ALLEGIANCE: DECEPTICON
FUNCTION: ASSAULT BASE

FIRST APPEARANCE: TRANSFORMERS # 27

“Total victory requires total destruction.”

Profile: Trypticon doesn’t stop blasting away until he’s wading hip-deep
in smoking rubble. He’s the most efficient, lethal fighting machine yet devised
by the Decepticons. He is completely without mercy or remorse. The only emotion
that he is programmed to display is hatred. He hates everyone and everything.
This feeling is always present; it only varies in intensity. He restrains his
loathing for his fellow Decepticons enough to be minimally cooperative, but
his hatred for Autobots knows no bounds. Humans do not inspire such strong feelings
in him; he considers them barely worthy of his attention. But he also thinks
they get in the way too much. Without blinking an optical module, he would level
an entire city just to get a clear shot at an Autobot. He is supremely confident
in his abilities, but unsure of the Decepticons’ goals. Although he believes
he will one day rule the Decepticons, he has so little use for anyone else that
this prospect barely has any appeal to him. Trypticon makes no attempt to hide
his feelings… except to himself. He can’t admit to himself that his hatred
for others is a mask for his own self-loathing. He’d rather be doing anything
other than what he does. He secretly finds warfare boring and pointless. But
he accepts the fact that fate has forced him into his role of the ultimate warrior…
and nobody does it better!

Abilities: In dinosaur mode, Trypticon has incredible strength and is
virtually impervious to attack. A rocket backpack allows him to jump a distance
of 20 miles. He can shoot heat-seeking plasma bombs from his mouth and he carries
a particle beam cannon within his sinus cavity. His optical sensors shoot high
frequency hypno-beams. When locked on to the eyes of another Transformer, these
beams carry powerful electromagnetic currents that can override their target’s
own mental processes, allowing Trypticon to control that Transformer. If the
intended victim is strong-willed enough or manages to turn away from Trypticon’s
gaze quickly enough, he can avoid this fate. In city mode, Trypticon opens up
to reveal landing and repair bays and a communication center that includes antennae
for local and interspace transmissions. An anti-gravity repulsor disk at each
end prevents anyone from approaching closer than 1,000 feet unless Trypticon
so chooses. Rotating scanners on top of his assembly can blast a hole through
a city block of buildings. In mobile battle station mode, Trypticon is perhaps
at his most dangerous. He has a range of 8,000 miles and can attain a speed
of 800 mph. In addition, he has a flashing laser cannon, rotating blasters,
destructo beams, and dual photon launchers.

Weaknesses: Trypticon has no known weaknesses.