Scourge (Transformers)
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Scourge is a the name of four fictional characters from the Transformers universes.
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[edit] Transformers: Generation 1 (1986)
| Transformers character | |
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| Scourge | |
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| Affiliation | Decepticon  |
| Sub-Group | Seekers/Sweeps, later Targetmasters. |
| Function | Sweep Leader, Tracker |
| Partner | Fracas |
| Motto | "Desolation follows in my trail." |
| Alternate Modes | Cybertronian Hovercraft/Spaceship |
| Series | Transformers: Generation 1 Transformers: Titanium |
| Voiced by | Stan Jones (English/Deceased November 1998) Masaharu Sato (Japanese) |
Scourge is possessed of scanning and locating equipment which can detect machine or human presence even if it is as small as an amoeba in the ocean. He is merciless, and capable of using such weapons as acid rays, which dissolve his targets, laser blasters, disintegrator beams, and assorted demolition and fusion devices in eliminating his prey. He - and by extension, the Sweeps - transforms into a streamlined hovercraft capable of functioning over any terrain or in the void of space. Scourge's only weakness is his arrogance.
[edit] Animated Series
In the aftermath of the Decepticons' attack on Autobot City in 2005, several injured and dying Decepticons were cast into the void of space in order to lighten the load for the return trip, and were soon drawn in by the world-eater, Unicron. After making a deal with Unicron, the deposed Decepticon leader, Megatron, was reborn as Galvatron. Unicron then used the bodies of the other injured Decepticons to create new troops who would serve Galvatron in his quest to destroy the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. Created from the battered form of Thundercracker, Scourge was the leader of a group of robots (identical in appearance to Scourge himself) known as the (the Sweeps).
Scourge did not immediately display any overt personality traits after his creation, beyond his unswerving loyalty to Unicron and Galvatron. Scourge began to come into his own after the apparent destruction of both. Less willing to take orders from Cyclonus, but doing so all the same, Scourge used his scanners to locate Galvatron's body, seeing across the galaxy into the Hydran system, where Galvatron lay in a pool of plasma lava on the planet Thrull. Upon arrival on the planet, Scourge was the one to pull Galvatron from the lava, but he and the Sweeps were then attacked by the deranged Galvatron, who only stopped his assault when Scourge professed his loyalty.
Scourge became one of Galvatron's most prominent minions, despite his lack of any real hierarchical weight, and would regularly lead the Sweeps on missions, often with Cyclonus, with whom he discovered the paradise planet of Paradron, which they quickly overthrew for Galvatron.
A short time later, Scourge was possessed by Starscream's ghost and brought to the decapitated head of Unicron. Thought a traitor by the Decepticons, Scourge had no option but to accompany Starscream on the tasks Unicron appointed him, stealing the eyes of Metroplex and the transformation cog of Trypticon. Before Unicron's head could be connected to Cybertron to form a new body for him, however, Scourge set aside his pride and contacted the Autobots, warning them of Unicron's scheme and enabling them to stop it. Returning to the ranks of the Decepticons, Scourge opposed the institutionalisation of Galvatron on the theraputic planet of Torkulon, and was among those affected by Quintesson mind control and turned into an energy vampire by the Trans-Organic "Dweller."
When the Decepticons finally succeeded in obtaining the Autobot Matrix of Leadership, Galvatron could not make the talisman function for him, and, threatened by the spirits of the ancient Autobots within it, told Scourge to destroy it, but Scourge thought Galvatron a fool, knowing that the Matrix was no mere energy source, and saw it as a source of energy greater power. Somehow, Scourge was able to temporarily absorb the Matrix's energies, his body mutating into a monstrous, deformed state in the process, and he used his enhanced powers to depose Galvatron as Decepticon commander and lead an attack on Earth, where he was defeated by Hot Rod, who reclaimed the Matrix. Scourge's power play was not without repercussions for him, but after a beating from Galvatron, in traditional Decepticon style, he was allowed to remain in their ranks.
In the year 2007, Scourge was among the Decepticons who attacked Autobot City and stole the key to the Plasma Energy Chamber, which Scourge himself then used to open the legendary forge. The released energy overloaded his system, and blasted the group of Autobots who had recovered the key across the galaxy to the planet of Nebulos. Recharged by Cyclonus, a furious Scourge co-lead a team of Decepticons in pursuit of the Autobots, but after an initial victory in battle, they were soon overcome and defeated by the newly-formed Autobot Headmasters, a merging of the Autobots and a group of Nebulon rebels. The Decepticons were then approached by the Hive - the evil ruling council of Nebulos - to reproduce the Headmasters process with them, but Cyclonus bargained them down to using half of the Decepticons' heads, and the other half, their weapons. Consequently, Scourge became a Targetmaster when his gun was transformed into an exo-suit for the Nebulon Hive member Fracas, who transformed into a high-frequency incendiary cannon. In the battle that ensued, the Decepticons reclaimed the key, which was held by Scourge until Arcee stole it back from him, but was then herself captured by Scorponok, who returned all the Decepticons to Cybertron. Galvatron's plan to use the Plasma Energy Chamber to drive the Sun supernova, destroying Earth and Cybertron, was then stopped by Fortress Maximus and Spike Witwicky, and Scourge and the Decepticons were last seen being blasted across the universe by a stray tendril of plasma energy.
An second identity crisis involves not Scourge and Cyclonus, but rather their Targetmaster partners. In the animated series and Marvel's Headmasters series, Scourge's partner Fracas uses the animation model for Cyclonus's partner Nightstick, and vice versa. To add more Rumble and Frenzy style confusion, both mismatched Targetmasters use the correct colors for their original bodies. In short, Fracas looks like Nightstick, but still has a silver upper body and gun barrel, black legs, and a red face.
Scourge continued to make minor appearances in the Japanese-exclusive Transformers: Headmasters series -- in which he did not become a Targetmaster -- where he and Cyclonus were re-written as bumbling henchmen.
[edit] Marvel Comics
Scourge's appearances in the US Marvel Comics Transformers series were minimal - in their first appearance during the Headmasters mini-series, he and Cyclonus were presented as being ordinary, present-day Transformers under Scorponok's command, who then became Targetmasters along with the others on Nebulos. Later, Scourge appeared again when readers were offered a glimpse into an alternate future world of 2009, where he was indeed a creation of Unicron, and where Cybertron had been destroyed, and Galvatron ruled Earth.
Across the Atlantic, however, in the United Kingdom's exclusive Transformers series, additional original stories created to expand on the US continuity added much, much more to Scourge's story. In order to free himself from the limitations of writing about the same cast of characters as the American creative team, writer Simon Furman cannibalised the most popular elements of Transformers: The Movie, and began to write new stories based around its characters, often intersecting them with the present day through the use of time travel. In the first of such stories, Galvatron, Scourge and Cyclonus travelled back in time to 1986, from a point in the middle of the movie, as part of a plan to free themselves from Unicron's control by constructing a massive cannon that will destroy him in their home time of 2006 (the setting for the movie in the comics, based on early production material for the movie itself, before the date was amended to 2005). The three Unicronian Decepticons proved themselves almost invincible in the face of the Autobots attacks, but were finally defeated when Galvatron was duped into believing he was trapped in a temporal paradox, and returned to his own time to live out the remaining events of the movie.
Events diverged sharply from the cartoon's telling of events, however, when Galvatron returned to the past after the destruction of Unicron, leaving Cyclonus and Scourge in the service of the new Decepticon leader, Shockwave, who hired the bounty hunter, Death's Head, to slay Rodimus Prime. Seeking to remind their comrades of their power and to return to a higher standing among the Decepticons, however, Scourge and Cyclonus set out to do the job first, earning the ire of Death's Head when they interfered with his job - ire he was then able to relieve when Rodimus Prime in turn placed a bounty on Scourge and Cyclonus, who Death's Head then spent the better part of a year tracking down. Eventually, he cornered them on the Planet of Junk, but before he could finish the job, all three of them fell under the mental control of Unicron, whose intact head had crashed on the planet, where he was having the Junkions construct a new body for him. Under Unicron's control, Death's Head killed Shockwave and Cyclonus and Scourge became Decepticon leaders, reigniting the stalemated Cybertronian war to a furious degree to cover Unicron's. actions. Death's Head, however, was able to fight the mind control and work with the Autobots' long enough to stop the chaos-bringer's plan. As explosions destroyed Unicron, Death's Head tackled Cyclonus and Scourge, pushing them through a time portal Unicron had built, promising to kill them another time.
This particular event helped to bring in line the UK comics' portrayal of the characters as Unicron-created future Decepticons with the US series use of them as modern-day characters, as Cyclonus and Scourge were hurled much further back in time by the portal to Cybertron, where they came under the command of Scorponok, and went on to go to Nebulos and become Targetmasters, then travelling to present day Earth. Once there, they sought out Galvatron, no longer willing to serve him, instead demanding that he hand over his time travel device so that they could return to the future and their position as Decepticon leaders. The confrontation was disrupted by the sudden appearance of the Autobot commando squad, the Wreckers, who drew the ensuing battle away from the human settlement it was taking place in by professing to have stolen Galvatron's time jump mechanism, when in reality, the Decepticon no longer had it for them to take.
Having met with failure again, Scourge and Cyclonus decided to cut their losses and team up with Shockwave's present-day Earth-based Decepticon forces. At this point in time, the comic book personalities of Scourge and Cyclonus had been well-established, and distinctly different from the cartoon - here, Scourge was the intelligent, scheming brains of the duo, while Cyclonus was the dull-witted muscle, and that personality trait remained as strong as ever when Cyclonus accidentally let slip that they would kill Shockwave in the future. Naturally wanting to ensure his continued existence, Shockwave unleashed a brainwashed Megatron clone upon the two, and while Scourge fled for his life, Cyclonus was killed.
Cyclonus's death was the final straw on the already-unbalanced space-time contiuum, and caused a rift in the fabric of reality to appear, threatening to consume Earth and Cybertron. Made aware of this by Springer, Scourge attempted to find his own solution to the threat by returning himself, Galvatron and Cyclonus to their original time. Invading Shockwave's base in order to recover Cyclonus's body, he discovered that the illogical nature of the time paradox he was trapped in had driven Shockwave insane, and he was gunned down as he attempted to take Cyclonus. Leaving the job up to Ravage, Scourge returned to the site of the rift's arrival - it had already consumed Galvatron, and in his final act, Scourge flung himself into the rift, followed soon by the remains of Cyclonus, deposited by a now healthy Shockwave, who sealed the rift with an x-ray blast.
[edit] Dreamwave Comics
Although Scourge remained a creation of Unicron in Dreamwave Productions' 21st century reimagining of the G1 universe, he was not a recreated Thundercracker, or any other recognisable Decepticon - he, and his massive legion of Sweeps, were instead created by Unicron through processed raw material consumed from other worlds. At some point prior to the massive planet-wide deactivation of Cybertron known as the "Great Shutdown," Unicron unleashed Scourge and his Sweeps all throughout the universe, in order to track down the location of Cybertron. Scourge himself found the planet in its slumbering state, and reactivated Shockwave, planning to observe him from a distance. When Shockwave was attacked by a pack of Sharkticons, however, Scourge intervened and saved him, only to be shot in the back by the Decepticon, and subsequently dissected and rebuilt over and over for study in his lab.
Three thousand years later, Scourge was apparently able to escape (or perhaps, was allowed to escape), and headed toward Earth, attacking the spacecraft of the Autobots Jetfire and Omega Supreme as it entered the planet's atmosphere. The ship crashed in the Arctic Circle, but Jetfire was able to trick Scourge and entrap him within a stasis pod, but both he and the pod were then buried in an avalanche. Not long thereafter, the Earth-based Autobots and Decepticons found themselves drawn to the site of the pod, which opened during the battle; upon emerging, Scourge informed all parties that the war on Cybertron had been ended, and the factions unified by Shockwave, who himself then appeared and felled Scourge before he could reveal any more information. In the confusion that followed, Scourge's body was spirited away by the Earth Defense Command and taken to their secret base for further study.
As it very apparent from this summary of events, many mysteries surround Scourge in the Dreamwave comics, and the plans that Shockwave was using him as a part of. Unfortunately, the company's bankruptcy and subsequent closure mean that, for now, they will go unresolved.
Scourge would not only appear in the Generation One Dreamwave comic but also in its sister comic Transformers: Armada (see below).In this world, the incarnation of Scourge was still one of the heralds of Unicron, from a different dimension, sent to cause destruction prior to Unicron's arrival alongside his fellow heralds, Dirge, Thunderwing, Bludgeon and their leader Galvatron (all characters from the G1 universe, though their names are not mentioned and are not the versions from the Generation One Dreamwave comics).
While Galvatron attacked Megatron on Earth the other Heralds attacked the Decepticon base on Cybertron. Activating the Spacebridge links and leaving Bludgeon behind to guard them, Scourge, Dirge and Thunderwing journeyed to the Decepticon base on Earth, unaware they were being watched by the Mini-Cons. Finding and beating the luckless Thrust to a pulp, they then detected anomalies within the Spacebridge network and returned to Cybertron - only to be destroyed on their arrival by a cache of explosives set by Jetfire.
Generation One Scourge would also make an appearance in the Dreamwave Energon comics, albeit in cameo. In issue #25 when Optimus Prime arrives inside Unicron, we briefly see an immobile robot. Although not named, it is clearly modeled on the original Scourge.
[edit] Devil's Due
In the Second GI Joe/Transformers crossover between Dreamwave and Devil's Due Cyclonus and Scourge would appear as Shockwave's bodyguards, along with Dirge, Thrust and Ramjet. They were eventually destroyed after Cobra Commander activated a booby-trap within Starscream, destroying him and all others within reach. Unlike most Generation One incarnations of the character these versions do not appear to be linked in any way to Unicron. Also, when a team of G.I Joes trying to fix a space-time tear arrived in a nightmare future where Shockwave had conquered Earth, they encountered an armada of Sweeps acting as patrol craft and Hunter-Killers.
Although Scourge would not appear in the third crossover (this time with IDW Publishing) several Sweeps are seen amongst the Decepticon troops trying to hold back the Autobot/G.I Joe force trying to rescue Optimus Prime.
[edit] IDW Publishing
Scourge would not make his first appearance in the main IDW Generation One mini-series Infiltration, but in Evolutions: Hearts of Steel, an out of continuity tale set in the 19th century. Under the command of Starscream, and not appearing to be linked to Unicron, Scourge (not named here) would appear with a reimagined alternate mode of the Cupola of an airship. He was sent to stop an Autobot train convoy led by John Henry and Bumblebee, attempting to bomb them out of existence. Unfortunately the balloon proved more vulnerable than Scourge, and he was shot down by Ironhide.
[edit] Transformers: Titanium (2006)
The original Scourge returned to toys in 2006 as a member of the Transformers: Titanium line. He is a 6 inch tall transforming toy based on his original appearance.
[edit] Beast Wars (1999)
| Transformers character | |
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| Scourge | |
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| Affiliation | Predacon  |
| Sub-Group | Transmetal 2 |
| Motto | "A plague upon all their houses!" |
| Alternate Modes | Transmetal Locust |
| Series | Beast Wars |
Although he did not appear in the animated Beast Wars series, the toyline for this late 1990s Transformers series featured a new character named Scourge.
This Scourge is possibly the most despicable of the already loathsome Predacons - he delights in taking depravity to all-time-low levels. Obsessed with germ warfare and lethal chemical development, he is despised by peers for his inclination to test deadly viral and bacterial concoctions on his comrades. Skilled in combat, Scourge wields photon cluster cannons with chemical warhead capabilities, and is armed with electrostatic disrupters inside antennae. He is capable of leaping distances exceeding two miles with use of wings.
Scourge finally appeared in the IDW Publishing Beast Wars: The Gathering comic series as a Maximal Protoform who was turned into a Predacon by Magmatron's shell program.
[edit] Transformers: Robots In Disguise
| Transformers character | |
 Robots in Disguise Scourge |
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| Scourge | |
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| Affiliation | Decepticon |
| Sub-Group | Spy Changers |
| Motto | "Vengeance is an excuse for failure. I do not seek vengeance."" |
| Alternate Modes | Tractor-tanker |
| Series | Transformers Robots In Disguise |
| Voiced by | Barry Stigler (English) Taiten Kusunoki (Japanese) |
The third character to bear the name of Scourge, known simply as Black Convoy in Japan, due to the fact that he is an black redeco of the Generation 2 Laser Optimus Prime toy, sans the electronics it originally possessed. The first version of Scourge to be released in the U.S. was not his original form, but rather a weaponless Spychanger replica of the tractor-tanker's cab portion. Domestic versions of Black Convoy took almost a year to be sold to the general public, causing the value of Japanese Black Convoy toys to skyrocket, then revert somewhat. (Members of the fan community even attempted to create a "Sword of Fury" for Scourge to wield.)
Scourge, the former brother of Optimus Prime, as he came to be named, was one of a crew of six Autobots sent to Earth to reactivate the legendary Autobot battle fortress, Fortress Maximus. As leader, Scourge was equipped with the ability to detect the unique energy signatures of the O-Parts, the Cybertronian components that held the key to Maximus's awakening - but he was never given the opportunity to use that ability in the service of the Autobots. With all six members of the crew held in stasis pods in protoform state through the long journey, their craft malfunctioned and crashed on Earth in the mid-20th century, and the Autobots joined Maximus in slumber.
In the present time, archaeologist and energy expert Doctor Kenneth Onishi's research eventually led him to the various links in the chain of Fortress Maximus - he located the fortress itself beneath Earth's surface, mapped the location of the O-Parts, and discovered the location of the crashed Autobot spaceship. However, when the evil Megatron came to Earth with the intent of harnessing Maximus's power, he capturing Onishi, and through mental scans, discerned the location of the Autobots' ship. Stealing the six protoforms, Megatron took them to a nearby military base to scan vehicle modes for them, infusing them with a part of his own spark energy to turn them to the side of evil. The first five became the Commandos, but when Megatron targeted a tanker truck to scan as the alternate mode of the final protoform, Optimus Prime leapt into action in order to save the truck's human driver, and as a result, the tanker, Prime and the human were all scanned. With an infusion of Megatron's spark energy to complete the concoction, Scourge was born, emerging from his pod as a dark twin of Optimus Prime, who proved that Megatron's programming had over-ridden any Autobot goodness within him. Appointed himself leader of the new "Decepticons," he quickly established himself as a force to be reckoned with.
As per the alternate mode scanned for him, Scourge transforms into a tanker truck - the cab portion transforms into Scourge himself, armed with his deadly Sword of Fury, while the tanker portion unfolds into a heavily-armed battle station with numerous projectile launchers. After leading a series of missions that were brutal but unsuccessful, and constantly but vainly urged by Optimus Prime to search for the true Autobot nature within himself, Scourge developed a fierce independent streak, steadily growing more and more revolted at being in the service of Megatron. When Fortress Maximus was discovered buried beneath Metro City, exposure to his energies began to reawaken memories the original mission Scourge had been programmed with, and as the race began to locate the O-Parts, Scourge rediscovered his ability to sense them. Holding one in his hand, his mission was now clear to Scourge - but unfortunately, Megatron's reprogamming added a distinctly Decepticon bent to it, as Scourge now sought to active Fortress Maximus and use it himself to conquer the galaxy.
Successfully capturing Cerebros, the power key to Fortress Maximus, Scourge used the part of his programming that was Optimus Prime's to dupe the robot into activating Maximus, but the giant robot ran amok until the Autobots' human ally, Koji was able to stop it. Realising that humans could control Maximus, Scourge then amplified the human part of his bio-signature and succeeded in taking control of him, until he was overridden by a large group of human children. Seeking to use Koji himself for the process, a case of mistaken identity resulted in the Decepticons capturing his best friend, Karl, instead, but when Karl proved able to activate Fortress Maximus, Scourge dropped his façade of loyalty and ordered Maximus to destroy Galvatron (Megatron's new form). The failure of this plan brought about a punishment most severe - Scourge and the Decepticons had their autonomy stripped by Galvatron, turned once again into loyal servants so dedicated to Galvatron that they continued to do his will even after he attempted to kill them as a belated punishment. With Galvatron's defeat, Scourge was captured and taken back to Cybertron for imprisonment with the other villains.
The popularity of his now-famous black, grey and teal color scheme spawned a series of other "evil Prime" figures that were repaints of other Optimus Prime toys, beginning with a new incarnation of Scourge himself, a redecoed version of the 1994 "Hero Optimus Prime" figure. Other similar repaints have since been given the name Nemesis Prime, although the first, from Transformers: Armada was indeed named Scourge in Japan.
[edit] Dreamwave Comics
The character of RiD Scourge made one appearance in Dreamwave comics Summer Special issue before the company went under. There was a contest in the issue as to whether RiD or Beast Wars would be the next Dreamwave comic series. Beast Wars won.
[edit] Transformers: Armada
STD ('Standard') Scourge was the Japanese name of Armada's Nemesis Prime.
[edit] Transformers: Energon
A repaint of Energon Optimus Prime was released as a model kit in Japan called Grand Scourge. This character was seemingly an updated version of Armada Nemesis Prime.
[edit] Transformers: Universe
The Robots in Disguise Destructicon Scourge is unofficially considered part of the Transformers: Universe line. He was planned to be made part of the fiction for the Transformers: Universe, like most non-show repaints from the RiD line, by the Transformers: Collectors Club, but they only produced concept art for a biography page before they went out under.
[edit] Transformers: Cybertron
| Transformers character | |
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| Scourge (Flame Convoy) | |
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| Affiliation | Decepticon |
| Sub-Group | Ultra Beasts Convoys Transmetals |
| Function | Dark Commander |
| Motto | "I protect the world with my flame! I bring peace in the name of power!" |
| Alternate Modes | Transmetal Dragon |
| Series | Transformers: Cybertron |
| Voiced by | Trevor Devall (English) Norio Wakamoto (Japanese) |
Known in Japan as Flame Convoy, Scourge received his English name for Transformers: Cybertron to be in-keeping with Robots in Disguise 's use of the name for an 'evil' Prime/Convoy.
There is some inconsistancy between the way Scourge is depicted in the television series and as a toy. They toy depicts him as violent and evil, where in the television series he is honorable, and eventually changes sides to the Autobots. In the toy line he becomes the villain Cryo Scourge, but in the television series he regains leadership of his planet, which he rules in peace in the example of Optimus Prime.
[edit] Toys
Scourge was released as a larger Ultra Class toy and as a smaller Micro class toy. The Ultra class toy was released repainted as a homage to Generation 1 Skylynx in Japan and as Cryo Scourge, a homage to Robots in Disguise Cryotek in the U.S. The smaller Micro toy was repainted as a homage to Trypticon.
Scourge is the brutal and awesomely powerful ruler of the Jungle Planet. He views any display of kindness, compassion or generosity as weakness, and he hates weakness. Cold, distant, and prone to violent rage against those he views as lesser creatures, he holds most of the Jungle Planet firmly in his transmetal claw. Those defying him are likely to experience the searing heat of his stellar plasma breath, or the bite of his axe as their final sensation before their spark is extinguished. Overhaul, Snarl, and the Jungle Planet rebels will find him to be the most powerful foe they have ever faced.
Hasbro Tech Spec: (Cryo Scourge) Long exposure to the freezing waste of deep space has irreversibly mutated SCOURGE. No longer a flame-spewing monster consumed by his passions, he is now a creature of ice and cold. Calculating, cruel, and without mercy, he radiates a freezing aura that causes circuitry to short out, and renders AUTOBOT alloys brittle and easily shattered. His breath, once a raging firestorm, is now a creeping cold that sneaks into joints and mechanisms, destroying them from within. The blade of his axe is a razor-sharp shard of supercooled hydrogen ice that leaves a deadly numbness wherever it strikes.
Takara Tech Spec: The absolute commander of planet Animatros, where Transformers utilise beast forms. It is his thinking that he is the strongest protector of the planet, and has a predominant existence that even Master Megatron cannot contend with. Flames can be shot from all three of his dragon heads, and can turn anything they hit to dust. Rules with absolute power, but has a concealed weakness.
[edit] Animated Series
The leader of the Jungle Planet (Animatros in Galaxy Force) where the local Transformers all have robotic Beast Modes. Scourge views all displays of kindness as a weakness, something he hates as only the strong can rule the planet. He gained his power after he grew tired of the poverty and degradation of his people years before his rise, initiating a revolt against the planet's former ruler. He was a student under Backstop, so he lacks the will to take a life. He joined Megatron's group, having become bored with his absolute rule of the Jungle Planet and considering none native to the planet to be his equal. While on the Decepticon team, he was the most powerful warrior and somewhat of Megatron's "Second in Command" (after Starscream had betrayed Megatron). However, on Gigantion, he began having doubts about his reasons for joining with the Decepticons and, through a battle royale with most of the Autobot forces, was convinced to leave them, though he was too proud to join with the Autobots even unofficially, choosing to return to his home planet in order to save it as a wiser, more experienced leader. In beast mode, he is a ground fire-based dragon with two smaller heads that are initiated when he activates his Cyber Key power. In robot mode, his tail transforms into a huge battle axe.
Ep.11-Search: Meets Megatron.
Ep.16-Detour: Faces Overhaul one last time, almost destroys Overhaul; thus causing Leobreaker to be born.
Ep.18-Sand: Loses at the "claw" of Optimus Prime Savage Claw Mode.
Ep.21-Honor: Scourge now respects Leobreaker as a worthy opponent. Optimus Prime challenges Scourge to a battle for the Cyber Planet Key.
Ep.22-Primal: Scourge battles Optimus Prime Savage Claw Mode for the Cyber Planet Key. Scourge puts up a great fight, but loses, and keeping his promise, hands the Jungle Planet Key over to the Autobots.
Ep.27-Revelations: Scourge frees Megatron from Starscream's trap and becomes a full-fledged Decepticon.
Ep.33-Balance: Scourge is respectful to Megatron as he was a great leader, and takes it upon himself to lead the Decepticon forces. The remaining Decepticons have a battle royale to decide. Scourge ends up winning.
Ep.40-Giant: Helps rescue and carry Megatron to safety after he was defeated by Metroplex.
Ep.41-Fury: Explains Megatron's fury to the Decepticons.
Ep.44-Ambush: Ambushes Lori, Wingsaber, and Override. Battles Override and gets accused of being a sell-out and a wimp by Lori.
Ep.45-Challenge: Leobreaker and Snarl challenge him to a battle for the leadership of Jungle Planet. Scourge ends up winning but hesitates.
Ep.46-Scourge: Is mad because he can't save his world. Attends "Bud's School of Leadership" to learn better leadership techniques. Challenges the Autobots to a battle royal. He battles Metroplex, Vector Prime, and Optimus Prime Sonic Wing Mode. He loses.
Eventually Scourge officially allied the entire Jungle Planet with the Autobots.
In the final episode of Transformers: Cybertron a wrestling match is held to decide the new leader of the Jungle Planet. Scourge defeats Snarl, then Leobreaker in fair combat and is declared the king of the Jungle Planet by Backstop. Scourge declares he will lead the Jungle Planet into a new era of peace thanks to the example of Optimus Prime and the Autobots.
[edit] Trivia
- Scourge is the only Transformer in the series whose voice changes between "vehicle" (beast) and robot mode.
- The drawing design of Scourge's wing in the TV show is inspired by the 1982 Japanese anime Acrobunch.
