ALLEGIANCE: AUTOBOT
SUB-GROUP: POWERMASTER
HUMAN COMPONENT: REV
FUNCTION: WARRIOR
FIRST APPEARANCE: TRANSFORMERS # 41 (Getaway), TRANSFORMERS # 42 (Rev)

“Run hot, but always keep your cool.”

Profile: Getaway is an escape artist without equal. He uses a combination of finesse and logic to get himself out of the stickiest situations. His ability to keep his cool even under the most extreme conditions is legendary. This reputation was born on the battlefield, long before he became a Powermaster, in what has come to be known as the Armornecking Incident: Getaway was leading a routine patrol on the Titanium Turnpike on Cybertron when he and his fellow Autobots momentarily paused to witness a spectacular traffic accident on the other side of the highway. While the Autobots were armornecking (the Cybertronic term for slowing down to see an accident), a troop of Decepticons that had secretly staged the accident swooped down upon them and attacked. The ambush left the Autobots in tatters, leaking fuel and leaving body parts all over the road. Getaway had all four tires blown out, lost vision in his right headlights and most of his left, and lost the use of his plasma-shell shotgun. Despite his condition and the Decepticon barrage, he cooly and cleverly led a tactical retreat to the nearby Polyhex Toll Plaza. The Autobots paid their energon tolls and went through. But, as Getaway suspected, the Decepticons weren’t carrying the proper change
and tried to pass without paying. This activated the toll gate security system, which snared the Decepticons before they could leave, giving the Autobots the advantage they needed to defeat the Decepticons and Getaway his well-deserved reputation.

Rev was a telecommunications scientist on the planet Nebulos at the Hi Q Industrial Research Complex, which was dedicated to inventing new technologies that could be used to prevent Transformers from invading the planet. Rev’s belief that the Transformers were more than machines, that they were living, feeling creatures, was instrumental in Hi Q’s decision to help a quartet of Autobots survive their visit to Nebulos. This help took the form of the Powermaster Process, in which Rev allowed his body to be bio-mechanically engineered so that he could be binary-bonded to Getaway and have the ability to transform and function as his engine. As a result, Rev and Getaway are completely interdependent and require connecting with each other on a semi-regular basis to insure their survival.

Abilities: Getaway is a master military strategist. In vehicle mode his 600 horsepower racing engine (Rev in engine mode) allows him to reach speeds of 540 miles per hour. He is equipped with bullet-proof windows and shell-resistant battle armor. His range is 1200 miles. An on-board computerized navigational system allows him to plot a long-range course in advance, so that he can give his attention to other matters as he travels. He is armed with a double-barrelled plasma-shell shotgun.

Weaknesses: Getaway is one of the toughest Autobots on the road today. He has no known weaknesses. Unless he is using the highest grade energon fuel, Rev has a tendency to knock and stall in engine mode.

ALLEGIANCE: DECEPTICON
SUB-GROUP: HEADMASTER

HUMAN COMPONENT: MONZO
FUNCTION: TRACKER
FIRST APPEARANCE: HEADMASTERS # 3

“My pleasure with my enemy’s pain comes.”

Profile: A quick glance at Weirdwolf’s motto might lead you to think
that it’s either a typographical error or this particular Decepticon has some
seriously crossed wires! We’re happy to say that the latter is true. Though
possessing hyper-keen senses and an alert, sharp mind, Weirdwolf is something
of a mess in the neural department. We all occasionally talk to ourselves, but
the trouble with Weirdwolf is that he does it all the time. And in an uncomfortably
loud, sing-song backward way. “Destroy the Autobots I shall. Rip their
faces off how nice it would be.” and so on. This habit doesn’t impair Weirdwolf’s
abilities. He’s cruel, vicious and incredibly deadly. But it does unsettle his
fellow Decepticons, especially in the midst of a tense battle. Weirdwolf is
binary-bonded to Monzo, a brutish professional hyperwrestler-turned-underworld-nightclub-owner.
If Weirdwolf was lacking anything in the sadistic department before, his Nebulan
partner more than makes up for it. The two are ideally matched, delighting in
the pain and carnage they deal out with savage abandon. These two like minds,
constantly seeking the thrill of combat, have no room left for fear, making
Weirdwolf a warrior without compare. The only trouble is, as Headmaster, the
internal conversations are sometimes three-way!

Abilities: Though in robot mode Weirdwolf wields a photon pistol (firing
high frequency energy particles) and a thermal sword (capable of cutting through
steel three inches thick), he tends to rely heavily on hand-to-hand combat.
Although he strenuously denies it, it is widely assumed that this is Monzo,
unable to forget his time as a professional hyperwrestler, exerting a controlling
influence on the shared mind. Weirdwolf doesn’t care. Up close suits him just
fine, because it enables him to switch to wolf mode and use his tungsten-tipped
claws on hapless Autobots. In this form, Weirdwolf comes equipped with nose
module tracking sensors, capable of reading smell, infrared heat images and
air current patterns. He can leap eight miles in a single bound.

Weaknesses: Weirdwolf’s crossed mental wires can sometimes ruin an otherwise
faultlessly silent approach. Just when he’s ready to pounce on the unsuspecting
Autobot he’s been tracking for the last twenty miles or so, he’ll open his mouth
and say “die you now!” and ruin the whole thing! It’s become so like
thinking to Weirdwolf, he doesn’t realize he’s speaking aloud.

ALLEGIANCE: DECEPTICON
SUB-GROUP: TRIGGERCON

FUNCTION: AIR DEFENSE
FIRST APPEARANCE: TRANSFORMERS # 48

“Uninvited guests soon become smouldering wrecks.”

Profile: Before the war Windsweeper was head of the Department of Sanitation
on Cybertron. He took an almost perverse pride in keeping the streets and subterranean
circuit-tubes of his home world clean and in proper working order. He would
have violators – “litterbots,” as they were called – thrown into prison
for infractions as minor as dripping oil in public. In defense of his extreme
actions he would say, “A tidy planet is a mighty planet,” to his critics.
“Leaky-engined litterbot-lovers,” he would call them behind their
backs. So it is no surprise to anyone who knows him that today he still practices
what he used to preach, but this time in the service of the Decepticons. In
his air defense role he patrols the skies constantly, shooting down almost anything
he sees: insects, birds, wind-blown leaves, kites, Autobots, even other Decepticons
if they are not quick enough to identify themselves before he fires. He feels
that the sky is his home, and so he has the right to keep it as clean as he
wants… in his case, very clean. Among the Transformers, Windsweeper’s meticulousness
is notorious… as is his maliciousness.

Abilities: In jet mode Windsweeper has the ability to use the high-intensity
heat generators in the edges of his wings to melt and cut through solid steel.
Most often the steel is contained within the fuselages of enemy aircraft. He
has a maximum speed of 2100 miles per hour and a range of 5000 miles. In both
robot and jet modes he is also equipped with long-range infra-red scanners,
sensitive enough to detect a warm lug nut in a junkyard 20 miles away. He is
also armed with two powerful, lock-target, long-range laser cannons.

Weaknesses: Windsweeper’s natural revulsion to dirt, grime, and all
things untidy in general elicits a pronounced unbalanced behavior pattern in
him. He loses his ability for clear, logical thinking, he becomes agitated and
emotional, and on especially disturbing occasions he has been known to literally
blow a fuse. Basically, the best offensive measure to take against Windsweeper
is to throw garbage at him.