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.