Kickback (Transformers)
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Kickback (Maquia in Portugal) is the name of several characters in the Transformers universes.
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[edit] Transformers: Generation 1
| Transformers character | |
 Kickback Box Art |
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| Kickback | |
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| Affiliation | Decepticon  |
| Sub-Group | Insecticons |
| Function | Espionage |
| Motto | "Friend is another word for fool." |
| Alternate Modes | Mechanical Grasshopper |
| Series | Transformers: Generation 1 |
| English voice actor | Clive Revill |
Kickback is the name of an Insecticon who turns into a giant mechanical grasshopper.
Charming, but cruelly clever... makes friends so he can influence them to do his bidding by digging up facts he can hold against them. Humans particularly susceptible to this Insecticon. In insect mode can jump 40 ft. for a distance of .1 miles... kick a hole in 1/4 inch steel. In robot mode can fly 30 mph up to 100 miles. Sub-machine gun fires 300 rounds per minute. Very vulnerable as insect and flying in high winds.
[edit] Animated series
Kickback debuted with the rest of the Insecticons in the first season episode, A Plague of Insecticons. The Insecticons were a group of Decepticons, who fled the Nemesis four million years ago in an escape ship. The ship landed in Indonesia where the Insecticons reformatted themselves to resemble insects. The Insecticons' stomachs could absorb most forms of energy and matter and use it to fuel the robots.
Kickback seemed to take a back seat to Bombshell and Shrapnel in the leadership department. He loved to use his powerful legs to cause trouble for the Autobots (i.e. kicking tree trunks at them). At first,Megatron was very pleased with the Insecticons. However, once the tide of battle turned in the Autobots' favor, the Insecticons consumed the Decepticons' Energon. This began a feud between the Insecticons and the Decepticons.
The Decepticon/Insecticon feud continued throughout the second season. In Transformers: The Movie, Kickback and the Insecticons were involved in the battle of Autobot City. Kickback suffers major injuries as he gets crushed by Kup. As a result, he becomes one of the Decepticons to be ejected into space. He is reformatted into one of the Sweeps by Unicron.
[edit] Marvel Comics
A story called The Gift in issue 93 of the Marvel U.K. comics explored Jetfire's problems fitting in with the other Autobots. Wheeljack informed Optimus Prime of a news cast where they learned the Decepticons had taken over a NASA space monitoring facility near the Ark. Prowl and Trailbreaker, with Jetfire as backup engaged the Decepticons Soundwave, Kickback and Dirge as the Decepticons attempted to contact Cybertron with the facility's deep space radio equipment. Although Prowl ordered Jetfire to stop Soundwave from sending his message, Jetfire ignored the order to help save Prowl from Kickback's attack. With the transmission sent the Decepticons retreated victorious.
[edit] Transformers: Energon
Kickback was a member of the Decepticon Destruction Team who transformed into a tank. He was able to combine with his team to form a limb of the giant robot Bruticus Maximus. In the Energon TV show, Kickback was a non-sentient drone commanded by team leader Barricade. As with all of the Energon combiner limbs, Kickback has a twin brother on his team - Blight. Their energon weapons are a cannon and a pair of guns. In the Japanese series, each member had the name of a original Combaticon - Kickback's name was Brawl.
