And when war broke out, he initially took the proletariat Decepticons’ side against the bourgeoisie ruling class. They both had low class jobs as energon miners. That Impactor, before he was a Wrecker, was a friend of Megatron before the war. Impactor was in command of these bloodthirsty folks, but really he was keeping the leadership position warm with his harpoon arm until he died and Springer could take over.īut War for Cybertron - Siege’s Impactor has less to do with the first Impactor and more to do with the Impactor seen in IDW’s comics from last decade. You know, your Jumpstarters, your Deluxe Autobots, your made-up guys who are two guys fused together at the torso. The Wreckers were a group of Autobots who, to put it cynically, were the leftover toys that weren’t being written about elsewhere. Impactor, the leader of the Autobot commando team the Wreckers, from Marvel UK’s 1980s Transformers run, also plays a prominent part in War for Cybertron - Siege! By popular demand: ImpactorĮlita One isn’t the only character who showed up toyless in older media but was toy-ified later. The Mercenaries are a new group of unaffiliated folks that we’ll see more of in Siege’s sequel, EarthRise, and to which membership has been retroactively applied to Soundblaster here. In addition to the named guys, our heroes are followed by a yellow Seeker, a green Seeker, and a blue Seeker. In homage to this opening scene, War For Cybertron - Siege opens in a similar way, with Wheeljack and Bumblebee on the run from a multicolored gaggle of Seekers (and Jetfire). Years later, they’d be given names: Sunstorm, Hotlink, Bitstream, and Nacelle, respectively. In its opening scene, Wheeljack and Bumblebee are chased across the surface of their home planet Cybertron by, yes, Starscream, Thundercracker, and Skywarp, but they also confront four other guys, a “Welcoming Committee” that includes an orange Seeker, a purple Seeker, a light blue Seeker, and a dark blue Seeker. The original 1984 cartoon pilot gave us a murderous rainbow of even more Seekers. The most infamous practitioners of this were Starscream and his two Seeker buddies, Skywarp and Thundercracker. There were 28 characters in the original 1984 Transformers lineup, and 11 of them were differently hued twins of another toy. Dunking an Autobot or Decepticon in a different set of paint and calling it a different robot is a practice as old as the Transformers franchise itself.
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