ALLEGIANCE: DECEPTICON
FUNCTION: DEMOLITIONS
FIRST APPEARANCE: TRANSFORMERS # 1

“Destroy what’s below and what’s above will follow.”

Profile: Rumble is your basic street punk. He compensates for his small
size by always acting tough. And he is tough. Cross him and he’ll punch your
optic sensors out. He has a quick temper and a mean disposition. The other Decepticons
try to keep their distance. Yet, this unpleasant, swaggering little hoodlum
is one of Megatron’s favorites. Rumble follows orders blindly and hungrily;
he always waits impatiently for Megatron’s next assignment. A good time for
Rumble is shaking a building into a heap of rubble. “I love the sight of
crumbling bricks,” he says.

Abilities: Rumble can roll the drum-like constructions in his body to
transmit through his feet intense low-frequency groundwaves that have the effect
of stimulating earthquakes. His quakes have registered as high as 5.4 on the
Richter Scale.

Weaknesses: Rumble’s small size severely limits his strength; he can
be easily beaten by most of the Autobots in any sort of physical struggle or
artillery barrage. Given his power of causing the ground to shatter, however,
the trick is to get close enough to Rumble to fight him.