decepticons and is shown colouring a drawing of Megatron. His lack of "metal-coloured crayons" holds back his interest a tad.
The mayor is the duly elected leader of Central City. He won a bitterly contested 1984 election against influential businessman Shawn Berger, who subsequently built the city a solar energy plant. Upon discovering the plant was a fake designed to trap the Decepticons, the mayor called for the Autobots. However, after the mayor's speech was interrupted by a video tape appearing to show the Autobots raiding an oil field, they were arrested and banished from Earth. After the city was taken over by Decepticons, the mayor was put to work as a slave in the power plant. After the Autobots rescued them a second time, the mayor asked them to stay on Earth.[214]
A kid wearing a Megatron costume appeared at the Decepticon Day parade, waving a flag and shouting cheers of pride and joy at his hero. However, Megatron either did not notice him or did not care, as he did not acknowledge the kid in any way.[215]
The Farmer is a man with brown hair who is wearing a hat, a checkered red shirt with black lines and blue overalls, who when going to his well finds that the water has evaperated due to the Combaticons attempt to send the Earth into the sun. He then sees that a fire has started and calls for help. Protectobot Hot Spot then shows up and puts out the fire.
City men and women
The Revenge of Bruticus
N/A
A line of city men and woman who are wearing different coloured clothes are shown standing outside by Protectobot First Aid who is in his ambulance mode, and then seen are sets of identical looking males running into a freezer room to stay cool as the temperature outside keeps rising due to that the earth is moving closer and closer towards the sun.
Prince Jumal, also known as Hassan, is the ruler of an unspecified Middle Eastern nation on Earth. In his spare time, he likes tinkering with old cars.
Ali's henchmen
Aerial Assault
N/A
Ali's henchmen work for Ali, the ruler of Iran. They are dressed just like Ali. They raided an airport, dismantling planes to hide in a laundry truck, but they also unknowingly picked up two Aerialbots, Slingshot and Skydive.
El Presidente, one assumes, either is or was the president of a nation-state on the planet Earth. The latter seems more likely, given that as of the mid-1980s he was known to be operating out of a ship as an international arms dealer. He presumably shops for clothes with Abdul Fakkadi.[216]
Abdul Fakkadi (also spelled Faghadi) is the self-professed Supreme Military Commander, President for Life, and King of Kings of the Socialist Democratic Federated Republic of Carbombya. One gets the feeling that if you were to inform him that, by definition, a republic cannot have a king (much less a "King of Kings"), his likely response would be to stare blankly for a long moment, and then order your immediate beheading. None too bright and none too stable, Fakkadi is concerned primarily with the accumulation of wealth and keeping "fanatics" and "imperialists" away from his homeland's shores. He is not averse to making deals with Decepticons to help further these goals. Fakkadi's character was quite controversial, and in fact the stereotypical "evil Arab" portrayal prompted actor Casey Kasem's departure from the series.
Dixson is a private in the United States Army with a military driver's license. He was giving an Army officer a ride to Fort Knox in a jeep, but the fort was not where he left it, causing considerable confusion between the two soldiers.[217]
Three Arabian sheiks are seen among Abdul Fakkadi, while he is communicating with Autobot Blaster with his handheld device, who along with Autobot Outback had come to investigate if there were any Decepticons hiding out in Carbombya. As Fakkadi gets frustrated and angry, the Sheiks start giggling, which makes Fakkadi throw his device, thus breaking it.
Mr. Robbins is a science teacher at Benjamin Franklin Pierce High School. Unfortunately, he has Roland and Martin as students, which makes his classes significantly more dangerous than average.
Elise Presser is one of a trio of school students at Benjamin Franklin Pierce High School who built B.O.T. as part of a science project. Elise is a nerd and more concerned about obeying rules than her classmates. Given they accidentally built a destructive robot powered by Brawl's personality component, she will probably continue to err on the side of caution.
Abdul Ben Faisal is the greatest sage in all of Istanbul! The only way to find him is to threaten random Turks with a fusion cannon, or by going to his house at 1024 Dreymon Street, behind the herb vendor shop.
Merrick is a field archeologist. He makes bets with his female colleague, Joan, on who'll uncover something first at a dig site, and is an expert on Mayan culture.
Joan
Microbots
Morgan Lofting
Joan is a field archeologist. She likes to make $10 bets with a male colleague on who'll uncover something first at a dig site. She also has blue hair.
Jose
Microbots
Unknown
Jose is one of three assistants to the archaeologists Merrick and Joan. He wears a green poncho. While working a dig site, Merrick uncovered a pot estimated to be 1,300 years old and called for Jose's help. Jose and the other assistants stood by watching as Joan discovered a buried spacecraft. The archaeologists were about to open the ship up when they were attacked by Decepticons. The five person archaeology team successfully escaped in two jeeps.[218]
Professor Haley is an astronomer. Like all scientists, he wears a white lab coat. He created the Voltronic Galaxer in an attempt to contact alien life forms, having forgotten that some already dwelt on Earth. Presumably he also founded the Haley Observatory.
The Rock Band was seen performing at a rock concert with Spike, Carly, and Blaster in attendance. Enjoying the concert, Spike wished that the rest of the Autobots could hear the music, so Blaster began transmitting to all of them.
After the death of her father, Astoria Carlton-Ritz inherited his vast fortune as well as his company, Hybrid Technologies. Spoiled rotten, Astoria is mostly a figurehead with little control over the company's goings-on. Instead, she spends most of her time throwing herself lavish parties and wondering why nobody wants to be her friend. She has the bizarre ability to jinx any mechanical device just by coming into contact with it, which is just one more reason why she keeps away from her father's company and its equipment. Her father gave her a necklace with a top secret formula and requested she never take the necklace off. Astoria also has a thing for Powerglide, she probably spends her time with the Hilton sisters.
Professor Greene is a scientist who just wants to help the Autobots defend Earth against the Decepticons. To this end, he invented the Ultra Plane, an unmanned drone aircraft which can be operated remotely.
Ali is an underhanded backstabber who became ruler of a small Middle Eastern country by deposing its rightful ruler, Prince Jumal. Of course, one country is not enough for him—he has set his sights on total world domination, for which he needs the help of the Decepticons. As a bonus, he gets to drive Swindle around.
While a welder is welding a truck, Prince Jumal offers his help to him by saying "Need any help?, I'm an expert with a welding torch!" After the welder responds by saying "What did you say"? Ali appears, grabs Prince Jumal and says "He says little brats should not meddle with things that don't concern them!" as he throws him into a pile of tires.
Princess Nimue is a human who lived in the countryside some distance from the city of Camelot in the mid-sixth century. The devoted daughter of a feudal lord, Sir Aetheling the Red, she is a bit of a spit-fire and slightly flighty.
Sir Wigend du Blackthorne
A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court
Michael Chain
Sir Wigend du Blackthorne is a hotheaded young noble in sixth-century England who allies himself to the Decepticons, and lives to regret it, as he changes sides.
Sir Wulf is a subject of Sir Wigend du Blackthorne who decides to betray his lord and side with Starscream.
Sir Aetheling the Red
A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court
Jack Angel
Sir Aetheling the Red is a feudal lord in the year 542 on Earth and is father to Princess Nimue. He rules lands adjacent to rival lord Sir Wigend du Blackthorne in the countryside far from Camelot and enjoys a good joust.
Beorht is an elderly wizard, who lived during the 6th century AD in Britain. He created the Dragon Mound, which is a mystical artifact that can support time travel, He also may have invented Dragon's Bane that he uses against the dragon when he is attacked. He restored energy to Hoist and Warpath and helped them and the Decepticons return to their time.
Deore
A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court
Unknown
Lady Deore helps run the household of Sir Aetheling the Red. Lady Deore was overseeing other women working on tapestries inside the castle while Aetheling was speaking with time-displaced Autobots outside.[219]
Dinsmoore is Lord Chumley's somewhat addled manservant. Aged to the point of decrepitude, he has painful memories of the Boer War, and is no longer able to pour tea straight.
Doctor Sōji Yoshikawa (吉川惣司) works at Shibuya Manufacturing (渋谷電気工業製作所). He is very gifted in science and technology, able to brainstorm with the Autobots on a competent level.
The Director knows exactly what makes a good film when he sees it. It might be some great stunt work, awesome explosions, or giant transforming robots, he will film it and put it in his film (and change the script to make it fit)! Just do not bug him with the details. Kept on calling Hoist "Moist".
The assistant director's job was chiefly to follow the director around and agree with him a lot. Occasionally, he had original ideas, but the director tried to discourage that sort of thing.
Spike and Carly encountered the production assistant rummaging through film reels. She explained that someone seemed to have stolen some of the scenes from the workprint. Carly had to point out to her that they could make more copies from the negatives.
Harold had the bad luck of "starring" in a science fiction film along with Karen Fishook whose director became obsessed with using Hoist and several of the Autobots as his main characters (likely saving loads on his FX budget). For reasons that are unclear, he bears some resemblance to the Star Warrior Han Solo and Harrison Ford.
Poplock is a member of the Bop Crew. In case his costume is not 1980s enough to get into nightclubs, under his clothing he wears an additional shirt which is even more lurid. Like Raoul, he has a predilection for making pop culture references.
Rocksteady is a member of the Bop Crew. He is got some sharp moves. How sharp? He keeps his hat on while he break-dances, and it never falls off! He seems to be the most pragmatic of the trio, but is easily distracted by the opportunity to show off his dance moves.
Furg was utilized by Starscream to frighten off and/or dispose of people who interfered with the flow of customers into the Dancitron nightclub, which apparently included going after innocent breakdancers, he led a gang of roughly fifteen punks and one mind-controlled businessman in performing his strongarm sidewalk defense. Furg's equipment, presumably furnished by the Decepticons, included at least two laser pistols and a communications device featuring a video display.
The stylish man is a New Yorker on the forefront of fashion trends. He was hanging out at Dancitron when Tracks and Blaster entered the nightclub. Assuming that they were humans, the stylish man admired their fancy suits, asking Tracks if he'd gotten the outfit in Soho. When Tracks responded "Cybertron", the stylish man fished for an address, but Tracks walked away, distracted by the oddly-attired people he'd spotted.[220]
Lippo the Clown is the host of a TV show that Wreck-Gar watches. He states "Remember boys and girls, the best way to get your way is to be good every day, which Wreck-Gar repeats. A hologram of Lippo the Clown was used by the Quintessions intro tricking Wreck-Gar into boarding their spaceship.
Though she is the girlfriend of noted mobster Victor Drath, Michelle does not object to spending the night with random strangers who turn up wounded on her doorstep. Her motivations occasionally seem somewhat unclear.
Dirk Manus is a handsome rogue who will charm off your socks. He is also a liar and a scoundrel—do not believe anything he says, especially if there is likely to be money in it. While you're being charmed, he will be making arrangements to steal the contents of your bank account. He has his own ship, the Lazy Sue (which he probably won in a game of space poker), and hails from Epsilon Ariadne, EDC officer Marissa Faireborn has a thing for him.
Doctor Harding designed a solar satellite equipped to capture solar radiation while in orbit and somehow channel that energy back to earth. She has lofty goals for that energy to be used by the entire world.
Dr. Paul Gates is an American scientist working for Quantum Laboratories. He expressed worries about losing control of TORQ III, which Megatron reprogrammed to take over the world. TORQ III first took control of the facility, locking Gates in his office until he was rescued by the Autobots. After TORQ III was disabled, Gates provided a prototype hydrofoil to the Autobots, allowing them to reach the Decepticons' oil platform. Gates later stated that he would not reactivate TORQ III until he could be made absolutely tamper-proof.[221]
Dr. Carl Andrews is a scientist working for Quantum Laboratories and a colleague of Dr. Paul Gates. When Gates expressed concern about their new supercomputer, TORQ III, and how it could possibly be too powerful, Andrews assured him that it was justified in the name of the pursuit of knowledge. However, while the two were talking, Megatron reprogrammed TORQ III, and the computer locked them in Gates's office. Both Andrews and Gates were later rescued from the office by Optimus Prime.[222]
The Geddis brothers are a pair of two-bit New York-based gangsters, who are not beyond selling their own race out to the Decepticons for a quick buck. They specialize in converting stolen cars.
Gregory Swofford has been wounded both inside and out due to his past experiences with the Transformers. A vengeful scientist, he blames Optimus Prime for his scarred face, but was unwittingly instrumental in bringing the Autobot leader back to life. He is a professional partner to Dr. Mark Morgan, and has a professional, and perhaps romantic, relationship with Morgan's daughter, Jessica.
Mark Morgan is a scientist and devoted father to his daughter Jessica. In the future year of 2007, Morgan works in the fields of metallurgy, robotics and palynology. He has a pathological hatred of Transformers, both Autobots and Decepticons, which he shares with his professional partner Gregory Swofford.
Bonnie Carlson
The Return of Optimus Prime (Part 1)
Joy Grdnic
Bonnie Carlson is a news anchor for KSUN TV. She cites information that the hate-plague is spreading wide and fast.
Hate-plague infected humans
The Return of Optimus Prime (Part 1)
The Return of Optimus Prime (Part 2)
N/A
After the hate-plague was brought back to earth after and was spread to both the Autobots and Decepticons, it was then spread to the human race all across the earth as well. When Optimus Prime discovered that wisdom was the cure to the hate-plague, he then unleashed the wisdom of the Matrix of leadership, which spread all across the globe curing all the hate plague infected humans and everything else that had been infected by the hate plague.
While Spike was with the Autobots at the library to get books about information about dinosaurs, they see a time warp that has opened, which has barbarians riding woolly mammoths coming out of it. They start to cause much damage by destroying things, during which Spike and Bumblebee get buried under a ton of rubble. The Autobots are able to get control of the barbarians and woolly mammoths and safely make them go back through the time warp, which then closes keeping them in their own time.
While a man is steering his boat with two other people on board, a time warp opens with a pirate ship coming through with a few pirates on board, who includes a dark skinned bald man with earrings, wearing no shirt, and swinging a chain. The pirate leader then states that he is wanting the man's ship and passengers. Lucky for him, the Autobots show up and destroy the pirates' weapons and send the ship back through the time warp.
As a group of bikers are riding their motorcycles, five cowboys who are running from the law come through a time warp. One of them states he wants the bikers' motorbikes, which he calls mechanical horses. One cowboy attempts to ride one of the motorcycles, but gets thrown off while he tries. The Autobots show up and as the cowboys try to flee they get forced back through the time warp by the Autobots.
Motorcycle gang members
Dinobot island (part 2)
N/A
The Bikers are a group of five men who encounter five cowboys at a time warp. The biker who may be the leader of them has long grey hair and a beard and wears sunglasses. The other bikers who also have facial hair appear to be younger than him.
Man and two women on sailboat
Dinobot island (part 2)
N/A
The people who the pirates were after were a man steering a ship wearing a captain's hat and two bikini clad woman who were his passengers. What the man's relationship with the women is unknown.
The miners are a few males, who get very excited when they find gold while mining, As they wheel it out of the mine that they are in, they are attacked by the Decepticons who captured them and cause damage to the mines. As one of them avoided capture and retreats to his cabin to contact the Autobots, Megatron allows this, as it was part of his plan.
Roving French street gang made up of four people in the Netherlands consisting of three adults males with mustaches and one female who are wearing striped shirts, a hat, and berets while running throw grenades at a windmill for no known reason, which causes and explosion while they continue to run.
Windmill people
The Ultimate Weapon
N/A
After the windmill had grenades thrown at it, a man and woman come out of it, dressed in green army outfits, who are holding pistols. Then they shoot at the French people street gang, and start coughing due to the smoke left from the explosion caused by the grenades.
The Orange Tree fruit pickers are a boy with brown hair and a girl with blonde hair who are perhaps bother and sister and are up in an Orange Tree picking oranges and dropping it into a basket of a man with dark skin with grey hair and a mustache, who is standing next to an elderly woman with a long dress, who may be his wife and may be related to the boy and the girl. As the man claims that he never missed anything that is dropped into his basket, Decepticon Trypticon shows up and attempts to step on the four people. As the girl screams in terror the man grabs the boy and girl and all four of the people run. As the happens three male police officers show up.
After the three male police officers show up and get out of their vehicles and then shoot their pistols at Trypticon, which has no effect on him. After he steps on their cars, which destroys them, they too also run away in terror from him.
The Old peace delegates are both adult male and female humans, who are seen on Cyberton, when Wheelie and Daniel Whitwicky, who are seeking information about the creation date of Ultra Magnus, walk into the Hall of Records, which is located in the city of Iacon.
The EDC (Earth Defense Center) worker had greeted Marrisa Fairborne, by saying "Good evening Captain Fairborn, standard target run?", Fairborn responded "Try level three, I feel like a challenge, tonight!" and starts shooting at a giant hologram of Cyclonus. After a time disturbance occurs by a time window, the EDC worker hears a baby crying and turns around to see that Marrisa Fairborne is now a baby again, and says "Captain Fairborn?!"
Ozu is a kendo student who lives in Japan. When the Autobots protected the dojo from the Decepticons, Ozu thanked them along with his sensei. Ozu later battled with his sensei, only to lose his weapon and be berated by his sensei for not focusing on the battle. When the Decepticons launched an attack on Ozu's home city, Ozu protected an elderly woman from Scourge with his katana. Ozu and the woman were then saved by Hot Rod, who defeated Scourge and took back the Matrix of Leadership, becoming Rodimus Prime once more. Hot Rod then offered Ozu and the woman a ride home, which they accepted.[223]
Ozu's sensei is a kendo instructor who lives and teaches in Japan. When the Autobots protected the dojo from the Decepticons, the sensei and his students thanked them. The sensei later berated Ozu for not focusing on their battle, explaining to Hot Rod that if one thinks of winning, they automatically consider the possibility of losing, which in turn leads to a fear that prevents victory.[224]
The old Japanese lady is a senior citizen of Japan. When the Decepticons attacked the city, the old lady was saved from Scourge by Ozu, a kendo student. Ozu and the old lady were then trapped in an alleyway, though were saved from Scourge once again by Hot Rod, who reclaimed the Matrix of Leadership. Rodimus Prime offered Ozu and the old lady a ride home, which they accepted. Both Ozu and the old lady subsequently witnessed Rodimus' official return to Primeship.[225]
Melkorr made one appearance in the episode "The Quintesson Journal", in which he narrated a video clip depicting the history of violence between Xetaxxis and Lanarq during a peace conference between the warring planets. He then emphasized that both civilizations would go extinct "within one generation" unless the peace negotiations were successful, leading Rodimus Prime to sarcastically thank him.[226]
Possum Brown is a trucker who was warned by one of his fellow truckers that he had two smokies on his tail. The police pursuit was brought to an abrupt end when Rumble landed on the back end of Possum's Kenworth K100 Aerodyne Sleeper Tractor Trailer truck and dispatched the two patrol cars with some laser fire. Rumble then crashed through the truck cab's side window and ejected Possum Brown from the truck. The truck was taken to Megatron to be rebuilt into the Stunticon leader Motormaster.[227]
Two adult male bank robbers who run out of a bank carrying bags of money and wearing white masks around their mouths get into their Ferrari 308 GTB car, while the bank alarm sounds. As they drive away Rumble flies down and opens the door of the vehicle. As the driver of the vehicle who has grey hair, a moustache, and is wearing an orange hardhat cries out "I'll go straight, I'll do anything, take the money!" Rumble replies "I just want the car!" as he throws the driver from the vehicle. The vehicle was taken to Megatron to be rebuilt into the Stunticon Wildrider.
During a racecar event featuring many racecars with drivers whose names are not known one of the two commentators says "Muller takes it" who is the lead (and whose name is known) Rumble swoops down and removes him from the yellow racecar that he is driving, while the commentators and audience watch on in shock. The yellow racecar is then taken back to Megatron to be rebuilt into the Stunticon Wildrider.
After the Stunticons had been returned to earth after being given life by Vector Sigma on Cybertron they attacked and caused great damage to a military base where there were soldiers who were protecting superfuel. A soldier then said "I don't believe it, who are they? The general then responded, "There is nobody driving those cars, it can only mean one thing, they must be the Autobots!" When the Autobots later arrived at the base, they were attacked by the soldiers. Optimus Prime told the general "that the government gave them a sample of the superfuel, why would they want to take it?". The general responds "Your cars made mincemeat out of this place a few hours ago". The Stunticons then return to the base and attacke the Autobots, and the soldiers and general then learned that it is not the Autobots who attacked the base.
After being given life by Vector Sigma on Cybertron and arriving on Earth the newly created Aerialbots back at The Ark watch a TV show where a young daughter with brown hair and pigtails says to he middleaged father "She (mostly likely meaning her mother) had to go buy new furniture, don't!" as he sits on a chair that breaks. The Aerialbot then turns of the show saying "That he can't stand it".
Nebulans
Nebulans are humanoidaliens from the planet Nebulos who co-operate with the Transformers. Some Nebulans have allied with the Autobots, others with the Decepticons. The Nebulans' first and last appearance was in the three-part episode The Rebirth, which was intended as the pilot episode of the fourth season, but ended up being the season's only episode and the last episode in the entire series.
Nebulan Headmasters
The Nebulans who co-operate with the Headmasters transform into the Transformers' heads.
For a man whose work has had such a big effect on the lives of so many Nebulans and Transformers, very few people really know the distant and remote Arcana. Not even Brainstorm, who shares his psyche, can claim to truly fathom the workings of his partner's mind. But then, Arcana seems to cultivate an extremely anti-social persona unintentionally, training first as a medical doctor, only to grow bored and focus on long-forgotten and repudiated scientific lore of his planet, earning the ire of medical colleagues. Yet it was this combination of knowledge and skill, along with the combined input of his future partner, that allowed the creation of the Binary Bonding process.
Stylor is gorgeous. Always impeccably dressed and groomed and always in the latest style. He spends most of his time primping and polishing either Chromedome or himself, and is renowned on Nebulos for his exquisite taste and dashing good looks. Though he loves the ladies, he surprisingly does not have the greatest luck there, since few want to spend much time with a man who's so focused on being prettier than they are. It is suspected that Stylor volunteered for the Headmaster process simply because it was trendy at the time, his Autobot partner Chromedome, being an inveterate academic and computer nerd, is something of a frustration to Stylor, but he does his best to bring out the big guy's cooler, more social side (which he figures MUST be in there somewhere). Chromedome in return tries to get Stylor to be a little less superficial.
Duros was born to be a soldier on a world without war. He served for years as the head of security for the Nebulan Ruling Council and spent most of that time horribly bored and unsatisfied. The coming of the Transformers to Nebulos may have been a tragedy for most of his race, but it was quite possibly the best thing to ever happen to Duros... and also the worst, in Hardhead he has found a kindred spirit, and the two have bonded over their shared interest in combat and warfare to become one of the closest pairings among all the Headmasters. The dependable, resourceful, and stoic Duros is a great addition to the Autobot army, but his eager desire for action and love of combat have made him an outsider among the naturally peaceful Nebulans and has led him to be shunned even by his family and, most painfully, his now estranged wife. Duros shuts the pain that his failed personal life causes him away and focuses instead on being the soldier he always felt destined to be.
The all-American boy of the Nebulan Headmasters, Gort rose up from a lowly position as stable boy to courageous defender of his planet. The idealistic teenager never has an unkind word for anybody and serves as a shining example of the best the Nebulan Headmasters have to offer, it's a pity, then, that Gort was partnered with his polar opposite, the elitist snob Highbrow, who takes considerable offense to being binary bonded with what he sees as a mere commoner. Their pairing is among the worst of the Autobot Headmasters, often detracting, not adding, to Highbrow's effectiveness in combat as he refuses to listen to Gort's suggestions except in all but the most life-threatening situations.
Grax
Skullcruncher's Head
The Rebirth (Part 2)
Milt Jamin
A ruthless businessman and industrialist, Grax was willing to do whatever it took to solidify his place at the top of Nebulan business world. Not that he needed much convincing to undergo the binary bonding process to combine with Skullcruncher to eliminate his business rivals, the Decepticon methods of utterly and cruelly absorbing all foes were just more literally bloody versions of Grax's own. Skullcruncher did not see the similarity though, Nebulan corporate types were barely even a snack. Grax adds considerably to the somewhat slow mind of Skullcruncher, which admittedly is not difficult, but still finds most of his suggestions ignored unless they involve eating the corpses of your enemies or inventive noises to make when grinding your teeth.
Vorath was the former Minister of Science of the planet Nebulos. A Zarak loyalist, Vorath was expelled from his office when Galen uncovered his involvement in illegal medical experiments on live subjects. Seeking revenge, Vorath gained the chance to do so and continue his experiments with the arrival of Transformers and the creation of the Headmasters, when he agreed to binary bond to Mindwipe.
On Nebulos, Monzo was a professional hyperwrestler before he became a nightclub owner. He is a brutal fellow who does not appreciate the fine art of tactics or strategy. He especially hates poetry, which puts him at odds with his Headmaster partner, Weirdwolf. However, they both find common ground in wanting to beat stuff up.
Spasma
Apeface's Head/Monkey Head
The Rebirth (Part 2)
Tony St. James
The nervous and insecure Spasma was the son of a despised noble family on Nebulos, bullied and picked on his entire life while being crushed under the weight of a bankrupt family legacy. The arrival of the Transformers on his planet and the creation of the Headmasters gave him the prospect of power to escape his feeling of inadequacy, or so he thought... outwardly, Spasma had his wish fulfilled when he was binary bonded to Apeface, literally becoming the kind of bully who had previously tormented him. But all too frequently, the pressure of combat will wear away at Spasma, until Apeface is actions trigger a torturous flashback from the Nebulan's past, reducing him to a whimpering, crying wreck.
Krunk is Zarak's nasty, brutish bodyguard. He takes orders from Zarak without question, no matter how illegal or rotten they are, as Snapdragon's Headmaster, he enhances the Decepticon's thuggish personality rather nicely. Two peas in a pod, really.
Daniel Witwicky is the human son of Spike and Carly Anderson-Witwicky. He is approximately 12 years of age in 2005, and was presumably born sometime between 1990 and 1993. He is the grandson of Sparkplug Witwicky. Daniel often gets into trouble, which requires either his father or the Autobots to save him. He is very good friends with the Autobots, particularly Wheelie, Grimlock, and Hot Rod, but the one he is closest to is Arcee, who views him as a surrogate son. Daniel is (sometimes) the Headmaster partner to Arcee.
Nebulan Targetmasters
The Nebulans who co-operate with the Targetmasters transform into the Transformers' weapons.
One of the younger Nebulans to binary bond to a Transformer, Haywire is very much of the "act first, think later"-impulsive-teenage mold. In that respect, the relationship between Haywire and his partner Blurr is one where they get on like a house on fire, but also a classic example of the lack of planning in the early stages of Targetmasters bonding for how effective a combat team they would make. Transforming into an electro-laser cannon, Haywire is just as hyperactive as his partner in combat, often more concerned with how often he fires than where he is aiming or how effective his shots are.
Firebolt was once a quiet scholar on the pacifistic planet of Nebulos, where he was renowned as one of its top atomic physicists. Beneath his meek and reserved exterior, however, young Firebolt yearned for a life of action and excitement. His dreams of adventure might never have come true, if not for the intervention of the Decepticons. When the call went out for Nebulans who would be willing to take up arms in defense of their planet, Firebolt was amongst the first to volunteer. Undergoing the extensive and painful procedure known as Binary bonding, Firebolt was given a special suit of black and grey armour and granted the power to transform himself into a powerful double-barreled weapon called an "electrostatic discharge rifle", although eager for the chance to make a difference and have some fun, Firebolt soon found that his own exuberance paled in comparison to his Targetmaster partner: a young Autobot named Hot Rod. Firebolt's opinion of this situation is what could be described as "cautiously optimistic" – he is excited by all the action and adventure of being a Targetmaster, but he is also very nervous at some of the risks that Hot Rod insists on taking at times.
One of the older Nebulans to join the Autobots, Recoil was a former All-World Prismaball champion on his home planet, until age finally caught up with him. While helping to keep Nebulos safe is part of why he agreed to undergo binary bonding to become a Targetmaster, a large part was to prove to himself as much as to others that he still had what it takes. Transforming into a version of Kup's original old-style musket laser, Recoil has found a good match with the crusty Autobot, both seeking the respect they feel their age and experience deserves.
Peacemaker is an upbeat, almost contagiously positive Nebulan police officer. He keeps trying to cheer up his Autobot partner Pointblank to little result. Pointblank does not feel the Autobots should have involved the Nebulans in the war to begin with, and so disapproves of his partner and his advice on principle. Those who know him, though, say that Peacemaker has actually made progress in improving the dour Autobot's world view. Not a lot of progress, mind you... Thankfully Peacemaker knows how to be patient, loves a challenge, and is firm in his belief that optimism leads to success.
Spoilsport
double cannon
The Rebirth (Part 2,3)
Danny Mann
Spoilsport has a rather appropriate moniker, given that he spoils the fun of his partner Sureshot by being an equally good marksman. In a contest between an intelligent gun and an intelligent gunner, the gun gets a majority vote. His partner resents his interference, and in his turn, the Nebulan resents Sureshot for his lack of appreciation. It cannot help that Sureshot is a jerk, of course, and presumably he never calls.
Back on Nebulos, Nightstick was a master criminal. For some reason, he gave that up to undergo binary-bonding to Cyclonus. The loyal and honorable Decepticon warrior often finds himself at odds with the very dishonorable Nightstick and generally considers him an irritating pest.
Aimless should have been called "Useless". This Nebulan's success rate when he tries to hit a target is unknown, because that would require him to, you know, actually try. Together with his Targetmaster partner Misfire, he is a danger to himself and others. Mostly others.
Fracas' new Targetmaster body allows him to transform into an incendiary cannon for his new Decepticon partner Scourge—fitting, since Fracas is himself a hot-running, volatile scrapper who explodes into violent rages.
Like his binary bonded partner Slugslinger, Caliburst is merely putting on an act and playing the role of the cold and fearless Decepticon warrior he outwardly projects; it's just that he is generally more adept at keeping the mask up because of his former life as an actor. While not a good actor, more the kind to be found in the freezer section next to the other pork products, Caliburst does know the importance of staying in character. Given that he joined the Transformer conflict for the money because there was no one left on Nebulos that could stomach appreciate his "talent", he has an incentive to not screw up, Slugslinger treats his partner fairly well, mostly due to the direct link between the condition of the Decepticon's backbone infrastructure in combat and the condition of his weaponry.
The conniving brother-in-law of Lord Zarak, Blowpipe managed the political campaign that brought him and kept him in power. While a smooth political operator with endless connections, Blowpipe lacks the physical presence and style of a leader, causing him to resent his brother-in-law for taking all the glory when he did all the "real" work, treating combat like he would a political campaign, Blowpipe plots and plans things in advance, leaving nothing to chance, which puts him at odds with his binary bonded partner Triggerhappy, whose idea of combat tactics is to wave his gun around randomly as fast as he can and shoot really, really fast.
Frank Welker (in "The Return of Optimus Prime" Pt. 1), Roger C. Carmel (Movie), Bud Davis (in "The Quintesson Journal"), Jim Cummings (in "Money is Everything")
Massive, rotund, powerfully built and virtually brainless, Sharkticons are the perfect killing machines and thus the ideal enforcers to carry out the Quintessons' verdicts.[228] The jaws and teeth of the Sharkticon are so powerful and strong that they can snap a six inch-thick titanium steel rod in 0.23 of a second. Their spiked tails can crush the heaviest armor plating. But the real reason for their invincibility lies in their overwhelming numbers. Like piranhas, Sharkticons attack their prey en masse and are totally oblivious to the casualties the target might inflict. They know how to do only one thing, and that is to destroy. They perform that function perfectly and they travel in packs. Fearless and oblivious, loyal only to the master who last fed him. Powerful tail fin allows them to travel at speeds over 150 knots. Carnivorous with a voracious appetite, they possess several rows of razor-sharp teeth that can tear through solid steel. In robot mode, they carry a maceration laser that shoots salt-based corrosive liquid. They also carry a barbed mace.
Sharkticon pit executioners are a type of Sharkticon who stand at the top of the Sharkticon pit and after they are given orders to toss the condemned victim or victims into the pit, then pull the lever sending the victim to fall downwards into the pit where they are usually consumed by the Sharkticons. When Rodimus Prime travelled into the Autobot Matrix of Leadership, he saw that they had existed along with The Quintessons millions of years ago on Cybertron and were seen fleeing from Cybertron with The Quintessons after they had been driven away by their former slaves.
Deceased robots remains
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The Transformers: The Movie
N/A
After Hup and Hot Rod are captured by the Allicons and placed in the holding cells on the planet Quintessia, ruined robots remains of a few different colours are seen in the cells of both them and cell next to them that Kranix is in. Who these robots once were, and exactly why their remains were in the cells is unknown. They probably were destroyed by either and or the Allicons or Sharkticons while trying to escape though.
Teletraan I is a semi-sentient computer that runs the Autobots' spaceship/base, the Ark. Teletraan I has extensive communications abilities and can monitor Earth's television and radio broadcasts to search for news that may be of interest to the Autobots, in addition to operating the Sky Shop. Teletraan I is presumably destroyed along with the Ark during the events of "Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5".[229]
Teletraan II is a supercomputer constructed by the Autobots following the destruction of its predecessor, Teletraan I. It can be easily accessed from both Autobot City and Cybertron. Teletraan II has many roles and capabilities, including recording Autobot activities for later analysis and keeping educational files on both the Autobots and Decepticons.[230]
TORQ III is an advanced supercomputer capable of controlling and building machines. It was created by American scientists at Quantum Laboratories. Megatron reprogrammed TORQ III and ordered the computer to take control of the facility until it was destroyed by Optimus Prime. Dr. Paul Gates decided not to reactivate TORQ III until he could make him completely tamper-proof.[231]
The Quintessons
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The Transformers: The Movie
The Return of Optimus Prime (Part 2)
Quintesson #1: Regis Cordic (Movie) Quinetesson #2: Roger C. Carmel (Movie) Quintesson #3: Jack Angel Quintesson #4: Tony Pope (in "The Big Broadcast of 2006", "The Quintesson Journal", and "The Return of Optimus Prime") Quintesson #5: Paul Eiding (in "The Quintesson Journal") Quintesson #6: Clive Revill (in "The Return of Optimus Prime") Quintesson Scientist: Dick Gautier (in "The Killing Jar")
The Quintessons are an ancient roboticalien race[232] who once lived on Cybertron many ages ago and their goal is to re-claim it. While they lived there, they used it as a huge factory to produce several kinds of lifeforms, including robots, who eventually become the Transformers. Extremely self-serving and devious, they travel on beams of energy. Most Quintessons have five faces each with each face being its own individual.
Ancient Cyberton's military hardware and consumer goods robots
Military hardware and consumer goods were created eons ago by the Quintessons when Cyberton was a factory. They were the ancient ancestors of the Autobots and Decepticons. They were used by the Quintessons for bad reasons. They developed emotions and drove the Quintessons away from Cybertron. The lived together peacefully for some time, but it did not last. The military hardware would go on to the being the Deceptions, while the consumer goods would become the Autobots.
While Rodimus Prime was seemingly near death, he sees a ghost with some sharp teeth, who makes a shrieking sound and four unknown robots who are different colours, one which has a shield and two of them which have claws instead of hands standing in a row, who then explode. Whoever these beings are is unknown.
While Rodimus Prime is on earth and racing with two Stunticons he then crashes. Then Stunticons then see the Autobot Matrix of leadship and remove it from him and travel back to their base on Charr and state that "Galvatron will love it". The Stunticons then give it to Decepticon leader Galvatron. When Galvatron inserts it into his fusion cannon, Ancient Autobot leaders including Optimus Prime appear, who keep telling him over and over to "Return the Matrix", which he says he will do, but does not.
Trannis is a violet coloured Decepticon warlord, whose job is to do lots of stuff, but be forgotten about when a more famous one shows up. The "early Decepticon leader" engaged on a campaign of conquest with his soldiers. Towards the end of the Second Cybertronian War, he was chased by some Autobot. The Decepticon leader used his lightning whip to knock his attacker off his motorcycle, but then that motorcycle crashed into his and made him fall off too. Before he even got up, Sentinel Prime jumped in and kicked the snot out of him.[233]
The ASD-324-ddd-3e3c1 model Decepticons
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Five Faces of Darkness (Part 4)
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The ASD-324-ddd-3e3c1 model are a type of ancient Decepticons who formed the backbone of Decepticon forces in the generation prior to Megatron and Optimus Prime. This model first appeared during the brief period of Autobot-Decepticon harmony following the Quintesson departure from Cybertron 11 million years ago. With both groups free to pursue their own interests, the Autobots took up interpretive dance while the Decepticons practiced parade-drills and organized marching. Perhaps inevitably this got boring and the Decepticons decided to conquer the planet under Trannis. These soldiers formed the bulk of that army. These Decepticon soldiers carry a semi-automatic energy rifle with a single rocket mounted on top. They also sometimes use laser-guided rocket launchers for striking against fortified structures. These Decepticon soldiers remained in service until the invention of Transformation rendered them largely obsolete, a period of almost 2 million years.[234]
Prima
Unknown
Five Faces of Darkness (Part 4)
Neil Ross
Prima was created from the corpse of another robot which the Quintessons deactivated for its underperformance in its tasks. The robot was instantly smelted down and reformed into Prima, who, through unknown circumstances, became the second documented bearer of the Matrix of Leadership. Prima was unusual amongst his consumer goods brethren in that he was equipped for combat, and was made to battle in the Quintessons' gladiatorial pits. He found the endless fighting repellent, and, after a battle with Sentinel Major, decided to strike back at his masters, leaping at the group of Quintessons that had been watching the match. He was blasted out of the air, and fell to the ground in a smoking wreck, apparently deceased. He was succeeded as Matrix-bearer by Prime Nova. When Rodimus Prime journeyed inside the Matrix, Prima was the second guide he encountered, and told him the story of the Quintessons gladiatorial matches.[235]
Prime Nova
Unknown
Five Faces of Darkness (Part 4)
Milt Jamin
Prime Nova is the Matrix bearer after Prima. Prime Nova, or Nova Prime, succeeded Prima as bearer of the Matrix of Leadership through unknown circumstances, and went on to fight against the Quintessons in the robot uprising that ultimately forced the evil aliens off of Cybertron. It is unknown if he died during the rebellion or not, but by the time of the first Great War, he had been replaced as Autobot leader by Guardian Prime. When Rodimus Prime journeyed into the Matrix in 2005, Prime Nova was the third guide that he encountered. Prime Nova related to him the tale of the Quintessons' robots rise to true sentience and life, and their fight back against their alien masters.[236]
Sentinel Prime
Early Cybertronian vehicle
Five Faces of Darkness (Part 4)
Jack Angel
Sentinel Prime is an imposing figure, standing head and shoulders over the average Autobot. Bristling with some of the most heavy-duty weapons and armor available to the Autobot army has instilled in Sentinel Prime a supreme confidence in his own abilities as both a leader and a fighter. Unfortunately such pride usually precedes a fall, and there will always be someone out there keen to prove a point, or who merely sees Sentinel Prime as an obstacle on the path to a bigger destiny. Sentinel Prime is typically, but not always, depicted as Optimus Prime's immediate predecessor as Autobot leader. Sentinel Major was originally one of the Quintessons' slave robots on Cybertron around twelve million years ago. Unusual among his consumer goods brethren, Sentinel Prime was equipped for combat and was forced to participate in gladiatorial games for the Quintessons' amusement, wielding a spiked ball-and-chain weapon and a tire-shaped shield. He was once defeated in battle by Prima, who attacked their Quintesson masters when their match was over, only to be destroyed himself. Subsequently, the consumer goods robots rose up against the Quintessons in a rebellion that ultimately forced the aliens off the planet. Sentinel Prime survived this clash, but he and the rest of his race—now dubbed "Autobots"—were robbed of any chance of peace when the military hardware robots, now known as "Decepticons", set their sights on conquering Cybertron for themselves. Two Autobot leaders fell during the war that ensued, and Sentinel Prime inherited the Matrix of Leadership and became Sentinel Prime, leader of the Autobots. Under his leadership, the Autobots realized that they would never be able to defeat the Decepticons with firepower, and they turned instead to stealth, reconfiguring their bodies to be able to transform into other forms. With the power of his new ability, Sentinel Prime defeated the Decepticons' leader, and the Autobots won the war. The ensuing period of peace was known as the Golden Age of Cybertron, but, around nine million years BCE, the Decepticon threat re-emerged when they too adopted transformation, and coupled it with robot-mode flight powers. One of the first of this new breed of Decepticons, the malevolent Megatron, killed Sentinel Prime in combat. As he died, he handed off the Matrix to Alpha Trion, who kept it safe until the emergence of the next Autobot leader, Optimus Prime. When Rodimus Prime journeyed into the Matrix in 2005, Sentinel Prime was the sixth guide he encountered. Sentinel Prime recounted the development of transformation, the Autobot victory in the war and the rise of Megatron.[237]
Pole vault Transformer
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Five Faces of Darkness (Part 4)
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The "pole vault Transformer" is an Autobot who lived between the First and Second Cybertronian War. In the year of 2006, he is a member of the Junkion tribe. Unless, of course, these two guys are not the same person, but just happen to share a design and color scheme. He participated in a pole vault competition that took place in the time of peace between the first two wars. Millions of years later, he helped Wreck-Gar fetch their Autobot allies from Goo.[238]
When human ally Spike Witwicky is captured by the Decepticons, the Autobots encounter two Optimus Primes as Megatron has created an Optimus Prime clone. As the Autobots attempt to rescue him, they must figure out which Optimus Prime is the real Optimus Prime and save Spike's life.
The Autobots encounter a clone of Starscream, which the real Starscream is controlling. He is destroyed by the Clone Optimus Prime to make is seem like it is the true Optimus Prime, which is believed by 1975 F-15 Eagle claiming that this must be the real Optimus Prime as he "just killed the Decepticons number two varmint and can't be working for Megatron".
After being transported to Cybertron by the Decepticon spacebridge. Spike and Carly came across a room where Carly sees several robots and then says "these must be the primitive ancestors of the Autobots, they sure have evolved over the eons". They also got to see a film that shows the battles between the early Autobots and Decepticons, which shows them having many different colors in their primitive forms.
Sentinels robots are combat robots consisting of different types on Cybertron, that are used by Shockwave. They can neither transform or speak and be destroyed very easily, as they are very weak. The Dinobots easily handled them when the arrived on Cybertron after traveling through the Decepticons' spacebride. Shockwave also destroyed one of them after blasting it, as he was trying to blast Spike and Carly. The female Autobots later encountered a different Sentinel robot that could fly, when they were fleeing from Shockwave. Moonracer was able to destroy it, after blasting it with her pistol.
Pole Vault Transformer
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Five Faces of Darkness (Part 4)
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The pole vault Transformer is an Autobot, who lived between the First and Second Cybertronian War who participated in a pole vault competition that took place in the time of peace between the first two wars. Millions of years later, he helped Wreck-Gar fetch their Autobot allies from Goo. In the year of 2006, he is a member of the Junkion tribe. Unless, of course, these two guys are not the same person, but just happen to share a design and color scheme.[239]
Hood Transformer
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Five Faces of Darkness (Part 4)
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The Hood Transformer is an Autobot who lived between the First and Second Cybertronian War. Millions of years later, he helped Wreck-Gar fetch their Autobot allies from Goo. Towards the end of the Second Cybertronian War, he chasing after the leader of the Decepticons. The Decepticon whipped him off his motorcycle, but then that motorcycle crashed into his and made him fall off too, which allowed Sentinel Prime to catch up with the Decepticon leader to finish the fight. Millions of years later, he helped Wreck-Gar fetch their Autobot allies from Goo. In the year of 2006, he is a member of the Junkion tribe. Unless, of course, these two guys are not the same person, but just happen to share a design and color scheme. He/they transform into (a) motorcycle(s).[240]
Guardian Prime is an ancient Autobot leader who lived between the First and Second Cybertronian War and was once bearer of the Autobot Martix of leadership, and was the fourth leader of the Autobots. Rodimus Prime had come across him after he had entered the matrix. He looks very similar to Rodimus Prime in his design and color patterns.
White sword and shield fighting robot
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The Transformers: The Movie
Unknown
The White sword and shield fighting robot has a single yellow eye and duels with Hot Rod, while being aboard a spaceship. He repeatedly asks Hot Rod for a time out, when he aggravates him during their duel, by attacking him from behind, when Hot Rod was not looking.
Quintessia Sea Creatures
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The Transformers: The Movie
N/A
After Kup and Hot Rod crashed on the planet Quintessia, they both ending up in murky sea waters, that included very large piranha like fish, that Hot Rod fought and sawed in half, during the time that he was tangled in giant sea plants. After freeing himself from the giant sea plants and hearing Kup's cry for help, he then found and defeated a giant Squid, which was holding Kup after tearing him apart, and had spewed a large black mist at Hot Rod after being defeated by him. Hot Rod then helped Kup out of the sea and successfully repaired him.
Executed orange robot
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The Transformers: The Movie
Unknown
The Executed orange robot is seen on the plank in the Quinetesson's court, when the Quinetessons delclared that he was innocent and they told the Sharkticon executioner to feed him to the Sharkticons. After he falls into the Sharkticon pit, he is heard screaming, while the Sharktiocons devour him.
Ancient Cybertronian Constructicons
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Five Faces of Darkness (Part 4)
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The Ancient Cybertronian Constructicons are a team of eight Constructicons, who lived on Cybertron millions of years ago, who were seen by Rodimus Prime, through the Autobot Matrix of leadership creating Megatron far below a city on Cybertron. These were not the same Constructions who later joined Megatron and formed Devastator. Their individual names and what became of them is unknown.
Zeta Prime
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Five Faces of Darkness (Part 4)
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Zeta Prime inherited the Matrix of Leadership from Guardian Prime when he was killed during the early days of the war with the Decepticons. His stint as Autobot leader appears to have been a short-lived one, as he died before the end of the war and was succeeded by Sentinel Prime. When Rodimus Prime journeyed into the Matrix in 2005, Zeta Prime was the fifth guide he encountered, who gave a very short account of the continuing Autobot-Decepticon war.[241]
Primon, the "Alpha Prime", is one of the oldest known bearers of the Matrix. As he predated Prima, who is characterized as the first Transformer created on Cybertron, it is conceivable that he predates the planet itself. Primon was the earliest documented bearer of the Matrix of Leadership, but how he came to hold the talisman, and his activities during the Quintesson occupation of Cybertron, are unknown. He was succeeded as Matrix-bearer by Prima. When Rodimus Prime voyaged into the Matrix in 2005, Primon was the first guide the Autobot leader encountered. Primon related to him the story of the Transformers' creation by the Quintessons, and how they were endowed with sentience.[242]
Vector Sigma is an ancient and incredibly powerful super-computer that dwells many layers below the surface of Cybertron. It is guarded by Centurion droids. When it is activated it says the following "I am Vector Sigma, before Cybertron was, I was" and then asks why that it has been activated. After Megatron created the Stunticons out of stolen Earth vehicles, he then took them to Cybertron to have Vector Sigma give them life. He was told by Shockwave that Alpha Trion had the key that activated Vector Sigma, which Megatron and his Decepticons then stole and used to give the Stunticons life. Megatron and his Decepticons then returned to Earth with the key. The Autobots also went to Cybertron to stop the Decepticons, and created the Aerialbots out of ancient shuttles to combat the Stunticons. Since they did not have the key, Alpha Trion used his own hand to activate Vector Sigma and he ending up merging with it, separating from his robot body. On Earth, Megatron found that the key could turn things into metal, which he started doing. The key was later destroyed by Aerialbot leader Silverbolt in a battle that took place in Seattle, Washington, after which everything that had turned into metal changed back to its original form. How Vector Sigma could be activated after that is unknown, but Optimus Prime used the Matrix of Leadership to communicate with Alpha Trion, who was now a part of the super-computer.
Hailing from the Nalva System, the Arcadroids are spherical aliens who can tuck their legs up and roll along the ground. A group of Arcadroids took part in the first Galactic Olympics on Athenia in the year 2005. Apparently, the bookmakers favoured them in the downhill events. Considering the stadium was completely flat, that did not seem like much of an advantage.[243]
Athenian beings
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Five Faces of Darkness (Part 1)
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Beings on the planet athenia during the first Galactic Olympics are transformer-like robots who are seen in the audience during the car race between the Autobots. Also in the audience are multi-coloured humanoid aliens who are also doing the commentary for the race and are seen among Jazz after he wins the race.
The Yellow Autobot who has no known name competed alongside Jazz in a race at the intergalactic games. He is the last to get going in the race. He may of also have done worst in the race.
The Blue Autobot
Racecar
Five Faces of Darkness (Part 1)
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The Blue Autobot who has no known name competed alongside Jazz in a race at the intergalactic games. He and The Yellow Autobot failed to swing across a gap filled with water and fell in, while Jazz successfully swung over the water and was the winner of the race.
Tornedron was the successor to Unicron, created by Unicron's creator Primacron. Unlike Unicron, Tornedron was an energy-based lifeform, controlled by Primacron's remote control. It consumed other energies, leaving stars dead and planets inert; its final purpose was to leave the entire universe a blank slate for Primacron to do with as he pleased. Unfortunately for Primacron, while Tornedron succeeded in draining most of the universe's energy, it also became just as rebellious as his predecessor. However, Grimlock defeated it before the creature could consume its creator; he threw it into reverse, returning all the energy it stole to its original locations and dispersing the entity.
Hauler is an Autobot crane that shows up just briefly alongside Ratchet and Cliffjumper to pull an injured Hound out of a ravine that he feel into after he was shot by Laserbeak as he was chasing him. Why it was only seen briefly and never made anymore appearances is unknown.
Acid Storm is something of an oddity among the Decepticons. He's more than happy to stay buried in the ranks, a largely anonymous soldier among a sea of very similar bots, rather than try and make a big name for himself. This is somewhat baffling, as his intelligence, data gathering skills, charisma and ability to manipulate localized weather patterns to create acid rain could possibly propel him up the ranks. But for whatever reason, he stays in his role as one of the Rainmakers rather than striking out on his own.[244]
Seeker Ion Storm
Cybertronian spacecraft
Divide and conquer
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One of the formidable Rainmakers, Ion Storm is an electrokinetic, able to personally generate EMPs.[245]
Seeker Nova Storm
Cybertronian spacecraft
Divide and conquer
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One of the formidable Rainmakers, Nova Storm is equipped with armor that enables survival in volcanic environments or even the chromosphere of a star for short periods of time. When a group of Autobots (and Chip Chase) journeyed to Cybertron to fetch a cosmitron for a wounded Optimus Prime, Megatron sent the Rainmaker trio to make things difficult for our heroes with some acid rain. The Autobots managed to fight them off.[246]
When a model Optimus Prime that was created by Megatron in the Decepticon's underwater headquarters appeared, Starscream gave the orders to attack it, but Megatron told him that it is just a model of their enemy. Spark Plug who was under slave control then pushed it over.
"Watchdog" units are part of the Decepticon security net on Cybertron under Shockwave. These hovercars patrol the roads of Cybertron, going where the traditional Decepticon jet cannot. When Spike, Wheeljack, Skyfire/Jetfire, Trailbreaker, Bumblebee, and Brawn ticked off Shockwave, he sent the entire Decepticon contingent on Cybertron after them. Two "watchdogs" pursued them through the streets, but they were able to evade them by ducking into the hidden entrance to Wheeljack's lab.[247]
Medicroids are medical drones used by the Decepticons. It is unclear how wide-ranging their skills are, but they are known to be capable of replacing human body parts with mechanical substitutes. The medicroids possibly could have done the job differently than they did, since Starscream had requested that when Arkeville was taken to the repair bay, he stated "the doctor must not have a chance to interfere again."
Autobot X is an Autobot drone robot constructed from various spare parts by Sparkplug Witwicky who when was first activated had caused damage to Wheeljack's workshop. After Spike was severely injured by Megatron the only way to save him was to transfer his mind out of his body, at the recommendation of the doctors at Metro Hospital. Sparkplug and Wheeljack then arranged to transfer Spike's mind into Autobot X and the process had unstable results, however, and for a time, a confused Spike turned against the Autobots. Once Spike's body was healed, Wheeljack and Sparkplug successfully transferred Spike's mind back into his own body. After that Autobot X was never re-activated.
Nightbird is a human construct with a single form and thus not actually a Transformer herself. Created by Dr. Fujiyama, she was a non-transforming ninja robot. She was stolen by the Decepticons and reprogrammed to infiltrate the Ark and steal the World Energy Source from Teletran I. She would subsequently be defeated and returned to her creator by the Autobots, and did not appear for the remainder of the animated series. In comics associated with the Botcon storyline, however, an army of Nightbird drones would later battle several Autobots, eventually perishing when Daniel Witwicky set off a powerful explosive that destroyed not only the drones, but also himself and the Autobot Wheelie.
Sub-Atlanticans are water-breathing humanoid fishmen who are different green colours. They are able to use telepathy to communicate with each other. They are evil and aggressive in nature and their leader is King Nergil.
King Nergil rules Sub-Atlantica, a hidden kingdom that is located underwater the sea. Their relationship to humanity proper is uncertain. Like most people Megatron makes deals with, he is devious and pretty much out for his own gain. He disappears after Sub-Atlantica is destroyed and sunk and it is unknown what became of him.
The Alligaticon is a Reptilicon drone made by the Constructicons from the remains of the disassembled Optimus Prime. In the sewers, the drone encountered the Autobots Ratchet, Hound, Mirage, and Bumblebee, who believed it to be a simple mindless beast. They tricked it into an abandoned train, where it got trapped and sent down the tracks. It was only later that they realized that Optimus Prime had been disassembled after encountering his head in the Decepticon base. Hound finally realized why his scanner kept picking up Prime when the Alligaticon attacked. They sought it again in the sewers, where they struggled to capture it until Prime used his remote controls to bring the beast in line. After that, Ratchet used the parts to reassemble Optimus Prime.[248]
Solomon is a male owl that hoots and is warmly greeted by elderly male wizard Beorht, who lived in 542, and then offers him some severed rat tails, which Solomon gladly eats.
There a few cows that are light brown that have not been dehorned that had wondered through a fence and had eaten the plants in Aetheling the Red's garden, which had caused his feuding with Sir Wigend du Blackthorne in 542.
Medieval dragon
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A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court
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In 542 there also lived a dragon in the Dragon Mound. When time-lost Transformers attempted to use the Mound to return to their proper time, they were confronted by the gigantic, fire-breathing beast, but Beorht and Warpath were able to scare it away with the explosive Dragon's Bane.[249]
The Titans are a humanoid race of different colours with pointy ears who live on the moon of Titan, some of whom believe in sky gods. After Autobot Cosmos crashes on Titan, the belief is thought to have been confirmed to be true. They are forced to serve the Decepticons Astrotrain, Starscream, and Thrust who had arrived on Titan, but later befriend the Autobots Jazz, Perceptor, and Omega Supreme who later arrived on Titan as well. After befriending the Autobots, the Titans built and new home to replace the one that was the destroyed by the Decepticons who had since left Titan.
Jero was the head astrologer priest on Titan, and as such forced all of the other Titans to worship their Sky God through offerings. One Titan, Talaria, attempted to revolt and expose Jero and the Sky Gods as fake, though Jero took advantage of Cosmos' crash landing to reclaim his position as a leader. It is not revealed whether Jero survived the temple explosion caused by the Decepticons.
Talaria
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The God Gambit
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Talaria is a member of the Titan species of the eponymous planet. During the annual sacrifice ceremony, she attempted to convince the other Titans that the Sky Gods and Jero were fake. However, this was interrupted by Cosmos' crash landing, which provided Jero with an opportunity to reclaim his authority. Talaria was able to reactivate Cosmos by reconnecting a wire. Though Talaria also managed to escape, she was later captured and almost sacrificed before being rescued by Jazz. Though Astrotrain's detonation of the energy crystals destroyed their island, Talaria survived and emerged as the new leader of her people.
Scrawney is a member of the Titan species of the eponymous planet. He believed Jero's proclamations of the existence of Sky Gods and even brought an offering to the temple, despite Talaria attempting to convince him that the Sky Gods were nonexistent. Scrawny and two other Titans later asked to be destroyed by the Autobots, as their faith had been destroyed. Scrawney survived the island explosion caused by the detonation of the energy crystals.
Pre-historic dinosaurs that somehow still exist live on an island that was named Dinobot Island by Spike Witwicky after the Dinobots arrived there to start their training to improve their skills. They are able to co-exist with the Dinobots, but start to give them trouble after the Decepticons arrived there to collect its energy sources. Grimlock though is later he recruit the dinosaurs to his cause, as they battle and help with defeating the Decepticons.
Robosmasher is a robot with many arms created by Megatron back on Cybertron, that was used to seize transformers and convert them to his cause. Robosmasher had grabbed and converted the Constructicons to the Decepticon cause, before they came to earth and were friends with Omega Supreme.
A robosmasher victim is a red, blue, and white transformer known as a Gyronian Sentry from Gyronia. The hapless Gyronian Sentry was seized by robosmasher and was converted to serve Megatron.
The Robodoctor is an Autobot scientist who worked a lot on the creation of the Guardian Robots. Even though he is cheerful and friendly, he is somewhat overconfident as well, which may be a problem.
Asteroid bird alien
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The Secret of Omega Supreme
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The asteroid bird alien is a creature capable of flying in outer space and firing energy blasts from its tail. After The Constructicons were sent into space to begin mining operations on an unusual asteroid, which was passing near Earth. Omega Supreme went to stop them and destroy the asteroid and found out that the asteroid appeared to be organic. During when Omega Supreme threw a punch that broke the asteroid in half. The alien bird creature, which had been curled up inside the asteroid, was revealed. It then flew to Earth and went to San Francisco, where it caused much damage. It could not be controlled by anyone. Eventually, it was revealed that the unusual ore of the asteroid was actually its food, and that it was aggressive because it was hungry. Omega Supreme lured the bird back into space, where it ate what remained of the asteroid, and then flew off and was never seen again.[250]
Morphobots are a species of mechanical plant which appear completely white with its structure divided into parts of five; namely, five roots, a five-toothed maw which opens when food arrives, and five tentacles. The tentacles themselves possess two sharp claws each, which are capable of extending and grabbing distant prey. They are known to attack mechanical forms of life, but seem to be drawn towards robotic insectoid species such as the Insecticons who they ending up eating their entire clone army. After being on earth and causing much havoc for both the Autobots and Decepticons the Autobots launched them into space in the direction of a planet inhabited by mechanical insects.[251]
The Beast of Borneo is an unregistered dragon-like creature native to the island of Borneo captured by Lord Chumley. The species is likely very rare and seems to possess some intelligence. By 1985, he used it in hunting other creatures. The Beast was the first challenge Chumley threw at Optimus Prime when he came to rescue some of his soldiers. The Beast snuck up on Prime, and though Prime countered its attack, he was separated from his ion blaster. When he tried to retrieve it, the Beast whipped it out of his reach onto a bridge, where they continued fighting until Optimus Prime threw the Beast into the pit below.[252]
Lord Chumley's giant robot arachnids
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Prime Target
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Lord Chumley's giant robot arachnids are mechanical creatures used by Lord Chumley in his attempt to add the head of Optimus Prime to his hunting collection. Optimus Prime was first attacked by a mechanical scorpion, though managed to break off one of its claws and escape. Optimus Prime was later attacked by a mechanical black widow spider in Chumley's castle, though he was able to defeat it by tricking the spider into biting itself and exploding.
Aron is a young boy from the planet Brobdingnag who encounters both Autobots and Decepticons after the space bridge malfunctions during one of their battles. His species is exponentially larger than an average Transformer, putting the Transformers at a relative size that makes them look like toys. He enjoys building sets, his father's telescope, and a toy rocket ship that is able to fly about his room which he gave to the Autobots so they could leave his planet after the Decepticons successfully took advantage of their first attempt to leave Brobdingnag.
Aron's parents are two members of the Brobdingnag civilization. They are very protective of their son Aron. They acted very cautious when they saw the Autobots and Decepticons in Aron's room and called the authorities.[253]
The scientist is an authority in the civilization of the planet Brobdingnag who after the relatively miniature and foreign Transformers were discovered in Aron's room by his parents, they were taken to the scientist and associated colleagues. After some cursory looks at the robotic beings, the scientist planned to dissect the robots, starting with the Decepticons. Fearing for his Autobot friends, Aron snatched the container they were within and ran out. The scientist, among others, chased after the boy, but were unable to find him before he released the Autobots. Unattended to in the scientist's office, the Decepticons freed themselves.[254]
Marty is a young boy who bullies Aron, a fellow member of a species who are proportionately huge. Huge enough that Transformers are the size of toys to them. This means he could totally beat up Optimus Prime.[255]
Nitro is a six-limbed creature roughly analogous to a cat from the planet Brobdingnag which is one of the three pets of Aron. Because everything on the planet is scaled up, Nitro is more than big enough to use Soundwave as a chew toy.[256][257]
Booper
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Child's Play
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Booper is an alien creature vaguely resembling a cross between an elephant and a mouse. Booper is of a species native to the planet Brobdingnag and belongs to Aron, a young, timid boy. As everything on the planet is much larger than usual, Booper is closer to the size of a small elephant than a mouse.[258]
Brobdingnagian sewer creature
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Child's Play
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Brobdingnagian sewer creature is a rat like creature with an elephant like trunk that lives in a Brobdingnagian sewer. It attacks Perceptor while the Autobots and Decepticons are fighting in there. After Prime shoots it away from Perceptor it makes a sound that sounds much like a rat would make.
Aron's pet fish
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Child's Play
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"Aron's pet fish" is a piranha-esque fish from the planet Brobdingnag. As everything on the planet is much larger than on most other planets, the fish is like alien Jaws on steroids to Transformers.[259] After Thrust was thrown into the fish's aquarium by Nitro, Aron's cat and before he could think of a way out the liquid, the fish attacked him and he had to swim for his life. When the fish got particularly close, Thrust screamed out for Ravage, but the Mini-Cassette got captured too. In the end, Thrust managed to keep away from the fish until Aron noticed him and got him out of the aquarium.
Bosch is an alien gambler who travels through the galaxy searching for ways to make a quick energon chip to feed his gambling habit. He will even go as far as to enslave unsuspecting travelers whom he picks up from space, as he did with a band of Autobots he stumbled across. With the help of Devcon, Bosch, and Slizardo, Smokescreen was able to free his friends before they were taken back to Earth by Astrotrain under Decepticon control.[260]
Lord Gyconi
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The Gambler
Walker Edmiston
Lord Gyconi of Monacus is a rotund greedy, cruel, brutish, shrewd, cowardly—all these describes him well. Gangster and showman, Lord Gyconi runs brutal gladiator-type games in his Pit of Destruction where he rigs the contests and skims profits of the gambling proceeds. Under the employ of Megatron, Gyconi makes loans on the side with incredibly high interest rates and short repayment periods to gamblers. For fun he likes to play the gong and swat around his servant, Slizardo. It is unknown how or why he has the title of 'Lord'.[261]
Monacus casino worker
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The Gambler
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Monacus casino worker is a cloaked figure with a hood who stops Smokescreen from making his last bet of energon chips which sets up an unfortunate set of events for Smokescreen.
Animaliens
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The Gambler
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Animaliens are the star attraction in gladiatorial combat games on the casino asteroid Monacus. Nothing is known of these creatures' history, planet of origin, intelligence level, or behavior in the wild. What is known is that risking your life against them in the Pit of Destruction is a losing venture.[262]
Born out of modified New York City cars and remote-controlled by their masters, the Robot Conversion Troop supplements the Decepticon forces on Earth. After being offered a million dollars by the Decepticons, the Geddis brothers ran a car theft operation that accumulated 500 cars for delivery to their client's base in the Pine Barrens. After the Constructicons modified them into transforming drones, they drove into the city, and encountered the Autobots, who got wind of the plot. Transforming into their robot modes, they had the Autobots at a disadvantage, until they realized they were controlled remotely, leading Blaster to jam the signal. The Autobots then invaded the Decepticon base, and, with Raoul's help, were able to destroy the factory, permanently disabling them. Afterwards, Sparkplug Witwicky estimated it would take him weeks to restore the cars to their original state.[263]
Tlalakans are a white humanoid species with pointy ears, who live on the planet called Tlalakan, that may be somewhere not that far away from Earth. The Tlalakans have secret access to a pool of water that is known as the Well of Transformation, that can change them into any form they want to be, though typically they use it to become creatures who live on land, or swim in the sea. They live beneath the sea, in an underwater city, though it's not known what is the real reason for why they live this way.
Alana is a leader of the Tlalakan species of the eponymous planet. She teamed up with the Autobots to defeat Deceptitran, a drone controlled by the Decepticons to keep her civilization enslaved. Through the use of a secret pool known as the Well of Transformation, Alana transformed into a mermaid, a robot, and a boat, in that order. In doing this, Alana successfully reprogramed Deceptitran to send a fake distress call to Megatron and have the drones attack the Decepticons. Alana also developed a relationship with Seaspray, though decided to return to her original form in the end.
Chac is a member of the Tlalakan species. While the species was enslaved, Chac was seized by drones and had his energy extracted from him, causing him to temporarily lose consciousness. With the help of the Autobots, Chac and the rest of the Tlalakans were able to defeat the Decepticons.
Mok is a member of the Tlalakan species. Though Mok suggested the Tlalakans leave the Autobots to fight the drones on their own after the crash landing of the Cosmos, Alana convinced him that they should team up with the Autobots. Mok subsequently participated in the effort to rescue Bumblebee from the Decepticons and regain control of their civilization.
Tlaloc is an elder member of the Tlalakan species. He appears as a merman wielding a trident, causing him to resemble Neptune. Tlaloc welcomed Alana, Mok, and the Autobots to the Tlalakans' secret underwater city. He helped lead a successful effort to rescue Bumblebee from the Decepticons, though the underwater city was destroyed in the process.
Rarto
Merman
Sea Change
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Rarto is a member of the Tlalakan species. Like most members of the species, he most frequently assumed the form of a merman. Rarto participated in the effort to rescue Bumblebee from the Decepticons by providing bombs to the Autobots.
Deceptitran is a Decepticon drone created and programmed by the Decepticons to harvest energon on the planet Tlalakan. Through the use of an army of drones, he enslaved the Tlalakan to mine and collect the planet's energon. He even has developed a way to harvest energon directly from the Tlalakans through the use of a machine where they sit and he siphons the Tlalakans' life force through wires and tubes. Deceptitran was reprogrammed by a Tlalakan named Alana to obey her and send a fake distress call to Megatron and then have the drones attack the Decepticons.
Deceptitran's droids
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Sea Change
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Deceptitran's droids are three grey coloured robots who at Deceptitran's command attack the Autobots, after they arrive on Tlalakan and are quickly defeated by the Autobots. More of these droids are later seen guarding Deceptitran's base and they are also destroyed.
The Centurion droids are an automated defense guarding the Vector Sigma supercomputer. Though possessing no weapons, Centurions are trained in hand-to-hand combat to stop all intruders. They also possess very strong armor that protects them from attacks, making them even more dangerous. They tend to be encountered in large numbers. They must be either evaded or tricked in order for one to approach Vector Sigma. Fortunately, that's not hard.
Maintenance drones
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The Key To Vector Sigma part 1
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The Maintenance drones were a series of non-sentient bipedal mechanoids that were produced on Cybertron. They possessed a grayish skin color with a white face which only showed two eyes. Their programming was suited for maintenance tasks which made them incapable of more complex tasks such as combat. As such, they were easily destroyed against more militant enemies.[264]
The Giant Purple Griffin was one of the original Megatron's creations: a giant flying building shaped like a griffin. The Giant Purple Griffin had a mane of prehensile tentacles that could be used to grasp at opponents. During an operation in the Middle East, the Decepticons helped local malcontents secretly overthrow the legitimate ruler of an unnamed nation in exchange for oil. As part of this operation, the Decepticons used a Giant Purple Griffin, though it was unclear exactly what Megatron planned to do with it. The griffin was able to use a couple of lasers in its beak to shoot at the Aerialbots and fly around. The griffin managed to shoot Superion, knocking him over, but the combiner gave the griffin a good swift kick, which caused it to crash and seemingly put it out of commission. The griffin was presumably destroyed in a giant oilfield explosion triggered by the Aerialbots a moment later.[265]
The Antillain Autobots were an ancient colony of Autobots who resided on the planet Antilla. The entire civilization perished as a result of Cosmic Rust. While exploring the planet, which was marked with the Autobots' symbol, the Decepticons came across a transmission from one of these Autobots warning them of the plague. However, the Decepticons ignored this warning and entered a nearby temple, where they found a Lightning Bug they mistakenly believed to be treasure — it was actually a weapon that accelerated the spread of the virus.
Antillain holographic Autobot
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Cosmic Rust
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The Antillain holographic Autobot from the transmission was a deceased blue Autobot who in a poem warned the Decepticons about Cosmic Rust. He had Cosmic Rust on various parts of his body and a light brown pole in his left hand.
Blast is a Decepticon who participated in the fourth great war on Cybertron, which caused a number of Autobots to flee and form their own civilization on the planet Paradron. Blast was with Megatron's group when they attacked the Ark due to erroneously believing that the Autobots had stolen the Combaticons' personality components.[266]
The Guardian robots were once the peacekeepers of Cybertron, powerful giants who guarded cities and quelled uprisings. The Guardians gave the Decepticons much trouble at the outbreak of the Third Cybertronian War, but by the modern era they were no longer so prevalent, The most notable surviving Guardian is Omega Supreme, who is the only one seen to have his own name, distinct color scheme, and personality; it is unknown how unique these qualities actually are.
Autobot rebels
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Forever Is a Long Time Coming
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The Autobot rebels are members of the consumer product line that, done with their uncertain lives as slaves, rose up to fight their masters, the Quintessons. Known members include A-3, the leader, and Beta, the second-in-command. Although the rebels had a grand scale attack on Hive City planned, which proceeded quite well at first, they failed to breach the city's walls and take out the Dark Guardians permanently. Suddenly, A-3 appeared on the battlefield and activated the Coder Remote. Having taken out the main defenses, he urged the future Autobots to return to their own time, the battle no longer their concern.[267]
Inquirata is a Quintesson Scientist who was in charge of a project to use a Time Window to alter the outcome of the slave rebellion that took place on Cybertron eleven million years ago by abducting one of its leaders, A-3. After the operation was interrupted by the arrival of some Autobots and Inquirata was dragged away by the other Quintessons, he explained to his commander that ripples of chronal energy were spreading out from the damaged Time Window and the increasing number of causality violations could tear apart reality if the Time Window was not closed within the hour. In desperation, Inquirata used a holographic projection to contact Rodimus Prime. Although the Autobots were convinced of the deadly peril the Quintessons faced, they wanted to get their companions back from the past first.[268]
Cybertronian hanger workers
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War Dawn
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Cybertronian hanger workers are blue drone robots who are seen working in a hanger, where Orion Pax and his comrads worked during the first golden age of Cybertron. After the hanger was attacked by Megatron and his troops and Orion Pax was injured after being blasted by Megatron, Orion Pax was taken to a repair shop by the Aerialbots, where inside more of the Cybertronian hanger drone workers were seen being repaired.
Dropkick transport drones seemingly played a key role in the early days of the war launched by Megatron. Transforming from robots into Cybertronic flat bed trucks, they were used during energy raids both to transport warriors and to carry away the stolen fuel. Nine million years ago Megatron approached a dockside warehouse, workplace of a young Autobot named Orion Pax, along with a fleet of his transport drones. After initially claiming he was simply looking for a place to "store his wares," once told that the site only stored energy, he dropped this pretense, and at his signal both transport drones and warriors transformed. After personally blasting both Orion and his girlfriend Ariel, he ordered the warriors to terminate the warehouse's other workers.
Dion was an earnest dock worker and best friend to Orion Pax who thought the Decepticons were cool. He was killed by Megatron during the attack that led to Orion Pax being rebuilt by as Optimus Prime.[269]
Allicons are another breed of the Quintessons' enforcer-units, often used as guards for more important members of the race. They are slightly smarter than the Sharkticons, even capable of speech, but free will has been pretty thoroughly removed from their programming, to the point where they will malfunction if resisting a direct order, they transform into bipedal, vaguely crocodilian creatures.
When Megatron and his Deceptions had gone back to Cyberton for a visit, as they were trying to reclaim the Kronosphere, they came across a de-activated headless Guardian robot, who was among a pile of refuse. They then re-actived and re-programmed it to serve their cause. Under the Decepticons' control, it then attacked Optimus Prime and his Autobots, who fought to fend it off. The Aerialbots soon arrive to aid the Autobots and combine to form Superion and defeat the Guardian robot.
B.O.T. which stood for "Biotronic Operational Telecommunicator" was a robot built as an assignment for a pair of troublemaking sociopaths, who enlisted science girl Elise Presser to help out with the work. Obtaining scrap metal from a local junkyard that happened to have a new shipment of merchandise, the kids built a portly robot who just so happened to have Brawl's personality component in its head. When Megatron decided to test his new cannon on the Ark, B.O.T. was sent to destroy it, while being remotely controlled by Elise. After making his way to the cannon, B.O.T. turned it on its makers to win the battle, before pressing the convenient "Overload" button, thus destroying the cannon and himself in the process.
Kremzeek is an electrically charged energy being created by Megatron and is quite the sneaky bastard. It does not take much for some people to like him or think he's cute, at least until you find out how mischievous he can be. With his abilities to jump through screens and teleport, frazzle the circuits of Autobots, and even multiply if given enough energy, others may find use for him as a weapon. After Kremzeek had grown to a giant size the Autobots were able to destroy him, but had to deal with a new small Kremzeek who they went chasing after and it is unknown how they were able to stop it.
Kranix is the last survivor of the consumed planet Lithone. Well-versed in the art of combat, the friar warrior Kranix has an advanced artificial intelligence, possessing a full range of emotion. But unlike his companion Arblus, this emotion does not cripple him with fear. Rather, he's friendly and polite, seeming almost human. After surviving the destruction of his planet he was eaten by the Sharkticons.
Arblus
Lithone vehicle
Transformers: The Movie
Norman Alden
Arblus is a resident of the planet Lithone, who is prone to overreaction and hysterics, but is strongly loyal to his friends, such as Kranix. When Unicron approached Lithone to devour it, he released a corrosive mist to break the planet down. Arblus was devoured by the mist.[270]
Lithone scientist
Lithone vehicle
Transformers: The Movie
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The Lithone scientist is an inhabitant of the planet Lithone. He possesses knowledge in the field of chemistry and is assisted in his work by fellow Lithones Arblus and Kranix. He was eaten by Unicron while he was busy preparing a light blue liquid for an experiment.[271]
Lithones
Lithone vehicles
Transformers: The Movie
N/A
The Lithones, sometimes known as Lithonians, are a race of robots from the planet Lithone. They possess a very high percentage of "emotional circuits" in their computer brains, which affects their individual personalities in different ways. By nature, they are not vengeful, making them lenient towards troublemakers. Their race appears to feature not only male and female members, but robotic "children". Technology-wise, the Lithones have spaceships capable of interstellar travel. They also may or may not have their own superhero.[272]
Unicron acid pool melted transformers
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Transformers: The Movie
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The Unicronacid pool melted transformers were at least three transformers who fell into an acid pool inside Unicorn and melted away. Two of the transformers who fell into the acid were shown struggling before turning red and disintegrating. Shortly thereafter, Daniel used his exo-suit to close off half the acid pool, preventing additional transformers as well as his father from being melted.
Evacuating Cybertron Decepticons
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The Transformers: The Movie
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The evacuating Cybertron Decepticons are Decepticons who have different colour patterns shown evacuating from Cybertron as Unicron begins destroying the planet, after Shockwave says "Decepiticons, were under attack, scramble!"
Cobra Commander (of G.I. Joe fame) made an appearance in the 1986 Transformers episode "Only Human" as "the former leader of a terrorist organization" who is now operating as an underground arms and technology dealer. He sells synthoid technology to crime lord Victor Drath, who uses it to transfer the minds of Rodimus Prime, Ultra Magnus, Arcee and Springer into synthoid human bodies and then uses their original bodies for various criminal activities.
Chaos is a large alien monster, native to the planet Dread. Its skin is composed of an unbelievably destructive mineral known as death crystals. Apparently, death crystals are also the only thing that can hurt it.
Shrikebats are large, purple, flying, vaguely reptilian creatures. Found on Dromedon and Dread, a group of them is referred to as a "wreck" of shrikebats, or, more commonly "aiiiiiieee get them off get them off my eyes oh dear gooaaaarrrrrghkklgkglllll". They're extremely vicious creatures. Thankfully, they do not like it when you invert polarities, which drives them off.
Ick-Yak
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Chaos
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Ick-Yak is a large, reptilian creature that you would never want to get near, yet one which Kup seems to encounter every now and then. He's old because he's hard.[273]
Orbs
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Chaos
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Orbs are a bunch of alien slavers who capture robots to use as labour. Their primary interest is mining death crystals on planet Dread—a hazardous task at best, due to the shrikebats inhabiting the cave, and the ever-present threat of a visit by Chaos himself.[274]
The Dread slaves are an alien robot race who were imprisoned 100,000 years ago along with Kup on the Planet Dread. Though Kup had managed to escape the Dread prison, the Dread slaves had not. After being greatly disturbed by the memory of this, he returned alongside his fellow Autobots to the planet Dread and fought the evil monster Chaos and freed the slaves, who were still being held captive there.
The Paradroin Autobots are a pacifist race of Autobots native to the planet Paradron. These Autobots left Cybertron during the fourth great war to escape the violence. Decepticons crash landed on the planet and were nursed back to health by the inhabitants. One native, Sandstorm, unsuccessfully attempted to warn the other inhabitants about the Decepticons, who crash landed on their planet and were nursed back to health. Sandstorm was later imprisoned and the other Paradroin Autobots were enslaved after the Decepticons declared the planet part of their empire. The non-pacifist Autobots arrived and were able to convince Sandstorm and the other Paradroin Autobots to fight the Decepticons and destroy the energon core, causing their planet to explode. The Paradroin Autobots evacuated the planet and returned to Cybertron.
Paradron Medics
Cybertronian Convertible and Unknown
Fight or Flee
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The Paradron Medics are a pair of Autobots, one who is a female who is identical to Autobot Arcee except for color pattern, who nursed Cyclonus and Scourge back to health after they crash landed on the planet Paradron. However, upon regaining consciousness, the Decepticons tossed the Paradron Medics aside and helped themselves to the planet's energon. Being pacifists, the Paradron Medics refused to fight back and instead left without saying a word.[275]
Playback
Unknown
Fight or Flee
Laurie Faso
Playback is a pacifist Autobot who inhabited the planet Paradron. He was in charge of the planet's communication tower when Cyclonus and Scourge entered to contact Galvatron. Playback protested that the Decepticons were not allowed in the facility, though was kicked across the room by Scourge and trapped in a monitor. Playback was later given the task of guarding imprisoned Autobots after the Decepticons' takeover of the planet, though was also unsuccessful at this, as an explosion caused by other Autobots destroyed the guard tower he was in, causing him to fall to the ground.[276]
Paradroin Autobot workers
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Fight or Flee
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The Paradroin Autobot workers are white and yellow robots with Autobot symbols who worked for the Paradroin Autobots on the planet Paradron. The Decepticons prepared to attack these robots, though decided against it upon realizing they had no intention of fighting back. The Paradroin Autobot workers were later freed by the Autobots, who convinced the robots to fight for their planet back rather than remain peaceful.
When Sandstorm and Octane went to an alien space station diner, during the time Octane was on the run from Galvatron, they encountered alien humanoid creatures of many different colours, including a female one who served them. Among the alien creatures was a squid like creature who ate the gun of Skuxxoid, who was following Sandstorm and Octane at Galvatron's orders.
Primacron is an absolutely ancient mad scientist. He is supposedly hyper-intelligent with an infinity of intricate plans nested within plans, but he sometimes over-thinks things to the point of coming off as rather dim, his major claim to fame is being responsible for building Unicron at the dawn of the galaxy. Thanks for nothing.
The Oracle was once the assistant of Primacron, an ageless creature of magnificent intellect. Primacron built the Oracle to help him create life, but the Oracle's corporeal existence was cut short after the birth of Unicron.
Lipoles are flying, bat-like creatures, though they can furl their wings and walk. They live in smoldering craters on Jupiter's moon of Io. Their saliva is acidic and they eat metal. When threatened, they can transform into explosive missiles and fling themselves at predators.
The prophetic dead Decepticon is a Decepticon honored by a statue in the Decepticon Crypt who when Octane came across the Decepticon Crypt, he noted that the marker of this Decepticon stated that "Death comes to anyone who hides behind my marker".[277] There is nothing at all known about this Decepticon when he was alive.
A single Allicon later served as the guard for a Quintesson scientist who kidnapped Ultra Magnus, Cyclonus, Marissa Faireborn and Wreck-Gar in an attempt to find weaknesses in each prisoner's group. The ship got caught in an electron storm, and the Allicon steered the ship in the wrong direction attempting to pull free, which earned a slap from the scientist before it corrected and changed course. When the captives escaped, it dueled Wreck-Gar with a spear until the Quintesson's ship started being dragged into a black hole. The Allicon set the ship in reverse thrust to try and resist the gravity well, and activated a distress beacon in hopes that a passing ship might rescue them before the ship's thrusters lost power. When the Quintesson tried to flee in the only escape pod, the Allicon alerted them to the attempt and ran to the escape pod as well, but then froze up when the scientist ordered it to stop. That lockup cleared up as soon as Marissa ran for the pod, and the guard pulled her from Magnus' hands, which resulted in the pod launching with no-one inside. When the ship eventually fell into the black hole, they found themselves in a "negative universe", and the Allicon donated some of its parts to repair the engines and rocket back to their home universe through the "white hole". Finding themselves in the middle of a stalemated skirmish between their various factions who had come to rescue them, the group agreed to simply part ways without further fighting, and the Allicon and its master went off on their own.[278]
Fake Flint
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The Killing Jar
Bill Ratner
Dashiell Faireborn who goes by the G.I. Joe code name Flint was still quite active in the year 2006. Even though he was usually busy with his current obligations, he sometimes took enough time off to visit with his daughter, Marissa. At least, Because of this the young Marissa was not suspicious at first when a Quintesson used an elaborate hologram of him to trick her for examination and eventual dissection on board its ship. When Marissa realize it was not her real father, she then used karate moves on the fake Flint, which took it down and then made it disappear.
The fake Galvatron is an elaborate hologram used by a Quintesson which attacked Cyclonus who was tricked into boarding the Quintesson's ship. Cyclonus was able to restrain the fake Galvatron after which disappeared, leaving Cyclonus confused to why Galvatron would attack his most loyal soldier.
After Ultra Magnus boarded a fake Sky Lynx which told him that Rodimus Prime wanted to see him, he was then attacked by a fake Rodimus Prime, which was an elaborate hologram created by a Quintesson. Ultra Magnus was able to take control of the fake Rodimus Prime, which then disappeared.
The fake Sky Lynx which Ultra Magnus boarded was really a Quintession Ship disguised using a hologram. As Ultra Magnus did not recognize its inside he asked "Hey Sky Lynx who is your new interior decorator?"
Paul Eiding (Head Torkuli), Stan Jones, and Victor Caroli
The ape-like Torkuli are the dominant species of the planet Torkulon. They are renowned throughout the galaxy as experts in psychiatric therapy; they have devoted their entire culture and all known activities on their world to the treatment and care of damaged or deranged minds.[279]
Alya
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Webworld
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The Alya at first glance appear to be little more than unusually large insects, not really out of the ordinary among the many alien species encountered by Transformers throughout the universe. Their forelimbs are tipped by large, sharp, probing claws, which have the ability to spin 360 degrees like a drill. Alya are apparently sentient, capable of understanding spoken language; this may also have something to do with their ability to tap into the minds of other sentient species. However, the most remarkable thing about them is their unique nesting and feeding method.[280]
Torkuli's patients and other creatures
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Webworld
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Torkuli's patients are caged creatures who are an alien with a very long tongue who says "mommy", an elderly little humanoid creature who makes sounds that cannot be understood, a humanoid alien with three heads who is tied up in his cage who keeps saying "I have no head" and an orange tyrannosaurus like creature that Galvatron tries to pick a fight with as he accuses of it trying to fight with him. Galvatron is then hauled off to treatment where a centipede like creature that can disassemble itself and a mollusk like creature with a shell are seen. Seen later were a centaur and a humanoid alien with a face with two different halves. What their significance and purpose is, is unknown.
Bouncing alien
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Webworld
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The Bouncing alien is three eyed alien with horns and no legs who Galvatron encounters in an arena on Torkulun. This was a kind of treatment for Galavtron. While it bounces it screams which drives Galvatron crazy. He then lashes out at it, but is restrained before he can harm it.
Skuxxoids are an intelligent humanoid reptilian species who often sell their services to the highest bidder as mercenaries for credits. They have scaly skin and are nearly as large as the average Transformer. They tend to use large asteroid ships as their primary mode of transport.
The Xetaxxians are a mechanical species inhabiting the planet Xetaxxis. The Xetaxxians were engaged in war with the inhabitants of the planet Lanarq for centuries, with both sides relying on the Quintessons for weapons. The Autobots arranged for a peace conference in an unsuccessful effort to end the war. The Xetaxxians and Lanarqans proceeded to attack each other until Sky Lynx arrived with a Quintesson Journal, which revealed that the Quintessons had intentionally kept the war going to supply weapons to both sides. Upon learning this, both the Xetaxxians and the Lanarqans agreed to end the war and keep to their own planets.[281]
Lanarqans
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The Quintesson Journal
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The Lanarqans are a robotic species inhabiting the planet Lanarq. The Lanarqans were engaged in war with the inhabitants of the planet Xetaxxis for centuries, with both sides relying on the Quintessons for weapons of mass destruction. In an unsuccessful effort to end the war, the Autobots arranged for a peace conference, which ended with the Lanarqans storming out, threatening the Xetaxxians, and contacting the Quintessons for more weapons. The attacks continued until Sky Lynx arrived with a Quintesson Journal, which revealed that the Quintessons had intentionally kept the war going to supply weapons to both sides. Upon learning this, both the Lanarqans and the Xetaxxians agreed to end the war and keep to their respective planets.[282]
Custodiobot is an Autobot who was put in charge of the Hall of Records on Cybertron. When Daniel and Wheelie visited the Hall of Records to learn Ultra Magnus' date of construction, they encountered Custodiobot, who demanded to know who they were and what they wanted. As information pertaining to the date of Magnus's construction was being held on an artificial storage asteroid, Custodiobot instead provided the pair with the asteroid's last coordinates.[283]
Sentry drones
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Surprise Party
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The Sentry drones are three robots who travel on wheels who say "Greetings" and chase and shoot at Wheelie and Daniel while they repeatedly ask them for file names. The Decepiticons then show up and destroy the Sentry drones.
Scaly flying eels
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Surprise Party
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While Wheelie and Daniel were traveling to learn Ultra Magnus' creation date, they were attacked by many Scaly flying eels that also destroyed the ship that they arrived in and later attacked Ultra Magnus and Sky Lynx. The eels were defeated each time.
Hailing from the musically-based planet of Eurythma, Allegra possesses one third of a harmony with tremendous destructive power. She unfortunately has an acrimonious relationship with Basso Profundo, who possess one of the other thirds and is leader of their planet. She's therefore most likely to be found at her musical retreat outside of the city. She has a somewhat better relationship with Zebop Skandana, who holds the remaining third of the harmony.
Along with Allegra and Basso Profundo, Zebop Skandana holds one third of the weaponized harmony used to defend their planet, Eurythma, a world whose culture is based entirely on music. He seems to have forged a deep emotional connection with Allegra, but does not share her enmity for Basso Profundo. Unlike his compatriots who are named for actual musical terms, his name is more of an example of the idea of scat, and not that kind of scat—the jazz kind.
Basso Profundo is the leader of Eurythma and, along with Allegra and Zebop Skandana, provides a third of the harmony used in the harmonic weapon that protects Eurythma. Basso has a hostile relationship with Allegra, and dislikes her style of music.[284] Galvatron hatches a vile plot against the Eurythma and the Autobots as he steals the power of 3 peaceful harmonics and he intends to use it to destroy Metroplex. The Eurythma and the Autobots fight back and win the battle.
The Eurythman communicator is an Eurythman public servant. She has a professional mindset with a streak of cynicism. She had asked Basso what he was going to do about the giant robots fighting close to the city. Basso answered he'd use his part of the harmony in combination with the harmonic amplifier to get rid of them, tried to do just that and failed. Everything but surprised, the communicator pointed out he needed the aid of Allegra and Zebop Skandana for the harmony to be effective.[285]
NUL-A is a giant robot who leads a lonely existence running a junkyard. The junkyard may be in New York; NUL-A seems to be a big fan of the Yankees—or maybe that's just the only giant robot baseball cap he could find. Either way he loves baseball. When First Aid briefly suffered a crisis of faith about his contributions to the Protectobots, he left the Autobots and sought refuge in NUL-A's junkyard. NUL-A was happy to have the company, since not a lot of people hang around the dump. First Aid was eventually convinced to return to the Autobots to perform the reinstallation of a transformation cog into Metroplex, but not before he cleaned the place up a little. It may be that NUL-A had all kinds of visitors after that, but probably not.[286]
Ynara
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Madman's Paradise
Unknown
Ynara is an ambassador from Odessix to Cybertron. She has a refined, upper-class manner. She is also easily embarrassed, which causes her to turn completely bright red, including her clothing. Ynara attended a diplomatic function on Cybertron and was introduced to Spike Witwicky and his family. She complimented their spawn, which objected to the label of "post-embryonic form", leaving her embarrassed. A short time later, she watched the Witwicky spawn leave with a Dinobot. When Carly Anderson-Witwicky was unable to locate Daniel, Ynara informed her that he had gone off with Grimlock.[287]
The Golden One is a powerful sorcerer who rules the magical world of Menonia in another dimension. He draws his power from sunlight, so he becomes progressively debilitated when cut off from solar radiation. He can survive extremely prolonged deprivation, however, and may very well be immortal. His powers include shape-shifting into a dragon form and opening dimensional portals. He must have enough energy to voice his spells at a given volume, or else they will not work. He was trapped by his pupil Mara-Al-Utha who called himself the Red Wizard into the cave and a huge rock to seal off the cave's entrance. There the Golden One remained for the next 12 million years until the Autobot cassette Ramhorn was able to free him. He was then able to once again rule Menonia.[288]
The Golden One's pupil is a resident of Menonia, a magical kingdom in an alternate dimension. As his description suggests, he is the favourite student of the Golden One, the sorcerer who rules Menonia. Despite being the student of a sorcerer, the pupil is not seen to use magic at all. After Mara-Al-Utha, a Quintesson who had been banished to Menonia by his fellows, overthrew the Golden One by trapping the ruler in a cave. Mara-Al-Utha assumed the name "Red Wizard" and imprisoned his main rival, the Golden One's pupil, in the castle dungeon. The pupil languished there for "ages beyond counting". After The Golden One was freed the pupil reunited with him after he was freed by Daniel Witwicky.[289]
The sly and deceitful Mara-Al-Utha is a bombastic Quintesson sorcerer. Banished long ago by his fellows, Mara-Al-Utha has taken on the identity of the Red Wizard, using every form of trickery at his disposal to ensure that he reigns over Menonia. His sorcery allows him to take on other forms — one of his favorites is that of his former master's favorite student — as well as issue a variety of destructive spells such as lightning bolts. He is aided in his work by an army of robots constructed from wood and his faithful pet Groyle.[290]
Groyle
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Madman's Paradise
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Groyle is a winged creature native to the world of Menonia, and the "sweet pet" of the evil Mara-Al-Utha/The Red Wizard that reported to him the arrival of Grimlock and Daniel Witwicky in Menonia.[291]
Tree-centaurs
centaurs
Madman's Paradise
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These living trees known as Tree-centaurs are trees with the ability to come to life and take on a cyclopscentaur form. They do so when Grimlock and Daniel Witwicky arrive in Menonia and attack them by throwing their weapons at them. They are stopped by a spell cast by The Red Wizard and revert to tree form.
Wood-bots
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Madman's Paradise
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Wood-bots are transformer shaped wooden servants of The Red Wizard. When Daniel Witwicky fell asleep, the Wood-bots carried him off to bed at their master's request.
Menonian alien whipping creature
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Madman's Paradise
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The Menonian alien whipping creature who is a servant of The Red Wizard has four arms and two long tusk like teeth and whips Menonian humans to make sure they keep doing their work.
Bird-people
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Madman's Paradise
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Bird-people are humanoid creatures with wings who can fly and are servants of The Red Wizard. They attacked Grimlock and the Autobots at their master's orders.
The Trans-Organics were the first creation of the Quintessons, predating even the Transformers themselves that were unearthed by Galvatron and his forces in a Quintesson trap. They were a gorilla-like beast with green tendrils for arms, a largely metal white snake, an almost completely metallized bird, a brown anklyosauric creature, a half robotic bear, and a frog-like creature with a bear trap on its back and a camera for an eye. The seventh was far larger still, the vampiric energy sucking worm known as the Dweller. The Dweller consumed the other Trans-Organics before moving on to the Transformers. The Autobots were able to eject the Dweller into space after it had latched on to a cybertron power core.[292]
The fairy-tale princess is a figment of Daniel Witwicky's imagination created when the Quintessons were messing with the boy's head. Despite some suspicious moments, the princess is a gentle soul and the only creature of good in a landscape filled with evil, murderous lifeforms. She seems to be some sort of manifestation of Daniel's subdued consciousness, actively helping to get him to awake and being the most resilient link between Daniel and his dream world. She got what she wanted. When Daniel awoke from an ongoing nightmare and unhooked himself from the Quintesson machine, his dream ended and the princess disappeared. Springer wondered aloud where she had gone, to which Rodimus Prime replied that she never existed in the first place.[293]
Dream Witch
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Nightmare planet
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On the nightmare planet during a battle, Rodimus Prime, Ultra Magnus, and the Predacons are being threatened by a witch and giant. They manage to dodge a blast from the witch, that turns the giant into a toad. After Ultra Magnus finds a bucket of water, he uses to destroy the witch after throwing it at her.[294]
Dream Giant
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Nightmare Planet
Unknown
The Dream Giant is a giant that appeared in one of Daniel's nightmares. The giant captured Rodimus Prime and Ultra Magnus, though was accidentally turned into a toad by the Dream Witch's magic, allowing the Autobots to escape.
Dream Monsters
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Nightmare Planet
Unknown
A number of giant monsters briefly appeared in one of Daniel's nightmares, including a vampire, a werewolf, a gargoyle, Frankenstein's monster, and a skeleton in a white robe. Most of the monsters were defeated by the Autobots, as well as a giant pink dragon before it captured Springer and Razorclaw.
Giant Galvatron is a gargantuan version of Galvatron who appeared in a recurring dream of Daniel's. In one of these nightmares, Daniel was chased and almost crushed by Galvatron before waking up startled. When Daniel told Rodimus Prime about this dream, the latter recommended Daniel dream of a giant version of Rodimus to fight off Galvatron. Giant Galvatron attacked Rodimus Prime and Headstrong in a subsequent dream, though was defeated himself by Giant Rodimus Prime.
Giant Rodimus Prime is a massive version of Rodimus Prime who appeared in one of Daniel's nightmares. In that dream, Rodimus Prime and Headstrong were attacked by a giant version of Galvatron, who was challenged to "pick on someone [his] own size" by Giant Rodimus Prime. Giant Rodimus Prime proceeded to defeat Giant Galvatron by throwing him into the sky.
Giant Pink Dragon
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Nightmare Planet
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The Giant Pink Dragon is a dragon that appeared in one of Daniel's nightmares. The dragon captured Springer and Razorclaw and took them to a castle, where they met a princess who informed them that they could kill the dragon with a magic lance. The princess also stated that the two would receive gold from her father if they helped free her. The duo later encountered the dragon again in the castle, and Razorclaw reluctantly helped Springer defeat it.
Zamojins
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The Face of Nijika
Unknown
The Zamojins are a white humanoid race who live on the planet Zamojin. They are light skinned, have dark hair, pointy ears and appear to be very aggressive in nature.
When the Autobots and the Quintessons finds themselves unable to exit the Quadrant Lock, to where they had traveled. They encounter a highly sophisticated female human android named Nijika the Sky-Dancer, which has the appearance of an oriental woman wearing fancy clothing. Since Nijika's face was damaged, a blacksmith, whose name was Katsu Don, who owned Nijika forcefully removed Perceptor's insignia and added it to Nijika's face, which restored her appearance. Perceptor was later able to reclaim his insignia from Nijika.
Katsu Don is an oriental looking male blacksmith from the planet of Zamojin. He lives close the city of Tozin in a hut and is hoping to complete his ancestor's work.
Bruta Lo is a strange looking male four-legged beast that is ridden on the planet Zamojin. He has both mammalian and reptilian features as well as fins. He is a pet of Katsu Don. Katsu Don was riding it when he went to go checkout the Autobots, who had crashed on Zamojin.
Niko Don is a deceased roboticist and rocket scientist, who was a native of the planet Zamojin. He is the creator of Nijika the Sky-Dancer and an ancient ancestor of Katsu Don, who he looks very much like in appearance.
The Old Zamojin Empress had ruled Zamojin, 5000 years ago, during a time period known as around the "Night of the Devils", during which she had seen her race's fall from evolution, which had brought her great sorrow.
The New Zamojin Empress
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The Face of Nijika
Denise Mora
The New Zamojin Empress was the ruler of Zamojin in 2006 and may be a decedent of Old Zamojin Empress. After Perceptor had recovered his insignia from Nijika the Sky-Dancer and the Quintessons had thrown her out of their ship, the New Zamojin Empress had recovered her body and returned it to Katsu Don, as soon as the fighting had stopped.
The cat-like aliens are anthropomorphic cats who inhabit the planet Delta Pavonis IV. In 2006, the cat-like aliens were incited by the Quintessons' hostile subliminal messages, which were unwittingly broadcast across the galaxy by brainwashed Junkions, to attack their dog-like neighbors.[295]
During the time that the Autobots board the Autobot Mausoleum and Daniel Witwicky encounter Zombie Optimus Prime, he then ran away scared and ran into one of doors that was holding a deceased Autobot, which then fell out onto the ground. Nothing at all is known about this Autobot.
The brown laboratory rats are two rats in a glass cage in the science laboratory of Dr. Mark and Jessica Morgan and Gregory Swafford. After Swafford infects one of the rats with the hate-plague, it then attacks the other rat. While the rats fight a button is pushed, that makes a glass wall come up in the middle of the cage that separates the rats, thus stopping their fighting.
While the Autobots are on Charr being led by Optimus Prime they encounter a Giant spider, while crossing its web. It tries to eat Goldbug, but the Autobots stop it by blasting at it and making it fall many feet below.
Energon leeches
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The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 2
N/A
After dealing with the Giant Spider on Charr the Autobots encounter Energon leeches that fall on them. When Optimus Prime cries out to Galvatron for help, Galavtron reluctantly shoots them off Prime and the Autobots.
Unknown Ancient Autobot Leader
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The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 2
N/A
After Optimus Prime travels into the Autobot Matrix of Leadership and encounters Alpha Trion and asks about finding a cure for the hate-plague, another ancient Autobot leader is seen right after him for a few seconds who has the same colour patterns as Trion. Nothing at all is known about him or about the conversation that he had with Prime.
The entity known only as "It" resides in the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. While his exact nature may be nebulous and lost to time, he is always tied to the ancient dangers faced in Cybertron's past.[296] When searching for a cure to the hate plague Optimus Prime travels into the Matrix he encounters It, while traveling far back. It then reveals to him that the only was to fight the hate plague is with wisdom. Upon returning from his journey into the Matrix Prime unleashes the wisdom of the ages, which cures the hate plague, but entirely empties the Matrix.
City-bots components
The following are components of Metroplex, Trypticon, Scorponok, and Fortress Maximus:
Scamper is part of the composite whole that is the Autobot city, Metroplex. Although autonomous in his own right, with an impulsive and sociable personality, Scamper is an extension of Metroplex, and commonly patrols the peripheries of the giant Autobot's city form in his sports car mode alongside Slammer.
The name Six-Gun is not just metaphoric; this Autobot soldier is literally a walking, talking mass of weaponry. Six-Gun is one of Metroplex's autonomous troops, and is composed of six of the city-bot's guns. Along with Scamper and Slammer, he helps patrol and defend Metroplex's interior and periphery. Like his partners, he is mentally linked to Metroplex, and shares a similar personality. Perhaps befitting a living artillery battery, Six-Gun tends to be a bit more blustery and belligerent than his teammates.
Slammer, a drone controlled by Metroplex, does not do much. He is usually seen in the form of Metroplex's left rear tower, and is rarely seen in tank form.
Brunt is a tank that splits into several towers of Trypticon's city mode (plus a couple of leftover pieces). In battle station mode, Trypticon uses Brunt's turret as his main cannon. Though the towers and/or cannon have been seen in each of the continuities Trypticon has appeared in, the tank mode is a much rarer sight. Only two universes acknowledge Brunt's separate existence, and even then just as a mindless drone.
A lumbering, powerful Transformer like Trypticon has many important things to attend to (like destruction). When he needs some small task done, he calls on Wipeout to do it. Wipe-Out serves Trypticon with an astonishing level of toadying sycophancy, layering on so many compliments that he actually irritates the giant with them.
Lord Mo Zarak is a powerful and corrupt Nebulan leader who transforms into the head of Scorponok.
Mini-Cassettes
Cassette warriors (or "Mini-Cassettes", or simply "Cassettes"or “Mini-Cons” like in Transformers Robots in disguise) are tiny Transformers; they are no taller than the humans. Their alternate mode is that of a microcassette.
According to The Transformers' version, in the days of Megatron, Decepticons developed the art of espionage using cassette technology. Their first cassette, Laserbeak, could fly undetected into any Autobot stronghold, record information and then return to base. Then the Decepticons decided to increase their spying abilities with Ratbat. As a bat, Ratbat can hide in crevices that Laserbeak cannot reach, and is especially effective in tunnels, caves or in the darkness of space. Ratbat records from the Autobots' most carefully guarded secrets. The Autobots had no choice but to strike back with these Decepticon techniques of stealth, building their own force of cassette Transformers, with Blaster as their guardian. They constructed Ramhorn, the rhino, who can use animalistic force if cornered, and Steeljaw, the lion, who can crawl through the foliage of any alien world, to sneak up on Decepticons. They also bolstered their cassette force with Rewind and Eject, who can transform to robot mode and use more conventional fighting force techniques.
The alternate version of the Cassette warriors' origin is stated in the animated series. According to this version, they (or, at any rate, the beast-moded ones) were once created by the divine inventor Primacron.
An Earthen sports fanatic... sports cliches clutter his conversation; a surprise attack is a "fast break," a victory is a "touchdown." Few Autobots understand what he says, but they like the enthusiasm with which he says it. Could be a play-by-play announcer, if given the chance. In cassette mode, can monitor and record local radio and TV, decode scrambled signals, tap telephones. In robot mode, uses electrical overload guns. Sometimes his internal tape snaps when he is excited.
Autobot trivia expert – his memory banks have amazing capacity to store data that is virtually of no use to anyone. Not much help when asked about something important. Internal light-matrix data store system has nearly infinite data storage capacity. Can turn into blinding beacon by releasing some of this light energy. Uses adhesion rifles that shoot unbreakable metal-bonding glue. Prone to severe cerebro-circuit overloads, what Earthlings call "headaches."
May smash people who touch him. Extremely territorial, nasty hair-trigger temper. Best way to deal with him is from a distance. His charge is virtually unstoppable – can knock a train off its tracks or upend an 18-wheeler with one blow. Has two batteries of three laser-guided, heat-seeking missiles that can lock in and hit a target up to twelve miles away. As cassette, can vibrate and destroy any equipment into which he is inserted.
When he is on the hunt, his prey is as good as caught. Determined, tenacious, coolly professional when on a mission. Likely to trace any scent. Range of 800 miles. Super-strong jaws – can snap a foot thick steel cable with one bite. Carries two solar-powered pellet guns that fire 1200 rounds per minute. Lack of sunlight hampers the guns' performance. Can electromagnetize himself in cassette mode. Prone to rusting.
Laserbeak takes pleasure in hunting his prey – usually the straggling survivors of a battle. Noticeably cunning and cautious. Will run for safety if threatened. Flies at speeds up to 250mph. Uses two independently targetable laser cannons with extreme precision to get information from captives. Shortage of ruby crystals that powers the lasers can panic his systems into shutting down.
Rumble is your basic street punk. Small, but always acting tough. Quick temper and mean disposition. Follows Megatron's orders eagerly. Transmits immense low-frequency groundwaves to create powerful earthquakes. His small size limits his physical strength, but his ability to shatter the ground makes him difficult to approach in a fight.
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Ravage operates best alone. A creature of the night. Craftiest of all Decepticons. Adept at devising deadly new strategies. Remains aloof from others, but his deeds command their respect. Can virtually escape detection – emits an electromagnetic emission shield, has a soundless walk, disappears in subdued light or shadow. Carries two powerful heat-seeking missiles. Light-sensitive. Can be blinded. Though his last appearance is Call of the Primitives, he appears as well in Beast Wars in a different form.
If Frenzy needed to breathe, war would be his oxygen. He knows no cause, only craves to spread fear and destruction. His efforts are appreciated by other Decepticons. His devotion to warfare makes him hard to deal with on a personal level. Can roll his drums to produce a high-pitch, grating sound of 200db. Disorients and disrupts electrical flow in opponents circuitry which makes them malfunction. Physically weak. His manic attack can be countered with cool logic.
Civil and sophisticated yet very cruel and destructive. Approaches his lethal tasks like a fine artist. Each deadly mission is like working on a new masterpiece. Can pinpoint and photograph a thumbtack from 20 miles away. Flies at 250mph. Carries twin mortar cannons. Diamond-hard, micro-serrated beak can carve up almost any opponent. Due to large ego, will often sulk rather than proceed if his plans go astray.
Has no friends, only business partners... his only allegiance is to himself. Refuels by plunging his mecha-fangs into new cars' gas lines – the better made the car, the better the gasoline tastes. Maximum flying speed: 65mph. Carries two radar-guided, free-electron lasers that detect the presence of an object as small as a fly. Wings contain mechanical sensors for locating fuel sources. Has one foot wingspan that can enlarge to ten feet. Wings are vulnerable to artillery.
The Decepticon autoscout drone makes a very brief appearance and is seen after Soundwave ejected it into a crevice full of deadly radioactive korlonium crystals to observe them. Just as Megatron tells Soundwave not to let it make contact with the crystals, it picks one up, which causes it to explode.
He is as slow and stupid as he looks. Plays back the messages he carries, thinks others are talking about him, goes into violent rages. End result is usually destruction of messages and nearby small towns that get in his way. In stegosaurus mode, plates on back, like teeth on a chainsaw, cut through almost any substance; carries two solar-powered vibro-cannons.
Whether talking, terrifying, or attacking, he does everything to excess. So busy proving how tough he is by snapping cars in half between his jaws, that he forgets his mission. Can record data as a cassette, rip open the hull of a battleship as a dinosaur. Armed with two batteries of motion missiles—each reacts to any moving object bigger than a baseball and explodes on contact.
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