ALLEGIANCE: DECEPTICON
SUB-GROUP: SEACON

FUNCTION: UNDERSEA TERMINATOR
FIRST APPEARANCE: TRANSFORMERS # 47

“There are only two kinds of creatures: predator and prey.”

Profile: A menacing, mechanical monster whose presence makes any body
of water unsafe for swimming – or anything else – Overbite is just about the
most dangerous creature ever to prowl the ocean depths. And perhaps he’s the
most obsessed, as well, for he sees his life as an endless quest for prey. As
soon as he finishes off one victim, he goes hunting for another. But as much
as he enjoys his work, he looks to occasionally take time off to amuse himself.
For fun he chomps holes into the sides of oil tankers and sinks cruise ships.
As Overbite likes to point out, “The only thing better than swimming through
an oil slick is swimming through an oil slick full of drowning fleshlings.”

Abilities: In shark mode, Overbite is virtually unbeatable in underwater
combat. His attack is unrelenting. His teeth and talons can tear through the
hull of a battleship. His liquid cooled, turbo-powered 3,500 horsepower engine
propels him through the water at up to 70 knots. He never needs to surface,
except for regular maintenance checkups. He carries a freeze beam blaster that
can trap any underwater prey in a block of ice. He can transform to an amphibious
weapons-base mode, in which he can create tidal waves by wagging his tail at
super speed. His front end converts to a jawbreaker cannon, which shoots powerful
metal-eating, salt-based corrosives. In this mode, when his fellow Seacons combine
to form the super-robot Piranacon, Overbite serves as Piranacon’s hand held
weapon. Overbite also uses the jawbreaker cannon in robot mode.

Weaknesses: Although virtually unbeatable underwater in shark mode,
Overbite is quite literally like a fish out of water in robot mode on land.
There he is slow, awkward and relatively weak. Needless to say, he prefers to
remain aswim.

ALLEGIANCE: DECEPTICON
FUNCTION: INTERROGATION

FIRST APPEARANCE: TRANSFORMERS # 1

“The only point I like in Autobots: melting point.”

Profile: Laserbeak takes a sadistic pleasure in hunting his prey. He
prefers to play with them and slowly cripple them before moving in for the kill.
On Cybertron, his appearance on the battlefront would usually mean the battle
was over and the Decepticons had won. Then it would be his turn to pick off
the straggling survivors. However, given a situation where the odds are against
him, he is clearly not very brave. He’ll run for safety. And he makes no attempt
to hide this fear. If Decepticon Leader Megatron didn’t have a special appreciation
for Laserbeak’s lethal style, he might have gotten rid of Laserbeak a long time
ago.

Abilities: In robot mode, Laserbeak can fly at speeds of up to 250 mph
with a range of 1500 miles. He has two independently targetable laser cannons
that can fly on their own. Laserbeak emits a laser beam that is able to pierce
a 2-inch thick plate steel at a distance of 30 miles. Laserbeak uses these beams
like a surgeon uses his scalpels – with extreme precision. He employs this talent
to persuade captives to reveal secret information – before he disposes of them.

Weaknesses: The Autobots are well aware of Laserbeak’s lack of bravery
and take advantage of that flaw to thwart his machinations whenever they can.
Also, Laserbeak has a serious dependency on ruby crystals, which empower his
lasers. When his supply runs out, he’s been known to become so terrified of
his vulnerability that his systems completely shut down and he becomes immobile.

ALLEGIANCE: AUTOBOT
FUNCTION: COMMUNICATIONS
FIRST APPEARANCE: TRANSFORMERS # 17

“When the music is rockin’, I’m rollin’.”

Profile: Blaster likes to turn it up loud. That goes for the way he
does everything: fighting, talking, playing – living! If Blaster is involved,
he makes his presence known. He is in the forefront of any situation. But aside
from the things he normally does in the course of being an Autobot, he has a
special passion: Rock ‘n’ Roll. His ability to monitor radio transmissions has
exposed him to many Earthen musical styles, all of which he finds interesting.
But it is rock music – good, hard and loud – that really sparks his circuits.
He’d much rather be lost in the sound of a searing guitar solo than fight Decepticons.
However, when called upon he will do what he must for the Autobot cause, albeit
reluctantly at times. As Blaster likes to point out, “I hate changing channels
in mid-song.”

Abilities: Blaster can assume the form and shrink to the size of an
AM/FM stereo cassette deck. In addition to performing the normal functions of
a deck, he can receive radio signals for all frequencies. He can detect signals
with power outputs as weak as a millionth of a watt. His ability to transmit
radio signals up to 4000 miles makes him the communications center for the Autobots.
In robot form he carries an electro-scrambler gun, which emits powerful waves
of electromagnetic energy that disrupt the operations of all but the most heavily
shielded electrical devices. In theory, the gun should interfere with the minute
electrical impulses of the human nervous system, but Blaster has never used
the gun on a human.

Weaknesses: Blaster’s most obvious weakness is for rock ‘n’ roll. He
will walk unwittingly into a trap for the promise of hearing some new tunes.
Radio static has the effect of hampering his operation and even, if strong enough,
knocking him out completely.

ALLEGIANCE: AUTOBOT
SUB-GROUP: THROTTLEBOT

FUNCTION: SABOTEUR
FIRST APPEARANCE: TRANSFORMERS # 30

“Words can cut deeper than steel.”

Profile: Freeway is the self-appointed comedian of the Autobots. He
specializes in a particularly vicious brand of insult humor and is not afraid
to aim his barbs at even the highest ranking of his comrades. He takes someone’s
slightest miscue as an excuse to unleash upon the poor fellow a merciless torrent
of verbal jabs. He never fails to get a rise out of his audience or completely
humiliate his victim. Probing deeper into Freeway’s psyche, one would find that
his comical behavior is a subconscious reaction to the high-pressure nature
of his job – a way to release tension. He is surprisingly sensitive when he
is the butt of a joke; he becomes clearly and extremely annoyed. If anyone laid
into him as he lays into others, no doubt Freeway would be an angry tangle of
overheated circuits.

Abilities: Freeway’s specialty is spreading misinformation and setting
traps. He’s adept at intercepting coded radio transmissions, interpreting them,
and then substituting his own erroneous signals instead. He’s equipped with
a broad-band, ultra-sensitive radio frequency detector and transmitter, disguised
as his car AM/FM radio, which enables him to do all this. He uses a variety
of gadgets for sabotage: sonic land mines, magnetic homing grenades and powerful,
rust-inducing oxidizing agents, to name a few. Sometimes, just for a laugh,
he’ll turn his destructive attention to a fellow Autobot, usually by using the
oxidizing agent to give his target a severe case of rustfoot.

Weaknesses: Freeway is not particularly strong or fast, but he usually
compensates for this with his cleverness. Sometimes he is a victim of his own
comedic talents – at times he laughs so hard at his own jokes that he’ll pop
a few internal circuits from their connections and disable himself.

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