ALLEGIANCE: DECEPTICON
SUB-GROUP: BATTLECHARGER
FUNCTION: SHOCK TROOPER

FIRST APPEARANCE: TRANSFORMERS # 23

“The road is my playpen; cars are my toys!”

Profile: Cackling like a mechanical madman as he streaks down the road,
Runamuck is a tumbling, twirling two-lane terror. He shows no regard for drivers
sharing the highways with him. His freewheeling, frenzied approach invariably
sends them scattering like leaves before a hurricane’s winds. Spreading fear
is his favorite pastime. But there’s another, more sensitive side to Runamuck,
although he expresses it in a most peculiar fashion: he’s fascinated with Earth’s
junkyards. He can spend hours staring at one rusting wreck after another. In
his own twisted way, Runamuck places the same value on these auto-graveyards
as humans do art museums. His fellow Battlecharger, Runabout, attributes Runamuck’s
uncharacteristic soft spot to “one quick-change too many snapping some
cerebro-circuits.” Considering Runamuck’s personality, that’s a diagnosis
hard to argue with.

Abilities: In car mode, Runamuck’s maximum speed is 180 mph and his
range is 600 miles. He transforms into his robot mode in .5 seconds. He wields
a friction rifle, which shoots a beam that has the effect of dramatically increasing
the kinetic energy of the molecules of any target it hits. Under these conditions,
even the slightest movement of the target produces a tremendous increase in
the friction between its molecules and air molecules or anything else it touches.
Flammable objects burst into flame; some metals even melt. The effect lasts
for five minutes.

Weaknesses: Runamuck’s reckless ways often result in his transforming
on ill-advised occasions. This leads to disabling injuries sometimes. He’s also
afraid of heights.